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greatest the Greatest Show on Earth the title under which the American showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810–91) billed his circus when it opened in 1871.
I'm the greatest adopted as his catchphrase from 1962 by the American boxer Muhammad Ali (1942–7emsp;).
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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400 YEARS ANDLOOKING GOOD; PROPERTY FOCUS After restoring one of Ludlow's best preserved medieval buildings, one couple are ready to move on.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 8/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...audiences, and keen members of the Ludlow Historical Research Group share...E J, thought to be those of Edmund Jones who was 12 in 1861, son...centred on Lanes House. The said Edmund was a local grocer and journalist...history lovers are spoilt in Ludlow. Lanes House is one of the...
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 "The Racing Post (London, England)")
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Horse Racing: Doubly Guest earns call for festival target; LUDLOW.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 1/29/2008; 700+ words
; ...were in for a shock as 80-1 chance King Edmund made a highly promising winning debut...aboard McEvoy One for the future King Edmund can only improve for his debut win in...handicap hurdle jump the first flight at Ludlow yesterday EDWARD WHITAKER RACINGPOSTPIX...
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A debate without end
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...glimpsed in one telling sentence: Had Ludlow but known it, the accusations of...interpreters themselves: the Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, the writings of Algernon Sidney...have found them `all horrid'. Ludlow's Memoirs, which the great historian...
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The Once and Future Cromwell.(Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity)(Poem)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...seventeenth-century lights (notably the Puritan exile Edmund Ludlow and the republican martyr Algernon Sidney) as well...by the Irishman John Toland were keen to bowdlerise Edmund Ludlow's overtly pious Memoirs while Algernon Sidney, whose...
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The ethics of reading: the struggle for subjectivity in The Portrait of a Lady.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Criticism; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...several playful examples of this trope: Lydia Touchett, whose husband finds her telegrams inscrutable; Lilian Ludlow, whom Edmund Ludlow deliberately misunderstands in order to be funny; and the appropriately named Lady Pensil, who writes, though...
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Red Mary just a hoof-beat away
Newspaper article from: The Press; 5/14/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...man nor earth enough to bury a man!" declared General Edmund Ludlow, one of Oliver Cromwell's commanders, when his invading...killing and massacre. Conor O'Brien tried to halt Ludlow's advance, but was shot near Ennis and died after...
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Cavaliers v Roundheads continued Since 1649 history has swapped sides over the heroes and villains of the Civil War, says John Adamson
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 11/25/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...decade after the Civil War. In the case of the memoirs of Edmund Ludlow - a parliamentarian officer and MP who had actually signed...extensive that the published version wholly misrepresented Ludlow's motives for opposing the Royalist cause. Nor has...
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Friday Book: The resurrection of Oliver Cromwell Roundhead Reputations: the English civil wars and the passions of posterity by Blair Worden (Allen Lane, pounds 20)
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/30/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...religion out of the memoirs of a legendary Puritan, Edmund Ludlow. He follows the rise and fall in the posthumous fame...a technical inquiry into how the Whigs tampered with Ludlow's memoirs to disguise his Puritan fundamentalism...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Charlie's avenging angels.(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 11/14/2005; 700+ words
; ...1662, while John Lisle was murdered by Royalists in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1664. The last of the regicides, Edmund Ludlow, died in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1692. Charles I's executioner has never been identified. John Lindley, The...
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Alan Houston and Steve Pincus, eds. A Nation Transformed: England after the Restoration.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...interpretation, but against such developments as the Society for the Reformation of Manners and the heavy-handed purging of Edmund Ludlow's "A Voyce from the Watch Tower" one must consider the revival of the Antinomian controversy, the continued debate...
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Edmund Ludlow
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Edmund Ludlow 1617?-1692, English parliamentarian and regicide. He commanded a regiment of cavalry in the English civil war and served on...
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Ludlow, Edmund
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Ludlow, Edmund ( c. 1617–92). Ludlow was one of a group of austere republicans that included Vane and Haselrig . His father Sir Henry Ludlow, a Wiltshire landowner, represented the county in the Long...
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Shuter, Jane (Margaret) 1955- (Margaret Hudson)
Book article from: Something About the Author
...series, Heinemann (Oxford, England). "HISTORY EYEWITNESS," FIRST SERIES; EDITOR AND NOTE WRITER Edmund Ludlow, Edmund Ludlow and the English Civil War, Heinemann (Oxford, England), 1994. Helen Maria Williams, Helen Williams and...
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regicides
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...William Goffe , John Dixwell, and Edward Whalley went to New England; several went to Germany and Holland; and Edmund Ludlow and four others went to Switzerland. Some were able to convince Charles II that they had had little to do with his...
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York, Richard Plantagenet, duke of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...through Lionel, duke of Clarence, and Edmund, duke of York), he inherited his dukedom...England and Wales, from his maternal uncle Edmund, earl of March, in 1425. Previously...prospective battle against a royal army near Ludlow, Shropshire. Despite his attainder for...
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