Built by Sir William Paxton (1745-1824), a Scottish-born but London-raised merchant and banker, whose forefathers were from Auchencrow by Paxton Berwickshire.
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Paxton may have been inspired to build the tower by Nelson's death at Trafalgar.
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His middle name, Paxton, was selected to honour the creator of The Great Exhibition's Crystal Palace – Joseph Paxton – as it was on show during the year of his birth.
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The eccentric William Thomas Beckford was originally buried here, but moved once its former retreat of Lansdown Tower was converted into Lansdown Cemetery (which was sold after his death and when it appeared that the buyer wanted to turn it into a pub and pleasure garden, Beckford’s daughter bought it back and presented it to the Rector of Walcot as a cemetery.) “The best monuments are slightly neo-Grecian with canopied tops, dating from the 1840s.
The Central Bank of Islamic Republic of Iran building was built in July 2005 in Tehran, Iran.
A competition was held for the design which was won by Edward Kemp, a pupil of Paxton's and Curator of Birkenhead Park.
It was designed by Joseph Paxton and its construction was supervised by Edward Kemp.
A close replica of Helen's Tower, the Ulster Tower, was built at Thiepval in 1921 to honour the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division who fell at the Battle of the Somme.
Caught in the strong Bosphorus current, E11 was out of control for 20 minutes until she settled on the bottom near the Maiden's Tower.
The monument was designed as a replica of the Third Eddystone Lighthouse (Smeaton's Tower).
Hezarfen (with Franceska) manages to escape with the help of Evliya Çelebi to the Maiden's Tower and launches his flying machine across the Bosporus.
He was a Founding Trustee of the Beckford's Tower Trust, established in 1977 to preserve and maintain the building and its collection for public benefit.
His mother, Sue Sikking (née Paxton), was a founder of Santa Monica's Unity-by-the-Sea Church.
Marty Dieckmeyer was soon brought in as a replacement for the departing Paxton.
As well being the subject of numerous postcards, it was painted by Tristram Hillier in 1937 as part of a series of posters for Royal Dutch Shell.
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The sect, however, continued and was expanded upon by other “prophets”, including Richard Brothers, George Turner, William Shaw and John Wroe.
Paxton was an uncle of comic book writer Ed Brubaker as well as retired army intelligence officer, Col. David O. Paxton.
Paskett was born Keith Paxton Paskett on December 7, 1964 in Nashville, Tennessee.
The tower stands near the location of 'Egbert's stone' where it is believed that Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallied the Saxons in May 878 before the important Battle of Ethandun, where the Danish army, led by Guthrum the Old was defeated.
"Paxton House", North London - family house built in spare space between mews houses - the most technologically advanced of the series (architects: Richard Paxton and Heidi Locher)
"Everlasting Love": Performed by Adrienne Bailon, Sara Paxton, Alexander DiPersia and Cast
by Thomas Sandby, who was a founder member and first Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy.
The tower was featured in the game Assassin's Creed: Revelations where it is the location of one Masyaf key that the playable character must collect to complete the game.
Early projects included the reconstruction and extension of the City & South London Railway, the building and extension of the Central London Railway, the construction of lifts beneath St Mary Woolnoth church at Bank Underground station, the underpinning of Clifford's Tower, the reconstruction of Southwark Bridge and the widening of Blackfriars Bridge.
A replica of Helen's Tower was built on the Somme battlefield as Northern Ireland's national war memorial.
Operation Rainfall formed from the focus on three Wii-exclusive titles: Xenoblade Chronicles developed by Monolith Soft (makers of Xenogears and the Xenosaga series), The Last Story developed by Mistwalker and AQ Interactive, and Pandora's Tower developed by Ganbarion.
A short run of Shelby Mustangs were fitted with Paxton superchargers, and Ford dealers offered Paxton superchargers as a dealer-fitted Ford Mustang option from 1965 to 1972.
