Milton

[mil-tn]

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noun

John, 1608–74, English poet.
a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
a male given name: a family name taken from a placename meaning “mill town.”

Milton

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noun

John. 1608–74, English poet. His early works, notably L'Allegro and Il Penseroso (1632), the masque Comus (1634), and the elegy Lycidas (1637), show the influence of his Christian humanist education and his love of Italian Renaissance poetry. A staunch Parliamentarian and opponent of episcopacy, he published many pamphlets during the Civil War period, including Areopagitica (1644), which advocated freedom of the press. His greatest works were the epic poems Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), and Paradise Regained (1671) and the verse drama Samson Agonistes (1671)

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They were watching that night during Hurricane Milton last summer when a transformer exploded over my head, and that is a little scary.

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Meanwhile Hurricane Milton, which landed last October, is likely to be one of the costliest hurricanes to hit west Florida.

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Lastly, in Buckinghamshire, the former ground floor of Debenhams in the shopping metropolis of Milton Keynes is now a wide-ranging entertainment venue.

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Last year, he launched his own festival, BludFest, in Milton Keynes, which was criticised by some after long queues and a lack of water caused fans to pass out and miss the concert.

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The tiny grains of dust are now locked inside a safe in a high security facility in Milton Keynes - we were given the first look at them.

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Miltiades Friedman, Milton

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