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Milton
[ mil-tn ]
noun
- John, 1608–74, English poet.
- a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- a male given name: a family name taken from a placename meaning “mill town.”
Milton
/ ˈɪə /
noun
- MiltonJohn16081674MEnglishWRITING: poet John. 1608–74, English poet. His early works, notably L'Allegro and Il Penseroso (1632), the masque Comus (1634), and the elegy Lycidas (1637), show the influence of his Christian humanist education and his love of Italian Renaissance poetry. A staunch Parliamentarian and opponent of episcopacy, he published many pamphlets during the Civil War period, including Areopagitica (1644), which advocated freedom of the press. His greatest works were the epic poems Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), and Paradise Regained (1671) and the verse drama Samson Agonistes (1671)
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Around the time of the 1970s when the leveraged buyouts, Milton Friedman, all those people got going, there were still plenty of people like J.K.
David Joyce, 38, was shot by an armed officer at Milton Keynes Central Station on 1 April after Thames Valley Police responded to reports of a man carrying a gun.
The event kicked off in Milton Keynes last summer but suffered teething troubles, when fans were stuck in long queues.
Jordan Wilkes, 29, from New Milton, attacked the girl, who was playing outside his flat with a friend, in August 2024.
Maya Joseph-Hussain, who is chief executive at the Safety Centre in Milton Keynes, said "every young child should have access to this education".
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