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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
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Ain't
Ain't is a contraction for am not, is not, are not, has not, and have not in the common English language vernacular.
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Anchor
An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current.
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Anglo-German naval arms race
The arms race between the United Kingdom and the German Empire that occurred from the last decade of the nineteenth century until the advent of World War I in 1914 was one of the intertwined causes of that conflict.
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Arts Council England
Arts Council England is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
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Baggeridge Colliery
Baggeridge Colliery was a colliery located in Sedgley, Staffordshire (was West Midlands), England.
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Barrow Hill Local Nature Reserve
Barrow Hill Local Nature Reserve is a local nature reserve situated in Pensnett in the county of West Midlands, England.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.
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BBC News Online
BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.
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BBC WM
BBC WM 95.6 (previously BBC Radio WM) is the BBC Local Radio service serving the West Midlands conurbation and parts of south Staffordshire, operated by BBC Birmingham.
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Beer
Beer is one of the oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic drinks in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea.
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Bilbo Baggins
Bilbo Baggins is the title character and protagonist of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit, as well as a supporting character in The Lord of the Rings.
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Bilston
Bilston is a town in the English county of West Midlands, situated in the southeastern corner of the City of Wolverhampton.
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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Birmingham Canal Navigations
Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN) is a network of canals connecting Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and the eastern part of the Black Country.
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Birmingham Mail
The Birmingham Mail or the Black Country Mail in the Black Country is a tabloid newspaper based in Birmingham, England but distributed around Birmingham, The Black Country, and Solihull and parts of Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire.
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Bitter (beer)
Bitter is a British style of pale ale that varies in colour from gold to dark amber, and in strength from 3% to 7% alcohol by volume.
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Black Country Bugle
The Black Country Bugle is a paid-for weekly publication, which highlights the industrial heritage, history, legends, local humour and readers' stories pertaining to the Black Country region, which forms the western half of the West Midlands conurbation of England.
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Black Country Development Corporation
The Black Country Development Corporation was an urban development corporation established in May 1987 to develop land in the Metropolitan Boroughs of Sandwell and Walsall in England.
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Black Country Living Museum
The Black Country Living Museum (formerly The Black Country Museum) is an open-air museum of rebuilt historic buildings in Dudley in the West Midlands of England.
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Black Country Woman
"Black Country Woman" is the fourteenth song on English rock band Led Zeppelin's 1975 album Physical Graffiti.
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Blackheath, West Midlands
Blackheath is a town and ward in the Rowley Regis area of the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, in the county of West Midlands, England.
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Blast furnace
A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper.
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Bradley
Bradley is an English surname derived from a place name meaning "broad wood" or "broad meadow" in Old English.
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Brewery
A brewery or brewing company is a business that makes and sells beer.
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Brewing
Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
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Brickworks
A brickworks, also known as a brick factory, is a factory for the manufacturing of bricks, from clay or shale.
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Brierley Hill
Brierley Hill is a small town and electoral ward of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, in the West Midlands of England, and is situated approximately 2.5 miles south of central Dudley and 2 miles north of Stourbridge.
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Calymene blumenbachii
Calymene blumenbachii, sometimes erroneously spelled blumenbachi, is a species of trilobite discovered in the limestone quarries of Wren's Nest Hill in Dudley, England.
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Cannock Chase Coalfield
Cannock Chase Coalfield is a coalfield in Staffordshire, England, lying directly under Cannock Chase.
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Carbon steel
Carbon steel is a steel with carbon content up to 2.1% by weight.
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Chain
A chain is a serial assembly of connected pieces, called links, typically made of metal, with an overall character similar to that of a rope in that it is flexible and curved in compression but linear, rigid, and load-bearing in tension.
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Charcoal
Charcoal is the lightweight black carbon and ash residue hydrocarbon produced by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.
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Charles I of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
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Charles Stuart, that man of blood
Charles Stuart, that man of blood was a phrase used by Independents, during the English Civil War to describe King Charles I. The phrase is derived from the Bible: This and another verse were used to justify regicide.
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Coke (fuel)
Coke is a fuel with a high carbon content and few impurities, usually made from coal.
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Coking
Coking is the deposition of carbon-rich solids.
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Coseley
Coseley is a suburban area in the north of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, in the English West Midlands.
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Cradley Heath
Cradley Heath is a small town and ward in the Rowley Regis area of the borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England.
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Daniel Batham and Son
Bathams is a brewery in Brierley Hill, West Midlands, England established in 1877 in a former slaughterhouse.
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Darlaston
Darlaston is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands of England.
