#Palace of the Governors

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Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Photographer: Cunningham & Company Date: 1880 - 1890? Negative Number: 132121

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The Puebloans captured Santa Fe from the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt on August 21, 1680.

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Christ and Pilate “What is truth?” by Igor Sushenok

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Mother, holding cat, ca. 1920-1935

Palace of the Governors Photo Archives Collection

New Mexico's Digital Collections

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Interior of the Governor's Summer Palace in Algiers, Algeria

French vintage postcard

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Santa Fe, Old Town - New Mexico

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Peace on Naboo

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 02:09:51

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The 17th century Governor's Palace at Fort Amsterdam in Punda, Willemstad, Curaçao, is an impressive building.

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The Puebloans captured Santa Fe from the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt on August 21, 1680.

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Houlding's decided not to hang on at the failing Foundation

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The man behind the closure of one of the Whitgift Foundation’s three large schools will be standing down from the troubled  property developers’ governors. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES On his way out: Christopher Houlding has presided over rapid decline in Whitgift Foundation finances Christopher Houlding is to step down as the chair of the “Court of Governors” at the troubled…

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Navajo with flock of sheep, Toad Rock, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, ca. 1915

Palace of the Governors Photo Archives Collection

New Mexico's Digital Collections

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Karanog: The Governor's Palace in Lower Nubia, Egypt: A Glimpse into Meroitic Culture

Karanog, the provincial capital of the Meroitic kingdom during the 2nd century A.D., offers us a window into a culture that thrived in Lower Nubia. At the heart of this ancient settlement stood the impressive Governor’s Palace – an architectural marvel that reflected the power and sophistication of the peshtos, or governors, of Meroitic Lower Nubia. The grandeur of the Governor’s Palace is truly…

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Governor's Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam

French vintage postcard

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Other emperors in Chinese history: In order to prevent my tomb from being robbed, I’m going to build it on a remote mountain, hide it in a vast underground palace, and set a bunch of booby traps

The controversial and self aware emperors: I will do all of the above and hide the location of my tomb so my enemies cannot find it and desecrate it after my death

Liu Bei, Emperor of Shu: My tomb is in a royal temple right smack in the middle of my country’s capital, in the busiest area of the city. I am buried in a mound with my belongings, above ground.

Liu Bei’s son: I’m going to put Zhuge Liang’s temple right across the street from my father’s temple and grave

A governor of Sichuan, a few hundred years later: Zhuge Liang’s temple is much more popular among the everyday folk than the royal temple across the street. In order to uphold royal honor, let’s combine the two temples so that people have to pay their respects to the late emperor when they want to pray at Zhuge Liang’s shrine!

The people of Sichuan: Okay, we’ll refer to the combined temple as Zhuge Liang’s temple because we like him more, even though it’s technically also Liu Bei’s grave

Grave robbers, when they find the graves of other emperors: This grave is in the middle of nowhere, the closest village is a few days walk, and nobody even remembers where the grave is anymore so it should be safe for us to camp out here for a couple days, locate an entrance to the grave, and dig!

Grave robbers, when someone suggests robbing Liu Bei’s tomb: Everybody knows his tomb is in Zhuge Liang’s temple, which is one of the most popular temples in the province. The temple is in the busiest and thus one of the most closely policed districts in the city, surrounded by restaurants, markets, and residential homes. This is the temple where the city people come to pray for good luck and hold their annual festivals. I don’t think we could get away with camping out and digging here in the middle of the city.

And because for the last ~1800 years the city remained densely inhabited and the temple popular among the city folk and visitors alike, Liu Bei’s grave became the only royal grave from the three kingdom’s period that remained undisturbed by robbers.