Allied Force, Operation
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Allied Force, Operation seventy-eight-day NATO air campaign in the
Kosovo region to protect the ethnic Albanian population from the Serbian/Yugoslav military and police forces of Slobodan Milosevic. Operation Allied Force, which began on March 24, 1999, and ended on June 20, 1999, involved nineteen NATO nations and over 38,000 air combat sorties. It was the largest combat operation in NATO history.
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Benedict Biscop's cup champs.
Newspaper article from: Sunderland Echo (Pennywell, England); 4/4/2007; 319 words
; BENEDICT Biscop CE Primary School are celebrating winning the Sunderland five-a-side Inter-Schools Cup. The Moorside school came out on...
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City marks saint's legacy.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 1/13/2007; 569 words
; ...anniversary of the city's adoption of Benedict Biscop as its Patron Saint. As the...culture in the 7th Century, Benedict Biscop occupies a unique position in...Bishop of Jarrow and children from Benedict Biscop Primary School in Sunderland...
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Chance to show backing for world heritage bid.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 1/10/2009; 630 words
; ...services to celebrate a saint. Benedict Biscop, Sunderland's patron saint...celebrate the Eve of the Feast of St Benedict Biscop. The Ven. Michael Sadgrove...service from 6pm. On Monday, Benedict Biscop day, Sunderland Minster will...
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Pupils first in city to say 'ni hao'.
Newspaper article from: Sunderland Echo (Pennywell, England); 12/8/2009; 537 words
; ...with an interpreter, pupils at Benedict Biscop CE Primary School had their first...across the globe is awesome."Benedict Biscop was one of nine city schools...headteacher in Harbin praised Benedict Biscop Primary School for its support...
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City considers monk as its patron saint.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 3/6/2004; 676 words
; ...patron saint of Sunderland. St Benedict Biscop would be celebrated on a special...took three years to complete. Benedict died in 689. He was buried near...school is named after the Saint - Benedict Biscop CofE (Aided) Primary in Marcross...
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Children add their support to heritage bid.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 2/13/2009; 518 words
; ...their support to the project. Benedict Biscop Primary School in the Moorside...Jarrow. The monastery, built by Benedict Biscop in the 7th Century, centres...The children are learning about Benedict Biscop and how he influenced so much...
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Culture Minister David Lammy unveils the UK's next three nominations for World Heritage status.
M2 Presswire; 10/10/2006; 700+ words
; ...was the creation of one man, Benedict Biscop, who travelled abroad extensively...seven, having been entrusted to Benedict Biscop c. 680. Culture Minister...Jarrow are a historic legacy of Benedict Biscop's vision in the seventh century...
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Burning Questions - Birthplace of a venerable institution
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 3/10/2003; ; 554 words
; ...travelled Northumbrian noble called Benedict Biscop established a monastery dedicated...Northumbria. Later in 681 AD, Biscop founded a second monastery at Jarrow...is of course all that remains of Biscop's ancient monastery. By 1835...
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Bishop's pilgrimage to back heritage bid.
Newspaper article from: Shields Gazette (South Shields, England); 1/12/2008; 689 words
; ...Venerable Bede. The walk took place on the eve of Benedict Biscop day today, the 7th century saint credited with establishing...Bishop Bryant added: "To make this walk on the eve of Benedict Biscop's day celebrates the visionary man who founded this...
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Top five collect [pounds sterling]1,000 prizes.
Newspaper article from: Sunderland Echo (Pennywell, England); 6/18/2008; 534 words
; ...the top five. The winner by a landslide margin was Benedict Biscop CE Primary School at Moorside with a massive [pounds...000 each. Natalie Fountain, deputy headteacher at Benedict Biscop, said everyone had worked really hard to collect...
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Benedict Biscop
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Benedict Biscop , c.628-690, English monk. He founded the monasteries of Wearmouth (at Sunderland) and Jarrow, and he was abbot of St. Peter's, Canterbury. Bede was his pupil.
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Benedict Biscop, St
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Benedict Biscop, St ( c. 628–689/90), monk . Of noble Northumbrian ancestry, he became a monk at Lérins in 666. In...
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Monkwearmouth
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...674 by a Northumbrian nobleman, Benedict Biscop . All that now remains above ground...of recent excavations, show that Biscop's work consciously evoked the...With the donation of Jarrow to Biscop in 682 Monkwearmouth became part...
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Bede, The Venerable
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Bede was entrusted to the care of Benedict Biscop, founding abbot of the monasteries...to the nineteenth centuries. Benedict Biscop, who founded his monastery two...law, and philosophy. Later, Benedict brought Jhon, the archchanter...
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Jarrow
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...on the south bank of the Tyne, was founded in 682 by Benedict Biscop and thereafter formed a single monastery with Monkwearmouth...enormous impact on medieval European learning. One of Biscop's churches still survives as the present chancel...
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