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5 days ago · The Magdalene Street houses are now (1957) being converted into undergraduates' rooms. Magdalene College in the 15th-century foundation was the only house of regular studies in Cambridge provided at first exclusively for Benedictine monks; the buildings of this period survive although to some extent obscured by later refacing and refitting.
5 days ago · It may have taken almost two decades to be recognised as a royal love child, but Delphine of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is now, officially, a Princess of Belgium. While her extraordinary story initially shook the Belgian establishment, Delphine is now being embraced as the royal family’s newest member.
4 days ago · He was the last ruling duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, a state of the German Empire, from 30 July 1900 to 14 November 1918. He was later given multiple positions in the Nazi regime, including leader of the German Red Cross, and acted as an unofficial diplomat for the German government.
5 days ago · This article lists dukes electors and kings ruling over different territories named Saxony from the beginning of the Sax
2 days ago · A willing candidate was at last found in the person of 26-year-old Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, a grandson of Louis-Philippe of France, who was then serving as an officer in the Austrian army.
5 days ago · Maria Sibylla Merian was fascinated with insects. But when Maria was a girl in the mid-1600s, superstitions about bugs prevented most people from taking a close look. People thought bugs were evil — and anyone interested in such creatures was surely evil too. That didn't stop Maria.
4 days ago · Jacob Kettler ( German: Jakob von Kettler, Latvian: Hercogs Jēkabs Ketlers; 28 October 1610 – 1 January 1682) was a Baltic German Duke of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1642–1682).
