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In January 2008, Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella launched an attack on Fraser, after a speech he gave at Melbourne University on " the Bush Administration ( reversing ) 60 years of progress in establishing a law-based international system ", claiming errors and " either intellectual sloppiness or deliberate dishonesty ", and that he tacitly supports Islamic fundamentalism, should have no influence on foreign policy, and that his stance on the war on terror has left him open to caricature as a " frothing-at-the-mouth leftie ".
Hull gave Fraser a sharp and rather demeaning dressing-down when Fraser visited Washington D. C. in mid-1944, which resulted in New Zealand's military becoming sidelined to some extent in the conduct of the Pacific War.
: Sir Andrew failed to declare his interests in dealings with Ministers and officials over House of Fraser, and, in one case, gave a positively misleading explanation for his representations.
Some episodes gave Bilko a romantic interest, Elisabeth Fraser as Sgt.
While serving as a Shadow Parliamentary Secretary, Mirabella attracted controversy in January 2008 when she launched an attack on former Liberal Party Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, after a speech he gave at Melbourne University on " the Bush Administration ( reversing ) 60 years of progress in establishing a law-based international system ", claiming errors and " either intellectual sloppiness or deliberate dishonesty ", and that he tacitly supports Islamic fundamentalism, should have no influence on foreign policy, and that his stance on the war on terror has left him open to caricature as a " frothing-at-the-mouth leftie ".
He gave advice on Māori affairs to both Peter Fraser ( a Labour Prime Minister ) and Ernest Corbett ( a National Minister of Māori Affairs ), and arranged celebrations of the Treaty of Waitangi's centenary in 1940.
When Fraser was appointed Prime Minister following the dismissal of Gough Whitlam on 11 November 1975, he gave Chipp three portfolios in his caretaker ministry — Social Security, Health, and Repatriation and Compensation.
Fraser also gave Paul McCartney a small painting of an apple by Rene Magritte which is believed to have been the inspiration for the name and logo of the Beatles ' record company, Apple Records.
Magennis's former commanding officer, Ian Fraser, was reported as saying: " Jim gave me bother from time to time.
It was divided in detail but nevertheless managed to present a fairly united and coherent message and was notable for unlikely alliances between traditional opponents – former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and former Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser gave joint statements, for example.
On April 26, 1983, Matthew Fraser, a Pierce County, Washington high school senior, gave a speech nominating classmate Jeff Kuhlman for Associated Student Body Vice President.
In April 2005, the Auditor General of Canada Sheila Fraser gave a scathing report on Passport Canada, claiming that employees of the agency lack proper security clearance.
The Fraser Institute's 2010 / 2011 report on Holy Name of Mary Secondary School gave it an overall grade of 9. 1 / 10, ranking it at 6 of 718 secondary schools in Ontario.
The team's captain, Robin Fraser, gave credit to Schmid's emphasis on defense after being named the MLS defender of the year.
Allan gave Pickering the opportunity to work for the paper as a political cartoonist, and Pickering's early work coincided with the Whitlam and Fraser governments.
When Webb died, Newstead Abbey was passed through each of his surviving children until Mr Webb's grandson Charles Ian Fraser sold it to Sir Julien Cahn, who then gave it to Nottingham City Council in 1931.
The Fraser Gold Rush in what would as a result become the Colony of British Columbia saw a flurry of settlement and merchant activity in northern Puget Sound which gave birth to Port Townsend and Whatcom ( which became ( Bellingham ) as commercial centres, at first attempting to rival Victoria as a disembarkation point of the goldfields until the colony's governor ordered that all access to the Fraser River go via Victoria.
Academically, the Fraser institute 2008-09 Report Card gave the high school a rating of 9 / 10 on the and a rank of ninth out of 722 schools in Ontario, and fifth out of 690 schools in Ontario over the past five years.
The other four judges ( Lord Fraser of Tullybelton, Lord Scarman, Lord Roskill and Lord Bridge of Harwich ) gave shorter judgements agreeing with Lord Brightman's more detailed judgement.

