Ham House is a 17th-century house set in formal gardens on the bank of the River Thames in Ham, London. The original house was completed by 1610 by Thomas Vavasour, an Elizabethan courtier. Built of red brick, it had a traditional Elizabethan era H-plan. The house was later home to Elizabeth Maitland and her husband John, Duke of Lauderdale, when they held important roles at the court of Charles II. They had the house doubled in size and equipped with princely private apartments and accommodation suites for visitors. It was furnished to the highest standards and lavishly decorated. The gardens and grounds were carefully designed. After Elizabeth's death, the property passed down within her family until it was donated to the National Trust in 1948. The house and gardens were later opened to the public. Ham retains many original Jacobean and Caroline features and furnishings, in unusually fine condition. The house is a Grade I listed building and its park and gardens are Grade II* listed.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1897:
Ranavalona III, the last sovereign ruler of the Kingdom of Madagascar, was deposed by French military forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranavalona_III
1928:
Indian physicist C. V. Raman and his colleagues discovered what is now known as Raman scattering, for which he later became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman
1947:
Nationalist soldiers fired into a crowd of protesters in Taipei (crowd pictured), killing three people and triggering uprisings throughout Taiwan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28_incident
1975:
A London Underground train at Moorgate station failed to stop at a terminal platform, crashing and causing the deaths of 43 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorgate_tube_crash
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
carbonado: 1. (dated) Meat or fish that has been scored and broiled. […] 2. A dark, non-transparent, impure form of polycrystalline diamond (also containing graphite and amorphous carbon) used in drilling. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carbonado
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