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Edward

Edward is a male given name.

Edward

son of Edward III who defeated the French at Crecy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War (1330-1376) third son of Elizabeth II (born in 1964) King of England from 1272 to 1307; conquered Wales (1239-1307) King of England and Ireland in 1936; his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication (1894-1972) King of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553; son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour; died of tuberculosis (1537-1553) King of England from 1901 to 1910; son of Victoria and Prince Albert; famous for his elegant sporting ways (1841-1910) King of England from 1307 to 1327 and son of Edward I; was defeated at Bannockburn by the Scots led by Robert the Bruce; was deposed and died in prison (1284-1327) son of Edward II and King of England from 1327-1377; his claim to the French throne provoked the Hundred Years' War; his reign was marked by an epidemic of the Black Plague and by the emergence of the House of Commons as the powerful arm of British Parliament (1312-1377) King of England from 1461 to 1470 and from 1471 to 1483; was dethroned in 1470 but regained the throne in 1471 by his victory at the battle of Tewkesbury (1442-1483) King of England who was crowned at the age of 13 on the death of his father Edward IV but was immediately confined to the Tower of London where he and his younger brother were murdered (1470-1483)

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Finally, in 1314, these games had become so violent and dangerous that King Edward II made a law.
Edward looked Kathy in the eye and asked her if she really meant what she said.
Their boy was named Edward.
Edward is younger than Robert.
This is Edward.
Edward Sapir was an American linguist.
My name is Edward, but everyone calls me Ned.
Oh Marilla, I'm the happiest girl on Prince Edward Island this very moment.
I am the unhappiest girl in Prince Edward Island.
Edward read the message.
Edward Everett did not agree with Lincoln.
The story of Edward Snowden has reminded us once again that even the walls have ears.

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Look, I get it, Greg is your Jacob, but we all know you're going to end up with Edward.
I don't have the cloud 'cause of Edward Snowden.
Edward Dobbs?
Edward Dobbs.
They'll do worse to Edward.
Edward had called for a strike against his company.
If someone has hurt Edward Graham had something to do with it.
It's an Edward Dobbs. do you know him?
My name is Edward Gallagher, but they call me Blackie, and he's Jim Wade.
The application for commutation of the death sentence of Edward J. Gallagher for the crime of murder in the first degree is herewith denied.
Edward J. Gallagher was put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing for the crime of murder. What you do not know is that he committed the murder to silence scandal about me, which very likely would have cost my election to the governorship.
A mild, lovely Sunday, Edward.
And my son, Edward.
Edward Higgins, age 48, a physics teacher who resides in Torrance County.
And when I saw Edward Robinson and George E. Stone put this box in a drawer. I knew something was wrong.
Incidentally, his first name was Edward.
This, my dear, is Edward von Prell.
Edward works for us.
And Edward.
Edward, let there be an end to this. I go tomorrow.
Oh don't my love, don't Edward, don't say that.
Edward, please!
So! Edward, please!
Thornton, Edward, George.. Haigh..
Thornton Edward George..
Thornton Edward George Haigh Fennyfield Cameron..
Edward, drive by Inspector Lane's office.
Look, I get it, Greg is your Jacob, but we all know you're going to end up with Edward. Because you're Bella.
You'll wake up Edward.
Come along, Edward.
I'm glad I didn't bring Edward and Joey.
Edward, take Joey upstairs.
Edward, keep Joey quiet.
Edward's quite good, but Joey.
Well, Edward, are you all behaving?
And how was Cambridge when you left it, Master Edward?
Come, Edward.
Good-bye, Master Edward, and thank you for coming.

News and current affairs

Intellectuals like the late Edward Said gave voice to it, but it has many followers in the United States and Europe.
When Tony Blair swept to power in 1997, he was widely welcomed throughout Europe as the most pro-European British Prime Minister since Edward Heath a quarter of a century earlier.
Director Edward Zwick does not shirk from showing the demons that plagued Fischer.
Not even the revelations by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden that no one is exempt from the possibility of US surveillance have stirred Americans to demand a new approach.
MELBOURNE - Thanks to Edward Snowden, I now know that the US National Security Agency is spying on me.
Jane Jacobs's insights on this, published more that 40 years ago, have been confirmed by more recent studies summarized in books by Edward Glaeser and Enrico Moretti.
In our recent book Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference, Edward Glaeser and I discuss why the welfare state is so much more generous in Europe than in the US.
The most successful and radical of these initiatives is the Chronic Care Model developed by Edward Wagner, an American doctor.
From the writings of the earliest modern commentators on the drivers of socio-economic growth and decline - Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx - we see that concern about exhausting resources is not new.
And yet one man, the American former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, has shown how far removed from reality that claim remains.
Of course, the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's revelations of the global reach and the extent of America's Internet and telephone surveillance are, to say the least, unpleasant.
The economists Glenn Ellison and Edward Glaeser have found that clustering is only marginally greater than if businesses are allocated randomly.
LONDON - A year has passed since the American former intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden began revealing the massive scope of Internet surveillance by the US National Security Agency.
The late literary theorist and public intellectual Edward Said might even have called it an example of paternalistic Orientalism.
If Europe succeeds in making major fiscal and banking reforms and gets its economy in order, Edward will lose steam.
If not, the crisis will persist, and Europe will be rocked as Edward makes landfall by the end of 2014.
In the case of Indonesia's reaction to former US intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden's revelations of Australian spying on its first family, a personal apology from Prime Minister Tony Abbott would have made all the difference.
The Obama administration made several unsuccessful attempts in 2012 and 2013 to restart a dialogue with the Kremlin, but changed course in the summer of 2013, when Russia granted political asylum to former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
Such actions undermine the slow renovation of transatlantic trust since Edward Snowden's revelations concerning the extent of American surveillance of European governments and citizens alike.

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