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  2. De vulgari eloquentia - Wikipedia

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    In the first book, Dante discusses the relationship between Latin and the vernacular languages, and the search for an "illustrious" vernacular in the Italian area; the second book is an analysis of the structure of the canto or song (also known as canzuni in Sicilian), which is a literary genre developed in the Sicilian School of poetry.

  3. Francis Grose - Wikipedia

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    Grose was born at his father's house in Broad Street, St-Peter-le-Poer, London.His parents were Swiss immigrant and jeweller Francis Jacob Grose (d. 1769), and his wife, Anne (d. 1773), daughter of Thomas Bennett of Greenford in Middlesex.

  4. János Batsányi - Wikipedia

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    János Batsányi (9 May 1763 in Tapolca – 12 May 1845 in Linz) was a Hungarian poet.. In 1785, he published his first work, a patriotic poem, "The Valour of the Magyars". In the same year he obtained a job as clerk in the treasury of the Hungarian city of Kassa (), and there, in conjunction with other two Hungarian patriots, edited the Magyar Museum, which was suppressed by the government in ...

  5. Castigation - Wikipedia

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    Castigation (from the Latin castigatio) or chastisement (via the French châtiment) is the infliction of severe (moral or corporal) punishment.One who administers a castigation is a castigator or chastiser.

  6. We Shall Overcome: Sacred Song on the Devil's Tongue

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    Gamboa's book shows the US copyright to "We Shall Overcome" to have been claimed by music publisher, The Richmond Organization, Inc. since 1960 with no attribution to its original author. The book links Shropshire's Gospel hymn, "If My Jesus Wills"—composed sometime between 1932 and 1942 and most commonly known as "I'll Overcome", to an ...

  7. Malcolm X was killed 60 years ago. His family wants answers ...

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    Malcolm X’s assassination may have been more consequential to the movement than King’s and on par with the losses of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and his brother Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 ...

  8. The Jewel That Was Ours - Wikipedia

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    Dr Theodore Kemp has written a book about this piece from the time of King Alfred the Great, gold set with rubies, and the tongue fits exactly with a buckle also found in England. Just 45 minutes after arrival in the hotel, Mrs Stratton is found in their hotel room, dead on the floor, by her husband who had taken a short walk with Shirley Brown.

  9. Chastisement - Wikipedia

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    English common law allowed parents and others who have "lawful control or charge" of a child to use "moderate and reasonable" chastisement or correction. In the 1860 Eastbourne manslaughter case, Alexander Cockburn as Chief Justice ruled: "By the law of England, a parent ... may for the purpose of correcting what is evil in the child, inflict moderate and reasonable corporal punishment, always ...