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• Landon Garland
  ...x-inch [[refracting telescope]] built by the firm of Thomas Cooke of York, England. The telescope was installed in 1876 in the university’s first observator
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• Trap
  ...h which met in the [[victim]]'s leg. Since 1827, they have been illegal in England, except in houses between sunset and sunrise as a [[defence]] against burgl
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• Physician
  ...ld include physicians (in the narrow sense), surgeons and apothecaries. In England, apothecaries historically included those who now would be called general p
  5 KB (742 words) - 02:14, 13 December 2020
• George Peabody
  In America, Peabody founded and supported numerous institutions in New England]and elsewhere. At the close of the American Civil War, he established the P
  5 KB (695 words) - 00:16, 13 December 2020
• David Crystal
  ...ademic and [[author]]. He grew up in Holyhead, North Wales, and Liverpool, England where he attended St Mary's College, Seftonfrom 1951] He grew up bilingual
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• Euthanasia
  ...1300s until the middle of the last century made suicide a criminal act in England and Wales. Assisting others to kill themselves remains illegal in that juri ...ote euthanasia. Although euthanasia legislation did not pass in the USA or England, in 1937, doctor-assisted euthanasia was declared legal in Switzerland as l
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• Consolidation
  ...ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halsbury%27s_Laws_of_England Halsbury's Laws of England], 'amalgamation' is defined as "a blending together of two or more undertak
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• Apocrypha
  ...meanings]]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England Church of England] agreed, and that view continues today throughout the [https://en.wikipedia
  7 KB (1,074 words) - 23:42, 12 December 2020
• Feudalism
  ...le for the manorial system to [[develop]] from the Germanic village, as in England.
  6 KB (970 words) - 00:25, 13 December 2020
• John Donne
  ...a cleric in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England Church of England]. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the [https://en.wikipe
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• Scriptorium
  * McKitterick, Rosamond. "Nun's scriptoria in England and Francia in the eighth century". In ''Books, Scribes and Learning in the
  5 KB (781 words) - 02:37, 13 December 2020
• Charterhouse Public School
  ...the [[World War I|First World War]], making it the largest war memorial in England. Around 350 names have been subsequently added to commemorate those who die ...he best batting tracks in the South of England. The school produced one of England's finest batsmen and captains in history, [[Peter May]].
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• Spirit Possession
  ...orah, Malevolent Nurture: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England (New York, Cornell University Press, 1995)
  5 KB (769 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
• Gossip
  ===In early modern England=== In Early Modern England the word "gossip" referred to companions in childbirth, not limited to the
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• 60:1 The Early Reptilian Age
  ...e, especially Germany and Russia, may be found deposits of this period. In England the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_red_sandstone New Red Sandstone] bel
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• Hoax
  ...ted the [[death]] of John Partridge, one of the leading [[astrologers]] in England at that time, in the almanac and later issued an [[elegy]] on the day Partr
  6 KB (968 words) - 00:10, 13 December 2020
• 134:6 Law, Liberty, and Sovereignty
  ...y a [[group]] of [[nation]]-states. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England England], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland Scotland], and [https://en.wikipe
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• Peers
  ...United Kingdom (also called peers of the realm, up to 1707 called peers of England, and from 1707-1801 called peers of Great Britain), all of whom, unless spe
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• Holography
  ...ope electron microscopes] at the British Thomson-Houston Company in Rugby, England, and the company filed a patent in December 1947 (patent GB685286). The [[t
  6 KB (933 words) - 23:56, 12 December 2020
• 1987-07-30-Poltergeist, Power of Thought
  Filip - That means I got killed during the bombing raids in England during that time. ...use of what they meant to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain England].
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