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  Victorian Britain - MSN Encarta
Among all the families in Britain, the royal family, never fully publicized but always gossiped about, was in a special position.
Having stayed in the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, the Queen soon decided that she did not wish to visit it often again.
And what was subsequently to be called a guerrilla war was continuing when the Queen died, despite the fall of the Transvaal and the flight of its President, Paul Kruger to Europe after the Boer capital, Pretoria, had been taken by the British in June 1900.
uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781533789_2/Victorian_Britain.html   (3261 words)

  
 Royal Insight > December 2006 > Focus > Princess Alexandra
At the advent of World War Two, Her Royal Highness became a Royal 'evacuee' when she was sent to the countryside to live with her grandmother, Queen Mary, who became a great influence in her life.
Her Royal Highness is involved with the Alzheimer's Society, the British Red Cross Society and the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.
Her Royal Highness is also Patron of both the PDSA (the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals) and the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.
www.royal.gov.uk /output/page1729.asp   (1162 words)

  
 List of UK place names with royal patronage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although several English boroughs sometimes are called "royal", there are actually only three boroughs that have legal right to the title "Royal Borough": Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames, and Windsor and Maidenhead.
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea - title originally given to Kensington in 1901, fulfilling a wish by Queen Victoria to honour her birthplace.
Royal Town of Caernarfon - this is where the Prince of Wales is invested.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_UK_place_names_with_royal_patronage   (195 words)

  
 hermajesties.co.uk
The regalia masks a most sinister system of control in the UK that has (so far at least)STOPPED a revolution removing the crooks who have for centuries survived by controlling us using their secret society mobsters who are in key positions throughout British society.
The first and simplest method of knighting was that used on battlefields, when the candidate knelt before the royal commander of the army and was 'stricken with the sword upon his back and shoulder' with some words such as 'Advances Chevalier au nom de Dieu'.
The ceremony is similar: after his name is announced, the knight-elect kneels on a knighting-stool in front of The Queen who then lays the sword blade on the knight's right and then left shoulder.
members.fortunecity.com /ticketyboo/hermajesty.htm   (2148 words)

  
 Royal burgh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A royal burgh is a burgh which has been founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter.
Most royal burghs were sea ports, and each was either created by the crown, or upgraded from another status, such as burgh of barony.
Each royal burgh (with the exception of four 'ineffective burghs') was represented in the Parliament of Scotland and could appoint magistrates, called bailies with wide powers in civil and criminal justice.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_burgh   (902 words)

  
 India, Indian States, India States, Indian hotels, Indian News and Indian Tourism, India Travel
However, under letters patent the area of the former city was to continue to be styled the "City of Rochester" to "perpetuate the ancient name" and to recall "the long history and proud heritage of the said city".
Note that the Cathedral column lists the diocesan cathedrals that were the grounds for the granting of city status, that is, cathedrals of the established Church of England, and the formerly established Church in Wales or Church of Ireland, in cities recognised prior to 1888.
There was controversy in the rest of the UK — especially in Wales — over the fact that two of the three winners of the 2000 competition were English towns, so 2002 was run as four separate competitions.
www.hyderabadin.org /wiki-City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom   (4177 words)

  
 Greenwich Royal Hospital School 2
It will be seen that the present efficient condition of these schools has been of gradual growth, and the result of large experience; more especially as we are enabled, by aid from official sources, to present the reader with all the system of management in all its leading details.
The vacancies are filled up strictly on this principle; the admissions being carefully selected from the list of candidates by three of the principal officers of the Hospital, subject to the approval of the Governor.
In 1821, by warrant of King George IV, the Royal Naval Asylum was united with the School of Greenwich Hospital, and placed under the management of the Governors, Commissioners, and Directors thereof, for the time being.
www.mariners-l.co.uk /GreenwichRoyal2.html   (2344 words)

