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  • Thumbnail for Earl of Carlisle
    Earl of Carlisle is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England. The first creation came in 1322, when Andrew Harclay, 1st Baron...
    18 KB (1,573 words) - 21:25, 27 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Languages of Iceland
    Iceland has been a very isolated and linguistically homogeneous island historically, but has nevertheless been home to several languages. Gaelic was the...
    5 KB (359 words) - 06:21, 9 May 2023
  • Baron Kindersley, of West Hoathly in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1941 for the businessman...
    2 KB (171 words) - 02:50, 2 October 2022
  • Baron Ironside, of Archangel and of Ironside in the County of Aberdeen, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1941 for Field...
    2 KB (188 words) - 05:18, 1 July 2022
  • Thumbnail for Baron Inverforth
    Baron Inverforth, of Southgate in the County of Middlesex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1919 for the Scottish shipping...
    3 KB (181 words) - 05:18, 1 July 2022
  • Baron Hothfield, of Hothfield in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1881 for Sir Henry Tufton, 2nd...
    4 KB (563 words) - 15:21, 1 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Baron Harris
    Baron Harris, of Seringapatam and Mysore in the East Indies and of Belmont in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The...
    11 KB (645 words) - 20:59, 15 June 2023
  • Baron Layton, of Danehill in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1947 for Sir Walter Layton, a prominent...
    2 KB (157 words) - 05:19, 1 July 2022
  • Thumbnail for Baron Merthyr
    Baron Merthyr, of Senghenydd in the County of Glamorgan, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1911 for the Welsh coal mining...
    4 KB (436 words) - 22:16, 29 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for River Yealm
    The Yealm is a river in Devon in England that rises 430 m (1,410 ft) above sea level on the Stall Moor mires of south Dartmoor and travels 12 miles (19 km)...
    5 KB (412 words) - 07:48, 20 April 2022
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    Rudheath is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, in the north west of...
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  • Thumbnail for Edward Martyn
    Edward Martyn (30 January 1859 – 5 December 1923) was an Irish playwright and early republican political and cultural activist, as the first president...
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  • The position of Under-Secretary of State for War was a British government position, first applied to Evan Nepean (appointed in 1794). In 1801 the offices...
    8 KB (135 words) - 12:50, 15 January 2022
  • Elmrahu is an island belonging to the country of Estonia. The island is located west of the island Külalaid and is just off the coast of the much larger...
    600 bytes (59 words) - 18:20, 31 August 2021
  • Thumbnail for River Avoca
    The Avoca (Irish: Abhainn Abhóca) is a river in County Wicklow, Ireland. It is contained completely within the county. Its length is 35 miles (56.3 km)...
    5 KB (445 words) - 10:33, 19 May 2023
  • 53°35′46″N 1°16′23″W / 53.596°N 1.273°W / 53.596; -1.273 Frickley & South Elmsall Colliery was opened by the Carlton Main Colliery Company Ltd in 1903...
    13 KB (2,052 words) - 00:47, 1 November 2022
  • The Kniksen Award (Norwegian: Kniksenprisen), established in 1990, honors the best players in the Norwegian football premiership. The award is named after...
    30 KB (2,627 words) - 17:02, 8 February 2023
  • The North School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form situated in the town of Ashford, Kent, England. Previously a community school administered...
    4 KB (226 words) - 00:28, 4 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Pennine Blue
    Pennine Blue, later known as First Pennine, was a bus company serving the Tameside area of Greater Manchester, England. It was an independent bus company...
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  • Thumbnail for Ulster Minor Hurling Championship
    The Ulster Hurling Minor Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Ulster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1930 for...
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