Mary Bell - Mary Bell Mary Flora Bell (born in 1957 in England) is a child- killer, in both senses of the term: she killed children, but did so as a child herself. Mary's mother, Betty Bell, was a prostitute who often went to Glasgow on "business". She was also a disciplinarian. Mary had a bedwetting problem and when she wet her bed her mother would rub her face in the urine and then hang the mattress up for the entire neighbourhood to view. Mary's father's name was Billy Bell and, although he wasn't her biological father, she saw him as one. She loved him but he was not a good role model. He was a thief who was later convicted of armed robbery. She strangled two children, killing.
USS Maryland (BB-46) - teams, she continued the shore bombardment until the landing craft approached the beaches on 15 September. Four days later organized resistance collapsed, permitting the fire support ships to retire to the Admiralty Islands. Reassigned to the Seventh Fleet, Maryland sortied 12 October to cover the important initial landings in the Philippines at Leyte. Despite floating naval mines, the invasion force entered Leyte Gulf on 18 October. The bombardment the following day and the landings of the 20 October went well, but the Japanese decided to contest this success with both kamikazes and a three-pronged naval attack. Forewarned by submarines and scout planes, the American battleship-cruiser force steamed 24 October to the southern end of Leyte Gulf to protect Surigao Strait. Early on 25 October the enemy battleships Fuso and Yamashiro led.
King Mob - with one of them dressed as Santa Claus and proceeded to give away all the store’s toys to children. The police were called and the children made to give the toys back. King Mob also produced the King Mob Echo which celebrated killers like Jack The Ripper, Mary Bell and John Christie. Graffiti attributed to King Mob was observed in many places, including the memorable Same thing day after day – tube – work – diner – work – tube – armchair – TV – sleep – tube – work – how much more can you take? – One in ten go mad – one in five cracks up (painted on the walls of the London Underground between Ladbrook Grove and Westbourne Park tube stations) and I don’t believe in nothing.
Kraków - archbishops of Kraków were equal in dignity to princes of the empire. 14th century In 1308 the rebellion of German speaking citizens of Kraków is broken by the Polish King. That costs Poland Gdansk annexed by Teutonic Orders. German speaking citizens will no more have political ambitions. They learn Polish and try to Polonize as quickly as possible. The greatest period of Kraków's history began with the reign of King Casimir III of Poland who founded a university, the Jagiellonian University in 1364, the second oldest in central Europe after the University of Prague. Before that there had been a cathedral school since 1150 under the auspices of the Kraków bishop. 15th to 16 century The growth of the city continued during the reign of the Lithuanian Jagiello dynasty and the.
John de Feckenham - there, aged about eighteen, he went to Gloucester College, Oxford. Returning to Evesham, he remained there till the dissolution of the monastery in 1536, when he received a pension of a hundred florins. Resuming his studies at Oxford, he took his degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1539. He became chaplain to Bell, bishop of Worcester, and to Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London. When the latter was deprived of his see in 1548, Feckenham was placed in the Tower of London. His learning and eloquence made him such a successful advocate that he was temporarily freed ("borrowed from the Tower" he says in old English phrase) in order to hold discussions on the points in dispute between Catholics and Protestants. Among these disputations were four with John Hooper, Protestant bishop of.
Joan Crawford - LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, she was the third child of Thomas E. LeSueur (1868-1938) and Anna Bell Johnson (1884-1958). Her older sister and brother were Daisy LeSueur, who died as a very young child, and Hal LeSueur, who was born September 3, 1903. Her mother later married Henry J. Cassin (born 1873). The family lived in Lawton, Oklahoma, where Mr. Cassin ran a theater. The 1910 Comanche County, Oklahoma, Federal Census, enumerated on April 20, shows Henry and Anna Cassin living at 910 "D" Street in Lawton. Lucille is five years old. Lucille preferred the nickname Billie, and she loved watching live acts perform. Her ambition was to be a dancer. In about 1916, they moved to Kansas City, Missouri. Henry Cassin is first listed in the City Directory in.
John Mills - of Goodbye, Mr Chips, opposite Robert Donat. He took the lead in Great Expectations in 1936, and subsequently made his career playing traditionally British heroes such as Sir Robert Falcon Scott in Scott of the Antarctic (1949). In 1941, he married the dramatist, Mary Hayley Bell, and their two daughters, Juliet and Hayley, are both successful actresses. For his role as the village idiot in Ryan's Daughter (1970) - a complete departure from his usual style - Mills won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Altogether he appeared in over a hundred films. In 1976, he was knighted. In recent years, he has appeared on television only on special occasions. Major Films In Which We Serve (1942) This Happy Breed (1944) The Way to the Stars (1945) Great Expectations (1946).
John Fell - their progress with paternal care. Tom Brown, author of The Dialogues of the Dead, about to be expelled from Oxford for some offence, was pardoned by Fell on the condition of his translating extempore the 33rd epigram of Martial: "Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere - quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te." To which he immediately replied with the well-known lines: "I do not love you, Dr Fell, But why I cannot tell But this I know full well, I do not love you, Dr Fell." Delinquents were not always treated thus mildly by Fell, and Acton Cremer, for the crime of courting a wife while only a bachelor of arts, was punished by having to translate into English the whole of Scheffer's history of Lapland. As vice-chancellor,.
