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Bell, Martin

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
UK journalist, politician, and ambassador for humanitarian emergencies for UNICEF UK from 2001. As a BBC foreign correspondent, he reported on many of the world's most important and difficult news stories, initially making his name with his coverage of the Vietnam War. He was elected as an independent member of Parliament in 1997 (until 2001) for the constituency of Tatton in Cheshire. As UNICEF ambassador he has visited some of the most devastated and deprived areas of the world. In 1992 he was awarded an OBE and the Royal Television Society Reporter of the Year award (which he also won in 1976). In 1997 he left the BBC to stand for election as an independent candidate in the previously safe Conservative parliamentary seat of Tatton, winning with an 11,000 majority. Having later lost the 2001 election as a candidate for Brentwood and Ongar, he announced his retirement from national politics. However, he did stand unsuccessfully as an independent for the European Parliament in 2004. As…
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Phenomenology is a school of psychology which came into prominence in the first quarter of the 20th century. Its origins are philosophical. The project of phenomenology, the close study of conscious experience, was inaugurated by Edmund Husserl. The methodology he developed was quite unlike the…
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Full text Article PENNEY, BARONY OF (Penney) (Extinct 1991)

From Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage 2008
Hon Martin Charles (16 Gainsborough Court, College Rd, Dulwich, SE21 7LT), b 1938; ed Cranleigh, and Gonville and Caius Coll, Camb (MA): m 1961, Margaret Heather, da of Sqdn-Ldr H. Almond, DSO, DFC, of Basingstoke, and has issue living, Claire Virginia, b 1962: m 1997, Gareth H. Ardern, of Old Hall…
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God be with me
IAN BALFOUR , 2nd Baron; b 21 Dec 1924; s 1988; ed Eton, and Magdalen Coll, Oxford; European War 1942–45 with RN; business consultant, author, and opera composer: m 1953, Josephine Maria Jane, who d 2007, da of late Morogh Wyndham Percy Bernard ( see E Bandon, colls, ext, 2003 Edn ), and has issue. …
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Full text Article Quotations by Author

From Chambers Dictionary of Great Quotations
Abbott, Diane Julie 1953- Abelard, Peter 1079-1142 Abercrombie, Lascelles 1881-1938 Abrams, M(eyer) H(oward) 1912- Abse, Dannie 1923-2014 Abu’l-’Alá, Al-Ma’arri 973-1058 Abzug, Bella originally Bella Savitzky 1920-98…
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Full text Article Kinsey Institute

From The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction is a not-for-profit corporation associated with Indiana University, Bloomington. It is the oldest continuously operating institution in the United States, and perhaps the world, focusing on sexuality research; the archiving of art, …
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He arises with a song Watchful and bold
Sir JOHN ELLIOT COCKBURN , 12th Baronet ; b 7 Dec 1925; s his father, Lt-Col Sir JOHN BRYDGES , DSO, 1949; ed RNC Dartmouth, and RAC Cirencester: m 1949, Glory Patricia, el da of late Nigel Tudway Mullings, of Snitterfield, Stratford- on-Avon, and has issue. Arms — Quarterly: 1st and 4th argent, …
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I will renew my youth like the eagle
Sir JAMES ALAN BARLOW , 4th Baronet; b 10 July 1956; s his father, Capt Sir THOMAS ERASMUS , DSC, RN, 2003; ed Highgate, and Manchester Univ (BSc); Metallurgist; Consultant Bell Canada since 2002: m 2004, Sylvia Lois Mann. Arms — Argent, on a pile sable between two torches erect in base fired…
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Full text Article Canterbury1

From Brewer's Britain and Ireland
Originally Cantwaraburg ‘stronghold of the people of Kent’, an OCelt name ( see the KENT ) + OE- ware ‘inhabitants’ + BURY . A cathedral city in Kent, on the River Stour, about 100 km (60 miles) southeast of London. There were settlements here in pre-Roman times, and when the Romans arrived they…
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Live To Live
Sir HUGO BALDWIN HUNTINGTON-WHITELEY , 3rd Baronet ; b 31 March 1924; s his father Capt Sir HERBERT MAURICE , RN, 1975; ed Eton; FCA; High Sheriff Worcs 1971, DL 1972; 1939- 45 War with RN (despatches); Prime Warden Goldsmiths’ Co 1989–90: m 1959, Jean Marie Ramsay, JP, DStJ, da of late Arthur…
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