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• accepted surrender
• accompanied
• acquired
• acted
• acted on recommendations by the Public Health Enquiry held
• addressed an assembly of about 60,000 people
• addressed Bletchley Park staff
• adjusted her hat in the reflection
• advanced the science of gold thread manufacture
• affixed his declaration disowning Charles II as King to the cross
• amalgamated
• apologised
• apothecary
• appeared
• assassinated
• assembled
• assisted
• attended
• attended a housewarming
• attended school
• attended university
• at this site, directed the Allied Expeditionary Forces against Fortress Europe, 6 June 1944
• At this site in 1928 began his pioneering studies into the chemistry of giant molecules
• baptised
• baptized
• baptized near
• based at this hospital
• beat Nicolas Mahut
• became a member of The Selector
• befriended
• befriended and cared for prostitutes
• began
• began a clothing business
• began near
• beheaded
• bequeathed
• besieged Calais in 1347
• billeted
• birdied 16 and 17 to tie Gary Player and Dow Finsterwald for first place
• birdied 17 and 18 to win his second Masters title by one stroke
• born
• born near
• bought
• bought the estate
• 'Brendan Behan's New York' was written in
• broadcast the first television programme in Great Britain
• built
• built a bridge
• built a coal and timber wharf
• built aircraft
• built a suite of offices
• built bicycles
• built cars
• built for as the Red House
• built his home near
• built on
• built one of Britain's earliest petrol driven vehicles
• built Preston’s first steam-powered cotton mill
• built the Castle
• built the first Norwich Office of the Excise
• built The Great Eastern
• built the thatched "Ashley Cottages"
• built this Shirehall
• built under
• built University Church
• buried
• by
• by order of, the Confession of Faith was drawn up
• called
• called to Dodge City in 1876 and established law and order in a few years
• came here to discuss
• came to dine
• captured
• carried
• carried near to death
• carved
• chorister
• christened
• collected
• commanded
• commanded the town's forces
• commemorated
• commenced scientific valve experiments
• commissioned
• completed her three novels Over To Candleford, Candleford Green and Still Glides The Stream
• completed his pioneering studies on the frequencies of X-rays emitted from the elements
• completed research at Harvard on his translation of Eugene Onegin while residing here
• composed
• conceived his design of the Crystal Palace
• conducted experiments
• conducted the Pittsburgh Orchestra
• connected in an unknown way
• contributed greatly to America's victory program for wartime production
• controlled
• convalesced
• created
• created Blandford's first museum
• created mosaics
• created The Bournville Building Estate
• created the ska phenomenon
• crossed on his way to his execution
• crowned
• damaged the church when he made an entry into the town in 1649, through a breach in the town wall close by
• debuted "Blithe Spirit"
• dedicated
• defended the town
• demonstrated
• denied entry to King Charles I
• designed
• designed All Saints Church
• designed the Corn Exchange
• designed Worcester Bridge
• destroyed by fire
• destroyed in The Blitz
• developed and built program-controlled computers
• developed manganese steel
• developed the first x-ray spectrometer
• developed the machine belt manufacturing firm of J H Fenner and Co
• developed the micro-corneal lens at his practice
• devised the restoration of the country's independence
• dictated "The Order of the Strata"
• died
• died in the Brighton Bombing
• died near
• dined
• directed
• Directed the fortification of the City gates and towers
• directed the Gaiety Theatre
• discovered
• discovered Boyle's Law
• discovered electro-dynamic forces
• discovered Sooty
• discovered the electron
• discovered the fundamental law for electric current
• discovered the Solitary Wave
• distinguished
• donated
• donated land
• dreamt he was
• drew the pond in the garden which featured in the Tale of Peter Rabbit
• drew up the first public temperence pledge
• dwelt
• eagled the 13th hole
• edited
• educated
• eloped
• encamped with his Royalist Army
• endowed
• ensured
• entered England through this port
• entered the city
• entertained King Charles II
• erected
• erected a drinking fountain
• erected a gate or bar
• erected the first house in Bournemouth
• erected the first preaching house
• erected the original motte and bailey castle on this site
• escaped his enemies after the battle of Worcester
• established
• established a business
• established a ferry service
• established an academy
• established an infirmary for sick children
• established an iron foundry
• established a studio
• established Britain’s first African Caribbean Carnival
• established his divisional headquarters
• established his foundry
• established Salisbury Museum
• established the Cavendish Laboratory
• established the first antique shop on Portobello Road
• established the first large meat-packing house in Toronto
• established the Free Age Press
• established the Royal Marine Library
• established the Wright Music Co.
