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  Corrieblog: July 2007
First appearing on the cobbled streets of Weatherfield in 1969, Betty has remained a firm fixture throughout five decades of the programme, experiencing the death of loved ones, the revelation of an illegitimate child, being Weatherfield's resident darts champion as well as cooking hundreds of portions of her infamous Lancashire hotpot.
Coronation Street is no stranger to controversial storylines but I really think they pushed the envelope with this one.
Coronation Street’s Big Jim McDonald is turning up in panto this year to scare the living daylights out of theatre goers when he does a stint as evil Abanazer in Aladdin.
www.corrieblog.tv /2007/07   (8939 words)

  
  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Coronation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A coronation is a ceremony marking the investment of a monarch with regal power through, amongst other symbolic acts, the placement of a crown upon his or her head.
The coronation of Empress Farah, of Iran in 1967.
A coronation following the Byzantine formula was instigated with the coronation of King Clovis of the Franks at Rheims (497), in which a dove was made to descend with an ampule of oil, with which the king was anointed.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Coronation   (1192 words)

  
 perceval.htm
Robert Maxwell of Finnebrogue (d.1769) had a younger brother, Edward who, after a flirtation with the law, entered the army and, much too slowly for his own satisfaction, rose to be Colonel of the 67th Regiment and a general.
Maxwell, at mid-life, was the proprietor of 6,644 statute acres in the south of Ireland and 8,469 statute acres in the north..., bringing his total Irish acreage to 15,113 and his rental income to £13,881.
Robert Perceval was born on 24 June 1813, the eldest son of the Rev. William Perceval of Kilmore Hill, Co. Waterford, and Annefield, Co. Dublin, and of Ann, the eldest daughter of John Waring Maxwell Senior [of] Finnebrogue, Co. Down.
www.proni.gov.uk /records/private/perceval.htm   (10834 words)

  
 Observer | Breaking up is hard for Alastair to do...
Downing Street's chief press secretary is a victim of the personality-driven politics the former tabloid journalist did so much to foster, while denouncing the press's growing obsession with the people, not the policies.
Campbell has always been a 'personality', a colourful character with a quick wit who likes to mix it physically as well as verbally, as the Guardian 's Michael White discovered when he failed to greet the death of Robert Maxwell with the respect that Campbell considered fitting.
He remains notoriously intolerant of journalists on centre-Left newspapers who refuse to swallow the Downing Street line and rails against the media's obsession with personalities, their focus on the trivial and their inability to see what he calls the big picture.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4170617-102273,00.html   (1267 words)

  
 Brit Sci Fi
The title character (played by Gert Frobe) isn't the most sinister or vicious villain to stand against 007, but he is intelligent, ingenious, and obsessed with gold.
Along the way, he runs into such diverse characters as a beautiful computer programmer (Izabella Scorupco), a former partner (Sean Bean), a wisecracking CIA agent (Joe Don Baker), an ex-KGB officer with a score to settle (Robbie Coltrane), and a psychotic woman who likes squeezing men to death between her legs (Femke Janssen).
This is a rare movie in which we are given a clear picture of the character's loneliness - his dead wife is never mentioned, but her presence hovers over Bond almost from the beginning.
scififansa7.blogspot.com   (13419 words)

  
 "Materiality and Cultural  Memory"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Robert Maxwell reminds us that no more than ten percent of the discourse of architectural experiment can be addressed through technology, and that the most important questions of architecture are those of character, social patterns, and values, all of which are cultural in nature.
"The singular composite character of the town is palpable at the entrance.
From the bridge we enter Commerce street, the narrow principal thoroughfare, and here are American houses, and the triple nationalities break out into the most amusing display, till we reach the main plaza....
user.dcci.com /cegan/materia.htm   (4008 words)

  
 COUNCILS - Online Information article about COUNCILS
character, and a tendency arose Investiture to terminate it by other means.
protection he granted to the monks assuming a character of hostility towards the episcopate; and, finally, he gave an impulse to the reformation of the chapters, and, unlike Urban II., maintained the rights of the canons against the claims of the abbots.
coronation he had renounced the right, so jealously guarded by Henry V., of assisting in the election of bishops and abbots, and he even undertook to refrain from exacting homage from the prelates and to content himself with fealty.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /COR_CRE/COUNCILS.html   (6409 words)

  
 Grumpy Old Bookman: May 2005
Robert Maxwell proved decades ago that company accounts can be made to yield any result you want, and since then we have had ample proof that some auditors will sign off anything if you pay them enough in consultancy fees.
His annual publication, Sandra says, features 'stories long enough to contain actual content: plot, characters, a point, that kind of old fashioned thing, and each issue is prefaced with an editorial "prelude" which properly lambasts the academy for hijacking, gutting, whittling, etc. the short story form.
On Sunday last, Robert McCrum reviewed Nigel Newton's pronouncements on the subject, and tactfully declared them to be less than satisfactory (two cheers, not three).
grumpyoldbookman.blogspot.com /2005_05_01_grumpyoldbookman_archive.html   (15621 words)

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