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William Wallace: Encyclopedia - William Wallace
Sir William Wallace (c. 1270 – August 22, 1305), sometimes called The Wallace, was a Scottish knight who led his countrymen in resistan...
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William Wallace: Encyclopedia Ii - William Wallace - Origins
Tradition often describes Wallace as "one of the common people", in contrast to his countryman, Robert the Bruce, who came from the upper...
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William Wallace: Encyclopedia Ii - William Wallace - Wallace's Exploits Begin
According to local Ayrshire legend, two English soldiers challenged Wallace in the Lanark marketplace regarding his catching of fish. The...
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First War Of Scottish Independence: Encyclopedia Ii - First War Of Scottish Independence - William Wallace
First War of Scottish Independence - The Rise of Wallace.
Throughout Scotland there was widespread discontent and disorder after the su...
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Selkirk: Encyclopedia Ii - Selkirk - William Wallace
"See approach proud Edwards power, Chains and slavery!"
The words of Robert Burns conjure up a vivid picture of the troubled times in whi...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia - Minor Discworld Characters
This article details minor Discworld characters; characters from the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett who only appear in the backgroun...
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Wallace Monument: Encyclopedia - Wallace Monument
The Wallace National Monument (generally known as the Wallace Monument) is a tower standing on the summit of Abbey Craig, a hilltop near ...
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1297: Encyclopedia - 1297
1297 - Events.
8 January - Monaco gains independence.
English Church refuses to pay taxes, resulting in crisis.
William Wallace begins...
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Wallace Shawn: Encyclopedia - Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor and writer. Ubiquitous on film and television, where he is usually cast in co...
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1305: Encyclopedia - 1305
1305 - Events.
August 5 - English troops capture William Wallace
Wenceslas III becomes king of Bohemia
The Papacy removed to France fo...
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1298: Encyclopedia - 1298
1298 - Events.
July 2 - The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
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August 5: Encyclopedia - August 5
August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining.
August 5 - Events.
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August 23: Encyclopedia - August 23
August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining.
August 23 - Events.
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September 11: Encyclopedia - September 11
September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). There are 111 days remaining.
It is usually th...
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Andrew Murray: Encyclopedia - Andrew Murray
There are a number of notable people by the name of Andrew Murray:
Andrew Moray, commonly referred to as Andrew Murray, Guardian of Scot...
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Vernon Wallace Thomson: Encyclopedia - Vernon Wallace Thomson
Vernon Wallace Thomson (November 5, 1905 – April 2, 1988) was Governor of Wisconsin from 1957 to 1959. Vernon Thomson was born in Richl...
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William F. Whiting: Encyclopedia - William F. Whiting
William Fairfield Whiting (1864 – 1936) was United States Secretary of Commerce August 22, 1928 to March 4, 1929 during the last months...
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John Menteith: Encyclopedia Ii - John Menteith - Betrayal Of William Wallace
John Menteith - Criticism.
Lord Hailes and Sheriff Mark Napier, a descendant of Sir John Menteith, discredit the story citing tradition...
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Selkirk: Encyclopedia Ii - Selkirk - O' Floddenfield!
Selkirk men fought with Wallace at Stirling Brig and Falkirk, and also with Bruce at Bannockburn but it is Selkirk's connection with The ...
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Selkirk: Encyclopedia Ii - Selkirk - Sir Walter Scott And Selkirk
Selkirk's past also includes the legendary Sir Walter Scott, and this is one connection that the town has put to great use. 'Scott's Selk...
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Selkirk: Encyclopedia Ii - Selkirk - The Hungarian Connection
Annually, In March, Hungarians from across Scotland gather in the town's County Hotel for their national day celebrations. It was from th...
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First War Of Scottish Independence: Encyclopedia Ii - First War Of Scottish Independence - The Outbreak Of The Wars Of Scottish Independence
By mid-March 1296, there was a stand off between the two armies across the Anglo-Scottish border. It was broken when Lord Wark, an Englis...
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First War Of Scottish Independence: Encyclopedia Ii - First War Of Scottish Independence - Robert The Bruce King Of Scots
On September 15, the English parliament met with the Scots representatives to decide the ordinances of government for Scotland, and in th...
