KLM, Dutch airline founded on Oct. 7, 1919, and flying its first scheduled service, between Amsterdam and London, on May 17, 1920. Until its merger with Air France in 2004, it was the world’s oldest continuously operating airline. Headquarters are at Amstelveen, Neth. KLM was founded by a group of

Royal Dutch Shell PLC: …Koninklijke Nederlandse Petroleum Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Petroleum Company Ltd.) of The Hague and Shell Transport and Trading Company, PLC, of London. Below those two parent companies were subsidiary companies that operated around the world. The company’s principal American subsidiary was Shell Oil Company (SOC), founded in 1922. SOC is…

Royal Dutch Shell PLC, unified publicly traded petroleum corporation, one of the largest in the world, engaging in crude oil and natural gas exploration, production, refining, and marketing in more than 90 countries around the globe. The company also produces chemical feedstocks for many

Richard D’Oyly Carte: …Opera House (1887; now the Palace Theatre), for which Sullivan wrote Ivanhoe (1891). Despite subsequent commissions to other English composers (including Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen), that enterprise collapsed. After Carte’s death, the touring companies he established, known as the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, continued to produce Gilbert and Sullivan works…

Manchester: Architecture and the face of the city: The Royal Exchange, once the hub of the textile trade, contains as the old trading floor the largest room in Europe; it now houses a freestanding theatre-in-the-round. The old Central Station, a huge glazed train shed, has been converted into an exhibition centre. A complex of…

Royal Exchange, former financial institution in the City of London. It was a forum for the transactions of London merchants and traders, who had previously conducted their business dealings in the street or in crowded stores and shops. The exchange was closed in 1939, and its premises are now given

Sir Thomas Gresham: …financier, and founder of the Royal Exchange.

Victoria: Cultural life: …the state capital, including the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne’s Carlton Gardens, built in the late 1800s to host major international exhibitions, Museum Melbourne, emphasizing the history of Victoria, the Migration Museum, which documents international migration into Australia, and Scienceworks, an interactive science museum and planetarium. In 2004 the Royal…

tapestry: 17th and 18th centuries: …Alfombras de Santa Barbara (Royal Factory of Tapestries and Rugs of St. Barbara) in 1720 at Madrid, however, that important tapestry was produced in Spain. Initially, the weavers and director were Flemings. The first tapestries made at Santa Barbara were woven from the cartoons of such Flemish Baroque painters…

Hugo van der Goes: …by Sir Edward Bonkil and The Royal Family of Scotland, panels that were probably designed as organ shutters (c. 1478–79), and culminates in the Death of the Virgin, executed not long before van der Goes’s death. The unearthly colours of this work are particularly disturbing, and its poignancy is intensified…

Las Meninas, oil painting created in 1656 by iconic Spanish artist Diego Velázquez. Las Meninas shows Velázquez late in his career and at the height of his powers. Its complex composition creates an unparallelled illusion of reality and is a reason that it is one of the most important paintings in

Osmundaceae, the royal fern family, the only family of the fern order Osmundales. A primitive group consisting of three present-day genera of large ferns—Osmunda, Todea, and Leptopteris—the family contains about 20 species; 5 to 10 extinct genera date from the Late Permian Period (about 260 million

South Bank: Royal Festival Hall (1951) is used for concerts, recitals, and dance performances and is the home of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Its seating capacity is more than 3,000 for some types of performances. The Queen Elizabeth Hall, which seats about 1,000, and the smaller Purcell…

Peter Benoit: …School of Music (later the Royal Flemish Conservatory), which he directed until his death.

Audrey Flack: 1970s still lifes: …still lifes, including the well-known Royal Flush (1977), a close-up hyperrealistic painting of a table strewn with money, playing cards, cigars, cigarettes, beer, and whiskey. She also turned to photographs from her own family albums and to images of public figures for inspiration. She applied Photo-realism to her Vanitas series,…

military aircraft: Early history: In England the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) fitted some of its aircraft with bomb carriers, which consisted of a kind of pipe rack beside the observer’s cockpit in which small bombs were retained by a pin. The pin was pulled out over the target by tugging on a…

Australia: Health and welfare: The Royal Flying Doctor Service, established in 1928, provides emergency medical care to people living and working in Australia’s remote areas; the service operates, in part, through subsidies by the federal, state, and territorial governments. Some Outback Aboriginal communities continue to endure poor living conditions that are…

