When it got round to wine, things weren't much better.
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I've never quite got round to throwing myself out of a plane.
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"Word got round, and that is how I launched my ghostwriting career," she said.
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She eventually got round to it in time for the Bauhaus's 100th birthday this year.
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Yes, we saw your last e-mail and have not got round to dealing with it.
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The tweeters have got round their Jackie Chan problem by simply writing "duang" in Roman letters.
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It turns out she'd had them done ages ago and just hadn't got round to going shopping yet.
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Frankly, if you haven't got round to watching it, then you jolly well need to get your act together.
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After hinting at it earlier this week, he's now got round to dropping "World Is Mine" with Big Sean.
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Mr Arnault has got round this by subtly expanding the scope of luxury, for example by branching out into hotels.
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" Davies also suggested "setting yourself challenges, is there a jigsaw puzzle at the back of the cupboard that you've never got round to?
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While the Thailand drama got round-the-clock international media coverage, the trapped miners in Meghalaya are getting very little attention, even within India.
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Also, getting older, my inclination is to read books I never got round to, rather than keeping up with the latest books to come out.
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As before, you can develop these queries to dig deep into your inbox—is:unread is:important is a good one for surfacing high-priority messages that you haven't got round to yet.
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"Postcard," a ballad written with Australian singer-songwriter Gordi, is about a message Troye sent his boyfriend while touring in Japan that he never got round to collecting from the postbox.
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I dont watch a lot of contemporary cinema, so my favourite film of 2015 would have to be something that I only got round to watching in 2015, which was David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997).
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The seven players appeared to have got round tight security at the hotel where they were staying on Monday evening, said Rogers Mulindwa, spokesman for the regional soccer association CECAFA that was running the tournament.
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But despite being an intelligent songwriter, a producer by osmosis, a more-than-competent guitarist, and a man with a brilliant record collection, Hawkins never quite got round to following Grohl into multi-instrumental band leadership.
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Most old nightclubs—or "clubs" as they were quaintly called—are apartment blocks now, but call in a couple of favors from some property developer friends and see if they've got one they haven't got round to converting yet.
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Trump fans do not care about newspaper headlines calling the new White House chaotic, nor wince in embarrassment when they hear that the president has not got round to naming anyone to fill hundreds of the most important jobs in Washington.
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More jarring is the sudden appearance of Molly Moorish, his 21-year-old daughter from an extra-marital affair; the film-makers choose to ignore an interview given in 2018, wherein Liam said he "just never got round to" meeting her.
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Even now, it's not an end, just a change of gear so we can find time to carry out all the other World Unknown ideas we've never got round to: out of town gigs, boat parties, daytime parties in disused church crypts, that kind of thing!
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If you're a Game of Thrones fan but you haven't got round to ordering George RR Martin's epic new Targaryen history Fire and Blood yet, you're probably consoling yourself with the thought that it can't really contain that many Ice and Fire hints — it's set 300 years before Martin's main Westeros series kicks off, right?
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Life Is Strange's obvious headlines are the rewind ability and its branching story line, but its embellished version of school life is delightful to play through, allowing me to finally experience that period of discovering music and smoking weed and hanging out with actual friends that I never got round to in real life.
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Banks have complained that it has been difficult to get ready for MiFID II because regulators like ESMA have only just published some of the guidance needed to implement MiFID II. Earlier this week, ESMA was forced to issue a statement to reassure market participants they can keep trading even though up to 19 EU states have not got round to putting parts of MiFID II into national law.
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" More of Mecham's greatest hits, courtesy of the Washington Post: he said that the people behind a gubernatorial recall petition were "a band of homosexuals and a few dissident Democrats;" that working women cause divorce; that Jews should face up to the fact that the United States is a Christian nation; that a group of visiting Japanese businessmen's "eyes got round" when they heard about Arizona's plentiful golf courses; and that he didn't see a problem with calling black children "pickaninnies.
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Stuart Laycock is a British historian and author best known for the popular- history book All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To. He has also written extensively on Roman and post-Roman Britain.
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You bowled me a bouncer then, but I didn't squeal of moan about it". Lindwall said "Christ! You still remember that?...I made a promise to myself to buy you a beer after that Test but never got round to it.
