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2 days ago · Sir Lord Baltimore is famous for being in on the ground floor of metal music. “Hard Rain Fallin’” is from their debut album, Kingdom Come, notable for being the first ever described as “heavy metal” in print. During their brief run, Sir Lord Baltimore opened for rockers the likes of Black Sabbath and J. Geils.
3 days ago · Second World War. Awards. See list. Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [n 1] (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family.
3 days ago · Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT , PC ( / ˈhjuːm / HEWM; 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.
3 days ago · The colony, and eventually state, of Maryland had been founded in 1688 by Lord Baltimore, a Catholic, originally as a haven for Catholics arriving in North America. But later on, Protestants largely took over the government and Catholics were not permitted to worship openly.
4 days ago · Even Maryland, founded on the principle of religious freedom by Lord Baltimore, fined Catholics for not attending officially sanctioned church services.) In 1829, Parliament granted Catholics full citizenship and the hierarchy was not reinstated until 1850.
1 day ago · The Lord Deputy of Ireland, Sir Henry Sidney, conducted an official investigation which did not find any indications of foul play but "a disease appropriate to this country ... whereof ... died many".
5 days ago · The lord Darcy beinge lord chamberleyn bore the king's trayne, and was assisted by sir Andrew Dudley, chief gentleman of the privy chamber." (From a paper of precedents in MS. L. 15, in Coll. Arm. p. 130.)
