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born upon

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Past of bear upon

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It was born upon him that he had to appear in court at ten in the morning.

"Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes; fashion is in the air, born upon the wind; one intuits it".

Ireland not only offered citizenship to children born upon arrival; until 2003 it also allowed their illegal-immigrant parents to stay, a shortcut many asylum seekers used to win residency.

Another writer who walked in Sussex, John Cowper Powys, experienced similar moments of delirious happiness over a century ago, the simple ability to bear witness being "sufficient reward for having been born upon this cruelty-blasted planet!" We find our happiness on this Earth, or not at all, and the Ouse, tricked from its course, poisoned and abstracted, flows implacably on.

Some would argue that there is a moral imperative within each soul born upon this planet to leave it in a better state than which they found it.

The saga relates that shortly after Haakon died on the same slab of rock that he was born upon, he was greatly mourned by friend and foe alike, and that his friends moved his body northward to Sæheim in North Hordaland.

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Born: Kingston-upon-Thames, London, 1965.

Pierre Perrone Eric Watson, photographer, director, teacher: born Newcastle-upon-Tyne 9 September 1955; one son, one daughter; died Rye 18 March 2012.

1622 Barrow-upon-Humber, England 1707 London, England John Sergeant, (born 1622, Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, Eng. died 1707, London) English Roman Catholic priest, notable for his criticisms of several of the leading thinkers of his time, including John Locke.

May 23, 1862 Barton-upon-Humber, England November 6, 1927 Oxford, England David George Hogarth, (born May 23 , 1862 Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, Eng. died Nov. 6, 1927, Oxford, Oxfordshire) English archaeologist, director of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1909 27), and diplomat who was associated with the excavation of several important archaeological sites.

January 1, 1825 Burton upon Trent, England May 14, 1891 Muscat, Arabia Thomas Valpy French, (born Jan . 1 , 1825Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, Eng. died May 14 , 1891 Muscat, Arabia), first Anglican bishop of Lahore (now in Pakistan).

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