Irish Traveller - Irish Traveller Irish Travellers (also called Irish Gypsies or Irish Tinkers) are itinerant people of Irish origin living in Great Britain, Ireland and the United States. Their pursuit of a nomadic lifestyle in these urbanized countries has generated much friction with the settled population, many of whom have characterised them as thieves or accused them of causing problems due to large amount of rubbish left behind at sites they have stayed at temporarily. There have also been some highly-publicized scams, on the Discovery Channel and elsewhere, that happened to be perpretrated by Irish Travelers. These have lead to stereotyping of all Irish Travellers. The Shelta language is the traditional language of the Irish Travellers, adapted as a jargon from the Irish language. "They form a separate.
Irish poetry - Irish poetry The history of Irish poetry is complicated by the fact that since at least the 14th century it has been the history of two poetries, one in Irish language and the other in English language. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a set of traditions that are both rich and difficult for the outsider to follow. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The Earliest Irish Poetry 2 Medieval/Early Modern 2.1 Bardic Poetry 2.2 Metrical Dindshenchus 2.3 The Poems of Fionn 2.4 The Kildare Poems 2.5 Spenser and Ireland 3 The 18th Century 3.6 Gaelic Songs: the End of an Order 3.7 Cúirt An Mheán Óiche 3.8 Swift and Goldsmith 4 The 19th.
Traveller - Traveller A traveller (american traveler) is a person or object that travels between two or more locations. Wikipedia knows several types of traveller: A role-playing game known as Traveller published by Games Designer's Workshop (GDW) beginning in 1977 A mechanical traveller, part of a ship or machine The band Blues Traveler The BBC television series Crime Traveller A human traveller, for pleasure or profession, for which see the related links to Irish Traveller Time traveller Backpacking Tourism Transport 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..
John Ball - his BA degree from St Mary's Hall, Oxford, in 1608, he went into Cheshire to act as tutor to the children of Lady Cholmondeley. He adopted Puritan views, and after being ordained without subscription, was appointed to the small curacy of Whitmore in Staffordshire. He was soon deprived by John Bridgeman, the high church bishop of Chester, who put him to much suffering. He became a schoolmaster and earned a wide and high reputation for his scholarship and piety. He died on the 20th of October 1640. The most popular of his numerous works was A Short Catechisnie, containing all the Principal Grounds of Religion (14 editions before 1632). His Treatise of Faith (1632), and Friendly Trial of the Grounds tending to Separation (1640), the latter of which defines his position.
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton - at Munich under Dollinger, whose lifelong friend he became. He had wished to go to Cambridge, but for a Roman Catholic this was then impossible. By Dollinger he was inspired with a deep love of historical research and a profound conception of its functions as a critical instrument. He was a master of the chief foreign languages, and began at an early age to collect a magnificent historical library, with the object, never in fact realized, of writing a great "History of Liberty". In politics he was always an ardent Liberal. Without being a notable traveller, Acton spent much time in the chief intellectual centres of Europe, and in the United States, and numbered among his friends such men as Montalembert, De Tocqueville, Fustel de Coulanges, Bluntschli, von Sybel and Ranke..
John Mandeville - pardoned on the recommendation of the same nobleman was a Johan Mangevilayn, whose name appears closely related to that of "de Mandeville"--which is merely a later form of "de Magneville." Mangeuilain occurs in Yorkshire as early as 16 Hen. I. (Pipe Roll Soc., xv. 40), but is very rare, and (failing evidence of any place named Mangeville) seems to be merely a variant spelling of Magnevillain. The meaning may be simply "of Magneville," de Magneville; but the family of a 14th century bishop of Nevers were called both "Mandevilain" and "de Mandevilain"--where Mandevilain seems a derivative place-name, meaning the Magneville or Mandeville district. In any case it is clear that the name "de Mandeville "might be suggested to de Bourgogne by that of his fellow-culprit Mangevilayn, and it is even possible.
Euro - cents. All euro coins have a common side showing the worth and a national side showing an image particular to the country it was issued in. Euro banknotes have a common design for each denomination on both sides. All the different coins can be used in all the participating member states: a euro coin bearing an image of the Spanish king is legal tender not only in Spain, but also in Finland (and other nations where the euro is in use). (This practice is similar to that used on sterling pound coins: there are Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, English and 'Royal' designs for one side, while the other side features a uniform design, and each is legal tender throughout the United Kingdom.) Official practice followed in English-language EU legislation is to.
