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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Exeter , city (1991 pop. 88,235) and district, Devon, SW England, on the Exe River. It is the market, transportation, administrative, and distribution center for SW England. Manufacturing predominates, with metal and leather goods, paper, and farm implements as Exeter's chief products. The fort town Isca Dumnoniorum occupied the site in Roman times. Because of its strategic location, Exeter was besieged by the Danes in the 9th and 11th cent., by William the Conqueror in 1068, by Yorkists in the 15th cent., and by religious factions in the middle of the 16th cent. From the 10th to the 18th cent.... Read more

Exeter
Exeter (Roman), Isca Dumnoniorum, was successively fortress of...to have been high. Alan Simon Esmonde Cleary post-Roman Exeter was refounded as a fortified town (burh) by Alfred . It...par excellence ’. The Reformation was unpopular in Exeter, though the city resisted a siege by catholic rebels ... Read more

Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy , at Exeter, N.H.; coeducational; chartered 1781, opened 1783 by John Phillips...coeducational in 1970. Bibliography: See M. R. Williams, Story of Phillips Exeter (1957). Author not available, PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY. , The Columbia... Read more

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	A tournament win for Exe Inn ; Exeter Inn won the Exeter & District League's annual Georgina Gard tournament ; Exeter Inn won the Exeter & District League's annual Georgina Gard tournament Full results : Thoverton Stone 11 Refreshers 2 Thoverton Stone 4 Twinkle Toes 4, Exeter Inn 7 West Exeter Leopards 7 WKD Ladies 0 West Exeter Leopards 2, Bluebirds... Read more
	Mapp plots his way to Exeter title ; Exeter's Ryan Mapp and Julia Norman won the boys' and girls' scratch prizes at the Exeter Junior Open. The event was held on Friday, July 27 and...Trophy as well as a golf bag. Other handicap prizes went to Exeter's junior captain Alex Worthington (handicaps 0-14) while... Read more
	Exeter's Asian Connection It has made a big dent in an old Yankee prep school as the St. Grottlesex circuit seeks to diversify ; EXETER, N.H. -- George Plimpton, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV...think they were someplace else, not the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy. In their time it was an autocratic Yankee school...1), Singapore (1), Taiwan (6), Thailand (2) because of Exeter's long reputation for excellence and a new reputation ... Read more
	SIGHTINGS TO SEE ; WITH ITS HISTORY, UFO REPORTS, AND FAMOUS AUTHOR, TOWN IS WORTH A LOOK CLOSE-UP ON EXETER, N.H. ; EXETER, N.H. DISTANCE FROM BOSTON: 67 miles POPULATION: 14,098 WEBSITES: www.town.exeter.nh.us, www.exeterarea.org ODD FACT: Exeter was a busy port during the 18th century, thanks to the large tidal basin in the Squamscott River... Read more
	Big brother's Belinda helps others on road to fame and fortune ; Exeter's Big Brother contestant Belinda Harris-Reid hopes to help talented hopefuls to progress along the yellow brick road to fame and fortune at the city's up-coming autumn festival. ; Exeter's Big Brother contestant Belinda Harris-Reid hopes to help...people got through to the final round in December. Now Exeter City Council has given Surreal Saloon pounds500 to publicise...last year and I think the very fact that you are in the Exeter Autumn Festival brochure is quite prestigious," she ... Read more
	Exeter blitz city rivals to record a big win at home ; Colts Exeter Chiefs 53 Exeter Saracens 0 THE Chiefs blitzed Exeter rivals Saracens in the first half as they raced into a 48-0 lead on their way to victory. The hosts only managed five more points after the break, but the damage had been done and... Read more
	City on the attack over the idea of a 'super-council' ; Exeter councillors have ridiculed Devon's proposal for a new super- council, saying they would leave thousands of people in the city with little elected representation. ; Exeter councillors have ridiculed Devon's proposal for a new super-counc...create a unitary county while unveiling their own plans for Exeter at a meeting of the council's executive last night. As...would be defined as places where people travel to work in Exeter and use the city for all their leisure ... Read more
	Exeter are impressive but Saints' quality decides it ; Exeter City gave a good account of themselves in their first Carling Cup game since their Football League return, but Southampton's quality eventually told as the Championship side won 3-1 at St James' Park. ; Exeter City gave a good account of themselves in their first Carling...Dean Moxey pulled one back with five minutes left and as Exeter pressed, McGoldrick netted a second with a late penalty...change to the side that manager Paul Tisdale selected for Exeter's Football League return at Darlington on ... Read more
	Exeter focuses on troubling portrait of `guru' ; EXETER, N.H. -- In three short weeks, L. Lane Bateman's privileged world here on the faculty at Phillips Exeter Academy thundered down around him, from the moment Exeter police raided his faculty apartment to reveal what they allege has been the darkest side of... Read more
	Now Devon has the Ex-factor; A huge makeover of Exeter's centre is turning the historic city into the jewel in Devon's crown. Cathy Hawker reports. ; EXETER has seen the largest price rise of any British city over...highest net inward migration of any UK county, and from Exeter, the Roman-built capital, the appeal is easy to see. Twenty...us want to call home. Ten years ago Londoners moved to Exeter because of the fantastic properties they could afford ... Read more

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