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Tomb of William Humphrey who was the probable builder of Barton Hall Advertisement for the sale of Barton Hall estate in 1792. The original Barton Seagrave Hall was built in about 1550 by the Humphrey family. At this time the owner of the property would have been William Humphrey (died 1591) and his wife Jane Lynne. [2] They inherited the manor ...
The local nobility who ran the country opened the University of Göttingen in 1737; it soon became a world-class intellectual center. Baden sported perhaps the best government of the smaller states. Karl Friedrich ruled for 73 years and was an enthusiast for the Enlightenment; he abolished serfdom in 1783.
In 1999, new interest was sparked by the book Görings Reich: Selbstinszenierungen in Carinhall [5] which led to treasure hunters visiting the ruins, and concerns raised about the site becoming a neo-Nazi "shrine". [6] The state government of Brandenburg ordered the remains of the tomb of Göring's wife to be demolished. [citation needed]
Barton Hall is an on-campus field house on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It is the site of the school's indoor track facilities, ROTC offices and classes, and Cornell Police. For a long time, Barton Hall was the largest unpillared room in existence.
Germany became the dominant economic power on the continent and was the second-largest exporting nation after Britain. [ 55 ] Technological progress during German industrialisation occurred in four waves: the railway wave (1877–1886), the dye wave (1887–1896), the chemical wave (1897–1902), and the wave of electrical engineering (1903 ...
Germany: Memories of a Nation is a 2014 book by British historian and then director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor. The work was published in conjunction with his BBC Radio 4 series and a major exhibition at the British Museum.
Matthew Qvortrup described the book in Prospect as a "well-argued case" to learn from Germany. [6] Oliver Moody of The Times described the book as an "impeccably fair guide" to Germany. [7] Anne McElvoy for The Observer said the book was an "even-handed hymn to Germany" that "underlines why Britain will need its help in a post-Brexit world". [8]
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