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	London
		London at this time consisted of a collection of low wooden houses thatched with reeds or straw, thus affording combustible material for the numerous and destructive fires which frequently broke out, as in 1087 when the greater part of the city, including St. Paul's, was burnt.
		The Civil War between Stephen and Matilda with which the Norman period was brought to a close marked the epoch at which London rose to the position of a capital.
		In 1381 the peace of London was disturbed by Wat Tyler's rebellion when much damage was done in the city till the citizens arrayed themselves in arms against the rebels and for the defence of the king.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/l/london.html (9602 words)

	Civil defence centres in London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The entrance to the Civil Defence centre for Stoke Newington, behind the town hall.
		During the Cold War every London Borough was obliged to have a Civil Defence centre.
		The area of London (extending outwards to the then boundary of the Metropolitan Police District and thus including some areas outside the modern Greater London) was designated Region 5 and had its Regional Seat of Government in a re-used Radar Station at Kelvedon Hatch in Essex.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Civil_defence_centres_in_London (175 words)

	Civil Defence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Civil defence can be defined as any measure 'not amounting to actual combat' to protect the population against attack and, save for occasional bursts of publicity, never managed to garner the column inches of, for example, Fighter Command in the Battle of Britain or the V-Bomber force in the 1950s.
		Civil defence represented a vast infrastructure of controls, vehicles, stocks of equipment and trained personnel with a significantly large volunteer civilian force as late as 1968, but is now virtually forgotten.
		Operation 'Exodus,' a Civil Defence Corps exercise to test the evacuation of 2,000 volunteers from Manchester in the early 1960s was less than successful - only 700 people were moved and a number of bus drivers were lost and had to ask for directions.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /jimbonet/cd_history.html (4196 words)

	History in Focus: War - Civil Defence in London WWII
		London received 41% of the attacks by flying bombs, and 49% of those by rockets’, states Terence O’Brien’s detailed official history of Civil Defence provision in the History of the Second World War UK Civil Series.
		London had been bombed in the 1914-18 war and it was obvious that any future conflict would bring increased danger from the air.
		Londoners with gardens were supplied with 'Anderson' shelters of metal, half-buried in the soil, and proof against most damage short of a direct hit.
	www.history.ac.uk /ihr/Focus/War/londonCivil.html (2077 words)

	HyperWar: Problems of Social Policy [Chapter XIV]
		London, Even by the end of September 1940 a 'substantial improvement' in the condition of the London County Council's rest centres was recorded.
		Moreover, until the ordinary people of London took it in their own hands to open the tubes as refuge for the night, and until better shelter provision had been made throughout the region, there was some haphazard evacuation to the towns and villages of the home counties.
		Some London boroughs had over seventy-five percent of their houses damaged, and in one or two the number of 'damages' to houses was twice the number of houses.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-Civil-Social/UK-Civil-Social-14.html (19151 words)

	Military, Defence, Canadian Foreign Affairs History - TWR
		Indeed, defence was for the most part less visible than during the 1984 election campaign -- which, from a defence viewpoint, was dominated by multi-party pledges of support for CFB Chatham, New Brunswick, and by Liberal and Progressive Conservative feuding over the cost of reintroducing distinctive uniforms for the army, navy and air force.
		The low visibility of defence, which at times left the impression that the Liberals, the New Democrats and the Progressive Conservatives had signed some sort of non-aggression pact on the subject, also may have been influenced by the presence of potentially inflammable, and in some cases inconsistent, elements in their defence planks.
		By far the greatest let-down for the Canadian defence establishment and the Canadian defence industry, however, was the absence of a cabinet decision on the 'country-of-origin' for the SSN programme.
	www.thewednesdayreport.com /twr/twr.htm (11811 words)

	UofM: Centre for Defence and Security Studies
		The Centre for Defence and Security Studies (CDSS) seeks to advance debate, scholarship, and community knowledge in the area of Canadian and international defence and security studies through an active research, teaching and outreach programme.
		The Centre hosted the 2nd Biennial Aerospace Power Forum in November, sponsored by the Chief of the Air Staff and industry, and the proceedings will be published in the near future as the 4th volume of the Silver Dart series (the only aerospace defence publication in Canada).
		Centre for Defence and Security Studies and the Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba.
	www.umanitoba.ca /centres/defence/annual_report.06.html (3118 words)

