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  2. Hutchinson letters affair - Wikipedia

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    The Hutchinson letters affair was an incident that increased tensions between the colonists of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and the British government prior to the American Revolution. In June 1773, letters written several years earlier by Thomas Hutchinson and Andrew Oliver , who were governor and lieutenant governor of the province at ...

  3. Murchison letter - Wikipedia

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    The letter was sent by the British ambassador to the United States, Sir Lionel Sackville-West, to "Charles F. Murchison", who was actually an American political operative posing as a British expatriate. In the letter, Sackville-West suggested that Cleveland was preferred as president from the British point of view. [2]

  4. D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm - Wikipedia

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    On 18 August 1942, a day before the Dieppe raid, 'Dieppe' appeared as an answer in The Daily Telegraph crossword (set on 17 August 1942) (clued "French port"), causing a security alarm. The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir , then a senior intelligence officer ...

  5. John Henry (spy) - Wikipedia

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    John Henry (c. 1776 – 1853) was a spy and adventurer of mysterious origins. He sold documents called the Henry letters to the United States suggesting treason by Federalists on the eve of the War of 1812 with Great Britain.

  6. University of Florida Taser incident - Wikipedia

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    On September 17, 2007, a University of Florida student was stunned by police with a taser at a forum featuring then–U.S. Senator John Kerry.Kerry was addressing a Constitution Day forum at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville that was organized by the ACCENT Speakers Bureau, an agency of the university's student government.

  7. Dear Martin - Wikipedia

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    This incident is pivotal as it catalyzes Justyce's introspection about his place in a society fraught with racial bias. It also marks the beginning of his personal project of writing letters to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a method he hopes will help him navigate and understand the challenges he faces.

  8. April 2013 ricin letters - Wikipedia

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    On April 17, 2013, FBI agents detained a Corinth, Mississippi, man on suspicion of mailing the ricin-laced letters. [4] [5] [10] All charges were dropped however, and he was released on April 23, 2013. Federal investigators reported that they could find no evidence linking him to the letters. [11]

  9. Libellus responsionum - Wikipedia

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    The Libellus responsionum (Latin for "little book of answers") is a papal letter (also known as a papal rescript or decretal) written in 601 by Pope Gregory I to Augustine of Canterbury in response to several of Augustine's questions regarding the nascent church in Anglo-Saxon England. [1]