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The Château d'If (French pronunciation: [ʃɑto dif]) is a fortress located on the Île d'If, the smallest island in the Frioul archipelago, situated about 1.5 kilometres (7 ⁄ 8 mile) offshore from Marseille in southeastern France. Built in the 16th century, it later served as a prison until the end of the 19th century.
"Tick, Tick, Tick..." was both Castle ' s highest ratings (12.9 million) to date and ABC's highest audience in the 10:00pm time slot since March 12, 2001. However, Castle broke that record with the second episode in the two-parter with Boom!, which attracted 14.5 million viewers. It was also the time slot's highest 18-49 (3.6/10) number since ...
The criteria adopted for inclusion in the list include such factors as: how much survives from the medieval period; how strongly fortified the building was; how castle-like the surviving building is; whether the building has been given the title of "castle"; how certain it is that a medieval castle stood on the site, or that the surviving ...
Although castle has not become a generic term for a manor house (like château in French and Schloss in German), many manor houses contain castle in their name while having few if any of the architectural characteristics, usually as their owners liked to maintain a link to the past and felt the term castle was a masculine expression of their ...
A view from within Leedskalnin's Coral Castle.. Edward Leedskalnin (Latvian: Edvards Liedskalniņš) (January 12, 1887 – December 7, 1951) was a Latvian immigrant to the United States and self-taught engineer who single-handedly built the Coral Castle in Florida, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [2]
The Dunottar Castle was built at Govan Shipyards in 1889 by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company for the Castle Line, passing to the Union Castle Line in 1900. . She became famous in the 1890s for reducing the voyage from Southampton, England, to Cape Town, South Africa, from 42 to 17 days and 20 hou
The city of Hesdin with the castle on top on a 16th-century map by Jacob van Deventer. Hesdin Castle (French: Château d’Hesdin; Dutch: Kasteel van Hesdin) located in present-day Vieil-Hesdin in northern France, was an important seat of the Counts of Artois, and hosted various high-ranking guests such as the kings of France, the Counts of Flanders, and the Dukes of Burgundy.
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