Thomas Young lived in a pivotal time. The explosion of knowledge that was soon to come made it impossible to be a true polyhistor. |
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Have you ever wondered in which city-state you would have lived in Ancient Greece? |
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He lived like a nomad for a few years after college, never holding a job in one place for very long. |
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He lived by a gentlemen's agreement to ignore what was base or rude. |
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It was a period in American history when most people lived and worked on farms. |
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We lived in an apartment for several years before buying a house. |
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In college, she lived in a house off campus with five housemates. |
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Police discovered the battery to be flat, with evidence that the car had been lived in. |
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The land was settled by dispossessing the native people who lived here. |
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I found it interesting to learn that she had once lived in California. |
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That family has lived in the same house for four generations. |
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She was a United States citizen but lived most of her life abroad. |
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On his return to England, he lived in Stoke Newington, Dalston, Hackney and then Peckham, in a largely impoverished environment. |
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One of their members, Maurice Geoghegan, lived in nearby Silverstone village and was aware that the airfield was deserted. |
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Trina married Paul Gulliver in 1994 after 9 years together and they lived in Southam, but divorced in 2005 after 11 years of marriage. |
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Blake lived in London for most of his life, but wrote much of Milton while living in the village of Felpham in West Sussex. |
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If the first inhabitants of the Faroe Islands were Irish monks, then they must have lived as a very small group of settlers. |
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The Dorset culture population lived primarily from hunting of whales and caribou. |
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From February to May 1940, they lived at Royal Lodge, Windsor, until moving to Windsor Castle, where they lived for most of the next five years. |
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John Napier, inventor of logarithms, was born in Merchiston Tower and lived and died in the city. |
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At the 2001 census, the population was 276,459, while 579,554 people lived in the wider Belfast Metropolitan Area. |
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They usually lived close to and even in the same townlands as the settlers and the land they had farmed previously. |
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Because he was a very powerful man during Emperor Wuzong's era, he could become the King of Shenyang where many Korean people lived in China. |
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He was both the ablest Parliament man, and the ablest manager of a Parliament, that I believe ever lived. |
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During this period, the principal members of the House of Stuart lived in exile in mainland Europe. |
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The Declaration of Independence was followed by the Test Laws, which required all colonists to swear allegiance to the state in which they lived. |
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In their view, the poverty, squalor, and ignorance in which many people lived made it impossible for freedom and individuality to flourish. |
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Having lived in the open land of southwest Minnesota for more than thirty years, I have learned the limits of Minnesota nice. |
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In villages where two or more populations lived together, the inhabitants would often speak each other's language. |
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The widely held assumption at the time was that the war would be short lived. |
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The Republic of Czechoslovakia was home to a substantial minority of Germans, who lived mostly in the Sudetenland. |
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An old, failed actor who lived on his own, he never had friends dropping by, because he was a bedridden inconsiderate miserabilist. |
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Historically most people in the United Kingdom lived either in conjugal extended families or nuclear families. |
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Once upon a time, when dogs barked in rhyme, there was Miz Hattie. Miz Hattie lived all alone in the piney woods. |
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The Shetland Quartet by Ann Cleeves, who previously lived in Fair Isle, is a series of crime novels set around the islands. |
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The Beginning and Do Not Go Gentle are Festivals in the Uplands area of the city where Dylan Thomas was born and lived for 23 years. |
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Dundee has a strong literary heritage, with several authors having been born, lived or studied in the city. |
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Historians confirm that African slaves lived in the region in the early 17th century. |
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He began with pieces by American artists, such as Winslow Homer, Charles Demuth, and Georgia O'Keeffe, who had lived and worked here. |
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He had a Sister, which according to the Mongalian custom lived in the devoted spiritual state. |
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The workers lived at these locations, and at villages scattered around the island. |
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Edo became the de facto capital of Japan even while the emperor lived in Kyoto, the imperial capital. |
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In 1975, government statistics estimated that 1,800,000 children lived in poverty. |
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He lived in that manor the rest of his life, filming scenes from The Shining, Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut there as well. |
