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  2. Roma Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Northwestern Zone The northwestern zone is associated with the Arroyo de los Negros, the location of a secondary ferry crossing on the Rio Grande. [ 3 ] The Roma Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 [ 1 ] and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993. [ 2 ]

  3. File:René-Antoine Houasse - The Dispute of Minerva and ...

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    Commandé pour la salle du Billard de Trianon-sous-Bois en 1688 ; collection Louis XIV ; posé le 7 mai 1696 ; "Ce tableau et les 8 suivants décoraient autrefois la salle de billard du Grand Trianon dans laquelle Houasse avait peint l'Histoire de Minerve. Ils sont inscrits dans l'Inventaire de Bailly (1709-10)" (Villot 1853) ;

  4. Athens, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Athens is a city and the county seat of Henderson County, [6] Texas, in the United States. As of the 2020 census , the city population was 12,857. [ 7 ] The city has called itself the " Black-Eyed Pea Capital of the World."

  5. Roma, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Prior to Texas's independence from Mexico in 1836, the town was listed as under the jurisdiction of the town of Mier, Tamaulipas, and prior to Mexican independence existed under Spanish rule. [4] The site offered a convenient crossing on the Rio Grande, which became known as El Paso de la Mula (Pass of the Mule). The area was notable for a salt ...

  6. Pierre Crozat - Wikipedia

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    Charles de La Fosse, who lived in Crozat's Parisian hôtel as his guest and died there in 1716, painted the vaulted ceiling there with La Naissance de Minerve (The Birth of Minerva) and delivered several paintings for Montmorency. [3]

  7. Hotel Grande Bretagne - Wikipedia

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    During 2003, the Grande Bretagne underwent a €112-million renovation. The hotel has 320 rooms and suites, including a 400 square metre (4,305 sqf.) suite on the fifth floor. The hotel also has a roof garden restaurant. In January 2023, the hotel housed numerous European royals who were arriving in Athens the funeral of Constantine II of ...

  8. French frigate Minerve (1809) - Wikipedia

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    The French frigate Minerve was originally launched in 1788 for the Portuguese Navy, where she served under the dual names of Nossa Senhora da Vitória and Minerva.The French Navy captured and renamed her in November 1809, after which she played a notable role in the Indian Ocean campaign of 1809-1811, participating in the defeat of a Royal Navy frigate squadron at the Battle of Grand Port, but ...

  9. Temple of Minerva Medica - Wikipedia

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    The temple of Minerva Medica (akin to the temple of Apollo Medicus) was a temple in ancient Rome, built on the Esquiline Hill in the Republican era, [1] though no remains of it have been found. Since the 17th century, it has been wrongly identified with the ruins of a nymphaeum on a nearby site , on account of the erroneous impression that the ...