Four Times of the Day is 29 May, Oak Apple Day, a public holiday which celebrated the Restoration of the monarchy (demonstrated by the oak boughs above the barber's sign and on some of the subjects' hats, which recall the royal oak tree in which Charles II hid after losing the Battle of Worcester in 1651). Alternatively, Sean Shesgreen has suggested that the date is 3 September, commemorating the battle of Worcester itself, a dating that preserves the seasonal progression from winter to spring to summer to autumn. Charing Cross was a central staging post for coaches, but the congested narrow road was a frequent
Royal Oak Middle School 712. The majority of students are Hispanic, with a large white minority and smaller minorities of African Americans and Asian Americans. Royal Oak Middle School Royal Oak Middle School is the only middle school in the Charter Oak Unified School District and is located in the City of Covina, California, in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles. Royal Oak was a 1996 California Distinguished School Royal Oak Middle School opened in 1985 on the site of the former Royal Oak High School, which opened in 1965. Originally, the middle school served students in sixth through eighth grades. In