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  • Thumbnail for Michaelmas
    The king ordered the sacrifice of a goose every Michaelmas in honour of the saint. The Irish Michaelmas goose was slaughtered and eaten on the day;...
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    the smaller Goosey Fair in Tavistock, Devon, and the even smaller Michaelmas Goose Fayre in Colyford, East Devon. In recent years, there have been more...
    30 KB (3,047 words) - 22:37, 19 July 2024
  • carry the name, the other being the larger Nottingham Goose Fair, and the smaller Michaelmas Goose Fayre in Colyford, also in Devon. The fair, originally...
    10 KB (1,169 words) - 20:56, 21 May 2024
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    The greylag goose or graylag goose (Anser anser) is a species of large goose in the waterfowl family Anatidae and the type species of the genus Anser....
    32 KB (3,475 words) - 17:45, 29 August 2024
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    barnacle goose myth is a widely-reported historical misconception about the breeding habits of the barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) and brant goose (Branta...
    56 KB (8,159 words) - 07:35, 7 August 2024
  • or oatmeal while baking. Goose meat was also used in cawl and Michaelmas Goose, or Gwydd Mihangel, is a recipe where the goose is boiled in water with...
    43 KB (6,274 words) - 14:18, 7 September 2024
  • Germans call this celebration Michaelis or Michaeli, Englishmen call it Michaelmas, Swedes - Mickelsmäss, Danes - Mikkelsdag, Norwegians - Mikkelsmess, Finns...
    9 KB (933 words) - 14:00, 14 September 2023
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    to bring a loaf of bread to the church. 29 September: Michaelmas. Another Quarter Day. Michaelmas celebrated the beginning of autumn, and Michael the Archangel...
    68 KB (9,056 words) - 06:26, 14 August 2024
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    The Church of England has also adopted the 29 September date, known as Michaelmas. The Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches that...
    76 KB (8,747 words) - 19:28, 16 September 2024
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    between Sept. 21 and Nov. 11, 1621, with the most likely time being around Michaelmas (Sept. 29), the traditional time." Seventeenth-century accounts do not...
    132 KB (13,874 words) - 21:33, 5 September 2024
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    Alban's Day (22 June) to commemorate the patron saint of the town; and Michaelmas Day (29 September) a quarter day, the date for the election of town officials...
    37 KB (3,653 words) - 07:05, 27 August 2024
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    non-native or inappropriate plantings such as alder, privet, hawthorn, michaelmas daisy, and in particular the Rugosa rose (Rosa rugosa). It is a suckering...
    15 KB (1,866 words) - 22:53, 30 April 2021
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    Duck as food Goose is traditionally eaten at Michaelmas Michaelmas Geese Archived 20 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Nottingham Goose Fair derived...
    233 KB (26,009 words) - 03:49, 9 September 2024
  • 41056 (Miawaja Island) 613 Michaelmas Island 35°02′39″S 118°02′09″E / 35.04417°S 118.03583°E / -35.04417; 118.03583 (Michaelmas Island) 614 Mictyis Island...
    184 KB (225 words) - 22:32, 12 May 2024
  • place on 8 September (the Nativity of Mary), and they took office on Michaelmas. By the 13th century the bailiffs and coroners were separated, and the...
    109 KB (14,430 words) - 03:44, 11 June 2024
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    of the wall. The council election took place on the Mondays following Michaelmas (29 September). Starting in 1611 all citizens were able to elect the 24...
    60 KB (6,954 words) - 09:53, 5 September 2024
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    & Goose 1992, p. 81. Slater & Goose 1992, p. 375. Slater & Goose 1992, p.103. Slater & Goose 1992, p. 48. Slater & Goose 1992, p. 57. Slater & Goose 1992...
    79 KB (10,039 words) - 18:58, 14 August 2024
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    that of St Mary at East Barnet. It is certain that it had been built by Michaelmas 1276 because a court roll entry refers to ‘an obstruction on the road...
    14 KB (1,661 words) - 19:22, 7 May 2023
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    set up in 2013, the publication in its current guise was established in Michaelmas 2014 as an online-only magazine, with a fortnightly print edition then...
    71 KB (8,081 words) - 22:11, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for St Michael's Church, St Albans
    the Dissolution, this fair was discontinued and replaced with one at Michaelmas on 29 September, possibly in reference to St Michael's church. St Michael's...
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