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Intelligent people will admit that bombs and rockets of destruction are frightening whether they fall on Japan, London or Pearl Harbor.
After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.
* 2001 – The Real IRA detonates a car bomb in Ealing, London, England, United Kingdom injuring seven people.
As Edward, the Black Prince, wrote shortly afterward in a letter to the people of London:
They contend that the Boers of the South African Republic ( ZAR ) and Orange Free State republics were recognized as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention ( which created the South African Republic in 1852 ), the Bloemfontein Convention ( which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854 ), the Pretoria Convention ( which re-established the independence of the South African Republic 1881 ), the London Convention ( which granted the full independence to the South African Republic in 1884 ) and the Vereeniging Peace Treaty, which formally ended the Second Anglo-Boer War on 31 May 1902.
In October 1981, 250, 000 people joined an anti-nuclear demonstration in London.
), The CND Story: The first 25 years of CND in the words of the people involved ( Allison & Busby: London, 1983 ) ISBN 0-85031-487-9
Many examples are based on locations in London and, in all likelihood, will be meaningless to people unfamiliar with the capital e. g. " Peckham Rye ", meaning " tie " ( as in necktie ), which dates from the late 19th century ; " Hampstead Heath ", meaning " teeth " ( usually as " Hampsteads ”), which was first recorded in 1887 and " Barnet Fair ", meaning " hair ", which dates from the 1850s.
It caused severe damage to London and Bristol and uprooted millions of trees and killed over 8, 000 people, mostly at sea.
* 1975 – A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
One of the larger early forms was the Greater London Planning Region, devised in 1927, which occupied and included 9 million people.
Among the people who chose to stay were Samuel Pepys, the diarist, and Henry Foe, a saddler who lived in East London.
Records state that deaths in London crept up to 1, 000 and then to 2, 000 people per week and, by September 1665, to 7, 000 per week.
Revolving around an Englishman living in 1930s London named Robert Denvers who has recollections of a previous life as a Bronze Age Cypriot – an allusion to Gardner himself – the primary plot of A Goddess Arrives is set in ancient Cyprus and featured a queen, Dayonis, who practices sorcery in an attempt to help her people defend themselves from invading Egyptians.
In 2000 there was a fatal rail crash on the line that runs through the town from London to York, in which four people lost their lives.
In a bid to reduce the number of people living in overcrowded housing, a policy was introduced of encouraging people to move into newly built new towns surrounding London.
As such Murray Bookchin describes a lot of individualist anarchism as people who " expressed their opposition in uniquely personal forms, especially in fiery tracts, outrageous behavior, and aberrant lifestyles in the cultural ghettos of fin de siecle New York, Paris, and London.
Anarchist writer Murray Bookchin describes a lot of individualist anarchism as people who " expressed their opposition in uniquely personal forms, especially in fiery tracts, outrageous behavior, and aberrant lifestyles in the cultural ghettos of fin de sicle New York, Paris, and London.
* 2003 – 2003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people left London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields to prevent the U. S .- led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
* 1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
* Abendana, Jacob in The Jewish encyclopedia: a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day, New York ; London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1901 – 06, volume 1, p 53.
Together with John Pilger and Jemima Khan, Ken Loach was among the six people in court willing to offer surety for Julian Assange when he was arrested in London on 7 December 2010.
Peake first made his reputation as a painter and illustrator during the 1930s and 1940s, when he lived in London, and he was commissioned to produce portraits of well-known people.
* 1943 – World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.

London and dressed
In April 2012, Marc Jenner from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, ran in the Virgin London Marathon dressed in a Bagpuss costume to raise money for the charity, supported by Emily Firmin and Oliver Postgate's family.
( 1968 film ; main character Gertrude Lawrence, dressed as Pierrot, sings Noël Coward's " Parisian Pierrot "— as Lawrence herself did in Coward's review London Calling!
Two railways established termini at Cookstown-the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in their dressed stone station designed by Charles Lanyon ( now much altered as a Chinese restaurant on Molesworth Street ) and the Great Northern Railway in their brick station next door ( now Cookstown High School's Hockey Club ).
* David Chick-Infamous rather than famous protester ; dressed up as Spider-Man, scaled a crane in London to protest for rights to see his daughter after divorcing his wife.
London Terrace was one of the world's largest apartment blocks when it opened in 1930, with a swimming pool, solarium, gymnasium, and doormen dressed as London bobbies.
Jean Froissart, in the fourth book of his Chronicles, reports that sixty knights would come to London to tilt for two days, " accompanied by sixty noble ladies, richly ornamented and dressed ".
In 1988, while his daughter Sarah was married to The Duke of York, the News of the World printed a story about Ferguson's membership of the Wigmore Club, " a health club and massage parlour in London staffed by girls who, dressed in starched white ' medical ' gowns, allegedly offered à la carte sexual services to members.
In the Alan Moore graphic novel " 1969 " a man, dressed as Andy Capp, is seen moving through a London crowd seemingly accompanied by a boy wearing a similar cap, perhaps an allusion to the Buster comic.
The security services " reported that Coward and Kent had been seen parading together through the streets of London, dressed and made up as women, and had once been arrested by the police for suspected prostitution ", a relationship which Coward's long-term boyfriend, Graham Payn, denied.
Fergie's music videos " London Bridge " and " Glamorous " feature backup dancers dressed as cholas.
In April or May of 1671, he visited the Tower of London, dressed as a parson and accompanied by a female companion pretending to be his wife.
An action that was carried out, inspired by the New York-based Black Mask's " mill-in at Macy's ", involved King Mob appearing at the Selfridges store in London, with one member, dressed as Father Christmas, attempting to distribute all of the store's toys to children.
He dressed the rich and famous who inhabited the beau monde of the late 1960s and early 1970s of London.
Respect candidate Ghazi Khan, with someone dressed as the then British prime minister Tony Blair, at the 18 March 2006 Anti-War Protest in London
Nine days later, group member David Chick scaled a crane near Tower Bridge, London dressed as Spider-Man.
The Conwy Valley line was constructed by the London and North Western Railway with the primary aim of transporting dressed slate from the Blaenau Ffestiniog quarries to a specially built quay at Deganwy for export by sea.
On 5 May 1760, dressed in a light coloured suit embroidered with silver ( the outfit he had worn at his wedding ), he was taken in his own carriage from the Tower of London to Tyburn and there hanged by Thomas Turlis.
He was always impeccably dressed and groomed and was seen driving around London in a fashionable yellow Rolls Royce and engaging in all kinds of luxurious activities.
Other scenes included people dressed as animals breaking into a fight and the progress of various costumed pedestrians ( such as a snail and an old man ) across a zebra crossing in London.
Turk turned up at the private view of the Sensation exhibition at the solemn Royal Academy, London, dressed as a down-and-out.
Nyah, a sexy, commanding female alien dressed in black vinyl, is headed for London.
At the opening of Thomas's six-month London run, there were incense braziers, exotically dressed women danced before images of the Pyramids, and the band of the Welsh Guards played to provide the accompaniment.
At exactly 9. 53pm, the Chief Yeoman Warder, dressed in Tudor Watchcoat, meets the military escort, made up of members of the Tower of London Guard.

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