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centre of origin
centre of origin A geographical location or local region (often in the tropics) where a particular group of organisms is believed to have originated. Many authorities believe centres of origin are also centres of diversity. For example, there are 6 genera of Palmae (palms) in the lower part of the... Read more |
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sternum
sternum (breastbone) Flat, narrow bone extending from the base of the front of the neck to just below the diaphragm in the centre of the chest. The top attaches by ligaments to the collarbones and the centre part joins to the ribs by seven pairs of costal cartilages.... Read more |
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British Union of Fascists
British Union of Fascists. The BUF was founded in 1932 between Sir Oswald Mosley's New Party and various small British fascist groups. The BUF was partly funded by Mussolini and given valuable publicity in the papers of Lord Rothermere (Harmsworth). The fascist salute was adopted and Black House... Read more |
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NDU
NDU n. (in the UK) Nursing Development Unit: a centre for creative nursing managed directly by nurses, who are responsible for controlling the budget and appointing staff. The unit can be based in hospital or the community in either the public or the private sector. NDUs are committed to practising... Read more |
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The Actors Studio
Actors' Studio an acting workshop in New York City, founded in 1947 by Elia Kazan and others, and a leading centre of method acting.... Read more |
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stability
stability is the ability of a ship to return to an upright position after being heeled by an external force, such as a weight being placed aboard or by rough sea conditions. If a ship is inclined at an angle and then naturally returns to the upright, it is known as being stable. Should the ship... Read more |
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Rebel Art Centre
Rebel Art Centre (also called Cubist Centre). Organization founded by Wyndham Lewis in April 1914 at 38 Great Ormond Street, London, after he had quarrelled with Roger Fry and broken with the Omega Workshops. The Centre was intended to be a place in which artists and craftsmen could meet, work,... Read more |
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17-year-old charged over soldier's death
...charged with killing a soldier during a dispute in a town centre nightclub, police have said. Andrew Gibson, 19...been charged with manslaughter and will appear before Newton Aycliffe Youth Court on April 19, a Durham Police spokesman said... |
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Get pet pooches chipped for free
...offering sessions in Bishop Auckland and Newton Aycliffe on February 19. Andy Denholm, envirocrime...Cumberland Street, from 10am to 1pm and the Newton Aycliffe session will be held at the Youth Centre, in Burn Lane at the ... |
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Teen charged with murder.(News)
...difficulties whose body was found outside a town centre pub. The badly-beaten body of Stephen Humphries...evening. A 17 year-old appeared before Sedgefield Youth Court in Newton Aycliffe, Co Durham yesterday, where he faced a murder... |
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Boys held for student murder.(News)
...was killed. Yesterday the youths - who cannot be named for legal...remanded to a secure unit at the Aycliffe Children's Unit in Newton Aycliffe near Darlington, Co Durham...older boy was sent to a remand centre at Northallerton, North ... |
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What to do with child murderers? (case of murder of James Bulger)
...secretary. They could then be sent to one of two Youth Treatment Centres, in Birmingham or Essex, run by the department...authorities which have "secure units", such as Newton Aycliffe near Durham. When they are 17 they could be passed... |
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A foot in every camp, a finger in every pie From Downing Street to Pearson,...
...classically New Labour, talking a strong centre- left argument but remaining avowedly...Walker asked him to look into youth affairs, which resulted in a report...Stevenson, then 26, to head the Newton Aycliffe and Peterlee New Town Development... |
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Trophy Rapist suspect had given DNA sample.
...victim. The ten-year- old girl was grabbed near a youth centre in Ashford in November 2001 and raped in woodland nearby...sisters, Jadwiga, 38, and Yvonne, 42, both live in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, where he spent his early years... |
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A time to dance.
...Billingham International Youth Dancers. In the years...pub to Billingham Town Centre Arena this Saturday...is planned at the town centre area at 2pm, with the...Billingham Silver Band and the Newton and Aycliffe Pipes and Drums. Tickets... |