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http://www.newi.ac.uk/englishresources/workunits/ks4/shakespeare/hamlet/apptoham.html
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| | It is at his suggestion that all the eavesdropping takes place and fittingly it is as a result of this that he is accidentally killed by Hamlet in the closet scene. | | | It is also obvious that Polonius is well aware of Ophelia's relationship with Hamlet and that he has been reported to about it, so presumably his spies are at work in the court all the time. | | | Polonius is also scornful of Hamlet's motives and concerned that he will be discredited by Ophelia's conduct. |
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| | Hamlet comes right up to Claudiuss ear but Claudius is unaware of his presence. | | | Of course she felt saddened when Old Hamlet died and I suspect she felt a bit guilty too but his death left her free to have a nice time with Claudius, whom she might have been eyeing up for some time. | | | Gertrude is deliberately in denial at this point about the speed of her remarriage its all happened in less than a month. |
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http://www.rsc.org.uk/hamlet/current/actors.html
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| | Iraq Survey Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Bush, on his part, had convened the Iraq Intelligence Commission in February 2004 fostering the impression that an independent commission would help to support the notion that his decision-making ability or honesty was not to blame, but rather that faulty intelligence was at play. | | | Bush's primary rationale for invading Iraq was the allegation that Saddam was actively developing WMD and had stockpiles. | | | The Iraq Survey Group (ISG) was a fact-finding mission sent by the coalition after the 2003 Invasion of Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs developed by Iraq under the regime of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Survey_Group
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| | 2003 Invasion of Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | British officials did not dispute the document's authenticity, and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's spokesman has called the document "nothing new." The document corroborates the information in the full advice of Lord Goldsmith: "The Attorney-General said that the desire for regime change was not a legal base for military action. | | | Their view was that Iraq had violated the terms of the cease-fire by breaching two key conditions and thus made the invasion of Iraq a legal continuation of the earlier war. | | | Prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Zarqawi had settled in Kurdish northern Iraq (an area not controlled by Saddam Hussein's government) where he joined the terrorist organization Ansar al-Islam, which was an enemy of the Ba'athist government. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq
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| | Claims and evaluations of Iraq's proscribed weapons |
| | UK dossier, 24 September 2002, p.6: "Iraq has [..] constructed a new engine test stand for the development of missiles capable of reaching the UK Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus and NATO members (Greece and Turkey), as well as all Iraq's Gulf neighbours and Israel" | | | UK dossier, 24 September 2002, p.28: "According to intelligence, Iraq has retained up to 20 al-Hussein missiles, in breach of UN Security Council Resolution 687. | | | UK dossier, 24 September 2002, p.6: "Iraq has [..] started deploying its al-Samoud liquid propellant missile, and has used the absence of weapons inspectors to work on extending its range to at least 200km, which is beyond the limit of 150km imposed by the United Nations" (reiterated at p.27). |
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http://middleeastreference.org.uk/iraqweaponsd.html
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| | Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction |
| | The only publicly acknowledged evidence for the claim that Iraq had tried to acquire uranium from Africa, which President Bush made in his January 28, 2003 State of the Union address, based on British intelligence information, are these documents that were claimed to have been official correspondence involving officials of the Republic of Niger. | | | Intelligence analysts from the United States and other nations immediately began to scrutinize the document, and senior U.S. officials quickly rejected the claims. | | | Iraq's ballistic missile program was "the most advanced in the Arab world," the report also concluded. |
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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB80
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| | Resolution 687 and warns Iraq of "serious consequences." Shortly thereafter, the United States, UK, and France launch air raids on southern Iraq. | | | Iraq had cut off exports when clients had refused to pay a surcharge directly to Iraq, which would violate terms of the "oil for food" program permitting Iraq to export oil while sanctions remain in effect, rather than to the account controlled by the United Nations Sanctions Committee. | | | Iraq condemns the decision, but states that it will not call a halt to oil exports, as had earlier been feared. |
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| | Iraq - Amnesty International |
| | Mohammad Ahmad Mahmoud al-Zahawi, a former member of the Kurdistan Human Rights Organization, was arrested in April in Kalar in the area controlled by the PUK on suspicion of spying for a foreign country. | | | In the provinces in northern Iraq, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) announced in September the start of a reunification process and agreed to move forward with the implementation of the 1998 Peace Agreement signed in Washington, USA. | | | The Iraqi government said that four civilians were killed when US and UK aircraft attacked Iraqi targets in the Mosul area in the north in February. |
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http://web.amnesty.org/report2003/Irq-summary-eng
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| | Today it is not certain how it was pronounced: according to some modern reconstructions, it may have been [ae:] or dipthongal [ie:]. | | | It is significant that from the earliest texts, there is considerable confusion between the yat and the iotified a (Cyrillic &;). |
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| | Iraq - Atlapedia Online |
