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  • 51Battle of Clachnaharry — The Battle of Clachnaharry was a Scottish clan battle that took place in the year 1454. It was fought between the Clan Munro and the Clan MacKintosh.The BattleThe Munros were returning home after a cattle raid. On their return they had to pass… …

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  • 52BRANDEAU, ESTHER — (18th cent.), first Jewish immigrant to New France. Esther Brandeau was the daughter of David Brandeau, a Jewish trader in St. Esprit, near Bayonne, France. She arrived at Quebec City in September 1738 on the ship Saint Michel, disguised as a boy …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 53The Vendor of Sweets — infobox Book | name = The Vendor of Sweets title orig = translator = image caption = author = R. K. Narayan illustrator = cover artist = country = India language = series = genre = Novel publisher = release date = 1967 english release date =… …

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  • 54General average/New version — Average in maritime commerce to signify damages orexpenses resulting from the accidents of navigation. Average is either general or particular. General average arises when sacrifices have been made, or expenditures incurred, for the preservation… …

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  • 55Kingsley Fairbridge — This article includes biographical information relating to Kingsley Ogilivie Fairbridge, as well the institution that he established which was known as the Fairbridge Society .Kinglsey Ogilvie Fairbridge (5 May 1885 – 19 July 1924) was the… …

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  • 56John Casor — In 1654, John Casor of Northampton County in the Virginia Colony became the first person to be declared a slave for life.BackgroundAt this time, there were only about 300 persons of African origin living in the Virginia Colony, about 1% of an… …

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  • 57CHISHOLM, Caroline (1808-1877) — philanthropist was the daughter of William Jones, a yeoman farmer at Wootton in Northamptonshire. Her latest biographer, Margaret Swann, states that she was born about the year 1800 , but as Sir George Gipps (q.v.), who met her in 1841, described …

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  • 58CHARON —    in the Greek mythology the ferryman of the ghosts of the dead over the Styx into Hades, a grim old figure with a mean dress and a dirty beard, peremptory in exacting from the ghosts he ferried over the obolus allowed him for passage money …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 59feresceat — m ( es/ as) passage money …

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  • 60færriht — n ( es/ ) passage money …

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