Alexander Gill the Elder (7 February 1565 – 17 November 1635), also spelled Gil, was an English scholar, spelling reformer, and high-master of St Paul's...
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Eng (letter) (category Pages using the WikiHiero extension)
stroke ⟨ǥ⟩. Alexander Gill the Elder uses an uppercase G with a hooked tail and a lowercase n with the hooked tail of a script g ⟨ŋ⟩ for the same sound...
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George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
virtue. The son of Alexander Gill the Elder was sentenced to a fine of £2000 and the removal of his ears, after being overheard drinking to the health...
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poet. He was the high-master of St. Paul's School. Gil was the son of Alexander Gill the elder. He was born, probably at Norwich, in 1597. He obtained a...
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John Felton (assassin) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
virtuous. The writer Owen Feltham described Felton as a second Brutus. The son of Alexander Gill the Elder was sentenced to a fine of £2,000 and the removal...
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characters appears to have been the letter "eng", ŋ, for ng. It was later incorporated into the IPA. Alexander Gill the Elder used this letter in 1619. Franklin...
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Alexander Henry 'The Elder', in French: Alexandre Henri Le Vieux (August 1739 – 4 April 1824) was an American-born explorer, author, merchant who settled...
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Porus (TV series) (category Cultural depictions of Alexander the Great)
series based on the Battle of the Hydaspes, visualizing the lives of Porus, ruler of the Paurava Kingdom in India, and Alexander the Great, the king of Macedonia...
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a fabricated text purporting to detail a Jewish plot for global domination. Largely plagiarized from several earlier...
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Garven Alexander (born 26 October 1967) is a British politician who has served as Minister of State for Trade since 2024, having previously held the role...
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