FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Chinese investor Creat Group Corp has offered to buy German blood plasma products maker Biotest (BIOG.
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The idea, like Kurweil's quote in the album biog, is to add some paint blushes to Tatum's story – a choice I've probably forced on him.
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Co-founder and CEO Bill O'Farrell lists a number of prior exits in his Body Labs' biog: namely SpeechWorks, acquired by Nuance; CoSA acquired by Adobe; and OpenAir acquired by Netsuite.
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Currently the only custom elements on your public page are a short biog and the option to pin one of your stories to the top of the feed to keep it flagged (much like a pinned tweet).
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Pressure The path to Bridlemere But his back was broke Fred Roe (1864 – 16 August 1947)Biog (artmagick.com)Biog (artoftheprint.com)Biog (by Bob Speel) was a genre artist and illustrator, best known for his paintings of landscapes, portraits and military scenes.
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Kirche (Jena, 1790, 8vo): — Programma de Judaeo Immortali (Tub., 1815). See Migne, Biog. Chretienne, s.v.
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The show's signature tune was composed by Ronan Johnston."BIOG: Rojo". Rojomusic. Accessed 1 February 2009.
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In 1586 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Downton in Wiltshire.History of Parliament biog.
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Samuel A. Ashe, ed., Biographical History of North Carolina, vol. 3 (1905). Biog. Dir. Am. Cong. (1961).
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5.8), produced at Peterborough Abbey. (a section of a psalter).Biog. of St Kyneburg from: Eckenstein, Lina (d.
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Translated Warheroes webpage: biog of Boris Alexandrov He was succeeded by Victor Fedorov, the chorus master since 1986.
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This allowed the film to stay close to the original true story and have the feel of an authentic biog picture.
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History of Parliament biog. He was probably born at South Petherton in Somerset, where his father seems to have been resident.
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He wrote: # Orazione nell'Esequie della Ser. Margherita de Medici, Duchessa di Parma (1670); # De Ecclesiasticae Hierarchiae Originibus Dissertatio (Modena, 1703). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.
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Soloist of the Ensemble. (born 1924; died 1998). (Russian: Иван Семенович Букреев), lyric tenor soloist, People's Artist of the USSR, People's Artist of RussiaTranslated Library.Karelia.ru: short biog of Bukreev. .
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Chris Foster (born 1948), is an English singer and guitarist known for his interpretations of traditional and contemporary songs.Chris Foster (Biog at "The Tradition Bearers")Chris Foster (Biog at "The Living Tradition" - UK Folk magazine) He was born in Somerset, a county in the west country of England. It is there that he first heard and started singing traditional songs. He trained as an artist at the Norwich, and Chelsea Schools of Art.
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Chalmers, Biog. Dict. ix. 218 n. He therefore resigned his charge on 15 April 1701, and was succeeded by Isaac Watts, who had been his assistant for two years previously.
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November 1412 until 3rd. June 1413, after the death of Henry IV.Roskell, J.S. History of Parliament: House of Commons 1386–1421 (vol.2) 1992, p772. Biog. of Sir Gilbert Denys.
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Gina Bold is an English artist/poet, who makes paintings, stained glass and sculpture. She was an artist in residence at Arlington House from May to November 2007."Biog" page from ginabold.com.
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Two sons became scions of the Saint-Castin name:, Bernard-Anselm (ca.1689 per Canada Biog. in French) and Joseph (ca.1690). Another son named Jean-Pierre died in Quebec while still a minor.
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Knowlton Court, Kent Narborough had bought the Knowlton Court estate, near Dover, from the executors of Sir Thomas Peyton, and so was buried in St Clement's Church.See Charnock, Biog. Nav. i.; Hist. MSS. Comm. 12th Rept.
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At the end of every part are remarks and arguments on the designs of the sacred writers, and on the authenticity and inspiration of their writings. — Ladvocat, Dict. historique; Moreri, Dict. hist. (edit. 1759); Hoefer, Nouv. Biog.
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5.8), produced at Peterborough Abbey. (a section of a psalter).Biog. of St Kyneburg from: Eckenstein, Lina Women under Monasticism: Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life Between AD 500 and 1500, Houses in Mercia & the South.
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He became well-known and often appeared on radio. Following this he gained fame on the international opera circuit after a successful 1956 debut as Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville.Translated Biograph.ru biog of EisenachTranslated Sovmusic.
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M H Kaufman Sir William Newbigging (1772–1852) and Patrick Newbigging (1813–1864) — Father and Son Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh J Med Biog (2004) Volume: 12 issue: 4, page(s): 189-195.
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Short Biog (Jeffery Winter Fine Arts). In 1884, he moved to Vésinet, a suburb of Paris, where he remained until his death in 1916. His wife Jacqueline Comerre-Paton was also a painter. His nephew was the renowned artist Albert Gleizes.
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Victor Anderson is a former London Assembly member, serving from 4 May 2000 to March 2003.London Assembly biog He worked as a researcher for Plaid Cymru- Green MP Cynog Dafis, as part of the deal that brought Dafis the Green Party's support.
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In 1751 he went to Munster as preacher; and in 1768 was named head librarian. Among his writings are Historia traditionum ex monumentis Ecclesiae Christianae (Ulm, 1740): — De Natura et Constitutione Theologie Catecheticae (Ulm, 1761–64, 4to). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, 18:871.