List of Children’s Games and Toys in Antiquity: Board games: …have found is called the royal game of Ur (since it was first found in the royal cemetery at Ur) or the game of 20 squares. The board consisted of a three-by-four grid connected by two squares to a three-by-two grid. The goal of the game was to move your…

Royal Geographical Society (RGS), British group founded as the Geographical Society of London in 1830. Its headquarters are in the borough of Westminster, next to Royal Albert Hall. It originated in the Raleigh Travellers’ Club (formed in 1827) and was incorporated in 1859 under its present name.

Royal Geographical Society (RGS), British group founded as the Geographical Society of London in 1830. Its headquarters are in the borough of Westminster, next to Royal Albert Hall. It originated in the Raleigh Travellers’ Club (formed in 1827) and was incorporated in 1859 under its present name.

enamelwork: Western European: …has survived than the “Royal Gold Cup” (British Museum), commissioned by the brother of the French king Charles V about 1380. The sides and the cover have scenes depicting the life and martyrdom of St. Agnes in the most glowing rich colours and elegant draftsmanship of the period. The…

Canon City: The Royal Gorge, spanned by a suspension bridge 1,053 feet (321 metres) above the Arkansas River (the highest such bridge in the world), has an incline aerial tramway (built 1931); the 12-mile (19-km) Royal Gorge Railroad line runs through the canyon and is a popular tourist…

United States: Imperial organization: In those colonies with royal governors—the number of those colonies grew from one in 1650 to eight in 1760—the crown possessed a mechanism by which to ensure that royal policy was enforced. The Privy Council issued each royal governor in America a set of instructions carefully defining the limits…

Royal Greenwich Observatory, astronomical observatory and, until its closure in 1998, the oldest scientific research institution in Great Britain. It was founded for navigational purposes in 1675 by King Charles II of England at Greenwich, and the astronomer in charge was given the title of

Peanuts: …of popular novelty songs by the Royal Guardsmen in the mid-1960s.

Black Watch, title of a famous Highland regiment in the British Army. The origin of the regiment dates from 1725 when Highlanders loyal to the British crown were formed into six independent companies to help restore order after the abortive 1715 uprising of the clans under John Erskine, the 6th

Thomas Mann: Early literary endeavours: …perhaps, that led Mann, in Royal Highness, to provide a fairy-tale reconciliation of “form” and “life,” of degenerate feudal authority and the vigour of modern American capitalism. In 1912, however, he returned to the tragic dilemma of the artist with Death in Venice, a sombre masterpiece. In this story, the…

horticulture: Horticultural education and research: …establishment in England of the Royal Horticultural Society. There are similar organizations in other European countries. The American Pomological Society, dedicated to the science and practice of fruit growing, was formed in 1848. The American Horticultural Society, established in 1922, is devoted largely to ornamentals and gardening. The American Society…

Christopher Wren: Concurrent projects: …1682 Charles II founded the Royal Hospital at Chelsea for the reception of veterans superannuated from his standing army. The idea doubtless derived from Louis XIV’s Hôtel des Invalides (1671–76) in Paris, but Wren’s building, completed about 1690, is very different from its prototype. Charles II died in 1685. In…

Julia Garner: Inventing Anna and other projects from the 2020s: …Assistant director Kitty Green for The Royal Hotel. The film was inspired by the 2016 documentary Hotel Coolgardie, about two cash-strapped Finnish backpackers who face volatile sexism while bartending at a hotel pub in Coolgardie, Australia.

Baldassare Castiglione: …the qualities of the ideal courtier, put into the mouths of such friends as Pietro Bembo, Ludovico da Canossa, Bernardo da Bibbiena, and Gasparo Pallavicino. The dialogue claims to represent conversations at the court of Urbino on four successive evenings in 1507, with the duchess Elisabetta Gonzaga and her “lieutenant,”…

Royal Household of the United Kingdom, organization that provides support to the royal family of the United Kingdom. Its chief duties include assisting the monarch in carrying out the responsibilities of the head of state, organizing public ceremonies involving the royal family or royal residences,

