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  • politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan was an officer ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...
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  • Saint Margaret (c. 1046 – November 16, 1093), was the sister of ... piety, was essential to the revivification of Roman Catholicism in Scotland ...
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  • May Day occurs on May 1 and refers to any of several public holidays ... the social and economic achievements of the labor movement. Thus, May ...
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  • Forsythia is the genus and common name for a taxon of deciduous shrubs ... Forsythia comprise a small genus of about 11 species, mostly native ...
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  • publisher, and politician. He was the editor of the Manchester Guardian newspaper ... Scott was an advocate of universal suffrage as shown through the support ...
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  • biologist and archaeologist was born the son of Sir John William Lubbock, Bart ... the Act that established the dates of Bank Holidays. In the academic ...
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  • played a pivotal role in the establishment of the oil industry and defined ... He was bitterly attacked by the media of his day, newspapers and the ...
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  • Up, about Peter, Wendy and the Lost Boys of Never Never Land. Barrie was ... title=Rector of the University of St Andrews|years=1919 - 1922|before ...
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  • William IV (William Henry; August 21, 1765 – June 20, 1837) was ... King." His reign saw the implementation of several reforms: The poor law ...
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  • the United States, Brunner became professor of systematic theology at the ... Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews, (1946–1947) ...
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  • philosopher and the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college (Dictionary ... Space, Time and Deity was one of the last attempts by a British philosopher ...
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  • was an influential liberal thinker of the nineteenth century. John ... Inaugural Address at the University of St. Andrews, concerning the ...
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  • ) is one of the largest financial services provider in the world, ... exclusion, expropriation, and extermination of Jews. In the decades after ...
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  • Lollardy or Lollardry was the political and religious movement of ... Lollardy also emphasized the authority of the Scriptures over the authority ...
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  • gardens and in sculpture as well. He was one of the most dominant artists and ... Le Brun was given leave to create some of the most impressive masterpieces ...
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  • lawyer and peace activist; he is one of several people who have been ... and Otlet created the Central Office of International Associations ...
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  • the Western world by the Latinized version of his name, Alkindus) was known ... of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland ...
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  • of Mathematics & Statistics University of St Andrews, UK. Retrieved March ... of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland. ...
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  • is a nation in northwest Europe and one of the constituent countries of ... The Kingdom of Scotland was an independent state until May 1, 1707 ...
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  • New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of Canada's ... (1760-1820) who was descended from the House of Brunswick." ...
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  • political scientist who devised the concept of a Condorcet method. Unlike ... History of Mathematics Archive]. University of St Andrews Scotland School ...
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  • [[Image:HiltonofCadboll01.JPG|thumb|A replica of the Hilton of Cadboll ... The Picts were a confederation of tribes who lived to the north of ...
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  • monastery or convent, under the government of an abbot or an abbess, who ... European abbeys were the important centers of learning and literacy, which ...
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  • Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (August 3, 1867 ... title=Chancellor of the University of St Andrews|years=1929–1947 ...
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  • and Anaximenes, explored the origin of existing beings and developed ... of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland] ...
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  • Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS (August ... Ernest Rutherford was the son of James Rutherford, a farmer who had ...
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  • and mathematician who is considered one of the greatest creators of old ... of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Retrieved ...
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  • him the only Canadian recipient of the "Triple Crown of Acting ... von Trapp in the musical film The Sound of Music (1965) alongside Julie ...
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  • Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was ... quot;Domesday" (Middle English spelling of Doomsday) in the twelfth century ...
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  • |name = Fordham University |image = [[Image:Fordham University Keating Hall.JPG|250px]]| ...
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  • or the Mazarin Bible) is a printed version of the Latin Vulgate translation ... The advent of the printed Bible ushered in an age in which Bibles ...
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  • quot;Jules Henri Poincaré". University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Retrieved ... Henri Poincaré"]. University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Retrieved ...
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  • an effective and relatively safe means of vaccination against smallpox ... from a Scottish University, the University of St. Andrews, and subsequently ...
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  • the Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews on "The Face ... The Gifford Lectures 2010]. University of St Andrews. * [https://sms ...
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  • Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern region of the ... The majority of Minnesota's residents live in the Minneapolis ...
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  • History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews. Retrieved January ... html Sir Isaac Newton.] University of St. Andrews. Retrieved January ...
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  • historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science. His work belongs ... December 26, 2019. and the University of St Andrews (UK, 2008). Honorary ...
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  • Posidonius (or Poseidonus; Greek: Ποσειδώνιος) "of ... of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. ...
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  • church that traditionally contained the seat of a bishop. The great Cathedrals ... (seat or chair), and refers to the presence of the bishop's or archbishop ...
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  • Dixieland music is an early style of jazz which developed in New Orleans ... music incorporated the cultural aspects of New Orleans jazz music of the ...
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  • in the late twelfth century as the Poor Men of Lyons, a band organized by ... Today, there are several active congregations of Waldensians in Europe ...
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  • Christian movement centered on the teachings of Czech martyr Jan Hus (c. 1369–1415 ... force in Moravia, Bohemia, and parts of Poland, with many Czech nobles ...
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  • The kinetic energy of an object is the extra energy it possesses due ... of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews. 2000. ...
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  • /ləˈkæreɪ/), was a British author of espionage novels. During the ... * Honorary degree, University of St. Andrews (1996); and Honorary ...
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  • portraiture to a narrative-style series of pictures called “modern moral ... In his illustrated 1753 treatise "The Analysis of Beauty," ...
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  • and Burma during the war. Her popular songs of yearning and hope, which moved ... to have a top ten hit album. At the time of her death in 2020 she had been ...
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  • 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was the wife of President of the United States ... roadside areas. She was also an advocate of the Head Start program. ...
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  • 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was the wife of former President Richard Nixon ... Nixon was always supportive of her husband even during the troubled ...
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  • was an eminent astrophysicist. Of Tamil Indian heritage, he was born ... of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. February ...
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  • (The Long Day Wanes), on the dying days of Britain's empire in the ... He wrote critical studies of Joyce, Hemingway, Shakespeare and Lawrence ...
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