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Kelmscott Manor, residence of William Morris Edmund Hort NewDavid Cox. "Edmund New's Diary of a Visit to Kelmscott Manor " (Journal of the William Morris Society 3.1, Spring 1974: 3-7).Edmund Hort New (Biog. at the "Court barn Museum of Craft and design").
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Pola Negri: new biog salutes Polish star. Polski Radio, February 25, 2011. Accessed March 2, 2011. The book won the "Book of The Year" and "Book of the Month" award in the biography category from the Polish publication Ksiazki magazyn literacki (Books Literary Magazine).
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Elkins, Alfie, Jetset Biog., 2004, Paul Bevoir Official Site. There Goes the Neighborhood, their first full-length album was released in 1985. The album was well reviewed in the UK music press and it was followed by Go Bananas, an album which featured commercials for Jetset products between songs.
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O. Marshall,Per Regimental History, no further biog. provided. Possibly Henry O. Marshall, d.29/5/1884, Devon, of 22nd Madras Native Infantry however, of the Madras Native Infantry became its first commandant, resigning on 19 March 1850, from which time Denniss took command until 25 February 1851.
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284–288 (biog. of Sir William Bonville II): “After witnessing the deaths of both his son and grandson at the débâcle at Wakefield on 30 Dec. (when York, too, was killed). . . .” His widow, Katherine married secondly William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, another Yorkist nobleman, by whom she had six more children.
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On 22 December 1674 he was collated to the prebend of Chiswick in St. Paul's, London. In 1679 he proceeded D.D. On 3 November 1681 he was appointed Archdeacon of Colchester.Kennett, Biog. Coll. liii. 292 On 27 November 1681 he preached a sermon on the Excellency and Usefulness of the Common Prayer.
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Apollonia (), also called Eleuthera (Ἐλεύθερα) was an ancient city of Crete, on the south coast. William Smith states that the philosopher Diogenes Apolloniates was a native of the environs of Apollonia (the Apolloniates), although other scholars claim that the Apollonia in question was the Thracian one.W. Smith, Dict. of Biog. s. v.
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Brodie was educated at Presbyterian Ladies College, Sydney where she took up rowing. Her senior coxing was from Sydney Rowing Club. In 2018 was the vice- captain at Sydney Rowing Club and on the board of directors. Brodie Biog at SRC She was awarded a scholarship with the New South Wales Institute of Sport.
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Europe, USA, Canada and Japan. The Ensemble performed music by Soviet composers, and Russian and Ukrainian folk songs. Kalinka always drew special applause Biog of Belyaev During his time as soloist with the Ensemble, Belyaev's singing teacher was Yevgeny Kanger, who only trained the leading soloists.Information from Leonid Kharitonov, fellow soloist in the Ensemble.
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She was named the 1985 Australian Athlete of the Year; in achieving the honour she beat fellow nominees Jeff Fenech and Alan Border.Ferguson biog at Austn Women's Register In 1986 she was admitted to the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. In 1987 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her services to rowing.
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He studied art at St. Martins School of Art and later at one of the Royal Academy schools. Though a popular and successful artist, he never featured in any major national exhibitions during his lifetime (though he did exhibit in Canada and the USA),See biog at willowgallery.com . and not much is known about his life.
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Captain Face play the majority of their gigs in their hometown of Aberdeen,stv gig review review 08.11.07 but have also toured frequently around Scotland, playing venues in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Perth and various other small towns. The band also toured the Devon area of England in 2007Channel 4 biog with fellow Aberdeen rockers Hot Mangu.
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The inscription on his portrait in 1659 gives his age as 66, so that he was probably born in 1593.Granger, Biog. Hist, of England, iii. 121 According to his own account in The Mystery of Astronomy made Plain, he was a merchant, had travelled and traded widely; overseas losses led to his being sent to prison for debt.
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One keeps wondering how it will all end. McOrist, Shackleton's Heroes p257 Richards had learned sledging and polar travel techniques from Ernest Joyce whom Richards admired.Huntford, Shackleton biog. p450 It was Richards who had first noticed the disappearance of the Aurora during a gale on 6 May 1915, and coincidentally he was the first to sight her on her return, 20 months later.
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Arms of Bellot: Argent, on a chief sable three cinquefoils of the fieldVivian, p.71 Ambrose Bellot (c. 1561 – 1637), of DowntonThe location of the estate of Downton is unknown, although four possible locations have been identified (History of Parliament biog.) in Devon was a Member of Parliament for East Looe in Cornwall in 1597.Hasler, P.W. (ed.), biography of Bellot, Ambrose (c.
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The University of Glasgow had planned to confer the same honor, but one professor derailed it, calling Benson an avowed Socinian' (Biog. Britannica). In 1749, Benson took over the congregation of Protestant dissenters on Poor Jewry Lane in what is now Central London. This was his last posting. He had acted for some years as assistant to Dr. Nathaniel Lardner.
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Graham Pollard deduced: "As 10 guineas was Rouw's standard price, the sum of 25 guineas must refer to the large-scale wax. The example in the Victoria and Albert Museum is signed and dated 1814. It is therefore one of the copies mentioned by Rouw, priced at fourteen guineas".G. Pollard, in Numismatic Chronicle (1970), quoted in the V&A; biog.
