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Coventry

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Coventry , city (1991 pop. 318,718) and metropolitan district, central England. Coventry is an industrial center noted for its automobile production. Tractors, airplanes, machine tools, synthetic textiles, electrical equipment, and engineering products are also made. Telecommunications are important. Lady Godiva and her husband founded a Benedictine abbey there in 1043. By the 14th cent., Coventry, a flourishing market and textile-weaving town, was one of the five largest towns in England. The entire central portion of the city, including the 14th-century Cathedral of St. Michael, was destroyed... Read more

Coventry, diocese of
Coventry, diocese of. The modern see, created in 1918, is roughly...Lichfield , then on Chester , and eventually, after 1102, on Coventry abbey, though the administrative centre remained at Lichfield. Bishops were known as ‘bishops of Coventry’ until 1228, after which the title ... Read more

Coventry
Coventry, industrial city in the British midlands attacked on the...against a number of their cities. These included Birmingham, Coventry, and Wolverhampton, but the information was not correlated...day of the raid the beams were found to intersect over Coventry, but electronic counter-measures (see ... Read more

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	Sarah Coventry's big comeback. (jewelry and dress accessories) (Accessories supplement) ; SARAH COVENTRY'S BIG COMEBACK In the early Seventies, Sarah Coventry was a household word. It employed almost 45,000 housewives...women ventured out of the home to find jobs, and Sarah Coventry's modus operandi became impractical. In 1981, when... Read more
	Toughs of Coundon Road ride their luck; Coventry 26 Orrell 14.(Rugby Union) ; Coventry survived the torrents of wind, rain and some bizarre refereeing...topping Bristol came unstuck in the mud at Rotherham, Coventry remained in third place, just two points behind their...three a crucial point in the game one might say. Then Coventry were granted a free maximum points score when ... Read more
	Historic powerhouse; COVENTRY A CITY TO BE PROUD OF.(Features) ; COVENTRY is like no other city. It was a medieval walled city, it became the birthplace...fleeces of Midlands sheep, had paved the streets. For much of the medieval period Coventry was the centre of the cloth industry. By the end of the 14th century Coventry was the fourth most powerful city in England. It ... Read more
	CYCLE SPEEDWAY: Drama as Coventry take last heat victory.(Sport) ; Coventry 89 Sandwell 87 COVENTRY'S Joe McLaughlin was knocked unconscious as Coventry edged to a dramatic last heat British League victory over Sandwell at Hearsall Common . McLaughlin crashed spectacularly in heat 11 as the two sides fought out... Read more
	Meet up and share your memories of Coventry University; REUNION: Former students of the uni, Lanch and poly are invited back for the first alumni weekend event to remember their past, tour the ever-expanding campus and take part in exclusive events.(News) ; COVENTRY University is staging its first ever alumni reunion weekend...lunches' and special guided campus tours. Pauline Greene, Coventry University's Alumni Relations Officer, said: There has...strength to strength. They can come back and discover how Coventry University has evolved into a vibrant and ... Read more
	Bellamy sends hope to Coventry ; Coventry City 1 Bellamy (40) Leicester City 0 Referee: S Dunn...last played outwith the top tier of English football, Coventry are again reluctant to man the lifeboats. This welcome...they don't stick away enough of the chances they make - Coventry contributed more than enough in this match to suggest... Read more
	CYCLE SPEEDWAY: Thrills galore - but spills cost Coventry win.(Sport) ; Coventry 86 - Leicester 91 COVENTRY DEVLINS NEWSAGENTS slipped to an agonisingly narrow last heat premier...seen at Hearsall Common since the sport's return two years ago, Coventry's home grown team put up a fantastic fight against their all star... Read more
	WHELAN SAVIOUR; LEICESTER... 1 COVENTRY... 1.(Sports) ; Coventry City made it 13 games without defeat when they snatched...veteran goalkeeper Steve Orgizovic performed wonders in the Coventry goal to keep Gordon Strachan's men level by half time...Heskey. Subs: Aphexad, Parker, Ullathorne, Wilson, Fenton. COVENTRY CITY: Ogrizovic; Nilsson, Shaw, Breen, Burrows, ... Read more
	Rugby Union: Coventry comeback outflanked Rotherham 20 Coventry 13 ; COVENTRY AND Rotherham might well have their foundations in comparable...manufacturing towns, but the similarity ends there. While Coventry had spent the first century of their rugby existence lauding...Rotherham are the product of an altogether different age. As Coventry began their downhill spiral which ... Read more
	Coventry Buys Benefits Firm; Move Puts Health Company Into 50 States ; Coventry Health Care, the Bethesda-based managed care company...company is the latest in a series of acquisitions that Coventry has made in recent years in an effort to become more competitive...negotiating costs and also have better access to capital. Coventry's stock dropped 11 percent, or $5.76, to close ... Read more

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	Has competition vanished? Coventry makes big gains in the workers' comp marketplace, but there's still plenty of room for alternative models.(WORKERS' COMP)(Company overview)
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