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He lived in Aberdeen during the six months of the academic year and spent the summers at Glenlair, which he had inherited from his father. |
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Because of inherent limits in the DNA repair mechanisms, if humans lived long enough, they would all eventually develop cancer. |
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The next day it went down to the village of Crane so that Vivian's family, who lived there, might see it. |
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These individuals lived between 3,500 and 5,500 years ago, after the transition to farming in southwest Europe. |
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In the Patagonian archipelagoes north of Taitao Peninsula lived the Chonos. |
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Similarly, reconciliation and unity are not superficial, but are prayed and lived out. |
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Many of these landlords lived in England and were known as absentee landlords. |
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Landlords in Ireland often used their powers without compunction, and tenants lived in dread of them. |
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In the 1970s Stoppard and his wife Miriam bought Iver Grove in Buckinghamshire and lived there for around 20 years. |
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In 1696, he ran a tile and brick factory in what is now Tilbury in Essex and lived in the parish of Chadwell St Mary. |
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Edhi lived in a humble, ascetic way, even as his charity became a multimillion-pound enterprise. |
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In fact many literary Modernists lived into the 1950s and 1960s, though generally they were no longer producing major works. |
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He returned in 1946 to his villa in France, where he lived, interrupted by frequent and long travels, until his death. |
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As a novelist Greene wove the characters he met and the places where he lived into the fabric of his novels. |
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He lived the last years of his life in Vevey, on Lake Geneva in Switzerland, the same town Charlie Chaplin was living in at this time. |
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As an infant he briefly lived, with his family, at Braziers Park in Oxfordshire. |
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One doesn't really go anywhere by design, you know, you put in for jobs and move about, you know, I've lived in other places. |
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In January 1974 Hull University informed Larkin that they were going to dispose of the building on Pearson Park in which he lived. |
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In 1867, the family came together again and lived in squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place. |
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A statue honours Doyle at Crowborough Cross in Crowborough, where he lived for 23 years. |
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A private Conan Doyle collection is a permanent exhibit at the Portsmouth City Museum, where the author lived and worked as a physician. |
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He had a long correspondence with fellow Scot Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived in Samoa at the time, but the two never met in person. |
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He lived nearby and often walked his Saint Bernard dog Porthos in the park. |
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She was born near Dunoon and had lived in Campbeltown before moving to work in Ayrshire. |
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From 1929 to 1930 MacDiarmid lived in London, and worked for Compton Mackenzie's magazine, Vox. |
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MacDiarmid lived in Montrose for a time where he worked for the local newspaper the Montrose Review. |
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He lived in Tottenham, London, for four years and then rural France for six while he developed his career as a novelist. |
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An only child, Banks lived in North Queensferry until the age of nine, near the naval dockyards in Rosyth where his father was based. |
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She bought a property, 54 Delancey Street, in Camden Town, and in late 1951 Thomas and Caitlin lived in the basement flat. |
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The Thomas family lived on a tiny income and lacked the comforts of modern life, largely through their own choice. |
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Most of her novels and short stories are set in the region where she lived in North Wales. |
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The 1891 census records the Wildes' residence at 16 Tite Street, where he lived with his wife Constance and two sons. |
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During this period they lived on Dorothy's income, supplemented by dividends from stock she had invested in. |
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At Albert Hall Mansions, next to the Albert Hall, where Sargent lived, there is a blue plaque placed in his memory. |
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From 1963 to 1966, the Gibb family lived at 171 Bunnerong Road, Maroubra in Sydney. |
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The family lived at 40 Stansfield Road, near the border of the south London areas of Brixton and Stockwell. |
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He lived in London all his life, retaining his Cockney accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame. |
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He had few close friends except for his father, who lived with him for 30 years and worked as his studio assistant. |
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At Queen Square, the Morris family lived in a flat directly above the Firm's shop. |
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The artist moved to Los Angeles in 1964, returned to London in 1968, and from 1973 to 1975 lived in Paris. |
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In 1978 he rented the canyon house in which he lived when he moved to Los Angeles, and later bought and expanded it to include his studio. |
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During the Second World War, Hodgkin was evacuated with his mother and sister to the USA, where they lived on Long Island, New York. |
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Until 2013, they lived in a house in Chelsea, London, designed by the architect Tony Fretton. |
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The family then moved and lived in an old school house in Jarvis Brook in East Sussex, and Samantha went to Beacon Community College. |
