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Balmoral Castle is the British royal residence in Scotland. It stands on the right bank of the Dee near Crathie. Balmoral was purchased in 1848 by Queen Victoria.
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Borthwick Castle is a castle in Scotland 22 km south-east of Edinburgh. It was built around 1430. In 1567 Queen Mary and Bothwell spent some days in it before fleeing to Dunbar to escape the insurgent nobles. The castle capitulated to Oliver Cromwell in 1650.
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Camelot was the castle of King Arthur.
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A dungeon is an underground prison, originally in the keep of a Norman castle.
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The Normans in Britain concentrated the defence of the country in castles, which began to be built all over. In many places where a castle was built in a strategically important position, especially in regions liable to attack such as the Scottish and Welsh borders, a new town began to cluster round it, seeking its protection and supplying its daily needs. Such towns as Arundel, Alnwick, Devizes, Barnard Castle, Launceston, Ludlow, Newcastle upon Tyne, Pontefract and Richmond in Yorkshire all grew up in the shelter of great Norman castles, and many of them were provided with walls.
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Stilts are poles with stirrup-like projections for the feet placed at some distance from the bottom and used for walking over rough ground. They were used for crossing rivers, scaling castle walls and as a diversion.
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St Thomas' Castle was formerly a prison in St Thomas' parish, Oxford where unmarried mothers and similar women considered of poor morals were detained.
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Turnberry Castle is a ruined castle in Ayrshire, Scotland. It stands on the coast nprth of Girvan and was in earlier times a stronghold of the earls of Carrick, one of whom was Robert the Bruce.
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The Cantaloupe is a small round variety of musk-melon, globular, ribbed, of pale-green or yellow colour, and of delicate flavour. It is so named on account of first being grown in Europe at the castle of Cantaloupe.
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Absalom was the third and favourite son of David. He was killed leading a rebellion against his father.
Absalom, or Axel, was a Danish prelate, statesman, and warrior. He was born in 1128 and died in either 1201 or 1202. He became the intimate friend and counsellor of his sovereign Waldemar I, who appointed him Archbishop of Lund. He cleared the sea of the Slavonic pirates who had long infested it, secured the independence of the kingdom by defeating a powerful fleet of the Emperor Barbarossa, and built the castle of Axelborg, the nucleus of Copenhagen. Turning his thoughts to literature he caused the History of Denmark to be drawn up by Saxo Grammaticus and Sueno Aagesen.
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