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Covent Garden
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Covent Garden (London). Anxious to restore his dilapidated estate (land belonging to the convent of Westminster prior to the
dissolution of the monasteries), the 4th earl of Bedford commissioned Inigo
Jones as architect. Influenced by study in Italy, Jones created a piazza surrounded by St Paul's church and three terraces of tall houses. The houses became highly sought after, but the expansion of the fruit, flower, and vegetable market (established 1670) made them less fashionable. Shops and coffee‐houses proliferated, and its first theatre (now the Royal Opera House) opened in 1732.
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Covent Gardens at Deep River Launches the $1 Million Dollar Promotion.
Newspaper article from: Real Estate Weekly News; 8/14/2009; 700+ words
; On Tuesday July 28, 2009, Covent Gardens at Deep River will launch The...lifestyle for less. Keywords: Covent Gardens at Deep River, Women, Other...Construction and Property, Covent Gardens at Deep River, Entertainment...
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Covent Gardens at Deep River Launches The $1 Million Dollar Promotion.
Business Wire; 7/29/2009; 583 words
; ...N.C. -- On Tuesday July 28, 2009, Covent Gardens at Deep River will launch The $1 Million...exciting promotion will allow anyone visiting Covent Gardens the chance to win $1 million dollars! Covent Gardens is a townhome community conveniently...
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NEW COVENT GARDEN SOUP COMPANY: New Covent Garden Soup Co announces plans to launch series of soup bars.
M2 Presswire; 3/4/1999; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-4 March 1999-NEW COVENT GARDEN SOUP COMPANY: New Covent Garden Soup Company announces plans to launch series...99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:030399 The New Covent Garden Soup Company - the UK's loading fresh...
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COVENT GARDEN A CORNUCOPIA OF LIVELY LONDON.(Travel)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/1/1992; 700+ words
; ...breathing 1990s diorama of Covent Garden, a bustling square of...to converge in Covent Garden. The Central Market Building...Building in the middle of Covent Garden plaza date back...being a tourist trap, Covent Garden's a favorite shopping...
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NEW COVENT GARDEN SOUP COMPANY: Visit a web of New Covent Garden soups!
M2 Presswire; 7/13/1999; 615 words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-13 July 1999-NEW COVENT GARDEN SOUP COMPANY: Visit a web of New Covent Garden soups! (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...www.coventgardensoup.co.uk The New Covent Garden Soup Company, the UK's leading brand...
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Moment of truth for Covent Garden Next, M&S, Boots ... Covent Garden is in danger of becoming just another high street
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 2/24/2000; ; 700+ words
; IF Covent Garden were a pin-table, it would be starting...say they'd like "to create another Covent Garden". But the original is starting...freehold of the GLC's holdings in the Covent Garden Protected Lands was sold as a job lot...
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Consultants appointed to advise on options for the future of New Covent Garden Market.
M2 Presswire; 6/15/2005; 700+ words
; ...for the future of New Covent Garden Market(C)1994-2005...future development of New Covent Garden Market and its...Background New Covent Garden Market is a wholesale...Lambeth. It is operated by Covent Garden Market Authority...
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How Covent Garden 'is forcing out the piazza musicians' ; 'We are the little people who make Covent Garden a big place'
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 3/13/2008; ; 623 words
; ...musicians who perform free in Covent Garden piazza are warning that...hours to one. They claim Covent Garden London is pursuing...Beverly Churchill of Covent Garden London said the company...a significant part of Covent Garden's rich heritage...
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Covent Garden, the Untold Story: Dispatches from the English Culture War, 1945-2000. (Book Reviews: National Musics).
Magazine article from: Notes; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Covent Garden, the Untold Story: Dispatches from...chief executives in as many years. In Covent Garden, The Untold Story: Dispatches...s muscular journalistic language make Covent Garden an engaging read, but he overindulges...
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Vision Of Lear at Covent Garden's Linbury Studio Theatre
Magazine article from: Musical Opinion; 3/1/2002; ; 602 words
; ...opera, Vision of Lear, by Toshio Hosokawa, who was born in Hiroshima in 1955, received its British premiere at Covent Gardens Linbury Studio Theatre on 31 January by the Memos Collective under Gregory Rose, who supplied a valuable introduction...
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Covent Garden
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Covent Garden, in London, the old Convent Garden of Westminster. Covent Garden is frequently mentioned in 17th- and 18th...and was then rebuilt as a shopping centre. The first Covent Garden Theatre was opened by J. Rich in 1732. It...
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Covent-Garden Journal
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Covent-Garden Journal, a periodical issued twice a week during 1752 by H. Fielding , in which under the name of Sir Alexander Drawcansir, Censor of Great Britain, Fielding attacks political abuses, scandal, hypocrisy, meanness, sexual morality, fashion, etc.
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Serrano, Lupe: 1930—: Ballerina
Book article from: Contemporary Hispanic Biography
...presence and flawless technique. Mexico's Noticias del día recalled how at one performance at London's Covent Gardens, Serra-no's interpretation of Combat melted the audience's usually restrained composure into a chorus of...
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Campbell, Naomi 1970–
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...Wall (1982). Discovered in Shopping Arcade When she was 15, an agent discovered Campbell in a shopping arcade at Covent Gardens, which Campbell frequented after school. Campbell described the encounter to George Wayne in Interview: “...
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Toland, John (1670-1722)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...number of delegates from what have been described as Druidic circles across the British Isles and Brittany met in Covent Gardens (London) at the Apple Tree Tavern. There they organized the Mother Grove of a revived Druidic order, a group continuing...
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