Vimy Ridge Memorial Ceremony Highlighted by Canadian Group
The April 8 1917 Vimy Ridge anniversary ceremony marks the unveiling of a grand wartime memorial. Six Canadians from the Canadian Corps will attend and tour French cemeteries honoring fallen comrades. The pilgrimage is organized by the Canadian Officers of the British Empire and supports wreaths for soldiers never recovered.
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R “Vimy Ridge
Cana
Vimy
Canada
Vimy Ridge
France
Vnolred
Leopold
Unusual Tastes Across Towns And Myths Of Foods
The piece lists odd dishes and culinary curiosities from Swindon to far places with playful spellings. It mentions in house bars serving strange items, haggis and sheep stomach dishes, seaweed soup, candied rose leaves, nettles, rowan berries, and sea-slug soup. It notes Eskimo ice cream, turkey in wine and salt, and exotic meats like bear and ostrich, all described in a humorous travelogue tone.
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Swindon
Wilts
Foo Uae
Sergeon
Bristol
Jack
Pompeta
Whitehall to gain vast new government block over ten years
Plans approved to replace Whitehall Gardens and Montague House with a 550 by 300 foot government complex facing the Embankment. The Air Ministry Labour Board of Trade and Transport will move in after a decade of construction starting in 1936 with demolition of the present premises.
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Broad Whitehall
Whitehall Gardens
Montague House
Air Ministry
Ministry of Labour
Board of Trade
Ministry of Transport
Lmround Kingsway
Whitehall
Ltouch
Kew
Min- RE
Ainking Fund
Embankment
Thames
London
Treasury
Richmond Terrace
Downing Street
Britain
Horseguards Avenue
Cromwell House
Cardinal Wolsey
Pembroke House
E. Vincent Harris
Harris
Royal Institute of British Architects
Royal Fine Arts Commission
Office of Works
R.I B.A
Royal Academy
Mr. Harris
Gate Crashers Mistakenly Dine With London Host
In a London episode Theodore Hook attempted to join a party at a grand mansion assuming it was a friend’s home. Mistaken for a guest, he was invited to stay and served dinner as the host calmly improvised while awaiting his patron. A later arrival corrected the error, leaving guests amused by the mix up.
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London
Theodore Hook
Iiter
Ned En- Hs
Nad’ Cataphaved
Himpalt
Earthquake Fears Reported Amid Park Traffic Surge
A dated April 2, 1750 letter from Horacee notes widespread panic from earthquake shocks. He says within three days 730 coaches and many vehicles were counted passing Hyde Park Corner, reflecting the frantic public mood of the period.
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Horacee
400ft Flagpole Gift to Canberra Falls into Disrepair
A 400 foot flagpole gifted by British Columbia to the Commonwealth Government during the Scullin era sits abandoned in a native forest near Canberra. It was once a planned landmark in front of Parliament House and a railway survey explored routing it along the route, but the project stalled and the pole is now weed-choked.
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Canberra
Commonwealth
British Columbia
Scullin
Molopy
Canada
Parliament House
Sydney Witt
Government of British Columbia Leat
Biographies Explored From Maurois to Michelangelo and Banks
A survey of modern biography from Maurois essays to Finlayson on Michelangelo. It reviews how biographers blend truth with art, and how life stories of Blake Banks Wend al and Danton reveal historical contexts and personal links.
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M. Andre Maurois
M. Maurois
Marshal Lyautey
Voltaire
Edward
Disraell
Pickens
Byron
Shelley
Ipling
Wells
Shaw
Chesterton
D. H Lawrence
Joseph Conrad
Aldous Huxley
Lytton Stratehey
Katherine Mansfield
D. G. Larg
Michelangelo
D. L. Finlayson
Vittoria Colonna
Falcon Island A Mystery of the South Pacific
The tale recounts Falcon Island near Tonga that appeared and disappeared multiple times from the late 19th century onward. Reports describe eruptions and rising land in 1898 and again in 1800, with naval authorities noting its surface changes and temporary reappearance on maps into 1987.
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Falcon Island
Tonga Ghag
Tonge
Gur
Cornish Island Off America Described in Island Life
The Cornish fishermen on Yangler Island off Maryland face hunger as supplies run short. Describes 1,500 residents living in a wary, centuries-old culture with fishing as the main industry and no roads, horses, or motor vehicles.
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Yangler Island
Maryland
U.S
America
The Tree of Henry Thornton biography overview
D Arcy Mara h tells the complex tale of Henry Thornton a pivotal but reckless railway figure in Western Canada His mix of weakness strength opportunism and goodwill shapes this major biographical work now available at the National Library amid recent accessions.
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Henry Thornton
Western
Canada
D'Arcy Marah
National Library
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England
Parrett
Burrowbridge
Somerset
George IV
Wales
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Zanberra
Land OF the Free
Wilderness Society
Washington
U.B.A
Robert Blake
Roger Beadon
Commonwealth National Library
George Mackaness
Joseph Banks
Australia
Herman Wendal
Danton
Herr Wendel
ST. Paul
H. V. Morton
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Canberra Times
Mr. Morton
Palestine
St Paul
Morton
Fistant
Birmingham Gazette
Scotland
Ireland
Lord Strabolgi
Commander Kenworthy, M.P
H. V. Meerten
Daily Herald
Asia Minor
Apostle
New South Wales
Maine Audh
Burrenjuck
ALEA
Kingston
F.C.T
Wolseley Sheep ‘Shearing Machine Co., Ltd
Mi Seevans 2
Woodone & Boe
Island
Off
Woollens
Wools and
Hayes & Russell
Queanbeyan
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