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He was educated at Westminster School (1967–71) where his contemporaries included the journalist Tom Utley and Michael Zilkha, the co-founder of ZE Records.How strange that Blair never got round to nationalising Eton. Tom Utley, The Telegraph, 17 March 2006. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
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After World War II he elaborated on this theme in his book Assize of Arms, originally intended to be the first of two volumes but Morgan only got round to publishing the first volume. He retired from the army in 1923 with the honorary rank of Brigadier-General.
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The Yeomanry and New Zealand brigades had both been stationed at Hill 70, from Romani, when their orders to move were received. The New Zealanders were to "operate vigorously so as to cut off the enemy, who appears to have got round the right of the Anzac Mounted Division."Hill 1978 pp.
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He wrote a letter, leaving it in her pigeonhole but she never got round to reading it so he retrieved it. Jordan and Zoe got into a relationship and later on planned a trip to Rome together. On the day of departure, midway through examining a patient, Jordan collapsed and had a seizure. Charlie called Zoe who tried to deal with Jordan in a professional manner despite her feelings for him.
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However, he never actually got round to restoring the castle as a private residence or restoring it to its former glory. In 1991, Mansour sold Cabra Castle to the Corscadden family, who run a number of hotels. They restored the castle and turned it into a luxury four- star hotel, reopening it as such in the early 1990s. It continues to be owned by the Corscadden family, and the castle remains a luxury hotel.
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During the 1990s, his professional fortunes waned, and his long-term partner Bryn Allsop was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Gosling nursed him until his death in late 1999. He was declared bankrupt in 2000, and was stated to be living in poverty in 2002. In an interview with LeftLion magazine in August 2013 Gosling stated that he had planned on writing his memoirs for a few years but had never quite got round to doing it.
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One problem that Murray faced was that James Pickard had already patented the crank and flywheel method of converting linear motion to circular motion. Murray ingeniously got round this difficulty by introducing a hypocycloidal gear. This consisted of a large fixed ring with internal teeth. Around the inside of this ring a smaller gear wheel, with half the outer one's diameter, would roll driven by the piston rod of the steam engine, which was attached to the gear's rim.
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When the doctors advised against operation, Sargant got round this by sending patients to be operated on by Wylie McKissock at St George's Hospital, (where Eliot Slater was temporarily in charge of the psychiatric department). It was, he said, "doing good by stealth".Sargant 1967, 84–5 But critics saw him as someone of extreme views who was cruel and irresponsible and refused to listen to advice; some suggested that he was motivated by repressed anger rather than a desire to help people.
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The Love Parade is the only song on The Dream Academy's eponymous album not to be produced by David Gilmour. Instead, the band recruited Alan Tarney to work with them on the track. Tarney was brought in at the suggestion of Rough Trade Records founder Geoff Travis to work on "The Love Parade". "What happened was, we had a pretty good demo for “Love Parade,” and we loved it, and when we made the record with David, somehow we ever got 'round to it".
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Hearst UK announces a Big Book Award, with each of its major publications naming one title. Cosmopolitan UK named Ayesha at last as its 2019 choice, stating it is a clever homage to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that you'll love, even if you never got round to reading the original. In December 2019 Bustle asked noteworthy authors of first novels to recommend their favourite novels of 2019. They selected Jalauddin, who recommended A Deadly Divide, a police procedural from her friend Ausma Zehanat Khan.
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Baedeker was asked to publish a guidebook for the German Army of Occupation in Poland, with history written as the Nazis wished it to be written, as the introduction to the 1943 book Das Generalgouvernement reveals. The 1948 Leipzig was the first post-World War II Baedeker and the last one to be published in Leipzig, which was now in the Russian zone. The Russians had not granted Baedeker a publishing licence. Hans got round this by having 10,000 copies printed by the Bibliographisches Institut.
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Robert's fortune was said to have amounted to £700,000; Accessed from British History Online of the order of £84 million in 2020 money. This new wealth made John a figure of considerable influence in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. In 1788, he was reported as having little interest in politics. In 1791, he got round a clause in his uncle's will, gave up business, and settled at Ossington as a country gentleman. In 1796, he entered Parliament as MP for Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire under the patronage of Viscount Bolingbroke.
