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unusual facts about regalia



Antonio José Álvarez de Abreu, 1st Marquis of la Regalía

Antonio José Alvarez de Abreu (8 July 1688 in Santa Cruz de la Palma, Canary Islands, Spain – 28 November 1756), Marquis de la Regalía by King Philip V of Spain on 8 July 1738, the son of Sergeant Domingo Alvarez Hernandez and Maria Yañez Abreu, studied Latin and Philosophy at the Augustines Convent of La Laguna of Tenerife and graduated at the University of Salamanca being a "Bachiller" in 1707 and a "Licenciado" in law in 1711.

Beadwork

Jamie Okuma (Luiseño-Shoshone-Bannock) has won top awards with her beaded dolls, which can include entire families or horses and riders, all with fully beaded regalia.

Benin art

Benin’s other important ritual festivals include Ague, where the first budded yams are blessed in hopes of a successful harvest; Ugie Ivie, the Festival of Beads, in which the oba’s coral and red stone regalia is bathed in cow’s blood to reinvest it with spiritual force; Ugie Erha Oba, which honors the oba’s father and all paternal ancestors; Oduduwa, a masquerade that likewise honors the oba’s paternal ancestors; and Ugie Oro, celebrating Oba Esigie’s victory over the Idah Kingdom in the 16th century.

Cecil Harcourt Smith

As well as contributing to many of the British Museum departmental catalogues, he wrote for the art journals and also published a number of monographs: 'The Collection of J Pierpont Morgan' (1913), 'The Art Treasures of the Nation' (1929), and 'The Society of the Dilettanti: it's Regalia and Pictures' (1932).

Coronations in Asia

Various items of royal regalia are exhibited at the Royal Regalia Building in the capital of Bandar Seri Begawan.

Diebitsch

Karl Diebitsch (1899–1985), German artist and soldier responsible for much of the Third Reich SS regalia

Gorsedh Kernow

After 1939 the Council of the Gorsedd of Cornwall approved additional regalia, and asked Francis Cargeeg to design and execute new regalia for the Grand Bard, the Deputy Grand Bard and the Secretary, and two headpieces for the Marshal's staves.

Great Castle House

The museum displays include regimental artefacts and regalia, the importance of the Dukes of Beaufort, the earlier defences of Monmouth and its castle, HMS Monmouth, and the military activities of the regiment from its founding to the present.

Imperial Crown of Brazil

Since 1943, the Imperial Crown of Brazil and all other items of the regalia have been kept on permanent public exhibition at the Imperial Palace in the City of Petrópolis, now converted to the Imperial Museum of Brazil.

Imperial Treasury, Vienna

The Imperial Regalia arrived in the last days of the Holy Roman Empire around 1800 from Nuremberg, where they had been kept since 1424, in order to save them from the advancing French troops under Napoleon.

Jeffrey Gibson

Keeping with regalia, 19th-century Iroquois beadwork also provides inspiration, as colorful beads often find their way into Gibson's artworks.

Jewel House

Although a treasury had been found in the Tower of London from the earliest times (as in the sub-crypt of St. John's Chapel in the White Tower), from 1255 there was a separate Jewel House for state crowns and regalia, though not older crowns and regalia, which remained at Westminster Abbey.

Kusunoki Masahide

By attempting to restore the dynasty, Masahide followed in stealing the imperial regalia during the year 1443, then fled with the southern claimant to the Yoshino mountains.

Letter game

Novels written using or inspired by this type of letter game include Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot, The Grand Tour or The Purloined Coronation Regalia, and The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After, all three by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer; Freedom and Necessity, by Steven Brust and Emma Bull; and the children's books P.S. Longer Letter Later and Snail Mail No More by Paula Danziger and Ann M. Martin.

Sceptre

A sceptre (or scepter in U.S. English) is a symbolic ornamental staff or wand held in the hand by a ruling monarch as an item of royal or imperial insignia.

Taming Sari

Before the Taming Sari became part of the Perak Royalty's regalia, it is believed to have been a hereditary article of the family of the laksamana (admiral) who for generations, through succession, ruled as the territorial chief of Hilir Perak.

The Silver Princess in Oz

In this story, King Randy of Regalia (from Thompson's The Purple Prince of Oz) sets off for adventure with his old friend, the Elegant Elephant Kabumpo; they visit their friend Jinnicky the Red Jinn (also from Purple Prince) in the Land of Ev.


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