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Durham: Encyclopedia II - Durham - Geography

Durham is situated 15 miles (25 km) to the south of Newcastle upon Tyne, in North East England. The River Wear flows north through the city, enclosing the centre on three sides to create Durham's "peninsula". Durham is a hilly city, claiming to be built upon the symbolic seven hills. Upon the most central and prominant position high above the Wear, the cathedral dominates the skyline. The steep riverbanks are densely wooded, adding to the picturesque beauty of the city. West of the city centre, another river, the River Browney, drains south to join the Wear the the south of the city. Durham won the Large Town award ...

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Ceremonial counties of England - Map

Ceremonial counties of England - History

Ceremonial counties of England - Definition

Ceremonial counties of England - External link

Durham: Encyclopedia - Chapman code

Chapman codes are largely a superset of the ISO 3166-2:GB and BS 6879 codes identifying administrative divisions in the United Kingdom, but covering historical divisions. They are widely used in genealogy. Chapman code - Country codes. ENG England IRL Ireland SCT Scotland WLS Wales ALL All countries Chapman code - Traditional counties. Chapman code - Islands. CHI Channel Islands A ...

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Chapman code - Country codes

Chapman code - Traditional counties

Chapman code - Islands

Chapman code - England

Chapman code - Wales

Chapman code - Scotland

Chapman code - Ireland

Chapman code - 1975-1996 regions

Durham: Encyclopedia - Canadian federal election 2006

The 2006 Canadian federal election (more formally, the 39th general election) will occur on January 23, 2006. The general election will elect members for the Canadian House of Commons, and will indirectly determine the prime minister and cabinet, as the government will be formed by the political party or coalition that the Governor General determines is best able to command the confidence of the House (usually the one with the most elected members). This unusual winter election was caused by a motion of no confidence pas ...

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Canadian federal election 2006 - Contenders

Canadian federal election 2006 - Events during the 38th Parliament

Canadian federal election 2006 - Brinksmanship in the spring of 2005

Canadian federal election 2006 - Aftermath of the first Gomery report

Canadian federal election 2006 - Issues

Canadian federal election 2006 - Opinion polls

Canadian federal election 2006 - State of the parties

Canadian federal election 2006 - Candidates

Canadian federal election 2006 - Vulnerable ridings

Canadian federal election 2006 - Incumbent MPs not running for re-election

Canadian federal election 2006 - Liberals

Canadian federal election 2006 - Independents

Canadian federal election 2006 - Conservatives

Canadian federal election 2006 - New Democrats

Canadian federal election 2006 - Bloquistes

Canadian federal election 2006 - Election day

Canadian federal election 2006 - Publication Ban

Durham: Encyclopedia - City of Durham

Durham is a local government district in England and city in County Durham. Its main settlement is also called Durham. Other towns include Brandon. The district was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of the borough of Durham and Framwelgate with Brandon and Byshottles urban district and Durham Rural District. City of Durham - Mayors of the City of Durham. Mayors of the City of Durham are styled "The Right Worshipful, The Mayor of Durham". The Mayoralty is taken as a continuation of the mayoralty o ...

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City of Durham - Mayors of the City of Durham

City of Durham - Mayors since 1974

City of Durham - Other Civic Appointments

City of Durham - Parishes in the City of Durham District

City of Durham - Composition of the Council

Durham: Encyclopedia - Cameron Indoor Stadium

Cameron Indoor Stadium is a near-legendary basketball arena located at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Supposedly, the plans for the stadium were originally drawn up in 1935 by basketball coach Eddie Cameron, and football coach Wallace Wade. The arena was dedicated on January 6, 1940, having cost $400,000. At the time, it was the largest gymnasium in the country south of the Palestra at the University of Pennsylvania. Originally called Duke ...

