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Edmund

British  
/ ˈɛdmənd /

noun

  1. Saint, also called Saint Edmund Rich. 1175–1240, English churchman: archbishop of Canterbury (1234–40). Feast day: Nov 16.

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What makes the congress this year "unusual" is that "this is the strongest concentration of power in one individual that I've seen since 1991", Edmund Malesky, a professor of political economy at Duke University, told the BBC.

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There were both enough segregationists willing to use force and enough moderates watching from a distance that a peaceful attempt to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge would force a choice.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Grant is the founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer and the author of “Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution.”

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The second volume of Edmund Morris’s biographical trilogy about Theodore Roosevelt draws its title from an observation by Henry James: “Theodore Rex is at any rate a really extraordinary creature for native intensity, veracity and bonhomie.”

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The “age of chivalry is gone,” Edmund Burke lamented after the guillotining of Marie Antoinette of France on Oct.

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