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5 days ago · Francis II of France and Mary, Queen of Scots. Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587) married Francis, Dauphin of France (1544–1560), at Notre-Dame de Paris on 24 April 1558. The festivities included pageants, some designed by Bartolomeo Campi. [1]
2 days ago · William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death ...
4 days ago · The smoke and ash flavors found in single malts come from the burning of peat, a kind of vegetal proto-coal, in malting barley. The peat is burned to warm the malting room and the distinctive smoke then permeates the grains.
5 days ago · Fox and Henderson's experience with William (later Sir William) Siemens, inventor of the regenerative furnace, was less satisfactory. In 1848 Siemens, then a young man, interested the partners in one of his early inventions, a regenerative steam-engine and condenser.
1 day ago · Map of the Firth of Clyde. 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. The Firth of Clyde is the estuary of the River Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland. The Firth has some of the deepest coastal waters of the British Isles. The Firth is sheltered from the Atlantic Ocean by the Kintyre Peninsula.
3 days ago · Determining the timing and cause for ancient hillslope failures is challenging in the western United States, yet it is critical because it can inform ground-motion estimates for large-to-great earthquakes on plate-boundary faults. We identify two preinstumental debris avalanches (3×106 and 4.28×106 m3) in the Coast Ranges of northern California. These debris avalanches are well suited for studying the timing (to the exact year) and trigger, as the densely forested landscape enables ...
4 days ago · Inside the renovation and condo conversion of One Hundred Barclay, originally the headquarters for New York Telephone Company, located at the World Trade Center.
