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  • Guinness - Irish dry stout that originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness at St. James's Gate brewery in the capital city of Dublin
  • Aurora Borealis - northern lights

- more info: https://www.space.com/15139-northern-lights-auroras-earth-facts-sdcmp.html

  • Tyburn’s triple-crowned tree or Tyburn gallows - public executions took place at Tyburn. After the late 18th century, when public executions were no longer carried out there, they were carried out at Newgate Prison itself and at Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Southwark.

- more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyburn

  • clemency -noun - mercy; lenience
  • vicissitude - noun - a change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant
  • spurious - adjective - not being what it purports to be; false or fake

Vocab by Luminaries:

  • tenor
  • voluble- talking incessantly yet fluent
  • alcove
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