FACTOID # 140: In Switzerland, the average person has to work for 102 minutes to buy a kilogram of beef - one of the longest times in the developed world. On the other hand, they only have work 14 hours to buy a refrigerator for it.
 
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Encyclopedia > Edmund Law

Rt Rev Edmund Law (1703-1787). Born in Cartmel, Lancashire, and educated at Kendal Grammer School and St John's College, Cambridge, MA, 1727. Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1756-68; vice-chancellor, 1755-6; librarian of the University of Cambridge, 1760 and Knightsbridge professor of moral philosophy, 1764. Bishop of Carlisle, 1768-87. Full name The College of Saint John the Evangelist of the University of Cambridge Motto - Named after The Hospital of Saint John the Evangelist, Cambridge, named after John the Evangelist Previous names - Established 1511 Sister College Balliol College Master Prof. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Arms of the Bishop of Carlisle The Bishop of Carlisle is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Carlisle in the Province of York. ...


Said to be a great personal influence on Richard Watson's, Bishop of Landaff, intellectual development. Rt Rev Richard Watson (1737-1816). ...


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Edmund Randolph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (549 words)
Edmund Jennings Randolph ( August 10, 1753 – September 12, 1813) was an American attorney, Governor of Virginia, Secretary of State, and the first United States Attorney General.
Randolph was born at Tazewell Hall to the prominent colonial Randolph family in Williamsburg, Virginia, and he was educated in law at the College of William and Mary.
After leaving the cabinet he returned to Virginia to practice law; his most famous case was that of defense counsel during Aaron Burr 's trial for treason in 1807.
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