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Cameron Indoor Stadium - Cameron Indoor Stadium Men's Basketball Records

Durham: Encyclopedia - City of London Police

The City of London Police is the Home Office police force responsible for the City of London. (The Metropolitan Police is responsible for the rest of London.) With about 1,200 employees (including about 900 police officers) and only three police stations, on Snow Hill, Wood Street, and Bishopsgate, the City of London Police is the smallest Home Office (territorial) police force in the United Kingdom both in terms of geographic area (1 square mile) and numbers ...

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City of London Police - Recent Events

City of London Police - Ranks in the City of London Police

City of London Police - Commissioners of Police for the City of London

City of London Police - External link

Durham: Encyclopedia - Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (born February 21, 1962 in Pasco, Washington, USA) is an American satirical novelist and freelance journalist living in Portland, Oregon. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher. He has one of the largest centralized followings of any author on the Internet, based around his official web site. His writings, similar in style to those of such peers as Bret Easton Ellis, Irvine Welsh, and Douglas Coupland, have made him on ...

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Chuck Palahniuk - Biography

Chuck Palahniuk - Writing style

Chuck Palahniuk - Criticism

Chuck Palahniuk - Adaptations

Chuck Palahniuk - Fandom

Chuck Palahniuk - Awards

Chuck Palahniuk - Bibliography

Chuck Palahniuk - Fiction

Chuck Palahniuk - Non-fiction

Durham: Encyclopedia - Charles Honorton

Charles Honorton (1946 - November 4, 1992) was, first and foremost, a parapsychologist. From his early childhood, his interests were centered on the mind, consciousness and its potentials. As a teenager, he corresponded with Dr J. B. Rhine and, while he was still a high school student, he travelled from his home in Minnesota to Durham, North Carolina to spend his summer months at the Parapsychology Laboratory of Duke University. Honorton collaborated with Dr Stanley Krippner and Dr Montague Ullman at Maimonides Medical Center ( ...

Durham: Encyclopedia - Charles Grey 2nd Earl Grey

The Right Honourable Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, KG, PC (13 March 1764–17 July 1845), known as Viscount Howick between 1806 and 1807, was a British Whig statesman and Prime Minister. Descended from a long line of Northumbrian gentry, Grey was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was elected to Parliament at the age of 22 in 1786. He became a part of the Whig circle of Charles James Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and the Prince of Wales, and soon became one of the major leaders of the Whig party. Grey ...

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Charles Grey 2nd Earl Grey - Lord Grey's Ministry November 1830 - July 1834

Durham: Encyclopedia - Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where some or all students not only study but also live, amongst their peers but away from their home and family. Many famous UK public schools are boarding schools for ages 13 to 18. Pupils may be sent to boarding schools at any age between two and eighteen; the amount of time spent in boarding school also varies considerably, from a brief period to more than 12 years, in one or two schools. There are any number of different types of boarding schools, from nursery or Kindergarten boarding schools, ...

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Boarding school - Boarding school description

Boarding school - Typical UK boarding school characteristics

Boarding school - Other types of boarding schools

Boarding school - Basic guidelines and essential regulations

Boarding school - Boarding schools across societies

Boarding school - Emerging perspectives

Boarding school - Selected bibliography

Boarding school - List of some boarding schools

Boarding school - Africa

Boarding school - Asia

Boarding school - Australasia

Boarding school - Europe

Boarding school - North America

Boarding school - South America

Boarding school - Boarding schools in fiction

Boarding school - Boarding schools in films

Durham: Encyclopedia - Tony Blair

The Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service. He has led the Labour Party since July 1994, (following the death of John Smith in May of that year) and brought Labour into power with a landslide victory in the 1997 general election, replacing John Major as Prime Minister and ending 18 years of Conservative government. He is now the Labour Party's longest-serving Prime Minister, and the only person to have led the party ...

