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2 days ago · Cromwell was born around 1485, the son of Walter Cromwell (c. 1450 - c. 1514), a yeoman, fuller and cloth merchant, and owner of both an hostelry and a brewery. A popular tradition that he also carried on the trade of blacksmith may have arisen from his use of the alternative surname of "Smith", rather than actually practising the trade.
3 days ago · In the latter part of the fifteenth century, Sir Edmund Courtenay, second son of Sir Philip Courtenay of Powderham, by Elizabeth, daughter of Walter, Lord Hungerford, and brother of Courtenay, Bishop of Winchester, having married the heiress of that manor, settled at Deviock in the parish of St. Germans.
1 day ago · Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC ( / ˈhjuːm /; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), styled as Lord Dunglass between 1918 and 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 until 1963, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.
6 days ago · Walter Lord (Baltimore 1917 - New York 2002) was an American author, best known for his documentary-style eyewitness accounts of historical events, such as Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor ("Day of Infamy"), the Battle of Midway ("Incredible Victory"), the Dunkirk evacuation ("The Miracle of Dunkirk") and -how suitable for this quiz ...
3 days ago · His story or variations of it has been told in many books and movies including The Day of Infamy by Walter Lord, At Dawn We Slept by Gordon Prange and Donald Goldstein, the movie Tora, Tora, Tora, and the movie Pearl Harbor. Pvt. Joseph McDonald started his shift at 5 p.m. on December 6, 1941.
5 days ago · Dear Lord, Please be with Walter in this time of crisis Lord..Bring healing to his body and spare his life that he may be a beacon of your love to the world. Comfort all who love him during this very trying to time so that they will tell of the goodness of God. We praise
5 days ago · In Scotland, a Baron or Baroness is a rank of the ancient nobility of the Baronage of Scotland, a title of honour, and refers to the holder of a barony, formerly a feudal superiority or prescriptive barony attached to land erected into a free barony by Crown Charter, this being the status of a minor baron, recognised by the crown as ...
