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    Scutage was a medieval English tax levied on holders of a knight's fee under the feudal land tenure of knight-service. Under feudalism the king, through...
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    Joseph-Marie, comte Portalis (19 February 1778, Aix-en-Provence – 5 August 1858) was a French diplomat and statesman. He was the son of the jurist Jean-Étienne-Marie...
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    Konx Om Pax: Essays in Light is a publication by British occultist Aleister Crowley, first published in 1907. The title, Konx Om Pax, is a phrase said...
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  • The official flag of the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota, was adopted on December 5, 1994. The flag features green riverbanks (symbolize the life and...
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    Jerónimo (or Gerónimo) de Zurita y Castro or simply Jerónimo (or Gerónimo) de Zurita (1512 – 3 November 1580) was a Spanish historian of the sixteenth...
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  • Joan Zamboni (1933– 7 October 2017) was an American ice dancer who competed with partner Roland Junso. They won the gold medal at the 1956 United States...
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  • The 1961–62 Yugoslav Second League season was the 16th season of the Second Federal League (Serbo-Croatian: Druga savezna liga), the second level association...
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    William Chamberlayne (1619 – 11 July 1679 or 1689) was an English poet. Nothing is known of his history except that he practised as a physician at Shaftesbury...
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    Jean Bertaut (1552 – 8 June 1611), French poet, was born at Caen. He figures with Philippe Desportes in the disdainful couplet of Boileau on Ronsard: "Ce...
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    Karl Ludwig Fernow (19 November 1763 – 4 December 1808) was a German art critic and archaeologist. Fernow was born in Pomerania, the son of a servant in...
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  • Herleif (Latinized as Herleifus) was one of the earliest legendary Danish kings according to Arngrímur Jónsson's Latin summary of the lost Skjöldunga saga...
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  • Albert de Gresle (fl. 1086 - 1094) was a non-resident lord of the manor of Manchester. Various antiquarians believed that the Gresle family originated...
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  • Augustin Alexandre Darthé (10 October 1769 – 27 May 1797) was a French revolutionary. Born in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, he became administrator of the département...
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  • British Library, Add MS 43460 is a theological miscellany and was produced in Italy in the late 8th century. It contains works by St. Augustine, St. Jerome...
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  • Sasha and Zamani are two aspects of time as expressed in some Eastern and Central African cultures.[which?] Sasa are spirits known by someone still alive...
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    The Hohe Schule (meaning: "The High School") in Loosdorf near Melk was a Protestant school open from ca. 1574 until 1627. It was built in 1574 or a few...
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  • The Astrakhan-Caspian Military Flotilla (Russian: Астрахано-Каспийская военная флотилия) was formed by the Bolsheviks in October 1918 for the purpose of...
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    Ōfuka onsen (大深温泉, Ōfuka onsen) is an onsen (hot spring) in Semboku, Akita, Japan. Onsen 39°58′17.5″N 140°49′0.9″E / 39.971528°N 140.816917°E / 39.971528;...
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  • Johan Arvid Gunnar Syrén (16 January 1903, in Sweden – 1985), son to Frans Gustav Syrén and Ida Karolina Gustavsdotter, was a Swedish missionary. In the...
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