John Norden (c. 1547 – 1625) was an English cartographer, chorographer and antiquary. He planned (but did not complete) a series of county maps and accompanying...
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Norden (born 1933), German speed skater Heinz Norden (1905–1978), American author Hermann Norden (1868/1869–1931), American travel writer John Norden...
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John Norden (c. 1612 – 20 June 1669) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1669. Norden...
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The Norden Mk. XV, known as the Norden M series in U.S. Army service, is a bombsight that was used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and the...
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the late 16th and early 17th centuries. In 1584 and 1602 respectively, John Norden and Richard Carew referred to "goals" in Cornish hurling. Carew described...
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generation. He drew upon and improved the shire maps of Christopher Saxton, John Norden and others, being the first to incorporate the hundred-boundaries into...
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According to Thomas Fuller, he was "an incomparable engineer", and John Norden praised him as "an excellent engineer". Elizabeth I awarded him an annual...
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biographer, Martin Norden, considers him to be "perhaps the most influential and idolized actor of his day". Barrymore was born John Sidney Blyth in the...
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the late 16th and early 17th centuries. In 1584 and 1602 respectively, John Norden and Richard Carew referred to "goals" in Cornish hurling. Carew described...
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government. The castle descended to Michael Stanhope, who commissioned John Norden to carry out a survey of his family's estates. The earliest surviving...
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by John Norden (1548—1625). It was intended to take the form of a series of county maps, accompanied by place-by-place written descriptions. Norden was...
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materials. Tourism began to develop in the late 16th century and, in 1593, John Norden noted that the county was attracting visitors to its "divers devices...
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Peter Edward Van Norden (born December 16, 1950) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in Hollywood films of the 1980s and 1990s, including...
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now Whitehall, and on the south side of what is now Trafalgar Square. John Norden in about 1590 described it as the "most stately" of the series, but by...
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detailed 1540s survey of the Cerne Abbey lands and a 1617 land survey by John Norden, refer to the giant, despite noting the Trendle and other landmarks....
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gatehouse commemorates the events. The noted cartographer and chorographer, John Norden produced a plan of the castle and its precincts in 1617. It shows, amongst...
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the population of which at the 2011 census was 3,375. John Norden In 1584 map maker John Norden wrote, 'The peninsula is called by the pretty name of...
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Bryan W. Van Norden (Chinese: 萬百安; born 1962) is an American translator of Chinese philosophical texts and scholar of Chinese and comparative philosophy...
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Essex and redistributed among the King's favoured nobles. Shown on John Norden's 1594 map with the second word insula (with the traditional medial "ſ")...
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Basil Brown (redirect from Basil John Wait Brown)
and its mounds have been recorded on maps since at least 1601, when John Norden included it in his survey of Sir Michael Stanhope's estates between Woodbridge...
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personality, and raconteur. His writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers. Together they wrote BBC Radio's Take...
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St Pancras Old Church (redirect from Sir John Soane's Tomb)
use during the Anglo-Saxon period. As early as 1593 the cartographer John Norden had commented in his Speculum Britanniae that the dilapidated St Pancras...
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Britanniae (1596) of the Tudor era English cartographer and topographer John Norden (1548–1625) had an alphabetical list of places throughout England with...
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along a route very similar to the present-day one, by the surveyor John Norden in a 1595 map. During the 18th century, various efforts were made to...
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rally held in Hendon Park – "Rout the Rumour". Hendon House was home to John Norden, a 16th-century cartographer, but was demolished and replaced with Hendon...
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area of high ground identified in a survey of 1607 by the cartographer, John Norden) and "—ley" (a suffix found in local toponyms, such as Frimley and Yateley...
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40/799, with John Lyon as plaintiff, line 3, in Latin; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no799/aCP40no799fronts/IMG_0727.htm John Norden, Speculum Britanniæ:...
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adversaria nova (1571), John Norden (such as his 1595 map of Sussex), John Speed's History of Great Britaine (1611) and John Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole...
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Sir John Denham FRS (1614 or 1615 – 19 March 1669) was an Anglo-Irish poet and courtier. He served as Surveyor of the King's Works and is buried in Westminster...
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William Camden praised the county mapmakers Christopher Saxton and John Norden as "most skilfull (sic) Chorographers"; and Robert Plot in 1677 and Christopher...
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