Fraser and Flashman
During the same year, British author George MacDonald Fraser published Flash for Freedom !, the third novel in the Flashman series that was set partially in Dahomey.
* Frederick Douglass appears in Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, by George MacDonald Fraser.
* The Flashman books by George MacDonald Fraser are supposedly edited versions of the title character's memoirs.
Kit Carson also appears in Flashman and the Redskins ( 1982 ) by George MacDonald Fraser.
* George Macdonald Fraser: The Flashman Series
* Montez also appears in Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser, where she has a brief affair with Harry Flashman.
Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser ( 1925 – 2008 ), but based on the character " Flashman " in Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1857 ), a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes ( 1822 – 1896 ).
For the American publication, Fraser created a fictional entry for Flashman in the 1909 edition of Who's Who.
Fraser has confirmed that Flashman died in 1915 but he has not recounted the circumstances of his death.
In early 2006 Fraser said that he planned to write another novel in the Flashman series and that he had chosen three possible subjects.
At the Oxford Literary festival in 2006, Fraser estimated that it took him roughly three to five months to research and write a Flashman novel.
Sobered by his experience with Lester, Fraser said that further film adaptations of the Flashman books have not been made because he " will not let anyone else have control of the script ... and that simply does not happen in Hollywood.
* Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser: Sir Harry Paget Flashman travels on the train's first journey as a guest of the journalist Henri Blowitz.
* George MacDonald FraserFlashman
( It was in this role that he was portrayed in the historical fiction novels Flashman and Flashman at the Charge by George MacDonald Fraser.
* Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser, a historical fiction novel about the Indian Revolt describing several meetings between Flashman and the Rani.
Called " Flashman and the Dragon " by George MacDonald Fraser, it was one of that author's densely-researched historical novels.
A half-century later, one of them ( George MacDonald Fraser, later author of the Flashman novels, then a nineteen-year-old lance corporal ) recalled :" But the biggest boost to morale was the burly man who came to talk to the assembled battalion … it was unforgettable.
George MacDonald Fraser describes the Thin Red Line, the Charge of the Heavy Brigade, and the Charge of the Light Brigade in his novel Flashman at the Charge.
* Harry Paget Flashman witnesses the events of this story in the novel " Flashman and the Tiger " by George MacDonald Fraser.

Fraser and lifespan
During the Kettle Valley Railway's lifespan, on numerous occasions it was called upon to act as " The Second Mainline " when washouts, avalanches and rock slides closed off the main CPR line through the Fraser Canyon.

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* God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church by Caroline Fraser ( 2000 ), a biography of Mary Baker Eddy and a history of the Christian Science church from its founding to the present day, with a detailed section on the " child cases " of the 1980s.
Map of the North-West Territory of the Province of Canada, stretching from the Fraser River on the west to Lake Superior on the east.
While it is difficult to comprehend how Vancouver missed the Fraser River, much of this river's delta was subject to flooding and summer freshet which prevented the captain from spotting any of its great channels as he sailed the entire shoreline from Point Roberts, Washington to Point Grey in 1792.
The Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest, with the 1791 Francisco de Eliza expedition preceding Vancouver by a year, had also missed the Fraser River although they knew from its muddy plume that there was a major river located nearby.
Cultivation spread from China in the early 20th century, when seeds were introduced to New Zealand by Mary Isabel Fraser, the principal of Wanganui Girls ' College, who had been visiting mission schools in Yichang, China.
However, the term has historically been in popular usage for over a century to describe a region that extends from Horseshoe Bay south to the Canada – United States border and east to Hope at the eastern end of the Fraser Valley.
The region is bounded to the north by the Coast Mountains and to the southeast by the Cascade Mountains, and is traversed from east to west by the Fraser River.
Due to its consistency of climate, flora and fauna, geology and land use, " Lower Mainland " is also the name of an ecoregion — a biogeoclimatic region — that comprises the eastern part of the Georgia Depression and extends from Powell River on the Sunshine Coast to Hope at the eastern end of the Fraser Valley.
Annual precipitation ranges from an annual mean of 850 mm in the west end to 2000 mm in the eastern end of the Fraser Valley and at higher elevations.
Many other peoples of the Georgia Strait region also frequented the lower Fraser, including those from Vancouver Island and what is now Whatcom County, Washington.
Michael Walker of the Fraser Institute and Friedman hosted a series of conferences from 1986 to 1994.
His grandfather, Simon Fraser, emigrated from Nova Scotia in 1853, becoming a successful pastoralist and speculator, as well as a member of the Victorian Parliament, the Federation Conventions of 1897 – 98 and the Australian Senate.
Fraser expanded immigration from Asian countries and allowed more refugees to enter Australia.
Despite his support for SBS, the Fraser government imposed stringent budget cuts on the national broadcaster, the ABC, which came under repeated attack from the Coalition for its supposed left-wing bias and for allegedly " unfair " or critical coverage on TV programs including This Day Tonight and Four Corners, and on the ABC's new youth-oriented radio station Double Jay ( 2JJ ).
Fraser immediately resigned from Parliament.
Fraser distanced himself from his old party, resigning from the party in 2009.
In December 2009, shortly after the election of Tony Abbott to the Liberal Party leadership, Fraser resigned from the Liberal Party.
In 1984, Fayed and his brothers purchased a 30 percent stake in House of Fraser, a group that included the famous London store Harrods, from Roland ' Tiny ' Rowland, the head of Lonrho.
In 2007, Simon Fraser University was the first and remains the only university to be awarded the Prix du XXe siècle from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada recognizing the " enduring excellence of nationally significant architecture ".
Frontman John Wozniak's first effort, Zog BogBean-From the Marcy Playground, was self-produced, recorded in his bedroom studio with some help from his then-girlfriend Sherry Fraser and her brother Scott in the early nineties.
The cast was Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee and announcer Douglas Smith, with music by the Fraser Hayes Four and Paul Fenoulhet and the Hornblowers ( Edwin Braden replaced Fenoulhet from episode 7 of Series 1 ).
When Fraser became Liberal leader in 1975, Gorton resigned from the party, sat as an independent, and openly campaigned against Fraser, whom he detested.

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