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  • 11Great Fire of New York (1776) — This article is about the fire during the American Revolutionary War. For the 1835 fire, see Great Fire of New York (1835). Great Fire of New York A contemporary artist s interpretation of the fire, published in 1776 Location New York City …

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  • 12The Inspector General (film) — Infobox Film name = The Inspector General image size = caption = director = Henry Koster producer = Jerry Wald, Sylvia Fine writer = Nikolai Gogol (play) Harry Kurnitz, Philip Papp narrator = starring = Danny Kaye Walter Slezak Elsa Lanchester… …

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  • 13truepenny — /trooh pen ee/, n., pl. truepennies. a trusty, honest fellow. [1580 90; TRUE + PENNY] * * * …

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  • 14Distribution of justice — The distribution of justice was a practice commonly adopted by pirates. Ships operated as limited democracies (for more details, see pirate code) and imposed their ideas of justice upon the crew of the ship that they captured. After capture, the… …

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  • 15Godsal — This most interesting and ancient surname has two possible origins. Firstly, it may be of locational origin, from Godshill in Hampshire and Wiltshire, the former recorded as Godesmanescamp in the Domesday Book of 1086, while the latter place… …

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  • 16Goodsal — This most interesting and ancient surname has two possible origins. Firstly, it may be of locational origin, from Godshill in Hampshire and Wiltshire, the former recorded as Godesmanescamp in the Domesday Book of 1086, while the latter place… …

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  • 17Goodsall — This most interesting and ancient surname has two possible origins. Firstly, it may be of locational origin, from Godshill in Hampshire and Wiltshire, the former recorded as Godesmanescamp in the Domesday Book of 1086, while the latter place… …

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  • 18quail —    obsolete    a prostitute    Not from the Celtic caile, a young girl, but the common avian imagery, this time from the reputedly amorous game bird:     Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails. (Shakespeare, Troilus and… …

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  • 19true-penny — n. Honest fellow, true blue …

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  • 20truepenny —    In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, ‘truepenny’ was used to describe an honest fellow, a man of genuine metal. Hamlet uses the word vocatively to the ghost of his father in Hamlet (l:v): ‘Art thou there, truepenny?’ …

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