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  2. The Message in the Hollow Oak - Wikipedia

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    As she is traveling by train to Canada, she meets an author named Ann Chapelle. Suddenly, the train crashes, and everything is thrown into confusion. Nancy and her two friends, Bess Marvin and George Fayne, are uninjured, but Chapelle is taken to a nearby hospital, gravely injured.

  3. The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation as We Know It

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    Aboard a private aircraft, Dr. Gropinger – a parody of Henry Kissinger – is on a goodwill tour of Middle Eastern countries. He misplaces his diary and is thrown into a panic as, without the diary, he no longer knows what country he is about to land in. Stepping off the plane, he extends greetings in Hebrew to a congregation of Arabs and is shot dead.

  4. Double or Die - Wikipedia

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    Drunk and with a damaged liver, James is then dragged by Ludwig and Wolfgang to a barge to be thrown into the River Thames. In his drunken state, James works out the rest of the crossword and determines that the word "Bond" (in his name) must have the word "runner" and the letter "m" inserted into it, but cannot make sense of the results.

  5. Confusion and chaos as migrants pour into Budapest train station

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    Hungarian police allowed hundreds of migrants to pour into Budapest's main railway station on Thursday but authorities canceled all trains to western Europe, triggering chaos and confusion.

  6. Coronations of William the Conqueror and Matilda - Wikipedia

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    William, Duke of Normandy, invaded England in support of his claim to the English throne at the end of September 1066. Having defeated King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October, William conducted a destructive campaign to subdue the south-east of England, which by early December had forced the surrender of the English nobility, the Witan, and their elected but uncrowned ...

  7. Thrownness - Wikipedia

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    We retain 'thrown-ness' as closest to the original and, perhaps, least misleading." [ 2 ] : 37 In his main work The Principle of Hope (1954–1959), the anti-Heideggerian author Ernst Bloch [ 4 ] has correlated the thrownness into the world with a dog's life: hope "will not tolerate a dog's life which feels itself only passively thrown into ...

  8. First English Civil War, 1645 - Wikipedia

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    As usual, operations began with the sieges, necessary to conciliate local feeling. Plymouth and Lyme Regis were blocked up, and Taunton again invested. The reinforcement thrown into the last place by Waller and Cromwell was dismissed by Blake (then a colonel in command of the fortress (afterwards, the great admiral of the Commonwealth). After ...

  9. Merv Griffin's Crosswords - Wikipedia

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    The clues and puzzles used throughout the run were written by veteran crossword puzzle maker Timothy Parker, who also writes the USA Today crossword and was hand-picked by Griffin. Crosswords was sold to approximately 100+ markets and aired during the 2007-2008 season, usually placed in mid-morning or early afternoon slots.