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MURALS UNCOVERED AT MARINE.
The Arbroath Herald Guide and Gazette (Arbroath,Scotland)
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February 23, 2008
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CONTRACTORS working in the former Marine Ballroom in Hill Road, which is being developed into 29 luxury apartments, discovered several lingering memorials to the building's wartime use as a billet for Polish troops stationed in the town.
On taking down panelling on the gable of the building nearest to Victoria Park, several murals were uncovered which had been painted by the men billeted there.
Although one or two have a martial theme, others depict rural and urban scenes, an indicator perhaps of how homesick the men were for their mother country which, at ...
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All of the president's historians: the debate over Urho Kekkonen.
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies
; ...hiihti! Kekkonen kalasti! Nyt se on Kekkonen riisuttu alasti" [Kekkonen skied, Kekkonen fished, and now Kekkonen is stripped bare]. When Urho Kaleva Kekkonen resigned as president of the Republic of Finland in the fall of 1981, few Finns...
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Urho Kekkonen, Finnish ex-president
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...HELSINKI, Finland (AP) Urho Kekkonen, 85, president of Finland for...today. His son Matti said Mr. Kekkonen died at the lakeside presidential...in the brain," the son said. Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, popularly known as UKK or Urkki...
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Remembering Kekkonen on the 100th anniversary of his birthday
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Review
; In the fall of 1981, after 25 years in office, Urho Kaleva Kekkonen resigned as President of the Republic of Finland...September 3, 2000, Finns observed the centenary of Urho Kekkonen's birth. The year 2001 will mark the twentieth...
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On the Finland Watch: An American Diplomat in Finland during the Cold War.(Review)
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies
; ...of the decisions and repercussions of the Kekkonen presidency, are extremely thought provoking...leaders, including specifically President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen. Mr. Cooper interviewed Kekkonen associates, colleagues, critics, and others...
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Birthdays
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Marchegiano), heavyweight boxer, killed in an air crash 1969; John Ford (Sean O'Feeney), film director, 1973; Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, president of Finland, 1986; Henry Moore, sculptor, 1986. On this day: Henry VI acceded as king at the age...
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Doctors hope hip protectors will reduce the risk of fracture.(The Dallas Morning News)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...soon, or at what cost. Dr. Pekka Kannus, chief physician at the Accident and Trauma Research Center at the Urho Kaleva Kekkonen Institute in Tempere, Finland, says he and his colleagues undertook his study because they felt a new approach...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...John Ford (Sean O'Feeney), film director, 1973; Norman Eric Kirk, New Zealand prime minister, 1974; Urho Kaleva Kekkonen, president of Finland, 1986; Henry Moore, sculptor, 1986; Diana, Princess of Wales, killed in a car crash...
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