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  2. Megxit - Wikipedia

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    Megxit is a play on the term 'Brexit' and refers to Prince Harry and his wife Meghan stepping back as members of the British royal family.It derives from Meg(han) + (e)xit; influenced by Brexit, [33] which was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community at the end of January 2020.

  3. William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    His date of birth is unknown but is traditionally observed on 23 April, Saint George's Day. [1] This date, which can be traced to William Oldys and George Steevens, has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare died on the same date in 1616. [4] [5] He was the third of eight children, and the eldest surviving son. [6]

  4. Shakespearean history - Wikipedia

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    The above tables exclude Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (composed c. 1589, revised c. 1593), which is not closely based on Roman history or legend but which, it has been suggested, may have been written in reply to Marlowe's Dido, Queene of Carthage, Marlowe's play presenting an idealised picture of Rome's origins, Shakespeare's "a terrible ...

  5. Modern English - Wikipedia

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    Modern English, sometimes called New English (NE) [2] or present-day English (PDE) as opposed to Middle and Old English, is the form of the English language that has been spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the late 14th century and was completed by the 17th century.

  6. William Shakespeare (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare was born to William Shakespeare, Sr. and Lydia A. Markley in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1869. [1] He invented the level-winding fishing reel. [2] Shakespeare also founded and was one of the key people of Shakespeare Fishing Tackle, [3] which he founded in 1897, as a fisherman aiming to improve the fishing-reel mechanism.

  7. Hamlet - Wikipedia

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    The earliest date estimate relies on Hamlet ' s frequent allusions to Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, itself dated to mid-1599. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] The latest date estimate is based on an entry, of 26 July 1602, in the Register of the Stationers' Company , indicating that Hamlet was "latelie Acted by the Lo: Chamberleyne his servantes ".

  8. Shakespeare authorship question - Wikipedia

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    That same year Derby was recorded as financing one of London's two children's drama companies, Paul's Boys; he also had his own company, Derby's Men, which played multiple times at court in 1600 and 1601. [268] Derby was born three years before Shakespeare and died in 1642, so his lifespan fits the consensus dating of the works.

  9. Per Georg Scheutz - Wikipedia

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    This machine, which he constructed with his son Edvard Scheutz, was based on Charles Babbage's difference engine. In 1851 they obtained funds from government to build an improved model, which was created in 1853 (was roughly the size of a piano), and subsequently demonstrated at the World's Fair in Paris, 1855 .