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  • ...tches Witches] would beg door-to-door for "milk, yeast, drink, pottage" in England. Throughout East Asian and South Asian countries, the condition of vagrancy
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  • The legal [[system]] in England uses the term counsel as an approximate synonym for a barrister-at-[[law]] ...nsellor, or, more fully, counsellor-at-law, became practically obsolete in England, but continued in use locally in Ireland as an equivalent to barrister, whe
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  • ...t [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton-on-the-Naze Walton-on-the-Naze] in England.
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  • ...ipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation Protestant Reformation] in 1517. In England the modern period is often dated to the start of the [https://en.wikipedia.
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  • ...1) : an assembly of bishops and [[representative]] clergy of the Church of England (2) : a consultative assembly of clergy and lay [[delegates]] from one part
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  • ...panentheism (all in God) in 1828. This conception of God influenced [[New England transcendentalists]] such as [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]. The term was populari
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  • ...ndaries—are among the oldest features in an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England English] [[rural]] landscape. Although a boundary itself is an [[abstract]] ...boundaries in the central region of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England England] originated with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure enclosure] of
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  • ...rles Dickens] and others, child labour was gradually reduced and halted in England via the Factory Acts of 1802-1878. The Victorians concomitantly emphasized *Cunnington, Phillis and Anne Buck. Children’s Costume in England: 1300 to 1900. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1965.
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  • ...olved into the vehmic court system in medieval Germany. In [[Anglo-Saxon]] England, juries investigated crimes. After the [[Norman Conquest]], some parts of t ...uries, usually 6 or 12 men, were an "ancient institution" in some parts of England. ("Henry II" 286) Members consisted of representatives of the basic units o
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  • ....wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_England Victorian England] and the effect of England's industrial revolution on contemporary life, respectively, and their attit
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  • ...tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquae_Sulis ''Aquae Sulis'']), a Roman city in England famous for healing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_springs hydr
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  • The word 'somerset' was also used in Victorian England to [[describe]] what today we call a somersault. For example, an 1843 poste
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  • ...target lessons to the people concerned. Now, I take it we are speaking of England as a country, as distinct from the United Kingdom or any other ‘Westernis Vince: Yes Mojo, but there’s the rub; in certain parts of England we could term the locale as being part of an ‘Easternised Country’, so
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  • ...iladelphia to New York, and back to the South."[2] In 1740, he visited New England, and "at every place he visited, the consequences were large and tumultuous ...his awakening was unique in that it moved beyond the educated elite of New England to those who were less wealthy and less educated. The center of revivalism
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  • ...ous themes. Alice Bailey was born as Alice LaTrobe Bateman, in Manchester, England. She moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life a
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  • ...edrals in Europe, such as that of Strasbourg, Essen, Freiburg i.B., and in England at York, Lincoln and Southwell, are referred to as "[https://en.wikipedia.o
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  • Returning to England in 1861 he worked as a journalist on the staff of the Daily Telegraph, a ne ...d in 1879 and was an immediate success, going through numerous editions in England and America, though its permanent place in literature must remain very unce
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  • ...rhaps composed in the 10th cent., but shows probable reworking, perhaps in England, in the 11th cent.; also in Skaldic [[poetry]] of the mid 11th cent.), Norn ...of Scotland as /x/ (pleuch, pluich = /pløx/ /plʏx/ ), and in the north of England (if it is retained) it has generally developed to /f/ . In plough v. forms
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  • ...gs, to strike [[fear]] into the [[hearts]] of the pirates' [[victims]]. In England, hourglasses were sometimes placed in coffins, and they have graced gravest
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  • ...hens in the 5th century BC, the uprising of petty nobility against John of England in the 13th century, or the 2005 push to remove Michael Eisner from the hel
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