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	Lest We Forget : Part 1
		My dear boys were with me five minutes before it happened but I never saw them again……Oh Arthur this is a dreadful blow.
		Their home was at 8 Highland Avenue, at the corner of Broadway, in what was then a solidly working class and predominantly English section of Yonkers.
		My boy, a child not quite four years of age, and his grandmother, lost their lives, and his Mother, a young woman only then 23 years of age, has been hovering between death and a mad house ever since, a physical and mental wreck.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /articles/lusitania.php (15144 words)

	Golden Boy (disambiguation)
		Golden Boy (Manitoba), a statue on the dome of the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
		Golden Boy of Pye Corner, a monument in Smithfield, London.
		Golden Boy, a nickname for the American actor William Holden.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/golden_boy_(disambiguation) (153 words)

	Golden Boy of Pye Corner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Golden Boy of Pye Corner is located on the corner of Giltspur Street and Cock Lane in Smithfield, London.
		This was erected where the Great Fire of London (1666) stopped.
		"The Boy at Pye Corner was erected to commemorate the staying of the Great Fire which beginning at Pudding Lane was ascribed to the sin of gluttony when not attributed to the Papists as on the Monument, and the Boy was made prodigiously fat to enforce the moral."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Golden_Boy_of_Pye_Corner (203 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Donovan
		After signing with the British label Pye Records he began a long and successful collaboration with record producer Mickie Most, scoring a string of major hits in the UK, the USA and other countries, including several British and American #1 and million-selling hits.
		Pye released Donovan's second UK album, Fairytale, in October 1965, along with his next single, "Turquoise".
		Public attention was first drawn to his marijuana use by the TV documentary A Boy Called Donovan, broadcast in early 1966, which showed the singer and some friends smoking cannabis at a party thrown by the film crew.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Donovan (6836 words)

	great fire of london - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		It is close to the site where the fire started², near the northern end of London Bridge.
		The corner of Giltspur Street and Cock Lane where the fire ended was known as Pye Corner, and is marked by a small gilded statue known as the Fat Boy or the Golden Boy of Pye Corner, supposedly a reference to the theory expounded by a non-conformist preacher who said
		No, it was occasioned by the sin of gluttony for it began at Pudding Lane and ended at Pye Corner.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/great-fire-of-london (1673 words)

	[No title]
		A recording contract with Pye records led to the release of 3 singles in the UK including a cover version of the Monotones' "Book Of Love", but the hoped-for success never materialised despite a couple of TV appearances with his backing group 'The Cabin Boys' in 1958.
		The Dallas Boys were regulars on the TV show Six-Five Special and then on "Oh Boy!" and the ladies loved them - by the end of 1958, more than 5,000 women had joined their fan club.
		On the “Oh Boy!” TV show, Tony became the first young rock musician ever to be allowed to play live electric guitar on British T.V. In 1960, Tony was on tour with Brian Bennett and “Liquorice” Locking backing Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran when Eddie was tragically killed in a road accident near Bristol.
	www.fortunecity.com /greenfield/wolf/31/id37_m.htm (8702 words)

	West Bloomfield Township Public Library - Readers Corner>New Materials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occur-offstage.
		This golden opportunity, however, plunges him into a shadowy world of plots and counterplots among traders on the Amsterdam Exchange and members of the rigidly claustrophobic Portuguese Jewish community.
		There are hints of Hanna\'s darker side: one inexplicable moment of violence over a minor misunderstanding, and the fact that the boy knows nothing of her life other than that she collects tickets on the streetcar.
	www.wblib.org /readerscorner/bookgrouptogo.php (5194 words)

	Golden Boy (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Golden Boy (Manitoba), a statue on the dome of the Manitoba Legislative Building
		"Golden Boy" is a nickname for boxer Oscar de la Hoya and actor William Holden
		"Golden Boy" is the name Jerry gives to his favorite t-shirt in an episode of the televised sit-com Seinfeld.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Golden_Boy_(disambiguation) (150 words)

