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    The Tabard Inn Library was a circulating subscription library with numerous exchange stations (also known as sub-stations) across the United States. It...
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  • San Francisco. This page lists the historical locations of known Tabard Inn Library exchange stations between 1902 - c.1910, revealing routes before domestic...
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  • Tabard Inn may refer to: The Tabard, Chiswick, London The Tabard, Southwark, London Tabard Inn (Washington, D.C.), one of the National Register of Historic...
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    a home library service that started in 1900. The Book Lover's library acquired a large subscription list of members of the Tabard Inn Library that could...
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    2011-10-22. Digilioge: The Digibruted Library of Geneva William Donaldson & Company (September 9, 1904). "Tabard Inn Library Promotion for Patrons". The Minneapolis...
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    The Bodley Club Library was a service similar to The Tabard Inn Library, but focused on libraries where books appeared in blue covers to prevent them...
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    Libraries connected to transportation also abound from airliners, railways, tramcars, buses, various ships, and way stations. The Tabard Inn Library exchange...
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    1897: Timrod Library 1899: Athenaeum Music & Arts Library of La Jolla 1900: Milford Mystery Library of Milford, Ohio 1902: The Tabard Inn Library stations...
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    founded the Booklovers' Library in 1900 which became known as the world's largest circulating library, The Tabard Inn Library and is credited with coining...
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    evidence of an inn, Le Tabard, in existence by 1432 in addition to a neighbouring piece of land with shops at the rear. It was known as The Bear Inn by 1457...
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    destroyed most of Southwark. The medieval pub was situated next door to The Tabard Inn where Chaucer set the beginning of The Canterbury Tales. Later, the Great...
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    months, several residences had been completed, along with the three-story Tabard Inn, which was named for the Southwark hostelry in Canterbury Tales. Thomas...
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  • a library in Des Plaines was first proposed in 1896, but was defeated by a vote of 142 to 50. In 1904, a subscription library called the Tabard Inn was...
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  • inspired by The Tabard, a fictitious London inn described in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Tabard was one of five...
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  • Picidae is kept in the State Darwin Museum in Moscow, Russia. The Church, Tabard Inn and Stores from Acton Green, 1882 Monograph illustration of the woodpecker...
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    The Bell Savage Inn was a public house in London, England, from the 15th century to 1873, originally located on the north side of what is now Ludgate...
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    Pub (redirect from Country inn)
    coach. Famous London inns include the George, Southwark and the Tabard. There is, however, no longer a formal distinction between an inn and other kinds of...
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    The Bull and Mouth Inn was a coaching inn in the City of London that dated from before the Great Fire of London in 1666. It was located between Bull and...
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  • Theatre was an inn-yard theatre in the Whitechapel area of London from 1598 to around 1616. It was based in the yard of the Boar's Head Inn. During its lifetime...
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    Swan with Two Necks, London (category Coaching inns)
    The Swan with Two Necks was a coaching inn in the City of London that, until the arrival of the railways, was one of the principal departure points for...
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    of a religious pilgrimage. The narrator, Geoffrey Chaucer, is in The Tabard Inn in Southwark, where he meets a group of 'sundry folk' who are all on the...
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    for mail coaches. Famous London examples of inns include the George and the Tabard. A typical layout of an inn featured an inner court with bedrooms on the...
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    Hare and Billet (category Coaching inns)
    Sullivan. p. 100. View on Black Heath [near the Hare and Billet Inn], British Library, 26 March 2009 "Hare and Billet". Time Out (London). 18 July 2011...
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    garden suburb, including the church of St Michael and All Angels and the Tabard Inn opposite it. Duke's Meadows stands on land formerly owned by the Duke...
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    Scotland and then in the nearby town of Haddington. He died in the Crown Inn, Haddington, from fever in 1809 and was buried in a local church. At the...
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  • very anachronistic for the 1300s. The tune is sung by travelers at the Tabard Inn as they lie down to rest. Traditional Cornish song 'Folksongs of Britain...
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    a son of the goldsmith John Mabbe, taking as security a share of the Tabard Inn, Southwark. Partridge and Brandon were succeeded as royal goldsmiths by...
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    a young man. The site of The Tabard inn (featured in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales), the White Hart inn and the George Inn which survives. The rebuilt Globe...
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    original on September 22, 2015. "West End Wilma – Review: Ms. The Songbook (Tabard Theatre)". February 28, 2016. "MS. A Song Cycle – SimG Records". simgproductions...
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    last King of England to have worn a tabard with his arms was probably King Henry VII. Today the herald's tabard is a survivor of history, much like the...
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