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 Emma Peel - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Peel was the partner of John Steed, and their pairing is considered by most viewers to showcase the definitive episodes of the series.
Peel's husband, Peter Peel, was a test pilot and was lost on a mission.
Peel learns that her husband (who looks suspiciously like Steed from a distance) has returned, and she leaves Steed and her spy career behind.
open-encyclopedia.com /Emma_Peel   (369 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Sir Robert Peel (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
In opposing parliamentary reform he recovered some of the Tory support that he lost by this position, and after the Reform Bill of 1832 (see Reform Acts) had passed despite his opposition, he rallied the party and was prime minister for a brief term (1834–35).
Peel was asked to form a cabinet in 1839 but declined when the young Queen Victoria refused to make requested changes in her household.
Peel had formerly defended these laws, which protected Tory agricultural interests, but he was impressed by the arguments of Richard Cobden against them and convinced by the disastrous effect of the potato famine in Ireland.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Peel-Sir.html   (545 words)

  
 Robert Peel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Peel felt compelled to resign his seat at Oxford, as what had made him attractive to that constituency in the first place was his opposition to it (in 1815 he had, in fact, challenged to a duel the man most associated with emancipation, Daniel O'Connell (additional info and facts about Daniel O'Connell)).
Notably, in 1843, Peel was the target of a failed assassination; a criminally-insane Scottish woodsmen named Daniel M'Naghten (additional info and facts about Daniel M'Naghten) stalked him for several days before accidently killing Peel's personal secretary Edward Drummond by mistake.
Peel was thrown from his horse while riding up Constitution Hill (additional info and facts about Constitution Hill) in London on June 29, 1850, and died three days later at the age of 62.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robert_peel.htm   (2515 words)

  
 PEEL - Encyclopedia Britannica - PEEL - JCSM's Study Center
(r) The skin or rind of a fruit; thus " to peel " is to remove the outer covering of anything.
The etymology of the word is closely connected with that of " pill," to plunder, surviving in " pillage." Both words are to be referred to French and thence to Latin.
The earlier meaning of " peel " is a palisaded enclosure used as an additional defence for a fortified post or as an independent stronghold.
jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/PAS_PER/PEEL.html   (433 words)

  
 Allrecipes | Cook's Encyclopedia | peel
The rind or skin of a fruit or vegetable, such as a tomato or potato peel.
Also called a pizza peel and baker's peel, this implement is made of hardwood and can usually be found in gourmet specialty shops.
To use a knife or VEGETABLE PEELER to remove the rind or skin from a fruit or vegetable, as to peel a potato.
allrecipes.com /advice/ref/ency/terms/7842.asp   (117 words)

  
 definition of peel
A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.
The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
www.brainydictionary.com /words/pe/peel200557.html   (222 words)

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