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Isle of Sheppey
Isle of Sheppey c.30 sq mi (80 sq km), Kent, SE England, at the mouth of the Thames, separated from the mainland by The Swale, a narrow strait. It is largely flat, with wave-eroded cliffs to the north. Vegetables and grain are grown on the fertile soil, and sheep are raised. The chief towns are She... Read more
Kent
Kent county (1991 pop. 1,485,600), 1,525 sq mi (3,950 sq km), SE England. It lies between the Thames estuary and the Strait of Dover. The county town is Maidstone . The Isle of Sheppey is separated from the north coast by the narrow Swale channel. The chalky North Downs cross the county from eas... Read more

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Queenborough-in-Sheppey
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Queenborough-in-Sheppey town (1991 pop. 33,362), on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, SE England, at the confluence of the Medway and Thames rivers. Radios, furniture, glass, rubber products, and clothing are made in the vicinity, which...
Isle of Sheppey
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Isle of Sheppey c.30 sq mi (80 sq km), Kent, SE England, at the mouth of the Thames, separated from the mainland by The Swale, a narrow...
Sir William Edmond Logan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...interest in the origins of coal fields was soon stimulated, and he began looking into the London Clay formations on the Isle of Sheppey. His copper business took him through France and Spain, and he studied the geology of various regions en route. By 1837...
Kent
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...km), SE England. It lies between the Thames estuary and the Strait of Dover. The county town is Maidstone . The Isle of Sheppey is separated from the north coast by the narrow Swale channel. The chalky North Downs cross the county from east to west...
Sheerness
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Sheerness England: see Queenborough-in-Sheppey .
Maugham, W(illiam) Somerset
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...killing, and For Services Rendered (1932; NY, 1933), about post-war disillusionment. After the comparative failure of Sheppey (1933; NY, 1944), another serious play in which a barber who wins a fortune tries to put Christ's precepts on wealth...
Richardson, Sir Ralph David
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...leaving the Old Vic he was seen in several important modern plays, including Maugham's For Services Rendered (1932) and Sheppey (1933) and Priestley's Eden End (1934) and Cornelius (1935). His New York début, as Chorus and Mercutio...
Richardson, Ralph
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...production that also featured his wife. Over the next decade, he gained increasing renown for his acting talents in such plays as Sheppey from W. Somerset Maugham's pen, and the comic melodrama The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, which had a successful 1936 run...

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Roman cement
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...water-resistance, used by the Romans. 2. Parker 's or Sheppey hydraulic cement, manufactured from c. 1796 using septaria...mineral-filled cracks) from Harwich, Essex, and the Isle of Sheppey. The calcareous clay nodules were crushed and burnt, then...
Wykeham, William of
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...erection of the Royal apartments east of the keep at Windsor Castle (1360–9), and built a new castle on the Isle of Sheppey, called Queenborough (1361–7), known from plans drawn by Hollar, but destroyed. In the 1360s his rise as...
cement
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...extensively used by the Adam Brothers , but it did not last, and fell off. More satisfactory was Parker's (also called Roman or Sheppey ) Cement , discovered in 1796, which was widely used by Nash and his contemporaries, but it was a dark brown colour, so...
Parker's cement
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Parker's cement. Patented in 1796, sometimes known as Roman or Sheppey cement , it was a grey-brown stucco rendering composed of burnt clay nodules crushed to powder and mixed with lime, sand, and...
Samarra
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...pilgrimage. appointment in Samarra an unavoidable meeting with death or fate, from a story by Somerset Maugham in the play Sheppey (1933), in which a man sees Death in Baghdad and flees to distant Samarra to escape, not realizing that Death had always...
polarization
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...extremes, observed by sociologists in a large number of diverse contexts. For example, on the basis of research on the Isle of Sheppey, R. E. Pahl ( Divisions of Labour , 1984) identified a process of social polarization which was said to be producing in...

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Transport Minister David Jamieson excavates ground for Sheppey's new bridge.
M2 Presswire; 4/29/2004; 700+ words ; ...Minister David Jamieson excavates ground for Sheppey's new bridge(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...linking the Kent mainland and the Isle of Sheppey. The new bridge replaces an existing...This delays drivers on the A249 between Sheppey and North Kent. At today's start of...
Morley announces GBP1.1 million grant for sea defences on Isle of Sheppey.
M2 Presswire; 1/31/2001; 700+ words ; ...million grant for sea defences on Isle of Sheppey (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD...flood defence strategy for the Isle of Sheppey - has been awarded by the Ministry of...this major phase of works on the Isle of Sheppey at an estimated cost of GBP2.2 million...
Appeal by Cheyne Middle School to the introduction by Kent County Council of a two tier education system on the Isle of Sheppey.
M2 Presswire; 7/28/2008; 700+ words ; ...two tier education system on the Isle of Sheppey(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD...two tier education system on the Isle of Sheppey. One consequence of this decision would...was widespread support on the Isle of Sheppey for the change from a three tier to a...
Preferred bidder announced for A249 Sheppey Bridge.
M2 Presswire; 5/5/2003; 447 words ; ...2003-UK Government: Preferred bidder announced for A249 Sheppey Bridge(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05022003...creating a fixed bridge link between the mainland and the Isle of Sheppey. Notes to Editors: 1. The Highways Agency is an Executive...
More foot and mouth infected areas lifted in North Kent and South Essex - Isles of Grain and Sheppey.
M2 Presswire; 5/11/2001; 675 words ; ...areas lifted in North Kent and South Essex - Isles of Grain and Sheppey (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11052001 More...Kent and South Essex in the areas of the Isles of Grain and Sheppey. Restrictions still remain in an area of North Essex around...
Home Secretary announces result of Sheppey prisons performance test.
M2 Presswire; 12/21/2005; 673 words ; ...Government: Home Secretary announces result of Sheppey prisons performance test(C)1994...award a service level agreement to the Sheppey cluster of prisons for the next three...that the independent assessment of the Sheppey bid stated that it only just met the necessary...
Road closure of A249 Sheppey Way Kingsferry Bridge.
M2 Presswire; 10/30/2002; 700+ words ; ...UK Government: Road closure of A249 Sheppey Way Kingsferry Bridge (C)1994-2002...resurface the A249 between the Isle Of Sheppey and the mainland will be carried out over...Cowstead Corner Roundabout on the Isle Of Sheppey. This section of road will be closed...
Isle of Sheppey drugs duo found guilty; Customs foils helicopter drug import attempt.
M2 Presswire; 7/3/2002; 700+ words ; ...of Kent. Patrick DOHERTY of Leysdown-on-Sea, Isle of Sheppey and Bristol man Michael HAHN were arrested on 10 August last...The holdalls were flown in by helicopter to the Isle of Sheppey. Customs law enforcement officers were watching as DOHERTY...
I got all this and more for [pounds sterling]350,000 I got all this and more for [pounds sterling]350,000; How one man acquired an instant empire on the Isle of Sheppey after reading about the investment possibilities in Property on Sunday...
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 12/7/2003; 700+ words ; ...quite a lot of cheek. Having read about Sheppey's investment prospects in Property on...row of Georgian houses on the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent. A mortgage broker from...where it was. In fact, all he knew about Sheppey was from a story he had read in Property...
Parliament's e-vangelist: MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey, Derek Wyatt has had a varied career. But it was a chance encounter with technology that started him on a path to spread the word of the Internet.
Magazine article from: New Media Age; 8/14/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...always obvious that he'd end up ploughing this particular furrow. Wyatt was elected to the then-new Sittingbourne and Sheppey seat in the first Blair landslide and increased his share of the vote in the 2001 General Election. But before all that he...