full effect in the Chequers Estate Act 1917. The house is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England. The name "Chequers" may derive from...
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The Chequers plan, officially known as The future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union (Cm 9593), was a UK Government white paper...
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Paul James Chequer is an English actor best known for starring in the British drama As If as Jamie Collier on Channel 4 from 2001 to 2004 and the BBC...
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Chequered! is a studio album released by American singer Chubby Checker. Released by London Records in 1971, it is notable for being a stylistically different...
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The Chequers Ring is one of the few surviving pieces of jewellery worn by Queen Elizabeth I of England. The mother-of-pearl ring, set with gold and rubies...
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Checkered Flag (redirect from Chequered Flag)
Checkered flag or chequered flag in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Checkered Flag or Chequered Flag may refer to: Checkered flag, or chequered flag, a type...
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Chequered Past was a British-American rock supergroup led by actor/singer Michael Des Barres and featuring members of Blondie, the Sex Pistols and Tin...
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The Nelson Chequer was a colour scheme adopted by vessels of the Royal Navy, modelled on that used by Admiral Horatio Nelson in battle. It consisted of...
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Look up checkers, chequers, or draughts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Checkers, or draughts, is a board game. Checkers or chequers may also refer to:...
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Check (pattern) (redirect from Chequered cloth)
Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares...
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HMS Chequers was a C-class destroyer, of the "Ch" subclass, of the Royal Navy that was in service from December 1945, and which was scrapped in 1966. The...
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Chinese checkers (redirect from Chinese chequers)
Chinese checkers (US) or Chinese chequers (UK), known as Sternhalma in German, is a strategy board game of German origin that can be played by two, three...
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The chequered sengi (also known as checkered sengi or checkered elephant shrew) is a species of elephant shrew in the family Macroscelididae. The scientific...
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Chequered skipper could refer to any of the following butterfly species: Carterocephalus palaemon also known as arctic skipper Large chequered skipper...
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"Chequered Love" is the second single by British singer Kim Wilde. The song was released in the spring of 1981 to follow Wilde's successful debut "Kids...
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Checkered keelback (redirect from Chequered Keelback)
The checkered keelback (Fowlea piscator), also known commonly as the Asiatic water snake, is a common species in the subfamily Natricinae of the family...
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Torminalis (redirect from Chequers Tree)
means "good for colic". The name "chequers" may have been derived from the ancient symbol of a pub being the chequer-board (as the fruit were once used...
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head of an excise officer who entered the Chequers and demanded their surrender before riding off. The Chequers is one of a number of pubs where the ghost...
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A Chequered retreat (French: retraite en échiquier) is so called from the several component parts of a pre-mechanised line or battalion, which alternately...
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Harrow Chequers Football Club was a football club from London, England in the 1860s to early 1890s. It played as the Harrow Chequers from 1865 to 1876...
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Checkerboard (redirect from Chequer board)
A checkerboard (American English) or chequerboard (British English; see spelling differences) is a game board of checkered pattern on which checkers (also...
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The large chequered skipper (Heteropterus morpheus) is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is the single member of the monotypic genus...
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The Chequer Board is a novel by Nevil Shute, first published in the United Kingdom in 1947 by William Heinemann Ltd. The novel deals with the question...
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English draughts (redirect from Chequer)
Championship When this word is used in the UK, it is usually spelt chequers (as in Chinese chequers); see further at American and British spelling differences...
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reference to the Prime Minister being present in the Chequers Estate Act 1917, which specified Chequers as a prime-ministerial residence. Public recognition...
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The Mall Maidstone (redirect from Chequers Centre)
(originally known as The Stoneborough Centre, subsequently Chequers Shopping Centre and then The Mall Chequers) is a covered shopping centre in Maidstone, the county...
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52°10′50″N 0°08′25″W / 52.180563°N 0.140168°W / 52.180563; -0.140168 The Chequers is a pub in Little Gransden, Cambridgeshire. It has served the village...
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Admiralty following the First World War. He donated his country house, Chequers, to the nation as a retreat for the Prime Minister, and co-founded the...
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Racing flags (redirect from Chequered flag)
them, with some flags carrying over between series. For example, the chequered flag is commonly used across all of motorsport to signify the end of a...
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Pyrgus ruralis (redirect from Two-banded chequered skipper)
Pyrgus ruralis, the two-banded checkered skipper, is a species of skipper butterfly (family Hesperiidae). It is found from southern British Columbia and...
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