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River Tweed

The River Tweed at Abbotsford, near Melrose The River Tweed (156 kilometres or 97 miles long) flows primarily through the Borders region of Scotland. It rises on Tweedsmuir at Tweeds Well. It... kilometres near Berwick-upon-Tweed. The Tweed is one of the great Salmon rivers of Scotland. Major towns...

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Actinolite, Ontario

Actinolite community on the Skootamatta River in eastern Ontario. Actinolite is in the Municipality of Tweed, in Hastings County...

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Duke of Berwick-upon-Tweed

The Dukedom of Berwick-upon-Tweed was created in 1687 for James FitzJames, the illegitimate son of King James II of England. The title, and its subsidiary titles (Baron Bosworth and Earl of Tinmouth...-upon-Tweed (1687) James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick-upon-Tweed (1670-1734) (forfeit 1695...

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Belford

Belford is a small village in Northumberland about halfway between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Alnwick. It has a population of about 1000...

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Berwick Rangers F.C.

Berwick Rangers F.C. are a football team based in the English town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, but currently playing in the Scottish Football League...

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Tw-Tx

List of people by name | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tw-Tx | | Tw Twain, Mark, (1835-1910), US novelist, humorist, lecturer Twain, Shania, (born 1965), pop singer Twardowski, Jan, poet Tweed, Karen, musician Tweed, William Marcy, (1823-1878...

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Berwick

The place-name Berwick may refer to: Berwick, Victoria, Australia Berwick, Sussex, England Berwick, Louisiana, United States Berwick, Maine, United States Berwick, Nova Scotia, Canada Berwick, Pennsylvania, United States Berwick-upon-Tweed, England North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland...

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Boss Tweed

1869 tobacco label featuring Boss Tweed William Marcy Tweed a.k.a. " Boss Tweed " (April 3, 1823... formerly been controlled by committees. Tammany Hall had existed since 1789. Tweed was a chairmaker who... built his power through the election and appointment of his friends. Tweed and his cronies became...

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Paxton House

Paxton House is a historic house in Northumberland, England, near Berwick-upon-Tweed. It is a country house with extensive interiors by Robert Adam, as well as furniture by Thomas Chippendale See: Historic houses in England, List of historic houses...

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Joop den Uyl

Hilversum, Den Uyl was a member of the Tweede Kamer since 1956, and became leader of his party in 1966. He remained a member of the Tweede Kamer until his death in Amsterdam in 1987...

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