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Cheapside Park was a block in downtown Lexington, Kentucky between Upper Street and Mill Street. Cheapside, originally Public Square, was the town's main marketplace in the nineteenth century and included a large slave market before the Civil War . Cheapside Park played a prominent role in the slave trade, many enslaved people sold here were ...
Cheapside. Coordinates: 51.5141°N 0.0937°W. Cheapside in 1909 (left), looking west and in 2005 (right), looking east. The church in the background of each is St Mary-le-Bow. Cheapside is a street in the City of London, the historic and modern financial centre of London, England, which forms part of the A40 London to Fishguard road.
The Church of St Mary-le-Bow ( / boʊ /) is a Church of England parish church in the City of London, England. Located on Cheapside, one of the city's oldest thoroughfares, the church was founded in 1080, by Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury. [1] Rebuilt several times over the ensuing centuries, the present church is the work of Sir Christopher ...
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Cheapside Hoard. The Cheapside Hoard is a hoard of jewellery from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, discovered in 1912 by workmen using a pickaxe to excavate in a cellar at 30–32 Cheapside in London, on the corner with Friday Street. They found a buried wooden box containing more than 400 pieces of Elizabethan and Jacobean jewellery ...
Hortobágy ( Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈhortobaːɟ]) is an 800 km 2 national park in eastern Hungary, rich with folklore and cultural history. The park, a part of the Alföld (Great Plain), was designated as a national park in 1973 (the first in Hungary), and elected among the World Heritage Sites in 1999. [2] The Hortobágy is Hungary's ...
Sir Christopher Wren was 33 years old and near the beginning of his career as an architect when the Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed many of the city's public buildings, including 88 of its parish churches. Wren's office was commissioned to build 51 replacement churches and St Paul's Cathedral. Many of these buildings survive to this day ...
Kiskunság National Park ( Hungarian: Kiskunsági Nemzeti Park) is a national park located in Danube–Tisza Interfluve mainly in Bács-Kiskun county, Hungary. It was created in 1975 and declared a biosphere reserve by the UNESCO. The park covers an area of 530 km 2 and stretches across the Little Cumania (Kiskunság) region of the Great ...