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  • ...udley of Walden|Thomas Audley]], [[Lord Chancellor]] under [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]]. Audley also gave the College its motto: 'garde ta foy' - keep ...iel College, Oxford|Oriel College]] was the last in [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], admitting women in 1985).
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  • ...o describe a people who called themselves ''Romany'' who first appeared in England at about the beginning of the 16th century. Although in certain contexts it ...by themselves called Romany), of [[Hindu]] origin, which first appeared in England about the beginning of the 16th c. and was then believed to have come from
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  • ...[[ideal]] for anyone with an interest in the monarchy of [[United Kingdom|England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales]]. [[Category: Oxford Reference Premium]]
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  • ...overnment) attempted to restore the deposed Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland, rather than abolish the monarchy completely. # Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, 1989. Insurrection: "The action of rising
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  • ...ices of the time. Oxford English Dictionary (Second ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 1989. # Oxford Latin Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 1982.
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  • ...Dictionary of Music. Ed. Michael Kennedy. Oxford University Press, 1996. "Oxford Reference Online, subscription access". Retrieved on 2007-03-16. ...; Ger. Fuge; Lat., It., Sp., fuga]." The Harvard Dictionary of Music, (New England, 2003), "credo Reference". Retrieved on 2008-05-06.
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  • ...[[poor]] [[scholar]] from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University Oxford] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University Cambridge].) was pr In England, the 1572 Vagabonds Act defined a rogue as a [[person]] who has no [[land]]
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  • ...ster_Dictionary Merriam-Webster] dates the term back to 1947, whilst the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] has a [[reference]] to the term from [https://en.wikip ...married]] couple and their children were present in Western Europe and New England in the 17th century, influenced by [[church]] and [[theocratic]] [[governme
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  • ...rke and Mary Brennan, trans., ''Columbanus and Merovingian Monasticism'', (Oxford: BAR International Serries 113, 1981). * McKitterick, Rosamond. "Nun's scriptoria in England and Francia in the eighth century". In ''Books, Scribes and Learning in the
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  • ...id [[pirate]] captain [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_England Edward England]. ...] describing an extended camping-out picnic over a period of several days (Oxford English Dictionary).
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  • ...e now part of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Keynes Milton Keynes], England. During [[World War II]], Bletchley Park was the location of the United Kin ...en the Universities of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford Oxford] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge Cambridge], whi
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  • ...an 30 feet and in fathoms for depths above that. Until the 19th century in England, the length of the fathom was more variable: from 5½ feet on merchant vess # Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989;
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  • ...tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_College,_Oxford University College, Oxford]. He became a schoolmaster, at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and in 185 Returning to England in 1861 he worked as a journalist on the staff of the Daily Telegraph, a ne
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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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  • ...of Eton and Winchester, as well as New College and [[Magdalen College]] at Oxford, also have cloisters. ...loping wooden roofs. This form of the cloister was generally superseded in England by a range of windows, usually unglazed but sometimes, as at Gloucester, pr
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  • ...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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  • # "genius". Oxford English Dictionary (2 ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 1989.
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  • ...talistic economic practices have incrementally become institutionalized in England between the 16th and 19th centuries, although some features of capitalist o ...org/details/oedvol02 A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles]. ''Oxford English Press''. Vol 2. page 94. ''capitalism'' was first used by novelist
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  • ...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 * ''Holographic Visions: A History of New Science'' Sean F. Johnston, Oxford University Press (2006), ISBN 0-19-857122-4
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  • ===The Oxford editors=== ...in return. The first was that he move from Mill Hill to [[Oxford, England|Oxford]], which he did in 1885. Again he had a [[Scriptorium]] built on his proper
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  • # Flew, T. (2008). New Media: an introduction. Melbourne: Oxford University Press ...search in Professional Practice, School of Management, University of Bath: England
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  • ...ether into a proper social movement. The "social movement" was invented in England and North America during the first decades of the nineteenth century and ha *Anthony Giddens. 1985. The Nation-State and Violence. Cambridge, England: Polity Press. ISBN 0520060393
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  • ===In early modern England=== In Early Modern England the word "gossip" referred to companions in childbirth, not limited to the
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  • ...egal treatises like [[William Blackstone]]'s ''Commentaries on the Laws of England'' and enactments like the French [[Napoleonic Code|Code civil]]. ...ty of Cambridge|Cambridge]]. Elements of Romano-canon law were present in England in the [[ecclesiastical courts]] and, less directly, through the developmen
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  • ...ollowing:<ref>''The Bible: Authorized King James Version with Apocrypha'', Oxford World's Classics, 1998, ISBN-13: 978-0192835253</ref> ...isted in ''Article VI'' of the [[Thirty-Nine Articles]] of the [[Church of England]].<ref>[https://www.episcopalian.org/pbs1928/articles/AnglicanTeaching/042.
