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The Probert Encyclopaediat (8348 words) |
 | John was a son of Christian I and king of Denmark in 1481. |
| John Bright became a leading spirit in the Anti-Corn-Law League and in 1843 was elected to Parliament to represent Durham, where upon he distinguished himself as an advocate of free trade and reform. |
| John Piper is an English painter born at Epsom in 1903. |
| Famous Speedboats of the World : Crusader (2369 words) |
| John Cobb, who in his car Thunderbolt had established the world's land speed record, was turning his attention to high speed on the water and was having a boat built. |
| They saw that John Cobb was being bounced up and down in his seat with a kind of violent vibration, and that Crusader herself appeared to be caught in the dreaded porpoising motion which, as we have seen, may so easily be fatal for a boat at high speed. |
| John Cobb was picked up from the water with numerous injuries, but the doctors were of the opinion that none of them were enough to have killed him, and that he actually died from shock. |
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