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Raffles Hotels & Resorts is a Singaporean chain of luxury hotels which traces its roots to 1887 with the opening of the original Raffles Hotel in Singapore. [2] The company started to develop internationally in the late 1990s.
Raffles Singapore is a historic luxury hotel at 1 Beach Road, in Singapore.It was established by Armenian hoteliers, the Sarkies Brothers, in 1887.The hotel was named after British statesman Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singapore.
1904 Collier's illustration by J. C. Leyendecker. A. J. Raffles is a British fictional character – a cricketer and gentleman thief – created by E. W. Hornung.Between 1898 and 1909, Hornung wrote a series of 26 short stories, two plays, and a novel about Raffles and his fictional chronicler, Harry "Bunny" Manders.
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Raffles is a 1977 television series adapted from the A. J. Raffles stories by E. W. Hornung. [2] The stories were adapted by Philip Mackie.. Set in Victorian era London, the series features the criminal adventures of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, a renowned cricketer, and his friend, the eager but naive Bunny Manders, as they test their skills in relieving the wealthy of their valuables ...
Singapore Botanic Gardens logo, Cyrotostachys palm. The first "Botanical and Experimental Garden" in Singapore was established in 1822 on Government Hill by Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singapore and a keen naturalist.
Raffles leads Bunny into the set of rooms where several officers are investigating, Mackenzie among them. Mackenzie accepts Raffles's offer to help the police; Raffles is even glad to leave the key to his room with the police, amazing Bunny. Raffles departs, ostensibly to dinner, while Bunny remains with Mackenzie.
Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1925) is a feature length silent adventure crime drama/romance motion picture starring House Peters, Miss DuPont, Hedda Hopper, Fred Esmelton, and Walter Long. Directed by King Baggot and produced by Carl Laemmle 's Universal Pictures , the screenplay was adapted by Harvey F. Thew from the play by Eugene W ...