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  • In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A ... crime and drew the harshest penalties. In England, punishment for treason ...
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  • The Long Parliament is the name of the English Parliament called by ... after the English Civil War and at the end of Interregnum in 1660."Dissolving ...
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  • and anthropologist, who developed two of the nation's most notable ... 1839, in Salem, Massachusetts, into a New England family whose ancestors could ...
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  • Rolls on March 15, 1906, and was the result of a partnership formed in 1904 ... Royce, the company's co-founder, did not have the advantage of ...
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  • the World No. 1 player for five years, four of them consecutive, from 1934 ... genuine showman aptitude just for the sake of appeasing the tennis elite. ...
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  • 10, 1848 – August 6, 1925) was one of the earliest Indian political ... Indians a serious role in the administration of their country and a voice in ...
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  • The Battle of Hastings was the decisive Norman victory in the Norman ... The battle took place on October 14, 1066, between the Norman army ...
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  • align:center;" | [[Image:Portrait of Edward VI of England.jpg|200px]] ... Edward VI (October 12, 1537 – July 6, 1553) became King of England ...
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  • Cotton can refer to members of the genus Gossypium of flowering plants ... Since ancient times, some species of cotton plants have been cultivated ...
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  • 24, 1770) was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. Committing ... In 1769 Chatterton sent Rowley's History of England, allegedly ...
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  • philosopher, theologian, and bishop of Lincoln, is well-known for ... Grosseteste was the first of the Scholastics to fully understand Aristotle ...
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  • Edward IV (April 28, 1442 – April 9, 1483) was King of England from ... did much to restore law and order to England. His motto was modus et ...
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  • The Anglican Communion is a world-wide affiliation of Anglican Churches ... The status of full communion means that all rites conducted in one ...
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  • The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Latin: ... and soldiers, making them, in effect, some of the earliest "warrior ...
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  • The Battle of Agincourt (IPA pronunciation: [/ɑːʒɪn'kuːʁ/] #039;s Day), in northern France as part of the Hundred Years' War ...
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  • self-taught, he excelled equally in the arts of illustration, oil painting ... Although he is often remembered for his pictures of bucolic scenes ...
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  • 1794) was an English philologist and student of ancient India. He is particularly ... William Jones was born on September 28, 1746, in London, England. ...
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  • Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – January 13, 1599) was an English poet ... than towards an uncertain future, than that of many of his contemporaries ...
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  • American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in ... John Greenleaf Whittier was born on December 17, 1807, the second ...
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  • Richard II (January 6, 1367 – February 14, 1400) was King of England ... Richard was born in Bordeaux at the feast of Epiphany, with three ...
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