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a division of the United Kingdom
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an English ball game similar to baseball
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any of various English folk dances performed by dancers in costume
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(law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him
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a battle in northern France in which English longbowmen under Henry V decisively defeated a much larger French army in 1415
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a battle in the Seven Years' War (1759) in which the English forces and their allies defeated the French
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a battle (1898) in which an English and Egyptian army under Kitchener defeated the Sudanese
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struggle for the English throne (1455-1485) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the Tudor monarch Henry VII
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an English breed of large domestic fowl having five toes (the hind toe doubled)
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English breed of compact domestic fowl; raised primarily to crossbreed to produce roasters
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English breed of large chickens with white skin
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crab of the English coasts
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a toy English spaniel with a black-and-tan coat; named after Charles II who popularized it
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an English breed slightly larger than the American foxhounds originally used to hunt in packs
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English breed of strong stocky dog having a broad skull and smooth coat
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English breed of small terrier with a straight wiry grizzled coat and dropped ears
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English breed of small short-legged terrier with a straight wiry red or grey or black-and-tan coat and erect ears
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an English breed having a shiny black or liver-colored coat; retrieves game from land or water
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an English breed having a tightly curled black or liver-colored coat; retrieves game from land or water
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an English breed having a long silky golden coat
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an English breed having a plumed tail and a soft silky coat that is chiefly white
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an English breed with short legs and a golden liver-colored coat
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a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares
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red dual-purpose cattle of English origin
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English breed of short-horned cattle
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hardy English breed of dairy cattle raised extensively in United States
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a dungeon (20 feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as 146 English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula; the next morning only 23 were still alive
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of or relating to or characteristic of the English city of Manchester or its residents
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of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language
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a sleeveless tunic worn by English girls as part of a school uniform
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a brand of fine English porcelain
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the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice
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an excessive enthusiasm for all things English
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(chemistry) law formulated by the English chemist William Henry; the amount of a gas that will be absorbed by water increases as the gas pressure increases
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the principles of a body of 19th century English reformers who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people
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any of several short English words (often having 4 letters) generally regarded as obscene or offensive
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a title that Leo X bestowed on Henry VIII and later withdrew; parliament restored the title and it has been used by English sovereigns ever since
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English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and third
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the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215
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a former English law requiring mobs to disperse after a magistrate reads the law to them
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a wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroad
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the final match of any cup competition (such as the annual final of the English soccer competition at Wembley)
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English blue cheese
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a mild yellow English cheese with a crumbly texture
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the academic department responsible for teaching English and American literature
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a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery
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English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it
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an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament
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an English parliamentary constituency with few electors
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a system of hills in Britain that extend from the Scottish border in the north to the Trent River in the south; forms the watershed for English rivers
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the English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded
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a southeastern part of Greater London that is the site of the English national soccer stadium
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a city in central England; 2nd largest English city and an important industrial and transportation center
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a Saxon kingdom in southwestern England that became the most powerful English kingdom by the 10th century
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a town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England; in 1347 it was captured by the English king Edward III after a long siege and remained in English hands until it was recaptured by the French king Henry II in 1558
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a former village on the James River in Virginia to the north of Norfolk; site of the first permanent English settlement in America in 1607
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a mischievous sprite of English folklore
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a fictional English admiral during the Napoleonic Wars in novels written by C. S. Forester
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a person of Anglo-Saxon (especially British) descent whose native tongue is English and whose culture is strongly influenced by English culture as in WASP for `White Anglo-Saxon Protestant'
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a person of English citizenship born or living in India
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a man of English descent
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an admirer of England and things English
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a person who hates England and everything English
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used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr'
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an English recruit (who wore a uniform that was black and tan) serving in the Irish constabulary to suppress the Sinn Fein rebellion of 1919 to 1921
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a citizen of an English borough
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a 19th century English reformer who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people
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a medieval English villein
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an officer of the English peerage who organizes royal processions and other ceremonies
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someone who teaches English
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a title of respect for a member of the English gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name
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a medieval English archer who used a longbow
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one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment
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an English noblewoman
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a term of address for an English lord
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used as a French courtesy title; equivalent to English `Mr'
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a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship
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legendary English outlaw of the 12th century; said to have robbed the rich to help the poor
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the hero of Daniel Defoe's novel about a shipwrecked English sailor who survives on a small tropical island
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a Portuguese title of respect; equivalent to English `Mr'
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an English barrister of the highest rank
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an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English `sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name)
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an English country landowner
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an imaginary hero of English folklore who was no taller than his father's thumb
