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  2. Acta Diurna - Wikipedia

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    Acta Diurna ( Latin: Daily Acts, sometimes translated as Daily Public Records or as Daily Gazette) were daily Roman official notices, a sort of daily gazette. [1] They were carved on stone or metal and presented in message boards in public places such as the Forum of Rome. They also were called simply Acta.

  3. Wedding invitation - Wikipedia

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    Wedding invitation. A wedding invitation is a letter asking the recipient to attend a wedding. It is typically written in the formal, third-person language and mailed five to eight weeks before the wedding date. Like any other invitation, it is the privilege and duty of the host—historically, for younger brides in Western culture, the mother ...

  4. Banns of marriage - Wikipedia

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    Banns of marriage. The banns of marriage, commonly known simply as the " banns " or " bans " / ˈbænz / (from a Middle English word meaning "proclamation", rooted in Frankish and thence in Old French ), [1] are the public announcement in a Christian parish church, or in the town council, of an impending marriage between two specified persons.

  5. History of newspaper publishing - Wikipedia

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    History of newspaper publishing. The modern newspaper is a European invention. [1] The oldest direct handwritten news sheets circulated widely in Venice as early as 1566. These weekly news sheets were full of information on wars and politics in Italy and Europe. The first printed newspapers were published weekly in Germany from 1605.

  6. Marriage of convenience - Wikipedia

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    A marriage of convenience is a marriage contracted for reasons other than that of love and commitment. Instead, such a marriage is entered into for personal gain, or some other sort of strategic purpose, such as a political marriage. Cases where those married do not intend to live together as a couple, and typically married only for one of them ...

  7. History of British newspapers - Wikipedia

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    History of British newspapers. Linotype operators preparing hot-metal type 'slugs' to be assembled in columns and pages by hand compositors. This letterpress mode of newspaper production was supplanted in the 1970s and 1980s by the cleaner, more economical offset litho process. The history of British newspapers begins in the 17th century with ...

  8. Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton - Wikipedia

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    Prince William. Catherine Middleton. The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton took place on Friday, 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey in London, England. William was second in the line of succession to the British throne at the time, later becoming heir apparent. The couple had been in a relationship since 2003.

  9. The Liberator (newspaper) - Wikipedia

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    The Liberator (1831–1865) was a weekly abolitionist newspaper, printed and published in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison and, through 1839, by Isaac Knapp. Religious rather than political, it appealed to the moral conscience of its readers, urging them to demand immediate freeing of the slaves ("immediatism").

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