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battle of Brunanburh
battle of Brunanburh , AD 937, a victory won by Athelstan , king of the English, over a coalition of Irish, Scots, and Britons (or Welsh) of Strathclyde. The site of the battle is not known. The battle is celebrated in a poem in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Bibliography: See translation by D.... Read more |
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Chaiyaphum
Chaiyaphum, Thailand ‘Site of Victory’ from phum ‘site’ and chai‐ya ‘victory’ to mark the victory of the town's first governor, Pho Khum Lae, over an invading army during the reign of Rama III (1788–1851), King of Siam (1824–51).... Read more |
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Hastings
Hastings city (1991 pop. 74,979) and district, East Sussex, SE England. A resort and residential city, Hastings is backed by cliffs and has a 3-mi (4.8-km) marine esplanade, parks, and bathing beaches. The site was occupied in Roman times. It was made famous by the battle of Hastings, which took... Read more |
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Battle of Fallen Timbers 1794
FALLEN TIMBERS, BATTLE OF The battle of Fallen Timbers (1794) and the Treaty of Greenville (1795) that followed it marked the successful conclusion of a long struggle for control over the Ohio country—the region between Lake Erie and the Ohio River. Since the 1740s, the territory had been... Read more |
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Adwa
Adwa , Aduwa, or Adowa , Ital. Adua, town (1994 pop. 24,519), Tigray region, N Ethiopia. Lying on the highway between Aksum and Adigrat, Adwa is an agricultural trade center. Adwa was the most important commercial center of Tigray in the 19th cent., but declined in the 1870s as a result of... Read more |
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Yad Mordecai
YAD MORDEKHAI Kibbutz that was the site of an important battle in the Arab Read more |
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battle of Buena Vista
battle of Buena Vista military engagement in the Mexican War, fought Feb. 22-23, 1847. The battle site was just S of Saltillo, Coahuila, in Mexico. Gen. Zachary Taylor , disobeying orders from the U.S. government, had advanced here. Gen. Santa Anna, having gathered a Mexican army, made a long... Read more |
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Plains of Abraham
Plains of Abraham fairly level field adjoining the upper part of the city of Quebec, Canada. There, in 1759, the English under Gen. James Wolfe defeated the French under Gen. Louis Montcalm. The battle decided the last of the French and Indian Wars and led to British supremacy in Canada. Part of... Read more |
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Hodges' fight has familiar overtones of states' rights.(Knight Ridder...
...ground in his fight over plutonium...Savannah River Site near Aiken...said they plan to build the...between this fight and the civil...civil rights battles and the current...level nuclear wastes, also ... |
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Second Battle of Bannockburn
...the second Battle of Bannockburn, but a legal fight to help save...Scotland's most famous battlefields...blundering over a failure...block the plans through the...quarry the site for whinstone...area is more ... |
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WHISTLEBLOWER'S FIGHT WINDS DOWN HEARING ORDERED TO END BATTLE BETWEEN RUUD...
...Hanford's most famous whistleblower will...conclude a long legal battle between Casey Ruud...Regional activists plan to show their support...Westinghouse took over the main Hanford...high-level nuclear waste repository project...a nuclear ... |
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Anti-nuke groups to fight Manhattan Project parks
...two other sites where the...calling the plan an expensive...to create sites at Los Alamos...shouldn't waste one cent on...including sites of famous Civil War...Native American battles. There are...bulldozed ... |
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Orders unite in fight to save boyne.(News)
...Republic in a fight to save the...to build a waste incinerator on the site of King William's famous victory over James on July...incinerator plan is also being...taken their Battle of the Boyne...World ... |
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Senate poised to approve giant nuclear waste dump
...biggest nuclear waste dump, 1...A lobbying battle royal over plans to bury 77...Yucca Mountain plan will finally...state already famous as a nuclear...through, plans will get under...the storage ... |
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5 tips for being assertive with your supervisor
...management's plans. From execute...the right fight and understand...value for a fight is your energy...decide if the fight is worthwhile...it's a waste of time to battle a boss who...argument over a minor ... |
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TOUGHER FIGHT ON POLLUTION PROMISED
...0000 TOUGHER FIGHT ON POLLUTION...House in the fight over air pollution...often mired in battles between business...contaminated waste sites, 326,000...a landmark plan to end the...with Campbell ... |
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Head of New Jersey Environmental Agency Promises Tougher Fight on Pollution.
...House in the fight over air pollution...often mired in battles between business...contaminated waste sites, 326,000...a landmark plan to end the...proposed master plan, though the...with Campbell ... |
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BUNKERED! OUT OF BOUNDS: Erosion is taking its toll at the Royal North Devon...
...s top golfers battle it out for the...is engaged in a fight for survival...Northam Burrows, a Site of Special Scientific...an old landfill site near the course and discharge toxic waste into the Taw Torridge...a few years to ... |
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