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English physiologist who conducted research into the function of neurons; 1st baron of Cambridge (1889-1997)
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English physicist remembered for his studies of the ionosphere (1892-1966)
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English poet and literary critic (1822-1888)
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10825718-n:
United States tennis player who was the first Black to win United States and English singles championships (1943-1993)
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10829293-n:
English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle-class families (1775-1817)
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English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
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English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)
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English lexicographer who was the first to treat etymology consistently; his work was used as a reference by Samuel Johnson (died in 1742)
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English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1867-1947)
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English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1848-1930)
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10833425-n:
English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)
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English runner who in 1954 became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes (born in 1929)
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10838997-n:
English mathematician for whom Bayes' theorem is named (1702-1761)
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English dramatist who collaborated with John Fletcher (1584-1616)
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10840769-n:
(Roman Catholic Church) English monk and scholar (672-735)
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10841241-n:
English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956)
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10842376-n:
English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961)
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English author (born in France) remembered especially for his verse for children (1870-1953)
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English philosopher and jurist; founder of utilitarianism (1748-1831)
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English mathematician; creator of Boolean algebra (1815-1864)
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English editor who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of the works of Shakespeare (1754-1825)
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10864635-n:
major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976)
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10865567-n:
English novelist; oldest of three Bronte sisters (1816-1855)
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10865700-n:
English novelist; one of three Bronte sisters (1818-1848)
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English novelist; youngest of three Bronte sisters (1820-1849)
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English lyric poet (1887-1915)
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English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)
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English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)
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English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889)
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king of Scotland from 1306 to 1329; defeated the English army under Edward II at Bannockburn and gained recognition of Scottish independence (1274-1329)
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English dandy who was a fashion leader during the Regency (1778-1840)
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United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000)
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English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688)
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English actor who was the first to play the leading role in several of Shakespeare's tragedies (1567-1619)
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English writer of satirical novels (1917-1993)
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English psychologist whose studies of twins were later said to have used fabricated data (1883-1971)
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English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890)
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English poet (1612-1680)
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English novelist who described a fictitious land he called Erewhon (1835-1902)
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English architect who designed many churches (1814-1900)
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English organist and composer of church music; master of 16th century polyphony; was granted a monopoly in music printing with Thomas Tallis (1543-1623)
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10877253-n:
English romantic poet notorious for his rebellious and unconventional lifestyle (1788-1824)
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Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498)
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son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557)
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English writer born in Germany (1905-1994)
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English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
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English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823)
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English nurse who remained in Brussels after the German occupation in order to help Allied prisoners escape; was caught and executed by the Germans (1865-1915)
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English printer who in 1474 printed the first book in English (1422-1491)
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English architect (1723-1796)
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English comedian and film maker; portrayed a downtrodden little man in baggy pants and bowler hat (1889-1977)
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the eldest son of Elizabeth II and heir to the English throne (born in 1948)
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King of France who began his reign with most of northern France under English control; after the intervention of Jeanne d'Arc the French were able to defeat the English and end the Hundred Years' War (1403-1461)
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English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)
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suave and witty English statesman remembered mostly for letters to his son (1694-1773)
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10895274-n:
conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion; in addition to volumes of criticism and polemics he wrote detective novels featuring Father Brown (1874-1936)
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prolific English writer of detective stories (1890-1976)
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English general considered one of the greatest generals in history (1650-1722)
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English romantic poet (1772-1834)
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English writer noted for early detective novels (1824-1889)
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10907103-n:
English playwright remembered for his comedies (1670-1729)
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10907647-n:
English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924)
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English landscape painter (1776-1837)
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English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
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English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973)
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English poet who wrote hymns and poetry about nature (1731-1800)
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English surgeon who discovered Cowper's gland (1666-1709)
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English lexicographer who was a joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1872-1966)
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English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
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English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)
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English chemist and physicist; discovered thallium; invented the radiometer and studied cathode rays (1832-1919)
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English general; son of George II; fought unsuccessfully in the battle of Fontenoy (1721-1765)
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English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799)
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English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844)
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English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)
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English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)
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English navigator who explored the Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage (1550-1605)
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English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731)
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English poet remembered for his verse for children (1873-1956)
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English composer of orchestral works (1862-1934)
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English writer who described the psychological effects of addiction to opium (1785-1859)
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English aristocrat who was the first wife of Prince Charles; her death in an automobile accident in Paris produced intense national mourning (1961-1997)
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English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)