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He lived at the plantation while he waited for funds for his college to arrive. |
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From 1809 onwards Stewart lived mainly at Kinneil House, Bo'ness, which was placed at his disposal by the Duke of Hamilton. |
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Monk writes that Wittgenstein lived and breathed logic, and a temporary lack of inspiration plunged him into despair. |
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From 1936 to 1937, Wittgenstein lived again in Norway, where he worked on the Philosophical Investigations. |
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He had been born at Angolala in an Oromo area and had lived his first twelve years with Shewan Oromos with whom he thus had much in common. |
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Before the 19th century, most workers lived less than an hour's walk from their work. |
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Until the 20th century, the vast majority of Icelanders lived in rural areas. |
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They would be supplemented by reservists who lived in the local area, and who could be quickly mobilised in an emergency. |
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The language and culture of most of the people who lived in the County of Holland were originally Frisian. |
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Before the Burgundian union, the Dutch identified themselves by the town they lived in or their local duchy or county. |
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He lived quietly on his estates, and died at the monastery of Cong in 1198 and was buried at Clonmacnoise. |
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Perhaps ten per cent of the population lived in one of fifty burghs that existed at the beginning of the period, mainly in the east and south. |
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Given the number of homes, it seems likely that no more than fifty people lived in Skara Brae at any given time. |
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The greatest danger was always posed by the Picts from who lived on the far side of the Scottish rivers, the Forth and the Clyde. |
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Like his predecessor, Clement V, Pope John centralized power and income in the Papacy and lived a princely life in Avignon. |
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Wentworth may have been an employee of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but he lived in New Hampshire and was a devoted New Hampshirite. |
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Having lived in France since the age of five, Mary had little direct experience of the dangerous and complex political situation in Scotland. |
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In the coastal and other settlements, early workers lived closely together in a multiracial society. |
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New England farming families generally lived in wooden houses because of the abundance of trees. |
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In England, Voltaire lived largely in Wandsworth, with acquaintances including Everard Fawkener. |
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Much later, they lived together, perhaps platonically, and remained together until Voltaire's death. |
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Instead, from the time of his marriage, he lived at his wife's family's estate at Hawarden in Flintshire, Wales. |
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The poet Sorley MacLean, a native of the Isle of Raasay, which lies off the island's east coast, lived much of his life on Skye. |
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At one time, the golden eagle lived in a great majority of temperate Europe, North Asia, North America, North Africa, and Japan. |
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The wildcat's direct ancestor was Felis lunensis, or Martelli's wildcat, which lived in Europe as early as the late Pliocene. |
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The European pine marten has lived to 18 years in captivity, but in the wild a lifespan of eight to ten years is more typical. |
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In the United Kingdom, red kites were ubiquitous scavengers that lived on carrion and rubbish. |
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Henry McLeish, the former First Minister of Scotland lived in Glenrothes, having been brought up in nearby Kennoway. |
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Socrates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages. |
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Here they lived on the frontiers of America, carving their own world out of the wilderness. |
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Novelist Kate Roberts worked as a teacher, and was one of few writers to have lived in and written about both North Wales and South Wales. |
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Previously he lived in Dublin, Ireland, and regularly attended Bohemian Football Club games. |
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The free peasants lived in small huts, whereas the landowners and their employees lived in proper villae rusticae. |
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At one time, many fishermen lived in the village of Luqa, and this may be the main reason for choosing Andrew as patron saint. |
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Historically, a clan was made up of everyone who lived on the chief's territory, or on territory of those who owed allegiance to the said chief. |
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Cosmas Indicopleustes, a merchant of Alexandria who lived in the 6th century, made a voyage to India and subsequently wrote works on cosmography. |
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By the 1950s, a significant number of shares in the club had passed to Neil and Felicia Grant, who lived in Toomebridge, County Antrim. |
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It has been estimated that at the beginning of the empire, about 750,000 Italians lived in the provinces. |
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They lived in hill forts running in a chain through the Clwydian Range and their tribal capital was Canovium. |
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Connecting to these main roads were smaller roads, the streets where people lived. |
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She is sometimes confused with Gwenllian ferch Gruffudd, who lived two centuries earlier. |
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The Ordovices, a Celtic tribe, lived in the region during the period known as Roman Britain. |
