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unusual facts about Regent's Park tube station


Regent's Park tube station

Nearby points of interest are Regent's Park itself, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Physicians, Holy Trinity Church, Portland Place and Harley Street.


365 BC

Perdiccas III of Macedon, son of Amyntas III and Eurydice II, kills Ptolemy of Aloros, who has been the regent of Macedon since he arranged the assassination of Perdiccas III's brother Alexander II in 368 BC.

Adelaide of Guelders

# Otto (d. 1249), Regent of Holland in 1238–1239, Bishop of Utrecht

Agathocles of Egypt

They also formed a conspiracy with Sosibius aimed at placing Agathocles on the throne or at least making him regent for the new boy king, Ptolemy V Epiphanes.

Alcide Segoni

In 1874, he completed a large canvas of Death of Filippo Strozzi, afterwards he painted a Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna; Il Maresciallo d'Anere at the Court of the Regent Queen Maria; and Napoleon I awards a dragoon the Legion of Honor.

Andrew S. Draper

He then served as a member of the Albany School-board, superintendent of the public instruction at New York City, and superintendent of schools at Cleveland, Ohio before becoming the President and Regent of the University of Illinois in 1894.

Ansprand

Many Austrians (the men of Venetia and the east) joined the returning regent and battle ensued near Pavia, between his forces and those of King Aripert II, who had usurped the throne.

Any Number Can Die

It starred Nicholas (Chuck), Colette Bablon (Judy), Susan Kaslow (Zenia), Charles Dickens (Roger Masters), Victoria Camargo (Celia Lathrop), M. Emmet Walsh (T.J. Lathrop), Peter von Mayrhauser (Edgars), Elizabeth Franz (Ernestine Wintergreen), Barbara Greacen (Sally VanViller), Anthony Dingman (Carter Forstman), Nick Masi Jr. (Jack Regent), and Fred Carmichael (Hannibal Hix).

Battle of the Fischa

The opponents were a Bavarian army led by duke Henry XI and the Hungarian army under the leadership of king Géza II and his uncle and palatine Beloš Vukanović, who formerly served as regent and tutor for the underage Géza II.

Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues

Upon the King's death, his wife, Queen Marie de' Medici, was named Regent by Parliament, and immediately exiled Catherine from the royal court.

Christian Beyer

While Luther abstained he made the long journey and acted as an assigned as legal adviser to King and the Queen of Denmark, who through the Nordic Kalmar Union also was regent of Sweden as well as Norway.

Dorothy Buffum Chandler

Chandler served as a regent of the University of California from 1954 to 1968, during its period of most rapid growth, when the system grew from five to nine campuses.

Empress Feng Qing

Feng Qing was a daughter of Feng Xi (馮熙) the Prince of Changli, who was a brother of the powerful Grand Empress Dowager Feng, the wife of Emperor Wencheng and regent over his son Emperor Xianwen and grandson Emperor Xiaowen.

Euphemia of Sicily

Euphemia of Sicily (1330–1359) was regent of Sicily from 1355 until 1357 during the minority of her brother, King Frederick the Simple.

Fort de Chartres

The name of the original fort honored Louis, duc de Chartres, son of the Regent of France.

Gadifer Shorthose

In 1442 Shorthose refused to comply with the orders of the regent of Gascony, Robert Roos.

Garden Ring

Although Boris Godunov, de facto regent of Russia, prevented Crimeans from taking the city north of Moskva River, he anticipated future raids and arranged construction of another defence ring.

Garman sisters

Along with her sister Kathleen she ran away to London where they lived in a one room studio at 13 Regent Square in Camden on the outskirts of Bloomsbury.

Guillaume Dubois

See also A Chéruel, Saint-Simon et l'abbé Dubois; L Wiesener, Le Régent, l'abbé Dubois et les Anglais (1891); and memoirs of the time.

Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt

Armfelt was also appointed as the Over-Governor of Stockholm, but the new regent was staunchly anti-Gustavian and sent Armfelt to serve as the Swedish ambassador to Naples in order to get rid of him.

Gwawr, Aberaman

Gwawr, Aberaman was a Baptist chapel in Regent Street, Aberaman, formed as a branch of Calfaria, Aberdare

Harbottle

In 1515 Margaret Tudor, the widowed queen of James IV of Scotland and sister of Henry VIII, having been banished by the regent, the Duke of Albany, came to the castle with her second husband, the Earl of Angus.

Henry II, Count of Sayn

Godfrey II (Count of Sponheim) had been a regent from 1181 and continued until his death in 1220.

Henry Trivick

He was a visiting instructor at the Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster) where he taught Spencer the art of lithography.

Ivo Perović

Ivo Perović (1882 − 1958) was Regent of Yugoslavia for the underage Peter II from 1934 to 1941.

James Houston

James M. Houston, Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College, Vancouver

Jean Théodore Latour

Latour was appointed official pianist to the Prince Regent (later King George IV of the United Kingdom).

