Bramshill House, in Bramshill, northeast Hampshire, is one of the largest Jacobean prodigy house mansions in England. It was built in the early 17th century by Baron Edward la Zouche of Harringworth, but was partly destroyed by fire a few years later. It was designated a Grade I listed building in 1952. The decorative architecture on the mansion's southern façade includes at its centre a large oriel window above the principal entrance. Interior features include a great hall displaying 92 coats of arms on a Jacobean screen, an ornate drawing room, and a 126.5-foot (38.6 m) gallery containing many portraits. Numerous columns and friezes are found throughout the mansion, and several rooms have large tapestries depicting historical figures and events on their panelled walls. The 262-acre (106 ha) grounds contain an 18-acre (7.3 ha) lake and early 17th-century formal gardens. During the Second World War, the mansion was used as a Red Cross maternity home.

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1920:

Qantas, Australia's national airline, was founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Qantas

1944:

World War II: Operation Queen commenced with one of the heaviest Allied tactical bombings of the war, attacking German targets in the Rur valley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Queen

1974:

The Arecibo message, devised by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan, was transmitted towards the globular star cluster M13, carrying basic information about humanity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message

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circuitry: 1. (countable) A specific system of electrical circuits in a particular device; (uncountable) the design of such a system. 2. (uncountable) Electrical circuits considered as a group. 3. (uncountable, figuratively) The brain's neural network. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/circuitry

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