Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut. Founded as Washington College in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in the state of Connecticut.
Coeducational since 1969, the college enrolls 2,235 students. Trinity offers 41 majors and 28 interdisciplinary minors. The college is a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference .
The Battle of Mohács was one of the most consequential battles in Central European history. It was fought on 29 August 1526 near Mohács, Kingdom of Hungary, between the forces of the Kingdom of Hungary and its allies, led by Louis II, and those of the Ottoman Empire, led by Suleiman the Magnificent. The Ottoman victory led to the partition of Hungary for several centuries between the Ottoman Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy, and the Principality of Transylvania. Further, the death of Louis II as he fled the battle marked the end of the Jagiellonian dynasty in Hungary and Bohemia, whose dynastic claims passed to the House of Habsburg. The Battle of Mohács marked the end of the Middle Ages in Hungary.
O Palácio Real de Amesterdão , é um palácio da capital dos Países Baixos, localizado no extremo ocidental da Praça Dam, próximo da igreja Nieuwe Kerk. É um dos quatro palácios oficiais dos Países Baixos à disposição do Rei Guilherme.
Foi erguido entre 1648 e 1665 - durante o Século de Ouro dos Países Baixos, quando Amesterdão se encontrava no auge de seu poder - segundo um projecto do arquitecto e artista Jacob van Campen. O edifício, desenhado em estilo clássico holandês, foi construído para acolher a Stadhuis . As esculturas vieram da oficina de Artus Quellijn. Foi inaugurado no dia 29 de julho de 1655 por líderes da cidade. Os interiores, centrados no poder e prestígio de Amesterdão, foram concluídos mais tarde, principalmente por Rembrandt e Ferdinand Bol.
A partir de 1808, o edifício deixou de ser considerado como sede do município, ganhando o estatuto de palácio real. Desde 1939 é usado pela família real da Casa de Orange-Nassau, não como sua residência , mas com funções de representação e como casa de hóspedes para as visitas de Estado. Devido a obras de recuperação, o palácio esteve fechado ao público entre Setembro de 2005 e o Verão de 2008.
Desde 1856 eleva-se directamente em frente do palácio, no local onde antigamente se erguia a velha câmara municipal gótica, o memorial De Eendracht , executado por Louis Royer, o qual, em 1914, teve que ser removido e instalado mais longe devido às recém colocadas linhas dos eléctricos. Em 1956 foi erguido na praça o Nationalmonument . Ambos, formam um Rijksmonument .
The Gregorian Tower or Tower of the Winds is a square tower and early modern observatory located above the Gallery of Maps, which connects the Villa Belvedere with the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City. The tower was built between 1578 and 1580 to a design by the Bolognese architect Ottaviano Mascherino mainly to promote the study of astronomy for the Gregorian Calendar Reform which was commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII and promulgated in 1582. It was then also known as the Tower of Winds. The tower was also called "Specola Astronomica Vaticana", a reference to the Vatican Observatory.
Four stages of progressive development have occurred since it was first established. The tower was an edifice of great value for astronomical observations made using a sundial as they provided essential confirmation of the need to reform the Julian calendar.
Thomas John Thomson, conhecido como Tom Thomson , foi um influente artista canadense do início do século XX. Ele influenciou diretamente um grupo de pintores canadenses que viria a ser conhecido como o Grupo dos Sete.
The Tolsey Museum is a local museum in the town of Burford, west Oxfordshire, England.The Tolsey Museum is located on Burford's main street in a Tudor market/court house. It is a black and white timber-fronted building on stone pillars. In medieval times, the building was a meeting point for wool merchants. Tolls and taxes were also paid here. The building was included in the BBC Domesday Project.The collection covers local history, culture, and industry. Exhibits at the museum include the town maces, charters and seals of guilds, a doll's house, and objects related to brewing, rope-making, and stone quarrying.
The Tolpuddle Martyrs were six agricultural labourers from the village of Tolpuddle in Dorset, England, who, in 1834, were convicted of swearing a secret oath as members of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers. They were arrested on a legal technicality during a labour dispute against cutting wages before being convicted in R v Lovelass and Others and sentenced to penal transportation to Australia. They were pardoned in 1836 after mass protests by sympathisers and support from Lord John Russell and returned to England between 1837 and 1839.
