Mandeville
Americannoun
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Bernard de c1670–1733, English physician and satirist, born in Holland.
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Sir John, died 1372, English compiler of a book of travels.
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Bernard de. ?1670–1733, English author, born in Holland, noted for his satire The Fable of the Bees (1723)
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Sir John. 14th century, English author of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The book claims to be an account of the author's journeys in the East but is largely a compilation from other works
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The city of Mandeville was flattened and the main road through town was littered with debris.
From BBC • Oct. 29, 2025
A controversy arose when the City Council spent $2.4 million to help buy a 239-acre parcel from Boeckmann in Mandeville Canyon.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025
Craig Mandeville, an entrepreneur and longtime Jacksonville resident, has joined The June.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
Mr Wood said Mr Masum was arrested in a car park near Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire three days after Ms Akter's death, following police appeals.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2025
The Persian beak, the long wings in which the first primary was the longest, and the mighty talons: all were the same, but, as Mandeville observed, the whole eight times bigger than a lion.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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