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Wellington and Years
* Longford, E. Wellington the Years of the Sword Panther ( 1971 )
* Longford, Elizabeth: Wellington: The Years of the Sword, Harper & Row, 1969
Victoria the Great was such an international success that it resulted in Neagle and Walbrook essaying their roles again in an all-Technicolor sequel entitled Sixty Glorious Years ( 1938 ), co-starring C. Aubrey Smith as the Duke of Wellington.
Major exhibitions of her work include Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan ( 1987 ); Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York ( 1989 ); " Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958 – 1969 ", LACMA, 1998 ( traveling to Museum of Modern Art, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo ), 1998 – 99 ; Le Consortium, Dijon, 2000 ( traveled to Maison de la Culture du Japon, Paris ; Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark ; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse ; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna ; and Artsonje Center, Seoul, 2001 – 2003 ); " KUSAMATRIX ", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2004 ( traveling to Art Park Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo Art Park, Hokkaido ); " Eternity – Modernity ", National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo ( touring Japan ), 2004 – 2005 ; and " The Mirrored Years ", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 2008 ( traveling to Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, 2009 ).
* Longford, Elizabeth ; Wellington the Years of the Sword ; Panther ( 1971 ); ISBN 0-586-03548-6
* Elizabeth Longford ( Elizabeth Harman Pakenham, Countess of Longford ), 1996, Wellington: The Years of the Sword, Smithmark Pub, New York, ISBN 978-0-8317-5646-8.

Wellington and Sword
The battle features in ' Sharpe's Sword ' by Bernard Cornwell, in which Richard Sharpe helps Wellington bring the French to battle by feeding a known French spy false information.

Wellington and State
The university has also educated 26 foreign Heads of State, including President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, President of East Timor Jose Ramos Horta, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves and other historical figures such as Wellington Koo, Gaston Eyskens, and T. V. Soong.
* Men's: The State Shield ( formerly the Shell Cup )-played annually between six teams based upon the first class associations: The Northern Knights, Auckland Aces, Central Stags, Wellington Firebirds, Canterbury Wizards and Otago Volts.
* Women's: The State League-played annually between six teams based upon the first-class associations: Northern Spirit, Auckland Hearts, Central Hinds, Wellington Blaze, Canterbury Magicians, Otago Sparks.
Colorado State University sent a team to carefully excavate and preserve the bones of the extinct animals ; Wellington residents watched attentively.
Newfound Lake is in the northeast corner, with Wellington State Park on the western shore.
Wellington is located at the intersection of State Routes 18 and 58.
Among the representatives were the British Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Alexander Cadogan ; Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Andrei Gromyko ( 1909 – 1989 ); Wellington Koo ( 1887 – 1985 ), Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom ; and U. S. Undersecretary of State Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. ( 1900 – 1949 ), each of whom chaired his respective delegation.
Statue of Sir Keith Holyoake outside the State Services Commission, Molesworth Street, Wellington, New Zealand.
Wellington employed the architect Benjamin Dean Wyatt to carry out renovations in two phases: in the first, begun in 1819, he added a three-storey extension to the north east, housing a State Dining Room, bedrooms and dressing rooms.
The State Highway 2, via Rimutaka Hill Road connects the region to Wellington in the south and the Manawatu in the north.
It is home to Wellington State Park, Sugar Hill State Forest, and Profile Falls on the Smith River.
* Wellington State Park
He was given what amounted to a State funeral, Governor Grey attended as did nearly half of Wellington, both Māori and Pakeha, The Māori Chief, Te Puni was one of his pall bearers.
It is 200 kilometres north of Wellington and 75 kilometres northwest of Palmerston North, at the junction of State Highways 3 and 4.
The region includes State Highway 1, the main state highway, and the North Island Main Trunk Railway, the main railway line, which link Auckland and Wellington.
It is approximately an hour's drive from downtown Wellington and is situated between the North Island Main Trunk Railway to the west and State Highway 1 to the east.
He served under Henry Addington as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between November 1803-June 1804, under Spencer Perceval and the Earl of Liverpool as Joint Secretary to the Treasury between 1809 and 1823, under Liverpool as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests between 1823 and 1827 and under the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington as First Commissioner of Woods and Forets in 1828 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster between 1828 and 1830.
Carterton is served by State Highway 2, the main highway between Wellington and Masterton.
Mount Barker has an Ambulance Station and a hospital on Wellington Road, as well as the Mt Barker State Emergency Service unit which is one of the busiest in the state.
It is in a thriving farming area in the Rangitikei District at the junction of State Highways 1 and 3 about 160 kilometres north of Wellington.

