Nouméa
Nouméa , town (1992 est. pop. 75,000), chief port and capital of the French overseas territory of New Caledonia , on New Caledonia island, South Pacific. Local industry, dominated by the nearby Doniambo nickel smelter, include cementworks, foods and beverages, agricultural processing, and apparel production. It was the site of a U.S. airfield in World War II. Nouméa is the seat of the SPC (formerly the South Pacific Commission), an international body formed in 1947 to promote the economic and social welfare of Pacific island people. On the town's outskirts is the Tjibaou Cultural Center, designed by Renzo Piano. The town was a French penal colony from 1864 to 1897.
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The secret Skye family of Ramsay MacDonald
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 7/15/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...tree he is mapping is that of Ramsay MacDonald, the country's first Labour...of National Unity in 1931, Ramsay MacDonald has become a neglected historical...are sitting in the house of Ramsay MacDonald's second cousin. Ramsay...
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The lad from Lossiemouth: John Shepherd says it's time to reappraise the political reputation of Ramsay MacDonald, who died seventy years ago this month.(CROSS CURRENT)(In memoriam)
Magazine article from: History Today; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...death, from a heart attack, of Ramsay MacDonald, prime minister of Britain...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The name of Ramsay MacDonald remains irretrievably linked...secretary, published The Tragedy of Ramsay MacDonald in 1938, which demonized his...
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Great Scots: ramsay MacDonald 1866-1937
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 12/19/1999; 700+ words
; ...politics and of human affairs. Ramsay MacDonald's failure, though, was more...rouble had gone into freefall. MacDonald chose country over party interest...to begin at the beginning, Ramsay MacDonald was from the humblest of Morayshire...
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THE LASSIES OF NO.10; As PM, Ramsay MacDonald kept in touch with his Scottish roots by employing his old neighbours from Morayshire... the gaggle of girls who put the Doric in Downing Street.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 5/19/2007; 700+ words
; ...Tony Blair would have made of Ramsay MacDonald's somewhat unorthodox roll of...the Moray fishing village where MacDonald grew up. They enjoyed meeting...in his second spell in office, MacDonald felt pretty much the same way...
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James Ramsay MacDonald; TIMESPAST
Newspaper article from: Evening Times; 9/13/2001; ; 391 words
; ...Prime Minister was Scots-born James Ramsay MacDonald. The illegitimate son of a maidservant, MacDonald was born in 1866 in Lossiemouth. In...Zinoviev Com-munist scandal forced MacDonald's party out of office in 1924 but his...
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Critics of Empire: Bernard Porter says that today's advocates of humanitarian intervention would do well to ponder what J. A. Hobson and Ramsay MacDonald had to say a century ago about the dangers of liberal imperialism.(CROSS CURRENT)
Magazine article from: History Today; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...capitalist theory' alongside him: Ramsay MacDonald, later famous (or notorious...thought to the question of Empire. MacDonald too recognized the genuineness...had Tony Blair in mind.) But, MacDonald went on to say, that wasn't...
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Tony Blair: the Ramsay MacDonald of our age; One of Labour's most controversial Left-wingers on why he believes the Prime Minister is a traitor to his own party.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 3/2/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...its people's interests and their safety u or those acting as agents of a foreign power? Who, exactly, is betraying whom? Ramsay Mac-D o n a l d , Labour's first Premier in 1924, was the golden boy of British Labour politics, as gifted a communicator...
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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WOMEN GIVE CHEF RAMSAY A ROASTING; Outrage at Scot's sexist rant.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 9/18/2000; 599 words
; ...restaurant L'Escargot, said Ramsay epitomised the "sexist" catering...industry because of attitudes like Ramsay's." Claire Macdonald, owner of the Kinlcoh Lodge...Masterchef judge, dismissed Ramsay's comments as pathetic. She...
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MacDonald and Lossiemouth.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/2008; ; 386 words
; I read the article on Ramsay MacDonald (November 2007) with interest...the local tailor had told him how Ramsay's mother bad begged him to make...was being compared with that of Ramsay MacDonald. Agnes Grunwald-Spier Sheffield
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THE greatest CLANS; 1: MACDONALD; The Lord of the Isles, a spectral black frog and the voice of Mickey Mouse propel this tribe into a league of their own
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 9/14/2003; 700+ words
; ...firm, while Dundee's James Macdonald remains the definitive voice of...goes to Lossiemouth's James Ramsay MacDonald, now curiously regarded as...Crash to cause a Cabinet split. MacDonald became reviled as the pawn of...
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James Ramsay MacDonald
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
James Ramsay MacDonald The British politician James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), three time prime minister of Great...In 1924 he formed the first Labour government. Ramsay MacDonald, born in October 1866 in the little peasant and...
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MacDonald, James Ramsay
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
MacDonald, James Ramsay (1866–1937). Prime minister. Between 1900 and 1929 Ramsay MacDonald contributed more than any other individual to building the Labour Party...
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Ramsay MacDonald
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ramsay MacDonald (James Ramsay McDonald), 1866-1937, British statesman, b. Scotland. The...party), in which he served (1900-1912) as first secretary. MacDonald was elected to Parliament in 1906 and was leader of the Labour party...
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MacDonald, (James) Ramsay
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
MacDonald, (James) Ramsay (1866–1937) British...x2013;35), b. Scotland. MacDonald became an MP in 1906, and leader...1914), and his seat (1918). MacDonald was re-elected to Parliament and...
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National Government
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...Government. The Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald in 1931 faced a severe economic...to cut unemployment benefit. MacDonald consulted Baldwin , leader of...Baldwin agreed to serve under MacDonald. Intended as a temporary measure...
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