Paxton was heard with Rod Roddy who was also a KLIF broadcaster at the time discussing the Paul Is Dead urban legend about Beatle Paul McCartney.
Engine options that were considered included an alternative fuel steam engine, based on earlier designs by Abner Doble, or a two-cycle gasoline engine with a McCulloch/Paxton supercharger.
Water was either taken from the North Platte River or the aquifer, which allowed the production of corn, winter wheat and other assorted vegetable crops in addition to raising livestock for consumption and sale.
With its serpentine lake and a circular carriage drive, the park set a style which was to be widely emulated in Victorian urban development, most notably by Paxton himself on a larger scale at Birkenhead Park.
Ramblin' Boy is referred to as Paxton's debut album, since it was his first album released on a major record label (Elektra Records), although he had previously released a live album recorded at the The Gaslight Cafe in Greenwich Village entitled, I'm the Man That Built the Bridges (which was released on the small Gaslight label in 1962).
After the Paxton Pub opposite the end of Gipsy Hill it captures water from Hamilton Road, forms the back garden line of Croxted road and joins the other branch at the South Circular where it now forms the sewers of Croxted Road, Dulwich Road, Dalberg Road, Effra Road, Electric Lane, Brixton Road, Harleyford street/road separated by the Kennington Oval.
As an expert on the Vichy era, Paxton co-wrote Claude Chabrol's 1993 documentary The Eye of Vichy and in 1997 testified at the trial of Vichy bureacrat Maurice Papon.
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Upon its publication in French translation in 1973, he became the subject of intense vitriol from French historians and commentators; during a televised debate with Paxton in 1976, the Vichy naval leader Gabriel Auphan called him a liar.
The stone arch or vault, with or without ribs, dominated the roof structures of major architectural works for about 2,000 years, only giving way to iron beams with the Industrial Revolution and the designing of such buildings as Paxton's Crystal Palace, completed 1851.
Another house, Tower — named after Jezreel's tower in Gillingham and intended for boys from that borough — was disbanded between the wars.
The Tower is situated in a commanding position on the crest of Marfa Ridge at the north west end of Malta, overlooking the natural harbour and obvious landing site of Mellieħa Bay with clear views over to Comino and Gozo, and also eastward to the line of watchtowers along the north shore of Malta that linked it with the Knights headquarters in Valletta.
Don parachutes onto the lot but Stu and Paxton inform him the "bandit car" (an expensive prop that was used in the Smokey and the Bandit films) is not sold and the dealership is theirs.
It is a sequel to the third Witcher novel Baptism of Fire (Chrzest ognia) and is followed by final entry in the Saga, The Lady of the Lake (Pani Jeziora).
Walker, Texas Ranger "The Trial of LaRue" (1997) as Judge Loretta Paxton
It moves through a few small communities before passing through the town of Paxton and crossing into Covington County, Alabama.
In the following novel, A Fighting Man of Mars, Paxton relays Tan Hadron of Hastor's adventure to Burroughs on Earth via the Gridley Wave (named after Jason Gridley, a character in Burroughs' Pellucidar series).
Among the pavilions and halls designed for the exhibition by John William Simpson, Maxwell Ayrton and Owen Williams was a grand sports arena, the 125,000-capacity British Empire Exhibition Stadium, later to be known as Wembley Stadium.
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Watkin formed a company to manage the project, the International Tower Construction Company and to oversee construction he appointed Benjamin Baker, a civil engineer who was involved in the design of the Forth Bridge and the Aswan Dam.
Working first as foreman of a crew hired to supply railroad ties, and then as manager of a large railroad construction gang, Paxton contracted with the Omaha and Northwestern Railroad in 1869 to build lines north out of Omaha to Oakland, Nebraska.
Before his tenure as the Mayor of Paducah, Paxton served a portion of an elected term from 1998 as a City Commissioner.
Like many of his Boston colleagues, Paxton found inspiration in the work of the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.