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• Magdalene College
  ...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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• Gypsies
  ...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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• Kings and Queens of Britain
  ...[[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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• Rebellion
  ...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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• Superstition
  ...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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• Fugue
  ...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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• Rogue
  ...[[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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• Nuclear family
  ...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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• Scriptorium
  ...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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• Marooned
  ...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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• Bletchley Park
  ...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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• Fathom
  ...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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• Edwin Arnold
  ...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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• Jurors
  ...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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• Cloister
  ...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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• 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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• Genius
  # "genius". Oxford English Dictionary (2 ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. 1989.
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• Capitalism
  ...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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• 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 * ''Holographic Visions: A History of New Science'' Sean F. Johnston, Oxford University Press (2006), ISBN 0-19-857122-4
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• Oxford English Dictionary
  ===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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