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The Dutch Church, Austin Friars (Dutch: Nederlandse Kerk Londen), is a reformed church [1] in the Broad Street Ward, in the City of London. [2] Located on the site of the 13th-century Augustinian friary, the original building granted to Protestant refugees for their church services in 1550 was destroyed during the London Blitz.
The coat of arms of the University of Oxford depicts an open book with the inscription Dominus Illuminatio Mea (Latin for 'The Lord is my light'), surrounded by three golden crowns. It is blazoned : Azure, upon a book open proper leathered gules garnished or having on the dexter side seven seals of the last the words DOMINVS ILLVMINATIO MEA all ...
A primitive form of the crest first appeared in 1539 on the reverse of a new common seal. This showed a fan-like object bearing a cross. Over time this evolved into a dragon's wing, and was shown as such in 1633 when it appeared above the city's coat of arms in the frontispiece to the fourth edition of John Stow's Survey of London.
Escutcheon: Sable, an open book proper, edged and clasped Or and inscribed with the words 'Nisi Dominus frustra'; on a chief Or, between two dragons rampant combatant, a pale gules charged with a cross argent, in each canton five plates in saltire Motto: Nisi Dominus Frustra (Without the Lord, our efforts are in vain)
The golden triangle is the triangle formed by the university cities of Cambridge, London, and Oxford in the south east of England in the United Kingdom. [note 1] The triangle is occasionally referred to as the Loxbridge triangle, [7] [8] a portmanteau of London and Oxbridge or, when limited to five members, the G5.
Dominus is the Latin word for master or owner. [1] Dominus was used as a Roman imperial title. It was also the Latin title of the feudal , superior and mesne , lords , and an ecclesiastical and academic title.
Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia (born October 1958) [1] is a British businessman and entrepreneur based in London. He is the founder and Non-Executive Chairman of Dominvs Group, a real estate, hospitality and asset management company. [2] Ahluwalia also is founder and former Executive Chairman of car parts distributor Euro Car Parts. [3]
Like the don used for Roman Catholic priests, this usage derives from the Latin dominus, meaning "lord", a historical remnant of Oxford and Cambridge having started as ecclesiastical institutions in the Middle Ages. The earliest use of the word in this sense appears, according to the New English Dictionary, in Souths Sermons (1660). An English ...