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31passing — Synonyms and related words: abandonment, abrupt, accidental, accompanying, act, ado, advance, advancement, afloat, afoot, aggrandizement, ambulant, ambulative, ambulatory, annihilation, ascending, axial, back, back flowing, backward, bane,… …
32promotion — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Advancement in rank] Syn. preferment, elevation, raise, improvement, advance, lift, betterment, ennobling, favoring. Ant. removal*, demotion, lowering. 2. [Improvement] Syn. advancement, progression, development; see… …
33Improvement — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Improvement >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 improvement improvement Sgm: N 1 amelioration amelioration melioration Sgm: N 1 betterment betterment Sgm: N 1 mend mend amendment emendation Sgm: N 1 mending …
35William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley — Infobox Governor General | name=The Rt Hon. The Earl of Dudley, GCB, GCMG, GCVO order=4th Governor General of Australia term start=9 September 1908 term end=31 July 1911 predecessor=The Lord Northcote successor=The Lord Denman birth date=birth… …
36Province of Maryland — British colony 1632–1776 …
37Charles Cornwallis Chesney — (29 September 1826 – 19 March 1876), British soldier and military writer, the third son of Charles Cornwallis Chesney, captain on the retired list of the Bengal Artillery, and nephew of Francis Rawdon Chesney, was born in County Down, Ireland.… …
38William Thomas (scholar) — William Thomas (d. 1554), probably a Welshman, was an Italian scholar and clerk of the council to Edward VI, who was executed for Treason after the death of Edward. [http://www.archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati56stepuoft Dictionary of National …
39Henry Vane the Elder — Sir Henry Vane, the elder (1589 1655), was an English politician and secretary of state.Origins and educationVane was born on 18 February 1589, the eldest son of Henry Vane or Fane of Hadlow, Kent, by his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Roger… …
40Bethmanns and Rothschilds — The two great banking dynasties of Frankfurt am Main were the House of Bethmann and the House of Rothschild. For several decades their affairs were closely intertwined while they carried on a vigorous rivalry. On occasion they would cooperate –… …
