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  • Thumbnail for Edward Said
    Edward Wadie Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American academic, literary critic and political activist. As a professor of...
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  • Edward Said (1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was an American literary theorist, cultural critic, and political activist of Palestinian descent. He...
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    was a lawyer at the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C. Edward Snowden said that he had expected to work for the federal government, as had the...
    255 KB (24,881 words) - 03:19, 19 April 2024
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    Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United...
    100 KB (10,953 words) - 01:17, 10 April 2024
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    the Queen, stood proxy). Edward aged eleven (right) and his older brother William, portrait by Benjamin West, 1778 Prince Edward in 1782, portrait by Thomas...
    38 KB (4,458 words) - 19:10, 12 April 2024
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    the same year at the Battle of Hastings by the Normans under William the Conqueror. Edward's young great-nephew Edgar the Ætheling of the House of Wessex...
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  • Thumbnail for Edward Elgar
    Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (/ˈɛlɡɑːr/ ; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered...
    111 KB (13,847 words) - 04:26, 9 April 2024
  • Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, in which the author establishes the term "Orientalism" as a critical concept to describe the West's commonly...
    58 KB (6,950 words) - 19:19, 18 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Edward VII
    Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January...
    108 KB (11,090 words) - 19:24, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward Brooke
    Edward William Brooke III (October 26, 1919 – January 3, 2015) was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States...
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    ISBN 978-0-7486-1420-2 Cowan, Edward J., ed. (2007), The Wallace Book, Edinburgh: John Donald, ISBN 978-0-85976-652-4 Cowan, Edward J. (2007), "William Wallace: 'The...
    42 KB (4,572 words) - 21:27, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward Smith (sea captain)
    Edward John Smith RD RNR (27 January 1850 – 15 April 1912) was a British sea captain and naval officer. In 1880, he joined the White Star Line as an officer...
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  • Thumbnail for William the Conqueror
    hold on Normandy was secure. In 1066, following the death of Edward the Confessor, William invaded England, leading an army of Normans to victory over...
    100 KB (13,436 words) - 16:03, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward R. Murrow
    Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first...
    60 KB (7,220 words) - 17:56, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward VI
    Edward was, at first, under William Sidney, and later Richard Page, stepfather of Edward's aunt Anne (the wife of Edward Seymour). Henry demanded exacting...
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  • Thumbnail for Edward the Black Prince
    Edward of Woodstock (15 June 1330 – 8 June 1376), known to history as the Black Prince, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Edward III of England...
    102 KB (14,177 words) - 15:59, 17 April 2024
  • blessed." Joseph McAuley said of Herrmann's casting, "To a generation growing up watching television and the movies, Edward Herrmann was the personification...
    50 KB (4,834 words) - 00:57, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Said bin Taimur
    Said bin Taimur (Arabic: سعيد بن تيمور; 13 August 1910 – 19 October 1972) was the 13th Sultan of Muscat and Oman from 10 February 1932 until he was deposed...
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    police station, he claimed his name was Edward Cotton, the son of a tradesman. When asked where he came from, he said "I came from Hertfordshire twelve months...
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  • Thumbnail for William Proxmire
    Edward William Proxmire (November 11, 1915 – December 15, 2005) was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States...
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