  
 Iraq News Extracts - Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq
The labels also listed the serial numbers of the bills, which were sequential new notes, many dated 1999 or 2001.
William Arkin, LA Times: Instructively, the one place where policy is not being driven by the focus on chemical and biological weapons is inside the American armed forces.
One name repeatedly mentioned is that of Bernard Kouchner, the former head of the United Nations civil administration in Kosovo, and a French politician who loves America.
www.casi.org.uk /info/iraqnews.html   (20067 words)

  
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This is not the place for campaigning for animal rights, debating the ethics of maintaining pets, pleading generalized environmental cases not directly bearing on a canine population, arguing the pros and cons of vegetarianism or any similarly tangential topics.
The list is not to be used to discuss pet birds or falconry.
This list is open to all people connected with the field of Marine Technology, be their interest in structural analysis, hydrodynamics, marine engineering, optimisation, fishery studies, or oceanography.
netvet.wustl.edu /e-zoo/ABOUT/LISTSERV.TXT   (11058 words)

  
 British Homeopathy during two centuries by Peter Morrell
Moreover, listing them all would not really convey very much to the reader, as it would not show in what way they were connected to the movement, or indeed very much about their lives or how they chanced upon homeopathy in the first place.
Firstly, their names appear, in great profusion, listed as Patrons or on the boards of managers and committees which controlled the homeopathic hospitals and dispensaries.
As with the royal patronage of products and companies, it is obviously thought that by mentioning the name of a royal or aristocrat gives your product or service the lustre of superior quality which it would otherwise have lacked.
www.homeoint.org /morrell/british/aristo.htm   (632 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Talking Point | New Year honours: Are they still relevant?
I'm really happy that the honours system has been used to recognise the work of the Lawrences- I see this as an apology on behalf of the entire state for the way their son was treated and a gesture of appreciation for what they have done since.
Steve Rudd, UK When 'awards' are given not for what you do but for who you are, as in the case of the Lawrences, they have become meaningless.
The inclusion of a reference to the royal family in the title of the Honours list is becoming less and less relevant as time goes by.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/talking_point/2615919.stm   (2489 words)

  
 Royal Britain Links
Museums are listed alphabetically by name and hotlinked, together with a brief description of the museum's function.
UK and its people, the system of government, overseas relations, defence; education, the labour market, social protection, health services, criminal and civil justice, religion, culture, media and communications, sport, environmental protection, planning and housing, transport; the economy, public finance, international trade and investment, science, engineering and technology, agriculture, manufacturing, energy, and finance and other services.
The Royal Parks are a living, green, historical resource that make a vital contribution to London's status as a "world city", providing settings for listed buildings, celebrated monuments and sites of archaeological and historical importance and great tranquil beauty.
www.suite101.com /links.cfm/food_travel_uk   (5426 words)

  
 Selected Books, Articles and Reference
Space does not permit a full listing, but such a catalogue would include the misidentification of documents, misquotation of documents, the running together of passages from different documents without identification in any form that the material is from different soures, and misdating of material.
These were "bottom-up" responses to cicumstances, and Strachan says (interestingly in the light of recent discussion on the list) that Falkenhayn should get as much credit for listening to his juniors as Ludendorff.
Its worth noting how much emphasis Ludendorff continued to place on morale, very much within a traditional conception of warfare, and evidenced in his programme of "patriotic instruction" for front line soldiers, which suggests that "morale," not technology, remained his primary consideration.
www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/comment/booklist/booklist.htm   (5281 words)

  
 H-France Reviews- Chronological List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Maps, figures, list of abbreviations, tables, suggestions for further reading, and index.
Aldershot, U.K. and Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2001, xiv + 336 pp.
Review by Pamela Pilbeam, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, for H-France, March 2002.
www.h-france.net /chronolist.html   (10381 words)

  
 LUPEC Names Project
Her plays were very successful and were performed under royal patronage by the Duke's Theatre Company.
She campaigned for a separate place for children to play outdoors, and so the public playground was born.
She was an ardent women's rights advocate and suffragist, and in 1879 Somerville College in Oxford was named after her in recognition of her strong support for women's education.
www.lupec.org /names.htm   (4946 words)

