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Chad, St
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Chad, St (d. 672), first bishop of Mercia and Lindsey at Lichfield, for whom there was an early and popular cult; it was said by Bede that if the faithful put dust from his shrine into water, the drink was medicinal for people and animals. His feast day is 2 March.
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Chad: Foreign Office amends travel advice.
M2 Presswire; 2/7/2007; 700+ words
; ...PRESSWIRE-7 February 2007-UK Government: Chad: Foreign Office amends travel advice...Office today revised its travel advice for Chad. We are now advising against all but essential...Djamena and against all travel to the rest of Chad. The amended summary points now read...
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Chad Hugo of the Neptunes; 100 Hit Wonder
Magazine article from: Filipinas; 11/30/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...record-producing team of Pharrell and Chad Hugo, age 28, to produce the music for...worthy defense of the hip-hop track he and Chad are creating during their three long days...gladly follow him to the lounge outside. Chad concentrates on sampling some more and...
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Chad's Ambassador to United States Has High Hopes for Exxon Mobil Pipeline.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 5/24/2002; 700+ words
; ...Mobil Corp. in the central African countries of Chad and Cameroon. But Mr. Soubiane, Chad's ambassador to the United States, says the...Donald Norland, a former U.S. ambassador to Chad. Their visit came just six days before the pipeline...
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CHAD Industries Announces Major Design Win for the WaferMate(TM) Product Line.
Business Wire; 5/31/2007; 700+ words
; ...EFEM of Choice. ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Chad Industries, Inc., a leading supplier...process analysis system. "We selected Chad Industries to supply the wafer handling...tool because of several factors including Chad's superior product design, excellent...
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Chad Plans to Evict 2 Oil Firms, Citing Unpaid Taxes
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/27/2006; ; 700+ words
; Chad's president on Saturday ordered two oil companies...of just 24 hours to start making plans to leave. "Chad has decided that as of tomorrow, Chevron and Petronas must leave Chad because they have refused to pay their taxes," Deby...
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Chad Wants to Use Oil Money for Defense
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/19/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Writer AP Online 04-19-2006 Dateline: N'DJAMENA, Chad A member of Chad's army guards the Parliament, Monday, April 17...official said Monday.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo) Chad has felt stymied by an agreement with the World Bank...
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Chad Supports Planned Darfur Talks
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/7/2007; 678 words
; N'DJAMENA, Chad - The U.N. chief won Chad's backing for a Darfur peace conference during a visit Friday...previous efforts to end the four-year war in Sudan's Darfur. "Chad is one of the important regional players in addressing (the...
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Chad Supports Planned Darfur Peace Talks
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/7/2007; 700+ words
; N'DJAMENA, Chad - The U.N. chief won Chad's backing for a Darfur peace conference during a visit Friday...dealing with the Sudanese rebels, we know them personally," Chad's foreign affairs minister, Ahmat Allam-mi, told reporters...
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Chad Military Plane Shot Down Near Sudan
News Wire article from: AP Online; 11/28/2006; 700+ words
; N'DJAMENA, Chad - A Chadian military reconnaissance plane was shot down in eastern Chad on Tuesday, a government spokesman said, and...was "a state of war." The plane was downed in Chad's volatile east, close to the Sudanese border...
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Chad demands removal of Sudanese refugees, or it will move them
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 2/11/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Darfur refugees from tumultuous eastern Chad, the country's prime minister told reporters...s government has fomented violence in Chad _ including backing a failed coup attempt...population (of Sudanese refugees) from Chad to Sudan to free us, he said. We want...
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Chad
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Chad , officially Republic of Chad, republic (2005 est. pop. 9,826,000), 495,752 sq mi (1,284,000 sq km), N central Africa. Chad is bordered by the Central African Republic on the south, Sudan...
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St. Chad (620 C.E.-672 C.E.)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
St. Chad (620 C.E.-672 C.E.) According to...hagiography of the Roman Catholic church, St. Chad was a bishop born in what is now England...When Cedd also became ill, he sent for Chad, who became the new abbot at Lastingham...
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Murray, Chad Michael 1981–
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
MURRAY, Chad Michael 1981 – (Chad Murray) PERSONAL Born August 24, 1981, in Buffalo, NY; son...youth charities. CREDITS Television Appearances; Series: (As Chad Murray) Tristan DuGrey, Gilmore Girls (also known as Gilmore...
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Chad, St
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Chad, St ( St Ceadda ) (d. 673). One of four...were ‘famous priests’, Chad studied in Ireland and was a disciple of Aidan...earlier work of an active British church. Chad founded a monastery, possibly at Barrow...
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Varah, Chad
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Varah, Chad The eldest of nine children of an Anglican Church minister, Edward Chad Varah was born on November 12, 1911, in the small...Attempted Suicide. London: John Wiley, 2000 Varah, Chad. Before I Die Again: The Autobiography of the...
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