Wellington and two-volume
She also wrote a two-volume biography of the Duke of Wellington, and a volume of memoirs, The Pebbled Shore.

Wellington and biography
His 1946 biography, Wellington, was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Richard Aldington, Wellington
In his biography, it is reported that Wellington noted that many cavalry soldiers sustained crippling wounds by having been shot in the knee — a very vulnerable and exposed part of the body when one is mounted on a horse.
* Official biography at Government House, Wellington.
* Official biography ( Government House, Wellington )
* Official biography ( Government House, Wellington )
* The Great Duke: A biography of the Duke of Wellington ( 1971 ) ISBN 0-00-211936-6

Wellington and first
* 1971 – The first Pacific Islands Forum ( then known as the " South Pacific Forum ") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.
The first official celebration will take place in Wellington in August 2012, with the planting of pohutukawa and Norfolk pines along Thorndon Esplanade.
The Lions won all of their games that did not have test status except for the matches against Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury ; they did however lose three of their four test matches against the All Blacks, winning the first test 6 – 3 ..
Research conducted at the Victoria University of Wellington showed that breasts are often the first thing men look at, and for a longer time than other body parts.
The first recorded Diprotodon remains were discovered in a cave near Wellington in New South Wales in the early 1830s by Major Thomas Mitchell who sent them to England for study by Sir Richard Owen.
On 15 September 1830, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was opened, the first inter-city railway in the world and was attended by Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington.
The most famous story, first published in a collection called Break of Dark, is titled Blackham's Wimpy, the name of a Vickers Wellington Bomber featured in the story, whose nickname comes from the character J. Wellington Wimpy from the Popeye comics and cartoons ( the Wellington was named for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, victor over Napoleon ).
The first motorway was built in the environs of Wellington and opened in 1950, between Takapu Road and Johnsonville.
Most of the first settlers were brought over by a programme operated by the New Zealand Company ( inspired by Edward Gibbon Wakefield ) and were located in the central region on either side of Cook Strait, and at Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth and Nelson.
The first cable tram line opened on 11 November 1885, running from Bourke Street to Hawthorn Bridge, along Spencer Street, Flinders Street, Wellington Parade and Bridge Road, with the last line opening on 27 October 1891.
The first was one of Wellington ( The Duke: Being an Account of the Life & Achievements of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, 1943 ).
He finished equal first at Wellington 1988 with Chandler and Eduard Gufeld.
Shortly after helping New Zealand to another test victory over Australia at Wellington by taking his 100th first class 5 wicket haul in an innings, Hadlee announced that he would be retiring after the upcoming tour to England.
The band's first release came in 1999 with the Natural Compression EP, which had been recorded at Marmalade Studios in Wellington, with friend and Shihad drummer Tom Larkin producing.
Te Papa, New Zealand's national museum in Wellington, celebrated its first birthday in February 1999 with the creation of the world's largest pavlova, named " Pavzilla ", which was cut by the Prime Minister of the time, Jenny Shipley.
From 1840 more permanent settlements sprang up, first at Wellington, then at Nelson and at Wanganui ( Petre ).
The first University of Southampton degrees were awarded on 4 July 1953, following the appointment of the Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of the University.
It is often principally remembered as the first battle of the future Duke of Wellington.
The first land was sold at $ 5 per acre to brothers Wellington and George W. Chapman, and Rufus Mason.
This became the first mercantile store and commercial building in Wellington, prior to the opening of a two-story hotel by O ’ Neil.

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