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  • 91Laird — A Laird (Lord) is a hereditary title for the owner of a landed estate in Scotland. The title of Laird may carry certain local or feudal rights, though unlike a Lordship, a Lairdship has never carried voting rights, either in the historic… …

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  • 92Lamberton, Scottish Borders — Lamberton is a hilly ancient parish and former landed estate in Berwickshire, Scotland, its eastern boundary being the North Sea. It is four miles north of Berwick upon Tweed, and is the first Scottish parish reached after crossing the border… …

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  • 93Chinn Ho — (26 February 1904 12 May 1987) was an entrepreneur, businessman, philanthropist, and self made millionaire who pioneered Asian involvement in the Hawaiian business community. Contents 1 Career 2 Family 3 Further reading 4 …

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  • 94Mantal — has been an official measure of land in Finland and in Sweden. The mantal is a measure of the wealth of a farm, not a simple unit of area, as it depends on the productivity of the land. It is an apportionment figure. A cameral measurement… …

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  • 95latifundium — [ˌlα:tɪ fʌndɪəm, ˌlatɪ ] noun (plural latifundia) a large landed estate or ranch in ancient Rome or in Spain or Latin America. Origin C17: from L., from latus broad + fundus landed estate …

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  • 96Privy Purse — In the past, the UK s Civil Government day to day costs were paid for by the sovereign under normal circumstances, the monies in this Public Purse being raised from the income of the Crown Estate lands and holdings. Under extraordinary… …

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  • 97countryseat — noun an estate in the country • Hypernyms: ↑estate, ↑land, ↑landed estate, ↑acres, ↑demesne * * * ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : a country mansion or estate; especially …

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  • 98William Thompson (philosopher) — William Thompson (1775 ndash; 28 March 1833 Rosscarbery, Co. Cork) was an Irish political and philosophical writer and social reformer, developing from utilitarianism into an early critic of capitalist exploitation whose ideas influenced the… …

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  • 99Box, Wiltshire — infobox UK place country = England official name= Box shire district= North Wiltshire shire county = Wiltshire region= South West England population=3,439 (2001 census) os grid reference= longitude= 2.252197265625 latitude= 51.414732211629115… …

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  • 100History of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union (1917–1927) — The History of the Soviet Union has roots in the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, emerged as the main political force in the capital of the former Russian Empire, though they had to fight a long and bloody civil… …

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