George MacDonald Fraser - George MacDonald Fraser George MacDonald Fraser, born 1926 in Carlisle, England, is a writer of Scottish descent. He writes both historical novels and non-fiction books. He worked as a journalist and served in the British army in World War II. He also wrote several screenplays. He received an O.B.E in 1999. He is most famous for the Flashman series. This is a series of historical novels purportedly written by the fictional character, Harry Flashman, himself (who was originally created by Thomas Hughes in his book Tom Brown's School Days). The books are presented as "packets" of memoirs written by the nonegarian Flashman, looking back on his days as a hero of the British army. For the books published in this series, see Flashman. His other books.
Harry Paget Flashman - School and Flashman is the notorious school bully, who persecutes the book's hero Tom Brown. George MacDonald Fraser had the conceit of writing a series of further fictional adventures of this coward and bully as he cuts a swathe through the wars and uproars (and the boudoirs and harems) of the 19th century. Though Flashman constantly betrays his friends, runs from danger, or hides cowering in fear, he arrives at the end of each book with medals, praise from the mighty, and the love of one or more beautiful and enthusiastic women. Flashman becomes one of the most notable and honored figures of the era. The series is a classic use of false documents. The books describe the discovery of Flashman's memoirs in a Leicestershire saleroom in 1966. Posing as the.
Historical novel - movements of romantic nationalism. The novels of the Polish winner of the Nobel Prize in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz wrote several novels set in the medieval conflicts between Poles and the Teutonic Knights. In some historical novels, the main history takes place mostly off-stage while the characters are living in the world in which those events are taking place. Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped, tells mostly private adventures set against a background of the Jacobite troubles between England and Scotland. In other examples, historical characters are given a fictional setting, such as Alexander Dumas's Queen Margot. Historical fiction can serve many purposes, including satire. George Macdonald Fraser's dashing character Harry Paget Flashman is an example of satirical historical fiction. As opposed to popular belief, the historical novel as defined above is neither dead.
Further reading on India - the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Published Book. The book is a magnanimous fictional work, or rather a treatise, on India, its history, trends, culture, and religion. It is told through the mouth of an 18th century warrior/poet who is re-incarnated in the form of a monkey. The book leads the reader via an enthralling route through quests, and battles, and good and evil, and redemption and retribution, and the trials and tribulations of generations across the vastness of India. Salman Rushdie is an Anglo-Indian novelist and poet. He has been perhaps one of the most prolific of writers on the contemporary Indian theme. His masterful command over the English language coupled with his exuberant, albeit sometimes complex, style of writing has made.
US Congressional Delegations from Minnesota - William D. Washburn (R) 1879-1883 Horace Strait (R) 1883-1887 John MacDonald (D) 1887-1889 Darwin Hall (R) 1889-1891 Osse M Hall (D) 1891-1895 Joel Heatwole (R) 1895-1903 Charles Davis (R) 1903-1925 August Andresen (R) 1925-1933 At large 1933-1935 Ernest Lundeen (FL) 1935-1937 Henry Teigen (FL) 1937-1939 John Alexander (R) 1939-1941 Richard Gale (R) 1941-1945 William Gallagher (D) 1945-1947 George McKinnon (R) 1947-1949 Roy Wier (D) 1949-1961 Clark MacGregor (R) 1961-1971 Bill Frenzel (R) 1971-1991 Jim Ramstad (R ) 1991- 4th District (1883-) William D. Washburn (R)1883-1885 John Gilfillan (R) 1885-1887 Edmund Rice (D) 1887-1889 Samuel Snider (R) 1889-1891 James Castle (D) 1891-1893 Andrew Keifer (R) 1893-1897 Fredrick Stevens (R) 1897-1915 Carl Van Dyke (D) 1915-1919 (died in office) Oscar Keller ( I/ R) 1919-1927 Melvin Mass (R) 1927-1933 At Large 1933-1935 Melvin.
