Word: 12th
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...property owners to the king's tax collectors. The local Saxons never considered jury trials when it came to meting out criminal justice, but they gave a defendant the chance to find twelve men- who would swear that his oath was reliable. It was not until the 12th century that King Henry II sponsored the first juries in civil cases. If a verdict was upset on review, the original jurors were automatically considered guilty of perjury and fined or imprisoned. About 100 years later, accused criminals were commonly brought before juries...
Electoral Paralysis. The Greek response was to start shooting at the police station. Fighting swiftly spread to Limassol itself (pop. 31,000 Greeks, 6,000 Turks), and some 50 persons were killed or wounded in a series of fire fights for such strongpoints as a local brewery and the 12th century castle where England's Richard the Lion-Hearted married Berengaria of Navarre. British troops from the adjacent Akrotiri airfield finally separated the antagonists and won agreement to a ceasefire. But then the Greek Cypriots, supported by two homemade tanks, launched a dawn assault on the Turkish quarter...
Walt Hewlett, a sophomore, was named to the All-America team of the National Collegiate Cross Country Coaches Association. The team consists of the 20 best collegiate runners in the U.S. Hewlett qualified by placing 12th in the National Collegiate Championships...
These two allies against Puritanism seemed to be joined by Eros in person. The cult of romantic passion, with its assertion that true love could exist only outside marriage, had first challenged Christianity in the 12th century; some consider it an uprising of the old paganism long ago driven underground by the church. From Tristan on, romance shaped the great literary myths of the West and became a kind of secular religion. Christianity learned to coexist with...
...foll will probably be Harvard's strongest event all season, with returning lettermen Dan Kirach, Pete Busch, Charles Dooley, and Lloyd Ramsey being pressed by sophomores Dave Bassett and Dick Kolombatovich. Kirsch led the team with a 12th place finish in the NCAA tournament last winter, and may be even better this year...