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| | John Major - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | On the fifth anniversary of his dismissal in 1989 by the then foreign secretary John Major, former diplomat Patrick Haseldine reciprocated by inviting prime minister Major to resign on August 2, 1994 or be dismissed as PM at the next election. | | | Major's relatively low-profile career after leaving front-line politics was disrupted by the revelation in September 2002 that, prior to his promotion to the Cabinet, Major had had a four-year extramarital affair with a fellow MP, Edwina Currie. | | | Following his resignation as Prime Minister, Major briefly became Leader of the Opposition and remained in this post until the election of William Hague as leader of the Conservative Party in June 1997. |
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| | MSN Encarta - John Major |
| | John Major, born in 1943, British politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom (1990-1997). | | | Major’s major achievement in office was the establishment of a peaceful dialogue with the Irish Republican Army (IRA). | | | In July 1995, in an attempt to solidify his party, Major resigned as leader of the Conservatives, forcing an election for a new leader. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761564971/John_Major.html
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| | John Major |
| | In 1979, Major was elected to the House of Commons, and in 1986 Major became a junior Cabinet member. | | | Major entered politics in the 1960's, serving in the local government of London from 1968-1971. | | | British political figure John Major grew up in a lower middle-class environment and had to leave school at the age of 16 to help support his family. |
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http://www.multied.com/bio/people/Major.html
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| | SeacoastNH.com - General John Sullivan |
| | John Sullivan was born in the parish of Somersworth, NH on February 17, 1740, the third son of Irish redemptioner immigrants. | | | John Sullivan was one of the best known New Hampshire figures in the Revolution, but he was also one of the most controversial. | | | Because of his friendship with Wentworth, Sullivan was commissioned as a major in the militia. |
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| | John Major |
| | Major was a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State at the Home Office. | | | John major was born in 1943 and educated at Rutlish Grammar School. | | | He became an Assistant Government Whip in 1983, being appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (a senior Government Whip) in 1984. |
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http://www.lecturenow.com/People/JohnMajor.htm
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| | John André - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | He entered the British Army at the age of twenty, and came to North America and joined his regiment in Canada in 1774 as a lieutenant. | | | "The Capture of Major John André" by A.C. Warren (1856) | | | He was promoted to captain in 1777, and to major in 1778. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Andre
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| | Major, John on Encyclopedia.com |
| | JOHN PALMER: The Medicare trustee says that Congress may be forced to draft a major new bill within two or three years to add. | | | MAJOR, JOHN [Major, John] 1943-, British statesman, b. | | | After the Conservatives were defeated by Tony Blair and Labour in a landslide in 1997, Major resigned as party leader; he retired from Parliament in 2001 |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/M/MajorJ1-P1M1.asp
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| | Amazon.com: John Major : The Autobiography: Books: John Major |
| | John Major's autobiography is a clear and balanced account of his early life and of his time in office leading the United Kingdom. | | | If John Major had one weakness, it was that he didn't get rid of those of his ministers who were stabbing him in the back. | | | Major made a bold and honest attempt to cope, and some of it has stuck, and Blair has been the beneficiary as he has been in a significant number of other ways. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060196149?v=glance
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| | John Major - SourceWatch |
| | Major had a long and distinguished career as a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, serving in government for 16 years and as a cabinet member for 10 years. | | | Major focused his efforts upon securing peace in Northern Ireland and upholding Britain's position in the world community as a political, social and economic leader. | | | Major also served as president of Surrey County Cricket Club and helped raise funds to improve the facilities at the Oval Stadium. |
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Major
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| | BBC NEWS Politics John Major: A life in politics |
| | Mr Major announced his decision to relinquish the leadership of the Conservative party immediately telling the world it was "time to leave the stage". | | | In June 1995, stung by criticism of his leadership Major took the unprecedented step for a British prime minister of resigning as head of his party, forcing a leadership vote. | | | On 19 June 1997, William Hague became the party's leader and Mr Major retired to the back benches. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/673348.stm