John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray

John returned to Scotland the following year, when he and the High Steward of Scotland (the future King Robert II of Scotland) were appointed joint Regents, and set about trying to restore order to the nation.

K-38 trailer

A list of serial numbers, manufacturers and dates of delivery is in compilation, and seems to indicate that Highway Trailer made the earliest units at the start of World War II, FWD production was later in World War II, and Regent Manufacturing post World War II production.

Lily Parr

The 2009 Lily Parr Exhibition Trophy took place at the Hub Regent's Park, London, as part of Camden LGBT History month again, on Sun 15th Feb after a meet the team event at the Black Cap on 14th Feb.

Liu Yikang

(It was also at Liu Dan's urging that Liu Yikang, during Emperor Wen's illness in 436, arrested and executed the famed general Tan Daoji, fearing that if Emperor Wen had died, no one would be able to control Tan.) Once, when Emperor Wen appeared near death, he commissioned Liu Yikang to be the regent for the crown prince Liu Shao.

Marcucci

Gian Marco Marcucci (born 1954), served as a Captain Regent of San Marino

Margaret Elisabeth of Leiningen-Westerburg

Margaret Elisabeth of Leiningen-Westerburg (30 June 1604 in Schadeck, today part of Runkel – 13 August 1667 at Wiesenburg Castle), was a Countess of Leiningen and regent of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg.

Margaret I

Margaret I of Denmark (1353–1412), Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden (also later Regent of Sweden), and founder of the Kalmar Union

Maria of Gaeta

As senatrix and ducissa of Gaeta, Maria ruled as regent for her and Atenulf's son Atenulf II after her husband's death on 2 February 1062.

Mubarak Khan

Mubarak Khan also Mubarak Khilji (died 1320 AD) (son of Alauddin Khilji) named himself regent of Khilji dynasty (controlling large portions of the northern Indian subcontinent) after escaping an assassination attempt on him by Malik Kafur, once his father's trusted general.

Peter Cleall

He began his acting career at Watford Palace Theatre and appeared at many theatres throughout the country including a number of seasons at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.

Peter Nigri

In 1465 he taught philosophy and was regent of studies in Cologne; in 1467 taught theology at Ulm; in 1469 or 1470 was elected prior in Eichstätt, on 31 May, 1473, the newly founded University of Ingolstadt conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Theology; in 1474 he taught theology in the convent at Ratisbon and in 1478 became professor of Old Testament exegesis in the University of Ingolstadt.

Prix Thomas Bryon

François Dupré – Apostol (1956), Regent (1958), Sweet Girl (1960), Paolina (1963)

Ramchandra Pant Amatya

In 1698, after Rajaram’s return from Gingee, Ramchandra Pant voluntarily stepped down from the post of Imperial Regent (Hukumat Panah).

Rawnsley

Rawnsley's Bowerbird, rare intergeneric hybrid between the Satin Bowerbird and Regent Bowerbird

Regent's Canal

It performs a sharp bend at Camley Street Natural Park, following Goods Way where it flows behind both St Pancras railway station and King's Cross railway station.

Rosebud Denovo

What Really Killed Rosebud?, Claire Burch, Regent Press Publishers (Berkeley) (2001), ISBN 091614769X

St George's Church, Altrincham

He returned several times, his last visit being on Easter Monday, 1790, only one year before his death.His purpose on that occasion was to preach at the first Wesleyan chapel in the town in Chapel Walk – later to become Regent Road.

St. James's Park tube station

The station was then rebuilt again between 1927 and 1929 as part of the construction of 55 Broadway the company's new headquarters building designed by Charles Holden and featuring statues and carved stone panels including ones by Sir Jacob Epstein, Eric Gill, and Henry Moore.

Su Shun

Sushun (肅順; 1816–1861), style name Yuting (雨亭), Qing Dynasty noble and regent

Ugo da Parlascio Ebriaco

Around 1128, Gonario II, Constantine's son, the child ruler of Logudoro, was brought to Porto Torres by his regent, Ittocorre Gambella, after an attempt to harm the child had been made by the Athen family.

Walter John Mathams

Walter John Mathams was a nineteenth-century British hymnwriter, soldier and minister, who attended Regent's Park College in London in the 1870s as a Baptist ministerial student before converting to the Established Church of Scotland in 1900.

William Maitland of Lethington

The Regent called on the military assistance of Queen Elizabeth I of England, who dispatched Sir William Drury from Berwick-upon-Tweed with a formidable train of artillery to assist in reducing the castle.

Xu Zhixun

Xu Zhixún (徐知詢) (d. 934), Xu Wen's second son, who tried to become regent after Xu Wen's death but lost out against his adoptive brother Xu Zhigao

York Street railway station

J.D. Irving Ltd. has been attempting to sell various parcels of the former CP Rail yard in Fredericton, such as the large parcel at the east end of the yard fronting Regent Street which now houses a Sobeys supermarket.


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