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Pest Best biog iol.ie/~beatlesireland – Retrieved 7 November 2007 In 1945, the Best family sailed for four weeks to Liverpool on the Georgic, the last troop ship to leave India, carrying single and married soldiers who had previously been a part of General Sir William Slim's forces in south-east Asia. The ship docked in Liverpool on 25 December 1945.
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Retrieved 28 April 2013.Welch, Charles, biog. of Kitson, Sir Thomas (1485–1540), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and was the widow successively of Sir Thomas Kitson (died 1540), the builder of Hengrave Hall in Suffolk, and next of Sir Richard Long (died 1546) of Wiltshire, Great Saxham and Shingay, Cambridgeshire, a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Henry VIII.
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Other writings are also ascribed to him, including the authorship with Sir Samuel Tuke of The Adventures of Five Hours (1663). His eloquent and pointed speeches, many of which were printed, are included in the article in the Biog. Brit. and among the Thomason Tracts; see also the general catalogue in the British Museum. The catalogue of his library was published in 1680.
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Soloist of the Ensemble. (Russian: Евгений Михайлович Беляев). Outside the USSR, one of the most celebrated tenor soloists under Boris Alexandrov was Evgeny Belyaev or Evgeny Mikhailovich Belyaev (1926–1994) .Translated Japanese webpage: biog of Belyaev He was born 11 September 1926 in the Bryansk Oblast, and served in the subdivision of zenith troops during World War II. He then graduated from Gnessin State Musical College.
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Orion biog. of Lansing He also worked for the United Press International, Collier's Magazine, and the Reader's Digest. At the end of his career he became editor the weekly newspaper, The Bethel Home News, in Bethel, CT, where he worked until his death in August, 1975. He was very proud of his reputation as an "old, irascible, and cranky" editor who stood for right over might.
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At the time the Beatles became successful, Mike McCartney was working as an apprentice hairdresser.Mike McCartney’s biog mikemccartney.co.uk – Retrieved 6 October 2007 Mike worked in the hairdressers alongside future actor Lewis Collins. However, he was also a member of the Liverpool comedy-poetry-music group The Scaffold, which included Roger McGough and John Gorman, and had formed in 1962 (the year of the Beatles' first hit).
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The Domesday Book of 1086 records the tenant-in-chief of Dyrham as William FitzWido (William son of Guy, Latinised as Willelmus Filius Widonis). In 1086 he held 7 hides in Dyrham, formerly the land of Aluric. He had formerly held also 3 hides of this manor which Durand de Pitres, Sheriff of Gloucester,Barlow, F. William Rufus, London, 1983. Lists sheriffs of Wm II and provides biog.
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"He is a fantastical writer, and of the lower class of our biographers; but we are obliged to him for many notices of persons went away for a time and stayed in cambridge, east london and things which are recorded only in his works" (Granger, Biog. Hist. of Engl. 5th ed. v. 271), His verse is usually boisterous doggerel in the manner of John Taylor (1580–1663) the water-poet.
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Members have been extremely successful nationally and internationally. In 1963 Peter Hemment became our first National Champion winning in the Zenith class. Crispin Read-Wilson won the Fireball World Championship in 1979 in the Netherlands.Fireball World Champions IanIan Martin Skandia RYA Biog and Chris Martin, have won the International 420 National Championships, the 29er National and European Championships and are currently campaigning a 49er on the Olympic Classes World Circuit.
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From university onwards, Mark D (D standing for "degenerate") played in various bands including the Fat Tulips, Confetti (when he was known as David), the Pleasure Heads (when he was known as Mark Randyhead), Oscar, Servalan and Sundress, and appeared on dozens of releases. He published and edited fanzines, including the underground C86 fanzine Two Pint Take Home. He is a co-owner of Heaven Records."Mark D: Biog/text", stuckism.com.
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Matt Rudge Biog Chortle: The UK Comedy Guide The second longest-running "Man with the Mic" was Seyi Rhodes, who worked on the show for just over two years. He took over from Rudge in 2003. Rhodes now works as a Foreign Affairs Reporter on the Channel 4 documentary series Unreported World. He was named as one of Channel 4's "next generation of presenting voices" in 2008.
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Gardner, D. John Goodsir FRS (1814–1867): Pioneer of cytology and microbiology. J Med. Biog. 2015;25:114-122 Virchow's cellular theory was encapsulated in the epigram Omnis cellula e cellula ("all cells (come) from cells"), which he published in 1855. (The epigram was actually coined by François-Vincent Raspail, but popularized by Virchow.) It is a rejection of the concept of spontaneous generation, which held that organisms could arise from nonliving matter.
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"Fond of Frankford" , by Diane Villano, The Northeast Times, March 16, 2006.Barbara M. Auwarter and Joyce Halley, Workshop of the World, Oliver Evans Press, 1990 At the conclusion of the Revolution, Eve fled with his wife to Nassau, Bahamas, where he died in his son Joseph's house in New Providence in 1793."Extracts from the Journal of Miss Sarah Eve" (1759-1774) of Frankford, Pennsylvania, in Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. Biog., V, 1881, pp.