The Tolpuddle Martyrs became a popular cause for the early union and workers' rights movements.
O Museu Nacional de Tóquio , o maior e mais antigo museu do Japão, foi fundado em 1872. Localiza-se no Parque Ueno, em Taito-ku, Tóquio.
Abriga mais de 110 mil objetos de valor arqueológico e artístico de várias eras da história japonesa e de outros países asiáticos, incluindo 87 pertencentes ao Tesouro Nacional Japonês e 610 classificados como propriedade cultural de importância.
Großer Tiergarten, conhecido simplesmente como Tiergarten, é um parque urbano público da Alemanha, localizado no centro da cidade de Berlim, na localidade homônima. O parque tem cerca de 210 hectares. Entre os jardins urbanos da Alemanha, apenas o Englischer Garten, em Munique , é maior.
O Theresienwiese é um campo aberto no pleno centro de Munique, Baviera, Alemanha.
É um terreno com 46 hectares. Num dos lados está a estátua Bavaria, símbolo do estado da Baviera, do outro está a igreja de São Paulo. Chama-se Theresienwiese porque se celebrou aqui o casamento de Luís I da Baviera com a princesa Teresa de Saxe-Hildburghausen. Os festejos agradaram tanto à família real, que ordenaram a sua repetição todos os anos, dando lugar à conhecida Oktoberfest, a festa de outubro.
Sherwood Foresters foi um regimento do Exército Britânico formado durante a Childers Reforms em 1881 a partir da fusão do 45th Regiment of Foot com o 95th Regiment of Foot. O novo regimento também incluiu unidades de voluntários de milícias e rifles de Nottinghamshire e Derbyshire.
A Universidade de Portsmouth é uma universidade localizada na cidade de Portsmouth, Inglaterra. Apesar de sua estrutura ser criada em 1869 sob o nome de Portsmouth and Gosport School of Science and the Arts, adquiriu o status de universidade em 1992 pela Further and Higher Education Act 1992.
The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology is a Department within the University of Oxford. Its research programme includes the cellular and molecular biology of pathogens, the immune response, cancer and cardiovascular disease. It teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the medical sciences.
The school is named for Sir William Dunn, 1st Baronet, of Lakenheath, whose will provided the initial funding. It is located towards the east end of South Parks Road, to the north of the city centre.
The Ruskin Museum is a small local museum in Coniston, Cumbria, northern England.
It was established in 1901 by W. G. Collingwood, an artist and antiquarian who had worked as secretary to art critic John Ruskin. The museum is both a memorial to Ruskin and a local museum covering the history and heritage of Coniston Water and the Lake District.
The museum is a registered charity in England & Wales, constituted as The Coniston Institute and Ruskin Museum.
The Royal Yeomanry is the senior reserve light cavalry regiment of the British Army. Equipped with Supacat Jackal variants and the Land Rover RWMIK, their role is to conduct mounted and dismounted formation reconnaissance. The Regimental Headquarters is located in Leicester, with squadrons in Fulham, Nottingham, Dudley, Croydon , Telford and Leicester.The regiment is part of the Royal Armoured Corps and is paired with and supports the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards . QDG and RY together form the light cavalry reconnaissance component of 7th Infantry Brigade , serving alongside six infantry battalions . The RY is one of three light cavalry reserve regiments in 1st Division.
The Royal Yeomanry is the only British Army Reserve unit to have been awarded a battle honour since the Second World War.
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards is a cavalry regiment of the British Army, and the senior Scottish regiment. The regiment, through the Royal Scots Greys, is the oldest surviving Cavalry Regiment of the Line in the British Army. The regiment is currently based at Leuchars Station, as part of the Scottish 51st Infantry Brigade.
The Royal Berkshire Hospital is a National Health Service hospital in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. It provides acute hospital services to the residents of the western and central portions of Berkshire, and is managed by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.
The hospital provides approximately 813 inpatient beds , together with 204-day beds and spaces. In doing so, it employs over 5,000 staff and has an annual budget of £228 million.
