The first recorded case of an Indian being christened here was bound up with British commercial adventures in South Asia. |
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I also stopped past my new post office box on Wednesday, which was christened with its first letter. |
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But the rain came down again, leading to two further washouts, and the players christened the game the Match that Refused to Die. |
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As befitted his station the child was christened in the Church of the Mission. |
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Five weeks later she was christened in the chapel of Buckingham Palace and was given the names Elizabeth Alexandra Mary. |
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And the Armagh back line indulged Spillane by donning the nicknames he had christened them with. |
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Their little girl was christened Kelly and Michelle and Eric enjoyed a get-together with family and friends afterwards. |
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Raymond is what I was christened and what my mum calls me when she has a cob on with me. |
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A doting couple travelled 3,000 miles so their baby could be christened in the same cathedral as his mother and grandmother. |
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Celebrity fisherman Ian Botham christened the proceedings by pouring the traditional quaich of whisky into the dark waters. |
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The baby, to be christened Clara Rosa, was born on June 26 and weighed 6lbs 8ozs. |
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Now, eight months after their dramatic birth, they are in good health and have been christened at Bury Parish Church. |
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The baby was christened in the Holy Family Church and will be called Niamh Mary. |
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Despite my views on God and religion, I felt it important that the kids should be christened in their local church. |
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Although Karanjia already had a daughter, she took the abandoned baby home and christened her Dimple Irene. |
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Matt had christened Jerry with that nickname when they were boys because of his friend's Celtic heritage. |
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Babies are christened according to the principles set down by the Lutheran Church of Iceland. |
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Three days later, on 10 September he was christened by Father Anthony Strele at Sevenhill. |
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Proud dads have walked their daughters down this aisle and parents have christened their babies here. |
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They hauled the lifeboats across the ice for the next four days and stopped on a floe of ice which they christened Ocean Camp. |
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Although christened Maria Philomena, she like to be called by her preferred name, Maureen. |
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Early in this miserable stretch, I christened him the Arsonist, and the name stuck among my friends. |
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Behind our chalet, which my daughter christened the Magic House, rose our very own mountain, at least 50 metres high. |
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They called the baby Joseph Patrick and he was christened in the Holy Family Church. |
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Quick as dawn, the dogwoods have raised improbable awnings, christened with rain. |
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The team, who have christened themselves the Can Cook Will Cook gang, are learning how to cook simple, healthy meals on a budget. |
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A hallmark of the newly christened recession has been a plunge in venture-capital spending. |
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I christened her Gazelle, learned to sail on her, and took my wife and children sailing nearly every weekend. |
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I asked the elder boy, whom I christened Tommy, if he would come along with me and the yarramans. |
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According to his diary, the hearth was christened with a fire, supper was served on a workbench lit by candles, and the few merry guests danced the Virginia reel. |
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Casey christened her the Pink Panther, and the name has stuck. |
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She was born on June 16, 1886, and christened Helen Nora Wilson Low. |
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The Plantagenets wanted him christened Henry after his grandfather, but Constance named him Arthur for the legendary King Arthur, a name to conjure with among the Bretons. |
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Originally christened, with admirable simplicity, the Station Hotel, the royal prefix was added after Queen Victoria blessed the building with her presence. |
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During the 1920s and 30s he was the leader of a clique of Georgian writers, who, violently opposed by Bloomsbury and the Sitwells, were christened the Squirearchy. |
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Compare this with the menu at Botin, christened by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest restaurant in the world. |
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The winner was a plump piglet wearing a pair of headphones, christened Oink. |
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The ship was christened in 1942 but her first prosaic name, J-826, belied the exceptional life she would lead. |
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Kate – christened Catherine Elizabeth – has a younger sister, Pippa, and brother, James. |
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We established what we christened the Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth. |
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Freycinet Peninsula was named after French voyages while Schouten Island was christened by earlier Dutch navigators. |
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It is likely that this apparition caused Martin to be christened at Easter 339 and to decide to devote his life to God. |
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Some 800 miles inland, they found a network of intermittent channels and permanent warm-water billabongs, which they christened Cooper's Creek, after a South Australian judge. |
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Emily was put on a ventilator and christened in the hospital, but after five weeks doctors said she was strong enough to go home with her parents. |
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Their baby son will be christened Matthew in memory of his father. |
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The King returns to Cleveland, a battered Kobe battles in the West, and the Zen Master is christened the savior of New York. |
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She swam an impressive 20 lengths of the pool in 19 minutes and five seconds and presented Lydia with the money and a cute teddy bear, which Lydia christened Benjamin. |
