The Constable of the Tower is the most senior appointment at the Tower of London.In the Middle Ages a constable was the person in charge of a castle when the owner—the king or a nobleman—was not in residence. The Constable of the Tower had a unique importance as the person in charge of the principal fortress defending the capital city of England. ...

The Lock is the fifth of six paintings that make up the Stour series of large-scale rural works, that Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1819 and 1825. The painting is the only one of the series which remains in private hands, with the more famous The Hay Wain in the National Gallery, London.. After its exhibition in 1824, The Morning Post commented: "Mr Constable …

Formal theory. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters such as letters, digits or spaces. The empty string is the special case where the sequence has length zero, so there are no symbols in the string.

Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, KStJ, PC (5 May 1883 – 24 May 1950) was a senior officer of the British Army.He served in the Second Boer War, the Bazar Valley Campaign and the First World War, during which he was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres.In the Second World War, he served initially as Commander-in …

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, KG KT PC FRS FBA (7 May 1847 – 21 May 1929) was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 1894 to June 1895. Between the death of his father, in 1851, and the death of his grandfather, the 4th Earl of Rosebery, in 1868, he was known by the courtesy …

Birth, family and infancy. Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was born at 05:26 BST (04:26 UTC) on 6 May 2019 at the Portland Hospital in London. He is the first child of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Unlike previous royal births, there was no immediate photocall at the hospital steps. Several landmarks were illuminated in different colours to mark the birth, including …

Background. John Sidney Makin was born on 14 February 1845 at Dapto, near Wollongong, the son of an assigned convict, William Makin, and his wife Ellen (née Bolton). John was the fourth of eleven children born between 1838 and 1860. Sarah Jane Sutcliffe was born on 20 December 1845 in Sussex Street, Sydney, the daughter of Emanuel Sutcliffe and Ellen (née Murphy).

Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, 8th Earl of Argyll, Chief of Clan Campbell (March 1607 – 27 May 1661) was a Scottish nobleman, politician, and peer. The de facto head of Scotland's government during most of the conflict of the 1640s and 50s known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, he was a major figure in the Covenanter movement that fought for the maintenance …

Brasão de armas ou, simplesmente, brasão, na tradição europeia medieval, é um desenho especificamente criado — obedecendo às leis da heráldica — com a finalidade de identificar indivíduos, famílias, clãs, corporações, cidades, regiões e nações.O desenho de um brasão é normalmente colocado num suporte em forma de escudo que representa a arma de defesa …

Archibald Constable, Edinburgh William Miller, and John Murray, London: Publication date: 22 February 1808: Preceded by: The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Followed by: The Lady of the Lake: Full text; Marmion at Wikisource: Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field is a historical romance in verse of 16th-century Scotland and England by Sir Walter Scott ...