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Esquire. Gentleman, Gentlewoman. Ministerialis. Lord of the Manor. v. t. e. Thane ( / ˈθeɪn /; Scottish Gaelic: taidhn) [1] was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the son of an earl, [2] who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a thanedom or thanage.
Ivory seal of Godwin, an unknown thegn – first half of eleventh century, British Museum. In later Anglo-Saxon England, a thegn ( pronounced / θeɪn /; Old English: þeġn) or thane [1] (or thayn in Shakespearean English) was an aristocrat who owned substantial land in one or more counties. Thanes ranked at the third level in lay society ...
The following is a list of museums current located in Toronto. The following list does not include virtual museums that do not have physical galleries, regardless if they're based in Toronto. Regimental museum for the 48th Highlanders of Canada. The museum has been situated in St. Andrew's Church since 1997.
Royal Ontario Museum. / 43.667679; -79.394809. The Royal Ontario Museum ( ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year, making it the most-visited museum in Canada. [2]
Empire Thane was an 8,120 GRT tanker built by Lithgows Ltd, Port Glasgow. Launched on 26 October 1939 as Desmoulea for Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd and completed in December 1939. Torpedoed on 31 January 1941 in the Mediterranean Sea ( 35°31′N 02°34′E / 35.517°N 2.567°E / 35.517; 2.567 ) and abandoned
Toronto, Ohio. / 40.45722°N 80.62111°W / 40.45722; -80.62111. Toronto is a city in eastern Jefferson County, Ohio, located along the Ohio River 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Steubenville. The population was 5,303 at the time of the 2020 census, making it the second-largest city in Jefferson County. [4]
The first documented Scottish settlement in the Americas was of Nova Scotia in 1629. On 29 September 1621, the charter for the foundation of a colony was granted by James VI of Scotland to Sir William Alexander. [1] Between 1622 and 1628, Sir William launched four attempts to send colonists to Nova Scotia; all failed for various reasons.
Detail of a 1758 map showing the fort's layout. Fort Ticonderoga (⫽ t aɪ k ɒ n d ə ˈ r oʊ ɡ ə ⫽), formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain, in northern New York, in the United States.