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George__, poet famous for grim verse tales like (1810), a basis for the opera (6) Francisco de__, first viceroy of Portuguese India (1505-9) (7) Chinese dynasty (960-1279), historically treated as two separate periods, ‘Northern’ and ‘Southern’ (4) Battle of the Anglo-Zulu war, a big defeat for the British Army, though it dashed the Zulu king’s hopes for a negotiated resolution (10) US army officer, ‘Vinegar Joe’__, who became Chiang Kai-shek’s chief of staff (8) Hertha Marks__, distinguished British physicist and a member of the suffragette movement in the early 20th century (6) Robert__, 16th/17th-century English church leader, who gave his name to a Separatist An ancient biblical town of Samaria; also, a major battle (April 1862) of the American Civil War (6) One of many Japanese feudal lords served by samurai warriors during the shogunate (6) Much of the old part of this European capital city was demolished in the 1980s to make way for the notorious building that is now the Palace of Parliament (9) Historian, broadcaster and author of (7,6)

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