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The Pall Mall logo has large Art Nouveau lettering spelling out "Pall Mall" on the top front of the red pack. On the face is a white coat of arms on the front and back of the package. Showing two regal lions pawing the sides and a knight 's helmet on top.
Pall Mall was one of the first streets in London to have gas lighting. Pall Mall was the location of the War Office from 1855 to 1906, [23] with which it became synonymous (just as Whitehall refers to the administrative centre of the UK government). The War Office was accommodated in a complex of buildings based on the ducal mansion, Cumberland ...
Drawing of a game of "pell-mell" between Frederick V of the Palatinate and Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, by Adriaen van de Venne, c. 1620–1626.. Pall-mall, paille-maille, palle-maille, pell-mell, or palle-malle (/ ˈ p æ l ˈ m æ l /, / ˈ p ɛ l ˈ m ɛ l /, also US: / ˈ p ɔː l ˈ m ɔː l / [1] [2]) is a lawn game (though primarily played on earth surfaces rather than grass) that ...
Pall Mall, London, a street in the City of Westminster, London; Pall Mall, a long-running farm near Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales, named after the London street; Pall Mall, Tennessee, a small unincorporated community in Fentress County, Tennessee; Pall Mall (Bendigo), urban downtown area of Bendigo, Australia
The Travellers Club is a private gentlemen's club situated at 106 Pall Mall in London, United Kingdom.It is the oldest of the surviving Pall Mall clubs, established in 1819, and is one of the most exclusive.
"The Duel" is a work of short fiction by Joseph Conrad, first published in The Pall Mall Magazine in January–May, 1908. The story was collected in A Set of Six (1908) released by Methuen Publishing. [1] It was adapted as the 1977 film The Duellists, directed by Ridley Scott.
Stead resigned his editorship of the Pall Mall in 1889 in order to found the Review of Reviews (1890) with Sir George Newnes. It was a highly successful non-partisan monthly. [4] The journal found a global audience and was intended to bind the empire together by synthesising all its best journalism. [12]
The Pall Mall Gazette took the name of a fictional newspaper conceived by W. M. Thackeray. Pall Mall is a street in London where many gentlemen's clubs are located, hence Thackeray's description of this imaginary newspaper in his novel The History of Pendennis (1848–1850):