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1 All continued to live in Lincoln after 1186 except perhaps Isaac , whose house in London was in the king 's hands by 1213 .
2 Stephenson , by now thirty-three , had joined Aston Villa in 1911 and soon established himself as a powerful forward .
3 He joined LASMO in 1981 and later transferred to the company 's US subsidiary as exploration vice president , returning to the UK in 1989 .
4 Other examples of continuity , in the north west include the Redmanes of Levens , who also held land in Yorkshire and were feed by both Warwick and Gloucester from Middleham , and probably the Dogets of Grayrigg who fought for Warwick in 1469 and subsequently provided Richard with a chaplain .
5 Other examples of continuity , in the north west include the Redmanes of Levens , who also held land in Yorkshire and were feed by both Warwick and Gloucester from Middleham , and probably the Dogets of Grayrigg who fought for Warwick in 1469 and subsequently provided Richard with a chaplain .
6 Present Hall built by Smiths of Warwick in 1690s and still occupied by the Cave family .
7 The boot and shoe trade , which had become firmly established in the county town of Northampton during the Civil War , spread to Wellingborough before 1760 and soon afterwards to Earls Barton , Higham Ferrers , Irthlingborough , Raunds , Rushden and Wollaston .
8 Such cosseting made passengers feel they were very special and the airlines did all they could to encourage distinguished people to fly with them Imperial Airways carried HM King Feisal from Baghdad to Gaza in 1927 and later took to publishing monthly lists of their important passengers .
9 The Tyneside Shorthorns were very similar to the Ayrshire in 1790 and even as late as 1887 there was a Dutch breed in Drenthe which looked exactly like the Ayrshire of the time .
10 It is the one-sidedness of privatisation of the monopoly public utilities that has been so apparent since the process started with British Telecom in 1985 that so deeply offends ordinary people throughout the country .
11 The ship , of 925 tons was commissioned at Sheerness in 1884 and immediately attached to the Mediterranean Squadron .
12 Called the ‘ father of English canals ’ , Brindley was originally a millwright by trade , born in Derbyshire in 1716 and barely educated , but showing a natural genius for engineering in an age when that word was scarcely part of the vocabulary .
13 Elizabeth married , first , Thomas Nash of Stratford in 1626 and then , in June 1649 , John Bernard ( or Barnard — both forms were used ) , later Sir John , of Abington , Northants .
14 Though pineapples from Barbados were first brought to England in 1657 and more West Indian ones were given to the king in 1661 and 1668 , it is unlikely that the fruit was grown successfully in England until about 1690 at Hampton Court , then in the charge of George London [ q.v . ] ,
15 I have no doubt that this important relationship will continue to flourish and I look forward to working with TRANSAID in 1993 and beyond .
16 The key ideas were proposed by Grice in the William james lectures delivered at Harvard in 1967 and still only partially published ( Grice , 1975 , 1978 ) .
17 Prominent among the king 's clerks was Walter Stapledon who became bishop of Exeter in 1308 and eventually paid with his life for his loyal service to the crown .
18 As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it .
19 Mr Douglas , who retired as vicar of Kilburn in 1988 and now lives in St. Giles ' Close , Thirsk , has a leather-bound copy of the Apologia for , dating back nearly 300 years , which was handed down to him by his mother .
20 Now , their main hopes rest on the striker Dariusz Dziekanowski , a deep disappointment to his countrymen when Poland lost to Gary Lineker 's hat-trick in Monterey in 1986 but lately revived by a transfer to Celtic , for whom he vainly scored four goals in that extraordinary roller-coaster of a European tie against Partizan Belgrade at Parkhead 13 days ago .
21 The encroachment in the District occurred notably over the resident tutor-organiser scheme in Bedfordshire in 1930 and further overlapping and competitive situations arose following the issue of the revised Adult Education Regulations in 1932 .
22 He had been domiciled in England since 1954 and so fulfilled the BBBC residential qualifications .
23 Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche has been in England since 1975 and most ordained people take either Kelsang or Gyatso in their names .
24 Quite an impressive sight , we may suppose , as she pitched and tossed in full sail across the Atlantic with fifteen or so mariners on board .
25 Together they moved into an attic in Dean Street in 1951 and soon knew every shopkeeper , pub and club in the district .
26 Crowe sub-contracted half his sales to Browne in 1626 and finally resigned his patent in 1635 .
27 Among the book 's central allegations were claims that Mossad had ( i ) failed to inform the United States of prior intelligence concerning the October 1983 suicide bombing of the US Marine battalion headquarters in Beirut , the Lebanese capital [ see pp. 32646-47 ] ; ( ii ) established a secret spy network ( " A1 " ) in the USA ; ( iii ) helped bring about the dismissal of Andrew Young from his post of US representative at the UN in 1979 after secretly recording Young 's clandestine meetings with PLO officials [ see p. 29956 ] ; and ( iv ) caused the downfall of Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin in 1977 by exposing his wife 's illegal foreign currency bank account [ see p. 28533 ] .
28 A bronze snake around five feet long , found at Thebes in 1911 and now in the British Museum , is thought to have been used by a magician .
29 Branch manager of AIB Bank , Salthill , Tom joined the Munster & Leinster Bank at Fethard in 1963 and later worked in Roscrea , 66 South Mall , Kinsale , Carrigaline , 26 Patrick Street and 97 South Mall before heading west to his branch in Galway .
30 Just before the neo-Gothic staircase to Charles Bridge , on your left is a palace ( 1/498 ) designed by Bartolomeo Scotti in 1732 and originally built in 1604 by the pharmacist Jan Jiří Dyrynk of Rottenberg , the mayor of Malá Strana .
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