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Egbert's and later
Harvey told his family about their friendship and school days and later recalled the inspiration for Egbert's song ' In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree '.

Egbert's and years
Some historians believe that the Chronicle's " three years " is an error, and should read " thirteen years ", which would mean Egbert's exile lasted from 789 to 802, but this reading is disputed.
Four years after Egbert's death, Dear revealed his story in his 1984 book The Dungeon Master.
Egbert's heirs have ruled England almost exclusively ever since ; in the years since there have been only five, or possibly six, monarchs of the country who were not his descendants: the four Danish kings, William the Conqueror, and arguably Harold II, whose claimed patrilineal descent, referred to below, is not universally accepted as true.

Egbert's and on
King Alfred's Tower ( 1772 ) on the supposed site of Egbert's Stone, the mustering place before the Battle of Ethandun.
In the seventh week after Easter May 878, around Whitsuntide, Alfred rode to ‘ Egbert's Stone ’ east of Selwood, where he was met by " all the people of Somerset and of Wiltshire and of that part of Hampshire which is on this side of the sea is, west of Southampton Water, and they rejoiced to see him ".
Having defeated King Beorhtwulf of Mercia in battle, the Danes moved on to invade Wessex, but were decisively crushed by Egbert's son and successor King Aethelwulf in the exceptionally bloody Battle of Aclea.
He is known to have revoked a charter of Egbert's on the grounds that " it was wrong that his thegn should have presumed to give land allotted to him by his lord into the power of another without his witness ", but the date of Egbert's original grant is unknown, as is the date of Offa's revocation of it.
He succeeded his father as King of Wessex on Egbert's death in 839, at which time his kingdom stretched from the county of Kent in the east to Devon in the west.
King Alfred's Tower ( 1772 ) on one supposed site of Egbert's Stone, the mustering place before the battle.
Egbert's third suicide attempt on August 16, 1980, by gunshot, succeeded.
Apart from the reference to Egbert's grant at Pawton there is no indication that English rule extended deep into Cornwall at this stage and the absence of any burhs west of Lydford in the Burghal Hidage may suggest limitations on the authority of the Kingdom of Wessex in parts of Cornwall.

Egbert's and Wessex
The " Dore Stone ", commemorating Egbert of Wessex | King Egbert's victory
The causes of the fluctuating fortunes of Mercia and Wessex are a matter of speculation, but it may be that Carolingian support influenced both Egbert's ascendancy and the subsequent Mercian recovery.

Egbert's and which
* The family frequently mentions Egbert's smoking while upstairs in his room, a fact which he tries to hide.
The point at which the counties of Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire meet beside the lake at the rear of Bourton Mill is marked by Egbert's Stone which once fell into the River Stour, but was rescued and re-erected.

Egbert's and from
The charter, made from Thame, is dated between 673 and 675, and it was probably Egbert's death that triggered Wulfhere's intervention.
After a few months Alfred called his loyal men to Egbert's Stone, and from there they travelled to Ethandun to fight the invaders.
Media accounts differed substantially from Egbert's actual story.

Egbert's and .
It is possible that the chronicler was merely adding Egbert's name to Bede's original list of seven, rather than claiming that no other kings achieved similar powers in England.
* St. Egbert's Catholic School
The situation in Kent at Egbert's death in 673 is not clearly recorded.
It appears that a year passed before Hlothhere, Egbert's brother, became king.
Wulfhere may have had an interest in the succession, as through his marriage to Eormenhild he was the uncle of Egbert's two sons, Eadric and Wihtred.
It has been speculated that Wulfhere acted as the effective ruler of Kent in the interregnum between Egbert's death and Hlothhere's accession.
Ferguson began to plot to bring down Reynolds and began working with the Minister for Corrective Services, Julie Egbert's soon to be mother in law and corrupt inmates in an attempt to win the governorship.
The titular kingship became something like the heir-apparent's title, as Aethelwulf, Egbert's son, became King of Kent in 825.
Bede was not sure whether or not the vision was actually Egbert's own.
Wiglaf recovered the kingdom in 830, probably by force although it may be that Wiglaf remained subject to Egbert's overlordship.
Egbert's parents subsequently hired private investigator William Dear to find their son.
He questioned some of Egbert's friends who were nearly as ignorant, since Egbert had never played the game at Michigan State.

later and years
To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.
less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment.
Two years later he became director of the Frankfurt Opera, where he remained until he lost this position in 1933 through the rise of the Hitler regime.
Seven years later he was asked to become director of the Pittsburgh Symphony.
Certainly no other seven American statesmen from any later period achieved so much in so concentrated a span of years.
Then, not many years later, the Un-American Activities Committee, under the leadership of Martin Dies, pilloried hundreds of decent, patriotic citizens.
today, these many years later, after all the temptations resisted or yielded to, the weasel satisfactions and the engulfing dissatisfactions since endured, I call it corrupting still.
Some years later the bank handling the Mercer liquidation received a check for $300,000, enough to clear up the debt.
But fifty years later the trilogy still maintains a firm place in the list of standard works on the unification of Italy, a position cautiously prophesied by the reviewers at the time of publication.
First The Life Of John Bright appeared and seven years later Lord Grey Of The Reform Bill.
Some of these thoughts -- not all of them -- have taken organized form in later years.
In later years Josephus Daniels was to claim that World War 1, was the first in American history in which there was great concern for both the health and morals of our soldiers.
Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.
Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.
He had not yet undertaken the great exploit of his later years, the rediscovery of the ancient Inca highway, the route of Pizarro in Peru, but he had climbed to the original El Dorado, the Andean lake of Guatemala, and he had scaled the southern Sierra Nevada with its Tibetan-like people and looked into the emerald mines of Muzo.
But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.
Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.
That breach was healed 20 years later by merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
It can manifest itself before discharge from service, or it can come out years later.
Now, more than five years later, I cannot in any realistic sense be called a trained soldier.
Competitors came to receive higher percentage of General Motors business in later years, but it is `` likely '' that this trend stemmed `` at least in part '' from the needs of General Motors outstripping Du Pont's capacity.
The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.
The books and records with respect to each project shall be maintained for the duration of the project, or until the expiration of three years after final disbursement for the project has been made by the United States, whichever is later.
That development, in turn, formed the foundation of still more significant expansions in later years -- in gear cutting, in circular graduating, in index drilling, and in many other fields where accuracy was a paramount requirement.

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