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Rowland Pugh was the Lord of Meirionedd, and lived at Mathafarn about two miles east of Machynlleth. |
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Peoples migrating north from Europe had lived in the area for many thousands of years. |
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Twelve houses and farms were submerged, and 48 people of the 67 who lived in the valley lost their homes. |
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A number of famous people have strong links to St Asaph, having been born, raised, lived, worked or died in the city. |
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These have yielded evidence of how prehistoric human populations lived as nomadic hunters and traders. |
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Before the spike in diversity, eukaryotes are thought to have lived in highly sulfuric environments. |
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Charlotte and Charles had lived with Edward Warren Jones as children after the deaths of their parents, Capt. |
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The Carnegie Commission on Poor Whites had concluded in 1931 that nearly one third of Afrikaners lived as paupers. |
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This mint was short lived however due to its coins being heavy debasement causing significant losses. |
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Comedian George Robey lived in the town, near Lord Hill's Column, before and during the Second World War. |
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However, the 1867 Act had only a limited impact in Glamorgan as the majority of the population lived in the county constituency. |
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The blacks in London lived among whites in areas of Mile End, Stepney, Paddington, and St Giles. |
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Black tenants typically paid twice the rent of white tenants, and lived in conditions of extreme overcrowding. |
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He lived a simple life and practised asceticism, teaching his followers to refrain from eating meat and drinking beer. |
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Arsenal and Wales footballer John Parsons and Wales International Rugby player Richie Rees both lived in Robert Street. |
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Dylan Thomas lived in New Quay and Talsarn and frequented Aberaeron and Lampeter. |
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Guto'r Glyn is associated with Glyn Ceiriog, Denbighshire, where many of his patrons lived. |
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Vicari lived and worked at his studio outside Nice, France, although he also owned apartments in Riyadh and Monte Carlo. |
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Working from Ditchling in Sussex, where he lived with his wife, in 1910 Gill began direct carving of stone figures. |
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Jones was born on 1 November 1895 in Arabin Road, Brockley, Kent, now a suburb of South East London, and later lived in nearby Howson Road. |
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In 1963 Janes moved to London, accepting a post at Croydon College of Art, and from then until his death he lived at Dulwich. |
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Jimmy Wilde lived the last few years of his life in the Cadoxton district of Barry, South Wales. |
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The American colonial diet varied depending on the settled region in which someone lived. |
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Wheat was not an option for most of those who lived in the southern colonies. |
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Two of her mother's four children from previous relationships lived in the Bassey household. |
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The Burgess Shale contains fossils of very odd organisms that lived during the Acadian. |
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Having lived adventurously, fate placed the pair of them in situations which would secure their unique notch in our imaginations. |
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We had a good stock of tea, with which we treated our friends, as above, and we lived very cheerfully and well, all things considered. |
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They'd purchased a little house in the eighth arrondissement in Paris that for them was just a bagatelle, since they rarely lived there. |
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It really brings home the amount of deprivation you lived through, and it's very common for grief to come up like this. |
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This Devil thing will end in getting me budnamed, and you know I've lived on lemon-squashes and gone to bed at ten for weeks past. |
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He then lived with his father in London, where he soon had his own laboratory. |
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She lived in a faraway village, in a faraway land, so far away that I'd never see her again. |
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When I got home I called in the bwthyn where our welter-weight, Wil Shon Morgan, lived. |
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His portraits looked stiff and formal but his candids showed life being lived. |
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The Kotsoteka Comanche lived mostly along the Canadian River, where the Llano ended and the dry plains turned into grassy canyonlands. |
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That dried-up lady snob lived behind lace curtains all her life. She's of no more importance than a chromo. |
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Where single men lived together in a household, known as a chummery, the head servant or khansamah took charge over the food preparation. |
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Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived. |
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He reached home, and lived long enough to hear the natives wailing in a Death Corroboree over his late comrade. |
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The old couple who had lived there hadn't been able to do much and the garden was a wilderness of couch-grass and dandelion. |
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There vas an old covey as lived in Wapping, at the time I'm telling you of, who vas connected vith us by ties of common interest. |
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Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children. |
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At least the daredevil, who unfortunately failed his famed stunt attempt, died the way he lived. |
