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Runnymede

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Runnymede or Runnimede (rŭn`ĭmēd), meadow, in Egham, Surrey, S England, on the south bank of the Thames River, W of London. Either on this meadow or on nearby Charter Island, King John accepted the Magna Carta Magna Carta or Magna Charta [Lat., = great charter], the most famous document of British constitutional history, issued by King John at Runnymede under compulsion from the barons and the church in June, 1215.
..... Click the link for more information.  (1215), which is commemorated by a memorial. There is also a memorial to John F. Kennedy Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917–63, 35th President of the United States (1961–63), b. Brookline, Mass.; son of Joseph P. Kennedy .

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Runnymede
site of Magna Charta signing (1215). [Br. Hist.: Bishop, 49–52, 213]
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VAN NUYS -- Police on Sunday searched for a suspected gang member thought to be hiding in a home near Runnymede Street and Sepulveda Boulevard, where he fled after Los Angeles police officers fired on him.
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Traveling up the Thames in News From Nowhere, Guest, Dick and Clara are invited by an old man to stay in a little house at Runnymede on "the rise of the hill" with "little windows [.
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