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British Pathe. Cesare_Borgia. Louis Philippe I. Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848 in what was known as the July Monarchy. His father was a duke who supported the Revolution of 1789 but was nevertheless guillotined during the Reign of Terror. Louis Philippe fled France as a young man and spent 21 years in exile. He was proclaimed king in 1830 after Charles X was forced to abdicate. Louis Philippe himself was forced to abdicate in 1848 and lived out his life in exile in the United Kingdom. Before he fled France in 1793, he led troops in the early battles of the French Revolutionary Wars as the Duke of Chartres; therefore CHARTRES is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, the first name in Column 1. Before the Revolution (1773–1789)[edit] Early life[edit] Louis Philippe was the eldest of three sons and a daughter, a family that was to have erratic fortunes from the beginning of the French Revolution to the Bourbon Restoration.

Education[edit] Military service[edit] Horrible Histories Dick Turpin‬‏ Guinea-pigs. Ancient popcorn discovered in Peru. People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously reported and before ceramic pottery was used there, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences co-authored by Dolores Piperno, curator of New World archaeology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and emeritus staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Some of the oldest known corncobs, husks, stalks and tassels, dating from 6,700 to 3,000 years ago were found at Paredones and Huaca Prieta, two mound sites on Peru's arid northern coast.

The research group, led by Tom Dillehay from Vanderbilt University and Duccio Bonavia from Peru's Academia Nacional de la Historia, also found corn microfossils: starch grains and phytoliths. Characteristics of the cobs -- the earliest ever discovered in South America -- indicate that the sites' ancient inhabitants ate corn several ways, including popcorn and flour corn.

2011-06-02. H. H. Asquith. As Prime Minister, he led his Liberal party to a series of domestic reforms, including social insurance and the reduction of the power of the House of Lords. He led the nation into the First World War, but a series of military and political crises led to his replacement in late 1916 by David Lloyd George.

His falling out with Lloyd George played a major part in the downfall of the Liberal Party. Before his term as Prime Minister he served as Home Secretary (1892–95) and as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1905–08). He was known as H. H. Asquith until his elevation to the peerage (1925), when he became Earl of Oxford and Asquith. Asquith's achievements in peacetime have been overshadowed by his weaknesses in wartime. Childhood, education and legal career[edit] Herbert was seven years old when his father died. In 1870, Asquith won a classical scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. He was called to the bar in 1876 and became prosperous in the early 1880s from practising at the chancery bar.

Maundy Gregory. John Arthur Maundy Gregory (1 July 1877 – 28 September 1941) was a British theatre producer and political fixer who is best remembered for selling honours for Prime Minister David Lloyd George.[1] He may also have been involved with the Zinoviev Letter, the disappearance of Victor Grayson, and the suspicious death of his platonic companion, Edith Rosse. Gregory claimed to have been a spy for British intelligence. [citation needed] Early life[edit] Gregory was born in Southampton, where his father was a clergyman. He attended Banister Court school in Southampton. Much of the information about Gregory comes from his own papers and curriculum vitae, the truth of which is questionable.

Selling honours[edit] At the time, prices for honours ranged from £10,000[2] (£310,000 today) for a knighthood to £40,000 (£1.24 million) for a baronetcy. Gregory made many friends who were prominent members of British society, including the Duke of York, later King George VI, and the Earl of Birkenhead. Caligula. On this day in history: Southern Rhodesians chose not to join the Union of South Africa, 1922. 18th-Century Ship Found Under 9/11 Site.