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Battle of Formigny
Formigny, battle of, 1450. By 1450 Henry VI, beset by disaffection at home, was hard-pressed to defend his French territories. A relief expedition under Sir Thomas Kyriel and Sir Matthew Gough was blocked by the comte de Clermont in Normandy on 15 April and badly defeated. The French use of... Read more |
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Benito Juarez
Benito Juárez Benito Juárez (1806-1872) was a Mexican statesman and resistance leader against the French. After defeating the Austrian would-be emperor Maximilian, Juárez instituted numerous liberal reforms as president. By 1850 Mexico seemed on the verge of total collapse.... Read more |
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Savage
Savage, a long‐established family which came to Ulster with John de Courcy and received large estates around Coleraine in the early 13th century. When the de Burgo (see Burke (de Burgh)) earldom collapsed a century later, Robert Savage was made seneschal of Ulster and later rewarded with... Read more |
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pneumothorax
pneumothorax , collapse of a lung with escape of air into the pleural cavity between the lung and the chest wall. The cause may be traumatic (e.g., gunshot or stab wound), spontaneous (rupture due to disease or localized weakness of the lung lining), or environmental (extreme change in atmospheric... Read more |
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revolutions of 1848
revolutions of 1848 in European history. The February Revolution in France gave impetus to a series of revolutionary explosions in Western and Central Europe. However the new French Republic did not support these movements. The stage was set when the unrest caused by the economic effects of... Read more |
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Battle of Oudenarde
Oudenarde, battle of, 1708. As French forces under the duke of Burgundy and Marshal Vendôme laid siege to Oudenarde, the duke of Marlborough marched against them at the head of some 78,000 English, Dutch, and German troops. The French offered battle on 11 July, but were badly deployed. Allied... Read more |
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Guatemala sinkhole
sinkholes Sinkholes (French, dolines) are topographically closed depressions created by removal of materials downwards through their floors. Loss downwards differentiates them from other types of closed depressions, such as impact craters or deflation hollows that form when material is carried out... Read more |
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Sinkholes
sinkholes Sinkholes (French, dolines) are topographically closed depressions created by removal of materials downwards through their floors. Loss downwards differentiates them from other types of closed depressions, such as impact craters or deflation hollows that form when material is carried out... Read more |
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Singularity
Singularity Singularities occur at the center of black holes. Because the General Theory of Relativity is a theory of space-time as well as of gravity, the consequences of the unbounded energy densities predicted by that theory at the end of gravitational collapse and at the start of the... Read more |
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Burke, Edmund
Burke, Edmund (1729–97), educated...s resignation in 1783. Burke opened the case for the impeachment...a Noble Lord (1796). Burke's political life was devoted to five...Philosophical Enquiry into the; Vindication of a Natural Society, A... |
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Wollstonecraft, Mary
...William GODWIN. In 1790 she published A Vindication of the Rights of Man in reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Her best-known work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), defied... |
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Burke & political liberty. (The survival of culture: VII).(Edmund Burke)(Column)
...virtuousness. How well Edmund Burke understood this, two...questionable connections, Burke only added to them by...Jane Nugent. He wrote A Vindication of Natural Morality and...that he knew so much. Burke always seemed to know... |
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Don't ask the people; "Not what they want but what is good for them." -...
...issue of postal reforms by calling a general elections at short notice, and eventually won by a landslide and vindication. As Edmund Burke would observe, "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." You... |
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Shaftesbury, Burke, and Wollstonecraft: permutations on the sublime and the...
...Perhaps no other aspect of Edmund Burke's thought has been so subject...In her criticism in the Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) of Burke's defense of Marie Antoinette...hedonism. (1) The details of Burke's notion of female beauty... |
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Shaftesbury, Burke, and Wollstonecraft: Permutations on the Sublime and the...
...Perhaps no other aspect of Edmund Burke's thought has been so subject...In her criticism in the Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) of Burke's defense of Marie Antoinette...hedonism.1 The details of Burke's notion of female beauty... |
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EXCERPT FROM GRAND PURSUIT, BY SYLVIA NASAR.(Excerpt)
...Mankind drudge through Life. Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society, 17562 The...absolute and unquestioned." Edmund Burke, the philosopher, railed at...French or German counterpart, and Burke could assure his English ... |
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Mary Wollstonecraft: enlightenment feminist.(Humanist Profile)(Biography)
...Mary Wollstonecraft in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792...British Member of Parliament Edmund Burke. Her A Vindication of the Rights of Man thus...immediately followed with A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, considered... |
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Modern British Utopias, 1700-1850.
...Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins (1751), Edmund Burke's A Vindication of Natural Society (2nd edn., 1757), to Benjamin...feminist essays such as Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The former inspired... |
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Vindication bittersweet for ex-suspect.(News)
...been in hell for four years," said Edmund F. Burke, the Walpole man, now 51, who...still thinks I'm a murderer." Burke was a 47-year-old unemployed...in jail for another murder, gave Burke reason to scoff at mistaken investigators... |
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Jury awards $400G to man wrongly accused in murder.(News)
...for a gruesome 1998 murder, Edmund F. Burke of Walpole received vindication and a $400,000 verdict...Stephen McDonald violated Burke's constitutional rights...death of my infirm mother," Burke, 56, said last night... |
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Walpole man freed, but burden lingers
...days behind bars, Edmund Francis Burke walked out of the...s decision was vindication for Burke, said...style home clean. Burke started taking in...was full of cats. Burke said several cats...Walpole. - Dec. 10: ... |
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