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Gowrie conspiracy
Gowrie conspiracy, 1600. James VI of Scotland mistrusted the Gowrie family. The 3rd Lord Ruthven had murdered Rizzio and the 1st earl of Gowrie had held James captive after the Ruthven raid in 1582. On 5 August 1600, while hunting, James was urgently invited by Alexander Ruthven to Gowrie... Read more |
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Thomas Mowbray 1st duke of Norfolk
Thomas Mowbray Norfolk, 1st duke of c.1366-1399, English nobleman. He was created earl of Nottingham in 1383, and in 1385 he was made earl marshal of England for life. He joined Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester , and the other baronial opponents of Richard II in 1387 and was one of the... Read more |
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Dracula
Dracula, a novel by B. Stoker, published 1897, the most famous of all tales of vampirism.The story is told through the diaries of a young solicitor, Jonathan Harker, his fiancée Mina, her friend Lucy Westenra, and Dr John Seward, the superintendent of a large lunatic asylum at Purfleet, in... Read more |
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Saba
Saba In ancient Irish legend, the wife of Finn Mac Cummal and mother of Oisin. Finn captured her in the form of a fawn while hunting, but noticing that his hounds would not hurt her, he gave her shelter. The next morning he found her transformed into a beautiful woman. She told him than an... Read more |
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Lufkin Industries Inc
Lufkin Industries, Inc. 601 South RaguetLufkin, Texas 75904U.S.A.Telephone: (936) 634-2211Fax: (936) 637-5272Web site: http://www.lufkin.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1902Employees: 2,300Sales: $492.2 million (2005)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQTicker Symbol: LUFKNAIC: 333911 Pump and Pumping... Read more |
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smiling
smiling The French neurologist, Duchenne du Boulogne, writing in the nineteenth century, made a fundamental discovery about the nature of smiling, a discovery that was forgotten for a hundred years. Duchenne electrically stimulated different positions on the face of a patient who had no pain... Read more |
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Clive O. Callender
Clive Orville Callender Clive Callender (born 1936) is one of the foremost specialists in organ transplant medicine in the United States. The Howard University Hospital surgeon has focused much of his career on transplant medicine among minority segments of the population, along with the unique... Read more |
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Michael W. Smith
Michael W. Smith Singer, songwriter, keyboardist Called a "true Renaissance [man] of contemporary Christian music" by Billboard, gospel singer Michael W. Smith gained popularity with mainstream audiences as well. His beautiful ballads and dance songs featuring a driving rock beat have,... Read more |
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resurrection
resurrection [Lat.,=rising again], arising again from death to life. The emergence of Jesus from the tomb to live on earth again for 40 days as told in the Gospels has been from the beginning the central fact of Christian experience and a cardinal feature of Christian doctrine (Mat. 28; Mark 16;... Read more |
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Arthur I
Arthur I 1187-1203?, duke of Brittany (1196-1203?), son of Geoffrey, fourth son of Henry II of England and Constance, heiress of Brittany. Arthur, a posthumous child, was proclaimed duke in 1196, and an invasion by his uncle King Richard I of England was repulsed with French aid. Subsequently,... Read more |
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Prostitute deaths 'the work of one man' Driver accused of five murders.(News)
...posed in a "cruciform shape", a jury was told yesterday...Wright, QC, told Ipswich Crown...worked as prostitutes in Ipswich...2006. Their bodies were found...jurors were ... |
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AS IF THEY HAD BEEN CRUCIFIED; IPSWICH MURDER TRIAL 'Strangled prostitutes...
...killed five prostitutes left two...yesterday. The naked corpses of...Peter Wright told a jury in the trial of mass murder accused Steve...deliberately posed in cruciform shape." ... |
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Prostitutes' bodies were left in crucifix pose
...murdered five prostitutes and abandoned...out in the shape of a crucifix...court was told. The first...dumping their naked bodies in...them. He told jurors that...and their bodies were later...Nicholls's ... |
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The night police let stranglings suspect go; Steve Wright: DNA samples...
...the Suffolk murders was stopped...went on to murder threemore...jurors were told. The naked bodies of...huntedfor prostitutes to kill...campaign of murder'. All were...habits. Their naked ... |