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William Arthur Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill
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 McCrea is in a difficult position - Belfast Today
It is quite alarming to find William McCrea in a position in which he does not know what he believes or where he stands regarding the iniquitous power-sharing with Sinn Fein at Stormont.
Mr McCrea had de facto changed his mind over power-sharing with Sinn Fein when he stood for a party that was committed to this policy and accepted a seat in the Assembly.
This politician is trying hard to ride two horses or, to change the metaphor, is now trying to be a 'middle of the road man' – a very dangerous place to be.
www.newsletter.co.uk /letters-to-the-editor?articleid=3066430   (562 words)

  
 Burning Bush - Justice and Truth — Magherafelt style!
Indeed, William McCrea’s present political partners are guilty of the murder of members of his family as he so often, in the past, informed the public.
McCrea quite correctly calls a murderer, Martin McGuinness, and which has been repeatedly displayed in the news media to the grief and heartache of thousands of sincere Christians in Ulster and much further afield.
McCrea nor his children have had to look over their shoulders in fear of anything Raymond Linton would do as they did regarding Martin McGuinness and his fellow terrorists, yet he sits comfortably in McGuinness’ presence in Stormont while Mr.
www.ivanfoster.org /article.asp?date=7/29/2007&seq=13   (1560 words)

  
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A decision to withdraw the Rev William McCrea's armed bodguard is being reviewed, the High Court heard today.
The PSNI decided to strip the DUP politician of Close Protection - an armoured car and armed police which he has had for the past 23 years - because he was no longer an MP.
Mr McCrea, 56, who lives at Magherafelt, applied for a judicial review of the decision and a hearing was due next week.
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 Britannicaindia.com: Britannica Browse
Irish tenor who was considered to be one of the finest singers of the first quarter of the 20th century.
American politician who served as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1962 to 1970.
farmer, politician, and prime minister of Australia from Dec. 19, 1967, to Jan. 10, 1968.
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 William McCrea MP supports CRY postcard campaign
South Antrim MP, William McCrea has given his backing to a campaign designed to highlight cardiac death in young people.
Speaking in support of the CRY campaign, Dr. McCrea said he had been “touched and deeply moved” by letters and postcards he received over the devastating condition which claims the lives of around eight young people a week in the UK.
The DUP politician is hoping to meet the Chief Executive of the CRY campaign in Northern Ireland, Alison Cox, to learn more about the condition and how many deaths could be prevented.
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  Fort Ticonderoga History: George Washington Bibliography
William S. Baker, Itinerary of General Washington, Philadelphia, 1892, pp.
John Kaminski, George Clinton: Yeoman Politician of the New Republic, Madison, Wisconsin, Madison House, 1993.
William J. Showalter, "The Travels of George Washington," National Geographic Magazine, January 1932, pp.
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William Arthur Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill
William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham
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Apparently the William Chapline who received the land gran t was the son of William who purchased the survey from Charles Goff.
His descendant, William Hedges, of Youghal, Ireland, and Gloucester and London, England, was at Wilmington in 1675 and owned property there under the Du ke of York's rule, through Governor Fenwick's administration of South Jersey.
The Scottish Clan, McCrea or Macrea, stems from the word meaning "Son of Grace." The Gaelic spelling is MacRath and in Ireland it is Magrath.
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 The Irish Association - Steve Bruce
Formed by William McGrath, this secretive organization issued a number of blood-curdling press releases in 1969 and 1970 and was infiltrated by the UVF men, keen to discover if it had any serious military expertise and if so, to expropriate it.
William McCrea and Ivan Foster conducted funerals for Wesley Somerville and Horace Boyle, members of the notorious Portadown UVF cell led by Robin Jackson.
McCrea buried Benjamin Redfern, a UDA lifer who was crushed by a bin lorry while trying to escape from the Maze prison.
www.irish-association.org /archives/stevebruce11_oct03.html   (9818 words)

  
 Newshound: Daily Northern Ireland news catalog - Irish News article
The DUP would probably be on the brink of withdrawing from the forthcoming talks and Ian Paisley would undoubtedly have highlighted his outrage during his appearance at an event at the Labour Party conference in Manchester yesterday (Thursday).
However, as the guilty plea was actually entered by a DUP politician, the former mayor of Coleraine Dessie Stewart, responses on all sides have been extremely low-key.
Mr McCrea concluded that, in all the circumstances, Sinn Féin had a very long way to go before it could be accepted into government.
www.nuzhound.com /articles/irish_news/arts2006/sep29_irony_DUP_democratic_view__Editorial.php   (456 words)