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English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984)
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English engineer who developed a method of preserving food by sterilizing it with heat and sealing it inside a steel container--the first tin can (1768-1855)
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English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631)
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English lutenist and composer of songs for the lute (1563-1626)
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English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
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English impresario who brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and produced many of their operettas in London (1844-1901)
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English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596)
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English writer and illustrator; grandfather of Daphne du Maurier (1834-1896)
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English writer of melodramatic novels (1907-1989)
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English writer of Irish descent who spent much of his life in Mediterranean regions (1912-1990)
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English astronomer remembered for his popular elucidation of relativity theory (1882-1944)
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Anglo-Saxon king of Kent who was converted to Christianity by Saint Augustine; codified English law (552-616)
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the English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867)
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English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606)
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English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754)
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English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)
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English poet remembered primarily for his free translation of the poetry of Omar Khayyam (1809-1883)
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prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625)
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English lexicographer remembered for his Italian and English dictionary (1553-1625)
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English dancer who danced with Rudolf Nureyev (born in 1919)
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English writer and editor (1873-1939)
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English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966)
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English lexicographer who wrote a well-known book on English usage (1858-1933)
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English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691)
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English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806)
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English social anthropologist noted for studies of primitive religion and magic (1854-1941)
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English explorer who led an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage to the orient; served under Drake and helped defeat the Spanish Armada (1535-1594)
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English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)
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English painter and art critic (1866-1934)
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English philologist who first proposed the Oxford English Dictionary (1825-1910)
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English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788)
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English novelist (1867-1933)
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English actor and theater manager who was the foremost Shakespearean actor of his day (1717-1779)
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English writer who is remembered for her biography of Charlotte Bronte (1810-1865)
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English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)
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English actor of Shakespearean roles who was also noted for appearances in films (1904-2000)
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English navigator who in 1583 established in Newfoundland the first English colony in North America (1539-1583)
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English court physician noted for his studies of terrestrial magnetism (1540-1603)
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English novelist (1911-1993)
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English zoologist noted for her studies of chimpanzees in the wild (born in 1934)
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English writer (born in Scotland) of children's stories (1859-1932)
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United States composer (born in Australia) who lived in London and collected English folk songs (1882-1961)
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English actor and dramatist and critic and director noted for his productions of Shakespearean plays (1877-1946)
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English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985)
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English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
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English novelist and Catholic (1904-1991)
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English financier (1519-1579)
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English stage and screen actor noted for versatility (1914-2000)
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English comedienne and mistress of Charles II (1650-1687)
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English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943)
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English astronomer who used Newton's laws of motion to predict the period of a comet (1656-1742)
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English beauty who was the mistress of Admiral Nelson (1765-1815)
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English novelist and poet (1840-1928)
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English inventor of the spinning jenny (1720-1778)
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English rock star; lead guitarist of the Beatles (1943-2001)
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English actor on stage and in films (1908-1990)
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English merchant who took over a shop in London that was expanded by his son into a prestigious department store (1800-1885)
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English merchant who expanded his father's shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905)
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English philosopher who introduced the theory of the association of ideas (1705-1757)
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English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657)
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English theoretical physicist (born in 1942)
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English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595)
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English biochemist who was a pioneer in research on carbohydrates; when he synthesized vitamin C he became the first person to synthesize a vitamin artificially (1883-1950)
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English economist (born in Austria) noted for work on the optimum allocation of resources (1899-1992)
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English essayist and literary critic (1778-1830)
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English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925)
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English actor who edited the first folio of Shakespeare's plays (1556-1630)
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English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)
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English lyric poet (1591-1674)
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English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822)
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English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)
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English pianist (1890-1965)
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risque English comedian (1925-1992)
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English film director noted for his skill in creating suspense (1899-1980)
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English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings (1588-1679)
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notable English cricketer (1882-1963)
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English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998)
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English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)
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English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866)
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English artist noted for a series of engravings that satirized the affectations of his time (1697-1764)
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German painter and engraver noted for his portraits; he was commissioned by Henry VIII to provide portraits of the English king's prospective brides (1497-1543)
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English geologist and supporter of the theory of continental drift (1890-1965)
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English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703)
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English theologian (1554-1600)
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English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947)
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English poet (1844-1889)
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Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC)
