In building the motorway, planners made sure that Northern Ireland became the first region, outside England, to have a motorway-grade road.

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The Grade II-listed building in Kenwood Park Road was built in 1893 and launched its first professional season in January after 118 years of amateur dramatics.

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The Grade II-listed building, on Whiteladies Road, was owned by Odeon, which ran it as a three-screen cinema before selling it in November 2001 - almost 80 years after it opened.

BBC: Whiteladies Picture House campaign receives boost

We conquered the 15% grade of the treacherous Via Mala (literally, "bad road"), set in a narrow gorge pockmarked by fallen boulders, without so much as a whinny.

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Employing a tightknit band of road veterans, including three friends he has known since grade school, Mr. Chesney's touring staff works with a military efficiency that comes from wrapping a stadium tour every August and putting the next one on sale by December.

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They also masterminded the approach to the house, replacing the old, utilitarian farm-access road with a long sweeping drive that follows the hill's grade, preparing visitors to be immersed in 360 degrees of nature.

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And the Odeon in Blossom Street in York, an art deco gem built in 1938 with a Grade I listed interior, is struggling for survival against a multiplex on the ring road and a proposed megaplex in the centre.

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The big one, I would say, and that others have agreed might come down the road, is really changing the deadline that requires all children to perform at grade level, not just in reading and math, but science and social studies by the year 2014.

NPR: Revisions to No Child Left Behind

The house in Forthlin Road, where McCartney lived from the age of 13 to 22, was listed as a Grade II building by English Heritage last year.

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