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INDEX SEARCH RESULTS FOR: MINCEMEAT
mincemeat (in British cooking)
MIND (charity)
Mindaugas - Lithuanian chieftain
Minden - battle in 1759
'mind your p's and q's'
Minehead (Somerset)
Miner, The - founded by Keir Hardie
Miner's Friend - by Savery
miners' strikes in Britain - in 1926
- in 1972 and 1974
- in 1984-5
- brief overall account
Mines Act - of 1842
- Lord Shaftesbury
Ming dynasty
Mini (the car)
miniature painting - in England
- brief account
Minie rifle - in Crimean War
mining - earliest known copper mine
miniskirt (in Britain)
ministériat - of Richelieu and Mazarin
Minnesinger - in Germany and Austria
- and German lyric poetry
Minnesota - statehood in 1856
Minnitt, Robert James - invents 'gas and air' machines
Minoans
- Minoan medicines
Minorca - ceded to Britain in 1713
- taken by the French in 1756
- captured by Spain in 1782
- seized by Britain in 1798
- restored to Spain in 1802
- and Britain
Minos - and the Minotaur
Minsk - congress in 1898
- falls to Germans in 1941
- German treatment of prisoners
minster (the term)
minstrels' gallery - at Hedingham
Mint, Royal
Minton pottery and porcelain
Minuit, Peter - and New Amsterdam
minuscule - in manuscripts
- Carolingian
minute hand - on watches
minutemen - at Lexington
minutes - first use in timekeeping
- in multiples of 60
miquelet - Spanish flintlock
miracle plays - in the Middle Ages
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