1878 in Canada - 8 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Charles-Eugène de Boucherville June 25 - George Walkem becomes premier of British Columbia for the second time, replacing Andrew Elliott September 17 - Federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a majority, defeating Alexander Mackenzie's Liberals October 16 - John Norquay becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Robert Davis October 17 - Sir John A. Macdonald becomes prime minister for the second time, replacing Alexander Mackenzie October 22 - Simon Holmes becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Philip Hill James Fraser becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing George King Births December 30 - William Aberhart, premier of Alberta Deaths.
1882 in Canada - John Thompson becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing Simon Holmes June 20 - Federal election: Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives win a second consecutive majority June 13 - Robert Beaven becomes premier of British Columbia, replacing George Walkem July 31 - Joseph-Alfred Mousseau becomes premier of Quebec, replacing Sir Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau August 3 - William Pipes becomes premier of Nova Scotia, replacing John Thompson Daniel Hanington becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing James Fraser Births February 2 - Geoffrey O'Hara, musician Deaths.
1925 - returns to the Gold Standard. Births January 6 - John DeLorean, auto maker January 8 - James Saunders, dramatist January 10 - Max Roach, drummer, composer January 11 - Grant Tinker, television executive January 11 - William Styron, writer January 24 - Maria Tallchief, prima ballerina January 13 - Gwen Verdon, actress, dancer (+ 2000) January 20 - Ernesto Cardenal, theologian, author and politician January 21 - Benny Hill, comedian, actor (+ 1992) January 26 - Paul Newman, actor January 30 - Dorothy Malone, actress January 31 - Benjamin Hooks, head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People February 1 - Alfred Grosser, political scientist and publicist February 2 - Elaine Stritch, actress February 4 - Russell Hoban, writer February 8 - Jack Lemmon, actor and film director.
1918 in music - Gone" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton "At The Jazz Band Ball" w.m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields "Bagdad" w.Harold Atteridge m.Al Jolson "Beautiful Ohio" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Mary Earl "Clarinet Marmalade" m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields "Dallas Blues" w. Hart A. Wand m. Lloyd Garrett "Dancing 'neath the Dixie moon" w. Will J. Hart m. Ed. Nelson. "Dark Grows The Sky" w. Harry Graham m. Harold Fraser-Simson "The Daughter Of Rosie O'Grady" w. Monty C. Brice m. Walter Donaldson "Dear Little Boy Of Mine" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest Ball "Dear Old Pal Of Mine" w. Harold Robe m. Lt. Gitz Rice "Ding Dong" w.m. Irving Berlin "Every Day" by Shelton Brooks "Ev'rybody's Crazy 'bout the Doggone.
1917 in music - Johnson "Bring Me A Rose" w.m. Charles Shisler "Cheer Up , Liza" John L. Golden, Raymond Hubbell "Cleopatra Had A Jazz Band" w. Jack Coogan m. Jimmy Morgan "Come To The Fair" w. Helen Taylor m. Easthope Martin "The Darktown Strutters' Ball" w.m. Shelton Brooks "Dixie Jass Band One-Step" Original Dixieland Jass Band "Down In The Valley" trad US "Eileen (Alanna Asthore)" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert "For Me And My Gal" w. Edgar Leslie & E. Ray Goetz m. George W. Meyer "For Your Country And My Country" w.m. Irving Berlin "Give A Man A Horse He Can Ride" w. James Thomson m. Geoffrey O'Hara "Give Me The Moonlight, Give Me The Girl" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer "Going Up" w. Otto Harbach m. Louis A. Hirsch.
