 "Northants Evening Telegraph (Kettering, England)")
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Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry dies.
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THE Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry has died at the age of 83.
He was Britain's largest private landowner, a cousin of the Queen and a direct descendant of Charles 11.
Among the land and property he owned was Boughton House, near Kettering, which has been described as "The English Versailles".
Boughton was originally a monastic building but Sir Edward Montagu, Lord Chief Justice to King Henry VIII, bought it in 1528 just prior to the Dissolution of the Monasteries and began to convert it into a mansion.
Most of the present building is ...
 "Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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Just ask.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
; Byline: MARGRET CAMPBELL Q WHO is the Molotov cocktail named after? - Ian Shankland, by email. A WOULD you believe, a Mr Molotov? Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov was a Soviet politician, diplomat and a protege...
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ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; Q. How were Molotov cocktails named? A.K., Swampscott A. The "cocktail...fighting the Russians in 1940. After Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov concluded the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in 1940 with the Germans and invaded...
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Anniversaries:11th & 12th November
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Anniversaries TODAY: Births: Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, author, 1821; Paul Signac, painter...Vernon Connolly, writer and critic, 1974; Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (Skriabin), Russian leader, 1986; Eamonn...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...and founder of physiognomics, 1741; Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, author, 1821; John George Brown...James Hanley, novelist and playwright, 1985; Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (Skriabin), Russian leader, 1986; Eamonn...
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Pro-Life With an Asterisk
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, once Stalin's foreign minister...from the public. When Stalin ordered Molotov's wife jailed and cruelly put the...to a vote of the party leadership, Molotov -- sensing a conflict of interest...
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Memory of historical meeting
Newspaper article from: China Daily
; ...Foreign Secretary Anthony Robert Eden crossed the conference room to shake hands with Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, the Soviet Foreign Minister. Molotov then introduced Eden to Zhou, and Eden and Zhou warmly shook hands. After the session...
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Behind the symbolism
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...his "pro-Western" Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov (alias Meir Moiseevitch Wallach) with Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, who in August 1939 signed the infamous nonaggression pact with Germany's Ribbentrop. In Egypt for the...
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