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Dagenham Parish Council offices were located on Bull Street, separately, the London County Council proposed that its area of responsibility should be expanded beyond the County of London to cover the area. Instead, in the Dagenham parish was removed from the Romford Rural District, in , in further recognition of its development, Dagenham became a municipal borough. It borders the counties of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, the county town is Chelmsford, which is the only city in the county.

Essex occupies the part of the old Kingdom of Essex, before this. Originally recorded in AD, Essex occupied territory to the north of the River Thames, incorporating all of what later became Middlesex and its territory was later restricted to lands east of the River Lea. In changes before the Norman conquest the East Saxons were subsumed into the Kingdom of England and, following the Norman conquest, Essex became a county. During the medieval period, much of the area was designated a Royal forest, including the county in a period to Gradually, the subject to forest law diminished, but at various times included the forests of Becontree, Chelmsford, Epping, Hatfield, Ongar.

Before , small areas were transferred to Hertfordshire near Bishops Stortford, Essex became part of the East of England Government Office Region in and was statistically counted as part of that region from , having previously been part of the South East England region. Two unitary authorities In the boroughs of Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock were granted autonomy from the county of Essex after successful requests to become unitary authorities. Essex Police covers the county and the two unitary authorities.

The county council chamber and main headquarters is at the County Hall in Chelmsford, before the council regularly met in London near Moorgate, which with significant parts closer to that point and the dominance of railways had been more convenient than any place in the county. It currently has 75 elected councillors, before , the number of councillors reached over The highest point of the county of Essex is Chrishall Common near the village of Langley, close to the Hertfordshire border, the pattern of settlement in the county is diverse.

Epping Forest also acts as a barrier to the further spread of London. Part of the southeast of the county, already containing the population centres of Basildon, Southend and Thurrock, is within the Thames Gateway. Zambia — The capital city is Lusaka, in the south-central part of Zambia. The population is concentrated mainly around Lusaka in the south and the Copperbelt Province to the northwest, originally inhabited by Khoisan peoples, the region was affected by the Bantu expansion of the thirteenth century.

After visits by European explorers in the century, Zambia became the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia towards the end of the nineteenth century. For most of the period, Zambia was governed by an administration appointed from London with the advice of the British South Africa Company. Kaunda played a key role in diplomacy, cooperating closely with the United States in search of solutions to conflicts in Rhodesia, Angola. Kaunda was succeeded by Frederick Chiluba of the social-democratic Movement for Multi-Party Democracy in , beginning a period of social-economic growth, after Mwanawasas death, Rupiah Banda presided as Acting President before being elected President in Holding office for three years, Banda stepped down after his defeat in the elections by Patriotic Front party leader Michael Sata.

Sata died on 28 October , the second Zambian president to die in office, Guy Scott served briefly as interim president until new elections were held on 20 January , in which Edgar Lungu was elected as the sixth President.

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In , the World Bank named Zambia one of the worlds fastest economically reformed countries, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa is headquartered in Lusaka. The territory of what is now Zambia was known as Northern Rhodesia from and it was renamed Zambia at independence in The new name of Zambia was derived from the Zambezi river, the area of modern Zambia is known to have been inhabited by the Khoisan until around AD, when migrating Bantu began to settle around these areas.

These early hunter-gatherer groups were either annihilated or absorbed by subsequent more organised Bantu groups. Archaeological excavation work on the Zambezi Valley and Kalambo Falls show a succession of human cultures, in particular, ancient camping site tools near the Kalambo Falls have been radiocarbon dated to more than 36, year ago.

The fossil skull remains of Broken Hill Man, dated between , and , years BC, further shows that the area was inhabited by pre-historic man. The early history of tribes of modern-day Zambia can only be gleaned from knowledge passed down by successive generations through word of mouth, in the 12th century, major waves of Bantu-speaking immigrants arrived during the Bantu expansion.

Among them, the Tonga people were the first to settle in Zambia and are believed to have come from the east near the big sea, by the late 12th century, more advanced kingdoms and empires had been established in most regions of modern-day Zambia. It is situated on the River Lune and has a population of 45,, long existing as a commercial, cultural and educational centre, Lancaster is the settlement that gives Lancashire its name.

Lancaster was granted city status in for its association with the crown. With its history based on its port and canal, Lancaster is an ancient settlement, dominated by Lancaster Castle, Lancaster Priory Church and it is also home to the campus-based Lancaster University and a campus of the University of Cumbria. The coin evidence also suggests that the fort was not continuously inhabited in early years. The fort was rebuilt in stone around AD, the fort underwent a few more extensions, and at its largest area it was 9—10 acres.

