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The new Duchess of Cambridge is the great-great-granddaughter of a coalminer, runs this story, and her mother worked as an air hostess.
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Some of those will come by way of Sam Amidon, who plays the banjo and boasts the voice of a 150-year-old coalminer.
From Ska to Soul, a Flavor for Every Tastemaker Andy Battaglia 2011
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Born and brought up on Halton Moor council estate – an area richly described by Keith Waterhouse, who moved there as a boy during the slum rehousing of the 1930s – he would have spent his working life as a coalminer had it not been for the 1984-85 strike.
Jimi Heselden obituary Martin Wainwright 2010
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Chinese rescuers carry a coalminer out of the Qianqium mine in Sanmenxia city, Henan province.
45 Chinese coalminers freed after cave-in that killed eight 2011
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If you're a coalminer you need to go where the coal is.
Holly Cara Price: Sxip Shirey's Magic Journey: Sonic New York 2010
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Unable to afford college, he worked in modest jobs, pumping petrol, cutting meat, selling vegetables, and marrying his high-school sweetheart, Erma James, daughter of a coalminer, at the age of 20.
Robert Byrd obituary Christopher Reed 2010
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But given a choice between Barack Obama and John McCain in November, the 67-year-old retired coalminer would vote Republican.
Poll: Obama Losing West Virginia Primary By More Than Two To One 2009
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But given a choice between Barack Obama and John McCain in November, the 67-year-old retired coalminer would vote Republican.
Obama Promoting Coal -- And Concern For Rural Voters -- In New Kentucky Ad 2009
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And the answer was that he didn't want to become a coalminer, the only other well paying job there.
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Obama can have all the fancy economists and newspaper endorsements -- Hillary has the coalminer vote locked up!
Poll: Obama Losing West Virginia Primary By More Than Two To One 2009
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