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In 1981, Welles gave a 90-minute question-and-answer session at the University of Southern California after a screening of The Trial. He had his cinematographer Gary Graver film the session with a view to editing highlights of the footage into the projected film. Graver observed, "A lot of people were there in the audience that day who are successful filmmakers now", as well as several noted film critics such as Joseph McBride and Todd McCarthy. However, Welles never got round to editing the raw footage.
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"Slow Life" was written in two stages. According to bassist Guto Pryce the "electronic part" was composed by keyboard player Cian Ciaran "quite a few years" before its eventual release. The band had tried to fit this early, purely electronic, version on previous albums but had "never got 'round to it". By the time the group came to record Phantom Power they were anxious to release the song, however Ciaran was reluctant to leave it in its original form and encouraged the rest of the band to jam over his original track.
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Quantrill became Ambassador to Cameroon in 1991, also serving as non-resident representative to the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, and Chad. In a 2005 interview Quantrill argued that the reluctance of Paul Biya to delegate responsibility hampered the quality of governance, with trivial decisions often delayed until he got round to delivering them, and that there was too much government interference in the economy in general. In retirement, Quantrill was one of 52 former British diplomats to sign a letter in 2004 criticizing then British and American policy towards Iraq.
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Younghusband are an English alternative rock band, formed in 2007 in Watford, Hertfordshire and now based in London. The band is composed of singer- songwriter Euan Hinshelwood, bassist Joe Chilton, guitarist Adam Beach and drummer Peter Baker. The bandname is taken from the colonial adventurer Francis Younghusband, who was detailed in the autobiographical travel book Seven Years in Tibet written by Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer. Hinshelwood claimed that "his name popped up in the first or second line, so I got excited and never got round to actually reading the book".
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R.V. De Smet, The Theological Method of Samkaracarya, doctoral dissertation under the guidance of R. Arnou, SJ (Rome: Gregorian University, 1953). Though he never got round to publishing this thesis, it became famous among Indologists and there are hundreds of copies in circulation.J. Lipner,"Richard V. De Smet, S.J.—An Appreciation by Julius Lipner", Hindu-Christian Studies Bulletin 11 (1998) 52. Returning to India in March 1954, De Smet began to teach at the newly opened centre for philosophical studies of the Jesuits at De Nobili College, Pune.
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I thought it was amazing and thought – why not write the crowd into the songs, and so we got round to "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" and "Cum On Feel the Noize" and all the chants were written into the tunes." In a 1986 fan club interview, guitarist Dave Hill said: "The song was based around audiences and things that were happening to us. They were just experiences. Obviously, when you are on the road, you are writing about being on the road, you're writing about what's going on.
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Fowler got round the above problem by using a weighted cart with a pulley mounted beneath the frame. The cart had disc wheels that dug into the ground so that the cart acted as an anchor for the pulley. Two carts would be placed at opposite ends of the furrow so as to pull the plough in either direction, and after completing a furrow, the carts would be winched to the position for the next furrow. Fowler's modified ploughing system was demonstrated at the Royal Agricultural Society of England meeting at Chelmsford in 1856.
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Stuart Braithwaite and Dominic Aitchison met in April 1991, and four years later formed Mogwai with old schoolfriend Martin Bulloch.Strong, Martin C. (2003) The Great Indie Discography, Canongate, , p. 872 The band's name comes from the name of the creatures in the feature film Gremlins, although guitarist Stuart Braithwaite comments that "it has no significant meaning and we always intended on getting a better one, but like a lot of other things we never got round to it." The word mogwai means "evil spirit" or "devil" in Cantonese (; IPA: mɔː⁵⁵ kʷɐi̯³⁵).
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There was never any shortage of friends, but Ida Dehmel's more conservative kinsfolk were nevertheless underwhelmed by her divorce from Auerbach and the affair with Dehmel, which may explain why, when in October 1901 they finally got round to marrying each other, they went to Bloomsbury, London in England to do so. A few years later the couple's friend, the Berlin artist Julie Wolfthorn, prepared two oil-paint portraits of the Dehmels, which were exhibited in 1906 at the third exhibition of the German Artists' Association, held in 1906 at the Grand Ducal Museum, Weimar. Wolfthorn, Julie, Berlin. in: Katalog 3.
