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...city, too. Aside from employing thousands of Geordies, the Northern Rock Foundation, which receives 5% of the bank's annual profits, has handed out $350 million over the last decade to more than 1,500 good causes across the northeast. From its $2 million endowment of the gleaming Sage Gateshead concert hall, to the $300,000 it funneled into help for local prostitutes, "almost anything that happens in sport, in the arts, the community, charities," says James Ramsbotham, chief executive of the North East Chamber of Commerce, "they are at the heart...
Drawbridges are quaint, but they are so medieval. So when city planners in the industrial town of Gateshead, in northeast England, picked a design for a new pedestrian and bike bridge to connect Gateshead with the historic city of Newcastle across the winding river Tyne, they decided that a break from tradition was in order. For most of the day, a single steel arch vaults high above the water, fixed by 18 harplike suspension cables to a 413-ft.-long, curved pathway below. When a boat approaches, however, the entire bridge pivots to one side. As the lower deck rises...
Among the converted is Margaret Reavey, 25, a public housing office receptionist in Gateshead, on the northeast coast, who became a Marxist in sympathy for the miners' strike that helped topple the Conservative government of Prime Minister Edward Heath in 1974. "You don't go to bed at night and wake up a Marxist," explains Reavey. "It comes through experience. I disliked what Heath and the Tories stood...
...quotient was seven!"). According to the Donnelly lucky-seven countdown, it turned out that Bacon wrote not only Shakespeare, but all of Marlowe, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and Montaigne's Essays. The Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford boom was drummed up in 1920 by a Gateshead schoolmaster named J. Thomas Looney, a proper foil for the Baconian camp's George M. Battey. The fact that De Vere died in 1604, and The Tempest, for example, contains allusions to events after 1604, puts a crimp in the thesis-but to a cultist, what...
Casehardened. In Gateshead, England, after his arrest for drunken driving, James Scott admitted under oath that he had downed 13 pints of beer on the night he was arrested, argued that "it would take 15 pints to put me under the influence," was acquitted when a police sergeant testified that Scott was "well used to taking drink...