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    The Isle of Wight Walking Festival is a walking festival which takes place annually on the Isle of Wight, around May spanning two weeks. The event has...
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  • Isle of Wight Festival 2005 is the fourth revived Isle of Wight Festival on the Seaclose Park site in Newport on the Isle of Wight. The attendance of...
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  • As an island, the Isle of Wight maintains a culture close to, but distinct from, that of the south of England. A high proportion of the population are...
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    There are several modes of Transport on the Isle of Wight, an island in the English Channel. The Island Line is the one railway left on the island. It...
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    The Isle of Wight (/waɪt/ WYTE) is an island, English county and unitary authority in the English Channel, 2 to 5 miles (3 to 8 kilometres) off the coast...
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    The Isle of Wight Festival 2007 was the sixth revived Isle of Wight Festival on the Seaclose Park site in Newport, Isle of Wight. It took place between...
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    village and civil parish at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England. The southern, coastal part of the village is Freshwater Bay, named for the...
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  • Band. This line-up was approaching the level of the more famous Isle of Wight festival held in August of the same year. As it attracted less press coverage...
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  • Global Spirit Tour (category Concert tours of Argentina)
    of the Isle of Wight Festival. The concert on 26 June 2018 in Sopron was part of the Volt Festival. The concert on 28 June 2018 in Odense was part of...
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  • Marek Larwood (category Actors from the London Borough of Haringey)
    third of the comedy trio We Are Klang. Born in Norwich, Norfolk, Larwood lived in Wales before moving to the Isle of Wight. His forename is of Polish...
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    1995 HM Prison Parkhurst escape (category Newport, Isle of Wight)
    Keith Rose and Andrew Rodger, escaped from HM Prison Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, England. The group spent four days on the run, attempting...
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    was a hit in 1969. On 28 August 1970 they appeared at the third Isle of Wight Festival. Although the band was popular in UK and Europe, success in the...
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    Ged Peck (category Musicians from the London Borough of Barnet)
    Marsha Hunt, work that culminated in an appearance at the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival in front of 150,000 alongside The Who, Bob Dylan, Joe Cocker and Richie...
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    Waterlooville (category Borough of Havant)
    of cool breezes from the English Channel as the town is more inland. Sunshine averages are typical of that across the Portsmouth area, Isle of Wight and...
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    Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, Dorset to the west, and Wiltshire to the north-west. The city of Southampton is the largest...
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  • Lawrence Holofcener (category University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni)
    include Queen Victoria for the Isle of Wight's Museum of Island History and Coburg, Germany, as well as a life-size bronze of Thomas Paine at Bordentown,...
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  • invited to support Yungblud on tour. The band also appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival, Liverpool Sound City, on the Leeds BBC Introducing stage, and had...
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    highest-paid rock musician, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 before his accidental death in London from...
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  • It appears on the Live at Leeds album, as well as Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970. On the album Live at Leeds, Townshend comments on the song...
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    Feast of Friends (2014) Danny Says (2016) Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 (2018) Outline of the Doors The Lords and the New Creatures (1969). 1985...
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  • candlestick" to suit part of his poem "Curses, Invocations" in An American Prayer ("Words dissemble/ Words be quick/ Words resemble walking sticks"). The song's...
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  • Peterloo (film) (category Cultural depictions of Robert Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool)
    on the Isle of Grain also appears in a short scene at the beginning of the film, when a lonely figure is seen walking along the marshes. Much of the dialogue...
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  • Science & Faith Tour (category Concert tours of Australia)
    In June the band played their first festivals of the year at the Isle of Wight Festival and the Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands. A South African leg...
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    Archived from the original on December 4, 2021. Retrieved May 17, 2021. Wight, Douglas (2012). Leonardo DiCaprio – The Biography. John Blake Publishing...
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  • Purple Haze (category Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients)
    album, includes a reference to walking under the sea: "We'll hold hands and then we'll watch the sunrise, from the bottom of the sea". Three months after...
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  • of the soundtrack features Jim Morrison walking in a hallway towards the viewer; he's also portrayed by Kilmer, and the photograph was also part of the...
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    July Talk (category Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year winners)
    Orleans, LA; Osheaga in Montreal, QC; Isle of Wight Festival in the UK; and Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin, TX. The band's second album...
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    A slight variation is provided at the annual Seaview Regatta on the Isle of Wight. Here the greasy pole is horizontal over the sea and competitors walk...
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    village. She could be seen walking around Burley with her pet jackdaw on her shoulder before she moved to America. Some of the gift shops in Burley now...
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    Shawn Phillips (category Winners of Yamaha Music Festival)
    performance in front of 657,000 people at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. He was also approached to be the lead in the Broadway production of Jesus Christ Superstar...
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