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After It, Clara became one of the top box-office draws in Hollywood, but her popularity was short lived. |
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The farmer who lived on the farm prior to my arrival had left the floors of the barn and drive-shed littered with junk metal. |
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Older Duppies who've lived through previous layoffs seem prepared for the emotional and financial shifts that a protracted job loss can bring. |
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One time, the poor man had had no bread in the cupboard for a whole week, and the family lived on roots and stewed earthberries. |
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The third author, who lived in the time of Uzziah, though more mythological than the Elohists, was less formal. His standpoint is prophetic. |
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The apartment in which Kamal lived was spacious, with several large rooms and various flatmates. |
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Jesus is reverenced as the one man who has lived unspotted by the world, free from human foibles, able to redeem mankind by his example. |
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So my father asked the fqih, who lived in the same street that I lived in, to take me into his Koranic school. |
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Wade argues that our pre-gracilized ancestors lived in a world closer to Hobbes than Rousseau. |
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She has been a widow these six or eight years, and has lived, I imagine, in rather a hand-to-mouth fashion. |
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Peace was short lived and, with the 1282 Edwardian conquest, the rule of the Welsh princes permanently ended. |
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The majority of scholars believe that the Anglii lived on the coasts of the Baltic Sea, probably in the southern part of the Jutish peninsula. |
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The Industrial Revolution also created a middle class of businessmen, clerks, foremen and engineers who lived in much better conditions. |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived for some time in Keswick, and also with the Wordsworths at Grasmere. |
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Collingwood the author, artist and antiquarian lived nearby, and wrote Thorstein of the Mere, set in the Norse period. |
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William Morris lived occasionally in Broadway Tower, a folly, now part of a country park. |
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In the 16th century William Shakespeare and his contemporaries lived in London at a time of hostility to the development of the theatre. |
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Ulrike lived in a farm hof, and all around me were the dark blank fields punctuated by a few disparate lights. |
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Perhaps ten per cent of the population lived in one of many burghs that grew up in the later medieval period, mainly in the east and south. |
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Tacitus's political career was largely lived out under the emperor Domitian. |
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It is true, the more progressive members of our horde lived in the caves above the river. |
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Some Saxons already lived along the Saxon shore of Gaul as Roman foederati. |
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Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. |
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More than 2300 years after his death, Aristotle remains one of the most influential people who ever lived. |
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These mammoths lived in northern Africa and disappeared about 3 or 4 million years ago. |
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During most of the Neolithic age of Eurasia, people lived in small tribes composed of multiple bands or lineages. |
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She almost lived at hotels and hydros, last year, but that isn't pleasant for her. |
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He lived in the city of Alexandria in the Roman province of Egypt, wrote in Koine Greek, and held Roman citizenship. |
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The vast majority of the population lived in the city center, packed into apartment blocks. |
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Caractacus lived out his days on land provided by the Roman state, an unusual end for an enemy commander. |
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This may be a misspelling of the Dobunni, who lived in Gloucestershire, and may give an indication of how far Catuvellaunian power extended. |
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The street also contains the Shrine of Margaret Clitherow, although it is not located in the house where she lived. |
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Constantine went to the court of Diocletian, where he lived as his father's heir presumptive. |
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The altar was hidden behind an Iconostasis. The church was looked after by an old sacristan who lived in a cottage on the shore of the lake. |
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Neither Honorius nor Arcadius ever displayed any ability either as rulers or as generals, and both lived as the puppets of their courts. |
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During and after the Roman era, the Britons lived throughout Britain south of the Firth of Forth. |
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Numerous converted priests of a Danish origin from the Danelaw lived in England, while Sweyn had few connections to Germany or its priests. |
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These houses were family homesteads where several generations lived together, with people and cattle under one roof. |
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Though removed from power, Isabella was treated well, and lived in luxury for the next 27 years. |
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By Margaret of France Edward had two sons, both of whom lived into adulthood, and a daughter who died as a child. |
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Josephus records that Essenes existed in large numbers, and thousands lived throughout Roman Judaea. |
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Louis X left only a daughter, and his posthumous son John I lived only a few days. |
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He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived. |
