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Meet my Tony Blair: you might recognise him
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As you all should know, save those readers too frail or afflicted
to read the small print at the bottom of my column, my sensational
stage play, The New Statesman - Alan B'Stard's Extremely Secret
Weapon, opens this Wednesday at the Trafalgar Studios, Whitehall, a
broken promise's throw from Downing Street (incidentally, I wish to
distance myself in the strongest possible terms from the management
of this newspaper who have the temerity to offer tickets to my show
at a reduced price! I'm not made of money).
I must say that my foray into the world of live theatre has opened
my eyes! What a ...
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The War of the Austrian Succession.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...engaged in a little colonial war with Spain to open up trade...opportunity of the death of the Austrian emperor to seize Silesia from...Theresa. That started a general war, as Frederick wished, for...of two females, who kept the war going. Maria Theresa obstinately...
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Austrian panel, not U.S. courts, will decide who owns looted art.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
; ...Altmann could sue the Austrian government in U.S...Switzerland during the war, thereafter writing...maintains that under Austrian laws of succession, the paintings belong...argues that after the war the Bloch-Bauer family...
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Austrian panel to resolve Klimt art dispute.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
; ...Altmann could sue the Austrian government in U.S...Altmann maintains that under Austrian laws of succession, the paintings belong not to the Austrian government--which received...argues that after the war the Bloch-Bauer family...
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The end of the old world. (seventieth anniversary of the beginning of World War I)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...War of the Austrian Succession. As for economic motives...brought the Napoleonic wars to an end, left France...had rejected earlier Austrian peace feelers, prophesied...treaties would lead to "wars of barbaric savagery...Geopolitically, the Second War of the Austrian ...
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War has a relentless and indelible pattern.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...scourge is preferable to it." _Martin Luther. War of the Roses. The Battle of Jericho. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The War of Austrian Succession. The Punic Wars. "It (war) is all hell ... I look upon war with horror...
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Rearranging sides one war after another.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...invasion of 1688 through the Wars of Grand Alliance against...Jacobite revolts, the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War to the American War of Independence, the destiny...treaties, subsidies, wars and the balance of power...
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Giving the war its name
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...Six Day War, we have wars defined by location...Vietnam, the Gulf War. By what they were about - the wars of Spanish, Polish and Austrian Succession. By the names of the...the Franco-Dutch War, the Mexican-American...
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War and the Rise of the State.
Magazine article from: The National Interest
; ...serious study of war and its influence...The history of wars and warfare as it...final exam. One war and battle follows...struggle," "the Austrian Succession," "the Schleswig...book is also about war in human history...demonstrate that wars are "more than mere...
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War's funny in new `Mr. Roberts'.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
; ...No one has produced a comedy about the war in Iraq. Whether that dubious prospect...becomes reality remains to be seen. World War II is another matter. It is as over as the War of the Austrian Succession, yet it has never really ended. Every...
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"A Few Acres of Snow": The Saga of the French and Indian Wars.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...the French and Indian Wars. By Robert Leckie...synthesis of the four major wars between France and Britain...American history: the War of the Grand Alliance...the War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714 (Queen Anne's War); the War of the Austrian Succession, ...
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