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Obituaries:Prince Souphanouvong
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Prince Souphanouvong was the first President of the People's
Democratic Republic of Laos, from its establishment in December
1975 until March 1991, when he left office. Souphanouvong had been
a prominent figure in the Laotian revolutionary movemen t fromthe
end of the Pacific war, when through an initial association with
the Vietnamese Communist leader, Ho Chi Minh, he sought to mobilise
opposition to the return of French colonial rule.
Souphanouvong was a most unlikely revolutionary. He was born in
Luang Prabang in 1909, the youngest of the 22 sons of Prince Boun
Khong, the uparat or regent ...
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Michael Heseltine admiring a bust of his 18th-century ancestor, Charles Dibdin
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; Michael Heseltine admiring a bust of his 18th-century ancestor, Charles Dibdin, a composer of naval ballads, at the Trinity College of Music's new site at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, south London David Rose
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`Relative Danger' by Charles Benoit; `Medusa' by Michael Dibdin.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...the glee felt at Poisoned Pen Press when editors there discovered the manuscript for "Relative Danger," a first novel by Charles Benoit, "a compulsive traveler" who has "worked in education and advertising." Poisoned Pen has a stable of some so...
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 "San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)")
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`Relative Danger' by Charles Benoit; `Medusa' by Michael Dibdin.
Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
; ...the glee felt at Poisoned Pen Press when editors there discovered the manuscript for "Relative Danger," a first novel by Charles Benoit, "a compulsive traveler" who has "worked in education and advertising." Poisoned Pen has a stable of some so...
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Talk with Mystery Writer Michael Dibdin, CBS
Transcript from: CBS News Sunday Morning
; ...FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. CHARLES OSGOOD, CBS ANCHOR: For many...set a crime novel? MICHAEL DIBDIN, MYSTERY WRITER: There...voice-over): He is Michael Dibdin, an English author who writes about an Italian detective. DIBDIN: There`s a sense of drama...
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Crime masters stalk Hub Tracked down in two hotels, mystery writers P.D. James and Michael Dibdin crack, divulging clues about their work
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...concierge in the lobby of the Charles Hotel, off Harvard Square...curiously as I said, "Michael Dibdin." He regarded me suspiciously...in his bare feet. "Michael Dibdin?" I asked, eyeing him carefully...across a small round table. Dibdin said, "I'm ready to tell...
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Dibdin, Kelly, and the spectacle of self.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; ...comes the father, "the celebrated and undervalued" Charles Dibdin. A composer of over 100 operettas and 1400 songs and an actor who did one-man shows, Charles Dibdin also worked as a theatre manager of such venues as...
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From film stars on stage to a rare performance of Handel, Evening News critic Thom Dibdin finds plenty to look forward to at this year's Edinburgh International Festival
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland
; ...return for a week-long residency after last year's triumphant Edinburgh debut. Alfred Brendel plays Beethoven and Sir Charles Mackerras conducts the opening concert. Innovations include Connecting Cultures, a series of eight concerts juxtaposing classical...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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DIARY.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...latest granddaughter. Hermione Grace Dibdin Heseltine was born on Christmas...So where exactly does the name Dibdin come from? Lord Heseltine, a former...notable Dibdins in the family - Charles Dibdin, who wrote sea shanties including...
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Book Festival : Zen and the art of Homer
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...underground. It is a measure of Dibdin's genius that he doesn...families. That's typical Dibdin. He doesn't just give a...national image as thoroughly as Dibdin does theirs. Only once, he...civilised way in the event with Charles Freeman and Andrew Wheatcroft...
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BOOK REVIEW
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...years at Marlborough College is to a descendant of the poet Charles Dibdin, requesting information about the work of Charles's even less well-known son Charles Isaac Mungo Dibdin, and ending with a query about Dibdin's junior novel Isn...
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