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A burgess was the holder of a certain status in an English or Scottish borough in the Middle Ages and the early modern period, designating someone of the burgher class. It originally meant a freeman of a borough or burgh , but later came to be used mostly for office-holders in a town or one of its representatives in the House of Commons of ...
Earthly Powers is a panoramic saga novel of the 20th century by Anthony Burgess first published on October 13th 1980. It begins with the "outrageously provocative" [1] first sentence: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."
At a later proceeding, Burgess pleaded guilty for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine in Federal Court. [4] At his sentencing, the judge applied to Burgess the "prior conviction" statute, which required a minimum twenty-year sentence for anyone with a prior "felony drug conviction."
The House of Burgesses (/ ˈ b ɜːr dʒ ə s ɪ z /) was the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly from 1619 to 1776. It existed during the colonial history of the United States in the Colony of Virginia in what was then British America.
How did a Boston nurse end up developing the FBI's modern day psychological profile for serial killers? Hulu's "Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer" shares 87-year-old Dr. Ann Burgess' story of ...
"(Burgess)" is used in many titles of linked articles or planned articles below to distinguish members of the Virginia House of Burgesses from other persons with the same name. Two burgesses of the same name are distinguished by showing the first year served in the assembly after the word "burgess" in the link.
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Burgess model, or Concentric zone model, a theoretical model in urban geography; Burgess reagent, used in organic chemistry; Burgess Shale, a fossil-bearing formation near Mount Burgess in Canada; Church Burgesses, an English charitable organisation; House of Burgesses, Virginia, U.S. The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh