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Stoke on Trent (England/UK) Quick reference
Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Place Names (6 ed.)
...Stoke on Trent , England/UK ( Stoche ) ‘Outlying Hamlet’ from stoc . It lies on the River Trent and thus Trent has been added to distinguish it from other places called Stoke, such as Stoke Poges...

Stoke‐on‐Trent Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
...‐on‐Trent City and county district on the River Trent, nw Staffordshire , w central England. Stoke is the centre of the Potteries and is noted for its manufacture of china and porcelain. Pop. ( 2001 )...

Stoke‐on‐Trent Quick reference
A Dictionary of British History (3 ed.)
...‐on‐Trent was formed in 1910 as a federation of six Staffordshire pottery towns—Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton, and Longton. The development of the conurbation was largely 19th cent. and owed much to the canal network, begun with the Trent and Mersey in 1775 , which greatly facilitated the transport of pottery. By 1851 the total population was some 137,000 and by 1901 in excess of 300,000. There was considerable boundary extension and Stoke became a city in 1925...

Stoke-on-Trent Reference library
J. A. Cannon
The Oxford Companion to British History (2 ed.)
...-on-Trent was formed in 1910 as a federation of six Staffordshire pottery towns—Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton, and Longton. The development of the conurbation was largely 19th cent. and owed much to the canal network, begun with the Trent and Mersey in 1775 , which greatly facilitated the transport of pottery. The growing importance of the area was recognized by the Reform Act of 1832 which grouped the towns into the parliamentary borough of Stoke. By 1851 the total population was some 137,000 and by 1901 in excess of 300,000. An...

Stoke‐on‐Trent Reference library
The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland (3 ed.)
...‐on‐Trent Staffordshire City of the Potteries in the N of the county, formed by the federation of the familiarly known ‘Five Towns’ of Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke‐on‐Trent, and Longton (immortalized by Arnold Bennett's novels and stories as Turnhill, Bursley, Hanbridge, Knype, and Longshaw), which, with Fenton, were united in 1910 . Records of literary figures begin with Elijah Fenton , a poet best remembered for his collaboration with Pope in translating the Odyssey ( 1725–6 ), who was born ( 1683 ) at Shelton Old Hall (later an iron‐ and...

stoke on trent n. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
... on trent n. [rhy. sl. = bent n. ] a male homosexual. 2002 B. Kirkpatrick Wicked Cockney Rhy....

stoke on trent adj. Reference library
Green's Dictionary of Slang
... on trent adj. ( also stoke ) [ bent adj. (4)/ bent adj. (5)] 1 illegal. 2002 D. Shaw ‘Dead Beard’ at www.asstr.org [Internet] Every jam jar in my yard is the goods, I don't deal in anything that's stoke on trent, and never mind the slander about car salesmen always telling pork pies. 2 homosexual. 1985 J. Sullivan ‘It's Only Rock and Roll’ Only Fools and Horses [TV script] That showbusiness lark – they're all Stoke-on-Trent aren't they. 2004 P. Howard PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids 44: Don't want the birds in here thinking I've...

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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
...ferment, foment, forewent, forwent, frequent, gent, Ghent, Gwent, lament, leant, lent, meant, misrepresent, misspent, outwent, pent, percent, pigment, rent, scent, segment, sent, spent, stent, Stoke-on-Trent, Tashkent, tent, torment, Trent, underspent, underwent, vent, went • orient • comment • portent • ...

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Philip Davies
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...accepted by the Council of Trent as ‘secondarily canonized’. All three collections could be, and sometimes are, treated as ‘the Apocrypha’. Thus, for example, 3–4 Maccabees was not canonized by the Catholic Church but is included in all the early Greek Bibles. Psalm 151 is included in the Psalter of ancient Greek Bibles, but not in the Vulgate. The Prayer of Manasses, on the other hand, has somehow crept into the Apocrypha, even though it is not in two of the three earliest Greek Bibles and was not canonized at the Council of Trent. The book 4 Ezra/2 Esdras...

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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...adapted and sold on to other manufacturers by an apprentice engraver, Thomas Minton , when he left the works in 1785 . The new technique of transfer-printing designs engraved on copper plates onto biscuit earthenware enabled copies of Chinese blue-and-white landscapes to provide an alternative source to Canton, which was proving increasingly unreliable and expensive. The manufactory started in Stoke-on-Trent by Josiah Spode ( 1733–97 ) in 1770 , and developed with his son Josiah II ( 1754–1827 ) and William Copeland , thrived on the production of...

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