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The Coercion Acts were Acts passed by the British parliament for the purpose of enforcing law and order in Ireland. Since the Union in 1800 the British Parliament was obliged to pass several Coercion Acts, especially towards the middle of the 19th century, when the Fenian Society aroused English feeling by various outrages.
In 1880 and 1881, when the agrarian movement in Ireland developed into something resembling a system of organised terrorism, culminating in the Phoenix Park murders, Gladstone's government, so as to put a stop to the state of lawlessness prevailing in the country, passed the Coercion Act of 1881, and the Crimes Act of 1882. By the first, the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland was empowered to arrest any person on mere suspicion, for treason and intimidation. A Coercion Bill, introduced by Balfour in 1887, was put in force in 1918, when the need again arose for the repression of crime in Ireland.
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Sculptor is a small constellation between Cetus and Phoenix formed by Lacaille in 1752.
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Toucan is a southern constellation located by Bayer in 1603 to the south of Phoenix.
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The date, is the fruit of the date palm or the tree itself, the Phoenix dactylifera. The
fruit is used extensively as an article of food by the natives of Northern Africa and of some countries of Asia. It consists of an external pericarp, separable into three portions and covering a seed which is hard and horny in consequence of the nature of the albumen in which the embryo plant is buried.
Next to the coconut tree the date is unquestionably the most interesting and useful of the palm tribe. Its stem shoots up to the height of 50 or 60 feet without branch or division, and of nearly the same thickness throughout its length. From the summit it throws out a magnificent crown of large feather-shaped leaves, and a number of spadices, each of which in the female plant bears a bunch of from 180 to 200 dates, each bunch weighing from 9 to 11 kgs. The fruit is eaten fresh or dried. Cakes of dates pounded and kneaded together are the food of the nomad Arabs who traverse the deserts. A liquor resembling wine is made from dates by fermentation. The Middle East, and the north of Africa are best adapted for the culture of the date-tree, and its fruit in these countries is an important article of food.
The Phoenix is a breed of chicken.
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The Phoenix moth (Eulithis punata) is a moth of the family Geometridae with a wing span of between 30 and 35 mm distributed throughout Europe, Asia and North America in the margins of deciduous forests and forest-steppes. They fly from June to September.
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The Small Phoenix (Ecliptopera silaceata) is a moth of the family Geometridae with a wing span of between 23 and 27 mm found in open woods, especially those near water, in Europe, Asia and North America flying from April to August.
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Sir Hyde Parker was a British naval officer. He was born in 1739 and died in 1807. He served on HMS Phoenix on the American station, and in 1776 engaged in the attack on New York. He conveyed the troops which captured Savannah in 1778.
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Joaquin Rafael Phoenix is a Puerto Rican actor and film producer. He was born in 1974 at San Juan. He starred in the 2005 film 'Walk the Line' as the singer 'Johnny Cash'.
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River Phoenix was an American actor, singer and song writer. He was born in 1970 and died in 1993 of drug misuse.
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