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Wendell Berry: Encyclopedia Ii - Wendell Berry - Biography
Berry was born in Henry County, Kentucky in 1934, the first of four children born to John and Virginia Berry. His father was a tobacco fa...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - William Scuggins
When Samuel Vimes was in his youth, William Scuggins was the child that was always tormented. He was mentioned briefly in Feet of Clay wi...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - William Scuggins
When Samuel Vimes was in his youth, William Scuggins was the child that was always tormented. He was mentioned briefly in Feet of Clay wi...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Galder Weatherwax
Cousin of Granny Weatherwax, Galder is the Chancellor in The Light Fantastic, and a real wizard traditionalist. In The Light Fantastic, h...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - 71-hour Ahmed
A Klatchian warrior who accompanies the Klatchian envoy Prince Khufurah on a diplomatic journey to Ankh-Morpork in the novel Jingo. He sp...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Anghammarad
Anghammarad is a minor character in the novel Going Postal. He is a golem, almost nineteen thousand years old, having been baked by the p...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Achmed The Mad
Writer of the Necrotelecomnicon, which he wrote after drinking too much Klatchian Coffee. He is also the writer of Achmed the I Just Get ...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - B'hrian Bloodaxe
The first Low King of the Dwarfs, and a great cultural hero. His life is told in the opera Bloodaxe and Ironhammer. He was the lover of I...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Brutha
Originally an Omnian novice in the Citadel of Kom, noted only for being a simple boy with an amazing memory. Brutha was the main characte...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Death Of Rats
Death of Rats was created to herd the souls of dead rodents (and occasionally rodent-like humans) during Death's absence in Reaper Man. H...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Drumknott
Secretary to Patrician Vetinari of Ankh-Morpork, following the death of Lupine Wonse. First appears in Feet of Clay.
Commonly seen enteri...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Foul Ole Ron
Excessively seedy, momentously dirty, overpoweringly smelly and entirely incomprehensible, he lives in Ankh-Morpork as the best-known mem...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Stanley Howler
One of the two employees of the Ankh-Morpork Post Office prior to Moist von Lipwig being made Postmaster. Raised by peas (no further expl...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Hodgesaargh
Castle falconer at Lancre, Hodgesaargh is not his actual name, but some misunderstanding has been caused due to his birds' habit of attac...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Kaos Aka Ronnie Soak
An anthropomorphic personification. Fifth horseman of the apocalypse who left before they became famous. Rides a chariot. Wields a sword ...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Princess Keli
Daughter of King Olerve the Bastard of the Sto Plains kingdom of Sto Lat, and the last person between the Duke of Sto Helit and the thron...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Doctor Lawn
Dr John "Mossy" Lawn is a doctor in Ankh-Morpork. He first appeared in Night Watch, as a backstreet "pox doctor", offering medical assist...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - The Magpyr Family
A family of vampires who attempted to invade Lancre in Carpe Jugulum. They all parody vampirism in different ways:
The Old Count, Count ...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Quoth
A talking raven. He is seemingly an associate of the Death of Rats. His name derives from the famous line in the poem by the poet Edgar A...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Lord Rust
An Ankh-Morpork nobleman, whose full name is presumably Ronald (Ronnie) Rust. He first appears in Men At Arms, in which he is one of the ...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Mr. Salzella
The Director of Music at the Ankh-Morpork Opera House in Maskerade, most notable for an absolute hatred of opera (although he was really ...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Wallace Sonky
An Ankh-Morpork tradesman, owner of Sonky's Rubber Goods, and maker of Sonky's Preventatives (a type of condom). His "sonkies", as they a...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Findthee Swing
Captain Findthee Swing is the head of the Unmentionables in the Ankh-Morpork of the past in Night Watch. He is described as a thin, baldi...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - General Tacticus
General Tacticus was a soldier of the Ankh-Morpork Empire proclaimed to be the greatest general of all time. In fact, on the Discworld th...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Vorbis
In Small Gods, deacon Vorbis is the head of the Quisition, and later (for a very brief time) the Cenobiarch of Omnia. He's a frightening ...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Kaos, Aka Ronnie Soak
An anthropomorphic personification. Fifth horseman of the apocalypse who left before they became famous. Rides a chariot. Wields a sword ...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Brutha
Originally an Omnian novice in the Citadel of Kom, noted only for being a simple boy with an apparently perfect memory. Brutha was the ma...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Death Of Fleas
The Death of Fleas is a small Entomomorph (just like Anthropomorph, but referring to insects), created in Death's absence to herd the sou...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Death Of Rats
Death of Rats was created to herd the souls of dead rodents (and occasionally rodent-like humans) during Death's absence in Reaper Man. H...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Drumknott
Secretary to Patrician Vetinari of Ankh-Morpork, following the death of Lupine Wonse. First appears in Feet of Clay.
