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Sir Matthew Hale
Sir Matthew Hale 1609-76, English jurist. He was successively a judge in the Court of Common Pleas (1654), chief baron of the Exchequer (1660), and chief justice of the Court of King's Bench (1671). Because of his lack of partisanship, he served under Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, and Charles II.... Read more |
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Excess profits tax
EXCESS PROFITS TAX EXCESS PROFITS TAX. The Excess Profits Tax, a predominantly wartime fiscal instrument, was designed primarily to capture wartime profits that exceeded normal peacetime profits. In 1863 the Confederate congress and the state of Georgia experimented with excess profits taxes. The... Read more |
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Blackfeet
BLACKFEET BLACKFEET. The Blackfeet live on what remains of their ancestral homeland: one reservation in northern Montana and three reserves in southern Alberta, Canada. This Blackfoot Confederacy is made up of three distinct nations who share a common language and a common history: the Kainai or... Read more |
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Saxon Shore
Saxon Shore. A coastal network of late Roman forts stretching from Brancaster to Portchester intended to repel attacks by Saxons. The name ‘Saxon Shore’ (litoris Saxonici) appears only in the Notitia dignitatum, a document drawn up c. ad 408. The Notitia is an administrative handbook,... Read more |
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Alexander of Hales
Alexander of Hales d. 1245, English scholastic philosopher, called the Unanswerable Doctor by his fellow scholastics. He was a Franciscan and a lecturer at the Univ. of Paris. His Summa universae theologiae was the first systematic exposition of Christian doctrine to introduce Aristotle as a... Read more |
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Hale Woodruff
Hale Woodruff 1900–1980 Painter, muralist, art educator |
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POWERING UP WITH SOYBEANS; AURORA SEPTUAGENARIAN TAKES WEIGHTLIFTING...
...Owen Van Buskirk, 73, hoisted 320 pounds up to his waist, to win first place in a power...said. At 6 feet, 181 pounds, Van Buskirk cuts a striking figure. He's always been physically...soybeans, and my lifting weight went right up. I wouldn't even be contending seriously... |
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Book Review : The Paper Garden : Septuagenarian in full bloom
...as the British Museum labels the creator of the 985 paper-cut botanicals so accurate that botanists still refer to them, which...a poetic meditation on one woman's experiences that offers up inspiration for others. Ageing, sexuality, friendship, family... |
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And theyre just warming up; Standing room only: Fifteen thousand gather...
...outrage and details about blood pressure medication. They got up at the crack of dawn to flash their travel passes on trains...scoffed 78-year-old Marie Lynch from Glasnevin in Dublin. Septuagenarian members of Longford Active Retirement Group held tongue-in... |
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DOUG WILL NOT GIVE UP VILLA; ...and Gregory's on his way - Doc.(FOOTBALL)
...his position was never in jeopardy. The septuagenarian businessman's defiant decision not to...s devotion and committment. If you cut his wrists I'm absolutely certain claret...condemned for that.' Docherty has never cut off his links or friendship with Ellis... |
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GET UP, STAND-UP A FIRST TIME COMIC FACES THE MIKE
...course catalog: Stand-up comedy. I had always...couldn't make the first cut. "Being funny is tough...until you've heard a septuagenarian do feminine hygiene jokes...inflections, punching up lines and loosening up as we stand in front of... |
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Saddle-up for the Southern Andes
...track." Leaving Cocham6, the trail cuts through thick alerce forests and skirts...Ethel Place lived from 1901 to 1905. Septuagenarian Aladin Sepulveda, who was born at the...Cochamo. The butchered beef was sailed up coast to hungry carnivores in Valparaiso... |
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Revving up the retirement years.(Daily Break)
...shrank her but never cut her down to size - while speaking up for America's fastest...the not-yet-senile septuagenarians who are making old age...evidence that hooking up has replaced - or at...sometimes are able to show up around the ... |
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'Up' has movie director feeling on top of the world
...returning this week with "Up." It's a comedy-adventure about a septuagenarian, Carl Fredricksen (voiced...you just can't make up, and those things make...we really had our work cut out for us. "Once we...surprising thing about "Up" is that ... |
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Football: Give up? Not while there are battles to be fought and trophies to...
...Byline: FRANK MALLEY IN a cut-throat world where some...excused for putting his feet up and savouring the rewards...yet -- even becoming the septuagenarian king of Old Trafford. Why should he give it up? Why should he bequeath the... |
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Heseltine is lined up for comeback in Cameron government.(News)
...Lords source said. 'He may be 76 but he still enjoys the cut and thrust of debate in forums such as BBC TV's Question...month, as if to emphasise his continued usefulness, the septuagenarian said that Britain had become an 'ageist' society that... |