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According to Eliott-Drake (1911), he was the second son of Andrew PollexfenEliott-Drake, Vol.2, p.55, followed by Crossette of Stancombe Dawney in the parish of Sherford, Devon, by his wife Joan Woollcombe (born 1607),Vivian, p.803, pedigree of "Woollocombe of Pitton" a daughter of John Woollcombe (born 1577) (anciently "Woollocombe") of Pitton in the parish of Yealmpton in Devon,Biog of brother: Crossette, J.S., biography of Pollexfen, Henry (c.
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In 1727 he presented a memoir to the academy on masting ships, in consequence of which he was named the same year joint mechanician to that body. In 1736 he accompanied Pierre Louis Maupertuis and Alexis Clairaut in the expedition to Lapland for the measurement of a degree of meridian arc. He was the author of a Cours de mathématiques (Paris, 1766), and a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.see Poggendorff, Biog.-lit.
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The Hebden Bridge Handmade Parade was first proposed in 2007 by puppet and mask artist Andrew Kim who had worked as a lead in several community parades and festivals in the USA.Andrew Kim’s Biog (2008-08-16) The 2008 and 2009 Handmade Parades were co-produced by HEADS and Thingumajig Theatre. A new not-for-profit community interest company was set up in 2010 to organise the parade and the making and performance workshops beforehand.
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Sharon Olds was born on November 19, 1942, in San Francisco, California,Academy of American Poets but was brought up in Berkeley, California, along with her siblings. She was raised as a "hellfire Calvinist", as she describes it.Olds' Biog at Poetry Foundation Her father, like his before him, was an alcoholic who was often abusive to his children. In Olds' writing she often refers to the time (or possibly even times) when her father tied her to a chair.
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Vangelis collaborated in 1981 and 1986 with Italian singer Milva achieving success, especially in Germany, with the albums Ich hab' keine Angst and Geheimnisse (I have no fear and Secrets). An Italian language Nana Mouskouri album featured her singing Vangelis composition "Ti Amerò". Collaborations with lyricist Mikalis Bourboulis, sung by Maria Farantouri, included the tracks "Odi A", "San Elektra", and "Tora Xero".Intuitive Music – Vangelis biog. Retrieved 25 September 2008 Vangelis released Soil Festivities in 1984.
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The Doctrina was edited with notes by J. Mercier in 1614 at Paris under the title De varia significatione Verborum.George Crabb (1833), Universal historical dictionary, volume 2, no page numbers, online here: "NONIUS, Marcellus, (Biog.) a grammarian and peripatetic philosopher and a native of Tibur, whose treatise, 'De varia significatione verborum' was edited by Mercer, 8vo, Paris, 1614." The page numbers of the Mercier edition are used as a reference in later editions (e.g. 121 M. means "page 121 of the Mercier edition").
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Shapccott teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. She was a Visiting Professor at the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University,Newcastle university was a Visiting Professor at the London Institute and was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University from 2003-2005.Royal Literary Fund biog Royal Holloway, University of London website, Shapcott synopsis She is a longstanding tutor for the Arvon Foundation.Arvon Foundation and a former president of the Poetry Society.
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During the Second World War, Whitney Straight served as a Royal Air Force pilot. He was sent to Norway in April 1940 to find frozen lakes suitable for use as airfields. Lake Lesjaskog was utilised by No. 263 Squadron RAF during the Norwegian Campaign as a result. Straight was seriously wounded during a German bombing raid in Norway.Those Other Eagles; Shores, 2004 biog on page 577 For his service in Norway, he was awarded the Norwegian War Cross with sword in 1942.
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Those Other Eagles; Shores, 2004 biog on page 577 Early in 1941 he was awarded a Military Cross for his work in Norway. He was shot down by flak over France on 31 July 1941 and initially evaded capture. Through the French Underground, he made his way to unoccupied Vichy France where he was captured and put in a POW camp. However he escaped on 22 June 1942 and with the aid of the French Resistance reached safety in Gibraltar.
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Desmond MacNamara, Passionate sound of early music (Obituary for Michael Morrow), The Guardian, 28 April 1994. When not operating the fountain, Michael spent his time transcribing old music from a variety of sources found in libraries and museums in London. When in Dublin, he had studied important manuscripts in Marsh's Library and Trinity College, especially ones containing lute music.Undated biog in KCLCA, K/PP93, Box 10; Morrow and yesterday's music today, unidentified newspaper article in KCLCA, K/PP93, Box 12.
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He was the son and heir of John Stourton of Stourton, Wiltshire. His younger half-brother was John Stourton (died 1438) of Preston Plucknett in Somerset, 7 times MP for Somerset, in 1419, 1420, December 1421, 1423, 1426, 1429 and 1435.History of Parliament biog. He was knight of the shire in Parliament for Somerset in 1401, 1402 and January 1404, for Wiltshire in 1407 and for Dorset in 1410 and again in May 1413, when he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom).
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In 1922, after several risqué films and a series of off-screen scandals involving Hollywood stars, the studios enlisted Presbyterian elder Will H. Hays to rehabilitate Hollywood's image. Hollywood in the 1920s was rocked by a number of notorious scandals, such as the murder of William Desmond Taylor and alleged rape of Virginia Rappe by popular movie star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, which brought widespread condemnation from religious, civic, and political organizations. Many felt the movie industry had always been morally questionable.Encyc. of World Biog.