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Digbeth
Digbeth is an area of Central Birmingham, England.
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Domesday Book
Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.
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Dud Dudley
Dudd (Dud) Dudley (1600–1684) was an English metallurgist, who fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War as a soldier, military engineer, and supplier of munitions.
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Dudley
Dudley is a large town in the county of West Midlands, England, south-east of Wolverhampton and north-west of Birmingham.
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Dudley Canal
The Dudley Canal is a canal passing through Dudley in the West Midlands of England.
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Dudley Docker
Frank Dudley Docker CB (26 August 1862 – 8 July 1944), known as Dudley Docker, was an English businessman and financier.
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Dudley Port railway station
Dudley Port railway station in Tipton, West Midlands, England, is on the Stour Valley Line.
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Dudley Tunnel
Dudley Tunnel is a canal tunnel on the Dudley Canal Line No 1, England.
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Early Modern English
Early Modern English, Early New English (sometimes abbreviated to EModE, EMnE or EME) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.
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Elihu Burritt
Elihu Burritt (December 8, 1810 – March 6, 1879) was an American diplomat, philanthropist and social activist.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–11) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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English Civil War
The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers") over, principally, the manner of England's governance.
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Express & Star
The Express & Star is a regional evening newspaper in Britain.
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F&W Media International
F&W Media International Limited, formerly known as David & Charles Publishers (also styled as David and Charles), is a publisher of illustrated non-fiction books, eBooks, digital products, craft patterns and online education courses.
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Faggot (food)
Faggots are a traditional dish in the UK, especially South and Mid Wales and the Midlands of England.
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Fire clay
Fire clay is a range of refractory clays used in the manufacture of ceramics, especially fire brick.
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Flag Institute
The Flag Institute is an educational charity headquartered in London, UK.
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Flag of the Black Country
The Black Country flag is the flag of the Black Country, England.
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Foundry
A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings.
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Free Radio Shropshire & Black Country
Free Radio Shropshire & Black Country (previously known as Beacon Radio), is an Independent Local Radio station serving Shropshire and the Black Country in the West Midlands region of England.
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Geoffrey Eley
Sir Geoffrey Cecil Ryves Eley (18 July 1904 – 17 May 1990) was a British businessman and author.
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Geological Society of London
The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom.
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George Askwith, 1st Baron Askwith
George Ranken Askwith, 1st Baron Askwith, KCB, KC (17 February 1861 - 2 June 1942), known as Sir George Askwith between 1911 and 1919, was an English lawyer, civil servant and industrial arbitrator.
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Groaty pudding
Groaty pudding (also known as Groaty Dick) is a traditional dish from the Black Country in England.
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H. H. Asquith
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928), generally known as H. H. Asquith, was a British statesman of the Liberal Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.
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Halesowen
Halesowen is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands, England.
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Ham hock
A ham hock (or hough) or pork knuckle is the joint between the tibia/fibula and the metatarsals of the foot of a pig, where the foot was attached to the hog's leg.
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Hamstead, West Midlands
Hamstead is an area straddling the border of Birmingham and Sandwell, England, between Handsworth Wood and Great Barr, and adjacent to the Sandwell Valley area of West Bromwich.
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Harborne
Harborne is an area of south-west Birmingham, England three miles (5 km) southwest from Birmingham city centre.
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Holdens Brewery
Holden's Brewery is a family-run English regional brewery.
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Holloware
Holloware (hollowware, or hollow-ware) is metal tableware such as sugar bowls, creamers, coffee pots, teapots, soup tureens, hot food covers, water jugs, platters, butter pat plates, and other items that go with the dishware on a table.
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I54
i54 South Staffordshire is a 239-acre (98 hectare) UK technology-based business park strategically located at Junction 2 on the M54 Motorway in the West Midlands, on the boundary of South Staffordshire and Wolverhampton.
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IMI plc
IMI plc, formerly Imperial Metal Industries, is a British-based engineering company headquartered in Birmingham, England.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (Tolkien pronounced his surname, see his phonetic transcription published on the illustration in The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. (The History of Middle-earth; 6). In General American the surname is also pronounced. This pronunciation no doubt arose by analogy with such words as toll and polka, or because speakers of General American realise as, while often hearing British as; thus or General American become the closest possible approximation to the Received Pronunciation for many American speakers. Wells, John. 1990. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow: Longman, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
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Jaguar Land Rover
Jaguar Land Rover Automotive PLC is the holding company of Jaguar Land Rover Limited, a British multinational automotive company with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, United Kingdom, and a subsidiary of Indian automotive company Tata Motors.
