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Simply History! (2) Crossword Puzzle

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A wide range of historical facts from both the recent and distant past.
Author: moonraker2 - Diff: Harder

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      1. A battle in North Yorkshire during the English Civil War, fought on 2 July 1644 (7,4)
      7. Scottish campaigner, who in 1921 founded the first Clinic for Birth Control in London (5,6)
      8. American businessman Lucius W. ___, was the founder of "The Milwaukee Journal" in 1882 (6)
      9. Johannes ___ served as the Auxiliary Bishop of Trier from 1517-1519 (4)
      11. An opera by by Giuseppe Verdi, first enacted in Cairo in 1871 (4)
      12. French sculptor of the 1582 Funerary monument of Christophe de Thou, Barthélemy ___ (6)
      15. The apostle dubbed 'Doubting', as he would not believe the resurrection of Jesus (5,6)
      16. American tennis player, who won seven Wimbledon titles between 1993 and 2000 (4,7)

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      1. Abdul ___ was the 24th Sultan of Brunei, in office from 1852-1885 (5)
      2. A battle in South Africa during the Anglo-Zulu War, fought from 22-23 January 1879 (6,5)
      3. Johan ___ was the surviving navigator of KLM Flight 633, which crashed in 1954 (6)
      4. An International organization founded in 1949, for the purpose of joint security (4)
      5. US physicist, director at the Los Alamos laboratory during the development of the atomic bomb (11)
      6. Anton ___ designed the Palace Hotel in Copenhagen, which opened in 1910 (5)
      10. Douglas ___ 5th Duke of Montrose, was Lord Lieutenant of Stirlingshire from 1885-1925 (6)
      11. The 6th century BC Greek author, renowned for his fables (5)
      13. The Wars of the ___, a series of battles in England between 1455 and 1487 (5)
      14. Samuel Allyne ___ was the first Secretary of the United States Senate, 1789-1814 (4)