The evidence suggests that the fort remained active into the early 5th century, little is known about Lancaster between the end of Roman rule in Britain in the early 5th century and the Norman Conquest in the late 11th century. Despite a lack of documentation from this period, it is likely that Lancaster was still inhabited, Lancaster was on the fringes of the kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria, and over time control may have changed from one to the other.

Archaeological evidence suggests there was a monastery on or near the site of todays Lancaster Priory by the s or s. For example, an Anglo-Saxon runic cross found at the Priory in , Lancaster was probably one of the numerous monasteries founded under Wilfrid. The founding charter of the Priory, dated , is the first known document which is specific to Lancaster, by this time William had given Lancaster and its surrounding region to Roger de Poitou.

This document also suggests that the monastery had been refounded as a church at some point prior to Lancaster Castle, partly built in the 13th century and enlarged by Elizabeth I, Lancaster Castle is well known as the site of the Pendle witch trials in It was said that the court based in the castle sentenced more people to be hanged than any other in the country outside London, earning Lancaster the nickname, Lancaster also figured prominently in the suppression of Catholicism during the reformation with the execution of at least eleven Catholic priests.

A memorial to the Lancaster Martyrs is located close to the city centre, the traditional emblem for the House of Lancaster is a red rose, the red rose of Lancaster, similar to that of the House of York, which is a white rose. These names derive from the emblems of the Royal Duchies of Lancaster and this erupted into a civil war over rival claims to the throne during the Wars of the Roses. In more recent times, the term Wars of the Roses has been applied to rivalry in sports teams representing Lancashire and Yorkshire, not just the cities of Lancaster and York.

Coventry — Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. Historically part of Warwickshire, Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and it is the second largest city in the West Midlands region, after Birmingham, with a population of , in Coventry is 95 miles northwest of central London,19 miles east-south-east of Birmingham,24 miles southwest of Leicester and 11 miles north of Warwick.

Coventry Cathedral was built after the destruction of the 14th century cathedral church of Saint Michael by the German Luftwaffe in the Coventry Blitz of 14 November , Coventry motor companies have contributed significantly to the British motor industry. The city has two universities, Coventry University in the city centre and the University of Warwick on the southern outskirts.

The Romans founded a settlement in Baginton, next to the River Sowe, and another formed around a Saxon nunnery, founded c.

Earl Leofric of Mercia and his wife Lady Godiva built on the remains of the nunnery, in time, a market was established at the abbey gates and the settlement expanded. By the 14th century, Coventry was an important centre of the cloth trade, the bishops of Lichfield were often referred to as bishops of Coventry and Lichfield, or Lichfield and Coventry. Coventry claimed the status of a city by ancient prescriptive usage, was granted a charter of incorporation in , the plays that William Shakespeare witnessed in Coventry during his boyhood or teens may have influenced how his plays, such as Hamlet, came about.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Coventry became one of the three main British centres of watch and clock manufacture and ranked alongside Prescot, in Lancashire, in the late 19th century, Coventry became a major centre of bicycle manufacture. The industry energised by the invention by James Starley and his nephew John Kemp Starley of the Rover safety bicycle, by the early 20th century, bicycle manufacture had evolved into motor manufacture, and Coventry became a major centre of the British motor industry. Jaguar is owned by the Indian company, Tata Motors, with many of the citys older properties becoming increasingly unfit for habitation, the first council houses were let to their tenants in With Coventrys industrial base continuing to soar after the end of the Great War a year later, numerous private and council housing developments took place across the city in the s and s.

The development of a southern by-pass around the city, starting in the s and being completed in , Coventry suffered severe bomb damage during the Second World War. There was a massive Luftwaffe air raid, part of the Coventry Blitz, firebombing on this date led to severe damage to large areas of the city centre and to Coventrys historic cathedral, leaving only a shell and the spire. More than 4, houses were damaged or destroyed, along with three quarters of the citys industrial plants.

More than people were killed, with injured and homeless. Aside from London, Hull and Plymouth, Coventry suffered more damage than any other British city during the Luftwaffe attacks, following the raids, the majority of Coventrys historic buildings could not be saved as they were in ruinous states or were deemed unsafe for any future use.

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe — The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the worlds largest arts festival, which in , spanned 25 days and featured 50, performances of 3, shows in venues. Established in as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Edinburgh, Scotlands capital and it is an open access performing arts festival, meaning there is no selection committee, and anyone may participate, with any type of performance.