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James Brindley
James Brindley (1716 – 27 September 1772) was an English engineer.
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John Wilkinson (industrialist)
John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson (1728 – 14 July 1808) was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution.
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John William Willis-Bund
John William Bund Willis-Bund (8 August 1843 – 7 June 1928) was a British historian and local Worcestershire politician.
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Joseph Jukes
Joseph Beete Jukes (10 October 1811 – 29 July 1869), born to John and Sophia Jukes at Summer Hill, Birmingham, England, was a renowned geologist, author of several geological manuals and served as a naturalist on the expeditions of (under the command of Francis Price Blackwood).
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Julia Varley
Julia Varley OBE (born 1871 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England; died 1952 in Yorkshire) was an English trade unionist and suffragette.
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Kinver
Kinver is a large village in South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England.
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Lancashire
Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.
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Lichfield
Lichfield is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England.
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Lichfield Cathedral
Lichfield Cathedral is situated in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England.
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Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
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List of diplomatic missions of the United States
This is a list of diplomatic missions of the United States of America.
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List of metropolitan economies in the United Kingdom
This list of metropolitan economies in the United Kingdom is compiled by the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and based upon the UK metropolitan areas defined by the ESPON project of the European Union.
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Local enterprise partnership
In England, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) are voluntary partnerships between local authorities and businesses set up in 2011 by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to help determine local economic priorities and lead economic growth and job creation within the local area.
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London and North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.
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Lye, West Midlands
Lye or The Lye is a suburban area of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, in the West Midlands of England.
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Made in Birmingham
Made in Birmingham is a local television station, serving Birmingham, the Black Country, Wolverhampton and Solihull in the West Midlands of England.
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Metallum Martis
Metallum Martis, a 1665 book by Dud Dudley, is the earliest known reference to the use of coal in metallurgical smelting.
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Metropolitan borough
A metropolitan borough is a type of local government district in England, and is a subdivision of a metropolitan county.
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Metropolitan Borough of Dudley
The Metropolitan Borough of Dudley is a metropolitan borough of West Midlands in England.
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Metropolitan Borough of Walsall
The Metropolitan Borough of Walsall is a local government district in the West Midlands, England, with the status of a metropolitan borough.
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Microbrewery
A microbrewery or craft brewery is a brewery that produces small amounts of beer (or sometimes root beer), typically much smaller than large-scale corporate breweries, and is independently owned.
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Middle English
Middle English (ME) is collectively the varieties of the English language spoken after the Norman Conquest (1066) until the late 15th century; scholarly opinion varies but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period of 1150 to 1500.
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Mild ale
The term "mild" originally meant young beer or ale, as opposed to "stale" aged beer or ale with its resulting "tang".
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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
The Ministry of Defence (MoD or MOD) is the British government department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by Her Majesty's Government and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is the UK Government department for Housing, communities and local government in England.
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Mordor
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, Mordor (pronounced; from Sindarin Black Land and Quenya Land of Shadow) was the region occupied and controlled by Sauron, in the southeast of northwestern Middle-earth to the East of Anduin, the great river.
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My Brother Jonathan
My Brother Jonathan is a 1948 British drama film directed by Harold French, adapted from a novel by Francis Brett Young.
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Netherton, West Midlands
Netherton is an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, south of Dudley town centre in the West Midlands of England, but historically in Worcestershire.
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Newcomen atmospheric engine
The atmospheric engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, and is often referred to simply as a Newcomen engine.
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Nonsuch Palace
Nonsuch Palace was a Tudor royal palace, built by Henry VIII in Surrey, England; it stood from 1538 to 1682–83.
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Old Hill
Old Hill is in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands, England.
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Oldbury, West Midlands
Oldbury is a town in Sandwell, West Midlands, England.
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Pays Noir
The Pays Noir (English: "Black Country") refers to a region of Belgium, centered on Charleroi in the province of Hainaut in Wallonia so named for the geological presence of coal.
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Physical Graffiti
Physical Graffiti is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released as a double album on 24 February 1975 by their newly founded imprint label Swan Song Records.
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Pork rind
Pork rind is the culinary term for the skin of a pig.
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Prebendary
tags--> A prebendary is a senior member of clergy, normally supported by the revenues from an estate or parish.
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Proper noun
A proper noun is a noun that in its primary application refers to a unique entity, such as London, Jupiter, Sarah, or Microsoft, as distinguished from a common noun, which usually refers to a class of entities (city, planet, person, corporation), or non-unique instances of a specific class (a city, another planet, these persons, our corporation).