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Mason used the word as a compound oxymoron to describe both his fear of combat ("chicken") and his attraction to it ("hawk"), a slightly different use of the term which nonetheless might have inspired the current usage."Chicken Hawk" entry from Word Spy Previously, the term war wimp was sometimes used, coined during the Vietnam War by Congressman Andrew Jacobs, a Marine veteran of the Korean War. Jacobs defined a war wimp as "someone who is all too willing to send others to war, but never got 'round to going himself". Donald Trump has been used as a modern example of a chickenhawk.
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Thomas & Sarah follows the adventures of Thomas Watkins, the chauffeur, and Sarah, the house and nursery maid, after leaving service at Eaton Place in 1910. Sarah is pregnant, and according to their last episode of Upstairs, Downstairs they have married, but according to Thomas & Sarah they "never got round to it". In addition, a two- part short story, entitled The Spin of the Wheel, that bridges the gap between them leaving Eaton Place and the start of Thomas & Sarah, was written by Alfred Shaughnessy and published in the TV Times in the 23 December and 6 January issues.
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We released a 12" vinyl with them once, on one side it had three Tame Impala songs and on the other it was the same three songs remixed by Canyons and that was really cool, it was a really casual relationship. We always talked about releasing things but we never got round to it because I'd just go round to his house and talk about music for a while. So we never actually got anything pressed until we had signed with Modular and then we went back and did stuff with Canyons." In 2013, Parker collaborated with the French electronic duo Discodeine for their track '"Aydin", from their EP Aydin.
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Although no-one was arrested (owing to the police failing to pin down exactly how Leo died), word has got round about Lynette's confession. Sorrel explains to Kelly that after being ostracised by her neighbours, Lynette appears to have given up. She has declined the job, and is moving to Doncaster for no better reason than once knowing some people who lived there. A journalist then calls at the door, introducing himself as Troy Stephens, from a magazine (evidently a trashy one) called "As It Is", which is ironic as he wishes to run a story on Lynette Saxon turning to prostitution to support her daughter.
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In March 1873 the steamer Herald towed last the brig Firefly, of 160 tons register, to Newington Wharf eleven miles up the Parramatta River. This is the largest vessel that had ever been so far up the river, as the brig Firefly had been chartered to convey a cargo of bones from Newington to Melbourne. When a small skiff capsized 100 and 150 yards from Mrs Macquarie's Chair, dumping three men in the water, the steamer Herald happened to be nearby. It had got round and thrown a line to the men in the water, which they failed to grasp; Mr Hall, of the steamer Herald swam to their assistance.
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There is a story that Gorky hurried to Moscow, obtained an order to release Gumilev from Lenin personally, but upon his return to Petrograd he found out that Gumilev had already been shot – but Nadezhda Mandelstam, a close friend of Gumilev's widow, Anna Akhmatova wrote that: "It is true that people asked him to intervene. ... Gorky had a strong dislike of Gumilev, but he nevertheless promised to do something. He could not keep his promise because the sentence of death was announced and carried out with unexpected haste, before Gorky had got round to doing anything." In October, Gorky returned to Italy on health grounds: he had tuberculosis.
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Kluck ordered the 1st Army to advance southwards with unlimited objectives. The 6th Division of the III Corps, crossed the Aisne at Vic on 1 September and engaged the 3rd Cavalry Brigade at Taillefontaine, about north-west of Villers and drove it slowly back towards the village. At the 4th Guards Brigade was attacked by a mixed force of cavalry, infantry and artillery, which was repulsed until another attack at and got round the western flank and advanced on an open area from to and filtered through gaps in the line of the 3rd Coldstream Guards, who fell back slowly, with the 2nd Grenadier Guards on the right. By the British had retreated to the northern fringe of the village during hand-to-hand fighting.
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On one occasion Murphy was reviewing Star Trek, in particular the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The High Ground" However, he was unable to show any clips of it, as the episode was banned from broadcast in Ireland and the UK due to a positive reference to Physical force Irish republicanism. Murphy got round the ban by reading out the script of the offending scene, attempting to play both characters (Jean-Luc Picard and Data). While the show was produced on a small budget – the set for later seasons was simply a white backdrop onto which Murphy occasionally brought props – it remains a cult favourite among sections of the viewing public in Ireland. It is on an indefinite hiatus and hasn't aired since 2005.