• excavated
• exchanged the first radio message across water
• executed
• experimented
• exposed the Davenport Brothers
• expounded
• facade
• fatally wounded
• father owned
• feasted
• fell
• felled
• fell in the river
• filmed
• filmed Leeds Bridge
• finally left in 1967
• first appeared on the stage
• first demonstrated the incandescent light bulb at a public lecture
• first exploded
• first gigged
• first laid to rest
• first met
• first projected a moving picture
• first recorded
• first used gas-lighting
• first wove Kidderminster Carpet
• forgave the sins of those who contributed to the building of a bridge
• for many years this cottage was the summer residence of
• formed
• formed a band
• former actor in Heaphy's company
• Formerly the main entrance to
• fought in a skirmish
• found a haven
• founded
• founded a charity school
• founded a company
• founded a free public library
• founded a hospital for 6 poor widows
• founded a hospital for aged or infirm men
• founded an almshouse
• founded an independent Benedictine monastery
• founded a school
• founded Britain's aircraft seaplane and flying boat industry
• founded by his will the Free Grammar School that later became the Perse School
• founded Cheltenham Infant School
• founded Cooke's Hospital
• founded Enmore School
• founded in Silver Street
• founded Leeds Grammar School which later occupied
• founded Lotus Engineering Co
• founded Mission Church
• founded Monte de Piete a charitable pawn office
• founded Motown Records
• founded Saint Edward’s School
• founded St Mark's Hospital
• founded St Paul's School
• founded the chief office of the London penny post
• founded The Club
• founded the Collegiate Church
• founded the congregation
• founded the Cork Ballet Company and School in this building
• founded the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association
• founded the first known building society in the world
• founded the first of the Lewis's department stores
• founded the first philosophical school of the world
• founded the First Provincial School of Anatomy
• founded the Little Angel Theatre
• founded the Manchester & Salford Adult Deaf & Dumb Benevolent Association
• founded the Mercury Theatre
• founded the priory of Saint Michael
• founded The Queen's Technical Training Institute for Women
• founded the Round Table Movement and owned Langford's Restaurant
• founded the the chief office of the London penny post
• founded this hospital
• founded what is now the Royal National Institute for Deaf People
• found her vocation as a writer for the very young
• Founding Member of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
• found the planet Uranus
• frequented
• frequently visited
• fried
• from this south easterly aspect made a breach in the town wall which allowed his troops to enter the town
• funded
• gave
• gave a lookout
• gave a public reading of "David Copperfield"
• gave birth to John Lennon
• gave his first London concert
• gave his heart and life to God
• gave money and timber
• gave selected readings from his many works
• gave the original pavilion to the club
• gave the world's first demonstration of street lighting by coal gas, from a retort
• gave this building to the People
• gave this building to the village
• gave this cottage
• gifted
• granted a charter
• grew the Bramley Apple Tree from a pip
• grew up
• guest at the villa
• had a bookshop
• had a coffee shop
• had a grainstore
• had a lease of a meadow
• had an evangelical conversion
• had a photography shop
• had a printing shop
• had a printing works
• had a shop here
• had a warehouse
• had a workshop
• had business premises
• had her fossil shop
• had Her Secretariat
• had her studio
• had his consulting rooms
• had his first shop
• had his home
• had his laboratory
• had his London showrooms
• had his museum
• had his music shop Beethoven House here
• had his observatory
• had his office
• had his original draper's shop here
• had his studio
• had his studio near
• had his works
• had its offices
• had rooms here
• had the first contact lens only practice
• had works performed
• hanged
• hanged near
• haunts
• headquartered
• headquarters when he with a force of 2000 men attacked Birmingham on Easter Monday 3rd April 1643
• he and his wife Josephine spent their winters here for over two decades
• held a Council of War
• held 'a satisfactory reading with the people'
• held editorial meetings
• held his wedding reception
• held house parties
• held its first meeting
• held its first two meetings
• held its sittings
• held meetings
• held their first flower show
• held the King of France captive
• helped
• helped preserve Old Bank House with Coleshill Civic Society
• Here in Joyce's imagination was born
• here perfected the first practical typewriter in September 1869
• hit his first home run as a professional near
• hospitalised
• imagined
• immortalised Pablo Fanque in the song Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite
• implanted
• imprisoned
• improved the cultural facilities for Clarks employees and other Streetonians
• inhabited this "dream-come-true" cottage
• injured
• inspired
• in this workshop he painted "Guernica"
• invented
• invented gas-lighting
• invented the first steam-engine
• invented the first successful pneumatic tyre
• invested his son
• is perceived to have lived and died here
• jailed for preaching the gospel
• jammed
• jumped over the wall
• killed
• killed near
• laid out grounds