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| | A Major Scandal By June Thomas |
| | Major would have had to resign and John Smith would almost certainly have been elected Prime Minister of a sensible Labour government. | | | Former Conservative minister Edwina Currie's revelation this weekend that she and former Prime Minister John Major had a four-year extramarital affair in the early '80s provided plenty of fodder for the British press. | | | The New Statesman was crippled financially." The caterer, Clare Latimer, angrily accused Major of using her as a "decoy" to distract attention from his relationship with Currie. |
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http://www.slate.com/?id=2071779
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| | Major, John Roy -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Major served as prime minister until May 1997, when his Conservative party suffered its worst loss in 165 years in national elections and was ousted by the Labour party led by Tony... | | | Learn about the Presidency of John Adams, who was the second man to hold the office of U.S. President and the first to occupy the newly constructed White House. | | | Rising above his humble background, John Major became prime minister of the United Kingdom in 1990. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9115226
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics This week Major hits out at Cabinet |
| | John Major's rage and frustration with rightwing Tories boiled over this weekend when, in an outburst, he called three of his own cabinet members "bastards". | | | Mr Brunson raises the problem of the three rebel cabinet ministers who threatened resignation if Mr Major agreed to the social chapter in order to secure ratification of the Maastricht Treaty. | | | The onslaught against the Eurosceptic ministers not named, but almost certainly Michael Howard, Peter Lilley and Michael Portillo came within minutes of the vote of confidence on Friday which kept him in office. |
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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,9174,534415,00.html
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| | Pitcairn |
| | Firmly but courteously, John told the doctor not to touch him until he had put his affairs in order. | | | In his early 20s, John had married Elizabeth (Betty) Dalrymple (1724-1809), a distant cousin of his father's old Colonel, the Earl of Stair. | | | A minister's son from Dysart, near Kirkcaldy in Fife, he fell fighting bravely at Bunker Hill in 1775 but he is better known - and his valour still respected - among his former enemies in the USA than in Scotland. |
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| | CBC News: Major to retire from Supreme Court |
| | CBC News: Major to retire from Supreme Court | | | Supreme Court Justice John Major has announced that he will retire at the end of the year, two months ahead of his mandatory retirement date. | | | Last year, the Quebec government asked Ottawa for a formal participation in the process to select justices. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/08/03/major050803.html
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| | Washington Speakers Bureau: The Rt. Hon. Sir John Major, KG, CH |
| | Author: He is the best-selling author of John Major: The Autobiography, which details his rise from humble beginnings (Major left school at 15, and was at one time unemployed) to political back-bencher to prime minister. | | | Sir John offers observations on the current state of global politics from his unique vantage point as immediate-past Prime Minister of Great Britain. | | | World Leader: As former prime minister of Great Britain, Sir John Major is one of the most respected figures in the international arena. |
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http://www.washingtonspeakers.com/speakers/Speaker.cfm?SpeakerID=2211
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| | Salon Books John Major slams Maggie Thatcher in upcoming memoir |
| | Major, the prime minister under whose watch Tony Blair's Labor Party finally brought the Tories to their knees in 1997, after 18 years in power, published an excerpt of his memoir in the London Sunday Times this week excoriating his predecessor, Margaret Thatcher. | | | John Major slams Maggie Thatcher in upcoming memoir | | | Former chancellor of the exchequer Lord Norman Lamont -- seeking, perhaps, to preempt some of the bad press that his old boss and old foe, John Major, is sending his way -- publishes his memoir, "Norman Lamont: In Office," Thursday with Little, Brown. |
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http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/10/05/majorbio
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| | John Major Wilson |
| | Annie Mary Wilson, born in Ellerker at 5:45pm on 11th January 1863, married John W Oldham, they had four children | | | Henry Wilson, born in Ellerker at 7:20am on 14th November 1860, married but had no children | | | Thomas Wilson, born in Ellerker at 3:20am on 9th March 1857, married but had no children |
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| | NPG 6402; Norma Christina Elizabeth Major; John Major |
| | John Major's wife, Norma, is seated in the background. | | | Norma Christina Elizabeth Major (born 1942), Wife of John Major. | | | NPG 6402; Norma Christina Elizabeth Major; John Major |