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Separately, she exhibited at the Lilla ateljén in Stockholm in 1941 and at Good Art in Gothenburg in 1945. She participated in the Lund exhibition in 1907 and the Swedish Artists ' Association's exhibition at the Skåne Art Museum in Lund in 1912 and the International Madonna exhibition in Florence in 1933.See Swedish artist lexicon and Biog Handbook at the pages given below in "sources" She successfully entered Dalsland Art Association exhibitions in the 1930s and 40s. She had work in the Hesselboms exhibition in 1938.
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William Aplin suffered from chronic Brights Disease (a disease of the kidneys). After suffering with illness for a year and convalescing in the highlands of Stanthorpe, he died at 60 years at Warwick, Queensland in 1901. His funeral was a big social occasion attended by Brisbane high society including: brother-in-law & Premier of Queensland an founder of Burns Philp & Co, Sir Robert Philp; father-in-law & businessman, James Campbell; brother-in law & businessman & politician, John Dunmore Campbell; brother in law & businessman, Charles William Campbell; brother-in-law & businessman & politician, James Forsyth; grazier & past Premier of Queensland, Sir Hugh Nelson; politician & past Wesleyan minister, Fred Brentnall; grazier & politician, William Allan; grazier & politician, Albert Norton; businessman & politician, John Archibald; Minister for Public Works & businessman, John Leahy; businessman & past Minister for Lands, Sir Alfred Cowley; grazier and politician, John Cameron (see Aus Dict Biog); past Police Commissioner David Seymour (see Aus Dict Biog); Railways Commissioner Robert Gray; Manager of Adelaide Steamship Company & his former employee, Edward Wareham; and other financial, mercantile and pastoral businessmen, but by only one blood member of his family, Wil Aplin. He was buried in Toowong Cemetery,Aplin William — Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search.
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Since 1993, Button has released his own material under various aliases: Motorcyclone, Ashley Flowers, and The Anthony Anderson Project (he used the name Anthony Anderson as his credit on the first D.I.V album Dead Elvis). In December 2011, he began work on material for an album with a new project that would become Papernut Cambridge,Papernut Cambridge, Allmusic biog. his current band/collective which has gone on to release a series of albums since 2013 on Gare Du Nord RecordsGare Du Nord Records, Bandcamp. \- the label Button founded with Robert Rotifer and Ralegh Long.
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He remained a key member of the Human League during the early 1980s both as a composer and keyboard player. He left the band in 1986 after becoming disillusioned with the musical direction Oakey was taking and feeling marginalized by their new producers during the recording of the album Crash in Minneapolis.HUMAN LEAGUE BIOG 1977 - 1979 After The Human League, he worked in film before moving into design. In 1999, he participated in the BBC documentary on The Human League, part of the Young Guns Go For It series.
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James Abbott was the third son of Henry Alexius Abbott, a retired Calcutta merchant of Blackheath, Kent,Biog. Of Henry Alexius Abbot per the obituaries of his prominent sons and his wife Margaret Welsh, the daughter of William Welsh of Edinburgh. Abbott was educated at a school in Eliot Place, Blackheath and at the East India Company Military Seminary in Addiscombe, Surrey.Nicholas Storey, Great British Adventurers, 2012, Casemate Publishers, page 29 A number of his siblings achieved distinction, notably Augustus Abbott, Sir Frederick Abbott, Saunders Alexius Abbott and Keith Edward Abbott.
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By Elizabeth he had only one child, a daughter named Dorothy who died an infant. After Elizabeth died, Acland married Margaret Portman, another "vastly rich" widow, a daughter of Sir Henry Portman, of Orchard Portman in Somerset and the widow of Sir Gabriel Hawley (died 1604)Will proved 16 Mar 1603/1604 (Prerogative Court of Canterbury,: 47 Harte, quoted in ) of Buckland Priory (Buckland Sororum),History of Parliament biog. of Sir John Acland in the parish of Dursley, Somerset, High Sheriff of Somerset in 1584.Dunning, Robert (1983).
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He developed a gas lighting system for the factory and the sugar refining process conceived by Baird. When the company started working with Wilhelm von Traitteur and Pierre Bazaine on the first Russian suspension bridges in the 1820s, Handyside designed a machine to test the chains which is described in Traitteur's writings. Most famously, Handyside worked with Auguste de Montferrand on the Alexander Column and St. Isaac's Cathedral. His experience was the basis for a paper presented to the Institution of Civil Engineers describing "methods of hauling large monoliths".Biog. Dic.
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She went on to Newnham College, Cambridge, Bryn Mawr College in the United States, and Somerville College, Oxford.Sir Ian Byatt biog Byatt lectured in the Department of Extra-Mural Studies of the University of London (1962–71),"Dame A. S. Byatt" British Council Literature. the Central School of Art and Design and from 1972 to 1983 at University College London. She married Ian Charles Rayner Byatt in 1959 and had a daughter, as well as a son who was killed in a car accident at the age of 11.
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"Russia" (ca.1970). (a): Album: Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet Army, CM02873-4 Album: Russian LP, 50th anniversary of foundation of Ensemble 1928-78, 33C60-11207-10 "Song of the Klintsah" (Oct 1971) (composer A. Kulygin, lyrics A. Annual 1971) broadcast in the USSR on All-Union Radio, to celebrate Belyaev's home town Klintsy .Bryansk Guide webpage Apr 2007: Song of the Klintsah Download here He performed the song in concerts in the Bryansk region in 1975.biog of Belyaev "Album:Русские Песни И Романсы"(1973) CM 03831-2.
