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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_House>
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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>
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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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.
--Volodymyr Zelenskyy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy>
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