• The first settlers of the South Shields area were the Brigantes, although there is no evidence they built a settlement at South Shields. The Romans built...
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    county of Durham, South Shields is south of North Shields and Tynemouth across the River Tyne; and east of Newcastle upon Tyne and Jarrow. Evidence of human...
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  • South Shields Football Club is a professional association football club based in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England. The team competes in the National...
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    before Shields' first bout, a change to the rules was announced that meant Shields would need to place in the top two from the (North, Central, and South) American...
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  • years saw the club win the South Shields Junior Alliance, the 'A' Division of the South Shields Juvenile League, the Shields & District League in 1904–05...
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    Area of South Shields, South Tyneside. It opened in July 1864 as a custom house, built to facilitate the import and export of goods at Shields Harbour...
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  • The South Shields trolleybus system once served the town of South Shields, then in County Durham, but now in Tyne and Wear, England. Opened on...
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    Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress. A child model starting at the age of 11 months, Shields gained widespread notoriety...
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    South Shields Interchange is Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive's transport hub in the coastal town of South Shields, South Tyneside in Tyne and...
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    South Shields is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament...
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    intended for hand-to-hand-combat use. Shields also vary a great deal in thickness; whereas some shields were made of relatively deep, absorbent, wooden planking...
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    South Shields Town Hall is a Grade II listed building on Westoe Road in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England. It serves as the headquarters of South...
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  • Hamas has been accused of using human shields in the Gaza Strip, purposely attempting to shield itself from Israeli attacks by storing weapons in civilian...
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    The Shields Ferry operates across the River Tyne, between North Shields and South Shields in Tyne and Wear, England. The service is operated by the Nexus...
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  • The South Shields Tramways operated a tramway service in South Shields between 1883 and 1906. The South Shields Tramways were constructed by South Shields...
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  • This is a list of notable people who were either born in, or have lived in, the town of South Shields, Tyne & Wear, in the UK. It includes current and...
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    entirely by Shields and had been in production since the late 1990s, when Shields was rumoured to have been suffering from writer's block. Shields has since...
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    Harton is a suburban area of South Shields, South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. It was historically a village, however as the urban area grew it merged...
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    ferry service connects North Shields to the town of South Shields on the opposite bank of the Tyne. The present Shields Ferry was established in 1972...
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    than Shields Green".: 45  "A little while prior to this, [Douglass] went down to [Chambersburg], to accompany Shields Green, whereupon a meeting of Capt...
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    South Shields railway station was the main railway station for South Shields, in Tyne and Wear, North-East England. The station was located on Mile End...
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    of the County Borough of South Shields with the municipal borough of Jarrow and the urban districts of Boldon and Hebburn from County Durham. Part of...
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    to Shields. Shields had three children with Mortimer: Katharine Shields William "Willy" Xavier Orin Hunt Shields (1949–2016) Alston Shields. Shields and...
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    the shield stretches north from the Great Lakes to the Arctic Ocean, covering over half of Canada and most of Greenland; it also extends south into the...
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    elaborating on their book, Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire, discuss "proximate shields", humans as shields merely due to proximity to...
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  • civilians as human shields to discourage the opposing side from attacking. Many activists have often voluntarily used themselves as human shields to stop Israeli...
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    Outland Trophy. Shields played his entire, 14-year professional career with the Kansas City Chiefs and never missed a game. Shields was selected to 12...
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    the wings of the secretary bird, Or, therewithin and flanking the shields, two ears of wheat Brunatré. The first element is the motto, in a green semicircle...
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    outline that "suggests the shape of the shields carried by soldiers in the days of hand-to-hand combat." A shield is that part of the continental crust in which...
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  • South Shields. From 1600 the growth in the export of coal brought prosperity to Newcastle. Until the 19th century the port was the responsibility of the...
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