Hungary: The period of partition: …and accepted the reduction of Royal Hungary to the western fringe of the country, the northwestern mountains, and Croatia. From that time on, the ruling princes of Transylvania followed a policy of semi-independence. They paid tribute to the sultan and occasionally even to the Habsburgs, but they also introduced mercantilist…

Iranian art and architecture: Sāsānian period: … at Naqsh-e Rostam and the Royal Hunt relief at Tāq-e Bostān. In the first the king and his god, both mounted on horseback, are sculptured in high relief in the Roman manner but are antithetically arranged to create a typically Iranian heraldic composition. In the second the two central figures…

David Adjaye: …his work, including the prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Bronze Medal for architectural students (1993) and the Design Miami/ Designer of the Year award (2011). He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2007 and was knighted 10 years later for services…

Black and Tan: …British recruits enrolled in the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) from January 1920 to July 1921. Their colloquial name derived from the makeshift uniforms they were issued because of a shortage of RIC uniforms—green police tunics and khaki military trousers, which together resembled the distinctive markings of a famous pack of…

the Troubles: … (UDR; from 1992 called the Royal Irish Regiment), and their avowed purpose was to play a peacekeeping role, most prominently between the nationalist Irish Republican Army (IRA), which viewed the conflict as a guerrilla war for national independence, and the unionist paramilitary forces, which characterized the IRA’s aggression as terrorism.…

Royal Opera House, opera house that is the home of Britain’s oldest national opera and ballet companies. It is located in Covent Garden, City of Westminster, London. The Covent Garden Theatre, the original theatre on the site, was opened (1732) by John Rich and served for plays, pantomimes, and

royal jelly, thick, white, nutritious substance fed to bee larvae. Secreted from glands in the heads of worker bees, it is fed to worker and drone larvae until the third day of life and to queen bee larvae throughout the larval period. Its components include water, proteins, carbohydrates, and

bugle: …1810 Joseph Halliday patented the key bugle, or Royal Kent bugle, with six brass keys (five closed, one open-standing) fitted to the once-coiled bugle to give it a complete diatonic (seven-note) scale. It became a leading solo instrument in military bands until replaced by the cornet. In France it inspired…

Southeast Asian arts: Laos: …music, and drama of the Royal Lao Ballet, the only remaining court troupe in Southeast Asia, is almost identical with that of lakon nai in Thailand. It is usual to perform excerpts from the very long dance-plays, the staging of a full-length spectacle being beyond the means of the court…

Royal Leamington Spa, town and urban area (from 2011 built-up area), Warwick district, administrative and historic county of Warwickshire, central England. It lies along the River Leam, which is a tributary of the River Avon (Upper Avon). Historically, an ancient tree—the Midland Oak, 2 miles (3

construction: The invention of reinforced concrete: …feet) tall, and the 11-story Royal Liver Building (1909), built in Liverpool by Hennebique’s English representative, Louis Mouchel. The latter structure was Europe’s first skyscraper, its clock tower reaching a height of 95 meters (316 feet). Attainment of height in concrete buildings progressed slowly owing to the much lower strength…

golf: Early British societies: The Royal Liverpool Golf Club was established in 1869 on a rabbit warren at Hoylake. In its infancy players simply cut holes with their penknives and stuck feathers in them for the guidance of those who were coming behind. The rabbits were the greenskeepers. By 1870…

Paul McCartney: Other work and assessment: …performed in 1991 by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral, where McCartney once failed his audition as a choirboy. He subsequently oversaw the recording of his other classical compositions, including Standing Stone (1997), Working Classical (1999), and Ecce Cor Meum (2006). In 2001 a volume of his…

Paul McCartney: Other work and assessment: …performed in 1991 by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral, where McCartney once failed his audition as a choirboy. He subsequently oversaw the recording of his other classical compositions, including Standing Stone (1997), Working Classical (1999), and Ecce Cor Meum (2006). In 2001 a volume of his…

Lyceum Theatre, playhouse on Wellington Street, just north of the Strand, in the Greater London borough of Westminster. A hall called the Lyceum was built near the site in 1771. A new building, called the Royal Lyceum and English Opera House, was built by Samuel Beazley to the west of the original

Carpathia, British passenger liner that was best known for rescuing survivors from the ship Titanic in 1912. The Carpathia was in service from 1903 to 1918, when it was sunk by a German U-boat. The Carpathia was built by Swan and Hunter for the Cunard Line. Construction of the vessel began on

