Star of the East
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Star of the East may refer to:
  • Barney Aaron
    Barney Aaron
    Barney Aaron was an English bare-knuckle boxer.The father of Hall of Famer Young Barney Aaron began boxing in 1819 and became a Lightweight Champion in the 1820s. Called The Star of the East, Aaron got victories over William Connelly, Ned Stockton, Lenney, Frank Redmond and Peter Warren...

    , English lightweight champion boxer
  • The Evening Star
    Evening Star (Ipswich)
    The Evening Star is a daily evening local newspaper based in Ipswich.The newspaper started publication on 17 February 1885 and was known as The Star of the East until 1893....

    newspaper, which had this title between 1885 and 1893
  • Umm Kulthum (1904-1975), an Egyptian singer
  • A diamond
    Diamond
    In mineralogy, diamond is an allotrope of carbon, where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice. Diamond is less stable than graphite, but the conversion rate from diamond to graphite is negligible at ambient conditions...

     bought by Evalyn Walsh McLean
    Evalyn Walsh McLean
    Evalyn Walsh McLean was an American mining heiress and socialite who was famous for being the last private owner of the Hope Diamond as well as another famous diamond, the Star of the East...

     from Cartier SA
    Cartier SA
    Cartier S.A., commonly known as Cartier , is a French luxury jeweler and watch manufacturer. The corporation carries the name of the Cartier family of jewellers whose control ended in 1964 and who were known for numerous pieces including the "Bestiary" , the diamond necklace created for Bhupinder...

     of Paris
  • An illuminated art-work in Mablethorpe
    Mablethorpe
    Mablethorpe is a small seaside town in East Lindsey on the coast of Lincolnshire, England.-Geography:Several small caravan parks exist around Mablethorpe. The town is administered with Sutton-on-Sea and Trusthorpe, as the civil parish of Mablethorpe and Sutton...

    , Lincolnshire
    Lincolnshire
    Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

  • A Christmas carol
    Christmas carol
    A Christmas carol is a carol whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas or the winter season in general and which are traditionally sung in the period before Christmas.-History:...

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    • Star of the East
      Star of the East (song)
      "Star of the East", originally named "'" is a popular Christmas carol written in the 1800s.The words were written by Alfred Hans Zoller and translated to English by New York lyricist George Cooper in 1890. The music was arranged by composer Amanda Kennedy in 1883, for a song called "Star of the Sea"...

      , oh Bethlehem star
  • "The Star of the East", nickname of snooker player Ding Junhui
    Ding Junhui
    Ding Junhui is a Chinese professional snooker player. Ding Junhui is China's most successful player ever, having become only the second teenager, after John Higgins, to win three ranking titles...



Star in the East may refer to:
  • A radical newspaper in Wisbech
    Wisbech
    Wisbech is a market town, inland port and civil parish with a population of 20,200 in the Fens of Cambridgeshire. The tidal River Nene runs through the centre of the town and is spanned by two bridges...

     between 1836 and 1840 http://newsplan.liem.org.uk/details.asp?pid=%7B34DB509E-4796-4980-BD67-3686C3CB3FDE%7D&lid=na, owned by the family of Octavia Hill
    Octavia Hill
    Octavia Hill was an English social reformer, whose main concern was the welfare of the inhabitants of cities, especially London, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Born into a family with a strong commitment to alleviating poverty, she herself grew up in straitened circumstances owing...

     http://www.utopia-britannica.org.uk/pages/CAMBS.htm , also known as the Wisbech and East of England Gazette and Advertiser
  • The Order of the Star in the East
    Order of the Star in the East
    The Order of the Star in the East was an organization established by the leadership of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, India, from 1911 to 1927...

    , a theosophical organisation
  • The Star of Bethlehem
    Star of Bethlehem
    In Christian tradition, the Star of Bethlehem, also called the Christmas Star, revealed the birth of Jesus to the magi, or "wise men", and later led them to Bethlehem. The star appears in the nativity story of the Gospel of Matthew, where magi "from the east" are inspired by the star to travel to...

     (referring to Matthew 2:2)
  • A hymn
    Hymn
    A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification...

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    • Lo! the star in the East! over Bethlehem’s plain by J. M. Lowrie, in The Silver Song, by William Augustine Ogden
      William Augustine Ogden
      William Augustine Ogden was an American composer, especially of church music and hymns, choir conductor and educator....

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