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    ‘”The Chariots of the Lord” is a poem by Rev. John Brownlie, D.D., set to music by Edward Elgar in 1914. The song was written for Clara Butt and first...
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  • the Wayback Machine Twitter: Chariots Tweeter, 16 April 2012, 18 April 2012. Rees, Jasper. "Chariots of Fire: The British Are Coming... Again". The Daily...
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    A chariot is a type of cart driven by a charioteer, usually using horses to provide rapid motive power. The oldest known chariots have been found in burials...
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    Nigel Davenport (category Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford)
    actor, best known as the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Birkenhead in the Academy Award-winning films A Man for All Seasons and Chariots of Fire, respectively...
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  • Chariots of Fire is a 2012 stage adaptation of the 1981 Oscar-winning film of the same name. Production of the Olympic-themed play, which opened at London's...
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  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic high fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa...
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    Nigel Havers (category Actors from the London Borough of Enfield)
    roles include Lord Andrew Lindsay in the 1981 British film Chariots of Fire, which earned him a BAFTA nomination; as Dr. Rawlins in the 1987 Steven Spielberg...
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  • example the song "Woo thou, Sweet Music" with words by A. C. Bunten, and "Violer" (Pansies) in Swedish. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes...
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    remains unknown. The cipher, consisting of 87 characters spread over 3 lines, appears to be made up from 24 symbols, each symbol consisting of 1, 2, or 3 approximate...
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    Festival of Chariots refers to the Ratha Yatra festivals run by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). The main event is a chariot procession...
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    Frederick William Robin Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead (1936–1985) Lord Birkenhead (Character) from Chariots of Fire (1981), IMDb. Burke's Peerage. 1959...
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    that, the gods are mounted on their appropriate chariots and prepared to travel to Gundicha Temple. The Chariot Festival Ratha Yatra Day One The Journey...
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  • first march, Elgar set as a motto for the whole set of marches a verse from Lord de Tabley's poem "The March of Glory", which (as quoted by Elgar's biographer...
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    Elgar. In an anguished aria, the Soul then pleads to be taken away. A chorus of souls sings the first lines of Psalm 90 ("Lord, thou hast been our refuge")...
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  • (O'Shaughnessy) The text of the work is the 1874 poem Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy, which Elgar set in its entirety. He had been working on the music intermittently...
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    Cello Concerto (Elgar) (category Pages using the Score extension)
    cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War, when his music had already become out of fashion with the concert-going...
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    of excerpts in 1920, the score was neglected until 1973, when the conductor Sir Adrian Boult revived it for a recording. It was later staged in the theatre...
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    Jagannath Temple, Puri (category Hindu temples sacked in the Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent)
    the public to have the Darshana, or the holy view of the deities. This festival is known as Ratha Yatra, meaning the journey (yatra) of the chariots (raths)...
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    composing despite setbacks. Nimrod is described in the Old Testament as "a mighty hunter before the Lord", Jäger (which can also be spelt Jaeger) being German...
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    representing different deities on the chariots' sides. Each chariot has a charioteer (Sarathi) and four horses. The Chandan yatra or "Sandalwood Festival"...
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  • Cheryl Campbell (category Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art)
    and the 1982 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for A Doll's House. Her film appearances include Chariots of Fire (1981), Greystoke: The Legend...
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    is one of his longest orchestral compositions, and the last of his works to gain immediate popular success. The concerto was composed for the violinist...
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    Symphony No. 1 in A♭ major, Op. 55 is one of his two completed symphonies. The first performance was given by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Hans Richter...
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    (1971), Young Winston (1972), The Final Programme (1973), Galileo (1975), Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980) and Chariots of Fire (1981), but was most often...
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    religion features a "solar chariot" or "sun chariot" with which the Sun traverses the sky. Chariots were introduced to Egypt in the Hyksos period, and seen...
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  • Yam Suph (redirect from Sea of Reeds)
    how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;" other translations: Deuteronomy 11:4 NJPS: "what He did to Egypt’s army, its horses and chariots; how...
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  • other parts of the cycle; most notably, the second stanza is heard again almost in its entirety as part of the finale. Elgar composed the piece on his...
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  • Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a 1984 adventure film directed by Hugh Hudson based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes (1912)...
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  • Adela de Courcy, youngest daughter of the 28th Lord Kinsale, premier baron of Ireland Anthony Goetz was the son of Ludovic Goetz and Muriel Foster, a...
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    Sam Mussabini (category Athletes from the London Borough of Lewisham)
    Abrahams in the film Chariots of Fire. Mussabini was quoted as saying, "Only think of two things – the gun and the tape. When you hear the one, just run...
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