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's " We All Go Back to Where We Belong " and she sang two tracks —" This Old Machine " and " Summer Day "— on Jason Schwartzman's 2007 solo album Nighttiming.
* October 18 – 21 – Beijing's Old Summer Palace is burned to the ground by orders of British general Lord Elgin in retaliation for mistreatment of several prisoners of war during the Second Opium War.
Other areas of interest include, Abert Lake and Abert Rim, Goose Lake, Hunter's Hot Springs and its Old Perpetual Geyser, Schminck Memorial Museum and Lake County Museum, Lake County Round-Up Museum, Schmink Museum, Warner Canyon ski area, Gearhart Mountain Wilderness, Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge, Summer Lake Hot Springs, sunstones ( Oregon's state gemstone ) near Plush, Warner Wetlands, Summer Lake Wildlife Area and sections of the Fremont National Forest of the Fremont – Winema National Forests.
In 1946 her painting The Old Checkered Inn in Summer was featured in the background of a national advertising campaign for the young women's lip gloss Primitive Red by Du Barry cosmetics.
The Old Town Helena Amphitheater along the banks of Buck Creek, features a stage and grass seating area where numerous productions are staged, including the popular Summer Sundown Cinemas ( free movie ) and 4th of July celebration.
Image: Old Cabin Home & Fairview Cottage. jpg | Summer cottages on Spofford Lake in 1917
Ruins of the " Western style " Xiyanglou complex in the Old Summer Palace, burnt down by Anglo-French forces.
Anglo-French troops in Beijing began looting the Summer Palace ( Yihe Yuan ) and Old Summer Palace ( Yuan Ming Yuan ) immediately ( as it was full of valuable artwork ).
* The 2009 auction ( for US $ 36 million ) of two imperial bronze zodiac sculptures collected by Yves Saint Laurent, looted in 1860 from the Old Summer Palace of Beijing by French and British forces at the close of the Second Opium War caused controversy.
Her stage credits include Hitchcock Blonde by Terry Johnson ( in a role requiring her to appear completely nude on stage with only a pair of high heels ) and Tennessee Williams ' Summer and Smoke, both in London's West End, and Gaslight at London's Old Vic Theatre.
* " In the Good Old Summer Time " ( w. Ren Shields m. George " Honey Boy " Evans )-Haydn Quartette on Victor-S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough with Sousa's Band on Victor-Harry Macdonough on Victor
* " In The Good Old Summer Time " w. Ren Shields m. George Evans.
Other notable films include The Enchanted Cottage, A Summer Place, Three Coins in the Fountain, Friendly Persuasion, Old Yeller, Swiss Family Robinson, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.
* Bardos, Arthur, "' Public Diplomacy ': An Old Art, a New Profession ", Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2001
The English word " cuckoo " comes from the Old French cucu and it first appears about 1240 in the poem Sumer Is Icumen In-" Summer has come in / Loudly sing, Cuckoo!
bottles-Boston Lager, Light, Double Bock, White Ale, Summer Ale, Octoberfest, Winter Lager, Old Fezziwig Ale, Cranberry Lambic, Holiday Porter, Boston Ale, Cherry Wheat, Cream Stout, Scotch Ale, Black Lager, Brown Ale, Hefeweizen, Pale Ale, Honey Porter, and Irish Red.
The palace complex suffered two major attacks — during the Anglo-French allied invasion of 1860 ( with the Old Summer Palace also ransacked at the same time ), and during the Boxer Rebellion, in an attack by the eight allied powers in 1900.
The Imperial Gardens as they once stoodThe Old Summer Palace, known in Chinese as Yuan Ming Yuan ( the Gardens of Perfect Brightness ), and originally called the Imperial Gardens, was a complex of palaces and gardens in Beijing.
The Old Summer Palace is located in Haidian District just outside the west gate of Tsinghua University, north of Peking University, and east of the Summer Palace.
Part of the Old Summer Palace.
The Imperial Gardens at the Old Summer Palace were made up of three gardens:

