Here's Gen. Idi Amin of Uganda visiting the castles and palaces of Edinburgh, Scotland, on July, 1972 during his UK visit, his first outside Uganda post the 1971 coup.

The history and impressions these sites left on him influenced him to later declare himself "King of Scotland".

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Seizure

Lirea deals in exquisite luxury items for the nobility, thus she's a regular guest of the courts and palaces. One of her greatest fears is to have a seizure at a ball, revealing her sickness to the witnesses.

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Something new from Sub Pop. Shabazz Palaces - Chocolate Souffle. https://t.co/awPW0f0gGC

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Other cities were no different. The Florentines built their palaces as fortresses, and the Genoese even built internal walls to divide different factions' quarters.

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Teachers: How do you integrate the arts into history lessons? These elaborate baroque wigs were designed entirely out of paper by artists, Asya Kozina & Dmitriy Kozin. Each one displays a fabulous motif like airplanes, ships, & palaces.

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Ok if its at
my house to the ground
Public palaces knee
And if public and i don't trust the lock because looks not good then above the knee for quick cover
That is the law

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The King loved Le Brun’s vision & made him Court painter & ennobled him in 1662. Now he had control of decoration in the French palaces too. The Family of Darius (1660), The King Governs (1661), King Louis XIV (c1663) & Study for Alexander (c1660)

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Tomorrow is our Stories of Victorian Entertainment Day of Talks with...
- Palaces of Pleasure
- Freak Shows and Circus
Ian Gledhill - Gilbert & Sullivan Jenny Uglow - The Life of Edward Lear.
Tickets are available from link https://t.co/TyBWehD0uJ

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Next up, originally my back-up character to Faris, my Enchantress Wizard Malypsis... she was originally LE but she's Lawful Good now, she's got experience working in lots of palaces so she knows all the ins and outs of governments and how to break them & use them to her advantage

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Looking forward so much to my new role as Fun Palaces Ambassador, North Wales with the National Trust - exciting times ahead! Edrych ymlaen cymaint i'r gwaith newydd yma!

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Join us for our Stories of Victorian Entertainment - Day of Talks on 22 Feb with...
Lee Jackson - Palaces of Pleasure
- The Wonders
Ian Gledhill - Gilbert & Sullivan Jenny Uglow - Life & Art of Edward Lear. Tickets from link https://t.co/nvGvLXiwDt

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“It is, one might say, a constellation of memory palaces.” — Lisa Yin Zhang on “Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler,” which closes today. Don’t miss this incredible exhibition. The museum is open from noon to 6 PM.

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Had such a magic day Hampton Court delivering the sensory palaces session on Elizabeth 1st - a beautiful session with lots of giggles and sharing - special thanks to and 💛 what an incredible start to 2020 👌

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I’ve had the most amazing day working with Hampton court delivering the sensory palaces session re exhibition 💛huge thanks to the team for having me! Very moved by the responses and sharing from participants👌thanks

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the rest of us as technocratic oligrarchs build giant offshore floating mega palaces

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Stunning ornate patterns of Iranian mosques and palaces. by Fatemah Hosein Aghaei.

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Mysteries, folklores, stories is all that remain with us.
much of traditional knowledge of Architecture-construction methods of forts/palaces/havelis/temples faded in past.
but we can preserve in documentation & memory?
story of valour, music & dance i can hear reverberating

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“The exhibition gives us a chance to see what must be one of the most discerning and wide-ranging collections of self-taught, or outsider, art in this country.” - on “Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler,” on view now.

https://t.co/VbgIsFY16k

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"If there is a larger message in the Folk Art Museum’s⁠ show, it might be that our thoughts about self-taught or⁠ outsider art are, happily, far from settled." - on "Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler," on view now: https://t.co/JPWIygcnl8

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