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7 hours ago · After the divorce of Queen Catherine and Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn in 1533, Cromwell had Elizabeth Barton arrested. Bocking was arrested in August 1533. In November, 1533 Bocking, Barton and others were made to mount a scaffold at St Paul's Cross to do public penance for promoting "superstition" and "disloyalty". [ 4 ]
1 day ago · Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, was impeached, and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, suffered from an act of attainder. [ 18 ] Halifax, the titular head of the administration, died in 1715 and by 1716 Walpole was appointed to the posts of First Commissioner (Lord) of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer .
7 hours ago · Penn alumni are the current or past presidents of over one hundred universities and colleges including Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Cornell University, University of California system, University of Texas system, Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University, Tulane University, Bowdoin College, and Williams College; and eight medical schools including New York University Medical School, and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
7 hours ago · Footnote 2 The novel follows two periods in Pyrrho’s life: Footnote 3 The first narrates his 12-year-long journey to Asia (334–323 BC) alongside Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) and the Democritean philosopher, Anaxarchus (380–320 BC) and their encounter with early Buddhist scholars (or gymnosophists) in what was then known as the Bactrian Kingdom. The second tells of his return to Elis, his hometown in the western part of the Peloponnese, where he shuns fame and honours in order to ...
7 hours ago · The first female member, Florence Rankin, joined AA in March 1937, [29] [30] and the first non-Protestant member, a Roman Catholic, joined in 1939. [31] The first black AA group commenced in 1945 in Washington D.C., and was founded by Jim S., an African-American physician from Virginia.
1 day ago · Muhi al-Din Muhammad (3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known by the title Aurangzeb, [d] and also by his regnal name Alamgir I, [e] [f] was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707.
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