1984 Governor General's Awards - Home Marilyn Bowering, The Sunday before Winter David McFadden, The Art of Darkness Sharon Thesen, Confabulations Peter van Toorn, Mountain Tea Drama Winner: Judith Thompson, White Biting Dog Other Finalists: James Reaney, The Canadian Brothers or The Prophecy Fulfilled George Ryga, A Letter to My Son Nonfiction Winner: Sandra Gwyn, The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier Other Finalists: Bob Beal and Rod Macleod, Prairie Fire: The 1885 North-West Rebellion Graham Fraser, P.Q.: René Levesque and the Parti Québécois in Power French Language Fiction Winner: Jacques Brault, Agonie Other Finalists: Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, La Maison Trestler Jacques Poulin, Volkswagen Blues Jacques Savoie, Les Portes tournantes Marie José Thériault, Les Demoiselles de Numidie Poetry Winner: Nicole Brossard, Double Impression Other Finalists: Michel Beaulieu, Kaléidoscope André Roy, Les.
Academy Award for Animated Short Film - Hamilton Luske animators 1936 Country Cousin - Walt Disney Pictures - Walt Disney producer - David Dodd Hand, Wilfred Jackson directors - Art Babbitt, Les Clark animators Old Mill Pond - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising producers - Hugh Harman director - animator not noted Sinbad the Sailor - Celebrity Productions Inc. - Ub Iwerks producer, director and animator 1937 The Old Mill - Walt Disney Pictures - Walt Disney producer - Wilfred Jackson director - Ugo D'Orsi, Jack Hannah, Robert Martsch, Dan McManus, Joshua Meador, Tom Palmer, Stan Quackenbush, George Rowley, Ralph Somerville, Robert Stokes, Bob Wickersham animators Educated Fish - Fleischer Studios - Max Fleischer producer - Dave Fleischer director - Hicks Lokey, Myron Waldman animators The Little Match Girl - Screen Gems Inc. - Charles Mintz producer.
April 2 - adventurer and writer (†1798) 1798 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, lyricist (†1874, writer of "Das Lied der Deutschen") 1805 - Hans Christian Andersen, writer (†1875) 1834 - Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor (†1904) 1840 - Emile Zola, novelist and critic (†1902) 1867 - Eugene Sandow, body builder, circus performer (†1925) 1875 - Walter Chrysler, automobile pioneer (†1940) 1891 - Max Ernst, painter (†1976) 1908 - Buddy Ebsen, actor, dancer 1914 - Sir Alec Guinness, actor (†2000) 1920 - Jack Webb, actor, director, producer (†1982) 1925 - Hans Rosenthal, showmaster (†1987) 1925 - George MacDonald Fraser, author 1927 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer 1928 - Serge Gainsbourg, singer (†1991) 1934 - Brian Glover, British actor, wrestler (†1997) 1934 - Paul.
The Three Musketeers - of the first company of the King's Musketeers) by Gatien de Courtilz (Cologne, 1700). The book was borrowed in the Marseilles public library, and the card-index remains to this day (Dumas kept the book when he went back to Paris). It covers the adventures of D'Artagnan and his friends in 1625, as they are involved in intrigues involving the weak King Louis XIII of France, his powerful and cunning advisor Cardinal Richelieu, the beautiful Queen Anne of Austria, her English lover, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and the siege of the rebellious Huguenot city of La Rochelle. The novel has been filmed many times. Notable film versions include: Les Trois mousquetaires (1921) - a French silent film version featuring Aimé Simon-Girard as D'Artagnan and Claude Mérelle as Milady de Winter..
Tom Brown - literary character in novels by Thomas Hughes and George MacDonald Fraser. See: Tom Brown (character) Tom Brown, 17th century satirical writer. See: Tom Brown (satirist) There are also various people known as: Thomas Brown. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons - of Commons has an official residence just outside Gatineau, Quebec, just across the river from Ottawa. The current speaker is Ontario Liberal MP Peter Milliken. All of Canada's province's also have a Speaker of the House of Commons with much the same roles. List of Federal Speakers James Cockburn June 11, 1867 - March 5, 1874 Conservative Timothy Warren Anglin March 26, 1874 - February 12, 1879 Liberal Joseph Godéric Blanchet February 13, 1879 - February 7, 1883 Liberal-Conservative George Airey Kirkpatrick, February 8, 1883 - July 12, 1887 Conservative Joseph-Aldéric Ouimet July 13, 1887 - July 28, 1891 Conservative Peter White July 29, 1891 - August 18, 1896 Conservative James David Edgar August 19, 1896 - July 31, 1899 Liberal Thomas Bain August 1, 1899 - February 5, 1901 Liberal.