T. E. Lawrence - a British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918. His fame as a soldier rests on American traveller and journalist Lowell Thomas's reportage of the Revolt, as well as Lawrence's autobiography, Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Lawrence was born in Tremadoc, Caernarfonshire, North Wales, of mixed English and Irish ancestry, and was educated at Jesus College, Oxford. He worked in the Middle East as an archaeologist with William Flinders Petrie before World War I and joined army intelligence at the outbreak of hostilities. During the war, he led extended guerrilla operations against the Ottoman Empire, using Arab irregular troops under the command of Emir Feisal, a son of Sherif Hussein of Mecca. The guerrilla operations were adapted from Boer tactics used during the Boer War. Lawrence's major contribution to World War.
Shelta language - Shelta language is a cant language spoken by parts of the Irish Traveller people. Some Traveller emigrants in America also spoke the language in the 1870s. It has elements from English, Irish and Romany, and is also known as Gammon, or simply Cant..
Oliver Goldsmith - (November 10, 1728 - April 4, 1774) was an Irish writer and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1773). He was the son of an Anglican cleric and earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1749 at Trinity College, Dublin, studying theology and law but never getting as far as ordination. He later studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Leiden, then toured Europe, living on his wits. On his return, he settled in London, where he worked as an apothecary's assistant. Perennially in debt, Goldsmith had a massive output as a hack writer for the publishers of London,.
November 23 - his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become Queen. 1903 - Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike. 1936 - The first edition of Life is published. 1955 - The Cocos Islands are transferred from United Kingdom to Australian control. 1958 - Have Gun, Will Travel debuts on radio. 1963 - The first episode of the sci-fi tv series Doctor Who debuts on the BBC 1971 - The People's Republic of China is given the Republic of China's seat on the United Nations Security Council (see China and the United Nations) 1979 - In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten 1980 - A series of earthquakes.
List of ethnic slurs - Canada, used in Quebec Ape Candy - Whites who date blacks. apple - U.S., a black person (apples hang from trees) cf. windchime Apu - U.S., popularized by the character of the same name from The Simpsons, referring to Indians A-rab - U.S., someone of Middle-eastern descent (pronounced as the letter "A" followed by "rab" as in rabbit.) Armo - Armenians Aunt Jemima, U.S. Blacks, a black woman who "kisses up" to whites, a "sellout", cf. Uncle Tom Ay-rab - U.S., variant spelling of A-rab. B Babuska - Eastern Europeans, deriving from the head covering worn by Ukrainian women Bagel dog - Jews, referring to traditional food product: bagels Bahadur - Nepali servants Bamboo coon - Chinese people banana - Canada, U.S., an Asian who is "yellow on the outside, white.
List of people by name: Bu - Robert Wilhelm, (1811-1899), chemist Bunshaft, Gordon, (1909-1990), architect Bunting, Basil, poet Buntline, Ned, (1823-1886), "dime novelist", publisher, writer, publicist Bunton, Emma, (born 1976), British singer and ex-member of Spice Girls Bunyan, John, (1628-1688), author of Pilgrim's Progress, Baptist preacher Buonarroti, Michelangelo, (1475-1564), Italian painter Buonarroti, Philippe, French Revolution Buragna, Carlo Burbage, Richard, (died 1619), actor Burbank, Daniel, astronaut Burbank, Luther, (1849-1926), biologist, botanist Burbidge, Margaret, astronomer Burchett, Wilfred, (1911-1983), journalist Burchill, Charlie, (born 1959), musician Burckhardt, Jacob, (1818-1897), art historian Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig, (1784-1814), traveller, orientalist Burda, Franz, (1903-1986), German publisher Burden, Bob, comic creator Burdon, Eric, (born 1940), musician Buretsu, emperor of Japan Burgee, John, architect Burger, Warren, (1907-1995), United States Supreme Court justice Burges, William, architect Burgess, Anthony, (1917-1993), British writer Burgess, Guy, British spy for Soviet Union Burgess,.
