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Friday | Surrey Advertiser Online

Museum snaps up paintings of infamous Hindhead murder

HISTORIC paintings inspired by one of Surreya s most infamous murders have just been saved by Haslemere Museum thanks to a tip off from the Surrey Advertiser .

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune

COLUMN: State budget good solution, not perfect

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." So, famously, starts Charles Dickens' novel "A Tale of Two Cities," a depiction of the brutality of life immediately before and after the French Revolution.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

The Oregonian

Disney's 'Christmas Carol' train comes to Portland's Union Station

Disney's "A Christmas Carol" national train tour will be in Portland on Wednesday, July 1. Visitors can get a free behind-the-scenes look at the new motion picture "Disney's A Christmas Carol," based on the Charles Dickens novel and starring Jim Carrey and directed by Robert Zemeckis .

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Connect Savannah

'Survival of the fittest' downtown

After 18 months of economic recession, Savannah's local economy is reminiscent of Charles Dickens' famous opening lines from A Tale of Two Cities: 'It was the best of times.

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

MSNBC

The Pleasures of Rereading

Like old friends and favorite haunts, some books reward revisiting. A A Above the table on which I'm now writing hangs an old framed print showing Mr.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

Ledger Dispatch

"Christmas Carol" train rolls into Oakland

Lois Boggs went through the face-morphing train car of Disney's "A Christmas Carol" Train Tour, where she altered her face into the character of a young woman.

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LongmontFYI

Theater may get a makeover

Todd Skaw, owner of Guitars, Etc., remembers being a kid in Longmont and watching a performance of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' at the Trojan Theater.

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Wed Jun 24, 2009

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Disney train schedules Sacramento stop on 40-city tour

Daily posts from Bee writers on movies, theater, media, fashion, music and pop culture.

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Mon Jun 22, 2009

Ledger Dispatch

Free 'Christmas Carol' train rolls into Oakland

Hear that whistle blow? Christmas is coming to town early this year, folks. High tech meets the 19th century when Disney's "A Christmas Carol" Train Tour pulls into Oakland's Middle Harbor Shoreline Park this weekend replete with faux snow flurries, Victorian-era carolers and a cavalcade of high-tech spectacles from the wizards at Hewlett Packard.

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Sun Jun 21, 2009

The Winnipeg Free Press

Ambitious historical melodrama playfully entertaining

SPANISH star Carlos Ruiz ZafA3n's ambitious new historical melodrama is a prequel to his 2001 international bestseller, Shadow of the Wind.

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Fri Jun 19, 2009

The First Post

The Big Picture: Rene and Radka's Barbie girls

Charles Dickens did it in Oliver Twist . Alan Parker did it in Bugsy Malone . And now the photographic duo Rene & Radka has done it too.

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Thu Jun 18, 2009

Fort McMurray Today

Couple like the a Marquis de Sade,a says Crown

The defence attorney in a sexual assualt case said the trial's theme was like A Tale of Two Cities while the Crown said the relationship's story was closer to that of the Marquis de Sade.

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About.com

Disney Train Tour Comes to Seattle July 3-5

For all you Disney lovers out there this summer it will be Christmas in July in Seattle.

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Wed Jun 17, 2009

Omaha World-Herald

Midlands Voices: New marriage...

The writer is president of the Council Bluffs Community Alliance, an advocacy group for gays and lesbians.

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The Recorder

D.C. fire captain's rape trial underway

The trial of the firefighter accused of rape began last Thursday in the Calvert County Circuit Court with his attorney saying the story resembles the Charles Dickens' classic "A Tale of Two Cities" and he asked the jury to wait until all the evidence unfolds before they decide what happened.

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Related Topix: Fire, Vocal, Washington, DC Metro, Washington Metro

Peterborough Today

Review: Oliver Twist by the Stamford Shakespeare Company

I GREW up watching it on television and I've seen the West End musical, so it's hardly surprising that Lionel Bart's musical Oliver! has made it into my psyche.

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Tue Jun 16, 2009

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Dickens in Brooklyn?

On June 9, 1870, the popular Victorian novelist Charles Dickens passed away at age 58.

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Sun Jun 14, 2009

The Times Herald

We must heed warnings of 18th-century France

I decided to reread 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens. We all remember the beginning: 'It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

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Sat Jun 13, 2009

London Free Press

Huron season starts with Oliver

Huron Country Playhouse in Grand Bend has launched its season with the perennially favourite show, Oliver.

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Thu Jun 11, 2009

Edmonton Journal

The far-right wins new clout in European parliament

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...." Charles Dickens obviously didn't have the recent European Union election in mind when he penned those thoughts in his novel A Tale of Two Cities.

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Related Topix: Vocal, Nicolas Sarkozy, Donald Tusk, Conservatives (UK), Labour Party (UK), Europe, Italy, World News

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