Great Houses of England & Wales

Great Houses of England & Wales

However, it was to take nearly a century to really catch on; the style of the two great Jacobean houses in this book ... Buckling is an instance of where we have sought to highlight a lesser- known great house in favour of what might be ...

Great Houses of Scotland

Great Houses of Scotland

T MOST great houses the past casts a long shadow, but at Yester jg on the edge of the Lammermuir Hills, nothwithstanding its long /□ history as a family scat stretching back to at least the 1 3th century, fa^k the future demands to ...

Sources of Ancient Maize Found in Chacoan Great Houses

Sources of Ancient Maize Found in Chacoan Great Houses

1 Benson , L. , Cordell , L. , Vincent , K. , Taylor , H. , Stein , J. , Farmer , G. , and Kiyoto , F. , 2003 , Ancient maize from Chacoan great houses : where was it grown ?: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , v .

The Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

The Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

There are also settlements without a great house. Each of these settlement types requires more research to understand their sociopolitical organization and the movement of diverse cultural groups into the interior San Juan Basin.

Burning the Big House

Burning the Big House

During the revolutionary period those who collaborated with ' a foreign people and government ' , the terminology of the 1916 Proclamation , were adjudged hostile enemies of the republic.60 After one Big House was burned in Tipperary in ...

Great Houses of Italy

Great Houses of Italy

If it is said today that in a century of missiles why not after all build a "glass house" here, one realizes that such a ... One evening a bronze twilight colored with blood in the heights penetrates too strongly through the large bay ...

The Big House

The Big House

The Big House was so well suited to the game that I liked to believe the man who had designed it had Sardines in mind. On the theory that houses look something like their architects, I pictured a tall, eccentric, elderly gentleman with ...

A Study of the Delaware Indian Big House Ceremony

A Study of the Delaware Indian Big House Ceremony

It was dictated by Witapano'xwe in explanation of that part of the ceremony in which cedar was given to the fires in the Big House as spiritual 'food.' RED CEDAR A SACRED TREE Now I am explaining what is the purpose of him our ...

Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle

Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle

Of the great house in its perfect sense as a home there are but few happy instances. It is the day of little things—little books, ... Slowly English men and women have come to realise this, and not to aspire enviously to great houses.

Excavations at Haft Tepe, Iran

Excavations at Haft Tepe, Iran

written at the time that by the order of the king the Great House ( E - DU - A GAL ) was building ' ; while on H.T. ... can mean either a living house or a tomb ( Reiner 1973 : 94 ) , and thus may refer to the large baked brick tomb of ...