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Great Eastern (newspaper)
Great Eastern may refer to: __NOTOC__ Transport * , a steamship built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1858, the largest ship of its era * Great Eastern Railway, a defunct English railway company formed in 1862 ** First Great Eastern, a defunct train operating company on the Great Eastern Main Line ** Great Eastern Main Line, a British railway line * The Great Eastern, a bridge laying tank of World War II Arts and entertainment * ''The Great Eastern'' (radio show), that ran from 1994 to 1999 on CBC Radio One * ''The Great Eastern'' (album), a 2000 album by the Scottish band The Delgados * ''The Great Eastern'' (Rodman novel), a 2019 novel by Howard A. Rodman * ''The Great Eastern'' (Embirikos novel), a 1990-1992 novel by Andreas Embirikos Other uses * Great Eastern Hotel (other) * Great Eastern Life, an insurance company in Singapore and Malaysia See also * Great Easton (other) * Grand Est Grand Est (; gsw-FR, Grossa Oschta; Moselle Franconian/ lb, Gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Eastern Railway
The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923. Formed in 1862 after the amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway and several other smaller railway companies the GER served Cambridge, Chelmsford, Colchester, Great Yarmouth, Ipswich, King's Lynn, Lowestoft, Norwich, Southend-on-Sea (opened by the GER in 1889), and East Anglian seaside resorts such as Hunstanton (whose prosperity was largely a result of the GER's line being built) and Cromer. It also served a suburban area, including Enfield, Chingford, Loughton and Ilford. This suburban network was, in the early 20th century, the busiest steam-hauled commuter system in the world. The majority of the Great Eastern's locomotives and rolling stock were built at Stratford Works, part of which was on the site of to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Great Eastern
First Great Eastern was a train operating company in England owned by FirstGroup that operated the Great Eastern franchise from January 1997 until March 2004. Services First Great Eastern operated all stops and limited stops services on the Great Eastern Main Line from Liverpool Street station, London Liverpool Street to Southend Victoria railway station, Southend Victoria, Southminster railway station, Southminster, , Colchester Town railway station, Colchester Town, Clacton-on-Sea railway station, Clacton-on-Sea, Walton-on-the-Naze railway station, Walton-on-the-Naze, Harwich Town railway station, Harwich Town and Ipswich railway station, Ipswich. It also ran services on the Romford to Upminster Line and Gainsborough Line from Marks Tey railway station, Marks Tey to Sudbury railway station, Sudbury. Rolling stock First Great Eastern inherited a fleet of British Rail Class 312, Class 312, British Rail Class 315, Class 315 and British Rail Class 321, Class 321s from British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Eastern Main Line
The Great Eastern Main Line (GEML, sometimes referred to as the East Anglia Main Line) is a major railway line on the British railway system which connects Liverpool Street station in central London with destinations in east London and the East of England, including , , , and . Its numerous branches also connect the main line to , , , Harwich and a number of coastal towns including Southend-on-Sea, , and .National Rail, ''Rail Services Around London & the South East'', (2006) Its main users are commuters travelling to and from London, particularly the City of London, which is served by Liverpool Street, and areas in east London, including the Docklands financial district via the London Underground and Docklands Light Railway connections at Stratford. The line is also heavily used by leisure travellers, as it and its branches serve a number of seaside resorts, shopping areas and countryside destinations. The route also provides the main artery for substantial freight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Vandepeer Clarke
Major Cecil Vandepeer Clarke MC (1897–1961) was an engineer, inventor and soldier who served in both the First and Second World Wars. Early life Clarke was born on 15 February 1897. He grew up in London and was known to his friends as Nobby, as he would be throughout his life. He attended Greenwich Hospital School (now part of the National Maritime Museum) and the Grocers' Company School (later renamed Hackney Downs School). He studied at the University of London; but he abandoned this for a two-year certificate course with the Officer Training Corps when the First World War broke out in 1914. World War I Clarke was gazetted as a Second Lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment. He then transferred to the 9th Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment with 23rd Division. This unit was a Pioneer Battalion, whose duties involved tunnelling, and general explosives work. Clarke became an explosives expert and he was said to have loved making loud bangs. Clarke served with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Eastern (radio Show)