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English poet (1859-1936)
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English actor of stage and screen (1893-1943)
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English writer on card games (1672-1769)
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an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001)
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English navigator who discovered the Hudson River; in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611)
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English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922)
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English astronomer who pioneered spectroscopic analysis in astronomy and who discovered the red shift (1824-1910)
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English poet (born in 1930)
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English cricketer (1916-1990)
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English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895)
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English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963)
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English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)
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English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954)
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English film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936)
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an unidentified English murderer in the 19th century
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English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943)
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English rock star (born in 1943)
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French heroine and military leader inspired by religious visions to organize French resistance to the English and to have Charles VII crowned king; she was later tried for heresy and burned at the stake (1412-1431)
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English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823)
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English economist and logician who contributed to the development of the theory of marginal utility (1835-1882)
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English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784)
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English phonetician (1881-1967)
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one of the first great English architects and a theater designer (1573-1652)
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English dramatist and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (1572-1637)
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English physicist who established the mechanical theory of heat and discovered the first law of thermodynamics (1818-1889)
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English classical scholar noted for his translations of Plato and Aristotle (1817-1893)
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English actor noted for his portrayals of Shakespeare's great tragic characters (1789-1833)
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English clergyman who (with John Henry Newman and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement (1792-1866)
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English biologist noted for studies of the molecular structure of blood components (born in 1917)
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English economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946)
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English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936)
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English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981)
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English dramatist (1558-1594)
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English essayist (1775-1834)
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English composer and conductor (1905-1951)
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Australian tennis player who in 1962 was the second man to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles titles in the same year; in 1969 he repeated this feat (born in 1938)
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English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930)
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English actress (1898-1952)
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English portrait painter remembered for the series of portraits of the leaders of the alliance against Napoleon (1769-1830)
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English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
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English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
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English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but resigned under political pressure (born in 1944)
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English writer of novels of espionage (born in 1931)
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English film actress (1913-1967)
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English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980)
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English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919)
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English critic and novelist; author of theological works and of books for children (1898-1963)
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English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912)
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English composer of many successful musicals (some in collaboration with Sir Tim Rice) (born in 1948)
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English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
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English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)
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English poet (1618-1857)
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English astronomer who pioneered radio astronomy (born in 1913)
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English novelist (1909-1957)
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English painter (1887-1976)
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English architect who planned the city of New Delhi (1869-1944)
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English writer noted for his elaborate style (1554-1606)
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English writer of historical romances (1803-1873)
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English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859)
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English historian noted for his works on the history of English law (1850-1906)
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English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812)
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English writer who published a translation of romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471)
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an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)
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English geologist remembered as the first person to recognize that dinosaurs were reptiles (1790-1852)
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English ballet dancer (born in 1910)
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English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)
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English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression; was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl (1564-1593)
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English playwright (1575-1634)
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English poet (1621-1678)
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queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567; as a Catholic she was forced to abdicate in favor of her son and fled to England where she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I; when Catholic supporters plotted to put her on the English throne she was tried and executed for sedition (1542-1587)
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English poet (1878-1967)
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English writer (1865-1948)
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English film actor (1909-1984)
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English writer (born in France) of novels and short stories (1874-1965)
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English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916)
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English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)
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English economist noted for his studies of international trade and finance (1907-1995)
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English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
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English writer of stories for children (1882-1956)
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English poet; remembered primarily as the author of an epic poem describing humanity's fall from grace (1608-1674)
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English aeronautical engineer (1895-1937)
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English writer of comic novels (1904-1973)
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an English nobleman who led the baronial rebellion against Henry III (1208-1265)
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English general during World War II; won victories over Rommel in North Africa and led British ground forces in the invasion of Normandy (1887-1976)
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English philosopher (1873-1958)
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English actor and comedian who appeared on television and in films (born in 1935)
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English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state
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English poet and craftsman (1834-1896)
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English nobleman who deposed Edward II and was executed by Edward III (1287-1330)
