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Thistle suffers from a thorn in its side Damian Reece reports on how the troubled hotelier is facing off a hostile takeover bid
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EVERY large hotel group is facing difficulties, with war and
economic slowdown hitting profits, but few are suffering on the scale
of Thistle Hotels, London's biggest hotelier.
Not only is it fighting the worst hotel market for a decade, it
also faces a hostile takeover bid from its biggest shareholder, a
move which has split its boardroom in two.
However, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal that the company's
management has taken the radical step of putting the entire business
up for sale. Led by Ian Burke, the chief executive, Thistle wants a
white knight bidder to fend off the hostile pounds ...
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THE "REAL" CHARLEMAGNE (ACCORDING TO EINHARD).
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...Aachen, Germany, there lived a biographer named Einhard. Charlemagne and Einhard were close friends, and the biographer wanted...their accomplishments or failures, but thanks to Einhard, the real Charlemagne was never forgotten. Charlemagne...
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Charlemagne in Italy.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...died in 814. The most startling case is Einhard (c.775-840), an influential lay...written between 829 and 836. Through it Einhard wanted to exalt the Charlemagne of great...appear that italian readers did not know Einhard's panegyric of Charlemagne and perhaps...
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Spiritual progress in Carolingian Saxony: A case from ninth-century Corvey
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...Writing sometime between 817 and 825/826, Einhard described Charlemagne's wars as thirty...Charlemagne's actions in Saxony. (10) Einhard's remark about religion as a bond uniting...against the background formed by the events Einhard described and by the Translatio sacti...
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Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History
; ...what they were writing about. This was obviously true for Einhard (discussed by David Ganz), but equally so for Nithard...complementary and overlapping identities" (238-239). Einhard is again an obvious example, and again far from unique: Nithard...
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Charlemagne's black stones: the re-use of Roman columns in early medieval Europe. (historical king)
Magazine article from: Antiquity
; ...before the 19th century, and Charlemagne's biographer, Einhard the Frank, specifically states that he was unable to obtain...Firchow & Zeydel (1972: 95), for a translation of Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni). Charlemagne's columns Charlemagne...
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THE SONG OF ROLAND.(Charlemagne's conquest of Spain led to the writing of the poem 'The Song of Roland')
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...Franks' rearguard and baggage train at Roncevaux. According to Charlemagne's biographer Einhard, a Count Roland was killed in the fight. Einhard says that Charlemagne could not avenge the assault because the attackers dispersed quickly under...
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Calliope's Past.(March/April issue of Calliope featured Defenders of France)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...Genealogy Chart www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Rulers/charlemagne.html 2. Biography by Einhard www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/einhard.html 3. Charlemagne's Life and Times (*pronunciation sound clips*) history.idbsu...
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Enklaven-Exklaven: Zur literaischen Darstellung von Offentlichkeit und Nichtoffenlichkeit im Mittelalter: Interpretationen, Motiv- und Terminologiestudien.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...Chapter i is devoted to six case-studies, ranging from Einhard's Vita Caroli Magni to the Knecht und Magd of Hans Folz...few examples: he establishes three kinds of public realm in Einhard's Vita (pp. 50 ff.). He conversely points to different...
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Roland redivivus.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; ...historical personage: we know that a certain Count Rotholandus was among the courtiers of Charlemagne in the year 772, and in Einhard's Vita Karoli the story of the death of "Hruolandus" is recounted for the first time. If nothing else, the ambuscade...
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Charlemagne's church at Aachen. (church and ritual in the Holy Roman Empire)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...of a myth-history which has dominated European imaginations for well over a thousand years. It all started, according to Einhard who was a member of the court during the Aachen years, because Charles loved swimming: there were thermal springs and old...
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