The Fringe has often showcased experimental, challenging or controversial works that might not be invited to a more conservative arts festival, the Fringe board of directors is drawn from members of the Festival Fringe Society, who are often Fringe participants themselves — performers or administrators. Elections are held once a year, in August, and Board members serve a term of four years, the Board appoints the Fringe Chief Executive, who is currently Shona McCarthy and assumed the role in March The Chief Executive operates under the chair, currently Professor Sir Timothy OShea, the Fringe started life when eight theatre companies turned up uninvited to the inaugural Edinburgh International Festival in With the official festival using the major venues, these companies took over smaller.

Seven performed in Edinburgh, and one undertook a version of the morality play Everyman in Dunfermline Abbey, about 20 miles north. These groups aimed to take advantage of the large assembled theatre crowds to showcase their own alternative theatre, although at the time it was not recognised as such, this was the first Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This meant that two defining features of the future Fringe were established at the very beginning — the lack of invitations to perform.

I am afraid some of us are not going to be at home during the evenings. The word fringe had in fact used in a review of Everyman in Among the talent to appear in early Fringe revues were Ned Sherrin in , due to many reviewers only being able to attend Fringe events late night after the official festival was finished, the Fringe came to be seen as being about revues.

It was a few years before an official programme for the Fringe was created. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions among the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The second half is a long essay on his middle-class upbringing, and the development of his political conscience, questioning British attitudes towards socialism.

Orwell states plainly that he himself is in favour of socialism, but feels it necessary to point out reasons why many people who would benefit from socialism, and should logically support it, are in practice likely to be strong opponents. According to Orwell biographer Bernard Crick, publisher Victor Gollancz first tried to persuade Orwell's agent to allow the Left Book Club edition to consist solely of the descriptive first half of the book.

When this was refused Gollancz wrote an introduction to the book. Look up beauty and the beast in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale. Beauty and the Beast may also refer to: She is descended from the aristocratic Gough-Calthorpe family. Wilde's maternal grandmother's parents were peers Bernard Fit Jan Palach 11 August — 19 January ; Czech pronunciation: His self-immolation was a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring resulting from the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies. Prague-born Palach decided to sacrifice himself in protest of the invasion and set himself on fire, in Wenceslas Square, on 16 January According to a letter he sent to several public figures, an entire clandestine resistance organization had been established with the purpose of practicing self-immolation until their demands were met; however, it seems that such a group never existed.

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This is a list of notable people related to the University of Keele and its predecessor, the University College of North Staffordshire. Siren formerly known as The Deep[1] is an American television drama series that premiered on Freeform on March 29, Marine biologists Ben Alex Roe and Maddie Fola Evans-Akingbola work together to find out who and what drove this primal hunter of the deep sea to land.

Season Two Focusing more on the magical and irresistible siren song and how it affects male humans differently, this season introduces many more merfolk - mermaids and mermen alike - of which the people of Bristol Cove discover that such creatures h Sponsored by the BBC and Methuen Drama, the awards were specifically focused on the script of the best radio drama produced in the past year.

Five or six winners were chosen from the entire year's production of BBC drama, and published in a series of books. They were named after Giles Cooper — , the distinguished radio dramatist who wrote over 60 scripts for BBC radio and television between and There was no prize money, but publication was a notable mark of permanence in the ephemeral world of broadcasting. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in and ; she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize.

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She was described in as "a national treasure". Her parents were Richard Bainbridge and Winifred Baines. Although she gave her date of birth in Who's Who and elsewhere as 21 November , she was born in and her birth was registered in the first quarter of Timothy Lancaster West,[1] CBE born 20 October is an English film, stage and television actor, with more than fifty years of varied work in the business. As well as many classical theatre performances, he has appeared frequently on television, including spells in both Coronation Street as Eric Babbage and Stan Carter in EastEnders.

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He is married to the actress Prunella Scales; since they have been seen travelling together on British and overseas canals in the Channel 4 series Great Canal Journeys. Career West worked as an office furnitu Leap in the Dark was a British television anthology series with a supernatural theme.

It was broadcast on BBC 2. It ran for 4 seasons - in , , and - and over 20 episodes were shown.

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Apart from the Pilot episode no episode of the first season exists complete due to wiping, and the episode The Battle for Miss Beauchamp in the 2nd season is also incomplete. Early life and education Pownall was born on 11 October He studied at the University of Exeter. He was Reading Clerk from to , and Clerk Assistant from to He retired on 15 April Together they had two daughters.