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  • ...anguages. Early influential scholars included [[Friedrich Max Müller]], in England, and [[Cornelius P. Tiele]], in the Netherlands. Today religious studies is ...science. [[Max Müller]] was the first Professor of Comparative Religion at Oxford University, a chair created especially for him. In his ''Introduction to th
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  • 1538 STARKEY England II. ii. 178 The communyon betwyx them [i.e. body and soul] also to be of th ...our Communion, and say, they are misplaced. 1575 in W. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 368 Ye..Burgesses..shall yearly procure a communion or sermon to be made.
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  • ...Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry''. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971, p. 272. ...king from 12th Century [[England]]. Writing already had a long history in England, and it would have been possible to use texts to establish for example, the
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  • especially in England, that spirit could evoke anything it wished to before the eyes of an audien ...that day. As many of you may know, the premier spiritualist of the day in England was
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  • The Episcopal Church traces its history from its origins in the [[Church of England]]. It stresses its continuity with the early universal Western church and The first Church of England service recorded on North American soil was a celebration of Holy Communion
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  • ...nd Gordon Marshall. Oxford University Press 2005. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. ...cise Oxford Dictionary of Politics. Ed. Iain McLean and Alistair McMillan. Oxford University Press, 2003.
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  • ...ions and its practitioners and transmitters. In the seventeenth century, [[England|English]] and [[France|French]] religious scholars popularized the term to Most notable of these schools were in [[Bologna]], [[Paris]], [[Oxford]] and [[Cambridge]], though others were opened throughout [[Europe]]. Study
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  • ...(2000). ''From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics: Putting Practice First'', Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0198296881. ...ns Herma]]n. (1991). ''The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes.'' Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0631180173
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  • ...]], and practically all the ''[[philosophe]]s'' of 18th-century France and England held to some form of Deism. Despite their ridicule of Christianity, many De ...nderich, Ted (Ed.) (1995). "Humanism". The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford University Press. p 376. ISBN 0198661320.
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  • Johnson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, and attended Pembroke College, Oxford for a year, before his lack of funds forced him to leave. After working as ...'' brought Johnson popularity and success; until the completion of the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', 150 years later, Johnson's was viewed as the pre-em
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  • ...//www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/person?view=uk Person], from the ''Compact Oxford English Dictionary''. In modern usage, the term "person" is subject to disp ...and persistent [[personal identity (philosophy)|personal identity]]. The [[England|English]] philosopher [[John Locke]] defined a person as "a thinking intell
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  • ...totle]]. Morris Kline, "Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times, Oxford University Press, 1972, ISBN 0-19-506135-7, p.53 "A major achievement of Ar ...nd [[Martha Kneale|Kneale, Martha]], (1962), ''The Development of Logic'', Oxford University Press, London, UK.
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  • ...]], advised by Peter of Pisa and Alcuin of York, attracted the scholars of England and Ireland, and by imperial decree in 787 A.D. established schools in ever ...edinger, Andrew B., ed. [1996]. Readings in Medieval Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press.
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  • ...ton, D.K. (1999). Origins of genius: Darwinian perspectives on creativity. Oxford University Press. ...vinina (Ed.) The international handbook on innovation (pp. 17-30). Oxford, England: Elsevier Science.
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  • ..., nineteenth-century religious reformers in Germany, America, and later in England, emphasized the universal nature of Israel's election, reiterating that the ...is clearly detailed in [[W. H. C. Frend]]'s [[The Donatist Church]] (1952; Oxford, 1971). Perhaps the most extensive study of neo-Manichaeanism to date is [[
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  • ...two, ''communism'' was believed the [[atheist]] way of life. In Protestant England, ''communism'' was too culturally and aurally close to the Papist Roman Cat ...espectable on the continent, while communism was not." The [[Owenites]] in England and the [[Fourierists]] in France were considered socialists, while working
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  • # Barrow, J. & Tipler, F. (1986). The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Oxford University Press. New York. # Penrose, R. (1989). The Emperor's New Mind. Oxford University Press. New York.
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  • ...d by the turmoil of the [[Protestant Reformation]], especially in Germany, England, and Scotland. In England, a further revival of interest in magic was heralded by the repeal, of the
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  • ...a classmate of Jenness. The two studied under [[Tylor]] and [[Marett]] at Oxford. In Canada, Barbeau and Jenness worked at the National Museum (as it became ...d on how traditional [[economics]] ignored cultural and social factors. In England, British Social Anthropology's paradigm began to fragment as [[Max Gluckman
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  • ...ad a lasting home. a1835 MRS. HEMANS Homes of Eng. i, The stately homes of England! How beautiful they stand. 1849 MACAULAY Hist. Eng. iii. I. 351 That attach ...) xii. 165 The delicatessen that is the foreigners' home-away-from-home in Oxford. 1962 Guardian 6 Oct. 12/4 The idea is to provide a ‘home from home’ at
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  • * German, Terence J., 1981, Hamann on Language and Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Johann Georg Hamann und England: Hamann und die englischsprachige Aufklärung, Acta des Siebten Internation
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  • ...persal. In: Akazawa T, Szathmary E (eds) Prehistoric Mongoloid dispersals. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 172–186 * Hutchinson J, Smith AD (eds) (1996) Ethnicity. Oxford University Press, New York
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