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Act committed by the judges and officials involved in the trial and execution of Charles I (8) John Philip_____, US composer of and other marches (5) Scottish family name descended from Robert, a knight who came to England with William the Conqueror (5) Roman biographer/historian Gaius____, celebrated for his (9) Civil rights movement activist, best known for her role in sparking the Montgomery bus boycott, 1955-56 (4,5) An Austro-Asiatic family of languages, spoken by several million people in central and eastern India (5) Leonidas, famed for his stand at Thermopylae (480 BC), was a king of this Greek warrior city-state (6) British war artist known for his bitter, satirical painting (1918)(4,4) The symbolic female figure of the French Republic Dynasty of northern and central India from the fourth to sixth centuries AD (5) The Dawes (or General____ ) Act of 1887 provided for traditional common reservation land to be parcelled out to individual Native Americans (9) George_____,admiral whose mid-18thcentury reforms of the British navy contributed to its success in the Seven Years’ War (5)

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