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Marlborough| Region in northeast South Island, New Zealand; area 10,930 sq km/4,220 sq mi; population (1996) 40,200. The administrative centre is Blenheim. There is sheep, cattle, and mussel farming, vine growing, and a tourist industry. Picton, to the north, is the main inter-island road and rail ferry terminal. |
Marlborough| City in Middlesex County, east-central Massachusetts, 43 km/27 mi west of Boston; population (2000 est) 36,300. Marlborough has been a shoe-manufacturing centre since 1812. Other industries include the manufacture of missile components, metal stampings, electronics, chemicals, sports goods, computers, and paper boxes. |
| Named after Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, the city was first incorporated in 1660, and incorporated as a city in 1890. |
| It has seven entries on the national register of historic places, and was the site of an early streetcar system. |
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1709
Addison, Joseph
Anne
Berwick, James Fitzjames, 1st Duke of Berwick
Blenheim Palace
Blenheim, Battle of
Cherhill
Churchill, Lady Sarah, duchess of Marlborough
Eugène, François, Prince of Savoy
Godolphin, Sidney
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Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Ormond, James Butler
Oudenarde, Battle of
Ramillies, Battle of
Savernake Forest
Stair, John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
Vendôme, Louis Joseph, duc de Vendôme
War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714)
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| This was an article not to be entered on by himself; but a very intimate friend of his, a Colonel Wallis, a highly respectable man, perfectly the gentleman, (and not an ill-looking man, Sir Walter added), who was living in very good style in Marlborough Buildings, and had, at his own particular request, been admitted to their acquaintance through Mr Elliot, had mentioned one or two things relative to the marriage, which made a material difference in the discredit of it. Against the wrinkly mirror stood pictures of General Kitchener, William Muldoon, the Duchess of Marlborough, and Benvenuto Cellini. There is the Old Marlborough Road, which does not go to Marlborough now, me- thinks, unless that is Marlborough where it carries me. |