• laid out his original cricket ground
• laid the foundation stone near
• landed
• landscaped
• last performed
• launched London's first antiques market
• leapt on horseback across the then narrower road cutting to escape his pursuers
• leased
• lectured
• led a rebellion
• left
• left a cup and sword
• left land
• liberated
• lies
• liked to sit and write at these steps
• lived
• lived and died in this house
• lived near
• located
• lodged
• lodged here in the 1920s
• lodged many "beautiful foreign ladies"
• lodged near
• lost the middleweight title
• made a declaration
• made a Freeman of the City
• made a house on this site his London home and studio
• made an announcement
• made a successful descent by a parachute from a balloon which ascended from
• made experiments with an air pump designed by his assistant Robert Hooke
• made her debut
• made the first locomotive
• made the first manned balloon ascent
• made Tunbridge ware
• managed
• manufactured
• manufactured hats
• manufactured locks and safes
• manufactured "Winner" brand bicycles
• marched
• marked
• married
• martyred
• martyred near
• master
• measured the one mile points along the roads from Cambridge
• member
• mentioned
• mentioned in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• met Charles Stewart Rolls
• met Frederick Henry Royce
• met frequently with literary friends and hill-walking friends
• met here
• met her future husband
• met his future wife Eva Leale
• met his untimely end
• met James Boswell
• met Michael Marks
• met regularly
• met Samuel Johnson
• met Tom Spencer
• minister
• mortally wounded
• moved to
• murdered
• murdered his estranged wife Mildred
• mustered Parliamentary troops
• named
• named after elm trees
• named after inn
• named after public house
• named after short-lived monastery
• named after the castle
• named after the church
• named after the quay
• noted
• observed the periodicity of the star ALGOL and discovered the variation of δ CEPHEI
• occupied
• oed
• once spent their summer holidays
• opened
• opened a boot and shoe shop
• opened a medical school
• opened an early Methodist preaching room
• opened a store
• opened a workshop
• opened the first Health Food Store in the United Kingdom
• opened the first Norwich office of the Excise
• opened the first printing office in Norwich near
• opened the first Waitrose shop
• opened the original shop which later became Huntley & Palmers
• opened the second Methodist Preaching House
• operated
• operated a sound system
• operated the ferry
• ordered commissioners to assemble for the revision of the liturgy
• ordered the building of the Great Tower
• organist
• originated and played the game of Lawn Tennis
• owned
• owned a house
• owned a photographic shop and studio
• owned a shop near
• owned Hey Green House
• owned land
• owned the generator
• owned the mill
• owned this factory
• painted
• painted his famous picture, "The Boyhood of Raleigh"
• painted "On The Shore, Bonchurch"
• participated
• passed through
• penned the immortal poem, "A Visit From Saint Nicholas", (T'was The Night Before Christmas)
• performed
• planned modern Solihull
• planted an elm
• played
• played a prominent role in the 18th century development of Georgian Limerick, known as Newtown Pery
• played at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton on 27 occasions
• played their first show here 15 May 1960 as the Silver Beetles
• portrait medallion
• portrayed
• practised
• practised from chambers
• practised law
• practised medicine
• practised orthopaedic surgery
• preached
• preached near
• Prebendary
• presented Gobshites
• presented to the town in November 1938 the river meadows
• presented to the town the public library
• printed England's first provincial newspaper
• printed two of his earliest works
• probably lived
• proclaimed Regent by the Jacobite Army near here
• produced Waterford Glass
• professor
• Professor of Greek
• progress was checked
• provided
• published in 1789 his autobiography on suffering the barbarity of slavery, which paved the way for its abolition
• published prints and guidebooks
• published the 'All The Year Round' magazine
• published the first edition of Thomas Paine's revolutionary pamphlet Common Sense
• published the first number of the Norwich Post near
• purchased
• raised a regiment of foot
• raised his standard
• raised the first troop of Gloucestershire Yeomanry
• ran a bank
• ran a bookshop
• ran a school
• ran the Bulls Head Inn
• ran The Dancing Club
• ran the first school in England for the education of deaf & dumb
• ran the oar-driven ferry
• ran the Rapier Players repertory company
• read
• read a paper before the Canadian Institute
• realized William H Tatum IV's dream to to find the Titanic
• rebuilt
• received
• Received her secondary education here
• received part of his education
• received the first transatlantic radio signals
• reconsolidated
• reconstructed a building called Wandle Cottage
• recorded
• recreated Shakespeare's Globe
• rector
• redeveloped
• rendered service from the garage
• renovated
• re-opened
• reputedly arrested
• reputed to have stayed at a hostelry
• resided
• residence of
• Residence of Spike's father Leo and grandfather Sgt William Milligan
• resident DJ
• rested in a coffin
• restored
• restored to the parishioners
• retired
• rode
• ruled the Cavendish hotel
• sailed from
• sat
• saved the City Road Basin
• scored
• scored 31 on the second nine to win his third Masters title
