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  • Mr Lang, until last year a head of history in a sixth form college, also wants a greater awareness of world history, looking beyond the United Kingdom and Europe.

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  • Along with a fine mosaic head of Medusa, it serves to prove that this art form was as highly developed at Alexandria as anywhere else in the Mediterranean.

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  • Among the unique objects which point to the presence of Africans on the military frontier, is a 2nd Century AD blue glass mould-blown vessel in the form of an African man's head.

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  • But Byron Brauchli has turned the idea of elegance on its head, and used this fine form (albeit with palladium, a close platinum substitute) to depict illegal logging in Mexico in 1993, with billowing smoke and trees shown in sharp relief.

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  • Lewsey believes that consistent club form, under the eye of the Lions head coach Ian McGeechan, the director of rugby at Wasps, will give him the best chance of making the 2009 Lions tour to South Africa.

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  • In a meeting with the heads of political parties early this week, the head of the SCAF, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, urged politicians to form a new constituent assembly for drafting a new constitution without the participation of members of Parliament.

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  • F. and now the head of a yeshiva in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, helped Bennett form the Jewish Home Party.

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  • In an interview with an American Jewish newspaper, Musa Abu Marzouq, Hamas's deputy head, described a long-term agreement with Israel as a form of hudna, or truce, which Hamas could accept.

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  • "Due to injury and the very good form of both Allan Jacobsen and Kyle Traynor at loose-head, Ryan has had little opportunity for us, " he said.

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  • In-form Dragons prop Rhys Thomas could claim the tight-head shirt ahead of Adam Jones.

    BBC: Henson still struggling - Bennett

  • An image of the Cameroon striker about to head a football, his face and neck superimposed on a map of Africa, will form the centrepiece of the publicity campaign for the tournament.

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  • Kevin Thomson, who had started the game ahead of the unfortunate Maurice Edu considering the American's solid form, whipped in a corner that was powered home by the head of the unmarked Northern Ireland international at the near post.

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  • Recruitment firm Rockpools have been conducting a wide-ranging and rigorous search to fill the nine senior posts - ranging from head of men's and women's tennis to commercial director - that will form the backbone of the LTA's efforts to re-invigorate tennis in Britain.

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  • The head of Italy's centre-left bloc has hit an impasse in his efforts to form a government and said only a mentally ill person would want to govern Italy now.

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  • While only about 20 of those who paid the head tax are still alive and fewer than 300 of their widows, Chinese-Canadians now form a community of around 1m with considerable political and economic clout.

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  • This form of brain damage has been increasingly diagnosed by symptoms in athletes subjected to head trauma.

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  • The severe form of the disease, dengue haemorrhagic fever, involves a high temperature, head and muscle aches, internal bleeding and, at worst, circulatory failure.

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  • Katy Swaine, head of legal services at drug charity Release, thinks there is some ambiguity about what constitutes a medicinal form of the drug.

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  • Then he patched the hole with wax and carved it to fit the shape of her head, Edmondson said, and he used the wax section to give the titanium its form.

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  • Mr. Carter was head of the Palm Beach Atlantic University baseball program in 2011 when he was diagnosed with a glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer.

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  • "VIA redefinesdual core low power compact computing, bringing all the features of a regular desktop PC into a form factor that needs to be seen to be believed, " said Epan Wu, Head of the VIA Embedded Platform Division, VIA Technologies, Inc.

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  • That proof of residence is a critical document, and for many the only form of identification: Besides serving as proof of nationality and getting you a new roof over your head, it can help you get discounted provisions at government-run stores, a phone and utility hookup and a voter registration card.

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