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The café was the scene of a famous meeting on 24 March 1895, when Frank Harris advised Oscar Wilde to drop his charge of criminal libel against the Marquess of Queensberry, father of Alfred Douglas. Wilde refused the advice, Queensberry was acquitted, and Wilde was subsequently tried, convicted and imprisoned. [4]
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde [a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential playwrights in London in the early 1890s. [3]
Restaurant sign. The Spotted Pig was a gastropub located at 314 West 11th Street (at Greenwich Street) in the West Village in Manhattan in New York City. [1] [2] The 100-seat gastropub was owned by Ken Friedman.
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The first two storeys would contain retail space and would be part of the Eaton Centre. The third to sixth levels will be commercial office space. The seventh level is proposed to be restaurant space with a terrace overlooking the Yonge and Queen intersection. The fifth and sixth levels would be set back one metre from the original building's ...
The Weather Network HD logo. The Weather Network HD is a 1080i high definition simulcast of The Weather Network that launched on May 30, 2011. It is currently available on Cogeco, EastLink, Bell MTS, Rogers Cable, Telus Optik TV, and Shaw Cable. The HD simulcast for cable and IPTV providers currently do not offer local forecasts unlike the ...
Lord Elgin Hotel, Ottawa – Opened in 1942, this hotel was originally planned as a Ford Hotel. After being lobbied by Ford Hotels president Jack Udd on May 3, 1940, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King nixed the idea of building a standard brick-faced Ford Hotel, preferring the construction of a "first class hotel", more befitting the prime location on Elgin Street. [6]