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    The Carnarvon Tablet is an ancient Egyptian inscription in hieratic recording the defeat of the Hyksos by Kamose. Discovered in 1908 by Lord Carnarvon, it...
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    and pasturage rights in the fertile Delta. Kamose's records on the Carnarvon Tablet (in the text also parallelled in the Thebes stelae of Kamose) relate...
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    three monumental stelae set up at Karnak. The first of the three, Carnarvon Tablet includes a complaint by Kamose about the divided and occupied state...
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  • papyrus scrolls in the British Museum, the Insinger Papyrus and the Carnarvon Tablet 1 in Cairo. This genre has much in common with sapiential literature...
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  • Canopic chest Canopic jar Canopus, Egypt Caphtor Caranus (hetairos) Carnarvon Tablet Carob (hieroglyph) Cartonnage Cartouche Casluhim Cataracts of the Nile...
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    of Parliament. His eldest half-brother was George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866–1923), who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun. Aubrey Herbert was...
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    Somerset, second son of the 4th Earl of Carnarvon. She died at Pixton, as is recorded on her brass memorial tablet in the Herbert Chapel, Brushford Church...
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    the Acland family and in 1870 was altered by Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831–1890). Although Pixton Park is situated within the manor of Dulverton...
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    descendants, including the present-day Earls of Pembroke, Montgomery, and Carnarvon. Anne was buried on 28 February 1552 in the Old St Paul's Cathedral in...
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    December 1930. col F, p. 27. "A Schooner on a Coral Reef". Northern Times (Carnarvon W.A.). 11 December 1930. Archived from the original on 4 November 2020...
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    was the home of the Earls of Chesterfield. George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon sold the property in the 1920s to pay for the Tutankhamun expedition....
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  • to overcome Set and keep the demon under control by breaking an emerald tablet into four pieces and sending the pieces to the far corners of the world...
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  • Woodleigh impact structure in the Carnarvon Basin. In addition, he has found other probable impact structures, one in the Carnarvon Basin and two in the western...
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  • of fraudulent cuneiform tablets, as clay tablets are difficult to date. "By 1904, during the early period of cuneiform tablet collecting, J. Edgar Banks...
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    church include, at the west end of the south aisle, a large pedimented tablet to William Ernle (d. 1581) of Etchilhampton and his wife Jone; and at the...
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    (1923). Tutankhamen and the discovery of his tomb by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr Howard Carter. London: Routledge. Sooke, Alastair (January 9, 2014)...
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  • Highclere Castle in Hampshire, the third son of Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, a wealthy landowner, British cabinet minister, and Lord Lieutenant of...
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    Civil War, between Royalist forces led by Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon and the parliamentary forces under William Waller including the cavalry...
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    the town was attacked by 2,000 troops under Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon. Its defences proved inadequate and it quickly surrendered but was spared...
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    abuse the grand old name of gentleman". Henry George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon (1772–1833), who inherited Tetton and Pixton as part of the marriage settlement...
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    Gibbon's memorial tablet on the Sheffield Mausoleum in St Andrew & St Mary The Virgin's church in Fletching, East Sussex...
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    ancestral home of several families, including the current Lord and Lady Carnarvon. Ancestral homes are the setting for multiple works of art, both fiction...
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  • Richey wrote in 1943 as navigation assistant on the auxiliary cruiser MV Carnarvon Castle on a ride in the South Atlantic. In further missions on various...
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    completed. New features include digital enhancements ranging from touch-screen tablets, a DVD library of 3D movies to high-definition televisions. The decor of...
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  • been one of the bravest and most accomplished seamen of his time." A wall tablet in the chancel commemorates his son, also George Shelvocke, who died in...
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    order of the House of Commons, first at Denbigh Castle, and afterwards at Carnarvon Castle. He was able to join Charles II at Stirling in the spring of 1651...
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  • College, Nottingham in 1897–1936. (1866–1923) George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, who backed the excavation of Tutankhamun's Tomb, had estates at Shelford...
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  • Plaatje (1876–1932) "Black South African Writer and Campaigner for African Rights lived here" 25 Carnarvon Road Walthamstow E10 6DW 1986 (1986) 163...
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    however one architectural feature to offer a clue to the period. This is a Carnarvon arched doorway in the basement of the tower. It is a wide doorway writes...
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  • 1933 that the building, then a guest house and boarding house called Carnarvon Mansions, had been purchased and was going to be demolished to make way...
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