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| | John Major - dKosopedia |
| | Indeed, it later emerged that Major had engaged in a four year affair with a fellow MP before entering the Cabinet. | | | The Guardian once referred to Major as "the least memorable Prime Minister since Bonar Law". | | | Won a general election in 1992 against most poll predictions due to a late swing against the possibility of a Prime Minister Neil Kinnock, but was unable to rally a tired, corrupt and demoralised party. |
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http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/John_Major
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| | Museum of Local History--John C. Fremont Index Page |
| | In his life, John C. Fremont sailed to South America, explored the American Southeast, Midwest and West, conquered California, was court marshaled for mutiny, made millions in California gold, became California's first Senator, ran for President of the United States, was a Civil War General, and became a pauper in the Gilded Age. | | | His ambition lead him from humble beginnings in Georgia to the halls of power in London, Paris, New York and Washington DC. |
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http://www.museumoflocalhistory.org/fremont
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| | Major John Andre |
| | His father was a merchant, born in Geneva, Switzerland; his mother was born in France and moved to England when she was young. | | | It now seems clear that Andre looted Franklin's house under orders from Grey, explaining Andre's inability to offer his friend an explanation. | | | John Andre was born in London in 1750 to French Protestant (Huguenot) parents. |
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http://www.ushistory.org/march/bio/andre.htm
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| | Telegraph News |
| | John Major delivers a sweeping indictment of Tony Blair today, accusing him of eroding the trust of the people by undermining Parliament and politicising the Civil Service. | | | 1 August 2003: Denis tells all on 'ghastly Major and bloody Blair' | | | Mr Major has resisted requests for interviews since he retired from active politics, declining the offer of a peerage traditionally accepted by retiring prime ministers. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Major leads Tory assault on Blair's war strategy |
| | British forces will have to remain in Iraq for "many, many years" to ensure its successful reconstruction, the former prime minister John Major warned yesterday as a clutch of his ex-cabinet colleagues accused Tony Blair of misjudgment, error and even lies in the handling of the war and its aftermath. | | | Major leads Tory assault on Blair's war strategy | | | In a rare public utterance Mr Major, who led Britain into the 1991 war Gulf war after succeeding Margaret Thatcher during the prewar build-up, said: "I supported the war on the basis of what I believed to be the case and I am not moving away from that now." |
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| | Supreme Court of Canada - John C. Major |
| | Appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, November 13, 1992. | | | Supreme Court of Canada - John C. Major | | | Justice Major, B.Com., LL.B. Born in Mattawa, Ontario, 1931. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Mayor |
| | One of the greatest scholastic philosophers of his times, he had among his pupils the future Scotch reformers John Knox, Patrick Hamilton, and George Buchanan. | | | In 1530 he returned to St. Andrew's and was made provost of St. Salvator's College, a position which he occupied until his death. | | | In philosophy he was the chief exponent of the nominalistic or terministic tendency which was then prevalent at the University of Paris, while, as a canonist, he held that the chief ecclesiastical authority does not reside in the pope but in the whole Church. |
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| | John Sedgwick Biography Page |
| | Sedgwick was buried where he was born, in Cornwall Hollow, Connecticut. | | | Born in Cornwall Hollow, Connecticut on Sept 13, 1813, Sedgwick attended Sharon Academy briefly and taught school for 2 winters before entering West Point where he graduated 24 | | | Affectionately called "Uncle John" Sedgwick by his troops, he became the third and final corps commander in the Army of the Potomac to be killed in action. |
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| | Miserable Donuts |
| | Instead, they chose to be murderous, genocidal tyrants and despots. | | | Muslihoon e-mailed me and asked what I thought of the Abdul Rahman case in Afghanistan. | | | Slobo departs for his new job as the Devil's footrest. |
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| | Major John Wesley Powell |
| | Later he was made major and chief of artillery, first, of the 17th army corps and subsequently, of the department of Tennessee, taking part in the operations before Atlanta and in the battle of Franklin. | | | He also became connected with the Illinois Normal University and was widely known throughout the state by his lectures and addresses on scientific subjects. | | | At the close of operations about Vicksburg he was obliged to submit to a second operation on his arm, but returned to his post in season to take part in the Meridan raid. |
