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  • Films of the expedition were distributed to the Front as propaganda, and every schoolchild was told the story of how Titus Oates walked bravely out to his death.

    Scott of the Antarctic: hero or buffoon? 2011

  • In 1681, even as the Titus Oates plot was beginning to flag, the inscription on the North side of the Monument blamed the Great Fire on "Popish Frenzy" but this allegation was eventually in 1830 excised from the text.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • Titus Oates was later described as a dull, unlovable child who suffered from convulsions, a runny nose, and a tendency to dribble.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Flavia 2009

  • Titus Oates was later described as a dull, unlovable child who suffered from convulsions, a runny nose, and a tendency to dribble.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009

  • In 1681, even as the Titus Oates plot was beginning to flag, the inscription on the North side of the Monument blamed the Great Fire on "Popish Frenzy" but this allegation was eventually in 1830 excised from the text.

    The Monument 2009

  • Measured against Titus Oates 'administration, David.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Trotsky possessed, said Churchill, the organizing command of a Carnot, the cold detached intelligence of a Machiavelli, the mob oratory of a Cleon, the ferocity of Jack the Ripper, the toughness of Titus Oates.

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • She's had an ongoing love affair with a guy who died something like seventy-six years before she was born -- one Titus Oates, who was a member of Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole ninety years ago.

    Archive 2007-05-01 tanita davis 2007

  • She's had an ongoing love affair with a guy who died something like seventy-six years before she was born -- one Titus Oates, who was a member of Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole ninety years ago.

    The WritingYA Weblog: Into the Frozen Heartland tanita davis 2007

  • I remembered that Titus Oates lived in good health for many years after his prodigious floggings, and upon this reflection, combined with a firm trust that Providence would do whatever was best, were founded such hopes as I could still retain.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

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