  
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As John Ralfe, head of corporate finance at the UK retail group Boots, has argued in these pages, investing in equities is a form of double leverage for pension funds.
According to PwC, the consultants, 41 per cent of UK pension fund liabilities relate to current employees, while 59 per cent relate to pensioners, for whom bonds are regarded as the appropriate matching asset.
The UK Treasury, for example, says it shares Brussels' vision, which was openly supported by Tony Blair, the prime minister, in a joint letter with Wim Kok, his Dutch counterpart, last week, but it casts doubt over the 3 per cent target.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2002-March.txt   (20959 words)

  
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If someone on this list was simply offering the disk, at a reasonable rate, just to conserve bandwidth on the OAA and help those with slow connections, that'd be different.
There's plenty of bootlegs being sold on ebay all the time but there are specific reasons why we, as Orb listmembers should have a big problem with this particular auction: The OAA was created by and for the orb listmembers, and all of the material in it was donated by orb listmembers.
The best part of organic 96, the complete utter aphex of magnificence is when the Dr. starts spinning his wierdness between songs near the end.....and all of the sudden out of the space comes the slide guitar we all know and love from chill out...then a little mojo hate......
www.xmission.com /pub/lists/orb/archive/orb.199909   (17725 words)

  
 Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge
TS copy of a list of the 52 Peethasthans or sacred places in India with their names and provenances.
TS list of the chief sacred places in India supplied by G.C. Chatterji, 20 September 1919.
To name a few: evangelistic methods used amongst coolies and their families on coffee estates; the reopening of a hospital at Mandagadde; the construction of church buildings; the continual travelling to visit and preach to scattered Christian communities.
www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk /Handlist_S.htm   (15251 words)

  
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They placed their order, of which one of the items was tandoori chicken.
After some time we noticed that orders placed by the foreigners were being served quickly-including dishes like baked fish-while the Indian family did not get their food even after an hour.
Miller didn't interview the gentleman, didn't learn his name and agreed to have her story censored by the U.S. army under the terms of her "accreditation." Thus, the reader wasn't even told what chemicals or weapons materials the "scientist" was alleged to have known about.
www.indialists.org /pipermail/goajourno/2003-June.txt   (19711 words)

  
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The copyright continues to be vested with the writer and/or the place where it was originally published, as the case may be.
Another notable Portuguese daily was Heraldo (as though they could have not have found another name for it after the first O Heraldo : or was it a Goan symbol of pettiness or vindictiveness?) which folded up soon after Liberation due to its editor opting to leave Goa and settle in Portugal.
In the first place I had to remember that he was a businessman and that those times of uncertain and undetermined policies and decisions of the Government of India^=D2s and local administration^=D2s dealings with Goan businessmen called for circumspection and moderation of langauge used in the newspaper.
www.indialists.org /pipermail/goajourno/2003-February.txt   (18479 words)

  
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Everybody knows that it was that exact theme, when I tried to read a paper on it during the 17th International Conference on the History of Cartography (Lisbon, 1997), the one which suffered the censorship of the Portuguese official 'Commemorators', with the colaboration of their accomplice Mr.
Please, if you have an address other than the one you are subscribed under, from which you want to be able to post to the list, notify me, so I can add it to the list of 'allowed addresses'.
Besides its formidable patronage, many of its supercargoes and captains had previously served with the English Company and provided considerable skill and experience.
www.win.tue.nl /cs/fm/engels/discovery/list/00-10.txt   (14303 words)

  
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Shepard's acts and cases by popular names : federal and state.Short story criticism.vShort story index; an index to 60,000 stories in 4,320 collections.
Series A, (General).DJournal of the Royal Statistical Society.
[et al.] ; under the patronage of the International Union of Academies.1Encyclopedia Iranica / edited by Ehsan Yarshater.pEncyclopedia of computer science and technology / executive editors, Jack Belzer, Albert G. Holzman, Allen Kent.Encyclopedia of library and information science.
www.library.gsu.edu /faculty/serialsreview/pdf/CombinedListDeans.xls   (1857 words)

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