Commonly seen enteri...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Foul Ole Ron
Excessively seedy, momentously dirty, overpoweringly smelly and entirely incomprehensible, he lives in Ankh-Morpork as the best-known mem...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Stanley Howler
One of the two employees of the Ankh-Morpork Post Office prior to Moist von Lipwig being made Postmaster. Raised by peas (no further expl...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Hodgesaargh
Castle falconer at Lancre, Hodgesaargh is not his actual name, but some misunderstanding has been caused due to his birds' habit of attac...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Kaos Aka Ronnie Soak
An anthropomorphic personification. Fifth horseman of the apocalypse who left before they became famous. Rides a chariot. Wields a sword ...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Princess Keli
Daughter of King Olerve the Bastard of the Sto Plains kingdom of Sto Lat, and the last person between the Duke of Sto Helit and the thron...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Doctor Lawn
Dr John "Mossy" Lawn is a doctor in Ankh-Morpork. He first appeared in Night Watch, as a backstreet "pox doctor", offering medical assist...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - 71-hour Ahmed
A Klatchian warrior who accompanies the Klatchian envoy Prince Khufurah on a diplomatic journey to Ankh-Morpork in the novel Jingo. He sp...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Anghammarad
Anghammarad is a minor character in the novel Going Postal. He is a golem, almost nineteen thousand years old, having been baked by the p...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Achmed The Mad
Writer of the Necrotelecomnicon, which he wrote after drinking too much Klatchian Coffee. He is also the writer of Achmed the I Just Get ...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - B'hrian Bloodaxe
The first Low King of the Dwarfs, and a great cultural hero. His life is told in the opera Bloodaxe and Ironhammer. He was the lover of I...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - The Magpyr Family
A family of vampires who attempted to invade Lancre in Carpe Jugulum. They all parody vampirism in different ways:
The Old Count, Count ...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Quoth
A talking raven. He is seemingly an associate of the Death of Rats. His name derives from the famous line in the poem by the poet Edgar A...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Lord Rust
An Ankh-Morpork nobleman, whose full name is presumably Ronald (Ronnie) Rust. He first appears in Men At Arms, in which he is one of the ...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Mr. Salzella
The Director of Music at the Ankh-Morpork Opera House in Maskerade, most notable for an absolute hatred of opera (although he was really ...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - The Smoking Gnu
A trio of clacks hackers, so far seen only in Going Postal, consisting of "Mad Al, Sane Alex, and Adrian who claims he's sane but can't p...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Wallace Sonky
An Ankh-Morpork tradesman, owner of Sonky's Rubber Goods, and maker of Sonky's Preventatives (a type of condom). His "sonkies", as they a...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Findthee Swing
Captain Findthee Swing is the head of the Unmentionables in the Ankh-Morpork of the past in Night Watch. He is described as a thin, baldi...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - General Tacticus
General Tacticus was a soldier of the Ankh-Morpork Empire proclaimed to be the greatest general of all time. In fact, on the Discworld th...
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Minor Discworld Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - Minor Discworld Characters - Vorbis
In Small Gods, deacon Vorbis is the head of the Quisition, and later (for a very brief time) the Cenobiarch of Omnia. He's a frightening ...
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Mike Wallace Journalist: Encyclopedia Ii - Mike Wallace Journalist - Headline Text
Interviewed General William Westmoreland for the CBS special The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception.[1] Westmoreland sued Wallace and C...
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Wallace Shawn: Encyclopedia Ii - Wallace Shawn - Biography
Shawn was born in New York City, where he still lives. He is the son of William Shawn, longtime editor of The New Yorker, and journalist ...
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Wallace Reid: Encyclopedia Ii - Wallace Reid - Biography
Born William Wallace Reid into a show business family, his mother Bertha Westbrook was an actress and his father, Hal Reid, worked succes...
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Jedburgh: Encyclopedia Ii - Jedburgh - Surrounding Area
Other towns of interest include Kelso, Hawick, Galashiels, Selkirk, and Melrose. There are abbeys at Melrose, Kelso and Dryburgh, and Kel...
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William Dobell: Encyclopedia Ii - William Dobell - Early Years And Training
William Dobell was born in Cooks Hill, a working class neighbourhood of Newcastle, New South Wales. His father was a builder and there we...
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William O. Douglas: Encyclopedia Ii - William O. Douglas - In Presidential Politics
When, in early 1944, President Roosevelt decided not to actively support the renomination of Vice President Henry A. Wallace at the party...
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William Desmond Taylor: Encyclopedia Ii - William Desmond Taylor - Hollywood Legacy
The Taylor murder, along with the Fatty Arbuckle scandal and the drug related deaths of such stars as Olive Thomas, Wallace Reid, Barbara...