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The film not only spawned the sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and an advertisement for British Telecom, but is believed to have been the inspiration for several unrelated films about small monsters. These include Ghoulies, Troll, Hobgoblins and Munchies. In music, the Scottish post-rock band Mogwai are named after the film's creatures: as for the reason for the band chose this as their name, their guitarist, Stuart Braithwaite, has stated that "it has no significant meaning and we always intended on getting a better one, but like a lot of other things we never got round to it". Welsh singer and songwriter Rod Thomas performs under the name Bright Light Bright Light, which is a direct quote from the film.
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An angled shot from Suzanne Grant slid underneath Alderson, but Lucy Bronze managed to prevent Rachel Yankey from scoring with a last-ditch clearance. Arsenal took the lead just after the half hour, when Alderson failed to hold Davison's shot and Katie Chapman followed up to score from the rebound. The Gunners had a chance to double their lead two minutes ahead of the break, when Little slotted a good ball through to Grant, but her shot went wide of the far post. Arsenal had most of the possession in the second half, but their second goal came in injury time, when Chapman chipped the ball into the path of Little, who got round Alderson before tucking the ball into the empty net.
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By the British-French counter-attack had pushed forward north of the village and British troops held out in Smith-Dorrien Trench to the east. The German attack began at and quickly got behind the defenders, who were almost cut off an hour later and were pursued through the village, the two battalions involved being reduced to about including replacements. Some of the German troops pressed on through the village but to the west, met a party of about troops, who pushed them back to the village and frustrated several attempts to advance again. The Germans shifted the weight of the attack to the south and got round the left flank of the neighbouring battalion, which pulled the flank back at right angles.
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The Sea Nymphs supported All About Eve on their "Ultraviolet" tour of 1992. The Sea Nymphs were briefly reactivated in 1998 and reissued their "Appealing to Venus" single on CD. The band played a Radio 1 John Peel Session on 4 October 1998 (performing "Eating A Heart Out", "Lilly White's Party", "The Sea Ritual" and "Sea Snake Beware"), which was re-broadcast as a "classic Peel Session" on BBC Radio 6 on 4 May 2009. Drake had claimed that material for at least one more Sea Nymphs album had been recorded, but that the trio had not yet got round to finishing it off and releasing it, but second album On The Dry Land finally saw a release at the end of 2016.
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Kochanski (played by Clare Grogan) briefly appears in "The End" (1988). Later in the episode, after Dave Lister (Craig Charles) is released from three million years in stasis, Holly (Norman Lovett) confirms to Lister that Kochanski is dead following a radiation leak caused by a drive plate aboard the spaceship Red Dwarf being repaired inefficiently. Lister tells Holly that she was going to come with him as part of his plan to buy a farm in Fiji, but Lister never got round to telling her. Clare Grogan as Kochanski In the first two series, it becomes apparent that Lister lusted after Kochanski from a distance and occasionally flirted with her but never had a relationship with her, never having had the courage to ask her out.
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Yury sat on the throne of the Grand Duchy in Moscow, and two Dmitry (Shemyaka and Krasny) were sent in pursuit of Vasily II. But along the way, the word got round that their father had died (he was at the head of the state only for two months), and Vasily Kosoy, the eldest of the brothers, declared himself ruler. This was a complete violation of all laws of succession: both majorat and agnatic seniority. Two Dmitry did not recognize the claims of their older brother and went over to the side of Vasily. Under an agreement with Vasily II, Dmitry Krasny received the important cities of Galich and Vyshgorod (according to the will of his father, Yury of Zvenigorod) and also Bezhetsky Verkh.
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In 2003, McLusky started taking new UK bands over to Paris to play the clubs Batofar and Nouveau Casino, convinced that there must be a local scene lurking under the surface in Paris and with the help of local rocker & DJ Jean Baptiste Juillot, he started to dig about in the Paris underground, bands were found and booked in as supports on his Paris bills. Soon McLusky was being stalked by a stream of local talent, bands came out of the woodwork that never got to play their home town, word got round that there were people in town with new ideas that were nothing to do with the obstructive French music industry. As momentum built, a deal was struck with V2 France to produce a compilation album named by McLusky Le Nouveau Rock'n'Roll Français.