London Underground - II, and especially The Blitz, led to the use of many Tube stations as air-raid shelters. They were particularly suited to this purpose, but sadly a small number of horrific accidents occurred, notably at Bethnal Green. Other stations and sections of line were given other uses: A remote stretch of the Central Line was turned into an underground aeroplane factory. The closed Brompton Road station was used as an anti-aircraft control centre. The closed Down Street station was used by Winston Churchill until the Cabinet War Rooms were built, after which it was used by the Emergency Railway Committee. Post War Developments Following the war, travel congestion continued to rise. The construction of the carefully planned Victoria Line on a diagonal northeast-southwest alignment beneath central London attracted much of the extra.
Journal of the Travellers Aid Society - the Travellers Aid Society is a role-playing game magazine devoted to Traveller, commonly abbreviated JTAS. The first issue was published by GDW in 1979 and the last of the first run was #24 in 1985. It was superseded by the magazine Challenge, which took up its numbering scheme and ran from issue 25 onwards with a broader role-playing game focus. The magazine was revived by Imperium Games after GDW folded, and JTAS 25 and 26 were published before that publisher folded itself. After Steve Jackson Games licensed the Traveller setting, JTAS was revived once again as a weekly, then bi-weekly subscriber-supported web magazine in February, 2000. This incarnation of JTAS can be found at http://jtas.sjgames.com.
Karsten Niebuhr - 17, 1733 - April 26, 1815) was a German traveller. He was born at Ludingwortb, Lauenburg, on the southern border of Holstein, the son of a small farmer. He had little education, and for several years of his youth had to do the work of a peasant. His bent was towards mathematics, and he managed to obtain some lessons in surveying. It was while he was working at this subject that one of his teachers, in 1760, proposed to him to join the expedition which was being sent out by Frederick V of Denmark for the scientific exploration of Egypt, Arabia and Syria. To qualify himself for the work of surveyor and geographer, he studied hard at mathematics for a year and a half before the expedition set out, and also.
Kath and Kim - and Kim's separation. Episode 3 -- "Sport" -- Kel designs a commemorative sausage to celepbrate the big day of his and Kath's connubials. Kim is enlisted to play in Sharon's netball team. Episode 4 -- "Fat" -- Kim has stacked on the weight and can't fit into her bridesmaids dress. Episode 5 -- "Old" -- Kath is worried that Kel is losing interest and decides to move on without him. Episode 6 -- "Money" -- Kath organises a lingerie party to raise money for the hire of the pumpkin coach. Episode 7 -- "Party" -- Kim organises a hen's night for Kath. Episide 8 -- "The Wedding" -- Chaoos again as Kim's horsehair fake hair extension causes unexpected results Series 2 Episode 1 -- "The Announcement" -- Kim's marriage is still.
Kellogg-Briand Pact - United States Secretary of State, responded with a proposal for a general pact against war. After negotiations it was signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by eleven states - the United States of America, Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Germany, United Kingdom, India, Irish Free State, Italy, New Zealand, and South Africa. Four states added their support before it was proclaimed - Poland (in March), Belgium (in March), France (in March), and Japan (in April). It was proclaimed to go into effect on July 24, 1929. Sixty-two nations ultimately signed up to the pact. The pact never made any real contribution to international peace and quickly proved to be meaningless, especially after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. The pact enabled the creation.
Kevin Roche - Pritzker Prize in 1982. Important works include: National Aquarium, Baltimore, Maryland Quincy Market modern, Boston, Massachusetts Links: http://www.irish-architecture.com/kevin_roche/.
Kevin Rowland - in Wolverhampton, Rowland is an uncompromising and passionate performer who has drawn on his Irish ancestry in much of his music, Rowland's first group, Lucy & The Lovers were influenced by Roxy Music and turned out to be short-lived. His next project, Punk Rock act The Killjoys were slightly more successful, releasing the single "Johnny Won't Go To Heaven" in 1977 but alienated by the Punk scene, Rowland, together with Killjoys guitarist Al Archer decided to form a new Soul-influenced group, Dexy's Midnight Runners. When Dexy's disbanded in 1987, Rowland recorded a solo album called The Wanderer which, together with its three singles, was a commercial failure. His next release was not until 1999 when he recorded a collection of cover versions called My Beauty. Despite critical acclaim, the album again.
