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  2. Mervyn's - Wikipedia

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    Mervyn's was an American middle-scale department store chain based in Hayward, California, and founded by Mervin G. Morris (1920–2021). [1] It carried national brands of clothing, footwear, bedding, bath products, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics, toys, and housewares. Many of the company's stores were opened in shopping malls ...

  3. Mervyn - Wikipedia

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    Mervyn is a masculine given name and occasionally a surname which is of Old Welsh origin, with elements mer, probably meaning "marrow", and myn, meaning "eminent".. Despite the misconception of the letter 'V' being an English spelling, through Roman occupation of Britain, the Welsh language (at least for spelling) was Latinised and through centuries of evolution of the Welsh language, the ...

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    Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. ... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirect page. Redirect to: Mervyn's;

  5. Valley of Song - Wikipedia

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    Language English Valley of Song is a 1953 British comedy drama film directed by Gilbert Gunn and starring Mervyn Johns , Clifford Evans , Maureen Swanson and the London Welsh Association Choral Society. [2]

  6. Mervyn S. Bennion - Wikipedia

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    Mervyn Sharp Bennion (May 5, 1887 – December 7, 1941) was a United States Navy captain who served during World War I and was killed while he was in command of battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II. He posthumously received the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous devotion to duty, extraordinary ...

  7. W. S. Merwin - Wikipedia

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    William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation. [1] During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, his writing ...

  8. English language - Wikipedia

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    English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.

  9. Mervyn C. Alleyne - Wikipedia

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    Mervyn C. Alleyne. Mervyn Coleridge Alleyne (Trinidad and Tobago, 13 June 1933 - 23 November 2016) was a sociolinguist, creolist and dialectologist whose work focused on the creole languages of the Caribbean . He attended Queen's Royal College in Port-of-Spain and later won a scholarship to the fledgling University College of the West Indies ...