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Exmouth
Exmouth , town (1991 pop. 28,037), Devon, SW England, at the mouth of the Exe River. It is a port and a popular summer resort. In 1347, Exmouth provided 10 ships for the siege of Calais .... Read more |
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Caerwent
Caerwent. Roman town in Gwent and tribal capital of the Silures (Venta Silurum). Roman occupation in south Wales pivoted around the legionary fortress at Caerleon until the Hadrianic stimulation of ad 121–2. Hadrian clearly considered the area ready for local self-government and formal... Read more |
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Council of Vienne
Council of Vienne 1311-12, 15th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, held at Vienne, France. It was convened by Pope Clement V at the behest of Philip IV of France as a further move in the plan of the French king to destroy the Knights Templars . The council voted to hear the... Read more |
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Magistrate
MAGISTRATE Any individual who has the power of a public civil officer or inferior judicial officer, such as a justice of the peace. The various state judicial systems provide for judicial officers who are often called magistrates, justices of the peace, or police justices. The authority of these... Read more |
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Boundaries (Geography)
BOUNDARIES Natural or artificial separations or divisions between adjoining properties that show their limits. Boundaries are used to establish private and public ownership by determining the exact location of the points at which one piece of land is distinguishable from another. They are also... Read more |
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Sir Patrick Abercrombie
Sir Patrick Abercrombie 1879-1957, British architect and town planner. Professor of civil design at the Univ. of Liverpool from 1915 to 1935 and of town planning at the Univ. of London after 1935, he acted as consultant in the rebuilding and planning of London, Edinburgh, Bath, and other British... Read more |
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Arts Council
Arts Council. An organization established in 1945 and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1946 ‘to preserve and improve standards of performance in the various arts'. It was a successor to the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), a wartime organization that had operated... Read more |
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Passamaquoddy Bay
Passamaquoddy Bay , inlet of the Bay of Fundy, between Maine and New Brunswick, at the mouth of the St. Croix River. Most of it (including Campobello island) is within Canada's border. New Brunswick towns in the vicinity are St. Andrews and St. George; Maine towns are Eastport and Lubec (at the... Read more |
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bombardment of Algiers
Algiers, bombardment of, 1816. On 27 August 1816, Lord Exmouth, in command of nineteen British warships and assisted by a Dutch squadron under Admiral van Capellan, bombarded Algiers for eight hours, destroying much of the town. The Dey then agreed to abolish Christian slavery in his dominions,... Read more |
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