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He lived there for fifteen years, until his final voyage, and it remained in his family for several generations. |
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Following his abdication, John Balliol lived out his life in obscurity in Picardy, France. |
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The City was surrounded by a ring of inner suburbs where most Londoners lived. |
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Arthur Conan Doyle worked in the Aston area of Birmingham whilst poet Louis MacNeice lived in Birmingham for six years. |
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Until 1975, Samorn says, Sen lived with her family in Bo Pailin, a heavily jungled subprovince in southwest Cambodia. |
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They lived apart for most of the time and occupied separate rooms in the house when they were together. |
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Kazaam! Immediately she became young and beautiful. Next she wished that she lived in a gorgeous mansion. |
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Black males in the Northern states could vote, but the majority of African Americans lived in the South. |
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Yes, the Khu was a light in your mind while you lived, but in death, it must return to heaven. |
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Some peasants lived in large settlements that numbered as many as 700 inhabitants. |
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Others lived in small groups of a few families and still others lived on isolated farms spread over the countryside. |
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And he strengthened the walls of Llvndain, surrounded the city with many farmsteads, and lived in it the greater part of the year. |
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He lived first in Balmoral Road, then when the family firm crashed, he lived in poorer circumstances in Huskisson Street. |
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In 2011, 189,381 people lived in the unparished area of Newcastle upon Tyne but 280,177 people lived in the actual city and metropolitan borough. |
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Musicians Eric Burdon, Sting, Mark Knopfler, Brian Johnson, Alan Hull, Cheryl and Neil Tennant lived in Newcastle. |
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John Dunn, inventor of keyed Northumbrian smallpipes, the most characteristic musical instrument in the region, lived and worked in the city. |
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Elgar lived much of both his early life and his later life near Worcester, through which the Severn runs. |
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The rock is composed of the microscopic skeletons of plankton which lived in the sea, hence its colour. |
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The South Downs have been home to several writers including Jane Austen who lived at Chawton on the edge of the Downs in Hampshire. |
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Leander, he would have lived many a fair year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night. |
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The mid engined line continued with the Lotus Esprit, which was to prove one of the company's longest lived and most iconic models. |
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Arthur Keily the marathon runner and Olympian was born in Derbyshire in 1921 and has lived his whole life in Derby. |
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Sir Francis Austen, brother of Jane Austen, briefly lived in the area after graduating from Portsmouth Naval Academy. |
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Peter Sellers, comedian, actor, and performer, was born in Southsea, and Arnold Schwarzenegger lived and trained in Portsmouth for a short time. |
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Cryptozoologist Jonathan Downes was born and lived in Portsmouth for a time. |
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The Fuegian they had named Jemmy Button lived like the other natives, had a wife, and had no wish to return to England. |
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Litchfield Cottage in Ballintemple, Cork, where Boole lived for the last two years of his life, bears a memorial plaque. |
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His parents purchased a house in Guildford in 1927, and Turing lived there during school holidays. |
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Next up the valley beyond him lived Phineas Cowan, whose inclinations, in spite of his advanced age, were lustful and lickerous. |
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They lived a frugal existence in a large, cluttered, and poorly maintained house and travelled in a converted London taxicab. |
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In Liverpool, where he lived at 34 Upper Parliament Street, a City of Liverpool Heritage Plaque is situated next to the front door. |
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In 1766 Boulton required Fothergill to vacate Soho House, and lived there himself with his family. |
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Roebuck lived at Kinneil House in Bo'ness, during which time Watt worked at perfecting his steam engine in a cottage adjacent to the house. |
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More than 99 percent of all species that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. |
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An individual organism's phenotype results from both its genotype and the influence from the environment it has lived in. |
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Nearly all animal and plant species that have lived on Earth are now extinct, and extinction appears to be the ultimate fate of all species. |
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More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. |
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These lamps have higher efficiency than filament lamps, but the carbon rods are short lived and require constant adjustment in use. |
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The livability of the shack was questioned, but the old man had lived there for 50 years. |
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As they adopted this language and culture, the barriers began to dissolve between peoples, who had earlier lived parallel lives. |
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I desired to live worthily as long as I lived, and to leave after my life, to the men who should come after me, the memory of me in good works. |
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Edward became king in 1042, and given his upbringing might have been considered a Norman by those who lived across the English Channel. |
