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Cragside is a Victorian Tudor Revival country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England. It was the home of William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong , founder of the Armstrong Whitworth armaments firm.
An elder sister, Anne, born in 1802, [2] was named after his mother, the daughter of Addison Potter. [3] Armstrong was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, until he was sixteen, when he was sent to Bishop Auckland Grammar School. While there, he often visited the nearby engineering works of William Ramshaw.
The title became extinct on his death in 1900. The title was revived three years later, on 4 August 1903, for his great-nephew William Watson-Armstrong, who was created Baron Armstrong, of Bamburgh and of Cragside in the County of Northumberland. Born William Watson, he had assumed the additional surname of Armstrong by Royal licence in 1889.
The People's Movement for the State (Serbian: Народни покрет за државу, romanized: Narodni pokret za državu, abbr. NPZD), also referred to as the Movement for the People and the State (Serbian: Покрет за народ и државу, romanized: Pokret za narod i državu, abbr. PZND), are the working names of the political movement in Serbia initiated by Aleksandar ...
Expanding his landholdings around Cragside, Lord Armstrong acquired Cragend, a nearby 16th-century farmhouse [7] two miles south of Rothbury. [8] He started work on modernising the farm in the 1880s, [ 8 ] and around 1895 built the experimental hydraulic silo building now known as Cragend Silo.
At the moment it is a 2-2 draw and I feel that the article should be consistent. It appears that KJP1's preference is the "an" one, and as he's doing all the hard work at the moment perhaps that should prevail; speaking as an anonymous IP user who just happens to be passing by I prefer "a" but would not be willing to indulge in fisticuffs over it.
As the ruler of the Pannonian Slavs, [2] he led a resistance to Frankish domination. Having lost the war against the Franks, he fled to the south, presumably to Dalmatia , first to an unknown Serb župa (a topic of historical debates), and then to the Croat ruler Ljudemisl , who treacherously killed him.
Šatrovački (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [ʃâtroʋatʃkiː]; Serbian Cyrillic: шатровачки) or šatra (Serbo-Croatian pronunciation:; Serbian Cyrillic: шатра) is an argot within the Serbo-Croatian language comparable to verlan in French or vesre in Spanish.