Olympic, British luxury liner that was a sister ship of the Titanic and the Britannic. It was in service from 1911 to 1935. To compete with the Cunard Line for the highly profitable transatlantic passenger trade, the White Star Line decided to create a class of liners noted more for comfort than

Queen Mary, British passenger ship of the Cunard Line that was the epitome of the transatlantic ocean liner. The Queen Mary was in service from 1936 to 1967, and it later became a hotel and tourist attraction, docked at Long Beach, California. In the late 1920s the Cunard Line faced an aging fleet

Titanic, British luxury passenger liner that sank on April 14–15, 1912, during its maiden voyage, en route to New York City from Southampton, England, killing about 1,500 (see Researcher’s Note: Titanic) passengers and ship personnel. One of the most famous tragedies in modern history, it inspired

Bhutan: Plant and animal life: …of protected areas, including the Royal Manas National Park (1966), which adjoins India along the banks of the Manas River and is home to the rare golden langur (a slender long-tailed monkey). The extensive Jigme Dorji National Park (1974), in northwestern Bhutan, is unique in spanning all three of the…

Thoroughbred: …Charles I, 43 mares—the so-called Royal Mares—were imported into England, and a record, the General Stud Book, was begun in which were listed only those horses that may be traced back to the Royal Mares in direct line, or to one of three other horses imported to England: the Byerly…

marine: …of Foot (1664; renamed the Royal Marine in 1802) and the Koninklijke Nederlandse Corps Mariniers (1665), respectively. The United States Marine Corps, organized in 1775, has become the most famous organization of the kind, but other countries also maintain marine corps.

Charles James Fox: Entry into politics: …oppose a bill (eventually the Royal Marriage Act) designed to prevent marriages of members of the royal family unless authorized by the king or ratified by the Privy Council. He reentered the government the following December as a junior lord of the Treasury, but the King, who already disliked him…

Edinburgh: The Old Town: The Royal Mile, which begins outside the Castle Esplanade, descends Castle Hill, the crest of rock linking the castle with the Palace of Holyroodhouse to the east. The Augustinian abbey of Holyrood and the royal burgh of Edinburgh, first mentioned in the period 1124–27, were both…

Sandhurst: …at the academy, commonly called Sandhurst. This academy is heir to the functions performed up to 1939 by both the Royal Military Academy (founded 1741) at Woolwich, London, and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. The latter was established by royal warrant in 1802 at Great Marlow, largely as a…

Llantrisant: The transfer of the Royal Mint from Tower Hill, London, to Llantrisant in 1967 further aided the town’s development. The M4 motorway extends through the region from Cardiff to Swansea and connects Llantrisant with other growing communities in what has been called an emerging “linear city.” Pop. (2001) 14,915;…

El Escorial: …is the site of the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, a monastery originally Hieronymite but occupied since 1885 by Augustinians.

curling: …founded in 1852, but the Royal Montreal Curling Club had been in existence since 1807. The Canadian championship was inaugurated in 1927 and became the world’s biggest curling event.

golf: The United States and Canada: …the Western Hemisphere was the Royal Montreal Golf Club, established in 1873. The members played on Fletcher’s Fields in the city’s central area until urban growth compelled a move of some miles to Dixie, a name derived from a group of Southern refugees who arrived there after the U.S. Civil…

regal moth, (subfamily Citheroniinae), any of a group of moths in the family Saturniidae (order Lepidoptera) that are large and brightly coloured and occur only in the New World. The ferocious-looking but harmless hickory horned devil caterpillar (larva of the royal walnut moth, Citheronia regalis)

René Magritte: …opened in 2009 at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts.

Prado Museum, art museum in Madrid, housing the world’s richest and most comprehensive collection of Spanish painting, as well as masterpieces of other schools of European painting, especially Italian and Flemish art. The Prado’s building had its start in 1785 when Charles III commissioned the

Boerhaave Museum, in Leiden, Neth., museum of the history of natural sciences and one of the foremost European museums of its type. It has a fine collection of old scientific instruments. There is a collection of microscopes belonging formerly to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) and thermometers

René Magritte: …opened in 2009 at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts.

