“There can only be one Highlander!” ⚔️ A throwback to a little portion of our extensive rebrand of the Baldwin Whitehall School District, including their Fighting Highlanders mascot! And, a shout out to all of the seniors…

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Honourable mention also goes to Smoker, used as a sniffer dog on the building site of New Scotland Yard during the Whitehall Mystery of 1888. (5/n)

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May 14, 1685 the news of Argyll's departure from Orkney arrives in Edinburgh. It is sent by fast packet boat to Whitehall. The Militia is mobilised and Scotland prepares for war.

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3 May 1641: Protesting outside Hall, John Lilburne, future Leveller tells an acquaintance that if justice is not done to the Earl of 'they would pull the King out of Whitehall' (BM) And they did, in the end...

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Extraordinary kneeling angel from the remains of the Whitehall Altar, 1686. Commissioned by James II, designed by Wren and carved by Arnold Quelling. Dismantled in 1688 and finally resting in St Andrew, Burnham-On-Sea. Only one light required to photograph an angel.

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daemon the younger could have launched a troubling rebellion from within the heart of the riverlands, but the hand turned up outside whitehalls with a host of his own, and the second blackfyre rebellion ended before it could be said to have begun.

art • https://t.co/Efsx8NkPBd

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2 Mar 1600: Gervase Babington Bishop of preaches for Elizabeth I at - his fawning glances at the Earl of result in him being barred from the pulpit (BM)

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16 Feb 1658: d. Robert Rich, husband of Frances Cromwell, daughter of Oliver Cromwell & Elizabeth Bouchier at Whitehall

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Watching Good Omens and its fine except I've just had the revelation I'm fancying Jack Whitehall and now I don't know what to do with myself

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Samuel Bamford, who was arrested in August on treason charges, said reformers had been 'basely traduced' in a dossier of information sent to Whitehall before and after Peterloo. He said the documents grossly misrepresented them. Picture: https://t.co/hoR6rTpuC7

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Cracking weather today for the paint live day. Lots of good shadows!! foilpainters

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29 Nov 1678: 11 peers ask Charles II to remove Queen Catherine of Braganza from no wonder this 1678 portrait is as it is (GAC)

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give pops a high five for me. This notification rocked my socks!!

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Not for the claustrophobic - proposed pneumatic dispatch projects for objects, and people! Rammell's Whitehall pneumatic railway, Pneumatic dispatch, Battersea Fields, 1861, The London Pneumatic railway for mail, The pneumatic passenger railway New York. https://t.co/CqoMcNg812

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George Bernard Shaw, Whitehall Court, London, October 1946

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Research trip to lovely and spent some time daydreaming in front of the Rubens piece on James 1st c1632 - poignant to consider the finished commission at the Banqueting House in Whitehall was the last artwork James’s son Charles 1st saw before his execution.

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FROZEN's JAKE WHITEHALL Joins Fox's MOUSE GUARD - Report https://t.co/VaAeSvRMes

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There’s this little wonky stone I pass on the bus (and walking when I was a kid) which is almost lost in its time but always makes me think, how many people used this to find their way (to Whitehall) in olden days...not like today’s way on our mobiles!

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John Constable’s ‘The Opening of Waterloo Bridge’ (‘Whitehall Stairs, June 18th, 1817), 1832, Collection, depicts the pomp and ceremony as seen from Whitehall Stairs. The Prince Regent is seen to be boarding the royal barge amidst a flotilla, on his way to open the bridge.

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