	EngDesign Projects - Offices
		The Golden Boy at the corner of Cock Lane
		A statue on the side of the building commemorates the Fire of London, which was occasioned by "the Sin of Gluttony" in 1666.
		The statue, 'The Golden Boy of Pye Corner', was originally built into the front of a public house on the site until 1910, and was re-erected when the new offices were constructed.
	www.engdesign.co.uk /Giltspur.htm (213 words)

	[No title]
		An obscure wildflower perhaps, overlooked as a weed, newly botanized for a bare corner of the yard.
		My preference for mysteries, as with all genre writing, is the same: the conditions of experience are fixed by the genre, in advance, as the conditions of childlife are by grownups, and by this means made safe.
		Pye distinguishes between the workmanship of risk and the workmanship of certainty as an alternative to the conventional and obstructive distinction between handwork and machine work.
	lists.village.virginia.edu /listservs/pmc-talk/essays/brownson.essay (7875 words)

	Kidsreads.com - ANNE OF AVONLEA by Lucy Maud Montgomery
		Roger Pye sent word to the Improvers by his son, John Andrew, that he was going to town and would get their paint for them, the Improvers told John Andrew to tell his father to get 147.
		Roger Pye and John Andrew had bungled the matter between them; and as for Joshua Pye, he must be a born fool not to suspect there was something wrong when he opened the cans and saw the color of the paint.
		Joshua Pye, when thus animadverted upon, retorted that the Avonlea taste in colors was no business of his, whatever his private opinion might be; he had been hired to paint the hall, not to talk about it; and he meant to have his money for it.
	www.kidsreads.com /bookshelf/0553213148-book-b.asp (12183 words)

	London for free - City Walk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The church you passed on the corner with Giltspur Street is St Sepulchure's.
		Embedded in the side of the building in front of you, on the corner of Cock Lane, is the famous statue of the Golden Boy of Pye Corner, commonly known as "the fat boy".
		At the end of the road, on the left hand corner, there is a building with vehicle barriers leading into a courtyard.
	www.londonforfree.net /walks/city/city.htm (5437 words)

	Simon & Schuster: The Very Daring Duchess (Mass Market Paperback) - Read an Excerpt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Her skin was golden, burnished with rich rose, her eyes as dark and fathomless as midnight, and as full of sensual promise.
		"Lieutenant Pye, is it not?" she was saying breathlessly as she curtseyed before poor dithering Henry, granting him a stupefying view of her bosom in the process.
		She shrugged again, the golden afternoon sunlight sliding over the skin of her shoulders, not at all scandalized that he'd speak so freely before her.
	www.simonsays.com /content/book.cfm?tab=1&pid=413379&agid=2 (4882 words)

	September 5, Every-Day Book
		So was order so far preserved; and the city officers, to whom was comitted the power of enforcing it, exercised their duty rigorously, and properly; because, to their credit, they swerved not from their instructions, and did not give just cause of offence to any whom the regulations displeased.
		The Giant Boy, William Wilkinson Whitehead, was fourteen years of age on the 26th of March last, stood five feet two inches high, measured five feet around the body, twenty-seven inches across the shoulders, twenty inches round the arm, twenty-four inches round the calf, thirty-one inches round the thigh, and weighed twenty-two stone.
		His father and mother were "travelling merchants" of Manchester; he was born at Glasgow during one of their journies, and was as fine a youth as I ever saw, handsomely formed, of fair complexion, and intelligent countenance, active in motion, and of sensible speech.
	www.uab.edu /english/hone/etexts/edb/day-pages/248-sep05.html (11786 words)

	The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving: Statford-on-Avon
		Here he may many a time have sat when a boy, watching the slowly revolving spit with all the longing of an urchin, or of an evening listening to the cronies and gossips of Stratford dealing forth churchyard tales and legendary anecdotes of the troublesome times of England.
		He had lived in Stratford, man and boy, for eighty years, and seemed still to consider himself a vigorous man, with the trivial exception that he had nearly lost the use of his legs for a few years past.
		In one corner sat the old man`s granddaughter sewing, a pretty blue-eyed girl, and in the opposite corner was a superannuated crony whom he addressed by the name of John Ange, and who, I found, had been his companion from childhood.
	www.classicauthors.net /Classics/Irving/sgeoffreycrayon/sgeoffreycrayon27.html (5708 words)