New South Wales: Sports and recreation: The Royal National Park, 58 square miles (150 square km) in area and located some 20 miles (30 km) south of Sydney, was established in 1879. It was the world’s second national park (after Yellowstone, in the United States), reflecting the strong association with outdoor recreation…

Royal National Theatre, a partly subsidized complex of British theatre companies that was formed in 1962. It was given a permanent home at the South Bank arts complex in the Greater London borough of Lambeth in 1976. In 1988 Queen Elizabeth II gave permission for the company to add “Royal” to its

Royal Air Force: Origins of the Royal Air Force: …of the RFC became the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), with the land-based wing retaining the title Royal Flying Corps.

midshipman: …midshipmen were students at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devon, England, while midshipmen of the U.S. Navy attended the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.

Royal Navy, naval military organization of the United Kingdom, charged with the national defense at sea, protection of shipping, and fulfillment of international military agreements. Organized sea power was first used in England by Alfred the Great of Wessex, who launched ships to repel a Viking

Nepal: Transportation: The Nepal Airline Corporation, an autonomous government agency, is the country’s flag carrier. Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu is the primary hub for flights in and out of the country; Gautam Buddha International Airport was opened in Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa) in 2022. The United States built the…

Wellington: …is the home of the Royal New Zealand Ballet and the National Symphony Orchestra. Pop. (2006) city, 178,671; urban agglom., 397,974; (2012 est.) city, 201,300; urban agglom., 395,600.

Royal Niger Company, 19th-century British mercantile company that operated in the lower valley of the Niger River in West Africa. It extended British influence in what later became Nigeria. In 1885 Sir George Goldie’s National African Company, an amalgamation of British companies, signed treaties

golf: Early British societies: With the birth of the Royal North Devon Golf Club in 1864, golf took a firm foothold in England. The Devon club was the first course on seaside links outside Scotland. The Royal Liverpool Golf Club was established in 1869 on a rabbit warren at Hoylake. In its infancy players…

Norwegian literature: The 18th century: …establishment in 1760 of a Royal Norwegian Society of Learning in Trondheim was evidence that Norway was beginning to assert its cultural aspirations. The poet Christian Braunmann Tullin typifies the age and its tension between cultural pessimism and optimism.

Scapa Flow: In 1939 the battleship Royal Oakwas sunk, with a loss of 833 lives, by a German submarine. This attack was quickly followed by air raids, and the fleet was forced to put to sea. New defensive measures were rapidly installed. Airfields were also constructed, and the islands on the…

Royal Oak, city, Oakland county, southeastern Michigan, U.S., that is a residential northern suburb of Detroit. First settled in 1819, it may have been named for an oak in Scotland under which, according to legend, Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, hid from his pursuers in 1745. The Detroit Zoo

Admiral’s Cup: …established in 1957 by the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) of Great Britain. Teams of three yachts rated at 25 to 70 feet (8 to 21 m) by RORC rules (formerly 30 to 60 feet [9 to 18 m] waterline length) represent each nation in six races (five until 1987)…

Royal Ontario Museum, art collection located in Toronto. Established in 1912 and opened to the public in 1914, the museum is especially known for its collections of Chinese and ancient Egyptian art, American ethnology, and Canadian arts and crafts. There are also exhibits on the life and Earth

Royal Opera House, opera house that is the home of Britain’s oldest national opera and ballet companies. It is located in Covent Garden, City of Westminster, London. The Covent Garden Theatre, the original theatre on the site, was opened (1732) by John Rich and served for plays, pantomimes, and

Budapest: Buda: …and crowned by the restored Buda Castle (Budai vár, commonly called the Royal Palace). In the 13th century a fortress was built on the site and was replaced by a large Baroque palace during the reign (1740–80) of Maria Theresa as queen of Hungary. The structure was destroyed or damaged…

Luigi Vanvitelli: …an Italian architect whose enormous Royal Palace at Caserta (1752–74) was one of the last triumphs of the Italian Baroque.

