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Queen Elizabeth to attend Margaret Thatcher's funeral April 17
LONDON -- The funeral of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s longest-serving leader of the 20th century, will be held in St. Paul’s Cathedral on April 17, officials said Tuesday. Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of...
Tags: Marketing, Symptoms, Politics, Government, United Kingdom
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Margaret Thatcher is lionized and lambasted
LONDON — Indifference was not an option. In death as in life, at home and abroad, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was lionized and lambasted — sometimes both in the same breath — as news of her passing Monday spread...
Tags: Barack Obama, David Cameron, Labour Party (UK), Human Interest, Politics
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Come, noble brothers! Let us abolish this seditious "privacy"
Stars are shooting, drinking, driving and chomping, and the government is watching. Welcome to your post-weekend trends report for April 22, 2013. You have to love Congress. America's favorite band of geriatric jokers decided it would be hi-LAR-ious to...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Crimes, Earth Day, U.S. Congress
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Shaikh Khalifa's UK visit: History in the making
Khaleej TimesFor the second time in 42 years, a state visit by a UAE President to the UK will be happening on April 30-May 1. The President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, will be travelling with a political, military and business delegation to Great...Tags: Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, United Arab Emirates, Trips and Vacations, London Stock Exchange
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Sampling the wine trail
Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.Nine wineries in the foothills of Yuba and Butte counties are taking part in a "wine trail" tour and tasting on April 27-28. The wineries have organized the North Sierra Wine Trail: Springtime in the Vineyards. Tickets, $20 per person, can be bought...Tags: Wines, Viniculture, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Making a fashion statement at Spring Couve Couture
The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.Like spring in the Pacific Northwest, the growth of Couve Couture could be measured by the colorful Vancouver crowd of 575 filling the unfinished ground floor of Gravitate Design's building at 1012 Washington St. The former Koplan's building space had...Tags: The Happiest News!, Human Interest, Fashion Shows, Entertainment Events
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Big crowds, black ribbons for Boston at London Marathon
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - Undaunted by the Boston Marathon bombings, big crowds lined the route of London's mass road race on Sunday to cheer on around 36,000 runners, many of whom wore black ribbons to honour the dead and wounded. Hundreds of extra police were...Tags: Running, BBC, Mo Farah, Sports, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Margaret Thatcher dies at 87; Britain's first female prime minister
LONDON -- Margaret Thatcher, the grocer's daughter who punched through an old-boy political network to become Britain's first female prime minister, stamping her personality indelibly on the nation and pursuing policies that reverberate decades later, has...
Tags: BBC, Elections, Human Interest, Science, U.S. Embassy
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The royal treatment
Queen Elizabeth II is not like you or me. Whereas we might have a walk-in closet or two and feel blessed, HM has a "dresser's floor" at Buckingham Palace and a staff to mind, mend and mother her clothes, hats, scarves, gloves, footwear, umbrellas and...
Tags: Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II (2012), Binney and Smith, Chicago Tribune, Imperial and Royal Matters
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Bikers are perfect foils for the Bard in 'Richard III'
"Richard III" "Sons of Anarchy" fans should hie themselves hence to the basement venue of the Underground Wonder Bar, where Wayward Productions is offering up a nitty-gritty biker version of "Richard III" under Carlo Lorenzo Garcia's direction. It has...
Tags: Mahmoud Abbas, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Bars and Clubs, Immigration
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Stephen Hawking rocks Caltech
The fanfare that accompanied Stephen Hawking’s entrance into Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium on Tuesday evening was at once cosmologically grand and a bit tongue-in-cheek. It was Richard Strauss’ 1896 “Thus Spake Zarathustra,’&...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Applied Physics, Science, Cosmology
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To cheers and jeers, Margaret Thatcher is laid to rest
LONDON -- A gun boomed once a minute, like one of her thunderous speeches in Parliament. Gray skies slowly turned blue, the color of her Conservative Party. And even Big Ben fell quiet, in tribute to a woman who loved nothing more than silencing her foes....
Tags: David Cameron, Henry Kissinger, Human Interest, Metal and Mineral, Parliament
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