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However, he also plays and uses many acoustic instruments (including folk) and choirs: Synthtopia, an electronic music review website, stated that Vangelis' music could be referred to as "symphonic electronica" because of his use of synthesizers in an orchestral fashion. The site went on to describe his music as melodic: "drawing on the melodies of folk music, especially the Greek music of his homeland". Vangelis' music and compositions have also been described as "...a distinctive sound with simple, repetitive yet memorable tunes against evocative rhythms and chord progressions."Mfiles biog.
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The band formed in 2010 after Paul met Sacha at a local lesbian bar. After bonding over music they added Jon on drums who used to play in one of Sacha's previous bands.Badhead Records Biog of Posse The band continue to work their day jobs whilst making music and touring with Sacha Maxim working as a graphic designer at Microsoft, Paul Wittmann-Todd, working as an electrical engineer at Fluke Corp, which makes industrial testing equipment and Jon Salzman working with children affected by autism.Seattle Times interview with the band Posse In November 2017 the band released their final album before parting ways.
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On his marriage to Elizabeth Statham, Denys gained possession of Brook Place, although following Denys's death it was inherited by Elizabeth's daughter, from her previous marriage,Ireland, W. H., A New & Complete History of the Co. of Kent, London, 1830. Vol. 4, Sutton, pp. 368-373 who had married the Mercer Vincent Randall, who became Master of the Mercers' Company in 1574. Elizabeth is known to have been an active supporter of the new Protestant religion, of the unorthodox Evangelical variety.Sutton, Anne F. The Mercery of London: Trade, Goods and People, 1130-1578, Aldershot, 2005, p. 548, short biog.
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Archer, Andrew Forman, Dict. Nat. Biog. Forman and Bishop William Elphinstone of Aberdeen were the principal envoys who brokered a seven-year truce with King Henry VII of England at Aytoun in September 1497. They were assisted by the Spanish ambassador Pedro de Ayala, who recommended in May 1498 that diplomatic correspondence to Scotland should be copied to Forman, his influential friend.Calendar State Papers Milan, vol. 1 (1912), no. 558. The search for a queen for James began in 1499 when negotiators were appointed to treat with King Henry for the marriage of his eldest daughter, Princess Margaret.
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He was the seventh and youngest son of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 2nd Baronet, of Trelawny in the parish of Pelynt in Cornwall, patron of the nearby pocket borough of East LooeHistory of Parliament biog: "Returned for his family’s borough of East Looe" in Cornwall, by his wife Mary Seymour (born 1619), 6th daughterVivian, p.703, pedigree of Seymour of Sir Edward Seymour, 2nd Baronet (c. 1580–1659) of Berry Pomeroy in Devon, great-grandson of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of England and eldest brother of Queen Jane Seymour (d.1537), the third wife of King Henry VIII.
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Ian and Chris's cousin Alison MartinAlly Martin ISAF Sailor Biog has also won championships in Optimists and 420s, including Bronze Medal at the World ISAF Youth Championships.Ally Martin winning Bronze Medal at ISAF Youth Worlds 2003 Ally is currently campaigning as part of the GBR Match Race Girls team in the new Olympic Discipline of Women's Match Racing. Mike Lyons who worked with Topper International in the development of the Blaze dinghy has won the class National Championships on many occasions.Yachts and Yachting report on Blaze nationals 2007 Andrew Leigh has won the Phantom National Championships.
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It included ten productive farms, including Burton Hall Farm near Hull and of Gateforth Hall in Yorkshire, by his wife Catherine Hammond (d.1721) daughter and heiress of William Hammond of Scarthingwell Hall, in the parish of Towton, Yorkshire.History of Parliament biog states Catherine Hammond as "a grand-daughter and co-heiress of William Hammond of Scarthingwell Hall" Hawke made his home at Scarthingwell Hall and took for his barony the territorial designation "of Towton" from the parish in which it was situated. By his wife he had three sons and one daughter, who survived, and three children who died in infancy.
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She recounts, "[I saw ] awful sights, amputees, gangrene, festering sores. People still looked terribly emaciated […] sometimes when you were searching through things you were reminded of the enormity of it: once we came across a vast pile of shoes, sorted according to sizes, including children's, all neatly lined up; you were never safe from that kind of confrontation.Bamber Biog Holocaust Day Memorial Trust She said that survivors "would dig their fingers into your arms and hold on to you to get to you the horror of what had happened. Above all else, there was a need to tell you everything, over and over and over again.
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Joan Hanham was the second daughter and co-heiress of Simon Hanham of Gloucestershire, and was the widow of the Bristol cloth merchant Robert Cheddar (died 1384), MP and twice Mayor of Bristol, "whose wealth was proverbial".History of Parliament biog of son She held many of Cheddar's estates after his death as her dower and died seized of 20 manors in Somerset and others elsewhere. Her son Richard Cheddar, MP, signed over his large inheritance to his mother and stepfather Sir Thomas II Brooke for their lives, due to the latter having "many times endured great travail and cost" in defending them during his minority.