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Attacks were then postponed until dawn and Smith-Dorrien Trench, a new line east of the village was dug and linked to the defences north and south of the village. British casualties were severe and when French visited II Corps headquarters on 26 October, more reinforcements were promised and French ordered a defensive front to be maintained, with local attacks to keep German troops from moving from the area into Belgium. When dawn broke, the situation at Neuve-Chapelle was seen to be worse than expected, since the Germans had consolidated positions in outlying buildings and the old British trenches. A battalion attempted to recapture the trenches at but the Germans got round a flank and almost surrounded the battalion; the last two companies lost their men retreating through the village.
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A large counter-attack was mounted on the French front on 22 March, which forced French cavalry and cyclists back over the Crozat Canal with many casualties but began too soon to ambush a large force that included artillery, as had been intended. A Booby-trap exploded in Bapaume town hall on 25 March, killing Australian troops and two French Deputies; French civilians were left behind at Bouvincourt, Vraignes and Tincourt on 26 March and Villers Faucon, Saulcourt and Guyencourt were lost on 27 March, to attacks by British cavalry and armoured cars. Supplies of armour-piercing bullets had been sent forward by the Germans after Roisel was captured the day before, resulting in the armoured cars being peppered with bullet-holes. The armoured cars decoyed the German defenders, while cavalry got round the flanks and captured the villages.
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Campbell, however, has written that Brown in conversation always "adamantly denied" being a "personal friend" of Dacre. Although he is a Eurosceptic, Dacre backed Kenneth Clarke, an advocate of the European Union, to be leader of the Conservative Party on two occasions. In what Anthony Barnett has described as "a gem of far-sightedness", a Mail editorial on the Conservative leadership candidates in 2005 got round this contradiction by arguing the campaign for Britain to switch to the Euro as its currency "has for the foreseeable future, been overtaken by events". While David Cameron was considered "attractive", although "insubstantial", and "too obsessed with aping Mr Blair", Clarke was "uniquely qualified to start a long overdue demolition job on" Labour's "shameful war record" in Iraq, Blair having "led Britain into an illegal war on the coat-tails of the Americans".
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The Rocks were formed in 2001 by James Taylor and Sarah Bacon, inspired by seeing live performances by At The Drive- In. Taylor began writing the early Rocks material, recruiting lead guitarist and co-songwriter Mauro Venegas and bassist Chris Mann, mainly through a series of chance encounters. The original Rocks line-up was completed by Aidan Clooke, a bandmate of Taylor's from his previous outfit Ojo, on drums. The band's initial intention was to play its debut gig in New York and then split up, but a projected show on 17 September that year was pulled due to the events of 9/11, and the cancellation of all subsequent flights. They eventually got round to their New York debut in April 2002, having by now begun to establish themselves as fixtures on the London gigging circuit.
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At dusk the British artillery turned into a moonscape, while British aircraft machine- gunned the trench from . A Canadian attack was repulsed and a second attempt at midnight was stopped with the help of reinforcements. The Canadians had pressed forward on both flanks and got round either side of and the east end of , (Hessian Trench) which fell when the front and support battalions of IR 26 were annihilated, few soldiers making it back to , to hold the of the trench that the regiment was responsible for but they managed to stop the Canadian advance all afternoon, except for the loss of of the trench near the Courcelette–Grandcourt road. After dark the 7th Division withdrew south to and east to cover Pys in the (Below Position). IR 93, 8th Division, held the defences from Redoubt and part of to the east edge of Thiepval, with supports in and .
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Beerling is interested in the history of science and publishes occasional scholarly articles on this theme. These have included an invited commentary entitled 'Gas valves, forests and global change: a commentary on Paul Gordon Jarvis classic 1976 paper written to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and the discovery that Isaac Newton's interest in botany extended to thinking about how water moves from roots to leaves and into the atmosphere over 200 years before botanists got round to explaining it. His discovery was widely reported including in Scientific American and Science which coined the memorable 'Newton was no sap' strap line. In 2010, he wrote a piece for Nature discussing theoretical analyses revealing how plant investment in the architecture of leaf veins can be shuffled for different conditions, minimising the construction costs associated with supplying water to leaves.
