Lafiagi
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Lafiagi, Kwara/Nigeria Founded as a fortified town in 1810 on the Niger River with a name derived from a Nupe word meaning ‘Small Hill’.
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The Ealing feeling
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 7/11/2001; 700+ words
; ...s no surprise that families are rushing to Ealing, says Anthea Masey FILM put Ealing on the map in the 1950s and 1960s, when its...Balcon. Now, after an uncertain few years, Ealing Studios is to make a comeback under its new owners...
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Ealing Films returns after 40-year interval
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/15/2001; ; 700+ words
; EALING FILMS, which produced some of Britain...Of Being Earnest. Established in 1902, Ealing's are the world's oldest working film...period exactly 100 films were made under the Ealing name, including classic works produced...
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The Ealing feeling.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 7/11/2001; 700+ words
; ...s no surprise that families are rushing to Ealing, says Anthea Masey FILM put Ealing on the map in the 1950s and 1960s, when its...Balcon. Now, after an uncertain few years, Ealing Studios is to make a comeback under its new owners...
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Hot Spot, Ealing: The Queen of the Suburbs Ideal for both town mice and country mice, Ealing is traditionally a halfway house between rural Berkshire and London's West End. But its own streets are not without allure, says Robert Liebman
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/9/2000; ; 640 words
; ...Londoners in Victorian and Edwardian times, Ealing was a halfway house between the country...estate agents Winkworth. "After the war Ealing became well known as a bedsit area, but...currently drilling into a site overlooking Ealing Common to convert an erstwhile dental...
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SO YOU WANT TO LIVE IN... EALING.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 5/4/2003; 700+ words
; ...LIKE? The 300,000 people already ensconced in Ealing are facing a massive council tax rise of 25.88...postal districts, W5 and W13, with the former, Ealing Broadway, South Ealing and Ealing Common being the most desirable. A new...
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130,000 Ealing patients to receive health information by mobile phone.
M2 Presswire; 11/23/2006; 700+ words
; ...23 November 2006-ORANGE: 130,000 Ealing patients to receive health information...COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:23112006 London - Ealing Primary Care Trust announced today that...messaging in British primary care to date. Ealing PCT selected iPLATOPatient Care Messaging...
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Paradise postponed: Ealing, Rank and 'They Came to a City.'.(motion picture production firms Ealing Studios and Rank Organisation PLC; 1944 film produced by Ealing)
Magazine article from: Cineaste; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...rippled through the British film community. Ealing, the most staunchly independent of the...deal with the giant Rank Organization. Ealing, the same studio whose production head...the problem." But the rumor was true. Ealing and Rank were indeed talking terms, and...
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Profile: History and current projects at Britain's Ealing Studios
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 8/20/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...History and current projects at Britain's Ealing Studios Host: RENEE MONTAGNE Time: 11...12:00 Noon RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Ealing Studios, outside London, commemorates...pioneer Will Barker bought two houses on Ealing Green in West London. The coal-filled...
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Ealing Council to pioneer 'Knowledge Partnership' with office of the e-envoy.
M2 Presswire; 11/22/2001; 700+ words
; ...PRESSWIRE-22 November 2001-UK Government: Ealing Council to pioneer 'Knowledge Partnership...M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:21112001 Ealing Council and a team based in the Government...knowledge management policy framework. Ealing Council is introducing an innovative new...
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Ealing's new comedies to laugh at everyone
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...of the bastion of British comedy, the Ealing Film Studios. Otherwise, it will be...who is the new head of development at Ealing, said yesterday that he would not bow...in the scripts he chooses for the new Ealing comedies. Immigrant communities must...
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Ealing
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ealing , outer borough (1991 pop. 263,600) of Greater...Southall district. Cardinal Newman went to school in Ealing, and the former French king Louis Philippe taught...borough. The biologist Thomas Huxley was born in Ealing.
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Ealing Studios
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Ealing Studios a film studio in Ealing, West London, active 1929–55, but remembered chiefly for the comedies it made in the post-war decade.
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Director: Robert Hamer Production: Ealing Studios; black and white, 35mm; running...New York, 1973. Barr, Charles, Ealing Studios, London, 1977, 1982, 1999. Perry, George, Forever Ealing, London, 1981. Hunter, Allan, Alec...
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Crichton, Charles
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...productions, 1935–40; joined Ealing Studios, 1940; directed first film, For...Films, London, 1969. Barr, Charles, Ealing Studios, London, 1977. Perry, George, Forever Ealing, London, 1981. On CRICHTON: articles...
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The Lavender Hill Mob
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Production: A Michael Balcon Production for Ealing Studios; black and white; running time...Cinema, New York, 1973. Barr, Charles, Ealing Studios, London, 1977. Perry, George, Forever Ealing, London, 1981. Hunter, Allan, Alec...
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