| | On April 8, 1991 a UK initiative resulted in the creation of safe havens around Amadiyah which were policed in principal by 10,000 US and 4,500 British troops. | | | In 1992 Iraq launched another campaign against the sedentary Marsh Arabs of the south which resulted the imposition of another "No Fly Zone" in the south in Aug. 1992 while trade sanctions also remained in force throughout the year. | | | On Jan. 7, 1992 Iraq detained two Kuwaiti policemen who strayed into Iraqi territory while during the year Iraq also sentenced four westerners to seven years imprisonment for allegedly entering the country illegally. |
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http://www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/iraq.htm
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| | IRAQ CRISIS |
| | UK Mission to the United Nations - a statement by Defence Secretary, Geoff Hoon, House of Commons, London, 20 March 2003. | | | It continues to be the main focus for UK anti-war activism. | | | Statements from the U.K. Prime Minister's office include background information on Iraq and the current crisis; links to the P.M.'s speeches and key information on the U.K. military and their support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (Operation Telic). |
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http://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/bibs/iraq/iraq_crisis.htm
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| | Shakespeare: Hamlet |
| | Exeunt all but HAMLET Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. | | | LORD POLONIUS I did enact Julius Caesar: I was killed i' the Capitol; Brutus killed me. HAMLET It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there. | | | But indeed, if you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Special report: Iraq |
| | Full coverage: News, comment and analysis on the inquiry into British intelligence on Iraq in the run-up to the war. | | | October 23: Government has been dealt a double blow in battle to convince the public it is beating insurgency in Iraq and the threat of terrorism at home, according to leaked confidential reports. | | | Read how we reported the 1991 Gulf war; Saddam Hussein's accession and rise to power; and the British invasion of Iraq in 1917. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/0,2759,423009,00.html
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| | The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Disputes - international |
| | Mauritius claims the Chagos Archipelago (UK-administered British Indian Ocean Territory), and its former inhabitants, who reside chiefly in Mauritius, but were granted UK citizenship and the right to repatriation in 2001; claims French-administered Tromelin Island | | | Spain and UK are discussing "total shared sovereignty" to resolve 300-year dispute over Gibraltar, but resolution is subject to a constitutional referendum by Gibraltarians, who have largely expressed opposition to any form of cession to Spain | | | Rockall continental shelf dispute involving Denmark, Iceland, and the UK (Ireland and the UK have signed a boundary agreement in the Rockall area); dispute with Denmark over the Faroe Islands' fisheries median line boundary within 200 NM; disputes with Denmark, the UK, and Ireland over the Faroe Islands continental shelf boundary outside 200 NM |
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http://www.brainyatlas.com/fields/2070.html
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| | Iraq Lies |
| | They Report it in the UK - The UK may demand an inquiry; what about the US, after all we started all of this. | | | Prewar Views of Iraq Threat Are Under Review by C.I.A. Weapons failure - It now appears that the so-called "clear and present danger" of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) did not exist and that French and German critics were correctly skeptical of the U.S. argument for the use of force. | | | - Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts said some of the Democratic criticism of the handling of the intelligence has "been simply politics and for political gain." - TVNL points out that if they were not guilty of anything there would be nothing to gain politically by the Dems. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Weblog |
| | September 8: McDonald's - which is not involved in the latest hearing, which pits the McLibel duo against the UK government - released a short statement. | | | The description ends: 'When he's not pulling a sledge, Ben is probably either planning his next expedition, keeping fit, or earning a crust as one of the UK's leading motivational speakers.' I can't help worrying that Saunders might end up prey to tall poppy syndrome with posts like this. | | | It said criticisms against it that led to the McLibel trial - some of which were upheld as true by the trial judges - related to the 1980s and the world had moved on. |
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| | BBC - h2g2 - The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| | In 1967, Paddy Roy Bates occupied the then-abandoned fort (which meant that from a legal point of view the UK had no claim on it) and declared himself Prince of his own country. | | | The UK Monarch is also the head of state in these islands but not in their role as the British King or Queen. | | | Their more tenuous political link to the UK is as Crown Dependencies, they are; the Isle of Man, the Bailiwick of Jersey and the three independent jurisdictions of 'Guernsey, Alderney and Sark' that comprise the Bailiwick of Guernsey. |
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| | Environment News Service ENS Latest Environmental Information Education Current Issues RSS |
| | According to a recent poll commissioned by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, or BirdLife in the UK, 88 percent of Cypriots surveyed say they disapprove of the illegal trapping of migrating songbirds. | | | They have provided information to the police in the UK's Sovereign Base Area and to the Cyprus Government's Game Fund, and illegal hunters have been arrested, say the conservation groups. | | | The RSPB and BirdLife Cyprus conduct surveillance in the areas where the illegal activities are most widespread. |
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http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2005/2005-09-20-02.asp
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| | Iraq WMD intelligence commission |
