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Thursday, April 07, 2011

The husband-to-be of the already-noble




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The official website of The British Monarchy


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The Duke of Edinburgh views an engineering display by students during a visit to the Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College, Leicestershire, 6 April 2011.










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The Seattle Times

Sunday, August 8, 1993

England -- Playing The Palace: Royal Open House Has Begun

By William Tuohy

Los Angeles Times

LONDON - Like many of her noble subjects, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is bowing this summer to the sometimes cruel realities of modern economics.

Over the years, most of the stately homes in Britain have admitted the paying public to help finance upkeep. The list includes parts of Windsor Castle and the Princess of Wales' ancestral estate, Althorp House.

But never - until now - has the world's most famous royal residence and headquarters of the British monarchy been opened for public tours.

For eight weeks (beginning yesterday), however, that all is changing as Buckingham Palace hosts an anticipated 450,000 visitors willing to pay an adult admission of $12 for a peek at 18 of the more than 600 rooms in the palace.

The queen's motive for inviting the public to view the sumptuous staterooms of Buckingham Palace is a variation on the one that has opened all those other stately homes: She hopes to help pay for restoration of Windsor Castle, which was badly damaged in a fire last November.

The mother of all queues

The decision is being widely applauded here as giving her subjects a chance to see their monarchical heritage up close. And the anticipated lineup for the 7,000 tickets to be sold daily is already being referred to as "the mother of all queues."

"It's going to be the No. 1 attraction," said Isabel Coy, an official with the British Tourist Authority. "It's our living heritage. The real Royal Family runs a business from there. It's only open for a limited time, so there's a sort of exclusive cachet."










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Pink Floyd

When The Tigers Broke Free


It was just before dawn
One miserable morning in black 'forty four.
When the forward commander
Was told to sit tight
When he asked that his men be withdrawn.
And the Generals gave thanks
As the other ranks held back
The enemy tanks for a while.
And the Anzio bridgehead
Was held for the price
Of a few hundred ordinary lives.

And old King George
Sent Mother a note
When he heard that father was gone.
It was, I recall,
In the form of a scroll,
With gold leaf and all.
And I found it one day
In a drawer of old photographs, hidden away.
And my eyes still grow damp to remember
His Majesty signed
With his own rubber stamp.

It was dark all around.
There was frost in the ground
When the tigers broke free.
And no one survived
From the Royal Fusiliers Company C.
They were all left behind,
Most of them dead,
The rest of them dying.
And that's how the High Command
Took my daddy from me.










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The New York Times

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RULERS UNHARMED; Inside a Shelter as the Residence Is Struck-- Admiralty Target DOWNING ST. ALSO HIT Nazis Use 'Glide Attacks' to Sow Fire Bombs in 7th Night of Raids

By RAYMOND DANIELL Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. ();

September 14, 1940,

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LONDON, Saturday, Sept. 14-- London rocked early today in an inferno of exploding bombs and fierce anti-aircraft fire as Nazi raiders pressed their seventh consecutive night attack after a day in which they had bombed Buckingham Palace in a renewal of intense daytime assaults.










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IMDb

The Internet Movie Database

Memorable quotes for

Jumanji (1995)


Judy Shepherd: Peter hasn't spoken a word since it happened.

Estate Agent: Oh. Oh, my. I'm so sorry. How terribly awful.

Judy Shepherd: It's OK. We barely even knew our parents. They were always away. Skiing, gambling in Monte Carlo, on safari in darkest Africa. We didn't even know if they loved us. But when the Sheik's yacht went down, they managed to write us a really beautiful goodbye note that was found floating in a champagne bottle amongst the debris.

[Starts crying]

Judy Shepherd: Excuse me.

[Judy leaves the room. Camera pans away to show that she is actually laughing at the lie she just told the Estate Agent]

Aunt Nora: [to the Estate Agent] They were very devoted parents. Car crash in Canada.










"Space: Above And Beyond"

"Never No More" Part 1 of 2 precedes "The Angriest Angel"

4 February 1996

Episode 14 DVD video:


US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel T.C. McQueen: SAR teams have found no remains of Chiggie von Richthofen. He eluded the kill. He's still out there.

US Marine Corps 1LT Shane Vansen: John?

US Marine Corps 1LT Paul Wang: Where are you going?

US Marine Corps 1LT Shane Vansen: To fight the inevitable.