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Anniversaries
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Anniversaries
Births: Marie-Jean Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet,
mathematician and philosopher, 1743; Sir Francis Charles Chichester,
yachtsman and aviator, 1901; Sir Frederick Ashton, choreographer,
1906. Deaths: Philip IV, King of Spain, 1665; Tobias George
Smollett, novelist, 1771; Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny, poet, 1863;
William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pionee...
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Obituary: Le Comte de Paris
The Independent - London
; THE FATHER of Henri, Comte de Paris, had never expected to become the Pretender to the throne of France. The Duc de Guise had been the great- grandson of Louis-Philippe, the last King of France, but he had been from a junior branch, and only after the deaths of his cousins, the Duc de Montpensier
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Early decommissioning for two more spruances
Sea Power
; Two more Spruance-class destroyers (DDs) have been retired from Navy service ahead of schedule, primarily because they are not equipped with the vertical-launch missile systems that are now standard equipment for most of the Navy's surface combatants and submarines. The USS Harry W. Hill was
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Navy sinks retired destroyers Comte de Grasse and Stump.
Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
; ... jack.dorsey@pilotonline.com Copyright (c) 2006, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write ...
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The Other Royals: 90 Years a King-in-Waiting
International Herald Tribune
; Suzy Menkes International Herald Tribune 07-03-1998 In his Sleeping Beauty castle high above the Loire River, the future Henri VI of France will celebrate on Sunday his 90th birthday. If fairy tales come true, the most persuasive pretender to the French throne might yet be crowned in a royal blue
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HOw to sink a destroyer.(Front)
The Virginian Pilot
; Byline: JACK DORSEY NORFOLK -- BY JACK DORSEY THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT NORFOLK - The Navy sank two of its retired Spruance-class destroyers in a day of surface and air warfare training about 275 miles off the North Carolina coast, sending the largest destroyers ever built to the dark ocean floor 12,000
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton.
The Economist (US)
; SECRET MUSES: THE LIFE OF FREDERICK ASHTON. By Julie Kavanagh. Faber; 675 pages; K25. Pantheon (in May); $35.50 A MAN can sometimes be defined more by the qualities he lacks than by those he possesses. Frederick Ashton, whose career, together with those of Margot Fonteyn and Ninette de Valois,
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1897: Fighting It Out
International Herald Tribune
; International Herald Tribune 01-07-1997 NEW YORK Mr. Ola-rovsky, the Russian Consul General here, announces that he will shoot on sight Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec, who in turn threatens to cane the Consul General for refusing to fight a duel on account of his having called the count ''a liar,
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Colourful celebration at Akaroa
The Press
; Descendants of Akaroa's first settlers re-enacted their 1840 arrival on Saturday to launch the annual FrenchFest celebrating the town's proud Gallic heritage. Placards with names were held high as landing boats approached the beach in Akaroa -- resembling the scene at an airport arrivals terminal.
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Of kings and countries. (Europe's remaining monarchies)
The Economist (US)
; UNEASY lies the head that wears a crown, true. Nine Europe countries (ten if you count Monaco), or one European country in three, have constitutional monarchs; another half-dozen would be royals from France to Romania are hoping against the odds to regain their crowns. Being a monarch-or trying to
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The great pretender
Musical Times
; Monsieur le Comte de Saint-Germain DAVID HUNTER seeks out the gifted yet enigmatic 18th-century musican and Handel Opponent' AMONG THE VARIOUS opponents of Handel set up by his biographers, the most enigmatic is the Comte de SaintGermain. Though his status as a musician has never been in doubt
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