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Miller said that he sever planned on a care or in the arts, but in 1939, as a struggling young inters in London, he was offered the opportunity to write and perform in a comedy revue at the Edinburgh Summer Pestival...
Levin explained that when the college first hired "Pearse," it received a document from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland certifying the degrees he claimed to have. "We've since located the real Dr. Pearse at the University of British Columbia," Levin said...
That was about the only celebration not planned for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh during their ten-day visit to the West Coast. After lunch aboard U.S.S. Ranger (where a sailor, Devon Rowlands, said it had been "a bigger deal when Suzanne Somers visited in 1981"), they were off to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (where they were given photos of sea slugs) and the San Diego Zoo (where the animals' lunch was delayed so they would be friskier...
...Islands, the self-styled "world's No. 1 tax haven," with some 420 banks. Nearly a third of the island's 17,000 inhabitants, who pride themselves on their links to Mother England, came out to wave Union Jacks at the royal couple. But the Duke of Edinburgh, whose pet cause is the World Wild Life Fund, stole the show. On the windswept coast, he looked in on the world's first farm to breed the rare green turtle. Sporting a black tie festooned with tiny pandas, he left no doubt where he stood...
...their final weekend, March 5 through 7, the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh will journey "privately" to Yosemite National Park, where the royal entourage will take over the entire Ahwahnee Hotel (121 rooms) and allow photographers only one brief opportunity to take pictures. As they tramp through the woods and gaze at the mountains' majesty, they will finally get the chance to be the plucky and curious British tourists that they really are. -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Mary Cronin with the Queen and Alessandra Stanley/Los Angeles