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1 English Grandmaster Nigel Short will challenge Garry Kasparov from Russia for the World Chess Championship in the autumn .
2 For Walt Disney 's child-star Bobby Driscoll from Song of the South , there was to be no long-term future .
3 In the north , Charlemagne 's empire covered Slovenia — the land of the Slovenes — the mid-Sava valley and the northern Adriatic coast from Istria to the neighbourhood of Šibenik .
4 For a time it probably controlled the Adriatic coast from Rijeka to the Neretva and extended inland to the Hungarian border north of Zagreb and to the Drina valley in the south , where it faced the Byzantine empire and the Serbian principality of Raška .
5 In A.D. 409 it was established at Ravenna and this area of the Adriatic coast from Ancona to the Istrian peninsula — designated the Ravennate — became the connecting link between Constantinople and the western half of its empire .
6 Samo 's empire , about which little is known , held sway over the Sava valley from Zagreb to the Julian Alps , and northward from Ljubljana across Austria , Bohemia and Moravia into Saxony .
7 They are all criminals , of course , who ride in the Stolypin carriages from Pot'ma on the way to Barashevo .
8 One expects military sculpture to be massive and crude , and this is very true of a Hercules scene from Corbridge from the Chapel of the Standards in the western principia ( Site xiv ) .
9 And there was a passenger ferry across Loch Duich from Totaig on the opposite shore , saving fourteen miles of road travel ; this too has been abandoned .
10 Just before five o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday , January 8th 1935 , in the gathering darkness , a Mrs. Ivy Thomas , wife of a farm worker from Dulverton , Somerset , and her four year-old son Robert John alighted from a train arriving at Dulverton Station from Tiverton on the Great Western Railway 's Exe Valley line .
11 Frank played left midfielder/winger in a 4–5-1 formation ( with Jostein Flo from Sheff.Utd. at the right flank and debutant Geir Frigard from Kongsvinger , Norway , as the striker ) and did well , even though ‘ Drillo ’ Olsen would have wanted more movement off the ball from him .
12 The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases , with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle , flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy .
13 ‘ We must consider not only the quality of the products we buy , but the quantity , ’ thunders Jonathon Porritt from Friends of the Earth in Britain .
14 Assignments such as this — and the recruitment of Colin Marshall from Avis to the newly-privatised British Airways for Lord King by Miles Broadbent — made an important contribution to Russell Reynolds ' global earnings , and especially to the growing personal wealth of Reynolds himself , still holding a 60% stake in the equity .
15 Seventeen year old Stephen Dent from Lydbrook in the Forest of Dean was treated in Moscow earlier this year .
16 They perform in tonight 's ‘ Music at Ten ’ a celebration of the musical history of Berlin , once again to become a capital city , with music by Kurt Weill from Berlin of the 20s and 30s , a celebration of Marlene Dietrich in Berlin ( see also the RSC 's production of ‘ The Blue Angel ’ and QFT 's screening of the movie ) , and a selection of cabaret songs depicting ‘ Berlin in exile ’ .
17 And to discover the rest of it , why not take a Sealink ferry from Harwich to the Hook of Holland ?
18 It is true that the Romans had constructed two or three artificial waterways in this country large enough to be regarded as canals : Car Dike that winds from Peterborough up to Lincoln , the Foss Dike joining the Witham and the Trent , and perhaps the Itchen Dike from Winchester to the Itchen .
19 Over 300,000 others were believed to have crossed into Saudi Arabia from Kuwait by the end of the year .
20 Julia Langer from Friends of the Earth ( FOE ) also believes environmental groups must use the market to educate the public , but fears that such groups could easily find their message compromised .
21 Representing Ireland are Lisburn horsewoman Margaret Tolerton with her chestnut gelding Ballymullan ; Joanne Jarden from Dundrod with the bay mare Bellecanna , owned by Michael Gordon ; Coleraine rider Philip White with his black gelding Bowes Lion and Ulster Television researcher Felicity Pierce with her grey horse Cloud Nine .
22 A combative mood at the congress had been set at the very opening of proceedings when the first speaker in the debate on the agenda , Vladimir Bludov from Magadan in the Far East , had called for the entire politburo to resign .
23 One US DOT official , Matt Scocozza , had even suggested that Virgin ‘ might wish to mention to British aviation officials the benefits to UK carriers from flexibility in the next round of bilateral negotiations , scheduled to begin in August ’ — in other words , lean on the British government on the American government 's behalf .
24 Nickle moved to St Helens from Sheffield in the close season and , despite injuries , has managed to establish himself in the side .
25 The pointlessness of my existence — stealing money and food from my poor parents , wood from the railway cutting , begging my coup de vin from Suzanne at the Café du Coin — all that was clearly not worthy of me .
26 Mourners at the funeral of a young soldier murdered in Northern Ireland were joined by his fiancée Debbie Turley from Lidney in the Forest of Dean .
27 Ted was signed for the Palace by Manager Jack Tresadern from Preston in the summer of 1934 and had a magnificent first season , only prevented from making full appearances by an injury sustained in our Christmas Day fixture at Torquay .
28 They had no money to buy tickets on their own , ’ said Igor Drizhon , one of 44 passengers who arrived in St Petersburg from Stockholm after the hijacking. — Reuter and AP
29 Don and Steven made the most accurate estimates of how long it would take Courtaulds InterSpray , the Group 's entry in the race , to reach Rio de Janeiro from Southampton on the first leg .
30 Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park .
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