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Wessex
Wessex The kingdom of the West Saxons, established in Hampshire in the early 6th century and gradually extended by conquest to include much of southern England. Under Alfred the Great and his successors it formed the nucleus for the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England. The name was revived by Thomas Hardy to designate the southwestern counties of England (especially Dorset) in which his novels are set, and is used in the titles of certain present-day regional authorities.
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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The Wessex girl joke book..; How many Wessex Girls does it take to change a light-bulb? Three. One to put it in, one to do a press release, one to sort out the launch party for the switch-on.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 6/25/1999; ; 700+ words
; WHAT does a Wessex girl never leave home without? Her hyphen! Ever since Sophie Rhys-Jones became the Countess of Wessex, a string of upmarket Wessex girls jokes have started. Just as Princess Diana's marriage...
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Wessex Corp. reports earnings for the fiscal first quarter of 1987.
PR Newswire; 8/15/1986; 700+ words
; ...Tenn., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Wessex Corp. (NASDAQ: WSSX), a leading long...reporting period from 4,940,339 in 1985. Wessex Corp., with headquarters in Franklin...American Home Patient Centers Inc. and Wessex Care Corp. The company presently operates...
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Watervoice Wessex greets 'win-win' solution to low flows on Hampshire Avon.
M2 Presswire; 7/22/2002; 700+ words
; ...22 July 2002-UK Government: Watervoice Wessex greets 'win-win' solution to low flows...07222002 Local water watchdog WaterVoice Wessex has welcomed today's announcement by Wessex Water about alleviating low flows on the Hampshire...
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WESSEX WASTE MANAGEMENT ACQUIRES WASTE MANAGEMENT LIMITED FROM NFC PLC AND WESSEX WATER PLC ANNOUNCES FUND RAISING
PR Newswire; 1/26/1993; 700+ words
; LONDON, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Wessex Water Plc ("Wessex") today announced an important acquisition and major...Management Limited ("WML") from NFC plc is being made by Wessex Waste Management Ltd., the joint company owned by Wessex...
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Wessex Waste buys Waste Management Ltd.
Newspaper article from: Haznews; 3/1/1993; 700+ words
; Wessex Waste Management Ltd., the UK waste management joint venture between Wessex Water plc and Waste Management International plc...the UK freight and transport firm. The cost to Wessex Waste will amount to about GBP113 million ($168...
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Wessex Corporation reaches agreement with HCA and Diversicare. (Hospital Corporation of America, Diversicare Corporation of America)
PR Newswire; 7/15/1988; 700+ words
; WESSEX CORPORATION REACHES AGREEMENT WITH HCA AND...FRANKLIN, Tenn., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Wessex Corporation (NASD: WSSX) today announced...termination of HCA's involvement with Wessex Corporation other than as an equity holder...
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Hardy's Transatlantic Wessex: Constructing the Local in The Mayor of Casterbridge
Magazine article from: Novel; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...to bear on a less likely source: the Wessex novels of Thomas Hardy. Few novels may...slave trade than those set in Hardy's Wessex, a fictional place synonymous with local...As he put it in his preface to the 1895 Wessex edition of Far from the Madding Crowd...
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 "Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)")
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Telling the truth about Wessex ; Over the last few years, there has been much talk of Wessex in this newspaper. To most people, Wessex is the literary creation of Thomas Hardy, a rural idyll in central, southern and south-western England, or the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Alfred the Great.
Newspaper article from: Western Daily Press (Bristol UK); 7/16/2008; 700+ words
; ...last few years, there has been much talk of Wessex in this newspaper. To most people, Wessex is the literary creation of Thomas Hardy...These separate but intertwined versions of Wessex sum up the romantic and popularly held view...
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Wessex Corporation makes announcement. (private placement of stock)
PR Newswire; 6/10/1988; 700+ words
; WESSEX CORPORATION MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT FRANKLIN, Tenn., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Wessex Corporation (NASDAQ: WSSX) today announced...000 shares of newly issued common stock of Wessex Corporation for a purchase price of approximately...
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Azurix Corp. to Sell Wessex Water to YTL for US$777 Million Plus Assumption of Debt.
Business Wire; 3/25/2002; 700+ words
; ...of its wholly owned indirect subsidiary Wessex Water Ltd., to YTL Utilities (UK...million pounds (approximately US$991) in Wessex debt anticipated to be outstanding at...holder consents approving the sale of Wessex. Financial close is expected to occur...
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Wessex
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
Wessex ETHNONYMS: Berkshiremen, Dorsetmen, Hampshiremen...Identification and Location. The people of Wessex were originally (sixth century c.e...Demography. In 1991 the population of Wessex was about 3,190,000, half of which...
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Wessex, kingdom of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Wessex, kingdom of. The origins of the kingdom of Wessex are obscure. Archaeological evidence shows that the communities...a people of Jutish origin. Historic shape was given to Wessex in the reign of Ceawlin (560–91), who claimed...
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Godwine, earl of Wessex
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Godwine, earl of Wessex (d. 1053). Godwine rose to prominence in the reign of Cnut , as...enemies said choking while protesting his innocence of Alfred's murder. Wessex passed to his son Harold , who died at Hastings in 1066. Audrey MacDonald
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Alfred
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alfred 849-99, king of Wessex (871-99), sometimes called Alfred...When the Danes began their assault on Wessex in 870, Æthelred and Alfred...decisively, Alfred cleared the Danes from Wessex by a heavy payment of tribute (see...
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England, kingdom of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...Kent, Essex, Mercia, Northumbria, and Wessex struggled for supremacy, a kingdom of...the struggle was between Mercia and Wessex and the probability was that any English...pushed back the Welsh, and confined Wessex to south of the Thames. At one stage...
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