• Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of...
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    foundations from this period on the abbey site. Between 1042 and 1052, Edward the Confessor began rebuilding Saint Peter's Abbey to provide himself with a royal...
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    particularly Robert, abbot of the Norman abbey of Jumièges, who later became Edward's Archbishop of Canterbury. Edward was said to have developed an intense...
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    Westminster Abbey. The Coronation Chair was last used at the Coronation of King Charles the III and Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey in 2023. King Edward I of...
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  • Season in the Wilderness is an autobiographical work by American writer Edward Abbey, originally published in 1968. It is his fourth book and his first book-length...
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  • with a foreword by Edward Abbey. Much of the inspiration for the book, as well as the term "monkeywrenching", came from Edward Abbey's 1975 novel The Monkey...
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  • Mountain is a 1962 novel by Edward Abbey. It was Abbey's third published novel and followed Jonathan Troy and The Brave Cowboy. Abbey includes the following...
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  • the abbey that the writer William Morris called it a "National Valhalla". Henry III rebuilt Westminster Abbey in honour of the Royal Saint Edward the...
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  • character in Edward Abbey's novels The Monkey Wrench Gang and Hayduke Lives! Hayduke is portrayed as a rugged individualist in the books by Abbey, and has...
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  • The Monkey Wrench Gang (category Novels by Edward Abbey)
    Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1975. Abbey's most famous work of fiction, the novel concerns the...
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    Lodge in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, of Hatch Beauchamp in Somerset, of Netley Abbey, Hampshire, and of Hertford House, Cannon Row in Westminster, is most noted...
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  • Black Sun is a 1971 novel by Edward Abbey about a fire lookout who falls in love with an American girl and is wrongly blamed when she mysteriously disappears...
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  • terrorism has been debated. Monkeywrenching is a tactic popularized by Edward Abbey in his book The Monkey Wrench Gang that involves sabotaging equipment...
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    used by union strikers to describe poor white strikebreakers. Writers Edward Abbey and Dave Foreman also use "redneck" as a political call to mobilize poor...
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    of London). The abbey's origins date from between the 7th and 10th centuries, but it rose to national prominence when rebuilt by Edward the Confessor in...
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  • Brave is a 1962 American black and white Western film adaptation of the Edward Abbey novel The Brave Cowboy directed by David Miller from a screenplay by...
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  • Balmerino Abbey, or St Edward's Abbey, in Balmerino, Fife, Scotland, was a Cistercian monastery which has been ruinous since the 16th century. It was...
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    Hayduke Lives! (category Novels by Edward Abbey)
    Edward Abbey, is the sequel to the popular book The Monkey Wrench Gang. It was published posthumously in 1990 in a mildly unfinished state, as Abbey did...
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  • often compare Dillard to authors from the Transcendentalist movement; Edward Abbey in particular deemed her Thoreau's "true heir". Pilgrim at Tinker Creek...
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    Tintern Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Tyndyrn pronunciation) was founded on 9 May 1131 by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow. It is situated adjacent to the village...
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    of King Edward". At the time, King William was staying at Barking Abbey whilst he constructed the Tower of London. It was also at the abbey that King...
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  • people often referred to it by its original name, Kellysburg. The author Edward Abbey moved to Home in 1931, having been born in the Indiana hospital and spending...
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    Abbey Road Studios (formerly EMI Recording Studios) is a music recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London. It was established...
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    the model for the well-known character George Washington Hayduke in Edward Abbey's novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. Doug is the co-founder of several conservation...
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    of Edward's legitimacy as "opportunist special pleading" by Æthelwold. A genealogy created at Dunstan's Glastonbury Abbey around 969 gives Edward precedence...
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  • The Brave Cowboy (category Novels by Edward Abbey)
    The Brave Cowboy (1956) was Edward Abbey's second published novel. In 1993 Dream Garden Press produced a special limited edition of the book that includes...
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    contemporaneous sources, which all report that Edward died in battle. Edward's body is buried at Tewkesbury Abbey. His widow, Anne Neville, married the Duke...
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    possibilities. Edward was born on 2 November 1470 at Cheyneygates, the medieval house of the Abbot of Westminster, adjoining Westminster Abbey. His mother...
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    and abbeys (see Dissolution of the Monasteries). The Abbey was once known to have housed the remains of King Alfred the Great, his son, King Edward the...
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  • eco-terrorism occurred a number of years before the concept was popularized by Edward Abbey, Dave Foreman, and other environmentalists. In the years following Manson's...
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