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  • of Berkeley and his son Maurice. He was summoned to parliament from 1305 to 1324. He joined Guy Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, in carrying off Piers Gaveston...
    314 bytes (289 words) - 04:57, 28 December 2020
  • Booth, was opened in 1893. There are two piers, of which the Palace pier, near the site of the old chain pier (1823), which was washed away in 1896, is...
    325 bytes (910 words) - 15:52, 19 June 2016
  • breakers; Third Beach, more secluded than either; the Hanging Rocks, where Berkeley is said to have composed his Minute Philosopher; Lily Pond Beach; and the...
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  • and such—and she walks off the pier with the thirty thousand dollars matched pearls on her. Do you get me?” T. Berkeley nodded dully. “Now, the real pearls...
    98 KB (17,502 words) - 18:53, 23 August 2024
  • (called Oakland Harbour) divides Oakland from Alameda, and the railway piers of Oakland run directly out into the bay for more than 2 m. toward San Francisco...
    282 bytes (430 words) - 12:42, 31 March 2024
  • to buy it. I'm going to buy these hills, too, clear from here around to Berkeley and down the other way to San Leandro. I own a lot of them already, for...
    15 KB (2,707 words) - 13:14, 17 April 2012
  • conveyance of lease and release by the duke of York, of June 24, 1664, to Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, of land constituting the state of New Jersey;...
    34 KB (5,756 words) - 12:42, 20 December 2017
  • short trip, in the shape of wearing apparel, etc., I took the Berkeley train to the Oakland pier, and crossing the bay to San Francisco, engaged a room at...
    358 bytes (3,257 words) - 03:18, 25 February 2024
  • Changes in the Language to the Days of Chaucer The Anglo-French Law Language “Piers the Plowman” and its Sequence Religious Movements in the Fourteenth Century...
    9 KB (1,114 words) - 07:08, 10 October 2022
  • his son’s defects to the bad influence of his friend, the Gascon knight Piers Gaveston, and drove the favourite into exile. When Edward I. died, on the...
    366 bytes (1,546 words) - 15:39, 10 June 2022
  • Sharpness Point, from which place there is a ship canal, known as the Berkeley Canal, to Gloucester. Below Sharpness the estuary of the Severn continues...
    396 bytes (2,358 words) - 13:36, 16 November 2011
  • under Twin Peaks (1917). In 1921 the port of San Francisco had 41 modern piers with a total area of 4,500,000 sq. ft., providing for more than 1,200,000...
    9 KB (1,464 words) - 20:07, 5 November 2023
  • piles down into the mud of San Francisco Bay. The pier was to be three miles long, and the Berkeley hills were denuded of whole groves of mature eucalyptus...
    15 KB (2,833 words) - 13:14, 17 April 2012
  • telescope was made by Warner and Swasey, of Cleveland. The whole weight of iron pier and mounting is about 37 tons. The moving parts of the latter weigh about...
    8 KB (1,406 words) - 20:05, 21 June 2011
  • Johnson and Berkeley was the most notable in the history of early American thought. It is a great literary loss that not all of Berkeley's letters have...
    302 bytes (6,876 words) - 02:49, 31 December 2020
  • was thrice married: first, to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, tenth lord Berkeley, by whom he had no issue; secondly, to Elizabeth, daughter of John, ninth...
    348 bytes (2,015 words) - 03:15, 28 December 2020
  • summons to parliament as a baron along with Sir William Sandys, Sir Maurice Berkeley, and Sir Nicholas Vaux (ib. No. 2982), but the writer was certainly misinformed...
    375 bytes (2,050 words) - 18:12, 18 December 2021
  • died. There was a certain favorite of his, a young man from Gascony, named Piers Gaveston, of whom his father had so much disapproved that he had ordered...
    422 bytes (3,971 words) - 20:35, 19 November 2023
  • few great baronial families, such as the earls of Gloucester and the Berkeleys, in its early history, and to a few great merchants, the Canyngs, Shipwards...
    297 bytes (4,242 words) - 20:34, 21 February 2020
  • have walked with brisk elated tread. Instead I crossed the dimly lighted pier shed, where yellow lamps burned wanly overhead, with lagging step, dragging...
    94 bytes (3,679 words) - 11:45, 8 May 2022
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