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Blenheim Palace (/ ˈ b l ɛ n ɪ m / BLEN-im [1]) is a country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.It is the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough.Originally called Blenheim Castle, it has been known as Blenheim Palace since the 19th century. [2]
The Queen Anne home is characterized by its asymmetrical design. With a large projecting gable on one side and a tower on the other, the Queen Anne is a tall, upright and proud house.
The Carson Mansion is a large Victorian house, constructed from 1884 to 1886 and located in Old Town, Eureka, California.Regarded as one of the premier examples of Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, [2]: 33 the house is "considered the most grand Victorian home in America."
Given his father's political leanings, Mussolini was named Benito after liberal Mexican president Benito Juárez, while his middle names, Andrea and Amilcare, were for Italian socialists Andrea Costa and Amilcare Cipriani. [4] In return his mother required that he be baptised at birth. [3] Benito was followed by his siblings Arnaldo and Edvige ...
Mussolini rented it from the Torlonia for one lira a year to use as his state residence from the 1920s onwards. He and his family lived there for the next 18 years. [ 1 ] It was abandoned after 1945, and allowed to decay in the following decades, but recent restoration work has allowed it to be opened to the public as a museum owned and ...
George Devey (1820–1886) and the better-known Norman Shaw (1831–1912) popularized the Queen Anne style of British architecture of the industrial age in the 1870s. Norman Shaw published a book of architectural sketches as early as 1858, and his evocative pen-and-ink drawings began to appear in trade journals and artistic magazines in the 1870s.
The queen and Philip’s second child, Princess Anne, was born Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise on August 15, 1950. Anne had a close bond with the late queen. After her mother’s death on September 8 ...
After his arrest, Benito Mussolini was imprisoned at the villa from the 7th to the 27th of August 1943. Mussolini's arrest took place on the 25th of July 1943, by decision of the Grand Council of Fascism. After a short period of imprisonment in Ponza, he was transferred to Villa Webber, in La Maddalena. Mussolini had previously visited La ...