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Katharine Park is an American historian of science. She is the Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science emerita at Harvard University . She specializes in the history of gender , sexuality , and the female body in medieval and Renaissance Europe, as well as categories and practices of ...
Catherine Parks is an American actress who has starred in movies and on television. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the 1982 horror movie Friday the 13th Part III , as Vera Sanchez, and the 1989 comedy Weekend at Bernie's .
Catherine Parr [a] (c. July or August 1512 [2] – 5 September 1548) was Queen of England and Ireland as the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 12 July 1543 until Henry's death on 28 January 1547. Catherine was the final queen consort of the House of Tudor, and outlived Henry by a year and eight months. With four ...
Catherine Palace and Park. Tsarskoye Selo (Russian: Ца́рское Село́, IPA: [ˈtsarskəje sʲɪˈlo] ⓘ, lit. ' Tsar's Village ') was the town containing a former residence of the Russian imperial family and visiting nobility, located 24 kilometers (15 mi) south from the center of Saint Petersburg. [1]
Oran Park is of state heritage significance for its association with a number of prominent people, including members of the colonial ruling class of NSW in the 19th century. [1] The Oran Park property was originally part of a 2000-acre land grant, awarded by Governor Lachlan Macquarie to William Douglas Campbell in 1815. Campbell was a ...
The Catherine Park (Russian: Екатерининский парк) is the large landscaped area to the south of the Catherine Palace, located in the town of Tsarskoye Selo , 25 km south-east of St. Petersburg, Russia. The park has two parts: a formal 18th century Dutch-style garden and a natural English garden. [1]
The Catherine Palace (Russian: Екатерининский дворец, romanized: Yekaterininskiy dvorets, IPA: [jɪkətʲɪˈrʲinʲɪnskʲɪj dvɐˈrʲets]) is a Rococo palace in Tsarskoye Selo , located 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of St. Petersburg, Russia.
Plan of the Catherine Park; label 21 marks the Granite Terrace built in place of the Riding Mountain pavilion. The location of Katalnaya gora was selected in 1748 or 1749 by Nartov, outside of the Old Garden above the wide slope, which had a view of the Old Garden and the Large Pond. [3]