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... have had their own ox carts, but others would have had to hire a carter at a rate of appoximately 1d a day per tun. The allocation of wine for each member of the household who qualified was approximately ... Salisbury, known as the Kingmaker, was also a Knight of the Garter, the Captain of Calais and the Constable of Dover Castle and owned huge estates all around the country. He had married his daughters ... to the chase, and it’s significant that his private badge should have been the white hart and 57 was an important period of fasting, and Fridays and Saturdays were fast days. Such occasions were...

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... equal." Then Arthur was sad no longer. He did as Merlin advised, and had a great round table made, at which there was a seat for each one of his knights. After that there was no more quarreling ... the armor, weapons, jewels, and other riches he had taken from the conquered people. After the war with Britain was over Claudius had a Triumph. The fame of Caractacus had already reached Rome, and when ... that many of the women of Britain were as brave and as wise as the men, and quite as difficult to conquer. After Boadicea had been so cruelly and unjustly treated, she burned with anger against...

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... of classical and romantic fancy, of pagan and Christian theology, of real and fictitious history, of tragical and comic incidents, of familiar and heroic manners, and of satirical and sublime ... Chrestien's 'Perceval' it will be found, again and again, in the prose of Sir Thomas Malory; it will be found in many ballads and ballad burdens, in 'William and Margaret,' in 'Binnorie,' ... after a night passed at Leigh Hunt's cottage near Hampstead, which contains his literary declaration of faith. After speaking of the beauty that fills the universe, and of the office of Imagination...

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... Nicholas II at the Shipka Pass, and later an equestrian statue of the Tsar-Liberator Alexander II was placed opposite the House of Parliament in Sofia. Bulgaria meanwhile had been making rapid and ... entailing the bestowal of several pounds on the Hungarian state steamers and railways. As for the sandjak of Novi-Pazar, it was turned into a veritable Tibet, and a legend was spread abroad that ... greater independence of spirit (Montenegro was, after all, the ancient Zeta, and had always been a centre of national life) and a number of at any rate eugenic if not exactly aristocratic Serb families; these families...

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... UNITED STATES IN 1850 ATTENDING ADULTS UNABLE SCHOOL TO READ STATE Population Males Females Total Males Females Total Alabama 2,265 33 35 68 108 127 235 Arkansas 608 6 5 11 61 55 116 California 962 ... General Coxe of Fluvanna County, Virginia, taught about one hundred of his adult slaves.[2] While serving as a professor of the Military Institute at Lexington, Stonewall Jackson taught a class of ... did not reach all parts of the colony.[2] The Quakers of North Carolina, however, had local schools and actually taught slaves. Some of these could read and write as early as 1731. Thereafter, household...

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... aeroplane as a whole and of its armament is a thing to marvel at on looking back and considering what was actually accomplished. As the efficiency of the aeroplane increased, so anti-aircraft guns ... undertake the construction of a large man-carrying machine. In addition to a multitude of actual duties, which left him practically no time available for original research, he had as an adverse factor ... composed of Maurice Farman two-seater biplanes and Bleriot monoplanes the latter type banned for a period on account of a number of serious accidents that took place in 1912 America had its Army Aviation...

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... the pas- sage of the Stock Exchange Unification Ordinance. This ordinance was en- acted to standardize industry actions and information. Partly a result of the increased regulation, in April of ... changed dramatically in 1974, when the overall market suffered a huge loss in value. As often occurs following significant financial market calamities, there arose a call for increased regulation of the ... number one. In fact, the Na- tional Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (NASDAQ) exchange has more companies listed than the NYSE. How many exchanges are there around the world?...

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... accurate to label such behavioural adaptations as ‘compensation’. While these changes may reflect a behavioural adaptation to age-related changes in performance levels, other explanations are ... Records cover books, reports, journals articles and conference papers. The database is produced by the ARRB Transport Research Library and is Australia’s major transport database. As well as the holdings ... considerably according to the different statistical procedures. As one example, Li, Braver and Chen (2003) used US FARS data and a national probability sample of all crashes (both non-casualty and...

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... mat- ter -of- fact, materialistic, and perhaps jaded or cynical. Unaware, we are cut off from the compassionate touch of the infinite and the eternal, and we come to assume that the deadness of ... training, Roberto Assagioli (1888–1974), who seemed to be a promis- ing candidate to develop psychoanalysis in Italy. Jung wrote of Assagioli as a very pleasant and perhaps valuable acquaintance, ... feelings and had the painful realization that her parents, although nurturing in many ways, had been emotionally unavailable at a very basic level. She also came to see that her inward rejection of...

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