• scored rounds of 69-68-68-70 to win by six strokes and become the first four-time winner of The Masters
• sculpted
• sculptor of Bicentennial Washington
• secretly married
• seed
• sentenced
• served
• served his apprenticeship
• served his apprenticeship as a photographer
• set foot
• set forth
• set much of his novel A Confederacy of Dunces in the French Quarter around here
• set sail
• settled
• set up
• set up business
• sheltered
• shot
• sited
• site from which Chaucer's Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales set off in April 1386
• sketched
• sold for half a crown by her husband
• sold this house
• sought spiritual help
• spared the lives of The Burghers of Calais in 1347
• spectator
• speed
• spent a night at the house
• spent his active life and died
• spent his boyhood
• spent his childhood
• spent some time working in this hospital
• spoke
• Springfield native Seuss memorialized Mulberry Stree in the first book he authored 'And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street'
• started business from a workshop near
• started his aircraft component business
• stayed
• stayed in Weymouth
• stepped
• stood
• stood near
• stood without shoes on a market day and denounced the City of Lichfield
• stopped off en route for America
• stopped to take ale
• stopped to water his horse
• studied
• studied the galaxy
• sub-librarian
• supplied canal barges from his chandlery
• surrendered
• surveyed angles on the church tower
• surveyed routes
• sworn in as a constable
• taught
• taught mathematics
• taught near
• The Ballet Club and The Ballet Rambert
• the band performed here under the name U2 for the first time
• the "Motown Sound" was created on this site
• This lightwell is part of the burial ground of
• took a set of iconic images that graced the covers of the first two Specials albums
• took cuttings from the tree
• took place near
• took refuge
• took tea
• took the waters
• traded
• trained
• trained in the gymnasium
• transmitted
• transmitted Britains first official radio broadcast
• trial of the murderers of Ellen Hanley The Collen Bawn took place here
• tried
• trod the boards
• undefeated
• unveiled
• used as a hunting lodge
• used the Cornhill Standard
• used the experience of his father having been imprisoned here for debt in 1824 as the Marshalsea setting for his novel Little Dorrit
• Used these rotative beam engines and pumps which were a key part of his sewage system that rid London of cholera and typhoid
• used this site as the first commercial transatlantic wireless station
• used to sit
• vanquished
• visited
• visited Australia in 1920-1921 during a series of lecture tours on Spiritualism
• waited for a friend who did not turn up
• walked
• walked past
• was
• was a lecturer
• was a patient
• was a pupil
• was a shipbroker and timber merchant
• was a student
• was a water mill
• was beaten
• was bequeathed this house
• was Birmingham's first Member of Parliament
• was bombed
• was born twenty miles from Birmingham in Stratford-upon-Avon
• was brought
• was built near
• was burned at the stake near
• was burnt
• was christened at the nearby Norwegian Church
• was completed
• was consecrated the first bishop of the church in America
• was crowned King
• was curator of the Whitby Museum
• was denied entry
• was destroyed by a bomb
• was detained
• was director of the observatory
• was discovered
• was educated
• was entertained
• was entertained as a prisoner of war
• was erected
• was erected near
• was first made near
• was first woman mayor of
• was found
• was founded
• was Headmaster
• was his first workshop in Paris
• was housed
• was hung in chains near
• was in protective custody
• was inspired to paint
• was inspired to use Whitby as the setting of part of his world-famous novel Dracula
• was inspired to write Canada's national song
• was inspired to write her first novel published in 1857 under the name of George Eliot
• was interred
• was landlord
• was Librarian
• was licencee
• was Mayor
• was Mayor and councillor
• was ordained priest
• was ordinary Professor for mathematics
• was preserved
• was produced
• was Professor of Natural Philosophy
• was proprietor
• was published
• was put to death near
• was raised
• was received
• was reputedly born at No 7 Hoey's Court (now demolished) about 100 feet north west of this spot
• was situated
• was situated close to
• was the last Master
• was vanquished
• watched the rain
• went to school
• were Architects
• were installed
• were manufactured
• were struck
• What he called "The exact point of becoming U2" occurred here
• with his army of 5000 Barons and Londoners defeated royalist forces of twice that size under Henry III on the Downs northwest of Lewes
• worked
• worked near
• worshipped
• wrote
• wrote about
• wrote 'A Streetcar Named Desire' here
• wrote 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater'
• wrote 'Dial M For Murder'
• wrote Dracula whilst working at the Lyceum
• wrote her first novel, Alexander's Bridge
• wrote his autobiography, Black Boy
• wrote his PhD thesis
• wrote "Jumping Frog of Calaveras" here from notes made at Angels Camp Tavern
• wrote Middlemarch
• wrote part of "David Copperfield"
• wrote "Revelations of Divine Love"
• wrote six of his principal works
• wrote The Good Companions
• wrote the Mayor of Casterbridge based on this house
• wrote 'The Planets'
• wrote the poem "The Deil's Awa' Wi' Th'Exciseman"
• wrote 'You Only Live Twice'