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Proto-industrialization
Proto-industrialization (also spelled proto-industrialisation) was a possible phase in the development of modern industrial economies that preceded, and created conditions for, the establishment of fully industrial societies.
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Richard Foley (ironmaster)
Richard Foley (1580–1657) was a prominent English ironmaster.
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River Stour, Worcestershire
The Stour is a river flowing through the counties of Worcestershire, the West Midlands and Staffordshire in the West Midlands region of England.
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River Tame, West Midlands
The River Tame is the main river of the West Midlands of England, and the most important tributary of the River Trent.
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River Trent
The River Trent is the third-longest river in the United Kingdom.
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RMS Titanic
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.
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Robert Porter (sword-cutler)
Robert Porter (after 1603–1648) was a sword-cutler in Birmingham who supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.
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Round Oak Steelworks
The Round Oak Steelworks was an important steel production plant in Brierley Hill, West Midlands (formerly Staffordshire), England.
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Sandwell
Sandwell is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands county in England.
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Sarah Hughes Brewery
The Sarah Hughes Brewery is a brewery sited at Sedgley in the Black Country region of England.
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Scottish Register of Tartans
The Scottish Register of Tartans is Scotland's official register of tartan.
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Sedgley
Sedgley is an area in the north of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands, England.
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Shire horse
The Shire is a British breed of draught horse.
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Sillon industriel
The Sillon industriel ("industrial furrow") is the former industrial backbone of Belgium.
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Sindarin
Sindarin is a fictional language devised by J. R. R. Tolkien for use in his fantasy stories set in Arda, primarily in Middle-earth.
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Slitting mill
The slitting mill was a watermill for slitting bars of iron into rods.
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Smethwick
Smethwick is a town in Sandwell, West Midlands, historically in Staffordshire.
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South Staffordshire Coalfield
The South Staffordshire Coalfield is one of several coalfields in the English Midlands.
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South Staffordshire Railway
The South Staffordshire Railway was the railway company responsible for building several lines in and around the area of Staffordshire, England.
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Steel mill
A steel mill or steelworks is an industrial plant for the manufacture of steel.
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Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of.
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Stourbridge
Stourbridge is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands county of England.
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Stourbridge Canal
The Stourbridge Canal is a canal in the West Midlands of England.
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Strong ale
Strong ale is a type of ale, usually above 5% abv and often higher, between 7% to 11% abv, which spans a number of beer styles, including old ale, barley wine and Burton ale.
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Syndicalism
Syndicalism is a proposed type of economic system, considered a replacement for capitalism.
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Tartan
Tartan (breacan) is a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours.
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The Illustrated London News
The Illustrated London News appeared first on Saturday 14 May 1842, as the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.
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The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien.
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The Lunt
The Lunt is a residential area of Bilston within the city of Wolverhampton and is part of the West Midlands conurbation in England.
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The Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Curiosity Shop is one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841.
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TheGuardian.com
TheGuardian.com, formerly known as Guardian.co.uk and Guardian Unlimited, is a British news and media website owned by the Guardian Media Group.
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Tipton
Tipton is a town in the West Midlands, England, with a population of around 38,777 at the 2011 UK Census.
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Tom Mann
Thomas Mann (15 April 1856 – 13 March 1941) was a noted British trade unionist.
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Ton
The ton is a unit of measure.
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Tourist attraction
A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited natural or cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, offering leisure and amusement.
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Turners Hill, West Midlands
Turners Hill or Turner's Hill is the highest hill in the West Midlands, England, at 271m above sea level.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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Walsall
Walsall is an industrial town in the West Midlands of England.
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Warley, West Midlands
The Edwardian drinking fountain in Warley Woods Park, in 2013 Warley is an area now in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands of the United Kingdom.
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Wednesbury
Wednesbury is a market town in England's Black Country, part of the Sandwell metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, near the source of the River Tame.
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Wednesfield
Wednesfield is a historic village and residential area within the city of Wolverhampton, West Midlands.
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West Bromwich
West Bromwich is a town in the borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England.
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West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county and city region in western-central England with a 2014 estimated population of 2,808,356, making it the second most populous county in England.
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William Gresley (divine)
William Gresley (16 March 1801 – 19 November 1876) was an English divine.
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Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.
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Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Wolverhampton Art Gallery is located in the City of Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands, United Kingdom.
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Woodsetton, Dudley
Woodsetton is an area of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough in the West Midlands of England, roughly northwest of Dudley Town Centre.
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Workers' Union
The Workers' Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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Yorkshire
Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Country