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English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805)
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English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890)
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English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)
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English diplomat and author (1886-1968)
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English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910)
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English chemist (1897-1978)
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English poet (1880-1958)
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English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705)
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English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)
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English psychologist who collaborated with I. A. Richards in designing Basic English (1889-1957)
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English actor best know for his Shakespearean roles (1907-1989)
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English playwright (1929-1994)
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English comparative anatomist and paleontologist who was an opponent of Darwinism (1804-1892)
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English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)
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English pathologist who discovered the cause of trichinosis (1814-1899)
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English poet (1824-1897)
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English surgeon (1755-1824)
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11225469-n:
Apostle and patron saint of Ireland; an English missionary to Ireland in the 5th century
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English architect (1801-1865)
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English diarist whose diary contained detailed descriptions of 17th century disasters in England (1633-1703)
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English soldier killed in a rebellion against Henry IV (1364-1403)
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English biochemist (born in Austria); studied the molecular structure of blood (1914-2002)
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English dramatist whose plays are characterized by silences and the use of inaction (born in 1930)
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English educator who invented a system of phonetic shorthand (1813-1897)
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English statesman who brought the Seven Years' War to an end (1708-1778)
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English statesman and son of Pitt the Elder (1759-1806)
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English poet and satirist (1688-1744)
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English physicist who discovered the pion (the first known meson) which is a subatomic particle involved in holding the nucleus together (1903-1969)
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English chemist who isolated many gases and discovered oxygen (independently of Scheele) (1733-1804)
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English architect who played a prominent role in the 19th century revival of Gothic architecture (1812-1852)
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English organist at Westminster Abbey and composer of many theatrical pieces (1659-1695)
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11248997-n:
English theologian who (with John Henry Newman and John Keble) founded the Oxford movement (1800-1882)
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11250833-n:
American patriot who presented the colonists' grievances to the English king (1744-1775)
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English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618)
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English physicist who studied the density of gases and discovered argon; made important contributions to acoustic theory (1842-1919)
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English portrait painter and first president of the Royal Academy (1723-1792)
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English economist who argued that the laws of supply and demand should operate in a free market (1772-1823)
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11259777-n:
English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)
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English literary critic who collaborated with C. K. Ogden and contributed to the development of Basic English (1893-1979)
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11266524-n:
English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)
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English statesman who served as prime minister and who opposed the war with the American colonies (1730-1782)
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11269085-n:
English physician who in retirement compiled a well-known thesaurus (1779-1869)
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11271563-n:
English poet and painter who was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelites (1828-1882)
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11273104-n:
prolific Flemish baroque painter; knighted by the English king Charles I (1577-1640)
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English leader (born in Germany) of the Royalist forces during the English Civil War (1619-1682)
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11274812-n:
English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970)
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English film director (born in 1927)
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English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918)
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English writer of detective fiction (1893-1957)
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English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912)
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English comic actor (1925-1980)
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11295196-n:
English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)
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11297032-n:
English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
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11298240-n:
English physiologist who conducted research on reflex action (1857-1952)
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11299212-n:
English writer who settled in Norway after World War II (1899-1960)
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11299501-n:
English actress noted for her performances in Shakespearean roles (1755-1831)
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English poet (1554-1586)
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11302224-n:
English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940)
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English poet (1887-1964)
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English philologist (1835-1912)
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English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631)
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11307082-n:
English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980)
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English chemist whose work on radioactive disintegration led to the discovery of isotopes (1877-1956)
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11309164-n:
English poet and friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge (1774-1843)
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English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered Lake Victoria and named it (1827-1864)
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11310321-n:
English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903)
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11310523-n:
English poet and critic (1909-1995)
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English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599)
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English potter who started a pottery famous for its bone china (1754-1827)
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English colonist in America; leader of the Pilgrims in the early days of the Plymouth Colony (1584-1656)
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English writer (1672-1729)
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English writer (1832-1904)
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11316669-n:
English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848)
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11316970-n:
English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766)
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11320631-n:
English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932)
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English historian noted for his constitutional history of medieval England (1825-1901)
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English poet and courtier (1609-1642)
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11324212-n:
English composer of operettas who collaborated with the librettist William Gilbert (1842-1900)
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11326730-n:
English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)
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an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745)
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English poet (1837-1909)
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English physician (1624-1689)
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English writer (1840-1893)
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English poet (1865-1945)
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English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)
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English organist and composer of church and secular music; was granted a monopoly in music printing with William Byrd (1505-1585)
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11333071-n:
English economist remembered for his studies of the development of capitalism (1880-1962)
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11334003-n:
