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* '''Roundheads:''' 17th Century Puritans in the English Civil War; they supported Parliament and Oliver Cromwell, and opposed Charles I and the Cavaliers; the name was originally a derisive reference to page-boy haircuts popular among Puritans → eggheads → [[Humpty Dumpty]] | * '''Roundheads:''' 17th Century Puritans in the English Civil War; they supported Parliament and Oliver Cromwell, and opposed Charles I and the Cavaliers; the name was originally a derisive reference to page-boy haircuts popular among Puritans → eggheads → [[Humpty Dumpty]] | ||
| − | * '''roundhead:''' a type of screw? | + | * '''roundhead:''' a type of screw? Roundheads and staples are used in the building trade. |
* '''rounded''' | * '''rounded''' | ||
Revision as of 04:56, 13 August 2018
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- Roundheads: 17th Century Puritans in the English Civil War; they supported Parliament and Oliver Cromwell, and opposed Charles I and the Cavaliers; the name was originally a derisive reference to page-boy haircuts popular among Puritans → eggheads → Humpty Dumpty
- roundhead: a type of screw? Roundheads and staples are used in the building trade.
- rounded
- Roundhead staple: Round Table Conferences 1930-33: a series of three conferences held in London to discuss constitutional reform in India; the second and third were chaired by Freeman-Freeman Thomas, Lord Willingdon → 004.18 freemen's maurer
- Roundhead staple: Round Table Conference, 1887: a conference held in 1887 when the Whigs and Liberals split over Gladstone's Home Rule Bill (which proposed to grant a measure of independence to Ireland); it was chaired by William Harcourt (Harcourt Street, Dublin, takes its name from Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1772-76)
- Roundhead staple: the Round Table of Arthurian legend
- Howth: the name derives from the Danish hoved, head; Howth is round in appearance
