But George's mother had appeared, Ann Spaulding, a handsome older woman sporting veils and a medieval hennin, a conical kind of hat.
The Mulliner factory, in the small English village of Crewe, is more akin to a medieval guild than a 21st-century car plant.
Visitors will have a rare opportunity to see closed parts ofPrague Castle, which Rudolf's architects transformed from a medieval fort into a stunning renaissance confection.
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Hotel Morandi alla Crocetta, is a former medieval convent and a real stunner.
That, apparently, is the distance that a medieval horse could lug a cartload of produce to market and return home in a day.
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The anniversary celebrations over the year range from a hike to St Dogmaels along the same Pembrokeshire coastal paths medieval pilgrims would have taken, to a medieval day and Shakespeare in the abbey.
Understanding the brain, Allen argues, is much like a being a medieval blacksmith trying to reverse engineer a jet plane.
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In medieval times a royal castle was situated on part of the site, and last year items from Saxon times were unearthed in an initial trench.
Superscape are well known for their innovative 3D virtual reality software - in the past, they have produced 3D shopping malls, a virtual medieval garden and even a virtual graveyard.
Like a medieval town's sole inn, a railway line is a perfect example of a natural monopoly: it is tremendously expensive to build and it is difficult to justify more than one set of tracks on any route just to guarantee competition.
This road leads to Woudsend, a medieval burg laid out between two windmills and a harbor.
Two of them are "Elder Scrolls Online, " a massively multiplayer online game with a medieval setting, and "Dishonored, " a new stealth action game with a steampunk look.
Described as a medieval new town founded in 1235, it was also a thriving sea port.
One such was a medieval theologian, Taqi al-Din ibn Taymiyya, a sort of Muslim Luther who in reaction to the Mongol onslaught of the 13th century preached a return to the essentials of the faith, which the ulema (clerics) of the time had forsaken.
It has all the commotion of a medieval city, and the cemetery's oppressive silence, for a moment, is gone.
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The U.S. Justice Department returned to Turkey a medieval carved-wood panel the FBI had helped identify as having been stolen from a historic mosque in Divrigi.
Following the service, there will be a reception at the nearby medieval Guildhall for about a thousand people including friends, family and representatives of British public life.
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The so-called Dark Ages, which date roughly from the collapse of the Roman Empire in 422 A.D. to early medieval times, saw a massive contraction of interregional trade and investment.
The castle proposals include a Robin and the Rebels Discovery Centre and a medieval moat.
You could say that a medieval execution was an early form of dark tourism.
In 1997 the Origin Systems studio in Texas released a medieval fantasy game called Ultima Online.
Medieval knights used a heavier sword, often meant to be held in both hands.
The other recent ceremony involved the union in a medieval London church of two male clerics.
"The governance of baseball is a bit of a medieval operation, " said former commissioner Fay Vincent.
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The river bank is a medieval scene of hawkers, migrants, smugglers and even the occasional policeman.
But Grasse, a medieval Provencal town with cobblestone streets, is still considered the perfume capital of the world.
Relais Christine is a luxury hotel in a 17th-century mansion built on the ruins of a medieval abbey.
It would make as much sense to have the jury watch a medieval jousting contest between the two witnesses.
Check most of the third world and a medieval history textbook for reference.
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