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... built and lectured at the oratory of the Paraclete ( or Comforter ) which eventually he made a convent , with Heloïse for the abbess . He died under the charge of heresy , 21 April , 1142 , and was buried in the Paraclete , where also ...
... built and lectured at the oratory of the Paraclete ( or Comforter ) which eventually he made a convent , with Heloïse for the abbess . He died under the charge of heresy , 21 April , 1142 , and was buried in the Paraclete , where also ...
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... built on the ruins of Jerusalem by the emperor Adrian , 130 . Æmilia , the name given to the provinces of Parma , Modena , and the Romagna , united to Sardinia in 1860 , and now part of the kingdom of Italy . Eneid , the great Latin ...
... built on the ruins of Jerusalem by the emperor Adrian , 130 . Æmilia , the name given to the provinces of Parma , Modena , and the Romagna , united to Sardinia in 1860 , and now part of the kingdom of Italy . Eneid , the great Latin ...
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... built on the site of the capital of Cassive- launus , taken by Julius Cæsar , 54 B.C. It was retaken , after much slaughter , by Boadicea or Bunduica , queen of the Iceni , A.D. 61 . First battle of St. Albans , when the Lancastrians ...
... built on the site of the capital of Cassive- launus , taken by Julius Cæsar , 54 B.C. It was retaken , after much slaughter , by Boadicea or Bunduica , queen of the Iceni , A.D. 61 . First battle of St. Albans , when the Lancastrians ...
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... built in 1613 ( in gratitude for her escape from an arrow - shot ) , were re- built by the Brewers ' Company .. 1839 Bancroft's almshouses , Mile End , were erected .. 1735 of all those saints and martyrs in whose honor no ALL ALM 27 27.
... built in 1613 ( in gratitude for her escape from an arrow - shot ) , were re- built by the Brewers ' Company .. 1839 Bancroft's almshouses , Mile End , were erected .. 1735 of all those saints and martyrs in whose honor no ALL ALM 27 27.
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... built in 1613 ( in gratitude for her escape from an arrow - shot ) , were re- built by the Brewers ' Company .. 1839 Bancroft's almshouses , Mile End , were erected ......... 1735 Anglo - American Association , to cultivate more cordial ...
... built in 1613 ( in gratitude for her escape from an arrow - shot ) , were re- built by the Brewers ' Company .. 1839 Bancroft's almshouses , Mile End , were erected ......... 1735 Anglo - American Association , to cultivate more cordial ...
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