| | Saddam Extends Invite to CIA : Saddam Hussein's adviser invited the CIA to Iraq to point out to U.N. inspectors sites the Bush administration suspects of weapons development. | | | This sparked concerns that the proposal would usurp CIA's covert operations role, erode congressional oversight, or change long-standing policies such as prohibition of assassinations. | | | In his controversial book, 'Blinded by the Right', former right-wing journalist David Brock said Intelligence investigation co-chairman Laurence Silberman gave ''false information'' to him about Patricia Wald whom, according to Brock, ''(Silberman) hated with a passion''. |
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| | Even the superlative late passage where Hamlet stoically confronts destiny is reduced to emotional bluster as Stephens shouts: "We defy augury!" This Hamlet may pose a threat to the state but he never acquires introspective ecstasy. | | | Significantly, Richard Cordery's nervily bonhomous Polonius avoids eye contact with Meg Fraser's Ophelia while advising her to sever her ties with Hamlet. | | | Otherwise Boyd's dominant idea is that we are in a tense Renaissance court where the succession is still a disputed issue. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4976970-110430,00.html
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| | Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what (a) action he is taking and (b) advice he is giving to prevent UK citizens resident in occupied Cyprus in dispute with Greek Cypriots visiting the property with a claim to ownership; [123193] | | | MacShane: Following Cyprus' accession, the UK's Sovereign Base Areas (SBAs) will remain outside the EU, with technical adjustments to ensure the continued smooth functioning of the relationship between Cyprus and the SBAs. | | | (2) what advice he is giving to UK citizens resident in occupied Cyprus in the event of a Greek Cypriot visiting the property suggesting it belongs to him; and if he will make a statement. |
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http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~durduran/hamambocu/haberler/fullnews.php?id=222
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Special report: foot and mouth disease |
| | September 13: The government was left looking sidelined yesterday after the European commission said it was drawing up a new EU-wide policy on foot and mouth disease which envisages key decisions being taken in Brussels, not London or other capitals. | | | July 17, Royal Society report: Britain should adopt a policy of vaccination as "a tool of first resort" to contain and eradicate foot and mouth disease, said scientists asked by the government to recommend how to handle future outbreaks. | | | December 18: The government yesterday tried and failed to water down a critical report from the European parliament into its handling of last year's foot and mouth outbreak, prompting claims it was seeking to rewrite history. |
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| | For example, would he be able to guess, from The Murder of Gonzago, the truth about old Hamlet's death? | | | A wish for death as an escape from a corrupt world; | | | How does Polonius's death help Claudius in his attempts to kill Hamlet? |
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| | Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace Iraq Page |
| | The doubling of child malnutrition in Iraq is baffling - Terry Jones, The Guardian (UK) | | | 2/10/05: After the Election, a New Wave of Assassinations of State Officials - Patrick Cockburn, The Independent (UK) | | | Insurgents Attack Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison - Antonio Castaneda, AP A Trojan Jackass for the Anti-War Movement - Stan Goff, CounterPunch |
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| | IRAQI WAR DEBATE - 2002/2004 |
| | Assessment of weapons inspections and WMD in Iraq is a summary of articles from the SIPRI Yearbook on Iraq for the past ten years | | | Extensive analysis of speeches and documents on the Iraq War issued by the federal government or United Nations | | | Source for claim that Iraq was trying to purchase uranium from Niger |
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http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/iraqwar.html
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| | British Virgin Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The British Virgin Islands were sighted and named by Christopher Columbus on his second voyage in 1493. | | | The United Nations Committee on Decolonization includes the British Virgin Islands on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. | | | They were called the "Virgin Islands" until "British" was added at the end of World War I after the United States had purchased the nearby Danish West Indies and renamed them as the U.S. Virgin Islands. |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background |
| | The UK asserted its claim to the islands by establishing a naval garrison there in 1833. | | | In 1928, the UK waived its claim in favor of Norway, which had occupied the island the previous year. | | | Established as a territory of the UK in 1965, a number of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) islands were transferred to the Seychelles when it attained independence in 1976. |
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| | Pinnacle, IBM, Sagitta and Hamlet line up for UK Identity Parades |
| | The revolutionary project will potentially save UK police time and money. | | | £7.6 million have already been invested in the pathfinder and plans are in place to offer the VIPER system to all of the UK's 34 police forces. | | | On March 14, the UK home secretary, David Blunkett, opened West Yorkshire Police's National Video Identification Bureau in Wakefield. |
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| | CNN.com - Foot-and-mouth crisis timetable - February 27, 2001 |
| | UK Agriculture Minister Nick Brown insists in a television interview that the disease has now been brought under control. | | | TUESDAY February 20 -- The UK Ministry of Agriculture confirms the outbreak and a five-mile exclusion zone is set up around the abattoir and around the two farms that supplied the pigs (in Buckinghamshire and on the Isle of Wight). | | | THURSDAY March 8 -- With the toll topping the 100 mark the UK's chief veterinary officer Jim Scudamore warns the outbreak "is going to last for a long time." The Finnish daily newspaper Helsingin reports that a cattle farm in Orimattila in southern Finland has been isolated after a suspected case of foot and mouth-disease. |
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