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It is perhaps difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on London bridge the Teddy boys of the East End will gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and perhaps some lyrics of their own.
* 1888 – The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
* Christian Bale's ' street attire ' in Batman Begins mimics the clothes in the first issue of Batman: Year One when Bruce is walking down the Lower East End.
** East End and North Side-Every hour, Daily 6AM-9PM, ( F until after 12AM ).
From 1906 to 1909, Attlee worked as manager of Haileybury House, a charitable club for working class boys in Stepney in the East End of London run by his old school.
Rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language and is especially prevalent in dialectal English from the East End of London ; hence the alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang ( or CRS ).
Rhyming slang is believed to have originated in the mid-19th century in the East End of London, with several sources suggesting some time in the 1840s.
According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.
In present day feature films rhyming slang is often used to lend authenticity to an East End setting.
The town was home to the civil engineer and calculating prodigy George Parker Bidder ( 1806 – 1878 ), who is notable for his work on railways over much of the world, as well as the docks of the East End in the Port of London.
End of the Dutch East Indies.
Jellied eels are a delicacy in the East End of London where they are eaten with mashed potatoes.
In fact he decided to write of " certain aspects of the present that he set out to know " and " ventured into the East End of London – the first of the occasional sorties he would make to discover for himself the world of poverty and the down-and-outers who inhabit it.
There is Blair leading a respectable, outwardly eventless life at his parents ' house in Southwold, writing ; then in contrast, there is Blair as Burton ( the name he used in his down-and-out episodes ) in search of experience in the kips and spikes, in the East End, on the road, and in the hop fields of Kent.
From August to September 1931 his explorations of poverty continued, and, like the protagonist of A Clergyman's Daughter, he followed the East End tradition of working in the Kent hop fields.
When not at sea, Cook lived in the East End of London.
* 1911 – A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
* 1865 – The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England.
Dalglish, the son of an engineer, was born in Dalmarnock in the East End of Glasgow, and was brought up in Milton in the north of Glasgow.
Later improvements included the addition of roofs, first to the Stretford End and then to the North and East Stands.
Gilda O ' Neill writes in Lost Voices, an oral history of East End hop-pickers: " I began to worry.
Many mobile shellfish stalls would set up near pubs, a practice that continues in London's East End.
) These areas, relative to downtown, are known as the North Side, South Side / South Hills, East End, and West End.
Street in Shadyside ( Pittsburgh ) | Shadyside, a neighborhood in the East End

East and local
* 1639 – Madras ( now Chennai ), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
In the East, the principle set forth in the Code of Justinian still applies, whereby most abbots are immediately subject to the local bishop.
Unlike these states, which were ruled by local nobles who acknowledged British suzerainty, Ajmer-Merwara was administered directly by the British, until 1858 by the East India Company and after 1858 by a chief commissioner who was subordinate to the Governor-General of India's agent for the Rajputana Agency.
The town has strong local travel links as Accrington railway station lies on the East Lancashire Line serving trains running locally and trains running from Blackpool to York.
His transportation network moved smuggled liquor from the rum-runners of the East Coast, The Purple Gang in Detroit, who brought liquor in from Canada, with help from Belle River native Blaise Diesbourg, also known as " King Canada ," and local production which came from Midwestern moonshine operations and illegal breweries.
After the Second World War, manufacturers in Europe and the Far East, such as Mercedes-Benz buses and Mitsubishi Fuso expanded into other continents influencing the use of buses previously served by local types.
In East Germany after local election losses, a forced merger of political parties in the Socialist Unity Party (" SED "), followed by elections in 1946 where political opponents were oppressed.
In November 1794, ten vessels, which were part of a convoy escorted by HMS Convert, were wrecked on the reef in Gun Bay, on the East end of Grand Cayman, but with the help of local settlers, there was no loss of life.
Internationally, Cyprus promotes its geographical location as a " bridge " between East and West, along with its educated English-speaking population, moderate local costs, good airline connections, and telecommunications.
CND has a national organisation based in London, national groups in Wales, Ireland and Scotland, regional groups in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, the East Midlands, Kent, London, Manchester, Merseyside, Mid Somerset, Norwich, South Cheshire and North Staffordshire, Southern England, South West England, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands and Yorkshire, and local branches.
Unique formations also exist in other parts of the United Kingdom, such as in the East Midlands, where the local accent has formed " Derby Road ", which rhymes with " cold ", a conjunction that would not be possible elsewhere in the UK.
* 1971 – Over 200 of East Pakistan's ( now Bangladesh ) intellectuals are massacred by the Pakistani Army and their local allies.
This weak brigade, under the command of Brigadier-General Ayub Khan ( local rank Major-General – GOC of 14th Army Division ), together with the East Pakistan Rifles which was tasked with defending East Pakistan during the Kashmir War of 1947.
Facing local revolts and foreign invasions in both the East and West of the country, the most urgent government business was the war.
Due to the respective local East Franconian German dialects, the adjacent northeastern region of Baden-Württemberg called Tauberfranken and parts of southern Thuringia are also considered as Franconian regions.
The island along with smaller minor islands are split into eight regencies ( local government districts ); from west to east these are: Manggarai Barat ( West Manggarai ), Manggarai Tengah ( Central Manggarai ), Manggarai Timur ( East Manggarai ), Ngada, Nagekeo, Ende, Sikka and Flores Timur ( East Flores ).
Several local airlines depart from both Ogle Airport on the East Coast Demerara, south-east of Georgetown and from Cheddi Jagan International Airport, at Timehri, south-west of Georgetown.
In the Georgian era, patronage of such seaside places ( such as nearby Brighton ) gave it a new lease of life so that, when the time came with the reform of English local government in 1888, Hastings became a County Borough, responsible for all its local services, independent of the surrounding county, then Sussex ( East ); less than one hundred years later, in 1974, that status was abolished.
Hastings Borough Council is now in the second tier of local government, below East Sussex County Council.
In the aftermath, all power was transferred from the East India Company to the British Crown, which began to administer most of India as a number of provinces ; the John Company's lands were controlled directly, while it had considerable indirect influence over the rest of India, which consisted of the Princely states ruled by local royal families.
Thus the nomads who conquered states in the Middle East were soon forced to adapt to the local societies.
HT is unique from most other Islamist movements in that the party focuses not on local issues or on providing social services, but on unifying the Muslim world under its vision of a new Islamic caliphate spanning from North Africa and the Middle East to much of central and South Asia.

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