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In 1962 she built the Rotunda as a doll's house museum in the grounds of her home near Oxford, incorporating the spiral staircase from the St James's Theatre. [11] The museum was partially funded by Graham Greene and opened by Sir Albert Richardson, [4] who later donated a dolls' house. By the mid-1990s, the Rotunda contained over 50 miniature ...
This list of people from Darien, Connecticut, ... 1979—1985; Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives, 1985—1987 [21] Business ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Amy Duggan "Sister" Archer-Gilligan (October 31, 1873 [1] – April 23, 1962) [2] was a nursing home proprietor and serial killer from Windsor, Connecticut. She murdered at least five people by poisoning them. One of her victims was her second husband, Michael Gilligan; the others were residents of her nursing home.
The following is a list of notable people who were born, raised, or a resident of the U.S. state of Connecticut, with place of birth or residence when known. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Charles R. Chapman, mayor of Hartford, served in both houses of Connecticut legislature [25] Ezra Clark Jr. (1813–1896), US representative [ 26 ] Horace S. Cooley , Illinois Secretary of State
The Haunted Doll's House" is a 1923 short story by M. R. James, collected by him in A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925). It was commissioned by Queen Mary , wife of George V , as a miniature book for her famous Dolls' House , which can still be seen in Windsor Castle .
These promotional dolls were extremely popular; so popular in fact that by 1960 Annalee dolls were being sold in stores in forty states, Canada, and Puerto Rico. [10] In 1964, the day-to-day operation of doll making became too big for the Thorndikes' house. At this time they moved the operations out of the house and into a "factory in the woods ...