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Oxford and Phillip
During its tour of duty the regiment lost Sergeant Phillip Price in a terrorist attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on the Oxford Street Bus Depot in Belfast, one of a series of terrorist attacks in the city which became known as " Bloody Friday ".
When the line was fully operational it branched from the tramlines in Oxford St and proceeded down Crown St to Cleveland St in Surry Hills, then south along Baptist St to Phillip St, where it swung left into Crescent St before running south along Dowling St.
The first ideas for this institution may have emerged from the Oxford Hotel at the corner of King and Phillip Streets, a regular meeting house for the Royal New South Wales Lancers.
The line commencing from the city branched off from the tramlines in Oxford Street and ran down Crown Street to Cleveland Street in Surry Hills, then south along Baptist Street to Phillip Street, where it swung left into Crescent Street before running south along Dowling Street, tuning left into Todman Avenue where it terminated.

Oxford and Pullman's
The Thames also features prominently in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, as a communications artery for the waterborne Gyptian people of Oxford and the Fens.
In Philip Pullman's less well-known little book " Lyra's Oxford " there is a pull-out map which clearly shows the building we know as Exeter College to be Jordan College.
New College appears in the alternate Oxford of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials as ' Wykeham College '.

Oxford and Northern
* Tyler Anbinder Nativisim & Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings & the Politics of the 1850s ( New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 ), p. 72, 195, passim 241, 268, 274.
* S. Bruce, Paisley: Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland Oxford: Oxford University Press.
and P. A., it later became the Pontiac, Oxford, and Northern ( P. O.
This was a station on the Pontiac, Oxford and Northern Railroad.
He led a life of restless wandering, which took him to North Africa, Egypt ( in 1109, maybe in the company of Yehuda Halevi ), the Land of Israel, Italy ( Rome in 1140-1143, Lucca, Mantua, Verona ), Southern France ( Rodez, Narbonne, Béziers ), Northern France ( Dreux ), England ( London, and Oxford in 1158 ), and back again to Narbonne in 1161, until his death on January 23 or 28, 1167, the exact location unknown: maybe at Calahorra at the border of Navarre and Aragon, or maybe in Rome or in the Holy Land.
On the original route, an hourly fast service is operated by Northern Rail, from Liverpool to Manchester, usually calling at Wavertree Technology Park, St Helens Junction, Newton-le-Willows and Manchester Oxford Road, and continuing via Manchester Piccadilly station to Manchester Airport.
While religious tests for students at Oxford and Cambridge ceased in the 1850s, Northern colleges continued to promote themselves as offering a different, distinct type of teaching.
* S. J. Hogben and A. H. M. Kirk-Greene, The Emirates of Northern Nigeria, Oxford: 1966.
He appears on the list of speakers at the Annual Conference of the Conservative Monday Club's Young Members ' Group, at the United Oxford & Cambridge Club in Pall Mall, on 18 November 1989, when he spoke on The Union and Northern Ireland.
A carbomb exploded outside the Ulsterbus depot on Oxford Street, the busiest bus station in Northern Ireland.
* Northern Tunnel, to, via Marble Arch, Bond Street / Oxford Circus, Leicester Square / Covent Garden ( interchange ), and Holborn / Ludgate ( close to Paternoster Square );
It is distinguished from the Northern Soul scene ( then popular in the South of England with clubs such as the 100 Club in Oxford Street ) but still displayed various similarities.
He holds a Ph. D. in French Literature from Princeton University and has taught at Harvard University, Stony Brook University, University of Chicago, University of Oxford and the Royal Northern College of Music.
* Platform 5 for Northern Rail semi-fast services to Manchester Oxford Road
* Platform 6 for East Midlands Trains services to Sheffield, Nottingham and Norwich, and for the local stopper Northern Rail service to Manchester Oxford Road
He was raised in Nkana, Northern Rhodesia ( now Zambia ) where his father worked on the copper mines and was educated at Falcon College in Rhodesia and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he rose to the presidency of the Oxford Union.
The A40 Northern Bypass, part of the Oxford Ring Road, passes just north of Marston village.
Ganilau was educated at Northern Provincial School, Queen Victoria School and Wadham College, Oxford University, whence he graduated from the Devonshire Course for administration officers in 1946.
** MMUnion, the students ' union for Manchester Metropolitan University at 99 Oxford Road ( previously the site of the Northern School of Music
* The Royal Northern College of Music has 696 students and is at 124 Oxford Road with an entrance on Booth Street West.
* The National Archives of the United Kingdom, with reference to the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland and containing a link to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( for subscribers only )

Oxford and Lights
The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933 ( Oxford History of Modern Europe ) ( 2007 ), major scholarly work excerpt and text search
Oxford is featured more often in literature and the cinema ; films with scenes shot in Oxford include Shadowlands and the Harry Potter movies, while Radcliffe Square was used in the filming of His Dark Materials: Northern Lights.
At the beginning of The Northern Lights Mrs. Coulter saved Lyra from the Gobblers by taking her out of Oxford, and nearing the end of The Northern Lights, Mrs. Coulter yet again saves Lyra from having her daemon cut away ( a process known as intercision.
# O City of Lights, the poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Oxford University Press, Karachi 2006

Oxford and is
He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.
And Lawrence Chase, son of the Ransom Chases, is listed at his new address in Oxford, Eng..
An Anglican clergyman in Oxford sadly but frankly acknowledged to me that this is true.
One of the more noteworthy changes that have taken place since the mid-19th century is the situation of Catholics at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
Bowra's ability to single out important information is legendary and it is demonstrated in an anecdote about his days at Oxford.
Although the phrase " Arabic numeral " is frequently capitalized, it is sometimes written in lower case: for instance, in its entry in the Oxford English dictionary.
It is referred to colloquially as " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " and " BBC English ", although by no means all who live in Oxford speak with such accent and the BBC does not require or use it exclusively.
Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.
Wiles is the son of Maurice Frank Wiles ( 1923 – 2005 ), the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Patricia Wiles ( née Mowll ).
* 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
Angela Vincent ( born 1942 ) is a professor at Somerville College of Oxford University.
He is an alumnus of Georgetown University where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Kappa Psi and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.
There is no standard mode of celebration for Canada Day ; professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford Jennifer Welsh said of this: " Canada Day, like the country, is endlessly decentralized.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the translation of the French term into " human creature " implies that the label " Christian " is a reminder of the humanity of the afflicted, in contrast to brute beasts.
The earliest form cited in the Oxford English Dictionary ( from 1842 ) is " chipmonk ," but " chipmunk " appears in several books from the 1820s and 1830s.
The online Oxford Dictionaries entry for mouse states the plural for the small rodent is mice, while the plural for the small computer connected device is either mice or mouses.
The Oxford English Dictionary says its earliest quotation for " clipper " is from 1830.
According to David Leeming, writing in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, the harrowing of hell is an example of the motif of the hero's descent to the underworld, which is common in many mythologies.

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