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Tolkien auction?(of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit )(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008 ... The 1937 first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is to be auctioned in London with an estimated value of 30,000 [pounds sterling]. The Bonhams sale in London on March 18th includes the first foreign language edition of the book, translated into ...

Auschwitz visit?(educational travel in Poland's concentration camp)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008 ... Every sixth form and college in England will have the opportunity to send two pupils on a visit to Auschwitz. Two-thirds of the fund of the daylong trips to the Nazi concentration camp in Poland will be paid for by the government while the schools would contribute 100 [pounds sterling] ....

Who killed King Charles?(investigation of King Charles XII's death)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008 ... Scientists in Sweden hope to exhume the body of King Charles XII to determine if he was killed by one of his own soldiers in 1718. Researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm applied in January to study the remains in the ...

Mao and Kissinger.(Mao Zedong and Henry Kissinger)

Apr 01, 2008 ... Mao Zedong offered to send ten million Chinese women to America in 1973, according to newly released transcripts of talks with Henry Kissinger. Papers detailing the discussions in Beijing have been made available by the US State Department. US National Security Adviser Kissinger and the ...

Editor's letter.(racial issues and minorities)(Editorial)

Apr 01, 2008; Furtado, Peter ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] How should a society acknowledge the history of minority communities within its borders, particularly minorities that have suffered at the hands of the majority? The issue has been in the news recently, as the new Australian prime minister has made a high ...

Great Escape veteran.(Bertram James )(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008 ... The funeral has taken place of Sqn Ldr Bertram 'Jimmy' James, a survivor from the 'Great Escape' of Allied prisoners-of-war from Stalag Luft III in the Second World War. James died on January 18th, aged 92. He was among 76 PoWs who tunnelled out of the camp in Silesia on March 24th, 1944, ...

Do you know a heritage hero?(nominations for volunteers)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008 ... Volunteers in the UK heritage sector will be rewarded by the Nationwide Building Society and Heritage Lottery Fund, who are seeking nominations from the public for people or groups who have given their time voluntarily to conservation projects across Britain. Nominations for the Nationwide ...

Gandhi's ashes.(Mahatma Gandhi's sixtieth death anniversary )(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008 ... Mahatma Gandhi's ashes have been scattered at sea on the sixtieth anniversary of his death. His great-granddaughter, Nilamben Parikh, was at the ceremony off the coast of Mumbai with ten other relatives of the Indian ...

Lego anniversary.(LEGO A/S)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008 ... Danish toy manufacturer Lego celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in January by featuring in the Google logo. The brick design was patented on January 28th, 1958. The concept was started in the 1930s by carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen who began ...

Apology for the stolen generation.(Kevin Rudd's speech on the Aboriginal population )(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Australian Prime Minister apologized for the 'past mistreatment' of the Aboriginal population throughout the country's history. Recently elected Kevin Rudd made the speech in debates on the first Act of Parliament, passed unanimously by MPs on ...

CND: the story of a peace movement: Sue Donnelly introduces the archives of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 50 years old this spring, and a project make them accessible to a wider audience.

Apr 01, 2008; Donnelly, Sue ... We shall seek to persuade British People that Britain must: a) Renounce unconditionally the use or production of nuclear weapons and refuse to allow their use by others in her defence. b) Use her utmost endeavour to bring about negotiations at all levels for agreement ...

A Century of Olympic posters.(exhibition of Olympic posters)(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008 ... May 17th--September 7th, 2008 V&A Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9PA. Telephone: 020 8983 5200 www.museumofchildhood.org.uk Historic posters showing how past Olympics have been represented feature in ...

Round & about: April 2008.(art exhibitions)(Calendar)

Apr 01, 2008 ... Life and Death of a Kingdom: East Anglia 500 to 869 AD Until November 2nd Tranmer House, Sutton Hoo Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DJ Telephone: 01394 389700 The National Trust has joined forces with the British Museum and the Norwich ...

Quebec at four hundred: Patricia Cleveland-Peck visits the capital of French Canada which is celebrating its 400th birthday this year.

Apr 01, 2008; Cleveland-Peck, Patricia ... Quebec City is 400 years old in 2008 and is holding a birthday party which cannot fail to interest the history-lover. Hundreds of events are scheduled: tours, plays, concerts and exhibitions--including 'Passagers/ Passengers' which traces some of the five million people, Amerindian, ...

The Death of the Dream.(MONTHS PAST)(Martin Luther King)

Apr 01, 2008; Cavendish, Richard ... April 4th, 1968 In a country with a history of great oratory Martin Luther King stands high. His spellbinding 'I Have a Dream' speech to a huge crowd in Washington DC in 1963 was admired all over the world. He had first come to public attention as an inspiring leader during the ...

Liverpool through the lens: Charlotte Crow tells how a remarkable photographer will be celebrated in two exhibitions organized by the National Trust during Liverpool's European Capital of Culture year.(Edward Fitzmaurice Chambre Hardman)

Apr 01, 2008; Crow, Charlotte ... In 1979 an elderly man living on his own came to the attention of Liverpool social services after suffering a fall. Since his wife had died nine years earlier he had become a practical recluse and was now finding it increasingly difficult to move about his Georgian townhouse close to ...

Sir Howard Colvin: Geoffrey Tyack remembers the renowned architectural historian who died on December 27th, 2007.(In memoriam)

Apr 01, 2008; Tyack, Geoffrey ... Sir Howard Colvin was the last survivor of a triumvirate who dominated English architectural history during the second half of the twentieth century. Together with Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and Sir John Summerson, he rescued the subject from amateurs and dilettantes, gave it academic ...

London's Olympics, 1908: Stephen Halliday recalls the first occasion on which the Olympic movement visited Britain.

Apr 01, 2008; Halliday, Stephen ... The London Olympics of 1908 should have been the Rome Olympics. The decision to award the fourth Olympics to Rome was taken in the belief that its fame and accessibility would encourage competitors to attend from all over the world, attendance at the St Louis Olympics of 1904 having been ...

The Polytechnic Harriers and the Olympics.(Brief article)

Apr 01, 2008 ... In 1908, when the Olympic Games came to the White City Stadium, the opening and closing ceremonies and the Marathon race were all organized by the Regent Street Polytechnic. This institution had been created by the vision of Quintin Hogg (1845-1903), a man who believed in the education of ...

Queen of Scots, Dauphine of France.(MONTHS PAST)(Brief biography)

Apr 01, 2008; Cavendish, Richard ... April 24th, 1558 Mary became Queen of Scots when she was less than a week old, on the death of her father, James in December 1542. Crowned at nine months, she was in the charge first of the Earl of Arran and then of her redoubtable mother, Mary of Guise, who was from one of the ...