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Bow Street runners
Bow Street runners were constables attached to the Bow Street Police Office. Professional thief-takers had been established there by the magistrate Sir John Fielding in the mid-18th cent., but were too few to cope with escalating crime. Seven police offices were established in London in 1792 on the... Read more |
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vigil
vigil [Lat.,=watch], in Christian calendars, eve of a feast, a day of penitential preparation. In ancient times worshipers gathered for vespers before a great feast and then waited outside the church until dawn for the liturgy (Mass). Traces of this practice survive in the East, but the Western... Read more |
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Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper Epithet of a brutal murderer in Whitechapel, London's east side. Over a period of some ten weeks during 1888 five prostitutes were murdered and mutilated, apparently by the same psychopath. The victims were Mary Anne Nicholls, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stridge, Catharine Eddowes, and... Read more |
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Regulators
REGULATORS REGULATORS were vigilantes. The term was used by the 5,000 to 6,000 Regulators in the Carolinas between 1767 and 1771, adopted from an earlier, short-lived London police auxiliary. Most American regulators sought to protect their communities from outlaws and tyrannical public... Read more |
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Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night Jan. 5, the vigil or eve of Epiphany , so called because it is the 12th night from Christmas, counting Christmas as the first. In England, Twelfth Night has been a great festival marking the end of the Christmas season, and popular masquerading parties are typical entertainment.... Read more |
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Diligence
DILIGENCE Vigilant activity; attentiveness; or care, of which there are infinite shades, from the slightest momentary thought to the most vigilant anxiety. Attentive and persistent in doing a thing; steadily applied; active; sedulous; laborious; unremitting; untiring. The attention and care... Read more |
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Sir John Kenneth Tavener
Sir John Kenneth Tavener , 1944-, English composer, b. London; studied Royal Academy of Music; widely considered Great Britain's most popular living classical composer. Since his early efforts in the 1960s his work has shown a consistent but evolving tonal or modal style and often a marked... Read more |
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Holy Week
Holy Week week before Easter . Its chief days are named Palm Sunday , Maundy Thursday , Good Friday , and Holy Saturday. In Christian life it is a week of devout observance, commemorating the Passion and Jesus' death on the cross. The liturgies have special features and services, e.g., ... Read more |
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griffin
griffin in ancient and medieval legend, creature with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion. Its name also appears as griffon and gryphon. The griffin originated in ancient Middle Eastern legend and is often found in Persian sculpture and the decorative arts. Although its... Read more |
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vigilantes
vigilantes , members of a vigilance committee. Such committees were formed in U.S. frontier communities to enforce law and order before a regularly constituted government could be established or have real authority. They were most common in mining communities, but were also known in cow towns and in... Read more |
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A time for vigilance.(COMMENT)
...terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow failed...citizens can walk the streets, engage in work and...peril and constant vigilance. Eternal vigilance is famously the price...Within hours of the London and Glasgow attacks... |
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Don't dig up roads - just get cars off them.
...rear of Downing Street is shielded with...people from Oxford Street and bundle them...Under the cloak of eternal vigilance, they do not...town and wreck London's Christmas...improving the streets in the City of London over the past... |
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Government promises to crack down on benefits system fraud
...were tracked by the London Organised Fraud Investigation...credit in the same street. The 20-strong...is employed by the London local authorities...which has started in London. Speaking to an...it is a case of eternal vigilance and getting cleverer... |
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THE SPECTATOR'S NOTES
...second-class return from London costs £117. He told...who lives in a north London street where there have recently...price of greenery is eternal vigilance. Last week, MPs voted...talk on the subject in London last week. Because James... |
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UK students have civil rights, too
...the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, it seems to me that extra vigilance may be needed, as this...grants demonstration in London, and those that have followed...who had invaded the Oxford Street premises of a company famous... |
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Archives: Cinema destroyed in firebomb attack; STEVEN MOORE delves into the...
...Publicity Officer in London, was awakened at...meetings next week in London the company would...of freedom must be eternal vigilance and, so long as...Section at Sunnyside Street camp, Belfast...national competition in London. The runner-up... |
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Do we talk about it now or wait for the worst to happen?
...our freedom may well be eternal vigilance, and the prime minister...effigies in one of its streets this last weekend. It...of explosions on the London tube engineered so that...That, truly, would be London's twin towers moment... |
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How a new Israel attache renounced his U.S. citizenship
...the rubble in the traffic-less streets of one of the greatest cities on...price of liberty is, indeed, eternal vigilance. I thought of that moment five...my home in a Jerusalem suburb to London's Canary Wharf each week to work... |
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The aroused giant must act now!
...of freedom are mourning. From London to Paris, from Tokyo to Taipei...liberty, are celebrating in the streets. The abominable terror that was...of Independence once said, is eternal vigilance. The life, liberty and happiness... |
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Points of view: Don't forget bomb at Canary Wharf.(Features)
...Canary Wharf financial centre in London in a chillingly similar attack...Palestinians who were seen dancing in the streets in joy at last week's cowardly...cunning, determined terrorists. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. United... |
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