	Britannia.com: Hidden London by Jan Collie
		High on the wall of the modern office block which now occupies the site at Pye Corner is the golden figure of a fat boy.
		The boy is supposed to personify gluttony, the deadly sin that was said to have brought God's vengeance on the city.
		Also in Giltspur Street is the old parish watch-house which was built in the eighteenth century to guard the graveyard against body-snatching racketeers who would steal corpses and sell them on to the doctors at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, just across the road.
	www.britannia.com /hiddenlondon/st_sepulchre.html (1033 words)

	Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay
		It must be owned that she had her hands full, that I writhed under her mincing conventionalities of social doctrine, and that the boys played many a welcome trick on her, including the offering of persimmons from a tree in the pasture upon which frost had not yet laid its redeeming spell.
		With a splendid physique, almost unbroken good health, a tireless hand, and a spirit of tender sympathy, she was the ideal attendant upon homesick boys from the far South, disheartened by illness at the outset of their campaign, as well as those cruelly mangled and wounded in the first fights.
		A slim boy with a dark, sparkling face is what the splendid Pelham seemed to me in that brief encounter, followed by a little war of wits.
	docsouth.unc.edu /fpn/harrison/harrison.html (17293 words)

	Attracting Goldfinches - Wildlife Garden Forum - GardenWeb
		The Goldfinches and Chicadees are eating the seeds from the Purple Coneflowers, Black-eyed Susan, Joe Pye Weed and Hyssop.
		While some were on the sunflowers and mexican sunflowers, most were feeding on the seedheads of the 'Golden Giant' grain amaranth.
		Boy are they cute and their little mournful cry is so distinctive.
	forums.gardenweb.com /forums/load/wildlife/msg0815151014045.html (5282 words)

	BRITPOP
		Their songs had smirky titles but exhibited some experimentation (such as unusual instrumentation or tempo changes: one song included "an empty beer bottle zoomed down a fretboard while two bits of plywood were smacked together", according to Clayson.) Dave Dee never lost the performing bug and has organized various revivals of his older work.
		And the Boys were terribly impressed when told that the A&R man who would be handling their production at EMI was George Martin, recording manager for the individual Goons among other comedy acts.
		But they were unable to repeat the dual-market success and had to be happy with a fair showing of top-twenty UK charttoppers until 1971, when their successes ceased, as did the band.
	www.columbia.edu /~brennan/beatles/britpop.html (14595 words)

	MAIN CATALOG
		JOE PYE WEED: A tall, hardy native of Eastern US, found wild in moist meadows (once called "Queen of the Meadow").
		GOLDEN OREGANO: Hugs the ground and spreads into a thick mat.
		GOLDEN LEMON THYME: An upright, lemon scented and tasting thyme very ornamental with gold edged leaves.
	www.greenstranger.com /catalog97.htm (15342 words)

	Paranormal & Ghost Society
		Pye describes himself as non-metaphysical and devoted to hard science.
		Pye counters: "That's a good point, and it's one of the things that they hide behind.
		Consider this: The height of the Pyramid's apex is 5,812.98 inches, and each side is 9,131 inches from corner to corner (in a straight line).
	www.paranormalghostsociety.org /ancientmysteries.htm (12641 words)

	December 25, Every-Day Book
		In the corner of his hall, by the fire-side, stood a large wooden two-armed chair, with a cushion, and within the chimney corner were a couple of seats.
		He mounted the oak, and cutting the misletoe with a golden sickle, presented it to the other druids, who received it with great respect, and on the first day of the year distributed it among the people as a sacred and holy plant, crying, "The misletoe for the new year." Mr.
		It is inquired by a writer in the "Gentleman's Magazine," 1783, "may not the minced pye, a compound of the choicest productions of the east, have in view the offerings made by the wise men, who came from afar to worship, bringing spices," andc.
	www.uab.edu /english/hone/etexts/edb/day-pages/359-dec25.html (5216 words)

