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In British English, a prig (/ ˈ p r ɪ ɡ /) is a person who shows an inordinately zealous approach to matters of form and propriety—especially where the prig has the ability to show superior knowledge to those who do not know the protocol in question. They see little need to consider the feelings or intentions of others, relying instead on ...
The game was removed from the service in June 2011. [68] Later re-released as Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels Plus. IGN gave Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Decade Duels a score of 4.5, stating newcomers will be frustrated with the grossly overpowered computer opponents while hardcore fans will lament the absence of thousands of cards. [69]
Clue (known as Cluedo outside of North America) is a 1998 video game based on the board game of the same name. It is also known as Clue: Murder at Boddy Mansion or Cluedo: Murder at Blackwell Grange, depending on whether the country of release used American or British English. [1] [2] [3] Clue runs on Microsoft Windows.
Brag is an 18th century British card game, and the British national representative of the vying or "bluffing" family of gambling games. [1] It is a descendant of the Elizabethan game of Primero [2] and one of the several ancestors to poker, the modern version just varying in betting style and hand rankings.
William Prynne (1600 – 24 October 1669), an English lawyer, voluble author, polemicist and political figure, was a prominent Puritan opponent of church policy under William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1633–1645).
[4] In 1553, Edward VI died, and his Catholic half-sister assumed the throne as Mary I of England. Mary sought to end the English Reformation and restore the Church of England to full communion with the Church of Rome. Around a thousand English Protestants, known as the Marian exiles, left the country for religious reasons. [5]
William Bradshaw (1571–1618) was a moderate English Puritan, born in Market Bosworth. He was educated at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, where he met both Anthony Gilby, and his future patron Arthur Hildersham, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. [1] [2] He became a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1599, but left Cambridge in 1601.
The First Great Awakening, sometimes Great Awakening or the Evangelical Revival, was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.