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Virtuosity: Encyclopedia Ii - Virtuosity - Cast
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete
Denzel Washington - Lt. Parker Barnes
Kelly Lynch - Dr. Madison Carter
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Infinite Jest: Encyclopedia Ii - Infinite Jest - Literature
Infinite Jest - Surveys.
Marshall Boswell, Understanding David Foster Wallace. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. ISB...
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National Alliance: Encyclopedia Ii - National Alliance - History
The group was founded in 1974 by William Pierce, a former physics professor and author of the book, The Turner Diaries: (under the pseudo...
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Sigma Phi Epsilon: Encyclopedia Ii - Sigma Phi Epsilon - History
Carter Ashton Jenkens, an 18-year-old divinity student at the Baptist institution, transfered to Richmond College from New Jersey's Rutge...
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Marianne Moore: Encyclopedia Ii - Marianne Moore - Poetic Career
In part because of her extensive European travels before the First World War, Moore came to the attention of, poets as diverse as Wallace...
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Falkirk: Encyclopedia Ii - Falkirk - History
The area has had strategic importance since Roman times, when the Roman Empire built the Antonine Wall between the Firths of Forth and Cl...
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Wendell Berry: Encyclopedia Ii - Wendell Berry - Ideas In Berry's Work
His nonfiction serves as a long defense of the life in which he finds value. According to Berry, this good life includes: sustainable agr...
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Wendell Berry: Encyclopedia Ii - Wendell Berry - The Port William Fiction
Berry’s fiction to date consists of seven novels and the twenty-three short stories collected in That Distant Land (2004) which, when r...
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Chillingham Castle: Encyclopedia Ii - Chillingham Castle - History
The castle was originally a single watchtower, built close to the site of a monastery in the late 1100s. In 1298, King Edward I, or "Edwa...
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Wendell Berry: Encyclopedia Ii - Wendell Berry - Works
Wendell Berry - Fiction.
Nathan Coulter, 1960 novel
A Place on Earth, 1967 revised 1983 novel
The Memory of Old Jack, 1974 novel
The W...
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Cid Corman: Encyclopedia Ii - Cid Corman - Origin And Europe
In 1951, Corman began Origin in response to the failure of a magazine that Creeley had planned. The magazine typically featured one write...
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Isabella Of France: Encyclopedia Ii - Isabella Of France - Isabella In Fiction
Queen Isabella appears as a major character in Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II, and in Derek Jarman's 1991 film based on the play an...
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Greenock: Encyclopedia Ii - Greenock - Famous Residents
Greenock's most famous son is the engineer James Watt. He is remembered in the name of the local college, at the library instituted in hi...
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Samuel Rosenberg: Encyclopedia Ii - Samuel Rosenberg - The Confessions Of A Trivialist
A shorter version of this 1972 book was first published as The Come As You Are Masquerade Party in 1970. Among its contents are essays on...
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England V United States 1950: Encyclopedia Ii - England V United States 1950 - Players
England: Bert Williams (goalkeeper), Alf Ramsey, Jack Aston, Billy Wright, Laurie Hughes, Jimmy Dickinson, Wilf Mannion, Tom Finney, Jame...
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William Wallace: Encyclopedia Ii - William Wallace - Wallace's Capture And Execution
Sir William evaded capture by the English until August 5, 1305, when Sir John de Menteith, a Scottish knight loyal to Edward, turned Wall...
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William Wallace: Encyclopedia Ii - William Wallace - Scotland In Wallace's Time
At the time of Wallace's birth, King Alexander III had reigned for over twenty years. His rule had seen a period of peace and economic st...
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William Wallace: Encyclopedia Ii - William Wallace - Portrayal In Fiction
An insignificant amount of comprehensive and historically accurate information was written about Wallace. Many stories, however, are base...
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William Wallace: Encyclopedia Ii - William Wallace - The Battle Of Falkirk
A year later the military tables turned at the Battle of Falkirk. On April 1, 1298, the English had invaded Scotland at Roxburgh. They pl...
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William Wallace: Encyclopedia Ii - William Wallace - The Battle Of Stirling Bridge
On September 11, 1297, Wallace achieved victory at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Although vastly outnumbered, the Scottish forces led by...
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William Wallace: Encyclopedia Ii - William Wallace - 700th Anniversary Of Wallace's Execution
In 2005, the 700th anniversary of Wallace's execution, his sword became the most popular feature of an exhibition in New York during the ...
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