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Tony Blair - Family background

Tony Blair - Early political career

Tony Blair - In opposition

Tony Blair - Leader of the Labour Party

Tony Blair - First term 1997 to 2001

Tony Blair - Establishment of the Third Way

Tony Blair - Control over House of Commons

Tony Blair - Domestic policies

Tony Blair - Second term 2001 to 2005

Tony Blair - Iraq war

Tony Blair - Domestic politics

Tony Blair - Attempted impeachment

Tony Blair - Health problems

Tony Blair - Third term 2005 to present

Tony Blair - G8 and EU presidencies

Tony Blair - 2012 Summer Olympics

Tony Blair - 2005 London bombings

Tony Blair - Departure

Tony Blair - Common criticisms of Blair

Tony Blair - 'Spin'

Tony Blair - Authoritarianism

Tony Blair - Relationship with USA

Tony Blair - Criticisms by the left

Tony Blair - Satire

Tony Blair - Works

Durham: Encyclopedia - Bishop of Durham

The Bishop of Durham is the officer of the Church of England responsible for the diocese of Durham, one of the oldest in the country. He is the senior Anglican bishop in the province of York, and sits in the House of Lords. The current Bishop of Durham is, as of 2005, Tom Wright. Other duties of the Bishop of Durham include (with the Bishop of Bath and Wells) escorting the sovereign at the coronation. He is officially styled The Right Reverend Father in God, (Name), by Divine Permission Lord Bishop of Durham, but this fu ...

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Bishop of Durham - Two kings in England

Bishop of Durham - Origin of the Prince Bishops

Bishop of Durham - Northumbria at the time of the Conquest

Bishop of Durham - The Earl-Bishop of Northumbria

Bishop of Durham - Northumbria partitioned - Northumberland and Durham

Bishop of Durham - The Prince Bishops and their powers

Bishop of Durham - List of Bishops of Durham

Bishop of Durham - Roman Catholic Bishops

Bishop of Durham - Roman Catholic Prince-Bishops

Bishop of Durham - The Reformation

Bishop of Durham - Church of England Prince-Bishops

Bishop of Durham - Church of England Bishops

Durham: Encyclopedia - John Shelby Spong

The Right Reverend Dr John Shelby Spong is the retired Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark (based in Newark, New Jersey). He served in this role from June 12, 1976 until his retirement in 2000. He was born on June 16, 1931 in Charlotte, North Carolina, educated in the public schools of Charlotte, was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina in 1952, and received his Master of Divinity degree in 1955 from the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. That seminary and Saint Paul's Col ...

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John Shelby Spong - New Reformation

John Shelby Spong - Criticisms

John Shelby Spong - Published books

Durham: Encyclopedia - Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot is a 2000 movie written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. It stars Jamie Bell as 11 year old Billy, an aspiring dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner father, Jamie Draven as Billy's older brother, and Julie Walters as his dance instructor. Billy Elliot - Plot. Tagline: Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it. Billy's mother had died when Billy was younger, and his father, an admirer of real life w ...

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Billy Elliot - Plot

Durham: Encyclopedia - William de Corbeil

William de Corbeil (d. 1136), archbishop of Canterbury, was born probably at Corbeil on the Seine, and was educated at Laon. He was soon in the service of Ranulf Flambard, bishop of Durham; then, having entered the order of St Augustine, he became prior of the Augustinian foundation at St Osyth in Essex. At the beginning of 1123 he was chosen from among several candidates to be archbishop of Canterbury, and as he refused to admit that Thurstan, archbishop of York, was independent of the see of Canterbury, this prelate refused to consecrate him, and ...

Durham: Encyclopedia - British Broadcasting Company

The British Broadcasting Company Ltd was a British commercial company formed on October 18, 1922 by British and American electrical companies doing business in the United Kingdom. Its original office was located on the fifth floor of the General Electric building in London. On December 14, 1922, John Reith was hired to become the Managing Director of the company. On December 31, 1926, the company was dissolved and its assets were transferred to the Crown Chartered British Broadcasting Corporation. British Broadcasting Co ...