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Envelopes are the paper covers that inclose letters or notes. They became common shortly after the introduction of the penny postage system in 1840 and were at first made chiefly by hand, but since the end of the 19th century were not only shaped, but folded, gummed, etc, by machinery. Envelopes for letters were first mentioned by Jonathan Swift in 1726.
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The Great Awakening was a religious revival in America between 1734 and 1744, through Massachusetts and Connecticut, induced by the eloquence of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. Jonathan Edwards had a parish at Northampton, George Whitefield was an Englishman. Their preaching aroused the greatest religious enthusiasm, and made hundreds of converts. The awakening was looked upon with disfavour in England.
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The half-way covenant was a concession made on the part of the Church by the New England Synod convened at Northampton in 1657, mainly in order to secure a more facile working in relation to the State. The requirements for church membership were relaxed in order that certain civil privileges might be obtained by those who had neither the ability nor willingness to make profession of religious experience. Such persons were admitted on grounds of baptism, but were still denied the lord's Supper. This half-way covenant aroused much controversy, and was later opposed by Jonathan Edwards and his followers.
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Lost In Space was an American science-fiction television series created by Iwin Allen about a space colony family (the Robinsons) struggling to survive after a stowaway saboteur throws their ship hopelessly off course. Lost In Space starred Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen, Bill Mumy, Angela Cartwright and Jonathan Harris as 'Doctor Smith'. Lost In Space ran from 1965 to 1968, with 83 episodes being made.
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The Road House Mystery was a murder that occurred in Wiltshire in 1860 in which four-year old Francis Savile Kent disappeared from his cot during the night and was found the next day in an outside privy - where his body had been thrown down the toilet but had caught on a splash board and so not disappeared into the cess pit beneath - with his throat cut and a stab wound to the heart. The case was investigated by detectives Jonathan Whicher and Adolphus Williamson of the Metropolitan Police. The police concluded that the murderer was the boy's sixteen-year old step-sister, Constance, but with insufficient evidence she was never convicted. She later confessed to the murder to a priest.
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The Scriblerus Club was a club of authors founded in 1714 by Jonathan Swift in London with the object of satirizing literary incompetence.
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Tale of a Tub is the title of a comedy written by Ben Jonson in 1633.
Tale of a Tub is a satirical poem written by Jonathan Swift in 1696, and first published anonymously in 1704. The satire is directed against church divisions and deals with three brothers: Peter (the Church of Rome), Martin (Luther) and Jack (Calvin). It is generally accepted that the poem prevented Jonathan Swift's preferment to a bishopric.
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The Words Upon The Window-pane is a one-act play about the last days of Jonathan Swift. It was written by W B Yeats in 1930.
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Idared is a variety of apple produced from a cross of Jonathan and Wagener and first raised in Penn Yan in 1791. The fruit is particularly suited to baking as it keeps its shape.
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Jonagold is an American variety of apple that is a cross of Jonathan and Golden Delicious. The latter contributes a yellow background to Jonagold, while its Jonathan parentage adds an orange-red blush. Some newer sports or mutations are dominantly red. Jonagold is an all-purpose apple that is firm and juicy with appealing shades of flavours from tart to sweet.
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