River Thames

"I truly loved it then," she writes, "the proud battered style of it, the blackened and ruined monuments, the posh-and-cockney mixture, the Union Jack flying gamely through the smog upon the Palace of Westminster, the grimy tugs churning up the Thames - liquid 'istory."

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The ceilings were 20-foot-thick concrete where they had the guns on during the war to stop the German bombers coming up the Thames," he recalled.

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"Make no mistake. We're still in a beta market. It's about owning the market or not owning the market in our subspace," said Roos, who manages Thames River's Longstone Fund.

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"Blaine has created one of the most eloquent and telling visual images of our time." The Times reported that "1,614 articles in the British press have made reference to the exploit." U.S. President George W. Bush referred to Blaine's stunt in a speech at the Whitehall Palace in London, saying "The last noted American to visit London stayed in a glass box dangling over the Thames. A few might have been happy to provide similar arrangements for me. "

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Leo McKern is superb as the wild and witty barrister Rumpole" - The Times; "I wouldn't say the BBC threw away a pearl richer than all its tribe but it has mislaid a tasty box of kippers" - Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian) and Thames quickly commissioned a second season.

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"That cat is like me: all he wants to do is sleep and eat" - while singer Tulisa looks back on the previous night's location filming. "Standing in eight-inch heels on a wooden pier in the middle of the Thames at four o'clock in the morning with no jacket," she recalls, poignantly. "It's not fun."

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"I am so proud to be supporting Kids On Feet. The Thames community has been just amazing with such incredible numbers supporting the project," said Mayor Philippa Barriball. "This is a great way for our community to come together in achieving so many goals with one simple activity - getting fitness and health benefits, reducing traffic congestion as well as lower carbon emissions and of course, having a bit more time to catch up with friends and meet new ones."

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"This is a great way for our community to come together in achieving so many goals with one simple activity - getting fitness and health benefits, reducing traffic congestion as well as lower carbon emissions and of course, having a bit more time to catch up with friends and meet new ones." Thames-Coromandel District Council Road Safety Coordinator Ingrid Lefevre says "Wednesday is a special walking day for Parawai School , with one class recently reaching 100 per cent participation."

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"We've listed a number of assets that we are determined over the next period of time to put into the marketplace. That includes of course the student loan book, the Dartford Tunnel (under the Thames), plus the Channel rail link, it includes Urenco subject to security issues being addressed," Brown said. "It includes the Tote. It includes other facilities and the property portfolio that will be announced over the next period of time."

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The foundation, too, is in a bog close to the Thames, and the principal object in its view is the dirty town of Brentford, on the opposite side of the river; a selection, it would seem, of "family taste, for George II. is known to have often said, when riding through Brentford, "I do like this place, it's so like Yarmany." Sir Richard Phillips (1767-1840), in "A Morning's Walk from London to Kew," (1817) characterized the new palace as "the Bastile palace, from its resemblance to that building, so obnoxious to freedom and freemen. On a former occasion," says he, "I have viewed its interior, and I am at a loss to conceive the motive for preferring an external form, which rendered it impracticable to construct within it more than a series of large closets, boudoirs, and rooms like oratories."

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