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1 The Grand Old Duke of York did lead his men ; Dick Whittington was a 15th century Lord Mayor of London ; Ring-A-Ring-O'-Roses is said to relate to an outbreak of plague in London in the 17th century ; and Bluebeard is based on a psychopathic French murderer of the 15th century .
2 It was a royal monopoly , and an earlier King Arkesilas is depicted on a Spartan vase of the mid-sixth century supervising his officials as they weighed it on a man-size balance ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate vi .
3 Indeed the Kyrie of Ludford 's Lady-Mass for Tuesday is based on the same square as the organ piece .
4 EMX is based on the 1988 versions of X.400 and X.500.and connects proprietary E-mail systems based on distribution protocols like the TCP/IP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol(SMTP) , IBM 's System Network Architectural Distribution Services(SNADS) and Message Handling Service(MHS) .
5 Llanddeiniolen is situated on the very edge of Snowdonia National Park and here the more energetic will find numerous walks taking in the mountainous scenery .
6 Improv is based on a multi-dimensional model .
7 BERGÈRES-LES-VERTUS : The accumulation of loess and colluvial weathered deposits of calcareous , clayey-silt and iron-bearing flinty soils radiating out from Vertus is found on the lower slopes of Bergères-les-Vertus , but the bulk of this village 's vineyards are to be found on Belemnite chalk , with sand on some of the higher slopes .
8 Taillebourg is situated on the right bank of the River Charente , perched on an outcrop of light-coloured rock .
9 Right : The La Fontaine mobile heater from Verine is based on a traditional French stove design
10 Hepworth Feast in south-west Yorkshire is held on the last Monday in June , but this does not comply with the general rule that the date of the village feast is dependent upon the date of its church 's dedication .
11 RBGE is represented on a relaunched Steering Group .
12 A silver pendant by Henry Wilson is shown on the previous page .
13 O'Connor points out that demands for the game in Budapest is based on the dangerous presumption that the Republic will beat Northern Ireland — a result they have yet to achieve after three meetings .
14 The DBQ is answered on a six point scale from 0=NEVER to 5=NEARLY ALL THE TIME .
15 San Arcangelo del Lago is situated on the southern shore of Lake Trasimeno — a lake which fires the imagination and delights the eye .
16 Tg is defined on the free volume concept as that temperature at which vf collapses sensibly to zero , or at any rate to a frozen-in value .
17 The BES is based on the fresh production — rather than past stocks — of fine malt Scotch fillings from Ledaig Distillery , Tobermory .
18 The Aurelia is set on a private sandy beach .
19 Bear Hunt is based on a traditional rhyme .
20 VXMP is based on a shared memory architecture , which reduces run-time memory requirements and extends the message queuing facilities across a network .
21 VXMP is based on a shared memory architecture , which reduces run-time memory requirements and extends the message queuing facilities across a network .
22 Every ticket and every passenger list produced by BA is printed on a OKI dot-matrix printer .
23 The Port of Leith is situated on the southern shores of the Firth of Forth in position 55°59 North , 3°10 West and approximately thirty miles from the open sea .
24 SCOTVEC is represented on the national forum by Chief Executive and on the Standing Committees by and .
25 The principal difference between ECP and euronotes is that euronotes are issued with the backing of a syndicate of underwriters whereas ECP is issued on a non-underwritten tap basis .
26 The HyperCard is based on the above outline of document preparation systems , with tutorials corresponding to each of the third level of headings ( e.g. the computer industry , publishing industry , hardware , software ) .
27 Braking is done on the high speed gears , not on the slower-turning output shafts , he explains .
28 STAP is based on an open systems procurement policy and Siemens Nixdorf has already made £25m from the deal .
29 Hughes is beaten on the left touchline but Rovers defenders charge down David Lowe 's shot .
30 The civil law applied because the case was a Quebec case and the civil code of Quebec is founded on the civil law .
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