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1. After this event, its planners moved from Warwick Castle to Holbeche house

2. Mary Wollstonecraft denounced marriages of convenience and redefined 'sublime' and 'beautiful' in her Vindication of the Rights of Men, which was written in response to a tract about this event

3. Manasseh ben Israel convinced a man with this surname to let Jews back intoEngland

4. This country fought Norway at the Battle of Largs, and the meddling of Edward I of England forced this country into the Auld Alliance with France

5. One contingent of these people were defeated by the Earl of Orkney at the Battle of Clontarf

6. A man gave the 'Every Man to his Post' speech during this event, the failure of which led to the cancellation of Operation Sea Lion

7. Vice Admiral George Tyrone died when he crashed a ship named after this figure into the HMSCamperdown in Lebanon

8. This kingdom ceased to exist in 1707 with the Acts of Union, when it was subsumed into Great Britain

9. The Domus Conversorum was established to house members of a certain group who were earlier expelled from England by this ruler

10. One treaty named for this city established the procedures for the Nuremberg trials

11. This group included Ragnar Lodbrok, and settled Vinland beginning in the 11th century, reaching their peak of influence under Olaf II

12. This man's son Arthur, Prince of Wales died of sweating sickness after earlier being married to Catherine of Aragon, who then married this man's other son

13. This work depicts a king being killed by an arrow into his eye

14. This ruler was tutored by the poet John Skelton, who appointed himself as the King's Orator when this monarch came to power

15. A speech declaring that 'we shall fight with growing confidence' and that 'we shall fight on the seas and oceans' was given by Winston Churchill following this operation

16. This man's brother was supported by Harald Hardrada, and by some accounts the final action of the Witena gemot was its support of this leader

17. Factions in this war included the Engagers and the Levellers, the latter of whom engaged in the Putney debates during it

18. Immediately prior to this event, its target suspended the penal laws against dissenters and recusants through a Declaration of Indulgence

19. This historical state was represented by a 'star' within a yellow floral badge with the text 'Heaven's light our guide

20. That side attempted to form a shield wall to hold off the enemy's cavalry, but those forces, loyal to Harold Godwinson, were defeated by the Norman invaders under William the Conqueror

21. His half-brother worked with Charles Dawes to organize the Locarno pact and was named Austen

22. It ended with a battle where the Stanleys first held back, then jumped in to support the winner

23. Catherine Wheels are sometimes nailed to trees during commemorations of this event, some of which use contemporary politicians instead of the traditional straw effigy

24. This politician authored a 'ConservativeManifesto' and is the namesake of an ideology often paired with Reaganomics

25. This politician said that the 'first duty of any Government' is 'to guarantee the survival of our way of life' in the 'Britain Awake' speech