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budapest

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Budapest were a melancholic post-grunge rock band from Leamington Spa , England . The band were formed in 1999 by John Garrison (vocals, guitar) with Adrian Kelley (bass), Mark Walworth (guitar), Paul Possart (drums) and Chris Pemberton (piano, keyboards). ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Hungarian capital, formed 1872 from merger of two cities on opposite shores of the Danube, Buda (probably from a word originally meaning "water") + Pest , a Hungarian word meaning "furnace, oven, cove," also in Slavic (compare Russian pech' ). Compare Ofen ...

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n. The capital city of Hungary.

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Foreign Minister Hennyei communicated to the Swedish and Turkish Embassies in Budapest the proclamation and its reasons, and communicated also to the Hungarian Embassies in Stockholm and Ankara the request that they should bring the facts to the attention of the representatives of the Allied Powers.

On the same day Hitler received Prime Minister Imredy and Foreign Minister Kanya of Hungary and gave them a dressing down for the hesitancy shown in Budapest.

At the same time parliamentary circles learned that Foreign Minister Kanya had communicated to the ambassadors of our country in Berlin, London, and Paris, and that he personally had communicated the same to Knox, British Ambassador to Budapest, that Hungary was going to request in a note from Czechoslovakia to allow the fate of those territories in which Hungarians lived in majority to be decided by popular vote and that he had the cooperation of Poland in this matter also.

I did this experiment in four frenzied weeks in 1984 with a fanatically hard-working, Warsaw-based autoradiographer, Margaret Kossut, and repeated them in more detail the following year with a neuroanatomist from Budapest, Andras Csillag, who helped identify the anatomical structures in which Margaret and I had found the changes.

Of course, when I saw the older Piatti standing in the hall of the Hotel Hungaria at Budapest I realised that I had been followed from the moment that Emily and I ran out of the house at Bread Street.

They began to talk in Berlin, in Czechoslovakia, in Poznan, and eventually in Budapest.

Budapest, on this November afternoon, Scottie eyes her like a delegate from a hostile service.

There was once a ballet dancer who, in Budapest, Vienna, and Copenhagen, was knitting rompers and jackets for a baby that had long lain buried at the edge of Oliva Forest, weighted down with stones.

Chapter Thirty-Four Day Fourteen Budapest The flight from Paris to Budapest on Malev Airlines took two hours and five minutes.

Robert took the airport bus to the centre of Budapest, impressed by what he saw.

It contained a train ticket to Budapest in the name of Commander Robert Bellamy.

By the time that she was twenty, she had fled her home and established herself in Budapest where, overnight, she gained notoriety as the cause of a sabre duel in which both combatants were slain.

By the time that she was twenty, she had fled her home and established herself in Budapest where, overnight, she gained notoriety as the cause of a saber duel in which both combatants were slain.

They recently lost their jobs when their employer's ranch went bankrupt, so they entrained for the west to have some civilized and cultured diversion in Budapest and here at Balaton before returning to the puszta to seek new positions.

The other routes to the west, between the northern tip of Balaton and Budapest might or might not have been watched, but they had taken no chances.