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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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bilboes, long bars or bolts, with a padlock on the end, on which iron shackles could slide. They were used on board ship to confine the legs of prisoners in a similar manner to putting someone in the stocks. It was a punishment usually known on board as putting a man in
irons and continued in use, particularly in American sailing ships, until the latter half of the 19th century. There are examples of bilboes in the Tower of London, taken out of ships of the
Spanish Armada. Thus Shakespeare's Hamlet, musing on a forthcoming fight:That would not let me sleep; methought I lay
Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.
The name originates from the steel which was forged at Bilbao, in Spain, at that time reckoned to be the finest in Europe.
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There's No Stopping Tower Hamlets Council's One-Stop Shops.
PR Newswire Europe; 5/22/2007; 700+ words
; ...laboratories around the world. Tower Hamlets Council provides environmental...the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Areas within the borough...and Whitechapel. Other Tower Hamlets Council services with Charter...and Parents Advice. Tower Hamlet Council's One-Stop Shops...
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News: Tower Hamlets loses tribunal in age claim.
Magazine article from: Pensions Week; 9/14/2009; 700+ words
; ...from his employer, Tower Hamlets council, when after 33 years...employment tribunal against Tower Hamlets, claiming for age discrimination...Wooster's favour, but Tower Hamlets appealed on the grounds that...However, the EAT found that Tower Hamlet's decision to take ...
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Tower Hamlets plan to twin with Jenin `fires anti-Semitism'
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/20/2002; ; 698 words
; COUNCILLORS IN Tower Hamlets are proposing to twin...council meeting by two Tower Hamlets residents, Paul McGarr and...cause of peace and the Tower Hamlets proposal is not one of them...large Jewish community in Tower Hamlets. Nowadays it is smaller but...individual ...
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Tower Hamlet club's class is our winner London council's number-crunchers rack up a prize-winning entry in The Independent's private investment club contest.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/8/2000; 700+ words
; ...forty-something tycoons of Tower Hamlets, who work in the regeneration...their hobby has paid off. The Hamlet Share Club is the first winner...index in the last month. The Hamlets chose record producer EMI as...Perry, is head of finance for Tower Hamlets. Ms Jung said...
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Labour looses, but Bengali dominates in Tower Hamlet in East London.
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 5/5/2006; 528 words
; ...most Bengali candidates won from the Tower Hamlet borough in East London, maintaining...the local body. The 51-member Tower Hamlet council has got 17 wards with...Councilors it would assume power of the Tower Hamlet with a slim majority. In...
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Tuberculosis takes its toll: 410 people in Tower Hamlets, Newham and Hackney are suffering fron TB. An estimated 4,000 EastEnders are 'carriers'. Esther Oxford reports
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/4/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Hopsital, is a growing problem in Tower Hamlets. The number of people who...Miss Pinney works in the Tower Hamlets area. Her job is to visit...authorities should follow Tower Hamlet's example and take an active...immigrants at all times. 'In Tower Hamlets every single ...
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British-councilors 28 Bangladeshi expatriates voted to Tower Hamlets Council.
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 5/12/2005; 421 words
; ...expatriates were elected as councilors in Tower Hamlets Borough Council. The election was held at the annual meeting of the Tower Hamlet Labour Group (Labour Party) at...and Deputy Mayor respectively of Tower Hamlet Council. Out of 51 elected...
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3-member Tower Hamlet council delegation calls on Khaleda.
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 1/4/2006; 434 words
; ...A three-member delegation of Tower Hamlet Council, led by its Mayor Doros...are Abdus Shukur, deputy leader of Tower Hamlet Council, and Ohid Ahmed...Bangladesh's tradition and culture. The Tower Hamlet Council delegation is in the...
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PM-Tower Hamlet.
News Wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh; 2/14/2004; 627 words
; ...7-member British delegation led by Mayor of London Tower Hamlets Abdul Aziz Sarder called on the Prime Minister at her...Monirul Alom and Mr Shafique Miah. The delegates from Tower Hamlets, the place where more than 45,000 Bangladeshis expatriates...
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Launch event marking Tower Hamlets becoming Fairtrade Borough.
M2 Presswire; 1/10/2007; 700+ words
; ...PRESSWIRE-10 January 2007-Tower Hamlets Council: Launch event marking...particularly appropriate that Tower Hamlets is embracing Fairtrade with enthusiasm...developing Fairtrade links within Tower Hamlets." The Tower Hamlets Fairtrade...
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Tower Hamlets
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tower Hamlets inner borough (1991 pop. 153,500), of Greater London, SE England. Tower Hamlets was formed in 1965 by the merger...and Stepney. The southern boundary of Tower Hamlets fronts on the Thames and includes...
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Scantlebury, Janna
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...the 1600s. Scantlebury grew up in the neighborhood of Bow, part of the Tower Hamlets borough in East London. Tower Hamlets, named because of its proximity to the famed Tower of London, is a part of the city known to have been continually inhabited...
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Royalty Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...a theatre for which they had obtained a licence from the Governor of the Tower of London, in whose precincts the building stood, and the magistrates of the Tower Hamlets. Under the provisions of the Licensing Act of 1737 this made it technically...
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Bethnal Green
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bethnal Green see Tower Hamlets .
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Wyatt, Thomas Henry
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...Rundbogenstil), and St Mary, Atherstone, Warwickshire (1849— Gothic ), and the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery (consecrated 1841), complete with two Gothic chapels and a pretty Gothic gateway and lodge (all the buildings...
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