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Judge Robert Warren built Victoria Castle in 1840 [3] [4] [5] to commemorate Queen Victoria's accession to the throne. The interior was gutted by fire in 1928, then restored by Sir Thomas Power of the whiskey distillery family. He renamed the mansion "Ayesha Castle", after the goddess who rose from the flames in Rider Haggard's novel She.
Mrs. Danvers is the main antagonist of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca.Danvers is the head housekeeper at Manderley, the stately manor belonging to the wealthy Maximillian "Maxim" de Winter, where he once lived with his first wife, Rebecca, whom she had adored obsessively.
A "Manderley Castle" features in one of the Anno Dracula books by Kim Newman. Danish film director Lars von Trier's 2005 film Manderlay is set in a country estate with a large domestic staff. In Stephen King's 1998 novel, Bag of Bones, "Manderley" is a semi-isolated lake house in Maine, identified with Sara Laughs, in the dreams of the main ...
The tiny village centre of Killiney contains a pub, the Druid's Chair. To the north is a hotel, Fitzpatrick's Castle Hotel since 1971, [2] and beyond that a small shopping centre established in the 1970s, [3] and nearer Ballybrack some further retail facilities. Between the hotel and the café are two churches, one Church of Ireland, and one a ...
Roblox occasionally hosts real-life and virtual events. They have in the past hosted events such as BloxCon, which was a convention for ordinary players on the platform. [46] Roblox operates annual Easter egg hunts [52] and also hosts an annual event called the "Bloxy Awards", an awards ceremony that also functions as a fundraiser. The 2020 ...
Roblox Corporation has been ranked on Pocket Gamer.biz ' s top lists of mobile game developers, placing sixth in 2018, [30] eighth in 2019, [31] and sixth in 2020. [32] Fortune featured it as one of the best small and medium-sized workplaces in the San Francisco Bay Area, placing it sixteenth in 2019 and fortieth in 2021.
Powerscourt House terrace & fountain (1800s) During the 16th century the house came into the ownership of the Powerscourt family. The family rose in wealth and prominence, and in the 18th century Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt, commissioned the architect Richard Cassels to extensively alter and remodel the medieval castle to create a modern country house.
Castle in the Desert is a 1942 film featuring the Chinese detective Charlie Chan. It was the eleventh film to feature Sidney Toler as the title character, and the last made by 20th Century Fox . The series continued with Toler, though under much reduced circumstances, at Monogram Pictures .