Wild Swans; Sea Odyssey; Making Noise Quietly – review - The Guardian


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Wild Swans; Sea Odyssey; Making Noise Quietly – review
The Guardian
The French company who brought the Sultan's Elephant to London and who made a thriller with mannequins in the shop windows of Nantes (a show long overdue in this country) has now created one of the few truly imaginative tributes to the Titanic disaster ...

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Not all roads lead to London when it comes to culture | Catherine Bennett - The Guardian (blog)

Not all roads lead to London when it comes to culture | Catherine Bennett
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Visitors to Liverpool last weekend included besotted followers like me who had never forgotten the spectacle of the Sultan's Elephant, another colossal marionette that suddenly appeared in 2006 like a manifestation from the pages of a children's ...

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PLACES: An honour to be from Kandang - New Straits Times


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PLACES: An honour to be from Kandang
New Straits Times
The elephants in the war stables of the Malacca Sultanate had even been depicted in history books. Alfonso De Albuquerque, the Portuguese admiral who attacked Malacca back in 1511, had to face the Malacca sultan's war elephants. The Asian elephant was ...

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Can't live like Tom Hanks at Senai airport terminal - New Straits Times


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Can't live like Tom Hanks at Senai airport terminal
New Straits Times
The a irport, which was known as the Sultan Ismail Airport, used to have direct flights to regional destinations such as Bangkok, Surabaya and Jakarta. Sadly, these flights were stopped five to six years ago. With south Johor bustling with growth under ...

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CARRYING A TORCH - Calcutta Telegraph


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CARRYING A TORCH
Calcutta Telegraph
Japan's emperor and empress also turned up, plus an Al Saud, the sultan of Brunei, the queen of the Netherlands, Monaco's prince and princess, and the king of Bahrain — the last an embarrassing presence because his kingdom has recently become reviled ...

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Egypt presidential election: May 23 as it happened - Telegraph.co.uk


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Egypt presidential election: May 23 as it happened
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13.40 Richard Spencer has made his way to a press conference by Farouk Sultan, head of the Egyptian Presidential Election commission, who is reporting some violations by some candidates trying to influence votes. He adds that only three of the 13000 ...

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Glacier Peak's 'Seussical' is up for 11 awards - HeraldNet

Glacier Peak's 'Seussical' is up for 11 awards
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Horton the Elephant, portrayed by Andrew Mow, sits on the nest protecting Mayzie's egg in Glacier Peak High School's production of "Seussical." Glacier Peak High School drama teacher Patti Wade used the word "spectacle" to describe the Snohomish ...

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Jonathan Should Resist Temptation To Take South-West 'By All Means' - Osun Defender


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Jonathan Should Resist Temptation To Take South-West 'By All Means'
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This dated back to time of Sir Huge Clifford Constitution of 1922 when the Alaafin along with the Sultan were invited by Governor Clifford as members of the Legislative Council then sitting in Lagos. Since that time, the Alaafin had always insisted ...

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8 unsung female explorers you should know - msnbc.com


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8 unsung female explorers you should know
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Her final journeys took her to China, Korea and Morocco, where she traveled among the Berbers and had to use a ladder to mount her black stallion, a gift from the Sultan. She died in Edinburgh within a few months of her return in 1904, just shy of her ...

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Do you know when Queen Elizabeth learnt driving? - Rediff


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Do you know when Queen Elizabeth learnt driving?
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Unusual live gifts given to The Queen on foreign tours include: two tortoises given to The Queen in the Seychelles in 1972; a seven-year-old bull elephant called "Jumbo" given to Her Majesty by the President of Cameroon in 1972 to mark The Queen's ...

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