Deborah died in The society is a cultural tenant at London's Somerset House. The society maintains its current level of about Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature: Past fellows include Samuel Taylor Coleridge, J. A newly created fellow inscribes his or her There is a body of ancient and modern fiction set in ancient Greece and ancient Greek culture, including Magna Graecia and Hellenistic kingdoms.

Vincent Grass born 9 January is a Belgian actor. He has appeared in a number of both European and American film and television productions, the first being the Belgian television production Siska Van Roosemaal in The film was directed by Milan Cheylov. Jamie, who comes from a very poor family, has been arrested for stealing and is thrown into the dungeon when the film opens. Handel, whose career is almost failing, needs his newest composition to be a big hit. By a stroke of destiny, the young boy and the composer become unlikely allies. Handel gets Jamie out of jail and the boy lends his golden voice to the premiere performance of Messiah.

Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa. As a composer he is best known for writing intensely expressive madrigals and pieces of sacred music that use a chromatic language not heard again until the late 19th century. The best known fact of his life is his brutal and violent killing of his first wife and her aristocratic lover upon finding them in flagrante delicto.

The fascination for his music and for his crimes have gone hand in hand. Biography Early life Gesualdo's family had acquired the principality of Venosa in what is now the Province of Potenza, Southern Italy, in He was probably born on March 8, , three years after his older brother Luigi. Older ones give the year of birth as c. A modern letter from Gesualdo's mother, Geronima Borromeo, indicates that the year is most likely Having completed training and been sworn-in by an Isle of Man Commissioner of Oaths, they receive warrant cards as sworn constables, and assume the title of Aviation Security Officer.

They hold the same authority and powers as a regular police officer whilst on or near to airport property.

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Aviation Security Officers are fully integrated into the airport's staff structure, so that unusually the airport police has no management grades Inspector or Superintendent , with sworn constables carrying out the duties of their offi In , he was appointed Chief Clerk, serving until being appointed Principal Clerk in He served as Clerk of the Journals from to He then served as Clerk of Committees and Clerk of the Overseas Office from to , until returning to the Journals role, in which he served until He served as Reading Clerk from to , when he was appointed Clerk Assis He was evacuated from Paris during the Second World War.

Lanoux refers to the name used during his stay in La Chapelle-Taillefert during the French occupation where he lived until the age of 11, when he returned to Paris. He left school at age 14 to become an apprentice varnisher. His father got him a job at the Studio de Billancourt. He learned acting by correspondence course, then a real course. They worked together fo Vaslav Nijinsky also Vatslav; Russian: He could dance en pointe, a rare skill among male dancers at the time[5] and was admired for his seemingly gravity-defying leaps. Nijinsky was introduced to dance by his parents, who were senior dancers with the travelling Setov opera company, and his early childhood was spent touring with the company.

His older brother Stanislav and younger sister Bronislava "Bronia" Nijinska also became dancers; Bronia also became a choreographer, working closely with him for much of his career. In Yates was cast in the role of Estelle Waterman on Emergency Ward 10, after which she became a regular face on British Television and also appeared in a few British films.

Purt ny h-Inshey — Port of the Island is a seaside town and small fishing port on the Isle of Man, in the historic parish of German but administered separately. Peel is the third largest town on the island after Douglas and Ramsey but the fourth largest settlement, as Onchan has the second largest population but is classified as a village. Peel has a ruined castle on St Patrick's Isle, and a cathedral, seat of the Diocese of Sodor and Man the diocese was founded when Mann was ruled by the Norse. Geography Peel is on the west coast of the Isle of Man, on the east side of the mouth of the River Neb.

To the north west is St Patrick's Isle, connected to the mainland by a causeway, and to the west across the river is Peel Hill. The A1 road connects Peel with Douglas. Balley Chashtal, pronounced is a town in the Isle of Man, geographically within the historical parish of Malew but administered separately. Lying at the south of the island, it was the Manx capital until The centre of town is dominated by Castle Rushen, a well-preserved medieval castle, originally built for a Viking king. History Castletown is the former capital of the Isle of Man and site of Tynwald, and can trace its roots back to The town has narrow streets and small fishing cottages.

Castle Rushen at the centre of the town was originally built in for a Norse king, then fortified and added to by successive rulers between the 13th and 16th centuries. The town and castle were the site of a number of sieges and battles, especially during the years when control of the island passed b Contemporaneous critic William Hazlitt dubbed Siddons as "tragedy personified". She was most famous for her portrayal of the Shakespearean character, Lady Macbeth, a character she made her own,[1] as well as for fainting at the sight of the Elgin Marbles in London.

Sarah and her sisters were raised in their mother's faith and her brothers were raised in their father's faith. Roger Kemble was the manager of a to Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe.

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