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  2. Thane (Scotland) - Wikipedia

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    Esquire. Gentleman, Gentlewoman. Ministerialis. Lord of the Manor. v. t. e. Thane ( / ˈθeɪn /; Scottish Gaelic: taidhn) [1] was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the son of an earl, [2] who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a thanedom or thanage.

  3. Thegn - Wikipedia

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    Ivory seal of Godwin, an unknown thegn – first half of eleventh century, British Museum. In later Anglo-Saxon England, a thegn ( pronounced / θeɪn /; Old English: þeġn) or thane [1] (or thayn in Shakespearean English) was an aristocrat who owned substantial land in one or more counties. Thanes ranked at the third level in lay society ...

  4. Chicago History Museum - Wikipedia

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    Chicago History Museum. /  41.911996°N 87.631312°W  / 41.911996; -87.631312. Chicago History Museum is the museum of the Chicago Historical Society (CHS). The CHS was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago 's history. The museum has been located in Lincoln Park since the 1930s at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of ...

  5. List of museums in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Museum of Holography, Chicago [87] National Museum of Surveying, Springfield, closed in 2013. Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, closed in 2015. Old Barn Museum, Newark [88] Oliver Parks Telephone Museum, Springfield [89] Park Ridge Historical Society Museum, Park Ridge [90] The Peace Museum, Chicago.

  6. List of world's fairs - Wikipedia

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    1897 – Chicago, Illinois, United States – Irish Fair (1897) [citation needed] 1897 – Nashville, Tennessee, United States – Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition; 1897 – Stockholm, Sweden – General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm; 1897 – Kiev, Russian Empire – Agricultural Exhibition [citation needed]

  7. List of museums and cultural institutions in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    DuSable Museum of African American History. Haitian American Museum of Chicago. Irish American Heritage Center. Lithuanian Research and Studies Center. National Hellenic Museum. National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture. Mitchell Museum of the American Indian.

  8. Society of Scotland in the High Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    These texts give additional understanding on high medieval Scottish society, so long as inferences are kept conservative. The legal tract that has come down to us as the Laws of Brets and Scots, lists five grades of man: King, mormaer/earl, toísech/thane, ócthigern and serf. For pre-twelfth century Scotland, slaves are added to this category.

  9. Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures - Wikipedia

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    History University of Chicago Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa. In the early 20th century, James Henry Breasted built up the collection of the university's Haskell Oriental Museum, which he oversaw along with his field work, and teaching duties.