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Black owns a Toronto based company called Ravelston, which in turn owns a Toronto based company called Hollinger Inc. The latter owns 30% of the shares, and 73% of the voting shares, of Hollinger International henceforth referred to as HLR which publishes The Daily Telegraph in London, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Jerusalem Post and over a dozen smaller newspapers.
Peace, order and good government, eh?: January 2004 Archives 2004
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Susan wins, though: I went and retrieved her, through guilt and patriotism (H James remains, I hope, in his school library editionin damp nettles in Ravelston Terrace, ever-mouldering), and forgave her or her ghost-writer for the page eight bit where she talks up Piers Morgan: "And I did a wiggle, which was aimed at Piers, because I like Piers."
Celebrity memoirs: Simon Pegg; Russell Brand; Susan Boyle; Paul O'Grady; Harry Hill – review Euan Ferguson 2010
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A third Tax Court lawsuit was just filed by Peter Y. Atkinson, an in-house lawyer in Canada for Ravelston, Black's private holding company.
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A third Tax Court lawsuit was just filed by Peter Y. Atkinson, an in-house lawyer in Canada for Ravelston, Black's private holding company.
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A third Tax Court lawsuit was just filed by Peter Y. Atkinson, an in-house lawyer in Canada for Ravelston, Black's private holding company.
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Now she lived alone in the huge house in Ravelston. surrounded by the paintings of others - including a dozen of Allan's, smartly framed - and a short walk from the Gallery of Modern Art, where they'd recently held a retrospective of her work.
Set in Darkness Rankin, Ian 2000
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The MS. descended to his only daughter Janet, and later to her husband's family, the Foulises of Woodhall and Ravelston, near Edinburgh.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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Examples of good bad poemsI am deliberately choosing diverse onesare The Bridge of Sighs, When all the world is young, lad, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Bret Hartes Dickens in Camp, The Burial of Sir John Moore, Jenny Kissed Me, Keith of Ravelston, Casabianca.
Rudyard Kipling 1942
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There is Sydney Dobell's "Keith of Ravelston," [21] which haunts the memory with the insistent iteration of its refrain: --
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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Corstorphine Hill, niece of Mrs. Keith of Ravelston, of whom he said at her death, eight years after, "Much tradition, and that of the best, has died with this excellent old lady, one of the few persons whose spirits and _cleanliness_ and freshness of mind and body made old age lovely and desirable."
Stories of Childhood Various 1885
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