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 > John Ball

John Ball (priest) (d. 1381)
John Ball (Puritan) (1585-1640)
John Ball (pioneer) (1794-1884)
John Ball (naturalist) (1818-1889)
John Ball (golfer) (1861-1940)
John Ball (American author) (1911-1988)



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The Caballero Years/John Ball and the Peasants Revolt (675 words)
The Caballero Years/John Ball and the Peasants Revolt
Although John Ball’s birthdate is questionable, his death came as a result of his participation in the Peasant’s Revolt in 1381-82.
John Ball was excommunicated in 1376 for his advocacy of "ecclesiastical poverty and social equality" for priests in direct opposition to the church’s ideas and he was imprisoned at Maidstone by John of Gaunt.
John Ball (722 words)
When the rebels dispersed Ball fled to the midland counties, but was taken prisoner at Coventry and executed in the presence of Richard II on July 15, 1381.
John Ball (1585—1640), English puritan divine, was born at Cassington[?], Oxfordshire, in October 1585.
John Ball (1818—1889), Irish politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller, eldest son of an Irish judge, Nicholas Ball[?], was born at Dublin on the 20th of August 1818.
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