Peerage of the United Kingdom - The Earl of St Germans 1815 The Earl of Morley 1815 The Earl of Bradford 1815 The Earl of Eldon 1821 The Earl Howe 1821 The Earl of Stradbroke 1821 The Earl Temple of Stowe 1822 The Earl Vane 1823 Marquess of Londonderry in the Peerage of Ireland The Earl Cawdor 1827 The Earl of Munster 1831 The Earl of Burlington 1831 Duke of Devonshire in the Peerage of England The Earl of Lichfield 1831 The Earl of Durham 1833 The Earl Granville 1833 The Earl of Effingham 1837 The Earl of Ducie 1837 The Earl of Yarborough 1837 The Earl Innes 1837 Duke of Roxburghe in the Peerage of Scotland The Earl of Leicester 1837.
New Zealand general election 1984 - third in the other two. The only minor party to win electorates was the Social Credit Party, which won East Coast Bays and Pakuranga (both in Auckland). It had held East Coast Bays before the election, but won Pakuranga for the first time. It did not manage to retain Rangitikei, which it had also held before the election. Social Credit candidates placed second in six electorates, including Rangitikei. The New Zealand Party, despite gaining more votes than Social Credit, did not win any seats. Some commentators have suggested that the party was not seeking to do so, and instead was merely acting as a spoiler for National. This impression has been backed up by comments by Bob Jones himself. The party did, however, place second in the electorates of Remuera (an.
Members of the Scottish Parliament - Lord James Douglas-Hamilton (Con - Lothians) E Helen Eadie (Lab - Dunfermline East) Fergus Ewing (SNP - Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) Margaret Ewing (SNP - Moray) F Linda Fabiani (SNP - Central Scotland) John Farquhar Munro (Lib Dem - Ross, Skye and Inverness West) Patricia Ferguson (Lab - Glasgow Maryhill) Alex Fergusson (Con - Galloway & Upper Nithsdale) Ross Finnie (Lib Dem - West of Scotland) Colin Fox (SSP - Lothians) Murdo Fraser (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) G Phil Gallie (Con - South of Scotland) Rob Gibson (SNP - Highlands and Islands) Karen Gillon (Lab - Clydesdale) Marlyn Glen (Lab - North East Scotland) Trish Godman (Lab - West Renfrewshire) Annabel Goldie (Con - West of Scotland) Donald Gorrie (Lib Dem - Central Scotland) Christine Grahame (SNP -.
Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada - for Canada (2003): Paul Theodore Hellyer Ellen Louks Fairclough Francis Alvin George Hamilton Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Joseph Pierre Albert Sevigny Paul Martineau J.H. Theogene Ricard Martial Asselin Walter Lockhart Gordon Mitchell Sharp Allan MacEachen Yvon Dupuis Edgar John Benson Leo Alphonse Joseph Cadieux Lawrence T. Pennell Joseph Julien Jean-Pierre Cote John Napier Turner Louis Joseph Robichaud Dufferin Roblin Alexander B. Campbell Robert L. Stanfield Donald Stovel Macdonald John Carr Munro John-Eudes Dube Stanley Ronald Basford Eric William Kierans James Armstrong Richardson Otto Emil Lang Herb Gray Robert Douglas George Stanbury Jean-Pierre Goyer Alastair William Gillespie Martin Patrick O'Connell Patrick Morgan Mahoney Stanley Haidasz Eugene Francis Whelan William Warren Allmand James Hugh Faulkner Andre Ouellet Marc Lalonde Raymond Joseph Perrault Barnett Jerome Danson J. Judd Buchanan Romeo LeBlanc Pierre Juneau.
