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Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel
... The Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel is the oldest surviving hotel building in Raleigh, North Carolina. 1923 and 1924 on Fayetteville Street and named after Sir Walter Raleigh, the hotel was nicknamed North Carolina’s “third house of government,” due to its location and being a focal point ... The Sir Walter Raleigh is typical of hotels of the 1920s ...
Walter Raleigh (disambiguation) - Other Uses
... Sir Walter Raleigh, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive that was built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915 Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel, a hotel in Raleigh, North Carolina Sir ...
Walter - Characters
... Walter, a puppet of ventriloquist Jeff Dunham Walter, a fictional character from The Beano comic strip, Dennis and Gnasher Walter, a Muppet introduced in The Muppets ...
Walter Of Winterburn
... Walter of Winterburn (13th century – August 26, 1305) was an English Dominican, cardinal, orator, poet, philosopher, and theologian ... after having taken part in the election of Clement V, Walter set out from Perugia with several other cardinals to join the pope in France, but at Genoa he was seized with his last illness ... chronicler who was a close friend, wrote that Walter of Winterburn was a man endowed with many superior qualities, natural and supernatural ...

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