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The Tasmanian tiger, a dog-like creature christened for its striped pelt, was hunted into extinction because it was seen as a threat to livestock. |
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Edmund Burke, on the other hand, christened modern Toryism with his assertion that society was based on a set of values and principals which should not be eroded. |
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My mobile phone says 19.38 and I am still alone in the aptly christened Nostalgie Ball Room, barring a handful of meticulously besuited men at the door. |
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This is Menie Links, a 4,000-year-old unspoiled coastal dune system on the north-east coast of Scotland which Molly Forbes has christened paradise. |
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The duckling, christened Lucky, was waddling down Cyprus Road behind its mother with its nine brothers and sisters when it toppled over and fell into a storm drain. |
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Widening the net, there is a whole football family Robinson christened Paul with enough having played at professional level to field a five-a-side team with two subs. |
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It didn't have a name, so we christened it the Dangerously Drinkable. |
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I'm so glad I brought my walking pole, it's great for measuring bog depth before you leap in, my new boots have been well and truly christened now. |
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Giggs was christened Ryan Joseph Wilson but as a teenager changed his surname to that of his mother after his parents separated. |
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Dana Rinehart, the 50th mayor of Columbus, christened the ship as part of the 500th anniversary of its voyage. |
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In 1878, the Netherlands christened the Willem Barentsz Arctic exploration ship. |
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The intelligent pallet sorting system is the most recent creation: christened I-Cube, it is the fruit of collaboration between Doeschot, Storax and Wics. |
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The Navy's newest Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, Halsey, was christened on 17 January. |
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The child was christened Elizabeth, in honour of Henry's mother, Elizabeth of York. |
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Danny had christened himself the Italian Stallion years ago in reference to his family's Italian heritage and the name had stuck. |
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According to Richards, Jones christened the band during a phone call to Jazz News. |
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Although christened Richard Henry, his parents called him Peter, after his elder stillborn brother. |
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On 7 January 1904 the boy was christened Arthur Evelyn St John Waugh but was known in the family and in the wider world as Evelyn. |
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On 31 December 1879, Bram and Florence's only child was born, a son whom they christened Irving Noel Thornley Stoker. |
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Kalvari, as the first Scorpene has been christened, was undocked in Mumbai's Mazagon Docks Limited on Monday after much delay. |
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Two years ago, the Bloc Québécois set up a committee that we christened the Léonard committee, after the former president of the treasury board of Quebec, Jacques Léonard. |
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The Abeille Liberté will be christened on November 17 and will reinforce the marine safety plan set up by the French government in the Channel and the North Sea. |
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We thus christened the new take-off with screwdrivers and a hammer. |
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In this changed world she had christened herself a Middle Power and set out within the con¬text of her functional principle1, to prove that this was no idle boast. |
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Laxa christened parenica 'the queen of cheeses' and commented on its remarkable shape, reminiscent of a decorative motif used frequently by the ancient Slavs. |
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The new SAFRAN 60-foot monohull was christened on September 1st, at 3 p.m., in the Paul Vatine Basin, after a 15-month construction job at the Larros boatyard. |
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A publishing company's spellchecker christened several high school students in Pennsylvania with new names, and then printed them in a yearbook. |
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Likewise, a somewhat less celebrated full-back, Mitch Ward, was christened Mitchum, after Robert, the stonefaced star of The Sundowners. |
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The ones St Maggie christened brave pioneers in the new nonindustrial revolution. |
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Last night, proud new mum and former Catatonia star Cerys also revealed she has christened her son Johnny Natchez Jones Riddle. |
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Under current legislation, one in five oversubscribed schools can decide to only let in pupils who have been christened. |
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It's a case of bad timing for Dino when you consider that there had never been a player christened Baggio in Serie A's long history until they both arrived on the scene. |
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A 300-tonne sail-assisted steamboat was acquired and christened all too aptly, as it turned out Endurance. Endurance left Plymouth on August 8th, four days after Britain declared war on Germany. |
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People from the area christened it 'the city of roses' for reasons which are abundantly clear when you see the breathtaking flowers that add colour to its streets. |
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Orlando. There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened. |
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Paull Khan, racing director at the administrative arm of the BHA, told the broadcasting giant any future equine purchase he makes will be christened Worksop Bellyflop. |
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Singing legend ROD STEWART has donated pounds 5,000 to historic South Leith Parish Church where his son Allistair was christened in June for new curtains. |
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Since 1996, only children that are christened become members. |
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That injustices christened by slavery and shaped by Jim Crow laws are alive and well in current police, municipal and court practices is not an eye-opener. |
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Twin babies of Denmark's Crown Princess Mary were christened at Holmen's Church in Copenhagen with Mary's Australian family and friends as godparents. |
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The 579 gross register ton ship was christened the BRP Tagbanua and will join the country's fleet of landing crafts for transporting troops in trouble spots. |
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The newspaper has christened her as the reigning Queen of Tennis. |
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