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Meeting of the wise men.(role of a council called the witenagemot in Anglo-Saxon England)
Magazine article from: Canada and the World Backgrounder; 9/1/1997; 469 words
; Witenagemot is the Old English word for an assembly...friends and relatives of the king. The witenagemot may have had the power to elect a king...Norman conquest of England in 1066, the witenagemot gave way to the Great Council.
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FARMERS OF RARITYBY DOUG BLACKBURN STAFF WRITER.(FOOD)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/10/2004; 700+ words
; ...copious amounts of the usual suspects at Witenagemot Farm, their 30-acre spread in Schaghticoke...In the nine years the Places have had Witenagemot Farm (Art is also a co-owner and...much of their produce directly from Witenagemot. The Places also send produce to a...
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Color reflects tastes, qualities of tomatoes.(Life-Food)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/6/2007; 500 words
; ...can have distinct characteristics, Suzi Place of Witenagemot Farm in Schaghticoke, offers a general guide to the...they taste wonderful, says Suzi Place, who owns Witenagemot Farm in Schaghticoke with her husband, Art.
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hot TOMATOES; Farmer's heirloom seeds help great tastes survive and thrive.(Life-Food)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/6/2007; 700+ words
; ...almost smoky flavor. Place walks by wide trays of heirloom tomatoes, stacked high behind the old farmhouse on her 32-acre Witenagemot Farm in Schaghticoke. She plucks the tomatoes off the trays, pausing to offer the stories behind the names, stories that...
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Hot tomatoes: Farmer's heirloom seeds help great tastes survive and thrive.
Newspaper article from: Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/6/2007; 700+ words
; ...almost smoky flavor. Place walks by wide trays of heirloom tomatoes, stacked high behind the old farmhouse on her 32-acre Witenagemot Farm in Schaghticoke. She plucks the tomatoes off the trays, pausing to offer the stories behind the names, stories that...
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FARMS OPEN FOR PUBLIC TOURS.(AT HOME)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/4/2002; 700+ words
; ...Route 67, onto Linden Street, at sign which reads ``Champlain Lock 3.'' Farm is at field on right where houses end. Witenagemot Farms, 155 Knickerbocker Road, Schaghticoke, 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. From Albany, take Northway I-87 to Exit 9...
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The english patience
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Englishmen and women who frankly couldn't give a damn if the Scots prate away in their parliament, or the Welsh have their witenagemot. The profound truth about English nationalism seems to be that it is an oxymoron, that it is rather un-English. Blair...
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The L word (don't make me say it!). (love)(His Point of View)(Column)
Magazine article from: Cosmopolitan; 3/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...a speech impediment. I can accurately pronounce almost any word in the English language, including mnemonic, gnu, and witenagemot. Thanks to a year of drama class in college, I have no fear of speaking in public. People even tell me I'm articulate...
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RISE OF THE HOUSE OF KNICKERBOCKER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/14/2002; 700+ words
; ...Benedict Arnold rested there after he lost his leg at the Battle of Saratoga, and the house was built near the famous Witenagemot Oak, planted in 1676 to symbolize peace between the local Indian tribes and the settlers. Some locals still remember that...
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Letter: May Day: pagan and revolutionary
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/4/1995; ; 392 words
; ...Christian festival of Whitsuntide (the Germanic version of Pentecost), or between either of them and the Anglo-Saxon witenagemot (despite Coleridge's fertile imagination). And there is little connection between any of these and the socialist May...
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witenagemot
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
witenagemot [Old Eng.,=meeting of counselors...discredit the old argument that the witenagemot was similar to the later representative...Curia Regis. On the other hand, the witenagemot had considerable powers. Although the...
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Monarchism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...Empire (800 – 1806) kings were elected by a council of nobles. Between the seventh and eleventh centuries the Witenagemot consisted of noblemen charged with the task of approving the succession of monarchs in Anglo-Saxon England. The twentieth...
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witan
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
witan (from Old English witenagemot , ‘moot’, or meeting, of the king's councillors) The council summoned by the Anglo-Saxon kings. The...
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Parliament
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...other democratic countries. History The Origins of Parliament There was no historical continuity between the Anglo-Saxon witenagemot and the British Parliament. The first steps in the genesis of the modern parliament occurred in the 13th cent. The long...
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Curia Regis
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...s Court. ] The Anglo-Saxon kings of England regularly summoned the bishops and great men of the kingdom to a council (Witenagemot), which advised the king and occasionally served as a court of justice. Building upon this foundation, the Norman kings...
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