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  Fencing's Royal Connection
Royal interest in fencing only revived in the mid 18th century when the leading fencing master of the day, Domenico Angelo, was appointed to teach the Prince of Wales (later George III) and his brother the Duke of York in 1758.
In the year 1771 I had the honour to be appointed fencing master to their Royal Highnesses, the Prince of Wales (later George IV) and Prince Frederick.
The Royal Library at Windsor has a proof set of reduced plates commissioned in 1765 for Diderot's encyclopedia.
www.classicalfencing.com /articles/royal.shtml   (1360 words)

  
 BOWLS - LoveToKnow Article on BOWLS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Strutt (Sports and Pastimes) suggests that the first players bowl may have been regarded by the second player as a species of jack; but in that case it is not clear what was the first players target.
The former visit was commemorated by the institution of the Auetralia Cup, presented to the Imperial Bowling Association (and now the property of the English B.A.) by Mr Charles Wood, president of the Victorian Bowling Association.
An accredited team of bowlers from the mother country visited Canada in 1906, and was accorded a royal welcome.
www.1911ency.org /B/BO/BOWLS.htm   (5693 words)

  
 Botanical Illustration Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Illustrations are from collections in the Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library.
This book presents some of the rarest and most beautiful works of art from the Lindley Library of the Royal Horticultural Society, many never before published and all reproduced from the original works.
A collection of more than 7,700 drawings of fruit and nut specimens created during the late 19th and early 20th centuries before it was common to use photography.
www.library.wwu.edu /ref/subjguides/botill.htm   (7534 words)

  
 Sense in Communication: References
Beach, Milo Cleveland, and Ebba Koch (1997), King of the world: the Padshahnama, an imperial Mughal manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, with trans.
Frith, C. and RJ Dolan (1997), “Brain mechanisms associated with top-down processes in perception,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B Biological Sciences (Aug 29) v.
Weitzmann, Kurt and Herbert L. Kessler (1986), The Cotton Genesis: British Library, Codex Cotton Otho B VI  (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press).
www.galbithink.org /sen-ref.htm   (7351 words)

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