] QUR CENTURY 1900~1909 ) IR – Victonia’s reign

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Published: Monday 03 January 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 201 | Page: 45 | Tags: none

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... battle at Mafeking in May. The fighting was set to continue for another two years. A month earlier, on April 3, 1900, Queen Victoria wrote to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers expressing “the admiration which she, in oommonwnhallloyallrggml:mf;nbror:..l:e m ...

Published: Monday 03 January 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 386 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

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... the Cameron Highlanders and the Sussex Regiment, who took up positions from the corner of Durham Street up to the Royal Victoria Hospital. At Bpm that night, the first of several cavalry charges took place but the l_;flcuadron of cavalry “were subjected ...

Published: Monday 03 January 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1038 | Page: 40 | Tags: none

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... “Few cities of the United Kingdom have made greater progress during the lengthened period when our late Queen sat upon the throne.” Queen Victoria’'s reign has been the longest in British history, lasung 63 years, seven months and two days. Crowned in ...

Published: Monday 03 January 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 287 | Page: 45 | Tags: none

Today’s film guide

... B Mrs Brown ('Bc 8-30' 10.10 pm) (1997). Billy Connolly stars in this touching drama, with Judi Dench as the ailing Queen Victoria, who is helped to overcome her grief at the death of her husband by a rambunctious Scottish servant. SO PPN ENIIIENIEDS ...

Published: Monday 03 January 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Queen

... Queen Mrs Pratt, who was looking forward to the arrival of a telegram from the Queen, said: “I don't feel any different about being 100 today. “I put it down to gocd health throughout my life. I don’t smoke, I don’t drink and I don’t swear.” Born during ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 2000
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Millennium quiz answers

... Sirhan Sirhan-C-2 SECTION FOUR : 1 Napoleon Bonaparte; 2 Joan of Arc; 3 Winston Churchill; 4 'Queen Victoria; 5 Adolf Hnler— 6 Robin Hood; 7 Captain Bligh; 8 Queen Elizabeth I; 9 King George I 11; 10 King Henry Vlil. SECTION FIVE: 1 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey; ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LATEST DESBOROUGH CLUBS NEWS

... Another Christmas service starred the children of the Milk and Honey Club, who highlighted events from the century, from Queen Victoria, the suffragettes, through 1o up-to-date items. Scout post: The 2nd Desborough URC Scouts handled about 20,000 cards leading ...

N :—l to have their roots in Greece (thisis the third largest Greek city in the world after Athens and

... is evidence of Melbourian love of things Victorian and Edwardian. In fact, it has been said that where she still alive, Queen Victoria would probably feel more at home here than in any other city of the old empire. Outside the centre, Melbourne is like ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 728 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

Honoured at last Tribute to forgotten V(C hero

... Sherwood Forresters Regiment. His truly remarkable courage was recognised when he was presented the VC by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in 1859. The Queen’s journal for that day contains a reference to the ceremony, in which she notes how she felt almost ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1539 | Page: 5 | Tags: none