In 1858, the Great Eastern steamship, built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was launched at Millwall, London.
We visit the first Andaz hotel, formerly the Great Eastern Hotel in London.
In 1866, a transatlantic cable laid by the steamer Great Eastern established reliable communication by telegraph between the United States and England.
Brought to you by the brains behind Pret a Manger The Hoxton Hotel (81 Great Eastern Street, Hoxton) is a genuine bargain.
In separate figures just for the period 17 October, 1999, to 8 January, 2000, three companies - Great Eastern, Cardiff and Virgin West Coast - achieved improvements.
Then came the March 11 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake.
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"Estimates show that during the busiest hour in the morning peak period, the number of passengers on the Great Eastern main line heading to Liverpool Street is set to increase by 49% by 2031, from 16, 500 to 24, 600, " a statement said.
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They have done so partly because they see that rescuing Russia's economy requires close economic links to the West, but also because they are rightly nervous about the growing power of their great eastern neighbour, China, and want a western neighbour they can turn to for help if necessary.
Great North Eastern Railways, which had been advising passengers not to travel on the east coast route between London, Yorkshire, the North-East and Scotland, expects to operate an hourly service from early on Monday.
Another inch of rain was expected from the eastern Great Lakes across the mid-Atlantic and into southern New England, bringing total precipitation to as much as 12 inches.
Late in the day, achy in the legs, I reached Cradle Hill, into whose eastern slope a great white chalk horse has been cut.
The IPCC asserted in its 2007 report that the Himalayan glaciers would likely melt by 2035 due to global warming, prompting great alarm across southern and eastern Asia, where glaciers feed major rivers.
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Several changes later, this is the building that stands on the eastern side of the great glass pyramid.
Elsewhere McDonald's has used global branding and great strategy to penetrate the Middle Eastern and Asian markets at twice the rate at which it's growing global sales.
It is a question which must occur to any sentient traveller in the cities of the eastern Mediterranean. where great civilisations have risen, glittered brilliantly, then vanished into kingdoms of broken stone and dust.
But if you expose yourself to food cultures, people who know how to do great things without meat - Middle Eastern food culture, Asian and Indian, you can eat really well without having meat in the diet.
Poachers hunt them for their horns, which are in great demand for use in Far-Eastern traditional medicine.
It is filled with great mini case studies that include Nordstroms, Eastern Mountain Sports, and Apple.
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Eastern bloc weightlifters used steroids to great success in the 1952 Olympics.
Many such words, says Peter Trudgill, a linguistics expert who can trace all his great great-grandparents to a small patch of eastern Norfolk, have been imported from or exported to the rest of the world.
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Though empires tend to fall after their Afghan skirmishes, he says, for the British this was largely down to World War II, for the Soviets, it was ideological crisis in eastern Europe and for Alexander the Great it was a failure to ensure the stable succession of his Asian empire.
Music teachers there are in great demand and tend to focus only on Western classical or Eastern classical music.
The Byzantine emperor Justinian is still known as "the Great" for reconquering Italy, north Africa and south-eastern Spain as well as codifying Roman law in a way which forms the basis of legal systems in many countries today.
Ms Melis, from Perdasdefogu village in south-eastern Sardinia, has nine children, 24 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.
At the eastern edge of the Gold Coast, about 25 miles from Great Neck, this 24-room Spanish-style estate was home to William K Vanderbilt II, great-grandson of the famed railroad industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt.
U.'s own eastern periphery--is growing even in historically tolerant places like Great Britain, Denmark and Holland.
His work on international security, international economics and European and Middle Eastern Affairs make him the perfect person to coordinate our policy in this time of great challenge and opportunity in the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf.
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