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He also has lodgings in the Old Palace, Canterbury, located beside Canterbury Cathedral, where the Chair of St. Augustine sits.
* The Old Palace, Bekesbourne, built c. 1552 for Archbishop Cranmer
MS 24 ) is a 12th century English illuminated manuscript bestiary that was first listed in 1542 in the inventory of the Old Royal Library at the Palace of Westminster.
Admiralty Arch is linked to the Old Admiralty Building by a bridge and is part of the ceremonial route from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace.
The main weapons of assassination chosen organised the successful assassination of King Alexander I of Serbia and his consort Draga ; he confirmed that Captain Dragutin Dimitrijevic, who had personally led the group of Army officers who killed the royal couple in the Old Palace at Belgrade on the night of 28 / 29 May 1903 ( Old Style ), was also the Black Hand's leader.
Alte Hofhaltung ( Old Palace ).
The remaining wing of the Old Palace, Hatfield House.
The following day, Thomas Wintour, Ambrose Rookwood, Robert Keyes, and Guy Fawkes were hanged, drawn and quartered, opposite the building they had planned to blow up, in the Old Palace Yard at Westminster.
Elizabeth Tudor was confined there for three years in what is now known as " The Old Palace " in Hatfield Park.
She held her first Council in the Great Hall ( The Old Palace ) of Hatfield.
Also of interest are the High Lighthouse ( 1818 ); the unusual Treadwheel Crane ( late 17th century ); the Electric Palace Cinema ( 1911 ), one of the oldest purpose-built cinemas to survive complete with its original projection room and ornamental frontage still intact and operational ; the Old Custom Houses on West Street ; and a number of Victorian shopfronts.
On the edge of the Old Town are the Market Hall, the Leine Palace, and the ruin of the Aegidien Church which is now a monument to the victims of war and violence.
These include the Kathmandu Old Palace ( Kathmandu Durbar Square ), Patan Palace ( Patan Durbar Square ), Bhaktapur Palace ( Bhaktapur Durbar Square ) etc.
Its name, which derives from the neighbouring Westminster Abbey, may refer to either of two structures: the Old Palace, a medieval building complex that was destroyed by fire in 1834, and its replacement New Palace that stands today.
The remains of the Old Palace ( with the exception of the detached Jewel Tower ) were incorporated in its much larger replacement, which contains over 1, 100 rooms organised symmetrically around two series of courtyards.
One bomb fell into Old Palace Yard on 26 September 1940 and severely damaged the south wall of St Stephen's Porch and the west front.
Glosses, commentaries, expositions, and treatises by him on almost all the books of the Old Testament, and many sermons, are preserved in manuscript at Lambeth Palace, at Oxford and Cambridge, and in France.
He built the " Old Palace " of Hatfield House where Elizabeth I spent much of her girlhood.
* c. 1700 BC: Minoan Old Palace period ends and Minoan Second Palace period starts in Ancient Greece.

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It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.
All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.
As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.
The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.
Old Chris is my ideal.
Old Order, acted and atonally sung by Grunnfeu Arapacis, the lovely Serbantian import, then entered and delivered the well-known invocation to the god Phineoppus, whereupon the stage is quite unexpectedly visited by a company of wandering Gorshek priests, symbolizing Love, Lust, Prudence and General Motors, respectively.
Old Mr. Pocket's frantic response to life imprisonment with a useless, social-climbing wife is to `` put his two hands into his disturbed hair '' and `` make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it '', whereas Joe Gargery endures the shrewish onslaughts of Mrs. Joe by apologetically drawing `` the back of his hand across and across his nose ''.
The party is to raise money for the Old Town Art center and to plant more crabapple trees along the streets of Old Town.
The house is on Old Annapolis road a mile south of Severna Park, at Jones Station, police said.
Stagecoach Days is the theme for the weekend on the Old Chisholm Trail.
`` A Toast To The Bride '', sung by Clarence Nordstrom, playing a character called Old Man Toomey, is quite simple, direct and touching.
Old Mr. Thom is already down on Wally, and we simply can't afford to get Ken mad at us '' --
It is the belief of Old Babylonian scholars such as Carruccio that Old Babylonians " may have used the abacus for the operations of addition and subtraction ; however, this primitive device proved difficult to use for more complex calculations ".
Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.
Another notable script is Elder Futhark, which is believed to have evolved out of one of the Old Italic alphabets.
The Old Hungarian script is a contemporary writing system of the Hungarians.
The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).
It is the Atlantic that separates the " Old World " from the " New World ".

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