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Watson's Hotel (actually Watson's Esplanade Hotel), now known as the Esplanade Mansion, located in the Kala Ghoda area of Mumbai (Bombay), is India's oldest surviving cast iron building. [1] It is probably the oldest surviving multi-level fully cast-iron framed building in the world, being three years earlier than the Menier Chocolate Factory ...
The English Fort of Bombay was a fortification situated around the present day Fort region in Mumbai, India. Contrary to popular belief, this is different from the Fort St.George, which was but a northward extension of the walls. The Fort was around 1 mile long, and around a third of a mile in width.
Esplanade is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata, located at the heart of city with being the city's Central business district and major transport junction. This is a conventional esplanade because the Hooghly river, the western distributary of Ganges, flows nearby and it is adjacent to the large fields of Maidan extending up to Fort William.
The Esplanade was the site of a significant event in Penang's history; it was here where Captain Francis Light, the founder of George Town, first landed on 17 July 1786. Upon claiming possession of Penang Island (then Prince of Wales Island) for the British Empire , the Esplanade became the first area to be cleared by Light, while Fort ...
Fort Cornwallis is a bastion fort in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, built by the British East India Company in the late 18th century. Named after the then Lieutenant-General The 2nd Earl Cornwallis (1738–1805), the Governor-General of Bengal at the time of the fort's construction, it is the largest standing fort in Malaysia.
The Rajabai Tower in South Mumbai is located in the confines of the Fort campus of the University of Mumbai, and was constructed between 1869 and 1878. [5] It was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott , an English architect, and was modeled on Big Ben , the clock tower of the United Kingdom's houses of Parliament in London. [ 7 ]
Social Security serves as a lifeline for tens of millions of seniors. Today, that number is growing. As of December 2024, the Social Security Administration (SSA) reported that about 65.5 million...
Fort George was a military fortification in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. The fort was used by the British Army, the Canadian militia, and the Jeffersonian American Republic Army for a brief period. The fort was mostly destroyed during the War of 1812.