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Baldwin I

American  

noun

  1. 1058–1118, king of Jerusalem 1100–18: fought in the first crusade.


Baldwin I British  

noun

  1. 1058–1118, crusader and first king of Jerusalem (1100–18), who captured Acre (1104), Beirut (1109), and Sidon (1110)

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I feel like reading someone like Baldwin, I was like “No.”

From Slate • Nov. 9, 2018

“There are people in Washington going, ‘That Alec Baldwin, I hate him’… and there are others that say, ‘Thank you, for helping us process this.’

From Washington Times • Oct. 12, 2018

“If it had not been written by James Baldwin, I doubt that it would deserve more than a mention in a reviewers’ roundup of recent books,” Julius Lester wrote in The Times in 1977.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2018

There’s a scene in the new movie about James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro, in which Robert Kennedy predicts, in 1968, that in 40 years there will be a black president.

From The Guardian • Mar. 13, 2017

"Disabuse it at once, Sir Baldwin," I said bitterly.

From The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Rohmer, Sax