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    was re-modelled with the Instrument of Government to become something much closer to the old Privy Council advising the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell...
    15 KB (1,026 words) - 00:40, 8 August 2024
  • fictional Kazakhstani journalist who travels through the United States to make a documentary which features real-life interactions with Americans. Much...
    90 KB (8,493 words) - 21:39, 17 November 2024
  • connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect toward someone or something. It is also used to express criticism, hostility, or disregard. Sometimes, a term...
    7 KB (731 words) - 23:26, 8 November 2024
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    the official title of Maharaja and the privy purse (an annual pension) that came with it. The princes adjusted to the new socialist regime; the Rajpipla...
    18 KB (1,733 words) - 10:50, 19 October 2024
  • starting a book from the back, a practice he compares to "travellers entering a palace through the privy". In books, indexes are usually placed near the end...
    26 KB (3,164 words) - 15:13, 22 August 2024
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    appealed to the Privy Council, arguing that Robin Bain was involved in an incestuous relationship with one of his daughters. When this was about to be disclosed...
    43 KB (4,859 words) - 06:54, 18 November 2024
  • Nathan Riggs (category Fictional immigrants to the United States)
    privy to where each character would go. It's hard to hear those outpourings from those who didn't know it was going to end up like this. But it makes...
    8 KB (897 words) - 03:52, 5 November 2024
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    Justin Welby (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
    on the following day it was announced that Welby would be appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, as all archbishops are; the order for...
    109 KB (11,311 words) - 22:17, 18 November 2024
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    Queen Camilla (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
    June 2016" (PDF). Privy Council Office. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2016. "New appointments to the Order of the...
    190 KB (16,130 words) - 22:00, 7 November 2024
  • the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council originating in Canada, and decided in the years 1890 to 1899. From 1867 to 1949, the JCPC was the highest...
    80 KB (391 words) - 03:15, 26 March 2023
  • matters from those member states which have ceased to allow appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC). As of April 2023[update], Barbados...
    126 KB (15,311 words) - 01:22, 23 October 2024
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    up or being privy to the November 1994 robbery and shooting. Vibe alerted the names of the accused. The accusations were significant to the East–West...
    190 KB (17,521 words) - 14:21, 18 November 2024
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    completed work to the prince of Kashgar, was awarded the title Khāṣṣ Ḥājib (خاص حاجب), translating as something like "Privy Chamberlain" or "Privy Councilor"...
    13 KB (1,096 words) - 12:07, 27 October 2024
  • rejected his appeal and increased his non-parole period to 20 years. In 2013, on appeal to the Privy Council in Britain, the convictions were quashed because...
    36 KB (4,371 words) - 06:21, 18 November 2024
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    Edward VIII (category Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada)
    British Privy Council, George VI announced his intention to make his brother the "Duke of Windsor" with the style of Royal Highness. He wanted this to be the...
    101 KB (11,119 words) - 14:47, 18 November 2024
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    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    utility. In a 3–2 ruling in 2003, the Privy Council of the United Kingdom upheld the Belizean government's decision to permit dam construction. In 2004, Kennedy...
    236 KB (22,462 words) - 23:33, 18 November 2024
  • practice is to swear-in governors general as part of a ceremony in the Senate chamber on Parliament Hill. New members of the King's Privy Council recite...
    62 KB (6,417 words) - 18:37, 30 October 2024
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    George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford (category Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber)
    about 27 when he gained a place on the Privy Council in 1529. Cavendish gives this as a maximum age in order to make his tortuous verses more rhythmic (such...
    54 KB (6,496 words) - 20:37, 12 November 2024
  • are less privy to those feelings than they are themselves. Consequently, they overestimate the extent to which their anxiety is obvious to onlookers...
    11 KB (1,387 words) - 10:58, 13 May 2024
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    Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
    was also Keeper of the Signet for Scotland from 1800. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1807,[citation needed] a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1817...
    18 KB (1,291 words) - 20:13, 25 September 2024
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