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Bavaria: 1750: Royal Crown Derby: Derby: England: Year of establishment disputed with 1757 1750: Real Fábrica de Alcora: Alcora: Spain: Also called Real Fábrica de Loza y Porcelana; founded 1727 but porcelain production only began c. 1750 1751: Tournai porcelain: Tournai: Belgium: Hainaut [1] 1751: Royal Worcester: Worcester: England ...
Louis IV was Duke of Upper Bavaria from 1294 to 1301 together with his elder brother Rudolf I, was Margrave of Brandenburg until 1323, and Count Palatine of the Rhine until 1329, and became Duke of Lower Bavaria in 1340. He was the last Bavarian to be a king of Germany until 1742.
Vincenzo De Michele (born 1936) is an Italian mineralogist and gemologist. He was the author of important works of mineralogical dissemination, including the Mineralogical Guide of Italy, and numerous essays on systematic and regional mineralogy. He was the discoverer of the Kamil impact crater (Egypt). JPL · 16372: 16395 Ioannpravednyj: 1981 ...
J. Rieger & Co. is an American distillery founded by Jacob Rieger in 1887. [1] Located in Kansas City, Missouri, it was shut down in December 1919 due to the onset of federal Prohibition.
Dying Gaul, or The Capitoline Gaul, [1] a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE, Capitoline Museums, Rome Assyrian lamassu gate guardian from Khorsabad, c. 800 –721 BCE Michelangelo's Moses, (c. 1513–1515), San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, for the tomb of Pope Julius II Netsuke of tigress with two cubs, mid-19th-century Japan, ivory with shell inlay The Angel of ...
Dorothy Louise Downey 27 November 2023: The 83-year-old woman arrived at her daughter's house in Salem, South Carolina, to visit and assist with a move. As she was walking in the kitchen, Downey broke through a weakened patch of floor, falling 48 ft (15 m) into a hidden well shaft. She was extricated by rescue services, but died from her injuries.
Albrecht Altdorfer's Der große Venezianische Krieg, which depicts the Landsknechte in Maximilian's triumphal procession – c. 1512–1515. Maximilian was a capable commander and a military innovator who contributed to the modernization of warfare, although he lost many wars, usually due to the lack of financial resources. [22]
William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), [c] also known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from 1672, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.