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61The Canongate — is a small district and former burgh at the heart of Edinburgh, Scotland s capital city. It is usually referred to as The Canongate instead of simply Canongate . It is also the name of the main street through the area. The Canongate forms the… …
62The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron — The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron, Marshall of France is a Jacobean tragedy by George Chapman, a two part play or double play first performed and published in 1608. GenreThe two plays that comprise the larger work, The… …
63The Great Favourite — The Great Favourite, or the Duke of Lerma is a stage play written By Sir Robert Howard, a historical drama based on the life of Francisco Goméz de Sandoval y Rojas, Duke of Lerma, the favorite of King Philip III of Spain. [David Womersley, ed.,… …
64The Escorial — The Escorial † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Escorial A remarkable building in Spain situated on the south eastern slope of the Sierra Guadarrama about twenty seven miles north west of Madrid. Its proper title is El Real Monasterio de… …
65The Voyage — is an opera in three acts (plus a prologue and an epilogue) by the American composer Philip Glass (born 1937). The libretto was written by David Henry Hwang.It was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, New York and first performed there on… …
66The University of Cracow — The University of Cracow † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The University of Cracow The first documentary evidence regarding the scheme that King Casimir the Great conceived of establishing a university dates from 1362. Urban V favored the… …
67The Lizard — is a peninsula of Cornwall, and contains the most southerly point of mainland Cornwall and of the island Great Britain, Lizard Point. The peninsula measures approximately 14 by convert|14|mi|km. Historically a particularly hazardous stretch of… …
68The Musical Offering — (German title Musikalisches Opfer or Das Musikalische Opfer), BWV 1079, is a collection of canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick II of Prussia… …
69The Country Wife — is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocratic and anti Puritan ideology, and was controversial for its sexual explicitness even in its own time …
70The Ramsay Principle — is the shorthand name given to the decision of the House of Lords in two important cases in the field of UK tax, reported in 1982: * Ramsay v. IRC, the full name of which is W. T. Ramsay Ltd. v. Inland Revenue Commissioners, Eilbeck (Inspector of …
