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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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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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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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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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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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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Big Nose Kate (redirect from Kate Elder)
September 1998): 12-24 Van Ostrand, Maggie. "Katie Elder: Her True Story". www.texasescapes.com. "The Lily of the West", Kathleen Morris, Five Star Publishing...
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His elder brother, Tom, was already a physician and suggested to him that he should follow the same career, and so in 1903, the younger Alexander enrolled...
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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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