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Smeaton, from Popular Science monthly circa 1877 Towards the close of its career, the atmospheric engine was much improved in its mechanical details and its proportions by John Smeaton, who built many large engines of this type during the 1770s. The urgent need for an engine to give rotary motion was making itself felt and this was done with limited success by Wasborough and Pickard using a Newcomen engine to drive a flywheel through a crank. Although the principle of the crank had long been known, Pickard managed to obtain a 12-year patent in 1780 for the specific application of the crank to steam engines; this was a setback to Boulton and Watt who got round the patent by applying the sun and planet motion to their advanced double-acting rotative engine of 1782. By 1725 the Newcomen engine was in common use in mining, particularly collieries.
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We rowed directly into this bay; and > as soon as we had got round the point of an island which lay off the > harbour, we discovered all the beach covered with naked savages who were all > armed with lances and clubs; and twelve canoes all full of them who, till we > had passed them, had lain concealed, immediately rushed out upon me, making > a horrid noise: this, you may suppose, alarmed us greatly; and as I had only > one European and four black soldiers, besides the four lascars that rowed > the boat. I thought it best to turn, if possible under the guns of the > vessel before I ventured to speak with them. Eventually, he met these "noble savages" and learned something of their natural, matriarchal, atheist, and property-sharing culture. > They are a tall, well-made people; the men in general are about five feet > eight or ten inches high; the women are shorter and more clumsily built.
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Parish Church of Priscos, Braga As a priest, he was deeply devoted to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, and a dedicated almoner. However, he soon became known for his natural artistic faculties: at the age of thirty, in 1864, he had a wooden theatre built in São Miguel de Cunha and there directed several morality plays of his own composition, such as Taumaturgo Santo António ("Saint Anthony the Thaumaturge"), and A Casta Suzana ("The Chaste Susanna"). He was also a passionate photographer, setting up his own darkroom; he had an interest in optics, owning a Zeiss lense that he attempted to adapt to a camera obscura of his own making, but that he never got round to build, and spoke with enthusiasm about the magic lantern — speculating that, in the not-so-distant future, the projection of moving pictures would be "of paramount importance in the education of the people, and mainly children, on the mysteries of religion". He was also a gifted tailor and embroider.
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From the day after the Anschluss Grimes began baptising Jews in the belief that an Anglican baptismal certificate would give Jews some sort of – albeit temporary – protection (the Church of England being an established State Church and Christ Church being an Embassy Chapel, and Grimes having diplomatic status), thereby at least gaining time to put their affairs in order before emigrating, or even to enable Jews to obtain transit visas through neighbouring countries. Over the following weeks word got round the Jewish community and by July 1938 Grimes had baptised some 900 Jews, mostly from the most prominent Viennese Jewish families, holding the hasty ceremonies 6 days a week. In July Grimes returned to London to explain his actions to the suspicious and disapproving authorities, and his place at Christ Church was taken by a retired Anglican priest from Cologne, the Reverend Frederick Collard, who continued the baptisms, sometimes carrying out over 100 a day. In August, the verger of Christ Church, Fred Richter, himself a converted Austrian Jew, was arrested by the Gestapo on the charge of aiding espionage; he had been recruiting spies for the Passport Control Officer at the British Consulate, Capt.
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The first published account of the Sinking Valley area was published in the Columbian Magazine in 1788 by William Spotswood. The account gives a history of Sinking Valley and nearby Fort Roberdeau, and mentions the end of the Tytoona system at Arch Spring: :"a rude arch of stone hanging over it, forms a passage for the water, which it throws out with some degree of violence, and in such plenty as to form a fine stream, which at length buries itself again in the bowels of the earth." It also gives the first known description of the entrance to the cave: :"This opening in the hill continues about four hundred yards when the cave widens, after you have got round a sudden turn, which prevents its being discovered till you are within it, to a spacious room, at the bottom of which is a vortex, the water that falls into the whirling round with amazing force; sticks, or even pieces of timber, are immediately absorbed." More recently, there have been two attempts at commercialization – in 1947 and in 1972 – neither venture lasted long, and today few traces remain.
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