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10 hours ago · 51°14′11″N 0°34′13″W. / 51.2365°N 0.5703°W / 51.2365; -0.5703. Guildford ( / ˈɡɪlfərd / ⓘ) [2] is a town in west Surrey, England, around 27 mi (43 km) south-west of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 [1] and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around ...
10 hours ago · The chamber where George of Poděbrady was elected King of Bohemia was devastated; the town hall's bell, the oldest in Bohemia, dating from 1313, was melted; and the city archives, comprising 70,000 volumes (most of which were transported to the outskirts of Prague due to the fear of the bombardment), as well as historically priceless manuscripts, were destroyed.
10 hours ago · History Origin of the town's name Joan Blaeu map of Hertfordshire from 1659 showing Barkhamsted [sic], one of the many archaic spellings of the town's name The earliest recorded spelling of the town's name is the 10th century Anglo-Saxon Beorhðanstædæ. The first part may have originated from either the Old English words beorg, meaning "hill", or berc or beorc, meaning "birch"; or from the ...
10 hours ago · Signature. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; [1] 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria. As such, he was consort of the British monarch from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861. Victoria granted him the title Prince Consort in 1857.
10 hours ago · The Persian soldier who embarrassed his king, Artaxerxes II, by boasting of killing his rival, Cyrus the Younger (who was the brother of Artaxerxes II), was executed by scaphism. The king's physician, Ctesias, reported that Mithridates survived the insect torture for 17 days. Democritus of Abdera: c. 370 BC
1 day ago · Nancy Pelosi (born 1940), Congresswoman, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (2007-2011, 2019–2023) [629] Aaron Peskin (born 1964), San Francisco Supervisor [630] James Duval Phelan (1861–1930), civic leader and banker. Mayor of San Francisco from 1897 to 1902 U.S. Senator from 1915 to 1921.
10 hours ago · The Canadian Pacific Railway ( French: Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique) ( reporting marks CP, CPAA, MILW, SOO ), also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, known until 2023 as Canadian ...
