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  • 21Oyez — This article is about the Anglo Norman word still used as a tradition in law. For the website, see Oyez.org. Oyez (pronounced /ˈoʊjɛs/ (with an ess sound)[citation needed], /ˈoʊjeɪ/) is a traditional interjection said three times in succession to …

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  • 22New Year Honours 2006 — The New Year Honours 2006 for the Commonwealth Realms were announced on 31 December, 2005, to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 2006.The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and… …

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  • 232006 New Year Honours — The New Year Honours 2006 for the Commonwealth realms were announced on 31 December 2005, to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 2006. The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and… …

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  • 24Hall-Mills Murder — The Hall Mills Murder involved the death of an Episcopal priest and a member of his choir on September 14, 1922, while they were having an affair. The suspected murderers were the priest s wife and her brothers, but they were never convicted.… …

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  • 25Mitchell Melton — Mitchell Wesley Melton Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 196th district In office January 7, 1969 – November 30, 1972 …

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  • 26John Snell — Sir John Snell (1629 – August 6 1679), founder of the Snell exhibitions at the University of Oxford, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of a blacksmith.He joined the royalists during the English civil war, and fought in several battles,… …

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  • 27George W. Hayes — Hon. George W. Hayes (1847 1933) was a former slave and first black court crier in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. Mr. Hayes married Mamie Forte in 1874 and they had five children. He later served three terms in the Ohio General Assembly, as a …

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  • 28tipstaff — (n.) 1540s, tipped staff (truncheon with a tip or cap of metal) carried as an emblem of office, from TIP (Cf. tip) (n.) + STAFF (Cf. staff) (n.). As the name of an official who carries one (esp. a sheriff s officer, bailiff, constable, court… …

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  • 29beadle — n. 1. Court crier, servitor, apparitor, summoner. 2. Bedell, university mace carrier. 3. Church servitor, parish petty constable …

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  • 30oyez — /oʊˈjɛs / (say oh yes), /oʊˈjɛz / (say oh yez) interjection Archaic hear! attend! (a cry uttered, usually thrice, by a public or court crier to command silence and attention before a proclamation, etc., is made.) Also, oyes. {Anglo French: hear… …