  
 JOEL McCREA VIDEOS & DVDs AT HOLLYWOOD TEEN MOVIES
One of Joel McCrea's first starring breakthroughs was this macho role as an Alaskan salmon fisherman fighting a dirty-dealing rival with both fists.
Joel McCrea is the reporter caught in the middle of a spy ring, threatening a pacifist conference, with his fiancee's father the possible spy leader.
She tells of her love affair with the politician, their adventures in the old West, their struggles concerning the arrival of the railroad and the other man in her life.
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 Newshound: Links to daily newspaper articles about Northern Ireland
Both of the frontrunners, the DUP’s gospel-singing Rev William McCrea and the UUP’s public relations man-they-love-to-hate, David Burnside, are not known for their diffidence; no shrinking violets they.
At this stage there are no Ulster Unionists ready to admit to anything more serious than a bad case of nerves but in the absence of any factor which could persuade the apathetic to come out it may be that the destination of the SDLP and Alliance vote could assume critical importance.
With rumours abounding that rebels are poised to convene another Unionist Council meeting if McCrea wins and have a no confidence motion already framed, Trimble loyalists believe the rank and file will hesitate to split the party and hand the leadership to a candidate they are not entirely certain of.
www.nuzhound.com /articles/moloney2000/mal92-17.htm   (1273 words)

  
 27 February 1998
It was down to the police, the paramilitaries, the politicians and the churchmen.
Since these are the task of politicians also I conclude by wishing Members well in their endeavours on behalf of us all.
Until the paramilitaries cease their barbaric acts we will not have a normal society, so it is incumbent on us, as constitutional politicians, to try to reach an accommodation.
www.ni-forum.gov.uk /debates/1998/270298.htm   (21611 words)

  
 Guardian | Song and dance about the price of peace
The Rev William McCrea of the Democratic Unionist party has stormed the US Bible belt with his 27 gospel albums, including one titled I Pledge Allegiance.
Not only is the electorate fuming at politicians who are being paid while the Stormont stalemate continues but the Audit Office discovered this week that Northern Ireland's government departments frittered away £18m last year on "consultancy" fees deemed by analysts to be pointless.
Morgan-Barnes, who wrote and directed the opera, said that he was not worried by politicians or civil servants taking offence at the show, which he prefers to title "How the peace and reconciliation money is spent" lest the audience makes unwanted analogies with Jerry Springer.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4944642-103690,00.html   (627 words)

  
 VPR Campaign 2004 coverage   (Site not responding. Last check: )
And it's positive." (McCrea) Holly Miller was a patient in Dean's Shelburne practice, where she called him "Howard." She remembers his casual but direct style.
And sometimes we're right, sometimes we're wrong but in medicine - you know, we see patients on a daily basis and what was the right decision yesterday, we may decide the next day is the wrong decision.
Dean has a brittle temperament and a wide stubborn streak, but in the end his decisions are those of an analytical and pragmatic politician.
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 Epinions.com - Movies I Like
Watch for Sir Ralph Richardson in a superb performance as the conniving politician William Gladstone, as well as a bevy of heavyweight British thespians in the supporting parts.
Like Sam Peckinpah's superb and better known The Wild Bunch, this film follows a pair of aging protagonists facing the end of the wild west, touching on themes of honor, loyalty, and change, themes that Peckinpah explored again and again.
Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea are the cowboys who leave the squalid plain for the clean air of the High Country only to find that evil exists there, as well.
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 (William) David Trimble - Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Trimble, (William) David (1944– ) Northern Irish politician, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 1995 and First Minister of the Northern Irish Assembly from 1998.
He was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1998 jointly with John HUME for their roles in talks to establish peace in Northern Ireland.
Election 2001: South Antrim ready for key inter-unionist battle; Gavin Jennings reports from SOUTH ANTRIM where the sitting MP the Rev William McCrea and David Burnside go head to head again in the battle for the heart of unionism.(Politics)
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 McGuinness goes on a charm offensive
He may not usually wear that warm smile and smart jacket and tie but he is unmistakably the same man who has been known as a hardline militarist for more than 25 years and has twice been convicted of IRA membership.
Mr McCrea's decison to share a platform with Billy Wright, a loyalist since convicted of threatening to kill a woman, has left him vulnerable to ballot box and the bullet.
The absence of a pact between the SDLP and Sinn Fein could be Mr McCrea's salvation.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/04/28/nele828.html   (851 words)