''The Great Eastern'' was a radio comedy show on CBC Radio One. It ran from 1994 to 1999. Billed as "Newfoundland's Cultural Magazine", ''The Great Eastern'' was an hour-long summer replacement show on CBC Radio One for the first two seasons, and then became a half-hour regular show for the next three seasons. Purportedly a culture, arts and entertainment show on the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland (BCN), ''The Great Eastern'' was in fact a satirical and parodic comedy which developed an extensive fictional universe of characters and Newfoundland institutions. Content and Style ''The Great Eastern'' purported to be a long-running show on the BCN of which hour-long and half-hour-long segments were broadcast on Radio One (and, through atmospheric anomalies, to Iceland). It was named, both in real life and in fiction, after the ill-fated 19th-century steamship bearing the same name. Although content varied from episode to episode, most started with theme music, moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Eastern (album)
''The Great Eastern'' is the third studio album by Scottish indie rock band The Delgados. It was released on 17 April 2000 in the United Kingdom on their own Chemikal Underground record label, and later on 9 May 2000 in the United States. ''The Great Eastern'' was their first album not to be named after a cycling theme – the title refers to a textile mill in Glasgow, latterly a hostel for the homeless. Reception At the end of 2000, ''The Great Eastern'' was included in several publications' lists of the year's best albums, including being named fifth best by ''Mojo'' and 28th best by ''NME''. The album was nominated for the 2000 Mercury Prize. In 2008, ''The Great Eastern'' was ranked at number 49 on ''Mojo''s list of "The 50 Greatest UK Indie Records of All Time". Track listing Personnel Credits for ''The Great Eastern'' adapted from album liner notes. The Delgados * Stewart Henderson – bass guitar, accordion, autoharp, guitar, handclaps, piano, Rhodes piano, sle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Eastern (Rodman Novel)
''The Great Eastern'' by Howard A. Rodman is an anticolonial adventure novel, set in the 1850s-1870s in New York, London, India, Paris and the North Atlantic. Pitted against each other are two great 19th-century fictional anti-heroes, Jules Verne's Captain Nemo and Herman Melville's Captain Ahab. One lives beneath the waves and hates everything upon them. The other lives upon the waves and hates everything beneath. Caught in between is Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the preeminent civil engineer of Victorian England, kidnapped and pressed into service to build Nemo his submarine, then to join him in his battle against the modern world. It was published by Melville House Publishing on June 4, 2019. The ''Los Angeles Review of Books'' praised the work, calling it "a pastiche in the best postmodern sense: it’s intense, invigorating, and faithful to the originals while still breaking new ground." Leonard Maltin, film critic and Rodman "colleague ... at the USC School of Cinematic Arts," p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Eastern (Embirikos Novel)
''The Great Eastern'' () is a novel by Greek writer and poet Andreas Embirikos. Described as the author's "lifework", it is the largest Modern Greek literature, modern Greek novel, of approximately 2,100 pages, comprising in its final form five parts and spanning over a hundred chapters. Its writing lasted from 1945 to 1951, though the author continued to work on the project until its final version became standardized around 1970. The book was first published in eight volumes in the period 1990–1992, fifteen years after the writer's death. Described as the most daring Greek novel, it has been received with both unbridled enthusiasm and harsh criticism. Its libertine nature and highly erotic content provoked reactions, allowing it to be compared to other well-known works of erotic literature, such as Marquis de Sade's ''The 120 Days of Sodom, 120 Days of Sodom''. The novel is centred around the maiden voyage of the British ocean liner "Great Eastern" sailing from Liverpool, Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Eastern Hotel (other)
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Great Eastern Hotel may refer to: * Great Eastern Hotel (Kolkata) * Great Eastern Hotel, London Andaz London Liverpool Street is a 5 star hotel in central London, situated immediately south of Liverpool Street station, originally built as the Great Eastern Hotel in 1884. The building underwent extensive renovation and expansion between 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Eastern Life
Great Eastern Life Assurance Co. Ltd, often known as Great Eastern Life or Great Eastern, is a Singaporean multinational finance and insurance corporation with operations in various countries and jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region. Headquartered at Pickering Street in Raffles Place, it is a subsidiary of OCBC Bank, and it is the largest and oldest life insurance company in Singapore. At 2006, the company had assets in excess of S$8 billion, 2.6 million policies in force served by 24 branch offices and a service network of more than 17,000 agents nationwide. In August 2007, it had S$45 billion in assets and 3 million policyholders. In 2020, the company's website stated that it has over S$90 billion in assets and over 8 million policyholders, including 5 million from government schemes. It has three distribution channels – a tied agency force, bancassurance, and financial advisory firm, Great Eastern Financial Advisers. It is the only life insurance company to be liste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Easton (other)
Great Easton may refer to two places in England: *Great Easton, Essex *Great Easton, Leicestershire Great Easton is a village and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. The parish had a population of 558 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 671 at the 2011 census. Overview The village's name means 'eastern ... See also * Great Eastern (other) {{place name disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