	Books \| The golden boy writes
		A nonconformist preacher blamed the Great Fire of London on gluttony, since it began at Pudding Lane and ended at Pye Corner, a spot marked today by a statue of a golden boy.
		But often the process is perfectly rational: specific government action enrages, like the Navigation Acts which infuriated the American colonies or, in our own time, the poll tax which made a popular hero of Tommy Sheridan but was not abandoned until it was imposed on the English as well as the Scots.
		There was a library at the bottom of his street in Govan and he was a voracious reader from an early age.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4393690-99930,00.html (889 words)

	Television Personalities: The Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In fact, Dan has got together with Joe and a drummer boy, Mark Sheppard, who wants to be called Empire and The TV Personalities and The Teenage Filmstars are playing live together.
		Oh, I don’t know, there were so many, though I suppose playing ‘Boys Brigade’ on German national TV supported by some all-girl group called The Bangles was as good as any.
		The first ‘London Boys’ released June ’86 on Unicorn records was a cover of the early Bowie classic which served as a timely reminder of ‘This Is London’’s sentiments.
	www.popfloor.com /tvps/press/bigelvis.html (6099 words)

	Something Else By The Kinks
		Welcome to Daviesland, Where all the little kinklings in the magic Kinkdom wear tiny fl bowlers, rugby boots, soldier suits, drink half pints of bitter, carry cricket bats and ride in little Tube trains.
		Gulliver-like Ray Davies stoops to pluck a small mortal from his musical World -- turns him upside down to see where he was made -- and replaces him gently but firmly in that great class society where all men are equal but some are more equal than others.
		Neither should we forget the stalwart contributions of bass-Kink Pete Quaife or drum-Kink Mick Avory who combine to produce the solid root sounds which hall-mark the group.
	kinks.it.rit.edu /discography/showrelease.php?release=93 (488 words)

	July 20th
		'At Tobias' Coffee-house, in Pye Corner, is sold the right drink, called Dr. Butler's Ale, it being the same that was sold by Mr.
		It is an excellent stomack drink, it helps digestion, expels wind, and dissolves congealed phlegm upon the lungs, and is therefore good against colds, coughs, ptisical and consumptive distempers; and being drunk in the evening, it moderately fortifies nature, causeth good rest, and hugely corroborates the brain and memory.'—1680.
		If any person can bring notice of the flmore to the said Peter Bennier, at his house over against the signe of the "Golden Balle," they shall be very well payd for their payns.'—1663.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/july/20.htm (2924 words)

	Kepler's \| Kids Teen Corner \| Showcase Books
		When he picks it up, a boy his own age, Silas Rich, who was a cabin boy on a ship called the Monomoy that sailed almost 250 years ago, appears.
		Both are misfits trying to avoid attention, and both are fascinated by Earl, a tall, calm, older boy with no recollection of his past, but a remarkable knack for showing up when he is needed most.
		But the boy he saves is no ordinary patient: He is the son of Nikolai Drevin, one of the richest men in the world.
	www.keplers.com /?sec=kids-teen-corner&subsec=showcase-books (5206 words)

	Truman Library - Tom C. Clark Oral History Interview
		He had a cook named Pye, and Pye had cooked a birthday pie for him.
		Pye came prancing in balancing his pie on his hand.
		You would never dream that it was a frame-up at all, and the President says, "Pye did you tell me you baked this pie?" Pye was a devoted person and he loved the President and had waited on him for years.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /oralhist/clarktc.htm (18185 words)

	[No title]
		the September-October term jury had been charged by Fulton Superior Court Judge Durwood Pye to investigate reports of possible" irregularities" in the hard-fought primary which was won by Mayor-nominate Ivan Allen Jr&.
		I 've tried to teach some of the other boys to kick and some of them can n't seem to get the feel.
		Jay Porter drew a base on balls to fill the bases but Don Wert's smash was knocked down by Rudolph for the putout.
	www.cs.waikato.ac.nz /Teaching/COMP208A/info2006/brown.txt (24007 words)

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