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trevelyan

truh vel yuhn

  • n  English historian and son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan whose works include a social history of England and a biography of Garibaldi (1876-1962)
  • n  English historian who wrote a history of the American revolution and a biography of his uncle Lord Macaulay (1838-1928)
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  • Belgian plane crashes with skydivers on board, 11 dead
    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A small Pilatus plane carrying a group of skydivers crashed in Belgium on Saturday, killing all 11 people on board, a fire brigade spokesman said. There were no details on the cause of the crash near Fernelmont, a small town some 75 km (47 miles) south-east of Brussels. (Reporting by Robert-Jan Bartunek, editing by Foo Yun Chee and Mark Trevelyan)
    Oct. 19, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
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  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan in New York Times
    I really did feel I was talking to Sir Charles Trevelyan 122 years ago,Moynihan wrote, "assuming all was well in Connaught, that the new potato crop was coming along nicely, and that in any event the Irish always were a bit disorganized."

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