The English Mercurie is a literary hoax purporting to be the first English newspaper. It is apparently an account of the English battle with the Spanish...
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hotel. The Emulex hoax, a stock manipulation scheme. The English Mercurie, a literary hoax purporting to be the first English-language newspaper. The Fiji...
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Spanish Armada (redirect from English defeat of Spanish Armada)
Invisible armada The Armada Service The English Mercurie Although the English attempted the same tactic in Portugal the following year, the army under Norris'...
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little in the way of financial success and he committed suicide aged 17, penniless, alone and half-starved.[citation needed] The English Mercurie appeared...
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History of British newspapers (category Use British English from September 2014)
Online The English Mercurie, an 18th-century hoax newsbook. Perfect Occurrences—a newspaper of the English Civil War period, favoured by the Parliament...
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Freddie Mercury (redirect from Freddy Mercurie)
attended English boarding schools in India from the age of eight and returned to Zanzibar after secondary school. In 1964, his family fled the Zanzibar...
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Theophilus Wodenote (category Use British English from February 2022)
Theologus: or a Divine Mercurie dispatcht with a grave Message of New Descants upon Old Records, London, 1649, 12mo, edited with a preface by the Rev. Edward Simmons...
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John Cotgrave (category 17th-century English writers)
recorded: The Covrt Mercurie (1644). Journal. London: Tho. Forrest. Le Mercure Anglois (1644–1648). Journal. London: Robert White (in French). The English treasury...
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Charles le Grosse (category Use British English from November 2016)
ornament Conspicuously dost to our eyes present Phoebus, the Muses nine, the Graces three, Mercurie, and Mars, yea more Gods then bee In Homers Iliads; or...
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