#Hanover

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fredi_boldt

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A Voyage to the Moon (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen) by Gustave Doré

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Portrait of Lady Augusta FitzClarence Kennedy-Erskine (natural daughter of King William IV) with her children (c. 1830) by John Hayter. House of Dun.

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Pheasant Run Lane, Hanover, Pennsylvania.

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Hanover's (Neues Rathaus) New Town Hall, GERMANY

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“Just before the early hours of the morning of the 21st, I felt very uncomfortable and with difficulty aroused Albert… Tried to get to sleep again, but by 4, I got very bad & both Doctors arrived. My beloved Albert was so dear and kind. Locock [the chief obstetrician] said the baby was on the way & everything was all right. We both expressed joy that the event was at hand & I did not feel at all nervous.

Alas! A girl and not a boy as we had so hoped & wished for. We were, I’m afraid, sadly disappointed, but yet our hearts were full of gratitude, for God having brought me safely through my ordeal, & having such a strong healthy child. Dearest Albert hardly left me at all, & was the greatest comfort.”

- Queen Victoria on the birth of her first child, Victoria, Princess Royal.

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Station in the Forest (for the Airport)

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Queen Victoria with her granddaughters, Princesses Irene, Victoria, Elisabeth, and Alix of Hesse and by Rhine. 1880s.

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🇩🇪 Leibniz House (Leibnizhaus) in Hannover, Germany - a vintage photochrom print from the 1890s. Digitally enhanced.

The original Leibniz House was built in 1499. It was later named after the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz who had lived there until his death in 1716. That house was destroyed during WWII, but a replica was built at another location in 1983.

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Detail of Hanoverian infantry on review in 1735, from The Review of the Hanoverian Army at Bemerode, 1735 by Joachim Niemeyer.

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"Ferguson" Breech-Loading Rifle from Aberdeen, Scotland dated to 1776 on display at the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland

These rifles were invented by Lieut-Colonel Patrick Ferguson of Pitfour, Aberdeenshire. Ferguson's improved quick thread breech-loading rifle was an improvement on an earlier invention. He served as a subaltern in the Royal North British Dargoons (Scots Greys) from 1759 to 1762. Ferguson was killed in South Carolina at the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780 during the American Revolutionary War.

Photographs taken by myself 2023

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fredi_boldt

[illustratus]

Battle of Fontenoy (1745) by Henri Grobet

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Portrait of actress Dorothea Jordan, mistress of King William IV (1830). Stipple engraving by unknown author. National Library of Wales.

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Robin Lane, Hanover, Virginia.

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Das Neues Rathaus, Hanover, Lower Saxony, GERMANY