	Gilbert Burnet(1643-1715): Bishop and Historian
		In which an account is given of the Rise and Progress of the Civil Wars of Scotland, together with many letters, written by King Charles I. (London, 1677; Univ. Press, Oxford, 1852), a book which was published as the second volume of a History of the Church of Scotland, Spottiswoode's History forming the first.
		Lauderdale's ascendancy in Scotland and the failure of the attempts at compromise in Scottish church affairs eventually led Burnet to settle in England.
		as one of the chief centres of Scottish discontent.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/burnetg/about.htm (2184 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: London
		Mellitus was sent by St. Augustine to be the first Bishop of London of the restored hierarchy, and with him begins the line of bishops that lasted nearly a thousand years (see list of bishops below).
		John Baptist on 24 June, 1559 the Mass was forbidden and the Holy Sacrifice ceased to be offered in London churches; St. Paul's cathedral under the energetic influence of Bishop Bonner being one of the last where Mass was said.
		Mellitus as Bishop of London by St. Augustine in 604 has already been mentioned.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09341a.htm (9579 words)

	Subterranean London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The metropolis of London has been occupied for many centuries, and has acquired a number of subterranean landmarks.
		The London sewerage system (designed by Joseph Bazalgette)
		London, like most other major cities, has extensive underground infrastructure for electricity distribution, natural gas supply, water supply, sewerage and telecommunications, including the BT copper local loops and optical fibre from numerous suppliers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Subterranean_London (102 words)

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		The Defence Ministry said yesterday that South Korea planned to withdraw about 1000 of its 3200-member contingent this year, with the reduction to begin next month.
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	Slavery; THE Cause? [Archive] - Dispatch Depot Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I've often wondered how a civil war could be fought and won to end slavery, but full civil rights not be granted to fls until a century later.
		I'm suggesting that the underlying causes of the civil war were both social and economic, and that slavery was the yoke chosen to drive the oxen.
		"It was in defence of this that the people of the South sprang to arms 'to defend their homes and families, their property and their rights, the honor and independence of their States to the last, against five fold numbers and resources a hundred fold greater than theirs.
	www.civilwartalk.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-19342.html (20145 words)

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		The institution is preparing a blueprint to build a $300 million innovation campus to attract the best and brightest minds from across the country and around the world to research and commercialise technology in areas as diverse as image recognition and artificial intelligence, biotechnology, intelligent materials, polymers, superconductors and information and communications technology.
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	Airminded · Civil defence
		Of course, nuclear war looked somewhat more winnable in the 1950s, and civil defence correspondingly less pointless, than was later the case.
		He’s actually been blogging since the start of the year, so there’s already a goodly number of posts to go through: highlights for me so far include the things people leave in their gas masks, beating air raid sirens into washing machines and a possible public air raid shelter in Norbury.
		As was widely announced in the picture-houses of the United Kingdom at the close of 1936: THERE IS NO DEFENCE AGAINST POISON GAS This is from a book by the German exile and novelist Heinz Liepmann, Death from the Skies: A Study of Gas and Microbial Warfare (London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1937), 273.
	airminded.org /category/civil-defence (1710 words)

	NATO Who's who?: Dr. Theodor H. Winkler
		Current Position: Ambassador; Director, Geneva Centre for the
		Civil Protection and Sports (DDPS) for the Geneva
		Centres, ISN and the “Maison de la paix”
	www.nato.int /docu/conf/2003/031016_bxl/cv-winkler.htm (209 words)

	HyperWar: Statistical Digest of the War (UK Civil Series)
		HyperWar: Statistical Digest of the War (UK Civil Series)
		Edited by W. This volume is under development, and will be completed as soon as time allows.
		Transcribed and formatted for HTML by David Newton for the HyperWar Foundation
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-Civil-Stats (146 words)

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