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'Dance is beautiful': Kenyan slum reaches for ballet stars

Urdu Point 07 Dec 2023
"We are getting there," counters Rust ... Lavender Orisa, who received a scholarship last year to study at the English National Ballet School in London, grew up in the Nairobi slum of Kibera. "Coming from Kibera, it was impossible for me to imagine one day dancing in London," said the 17-year-old, who is now back in Nairobi to finish high school ... ....
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Shane MacGowan, hard-drinking poet of The Pogues, dies at 65

Union Leader 01 Dec 2023
After winning a scholarship to the prestigious Westminster School in London, MacGowan struggled to fit in and was expelled two years later for drug use and started hanging out in London bars with other musicians ... After recovering, he embraced the eruption of punk in London in the late 1970s and early 80s.
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BOB SKOWRONSKI

Republican American 01 Dec 2023
He enrolled at Admiral Billard Academy prep school in New London and played so well there that the college scholarship offers came rolling in from places like Notre Dame, North Carolina, Southern Cal and others ... But my father wanted something better for Frank so he told them Bob would go there if they gave Frank a scholarship, too, and they did.”.
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The making of vulnerable genius Shane MacGowan: Drinking two bottles of Guinness a day aged ...

The Daily Mail 01 Dec 2023
Shane MacGowan pictured drinking and smoking at his favourite London pub Filthy MacNasty's in Islington in 1994 ... Shane pictured posing on Camden Road, London, in March 1987 ... He left Holmewood with a scholarship to Westminster School in London, but was expelled in his second year after being found in possession of drugs.
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How Shane MacGowan first tried to make it on the punk scene by calling himself ...

The Daily Mail 01 Dec 2023
'Cannablism at Clash gig' ... MacGowan's high expectations were boosted for their son when, after the family moved to London, he earned a scholarship to the highly prestigious Westminster School - the alma mater of several British prime ministers. But it was in London that MacGowan discovered marijuana and the music scene that would become his life ... .
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Shane MacGowan, lead singer of the Pogues, dead at 65

Hindustan Times 30 Nov 2023
After winning a scholarship to the prestigious Westminster School in London, MacGowan struggled to fit in and was expelled two years later for drug use and started hanging out in London bars with other musicians ... After recovering, he embraced the eruption of punk in London in the late 1970s and early 80s.
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Shane MacGowan, songwriter who fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, dies at 65

The Spokesman-Review 30 Nov 2023
MacGowan emerged from London’s punk scene in the late 1970s and spent nine tumultuous years with the initial incarnation of the Pogues ... When the family moved to London, he earned a scholarship to the Westminster School, situated on the grounds of Westminster Abbey, which had educated several British prime ministers.
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Shane MacGowan, frontman of The Pogues, dies aged 65

The Daily Telegraph 30 Nov 2023
Shane MacGowan, the frontman of The Pogues, has died at the age of 65 ... His wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, wrote on Instragram that MacGowan had “gone to be with Jesus and Mary and his beautiful mother Therese”. She wrote ... His family later moved back to England and MacGowan earned a literature scholarship to the prestigious Westminster School in London ... .
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Shane MacGowan: laureate of lowlife folk-punk

Urdu Point 30 Nov 2023
- Punk in waiting - ... The teenage MacGowan won a scholarship at London's elite Westminster school but was expelled after being caught in possession of drugs ... MacGowan came of age in the London punk scene, going by the name "Shane O'Hooligan" -- aping the pseudonymous style of Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious and Billy Idol ... - Commercial success - ... ....
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Shane MacGowan

The Daily Mail 30 Nov 2023
After winning a scholarship to the prestigious Westminster School in London, MacGowan struggled to fit in and was expelled two years later for drug use and started hanging out in London bars with other musicians.
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Hard-drinking poet/singer Shane MacGowan hit creative highs in The Pogues

AOL 30 Nov 2023
The songwriter, who found fame as the lead singer of London Irish punk/folk band The Pogues, has died aged 65 ... The family later moved back to England and MacGowan earned a literature scholarship to the prestigious Westminster School in London but was expelled in his second year when he was caught in possession of drugs ... In July 2023 she wrote ... .
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The man who epitomised punk rock: The Pogues

The Daily Mail 30 Nov 2023
Young Shane won a literary competition in a national newspaper, and then a scholarship to Westminster, one of the most prestigious public schools in the country. As a London schoolboy he discovered marijuana, grew his hair long like a hippie, and got hooked on prescription tranquilisers.
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7 key takeaways from Rockford-area Thanksgiving basketball tournaments

Journal-Standard 27 Nov 2023
And with Boylan’s tournament ending by naming the most famous gym in the NIC-10 after the league’s all-time winningest coach ...It’s what we wanted ... Paityn London, their 5-8 freshman guard, received NCAA Division I scholarship offers before her first game and Megan Holder is a returning all-conference player in both volleyball and basketball ... Contact.
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He wanted to be a trombone player. Instead, he ended up as CEO of one ...

Business Insider 26 Nov 2023
The Swede started playing the trombone at the age of 11 and was good enough to land scholarships that took him to Britain and the US. (His time in London included a bit of busking on the Underground ... "I like people, and I like travel," Lundgren tells Business Insider in a faint Swedish accent during an interview in central London.

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