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LUCIANO PAVAROTTI WITH LEONE MAGIERA, PIANO LUCIANO PAVAROTTI: LIVE RECITAL SONGS AND ARIAS BY BONONCINI, BEETHOVEN, SCARLATTI, BELLINI, PUCCINI, TOSTI, DONIZETTI, CILEA AND VERDI DECCA
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While we are waiting for the video of Luciano Pavarotti's concert
celebrating the 40th anniversary of his debut (which reportedly
contains some spectacularly temperamental backstage antics by Angela
Gheorghiou), the tenor's career-long record label, Decca, provides a
disc of live recordings culled from several Pavarotti recitals in
Europe between 1997 and 1999. The program of old Italian songs,
operatic arias, and sentimental favorites is virtually identical to
the one he sang in Symphony Hall last season in what will probably
stand as his Boston farewell appearance. Annotator John Steane's ...
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France 1709: le crunch: already rocked by defeats in the War of the Spanish Succession, Louis XIV's France faced economic meltdown as the chaotic nature of its finances became apparent. Guy Rowlands discovers striking parallels with the current credit crunch as he charts the crisis that was to lead, ultimately, to the French Revolution.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...for Louis XIV, during the long War of the Spanish Succession, which had begun in 1701 and was...colleague the secretary of state for war, funds were distributed on a massive...organised 'Extraordinaries of War' treasury. But these men too...
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The Huguenots, the Protestant Interest, and the War of Spanish Succession: 1702-1714.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies
; ...the religious dimension of the War of the Spanish Succession. It is instructive to see a consideration...did not prefigure the Peninsular War, and Boles suggests that the fruitless...received little support in the war and were 'largely neglected in...
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The Treaties of the War of the Spanish Succession: An Historical and Critical Dictionary.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; ...Scotland," "The English Succession," "Acts of Renunciation...resulted in a claim on the Spanish Netherlands for their son...specialist in the history of the Spanish, French, or English colonies...principal object of the present war is the trade of the Indies...
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Vauban under siege; engineering efficiency and martial vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...engineering efficiency and martial vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession. Ostwald, Jamel. BRILL 2006 390 pages $159.00...to play a role in the French military through World War II. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland...
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The treasure of the San Jose; death at sea in the War of the Spanish Succession.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...The treasure of the San Jose; death at sea in the War of the Spanish Succession. Phillips, Carla Rahn. Johns Hopkins U. Press...pages $35.00 Hardcover D282 In a third book on Spanish maritime trade and warfare, Phillips (comparative...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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War of the Spanish succession. (Felipe Gonzalez's government nears its end)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...win new recruits to their anti- Madrid cause. Not least, Mr Gonzalez's Socialist government has changed the nature of Spanish socialism. Most of the people around him now call themselves Social Democrats rather than Socialists, and say they belong...
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Here's to the War of the Spanish Succession
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; MICHAEL PORTILLO pushes it. Where an ordinary politician, having made two "philosophical" speeches about Toryism that were badly received by party managers, would have shut up, Mr Portillo makes a third. Where most Euro-sceptics, after the recent controversy about Britain's European future, would
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Spanish Civil War veterans pay tribute to "Spain's missing"
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...the instant her cellmate at a Spanish Civil War prison camp was taken away at...themselves with little red and yellow Spanish fans. On the stage, musicians...shrouded in silence for decades by a succession of Spanish governments that have said it...
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After centuries as steadfast symbol of British empire, Gibraltar tipping into Spanish hands
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...of many of its residents. The Spanish and British governments have revived...That would fulfill a long-held Spanish dream and rid Britain of an issue...relations with Spain since the War of Spanish Succession in the early 1700s. It would...
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Diplomatic Talks Threaten to Rock Boat in Gibraltar; Colony Resists Return to Spanish Rule
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...invincibility -- is tipping back into Spanish hands, to the alarm of many of...That would fulfill a long-held Spanish dream and rid Britain of an issue...relations with Spain since the War of Spanish Succession in the early 1700s. It would...
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