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1List of Acts of Parliament of the Great Britain Parliament, 1740-1759 — This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the years 1740 1759. For acts passed prior to 1707 see List of Acts of Parliament of the English Parliament and List of Acts of Parliament of the Scottish Parliament.For… …
2Assizes of Ariano — The Assizes of Ariano were a series of laws promulgated in the summer of 1140 at Ariano, near Benevento in the Mezzogiorno, by Roger II of Sicily. Having recently pacified the peninsula, constantly in revolt, he had decided to make a move to more …
3Great Train Robbery (1963) — The Great Train Robbery is the name given to a £2.6 million train robbery committed on 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.[1] The bulk of the stolen money was not recovered. It was probably… …
4Assizes — The Courts of Assize, or Assizes, were periodic criminal courts held around England and Wales until 1972, when together with the Quarter Sessions they were abolished by the Courts Act 1971 and replaced by a single permanent Crown Court. The… …
5The Seal of Confession — The Law of the Seal of Confession † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Law of the Seal of Confession In the Decretum of the Gratian who compiled the edicts of previous councils and the principles of Church law which he published about 1151,… …
6Assizes of Capua — The Assizes of Capua were the first of two great legislative acts of the reign of Frederick I of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor. They were the first, promulgated at Capua in 1220, before the Constitutions of Melfi of 1231. The Assizes were… …
7The Old Tune — is a free translation of Robert Pinget’s 1960 play La Manivelle ( The Crank ) in which Samuel Beckett transformed Pinget’s Parisians, Toupin and Pommard into Dubliners, Cream and Gorman. Its first radio broadcast was by the BBC on 23rd August… …
8List of Acts of Parliament of the Great Britain Parliament, 1707-1719 — This is an incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the years 1707 1719. For acts passed prior to 1707 see List of Acts of Parliament of the English Parliament and List of Acts of the Scottish Parliament to 1707.For Acts of… …
9The Skirrid Mountain Inn — [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/216735] is a public house at Llanfihangel Crucorney just a few miles north of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. Perhaps the oldest pub in Wales, listed in chronicles from 1100. [cite web url=http://www.eerie… …
10Bloody Assizes — The Bloody Assizes were a series of trials started at Winchester on 25th August 1685 in the aftermath of the Battle of Sedgemoor, which ended the Monmouth Rebellion in England. There were five judges Sir William Montague (Lord Chief Baron of the… …
