early+remains
101Lydians — Early 6th century BC coin minted by a King of Lydia The Lydians were the inhabitants of Lydia, a region in western Anatolia, who spoke the distinctive Lydian language, an Indo European language of the Anatolian group. Questions raised regarding… …
102Sculpture — Early 14th century sculpture developed from Brabant regional traditions, which showed a marked affinity for the grotesque (gargoyles on Notre Dame de la Chapelle). Increased realism became apparent from the mid 14th century. The growth of… …
103Cwmhir Abbey — Remains of Cwmhir Abbey Cwmhir Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Cwm Hir), near Llandrindod Wells in Powys, is a Welsh Cistercian monastery founded in 1176 by Cadwallon ap Madog. A spurious tale was later recorded that the abbey was founded in 1143 by Meredudd …
104Château de Ham — Remains classified Monument historique The Château de Ham (also called fort or forteresse de Ham) is a castle in the commune of Ham in the Somme département in Picardy, France …
105Milan amphitheatre — Remains of the amphitheatre of Milan. The Milan amphitheatre was a Roman amphitheatre in the ancient city of Mediolanum, the modern Milan, northern Italy …
106William Wallace Lincoln — Early life William Wallace Lincoln was born about ten months after his brother Eddie died on February 1, 1850. [Donald, David Herbert, Lincoln . New York; Simon and Schuster, 1995, p. 154] He was named after Dr. William Wallace, an in law and… …
107Insula (building) — Remains of the top floors of an insula near the Capitolium and the Aracoeli in Rome In Roman architecture, an insula (Latin for island, plural insulae) was a kind of apartment building that housed most of the urban citizen population of ancient… …
108Maiden in the mor lay — (early 14th century) Maiden in the mor lay is an enigmatic and haunting Middle English lyric popular in the early 14th century. The text consists of four stanzas of seven short lines each, full of repetitions (the first two lines of each… …
109Artillery battery — Remains of a battery of English cannon from Youghal, County Cork. In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit of guns, mortars, rockets or missiles so grouped in order to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and… …
110Francis Xavier Pierz — Early life Father Pierz was born on November 20, 1785 to a peasant family in Godica, near the Carniolan town of Kamnik in the Slovene Lands, then part of the Austrian Empire. He entered the seminary of Ljubljana in the fall of 1810 and was… …
