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Storm splits Cape Horn club New wave Britons rebel against `die- hard' sailors
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THE MOST intrepid branch of the international sailing community
is split. British yachtsmen in modern boats who have rounded Cape
Horn have formed a breakaway movement to celebrate their
achievement - to the fury of traditional "square riggers".
Some 200 British sailors have been consistently refused entry to
the elite International Association of Cape Horners because they
voyaged on modern vessels.
The band of "new Horners" had been paying annual membership to
the British section of the IACH, which backed their right to be
members. But the international committee has repeatedly refused to ...
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UKRAINE-CRIMEAN-WAR-DELEGATION.
Newspaper article from: Ukraine News
; UKRAINE-CRIMEAN-WAR-DELEGATION British Prince to attend ceremonies marking 150th anniversary of Crimean war Simferopol, July 22 (Interfax...to mark the 150th anniversary of the Crimean War on September 9-10 in Sevastopol...
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The Times, the Crimean War, and "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse." (influences of the London Times on poet Matthew Arnold)
Magazine article from: Papers on Language & Literature
; ...that period about the Crimean War (1854-1856), an analysis...pronouncements on the Crimean seems to be a way in which...more than a week later war was declared on Russia...s entrance into the Crimean conflict, exclaiming...
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British Military Intelligence in the Crimean War 1854-1856
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal
; ...BRITISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE IN THE CRIMEAN WAR 1854-1856 by Stephen M Harris...that British intelligence in the Crimean War was non-existent at the beginning...contributes to the changing views of Crimean generalship. For students of intelligence...
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The 150th anniversary of the Crimean War
Newspaper article from: Ukrainian Weekly, The
; ...around Sevastopol probably since the Crimean War ended. While three Turkish cruisers...city, located at the tip of the Crimean peninsula in southern Ukraine. They...years since the beginning of the Crimean conflict, in which all the great...
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THE CRIMEAN WAR: A CLASH OF EMPIRES/HELL RIDERS
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; An old-fashioned or modern war? THE CRIMEAN WAR: A CLASH OF EMPIRES by Ian...the most famous 'exploit' of the Crimean war. Those who know little or nothing...and had a miserable time in the Crimean winter, as it sat outside Sevastopol...
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Milo Pullman; The Crimean War
Newspaper article from: Pittsburgh City Paper
; ...Chickens, geese and roosters; the Crimean war; lords and knights; six-minute...his bedroom studio to create The Crimean War, including guitarist D.C...goods? When I first listened to The Crimean War, I thought it was in part a...
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Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856. (Reviews: modern Europe).
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; ...most spectacular calamity in a war that, in British history at...minutely recorded by the watching war correspondents. Disaster marched...worse than in the Napoleonic wars but now the full glare of publicity...last, as well as the first, war in which the press was uncensored...have been many ...
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Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856
Magazine article from: RUSI Journal
; ...in any analysis of the Crimean War. An attempt to set the...First World and Cold Wars and to the `New World...link these events to the Crimean War are otiose and largely...his narrative of the Crimean War itself - a conflict...
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A revisionist to the left of them . . . This reputation-pricking study of the Crimean War by the whistleblower-turned-historian Clive Ponting does not win over Saul David
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; The Crimean War: The Truth Behind the Myth...conflict known to us as the Crimean War. The name, as Clive Ponting...keenly awaited history of the war. Saul David is the author...his history of the Zulu wars will be published by Penguin...
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The Origins of the Crimean War.
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...examination of the causes of the Crimean War, an appalling conflict that cost...in Austria, Great Britain and the Crimean War (1972), placed rather substantial...leaders, while Norman Rich in Why the Crimean War? (1985), viewed Napoleon...
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