The closest I could get to the cortege was this iron grill locking me inside of my own Arbat neighborhood.

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Upcoming releases that are also part of the agreement include Anna Karenina, Les Miserables, The Man With The Iron Fists, Despicable Me 2 and About Time.

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Despite refusing to sing the song 'Man in the Iron Mask' for me personally (the song, from his first album, is a heart-melting ballad) Billy was on fine form throughout.

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But there is one iron rule, he tells me - no mirrors.

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This is essential to keep me breathing when the iron lung is opened for nursing.

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Which brings me back to the Iron Ring.

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I'd been diagnosed with low iron before, but the first surprised me, as I have always been a big leafy-green vegetable eater.

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Richards hands me my trusty 6-iron.

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When I heard 'Iron Man, ' high school became powerless over me.

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On the road back to Rio, we stop underneath a spectacular old iron railway bridge - "the first curved iron bridge in the world, " Mauricio informs me, with some pride.

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The good news for me and most investors is that making an iron-clad declaration for either secular bull or bear camp at this juncture is not necessary.

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There's a cast iron Boston Terrier doorstop. (A gift from me on her last birthday.) There's even a miniature ceramic Christmas tree enwreathed in Boston Terriers instead of tinsel.

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In the movie The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher says something that really resonated with me.

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People talked about what a great trumpeter I was, but no company wanted to hire me because I'm a Korean and the iron works was the only place I could find work.

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They took me to their home, a one room shack made out of corrugated iron sheets.

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Finally, let me just say that the Czechs continue to inspire the world with their own transition from being behind the Iron Curtain to freedom and democracy.

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