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Venetia up for the Cup; Rodney Masters talks to the trainer going for Gold at Royal Ascot with Stretarez.(Sports)
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NEXT Thursday, Venetia Williams will complete the full circle from Royal Ascot secretary to Royal Ascot celebrity. She will be running her solitary Flat delegate, the triple Pattern-race winner Stretarez, in the Ascot Gold Cup.
Some years back, when after leaving college at Oxford she was employed as a secretary in London, Venetia earned pin-money over three days laboriously hand writing names of Lords, Ladies, pop stars and toffs on Royal Enclosure cupboard lapel badges.
Clearly as enchantingly unpretentious then as she is now, she did not remotely ...
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U.S. Marching in the Footsteps of Abraham
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...march did not enjoy the same longevity. Seleucia, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, was...Middle East. For nearly a century, Seleucia was among the great Hellenistic cities...Egypt, which survives to this day. Seleucia replaced Babylon as the commercial center...
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War waged in the footsteps of Abraham
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...march did not enjoy the same longevity. Seleucia, about 40 kilometers south of Baghdad...Middle East. For nearly a century, Seleucia was among the great Hellenistic cities...Egypt, which survives to this day. Seleucia replaced Babylon as the commercial center...
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History rich in war zone
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail
; ...march did not enjoy the same longevity. Seleucia, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, was...Middle East. For nearly a century, Seleucia was among the great Hellenistic cities...Egypt, which survives to this day. Seleucia replaced Babylon as the commercial center...
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The Cult of St. Thecla: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature
; ...development of Thecla's cult in Asia Minor (Seleucia) as well as in Egypt. The second...traditions as well as the cultic site at Seleucia. The earliest version of the story of...eventually dies (seemingly peacefully) near Seleucia. In exploring the social setting of...
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Silk Road leads to artistic find.(D)(Arts & Entertainment)(Art)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...the early Christian world, along with the seaport town of Seleucia Pieria, and the remote Central Asian oasis city of Kucha with...China. Antioch, now in Turkey near the Syrian border, and Seleucia Pieria were poised on the edge of the Mediterranean ready to...
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The Cult of St Thecla: A Tradition of Women's Piety in Late Antiquity.
Magazine article from: Church History
; ...to the period when Hagia Thecla, just outside the ancient Seleucia, became the center of her cult and a thronged pilgrimage site...s cult in Asia Minor. The textual evidence for the cult in Seleucia especially is more abundant and less diffuse than it is for...
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REMAINS OF PERSIAN CAPITAL CRUMBLING IN IRAQ
Newspaper article from: The Columbian
; ...Ctesiphon was built on the opposite side of the Tigris from Seleucia, the capital of Seleucus, a Macedonian general who founded...university, a chess club and a translation academy. Ctesiphon and Seleucia were joined by a bridge and the Arabs who conquered the region...
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Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Arian-Nicene Conflicts.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies
; ...neglect. In 359 when the Councils of Ariminum (Rimini) and Seleucia drop all reference to the divine ousia and state only that...the Nicene formula. When the decrees of both Ariminum. and Seleucia were ratified at Constantinople in 360, the Homoian creed...
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Ruins of ancient Persian capital crumbling under embargo on Iraq
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...Ctesiphon was built on the opposite side of the Tigris from Seleucia, the capital of Seleucus, a Macedonian general who founded...university, a chess club and a translation academy. Ctesiphon and Seleucia were joined by a bridge, and the Arabs who conquered the region...
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U.S. forces marching in the footsteps of Abraham
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...U.S. route of march didn't enjoy the same longevity. Seleucia, about 32 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad was founded...remake the map of the Middle East. For nearly a century, Seleucia was among the great Hellenistic cities of the Middle East...
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