The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A), London, is the world’s largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Like other national British museums, entrance to the museum has been free since 2001.
The two main cross streets in downtown Regina are Albert Street and Victoria Avenue.
The Eleanor crosses were a series of twelve lavishly decorated stone monuments topped with tall crosses of which three survive nearly intact in a line down part of the east of England. King Edward I had the crosses erected between 1291 and 1294 in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castile, marking the nightly resting-places along the route taken when her body was transported to London.
The only three crosses still standing are those at Geddington, Hardingstone, just outside Northampton, and Waltham Cross, although remnants of the lost ones can also be seen at other sites. Charing Cross in London takes its name from the Eleanor Cross that once stood there.
The original cross at Charing Cross stood at the top of Whitehall on the south side of Trafalgar Square, but was destroyed on the orders of Parliament in 1647 during the Civil War, and was replaced by an equestrian statue of Charles I in 1675 following the Restoration.
This point in Trafalgar Square is regarded as the official centre of London in legislation and when measuring distances from London.
The original name for Trafalgar Square was to have been “King William the Fourth’s Square”.
Shakespeare may written *Henry IV Part 2 *over two periods, interrupted by his commissioned Merry Wives of Windsor. Both plays expand on the character of Falstaff, who was popular with the groundlings in performances of Henry IV Part 1.
The Shakespearean character of Sir John Falstaff was the inspiration of the Lamp Brewery Company in St. Louis changing its name to Falstaff. While its smaller labels linger on today, its main label Falstaff Beer went out of production in 2005.
The nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale, known as ‘The Lady of the Lamp’, was the first woman to be honoured with the Order of Merit, in 1907.
The first woman to guest host The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was, in 1962, Florence Henderson.
According to the Book of Genesis God created Eve, the first woman, from one of Adam’s ribs.
After her role as Jan Brady ended in The Brady Bunch, when the show ended, actress Eve Plumb’s first notable role was as a teenage prostitute in Dawn: Portrait of a Teenaged Prostitute.
Dawn and dusk occur only once a year at the poles. Dawn in 2015 at the South Pole will be on 21 September at 17:50 New Zealand standard time.
The idea that the Earth acts as a giant magnet was first proposed in 1600 by the English physician and natural philosopher William Gilbert. Gilbert first defined the North Magnetic Pole as the point where the Earth’s magnetic field points vertically downwards.
A rare earth element is one of a set of seventeen chemical elements in the periodic table, specifically the fifteen lanthanides, as well as scandium and yttrium. Scandium and yttrium are considered rare earth elements because they tend to occur in the same ore deposits as the lanthanides and exhibit similar chemical properties.
Despite their name, rare earth elements (with the exception of the radioactive promethium) are relatively plentiful in Earth’s crust. However, because of their geochemical properties, rare earth elements are typically dispersed and not often found concentrated as rare earth minerals in economically exploitable ore deposits. It was the very scarcity of these minerals that led to their being called term “rare earth”.
The village of Ytterby, Vaxholm, Sweden is about one hour’s drive south and east from ARL, Arlanda Airport, which is the main airport serving Stockholm. Ytterby is about a 40 minute drive northeast of Stockholm.
The rare earth mineral yttria was discovered at and named after Ytterby mine near the village of Ytterby. Yttria was the source of four new elements named after the village: yttrium (Y), erbium (Er), terbium (Tb), and ytterbium (Yb). Three other lanthanides, holmium (Ho, named after Stockholm), thulium (Tm, named after Thule, a mythic analog of Scandinavia), and gadolinium (Gd, after the chemist Johan Gadolin) can trace their discovery to the same quarry.
Gisborne Airport is a regional airport on the outskirts of Gisborne on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is one of the few airports in the world that has a railway line, the Palmerston North - Gisborne Line, crossing the main runway. Air traffic controllers are able to change the signals on the railway line.
College Park Airport, in College Park, Maryland, USA, is the world’s oldest airport in operation. It was established in 1909 when Wilbur Wright arrived at the field to train two military officers in the US Army.
St Joseph’s College is a Catholic secondary school for boys, located in Hunter’s Hill, a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, NSW.
With a total enrolment of approximately 1,100 students, of whom over 750 are boarders, St Joseph’s is the largest boarding school in Australia.
The Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford, Connecticut, is the 13th tallest church in the United States. Dedicated in 1962, it rises 281 feet high. The pipe organ is one of the largest in Connecticut and contains more than 8,000 pipes.
Pilosocereus royenii is a species of cactus that is native to the Caribbean and Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Common names include Dildo Cactus and Pipe Organ Cactus. It is the most common cactus found in the Turks and Caicos Islands. It is composed of multiple long, tubular shaped branches, each ribbed with multiple sections and sharp spines.