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Arms of Rashleigh: Sable, a cross or between in the first quarter: a Cornish chough, argent beaked and legged gules; in the second quarter: a text "T"; in the third and fourth quarters: a crescent all of the thirdBurke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain, vol.1 Jonathan I Rashleigh (4 July 1591 – 1 May 1675), of Menabilly, near Fowey in Cornwall, was an English shipping-merchant, Member of Parliament for Fowey in 1614, 1621, 1625, April 1640 and November 1640, and 1661History of Parliament biog and served as Sheriff of Cornwall in 1627. He supported the Royalist cause during the Civil War.
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He was probably the son of Richard Arches of Eythrope (anciently Eythorpe, "Ethorp", etc.), by his wife Lucy Abberbury (or Adderbury), daughter of Sir Richard I Adderbury (c. 1331 – 1399) of Donnington Castle, Berkshire and Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire, twice MP for Oxfordshire. His family, whose name was Latinised to de ArcubusLysons, Magna Britannia, 1806, re Waddesden Hundred; Woodger, HoP biog of Sir Richard Arches ("from the arches"Cassel's Latin Dictionary arcus) had been established in Buckinghamshire since at the latest 1309,Lysons, Magna Britannia, 1806, re Waddesden Hundred and held in that county the manors of Little Kimble, and in the parish of Waddesdon the estates of EythropeModern spelling, formerly Eythorpe, Ethorp (Lysons, Magna Britannia, 1806) etc. and Cranwell.
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Later, Howard Halgedahl, a world class bassoon player, directed the high school music program in Winfield. Howard Taubman stated in the New York Times, "Do we, in the East, realize that the town of Winfield, Kansas, population 12,500, has one of the most admirable high school orchestras in nation?".Howard Halgedahl biog, Beach Hall of Distinction, Department of Music, Emporia State University Halgedahl was principal bassoonist with the Wichita Symphony at the time that Dalley's father was conductor. Maddy, Orien Dalley and Halgedahl all left strong imprints on Kansas music education and at the National Music Camp, as teachers and mentors in the hearts and minds of the youthful students who were privileged to attend.
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The music area of The Casbah Coffee Club as it looks today Mona came up with the idea of the club after watching a television report about The 2i's Coffee Bar in London's Soho, where several singers had been discovered. She decided to open The Casbah Coffee Club—which was located in her cellar—on 29 August 1959, for young people to meet and listen to the popular music of the day.Pete Best biog on Billboard – 25 September 2002 Billboard. – Retrieved 10 October 2007 Mona charged half a crown annually for membership—to "keep out the rough elements"—and served soft drinks, snacks, cakes, and coffee from an espresso machine, which no other club had at that time.
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Child was born around 1630–31 and christened in St Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange on 27 February 1630–31, the second son of Richard Child, a merchant of Fleet Street (buried 1639 at Hackney), and Elizabeth Roycroft of Weston Wick, Shropshire. After serving his apprenticeship in the family business, after much struggle, he succeeded. At about age 25, he started on his own account at Portsmouth as victualler to the Navy under the Commonwealth; he is also described as "agent to the Navy Treasurer".Biog. by Philip Mould Ltd, Art Dealers, London He amassed a comfortable fortune,William Addison, Essex Worthies (Philimore, 1973) and became a considerable stock-holder in the East India Company.
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Tomos Williams (born 1 January 1995) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for the Cardiff Blues as a scrum half. He is a Wales under-20 international, and played for the Wales sevens team during the 2013–14 IRB Sevens World Series.Tomos Williams WRU biog Cardiff Blues academy graduate, Tomos Williams, made his senior debut as a replacement against Munster in 2013.He was called up to Wales’ senior squad for the 2017 summer tour although he had to wait until the following summer to make his international debut, scoring in which he scored against South Africa. Williams would also appear in all four of Wales’ matches as they claimed their first ever autumn series clean sweep during the following November.
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Review of Troops by the First Consul was one of his most important compositions, and Isabey's Boat – a charming drawing of himself and family-produced at a time when he was much occupied with lithography – had an immense success at the Salon of 1820 (engraved, Landon, Annales, i. 125). His portrait of Napoleon at Malmaison is held to be the best ever executed, and even his tiny head of the king of Rome, painted for a breast-pin, is distinguished by a decision and breadth that show the hand of a master. A biography of Isabey was published by Edmond Taigny in 1859, and Charles Lenormant's article, written for Michaud's Biog. Univ., is founded on facts furnished by Isabey's family.
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Edward Timpson - Profile , Conservative Party The Liberal Democrat candidate Elizabeth Shenton had worked as a senior manager for the RBS and NatWest, where she was an active member of the trade union. At the time of the election she was also a councillor in Newcastle-under- Lyme.Elizabeth Shenton biog Elizabeth Shenton website The UK Independence Party candidate was Mike Nattrass, MEP for the nearby West Midlands and a former deputy party leader.UKIP to fight Crewe by-election UK Independence Party Robert Smith, a 23-year-old town planner (and transport planning specialist) educated at the University of Liverpool stood for the Green Party of England and Wales and particularly campaigned to reverse the privatisation of British Rail (and associated fare increases).