an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)
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English cartoonist (1820-1914)
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English actress (1847-1928)
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English writer (born in India) (1811-1863)
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11339669-n:
English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814)
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11340146-n:
English physicist who experimented with the conduction of electricity through gases and who discovered the electron and determined its charge and mass (1856-1940)
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11340411-n:
English physicist (son of Joseph John Thomson) who was a co-discoverer of the diffraction of electrons by crystals (1892-1975)
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English actress (1882-1976)
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11347317-n:
English historian who studied the rise and fall of civilizations looking for cyclical patterns (1889-1975)
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11347674-n:
English botanist who was one of the first to collect specimens of plants (1570-1638)
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11348160-n:
English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)
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11348356-n:
English historian who wrote a history of the American revolution and a biography of his uncle Lord Macaulay (1838-1928)
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11348584-n:
English historian and son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan whose works include a social history of England and a biography of Garibaldi (1876-1962)
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11348946-n:
English engineer who built the first railway locomotive (1771-1833)
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English writer of novels (1815-1882)
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11352498-n:
English mathematician who conceived of the Turing machine and broke German codes during World War II (1912-1954)
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11352883-n:
English landscape painter whose treatment of light and color influenced the French impressionists (1775-1851)
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11353412-n:
English highwayman (1706-1739)
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11354333-n:
English translator and Protestant martyr; his translation of the Bible into English (which later formed the basis for the King James Version) aroused ecclesiastical opposition; he left England in 1524 and was burned at the stake in Antwerp as a heretic (1494-1536)
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English architect (1664-1726)
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English navigator remembered for his exploration of the Pacific coast of North America (1757-1798)
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11361585-n:
English composer influenced by folk tunes and music of the Tudor period (1872-1958)
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English logician who introduced Venn diagrams (1834-1923)
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11369676-n:
English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)
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English writer (1925-1994)
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11371443-n:
English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913)
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11371622-n:
English writer noted for his crime novels (1875-1932)
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11372599-n:
English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797)
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11373099-n:
English writer remember for his treatise on fishing (1593-1683)
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English composer (1902-1983)
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11374085-n:
English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920)
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English economist and conservationist (1914-1981)
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English statesman; during the War of the Roses he fought first for the house of York and secured the throne for Edward IV and then changed sides to fight for the house of Lancaster and secured the throne for Henry VI (1428-1471)
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English poet and theologian (1674-1748)
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English author of satirical novels (1903-1966)
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11377851-n:
English sociologist and economist and a central member of the Fabian Society (1859-1947)
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English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943)
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English playwright (1580-1625)
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English potter (1730-1795)
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11381193-n:
prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946)
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11381824-n:
English clergyman and founder of Methodism (1703-1791)
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11381964-n:
English clergyman and brother of John Wesley who wrote many hymns (1707-1788)
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11382112-n:
English painter (born in America) who became the second president of the Royal Academy (1738-1820)
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11383100-n:
English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875)
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11384566-n:
English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell (1861-1947)
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11385442-n:
English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996)
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11387179-n:
English reformer who published attacks on George III and supported the rights of the American colonists (1727-1797)
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11387362-n:
English biochemist who helped discover the structure of DNA (1916-2004)
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11387806-n:
English chemist honored for his research on pollutants in car exhausts (born in 1921)
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11389619-n:
English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 (1603-1683)
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11390170-n:
English philosopher credited with reviving the field of moral philosophy (1929-2003)
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11390549-n:
English physician who was a pioneer in the study of the brain (1621-1675)
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11390692-n:
English geneticist who succeeded in cloning a sheep from a cell from an adult ewe (born in 1944)
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11392210-n:
English writer of novels and short stories (1913-1991)
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11392913-n:
English colonial administrator who traveled to America on the Mayflower and served as the first governor of the Plymouth Colony (1595-1655)
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11394042-n:
English writer known for his humorous novels and stories (1881-1975)
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English chemist and physicist who discovered palladium and rhodium and demonstrated that static and current electricity are the same (1766-1828)
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11395199-n:
English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797)
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11395609-n:
English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)
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11395773-n:
English conductor (1869-1944)
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11396667-n:
English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941)
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11397094-n:
English archaeologist who supervised the excavations at Ur (1880-1960)
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11397657-n:
a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850)
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11398195-n:
English architect who designed more than fifty London churches (1632-1723)
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11399446-n:
English poet who introduced the sonnet form to English literature (1503-1542)
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11399620-n:
English architect (1746-1813)
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11399716-n:
English playwright noted for his humorous and satirical plays (1640-1716)
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11399866-n:
English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384)
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11400230-n:
English prelate and statesman; founded a college at Oxford and Winchester College in Winchester; served as chancellor of England and bishop of Winchester (1324-1404)
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11401617-n:
English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721)
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English poet (1683-1765)
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English writer (1864-1926)
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12173912-n:
plant with terminal racemes of showy white to pink or purple flowers; the English cottage garden hollyhock
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13247228-n:
plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office
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a former English custom by which the youngest son inherited land to the exclusion of his older brothers
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13389763-n:
an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound
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an English coin worth 5 shillings
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an English coin worth half a crown
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an English coin worth half a penny
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13391262-n:
a former English silver coin worth four pennies
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13432085-n:
the act of anglicizing; making English in appearance
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