  
 Northern Ireland Bill: 26 Apr 2006: House of Commons debates (TheyWorkForYou.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the past, the IRA never acknowledged that illegal activities such as bank robberies amounted to criminality, because it never recognised the ability of the rule of law of the British state to restrict it from doing what it liked in Northern Ireland.
I served in Northern Ireland and was aware of the progress made in bringing the IRA to the table and making it realise that putting down its arms and talking about issues was the way forward.
Here, the disagreement is not so much one of policy; whatever Opposition politicians may say, privately, they recognise the need for the action that we are taking.
www.theyworkforyou.com /debates/?id=2006-04-26a.597.0&m=1723   (8543 words)

  
 Irish American Post   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As Northern Ireland's politicians embarked on another week of campaigning for the November 26th Assembly Election, the Mid Ulster MP predicted his party would overtake the SDLP in the Assembly.
The member of parliament is David Burnside (UUP), who defeated the DUP's William McCrea in the 2001 election; McCrea had held the seat for less than nine months, having won it in a September 2000 by-election held after the death of Clifford Forsythe (UUP), who had represented the constituency since it was revised in 1983.
Politicians from across the spectrum will be keen to learn the results of today's Belfast Telegraph poll, the first snapshot of opinion since the Assembly Election campaign began.
www.gaelicweb.com /irishampost/year2003/11oct-nov/news/news01.html   (19405 words)

  
 Jones Co. Iowa/Biographies/M-McC
He was born in the province of Melsungen, Hessen, Germany, April 16, 1851, and is a son of William and Christiana (Mathas) Mardorf.
In 1860, he was united in marriage with Miss Abbic Williams, of Newark, N. J., she died August 17, 1878, leaving five children—Ellsworth, George, Mattie.
No event of special importance came to vary the routine of life for Samuel Cairy Mayberry during the period of his boyhood and youth, which were spent amid the scenes and environments of rural life.
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 African American Biographies Vol 9
1933– Politician A civil rights activist, lawyer, and from 1968 one of the first African American mayors of a major American city, Richard G. Hatcher became one of the most influential fl Americans of the 1970s and 1980s.
1920–2005 Anti-apartheid activist, politician, diplomat Raymond Mhlaba devoted his life to the struggle against apartheid, the system of racial segregation and discrimination that once defined South Africa.
1951– Politician Voters from Gwendolynne S. Moore's Milwaukee, Wisconsin, district elected her to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004.
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 Godfrey Phillips Sales List
"Measure for Measure" - Emlyn Williams and Marie Ney $1
"After the Thin Man" — William Powell and Myrna Loy $15
"After the Thin Man" — William Powell and Myrna Loy vg $8
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 The Private Intellectual
It was a highly controversial smash hit that might have won the Pulitzer if the committee had been willing to see it (Men in White, in which abortion plays a role, won instead).
She flmails a classmate (Veronica Cartwright) into confirming the story as all of the parents take their girls out of the school and the town turns against the women.
Mitch McConnell at least had the decency to lie about his knowledge of this smear-job, and it ultimately seems to have backfired, but the damage is done: come out for a policy the GOP doesn't like, and risk having your whole life of trash sifted through by deranged and soulless people like Michelle Malkin.
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 The Sunday Times On The Web - News/Comment
He was Don Wijeyananda Dahanayake, a son of the late Don Dionesius Panditha Sepala Dahanayake, a specialist in oriental languages and a well-known intellectual, who lived at 'Sri Bhawana' in the southern city of Galle in the latter part of the nineteenth century and early in the twentieth century.
He was one of the most honest politicians that I have come across in my life (According to Dudley Senanayake, Robert Gunawardena was the most honest politician that he had ever met).
William McCrea of the Democratic Unionists, the most demanding and uncompromising of Irish movements.
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 Slugger O'Toole: And so, the end is near...
Posted by: Jim Bob at May 7, 2005 04:47 PM Burnside was against McCrea who is not a strong candidate, that might explain why his vote held up better than e.g.
I have not really heard a coherent policy vision from Burnside other than unionist unity, it is not clear that 'unionist unity' is good for debate in unionism or the job of holding the DUP to account for their actions.
McCrea did indeed share a platform with an LVF killer but Burnside is far more shady.
www.sluggerotoole.com /archives/2005/05/and_so_the_end.php   (6462 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - County Antrim, Northern Ireland
In 2005, the average cost of a house in the county was £140,945, and the MPs for the county
In June 1690, William of Orange landed at Carrickfergus to take charge of the Williamite forces fighting against James II for the crown of England, Scotland and Ireland.
William Drennan - Founder of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution (known as 'Inst') and the Society of United Irishmen.
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