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Signature on a platter in the Waddesdon Bequest, British Museum Oval Plaque with the Annunciation, Walters Art Museum Suzanne de Court was an enamel painter in the Limoges workshops, probably running a workshop of some size producing pieces of the highest quality. She was the only identifiable woman signing Limoges pieces, though this may be in her capacity as owner of the workshop; only one other female enamel painter is recorded in the period.BM biog "One of only two recorded female enamel painters in Limoges." None of her work is dated but she is thought to have been active between (at the widest) 1575 and 1625, especially around 1600, and was very possibly the daughter of Jean de Court (fl.
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166 who married Sir Ralph Verney (1509-1546), of Pendley in Tring, Hertfordshire, and of Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire,HoP biog of son whose monumental brasses with heraldic shields survive in the Church of St. John the Baptist, Aldbury, Hertfordshire.see images On Elizabeth Bray's robe are engraved the arms of Verney (quarterly of four) impaling Bray (quarterly of four: 1&4: Bray modern; 2&3: Bray ancient, all charged with an inescutcheon of pretence of four quarters: 1: Or, on a bend gules three goats argent (Hallighwell); 2: Sable, a chevron between three bull's heads cabossed argent (Norbury); 3: Gules, a fess chequy argent and sable between six crosslets formée fitchée argent (Boteler); 4: Or, two bends gules (Sudeley).For heraldry see: D'Elboux, R.H., The Brooke Tomb, Cobham, published in Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol.62, 1949, pp.
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331; Archer, Andrew Forman, Dict. Nat. Biog. ; and Fawcett & Oram, Dryburgh Abbey, pp. 31,32 Rome also appreciated his efforts and provided Forman firstly with the parsonage of Forest Church from Innocent VIII, then the commendatorship of Kelso Abbey from Julius II and finally and most importantly, the archbishopric of St Andrews and the commendatorship of Dunfermline Abbey from Leo X.For more detail of benefices received from popes see Manuel, D. G., Dryburgh Abbey in the Light of its Historical and Ecclesiastical Setting, Edinburgh, 1922, p. 219; and McGladdery, Andrew Foreman, ODNB Dunfermline Abbey Forman's standing with Henry VIII was good in his early reign when the bishop was central in renewing the Treaty of Perpetual Peace and later in his attempts at mediation between the English and French kings.
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Issued only three weeks before Dare, the single acted as a powerful promotional vehicle for the album. The cover artwork and promotional video was deliberately coordinated with its parent album.HUMAN LEAGUE BIOG 1977 - 1979 It was the first Human League record sleeve to feature new band member Jo Callis, who co-wrote the song with Phil Oakey and who also wrote the B-side "Non-Stop" with Adrian Wright. In an interview in October 2009 Callis said, "I had started to work out both those tunes on guitar, playing along to an early drum machine which had about six preset drum patterns, Open Your Heart did translate better on the keyboard and I think we used the same drum machine with the same preset on the original demo which was done in the League's old 8 track studio in Sheffield".
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1562),Visitation of Suffolk, 1561, p.191 (Countess of Bath), a strong- willed lady who was ambitious for her children. Very recently, on 4 December 1548Peter W. Hammond (Ed.), The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 71 she had married (as her third husband and as his third wife) John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath (1499-1560/61) of Tawstock in Devon. She was the daughter and sole heiress of John Donnington (died 1544) of Stoke Newington, a member of the Worshipful Company of Salters,Rowe, Joy, biog of Kitson family (per. c.1520–c.1660), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/73910]'Stoke Newington: Other estates', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes (1985), pp. 178–184.
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New was born in Evesham Worcestershire, a cousin of Thomas New. He studied at the Birmingham Municipal School of Art under Edward R. Taylor (headmaster of the school) and A. J. Gaskin, becoming known in the 1890s as an illustrator in the black-and-white style of the Arts and Crafts movement. He specialised in pen and ink drawings of rural and urban landscapes, old buildings and their interiors, architectural features, and also designed bookplates. New provided illustrations for the English Illustrated Magazine and was commissioned by the Bodley Head publishing house (cofounded by John Lane) to work on critically acclaimed editions of books, such as The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton and The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White. In 1895, New was invited to meet William Morris at Kelmscott Manor, and went on to provide design work for the Kelmscott PressSee William Morris (Biog at the "website of Bob Speel") as well as illustrating Morris's two-volume biography by J. W. Mackail.
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It was recorded with the addition of session musicians and was released under the name The Men. The song also features the synth riff from debut single Being Boiled towards the end of the track. Afterwards the band were able to record tracks in their original style for Virgin. Before any further conventional style records could be recorded, the original Human League had split; Oakey then took the new reformed band down a different commercial and pop route.HUMAN LEAGUE BIOG 1977 - 1979 Later, it would be commented on that in recording "I Don’t Depend on You" – two years prior to the arrival of schoolgirl vocalists Susan Ann Sulley and Joanne Catherall – Oakey, Ware and Marsh had already produced a Human League Mk 2-style track complete with commercial pop sound: Oakey's vocal with female backing (with Katie Kissoon and Lisa Strike providing the backing vocals). NME commented on this in 1990: The B-side, titled "Cruel", is simply a remix of "I Don’t Depend on You" without Oakey's vocals. "I Don’t Depend on You" received little promotion or airplay and did not chart. Re-releases on albums now credit the track as The Human League aka 'The Men'.
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