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| | Wildtoy's Major Matt Mason Home Page |
| | The range also sold in Europe as Major Matt in Great Britain and Major Matt Mason elsewhere, beginning in 1968, although not all the later or more complex playsets may have been available in all countries. | | | The Major Matt Mason line of toys was produced by Mattel from 1967 until the early 70's. | | | Profile, Major Matt Mason...following this link will transport the reader into Major Matt Mason's environment in outer space (text and images taken from the Mattel Product Catalog, inserted with most boxed playsets © Mattel). |
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| | John Major |
| | Major had been made an honorary member four years ago. | | | It was unanimously voted that John Major should be expelled. | | | The DMC had received many emails nominating him for membership. |
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| | Miserable Donuts: An Army Broken? |
| | Major John is entitled to his opinion.However,will Major John return to Iraq for more tours if his unit is called again? | | | THEN the democrat congress decided to insure defeat and reneged on the cash and materiel aid that we had promised. | | | I was away for almost 15 months when Major John and I were mobilized for Afghanistan and in that time MJ says he truely feared for his life three times, I did not at all. |
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| | John Major Appointed European Chairman of The Carlyle Group |
| | Major said: âI have enjoyed my time in politics but it is now time to move on. | | | Major will serve on the boards of directors of several of the companies in which Carlyle's European private equity teams make investments. | | | Major will serve as Chairman of Carlyle's European private equity funds and their advisory boards. |
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| | John Burgoyne |
| | John Burgoyne, (1722–1792), British army officer and playwright, whose bold plan of invading the American colonies from Canada ended in his surrender at Saratoga, N. Born in London in 1722, Burgoyne studied at Westminster School and joined the British Army in 1740. | | | Appointed Major General in 1772, Burgoyne was sent to Boston, Mass., in May 1775. | | | He was elected to Parliament in 1761 and achieved prominence in 1772 by demanding an investigation of the East India Company. |
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| | Lieutenant-Colonel John Frost |
| | Frost was steered towards a career in local politics by his old friend Freddie Gough, who had since become a Member of Parliament, and after becoming involved in the Church and the Conservative Party, Frost was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for West Sussex in 1982. | | | His childhood was spent in a variety of places; the family returned to England before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 and his father was posted to France, where he earned the Military Cross and was Mentioned in Despatches on no fewer than five occasions. | | | See also: Polish Brigade, Reasons for the Failure, Lt-General Browning, Major-General Urquhart, Major Gough, Major Hibbert, Major Wallis, Major Crawley, Major Deane-Drummond, Major Dover, Major Pott, Major Tatham-Warter, Captain Hoyer-Millar, Father Egan. |
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| | From John Major's Historia Majoris Britanniae (1521) |
| | [John Major was a Scottish historian and intellectual who, unlike Wyntoun and Bower, worked outside the country; he spent many years at the University of Paris, where he became well enough known to be mentioned ironically in Rabelais's Gargantua as the author of a treatise on black puddings. | | | Written in a newly humanist Latin, rather than Bower's old fashioned style, this also has much less Scottish sympathies than his predecessors: he cuts the discussion of Edward I's cruelty and sees him as less of a real threat to Scotland than did his predecessors -- and also his followers, Hector Boece and David Buchanan. | | | This suggests that Major was familiar with the Gest and its presentation of the outlaw, and that accords with the idea that he was not only a humane robber but also a "chief." The Latin word was dux, which just means "leader," but can also, as "duke," have aristocratic implications. |
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http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/historia.htm
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| | John Major Tiger Woods |
| | Entry-level positions at Carlyle for ex-Prime Ministers start at a half million pounds. | | | Major denied any such affair and went after him, and wiped him out, and his newspaper too. | | | Then the other day, Edwina Currie, Major's afairee went public and confirmed the original "rumor" as the headline story it has now become. |
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| | British Politics Page - John Major 1990-1997 |
| | This is not the official web-site of John Major, as it is an independent resource produced by the UKPOL magazine, but we would like to thank John Major for his help in the project and for providing valuable information. | | | Welcome to our web-site about John Major, and the 1990-1997 Conservative administration. | | | Was John Major right to "wait and see" on the Euro? |
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| | John Major Cartoons |
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