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Results were very mixed however and the Gaeltacht where native speakers lived continued to retract. |
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In the ancient and medieval era, most Gaels lived in roundhouses and ringforts. |
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The following individuals are notable Poles who have lived in the United Kingdom, or British people of Polish ancestry. |
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Until the Second World War, Chinese communities lived around Britain's main ports, the oldest and largest in Liverpool and London. |
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In the extreme southwest, what was to become Cornwall, were the Dumnonii and Cornovii, who lived in the Kingdom of Dumnonia. |
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In the 2011 UK census, 557 people in England and Wales declared Cornish to be their main language, 464 of whom lived in Cornwall. |
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Thomas was born in Redruth but lived and worked in Australia and the United States before returning to his native Cornwall. |
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Monasteries tended to be cenobitical in that monks lived in separate cells but came together for common prayer, meals, and other functions. |
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Anselm arrived in Rome by April and, according to his biographer Eadmer, lived beside the pope during the Siege of Capua in May. |
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Ultimately, she bore nineteen children, of which nine lived beyond infancy. |
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Unlike Wilfrid, his style of life was austere, and when he was able to he lived the life of a hermit, though still receiving many visitors. |
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He lived during the Roman period in Britain, but little is known about his religious affiliations, socioeconomic status, or citizenship. |
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Between 1503 and 1504 More lived near the Carthusian monastery outside the walls of London and joined in the monks' spiritual exercises. |
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This was long in the custody of the community of Augustinian canonesses who until 1983 lived at the convent at Abbotskerswell Priory, Devon. |
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As at 27 March 2011 everyone who had lived or intended to live in the country for three months or more was required to complete a questionnaire. |
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Thereafter, an increasing number of students lived in colleges rather than in halls and religious houses. |
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The Romans had learned how to construct effective arches from the Etruscans, who lived in central Italy. |
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The villa concept lived and lives on in the haciendas of Latin America and the estancias of Brazil and Argentina. |
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During the 18th century Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Thomas Lawrence lived and worked in Bath. |
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John Maggs, a painter best known for coaching scenes, was born and lived in Bath with his artistic family. |
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The Greuthungi or Ostrogoths lived in Bessarabia and the Thervingi lived in the provinces of Moldova and Valachia, which they called Caucaland. |
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He continued to spend most of his time at Fort Belvedere in the Great Park, where he had lived whilst Prince of Wales. |
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The knights themselves lived in auberges, but these were more large houses rather than palaces. |
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They lived in the mountains, fed on raw meat and often fought against dragons. |
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Elves were viewed as being supernaturally powerful people who lived invisibly alongside everyday rural people. |
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If so, the hypothetical Merlin would have lived about a century after the hypothetical historical Arthur. |
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His deeds are recounted for their uniqueness, not only among living knights but of all men who have ever lived. |
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Everard Digby was a young man who was generally well liked, and lived at Gayhurst House in Buckinghamshire. |
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In the midst of Charles's debauched and licentious court, she lived neglected and retired. |
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The merchants lived and plied their trade at the Steelyard, a complex of warehouses, offices, and dwellings on the north bank of the Thames. |
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From 1862, the Millais family lived at 7 Cromwell Place, Kensington, London. |
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He was never ordained as a priest and there is no real evidence that he became an actual monk, but he lived his life as one. |
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Julian lived in a time of turmoil, but her theology was optimistic and spoke of God's omnibenevolence and love in terms of joy and compassion. |
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Despite his great education and poetic talents, Donne lived in poverty for several years, relying heavily on wealthy friends. |
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Filmer's third son, Samuel Filmer, married Maria Horsmanden and lived in the Virginia Colony before dying childless soon after. |
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He lived during that time at Nun Appleton Hall, near York, where he continued to write poetry. |
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He lived in and worked from a house on Bread Street, where the Mermaid Tavern was located in Cheapside. |
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Paine lived in France for most of the 1790s, becoming deeply involved in the French Revolution. |
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With some of them he kept up an acquaintance as long as he and they lived, and was ever ready to shew them acts of kindness. |
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He travelled extensively across Europe, especially in Italy, where he lived for seven years with the struggling poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. |
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While not at school or college, Byron lived with his mother in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, in some antagonism. |
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