Turin: The Royal Palace (1646–58) houses the Royal Armoury, with one of the finest collections of arms in Europe. The Academy of Science (1678), formerly a Jesuit college, now houses the Museum of Antiquities, the Egyptian Museum, and the Sabauda Gallery. Other secular structures include the remains…

Rembrandt: Fourth Amsterdam period (1658–69) of Rembrandt: …Amsterdam Town Hall, now the Royal Palace, which had an extensive decoration program. This would contain a great number of large history pieces painted by different masters. Rembrandt was not invited, but his former pupil Flinck received the most prestigious of these commissions: he was commissioned to paint a series…

Phnom Penh: …Penh was built around the Royal Palace and Preah Morakot Pagoda, the latter known for its floor of silver tiles and many treasures, including a golden Buddha statue. The Royal Palace compound included the Royal Palace (1919), the Royal Palace Museum, and the Veal Mien (Royal Plain), on which the…

Stockholm: The contemporary city: Stads Island contains the Royal Palace; Storkyrkan, also called the Cathedral, or Church, of St. Nicolas; the German Church; the House of Lords; the government offices; the Stock Exchange; and a number of other notable buildings. Riddar Island is dominated by the Riddarholm Church. The House of Parliament and…

Royal Palace of Madrid, large 18th-century palace in downtown Madrid that is the official residence of the Spanish royal family, although the family does not live there but in the Palacio de la Zarzuela on the fringes of the city. The Royal Palace of Madrid is, however, used for state functions,

Cuba: Plant and animal life: The abundant royal palm, reaching heights of 50 to 75 feet (15 to 23 metres), is the national tree and a characteristic element of the rural landscape. Mangrove swamps cover the lower coasts and shoals of the archipelago. Cuba’s national flower is the mariposa (“butterfly”; Hedychium coronarium Koenig),…

Christianity: Roman Catholic mission, 1500–1950: Under royal patronage (patronato real, or padroado), monarchs of both nations accepted responsibility for evangelizing the newly found peoples. Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, and, from 1542, Jesuits staffed the resulting missions. Finally, by 1600, other great powers, including France and the Protestant countries of England, Holland, and

Royal Pavilion, former royal seaside retreat in Brighton, Sussex, England, built in three stages between 1787 and 1822 in the Indo-Saracenic style then popular in India. Brighton had been transformed from an obscure fishing village on the Sussex coast into a seaside resort starting in the 1750s

royal penguin, (Eudyptes schlegeli), species of crested penguin (genus Eudyptes, order Sphenisciformes) characterized by a large orange-coloured bill, a pale-coloured face, a black head, and a long crest of yellow-orange feathers that originates on the forehead and runs along the sides and top of

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Britain’s national symphony orchestra, based in London and founded in 1946 by Sir Thomas Beecham, who was music director until his death in 1961. Toward the end of Beecham’s tenure, Artur Rodzinski, Georges Prêtre, and Rudolf Kempe were actively involved as conductors.

Royal Philips (formerly Philips Electronics) is a major Dutch manufacturer of consumer electronics, electronic components, medical imaging equipment, household appliances, lighting equipment, and computer and telecommunications equipment. PHG Philips & Company was founded in 1891 by Frederik

history of photography: Early developments: …Society, parent of the present Royal Photographic Society, was formed in London, and in the following year the Société Française de Photographie was founded in Paris. Toward the end of the 19th century, similar societies appeared in German-speaking countries, eastern Europe, and India. Some were designed to promote photography generally,…

Per Olov Enquist: …he published Livläkarens besök (The Royal Physician’s Visit, 2001), a historical novel about sexual and political intrigue in 18th-century Denmark. It became his best-known work among American readers, and it won the August Prize, a literary award annually bestowed by the Swedish Publishers’ Association. Enquist received the August Prize…

Mauritshuis, museum in The Hague especially noted for its Flemish and Dutch paintings from the 15th to the 17th century. The collection itself is called the Royal Picture Gallery, which has been housed since 1822 in a palace (1633–44) designed for John Maurice of Nassau, called the Mauritshuis. The

royal poinciana, (Delonix regia), strikingly beautiful flowering tree of the pea family (Fabaceae). It is native to Madagascar, and it has been widely planted in frost-free regions for its large scarlet to orange flowers and its shade. It is a rapid grower, attaining a height of 6 to 12 metres (20

Diego de Saavedra Fajardo: …un príncipe político cristiano (1640; The Royal Politician), which urged a return to traditional virtues as the remedy for national decadence.

sculpture: Principles of design: …of the figures on the Portail Royal (“Royal Portal”) of Chartres cathedral does both: it enhances their otherworldliness and also integrates them with the columnar architecture.