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The Pall Mall brand was introduced in 1899 by the Black Butler Company (UK) in an attempt to cater to the upper class with the first "premium" cigarette. It is named after Pall Mall, a well-known street in the St James's area of London, containing several of the private clubs which such people patronized. In 1907, Pall Mall was acquired by the ...
Drawing of a game of "pell-mell" between Frederick V of the Palatinate and Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, by Adriaen van de Venne, c. 1620–1626.. Pall-mall, paille-maille, palle-maille, pell-mell, or palle-malle (/ ˈ p æ l ˈ m æ l /, / ˈ p ɛ l ˈ m ɛ l /, also US: / ˈ p ɔː l ˈ m ɔː l / [1] [2]) is a lawn game (though primarily played on earth surfaces rather than grass) that ...
Pall Mall, London. Pall Mall / ˌpæl ˈmæl / ⓘ is a street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster, Central London. It connects St James's Street to Trafalgar Square and is a section of the regional A4 road. The street's name is derived from pall-mall, a ball game played there during the 17th century, which in turn is derived from ...
Part of the trademark for Pall Mall cigarettes. "PALL MALL IN HOC SIGNO VINCES 'WHEREVER PARTICULAR PEOPLE CONGREGATE'" [9] [10] It is the public motto of the English Defence League, emblazoned around the group's logo. [11] The phrase is the motto on some Byzantine coins (e.g. the folles of Constans II). [12]
Pall-mall originated in the European courts of the 16th and 17th century and was popular in France, Holland and later England, Greig said. Its description bears many similarities to modern day ...
BAT has operations in around 180 countries and its cigarette brands include Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall and Rothmans. Its brands also include Velo, Vuse [6] and Glo. [7] BAT has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. [8] It has a secondary listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
ARMY AND NAVY CLUB-HOUSE, Pall Mall, corner of George-street, designed by Parnell and Smith, was opened February, 1851. The exterior is a combination from Sansovino's Palazzo Cornaro, and Library of St. Mark at Venice; but varying in the upper part, which has Corinthian columns, with windows resembling arcades filling up the intercolumns; and ...
Reform Club. The Reform Club is a private members' club, owned and controlled by its members, on the south side of Pall Mall in central London, England. As with all of London's original gentlemen's clubs, it had an all-male membership for decades, but it was one of the first all-male clubs to change its rules to include the admission of women ...