Joseph Tabrar - was born into a family of "stage people". Tabrar began his musical career in the church choir. He later became a bell hanger and a plumber. During his 60 year songwriting career, Tabrar wrote thosands of songs, many of them written to order. Songs All Bad! Very Very Bad 1887? Bid Me Goodbye For Ever Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow 1892 Dear Old Ned For months and months and months 1909? Goodbye! Goodbye!! Goodbye!!! 1887? He’s Sailing On the Briny Ocean Hundreds and Thousands Just a little 1889? Mary Ann Not While Britannia's Alive 1890? Oh! You Little Darling (188?) Ting Ting That's How The Bell Goes Trilby's Revival Waiting Waiting Waiting.
John Feckenham - he returned to the abbey, where he took monastic vows; but he was at the university again in 1537 and took his degree on June 11, 1539. He was back at Evesham when the abbey was surrendered to the king (27 January 1540); and then, with a pension of Ł10 a year, he went back to Oxford, but soon after became chaplain to Bishop Bell of Worcester and then served Bonner in that same capacity from 1543 to 1549. In 1544 Edmund Bonner gave him the living of Solihull; and Feckenham established a reputation as a preacher and a disputant of keen intellect but unvarying charity. About 1549 Thomas Cranmer sent him to the Tower of London, and while there "he was borrowed out of prison" to take part in seven.
July 22 - Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party. 1812 - Peninsular War: British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca in Spain. 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta - Outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill. 1908 - Albert Fisher establishes the Fisher Body Company to manufacture carriage and automobile bodies. 1916 - In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 injuring 40. 1933 - Wiley Post becomes first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes. 1934 - Outside Chicago, Illinois's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy.
July 28 - - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution. 1821 - Peru declares independence from Spain. 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church begins - Confederate troops led by General John Bell Hood make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces under General William T. Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia. 1866 - The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States. 1868 - The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is adopted guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law. 1914 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to.
Icon - fully human, or that he was resurrected with a real physical body. History Eusebius of Caesarea, a bishop and early church historian, reports one popular story of the first icon. In this story, King Abgar of Edessa sent a letter to Jesus Christ during Jesus' public activities in Gallilee, asking Jesus to come and heal him of leprosy. Instead, Jesus took a linen cloth and pressed it against his own face, leaving the imprint of his face on the cloth, and sent it back to the king. This cloth reportedly remained in Edessa until the 10th century, when it was taken to Constantinople. In 1204 it was lost when Constantinople was sacked by Crusaders. This is allegedly the first icon. Eusebius also reports seeing many icons of Jesus, Peter and Paul.
Hayley Mills - She is the daughter of actor Sir John Mills, and playwright Mary Hayley Bell. She is the sister of actress Juliet Mills, who has a character in the soap opera Passions, and director Jonathan Mills. Mills was 13 when she was discovered by J. Lee Thompson, who was looking for a boy to play the lead role in Tiger Bay. She went on to take the lead in several other films, notably Whistle Down the Wind (1961). Walt Disney's wife loved her acting, and so she was contacted to participate in the Disney film The Parent Trap. She played a pair of twins who reunite their parents after a long time, and her acting earned her a special Oscar. Other Disney films in which she appeared included In Search of the.
History of anti-Semitism - Spain. King Egica believes rumors that the Jews had conspired to ally themselves with the Muslim invaders and forces Jews to give all land, slaves and buildings bought from Christians, to his treasury. He declares that all Jewish children over the age of seven should be taken from their homes and raised as Christians. 717 Caliph Omar II introduces discriminatory regulations against the dhimmi, among them for Jews to wear a special yellow garb. 722 Byzantine emperor Leo III forcibly converts all Jews and Montanists in the empire into Christianity. 801 to 1100 807 Abbassid Caliph Harun al-Rashid orders all Jews in the Calipate to wear a yellow belt, Cristians - blue. 820 After Charlemagne's death in 814, his tolerant policies are terminated. Archbishop of Lyon St. Agobard declares in his.
U.S. House election, 2004 - Running California 36 Jane Harman Democrat 1986 Running California 37 Juanita Millender-McDonald Democrat 1996 Running California 38 Grace Napolitano Democrat 1998 Running California 39 Linda Sanchez Democrat 2002 Running California 40 Ed Royce Republican 1992 Running California 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 1978 Running California 42 Gary Miller Republican 1998 Running California 43 Joe Baca Democrat 1999 Running California 44 Ken Calvert Republican 1992 Running California 45 Mary Bono Republican 1998 Running California 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 1988 Running California 47 Loretta Sanchez Democrat 1996 Running California 48 Chris Cox Republican 1988 Running California 49 Darrell Issa Republican 2000 Running California 50 Randy Cunningham Republican 1990 Running California 51 Bob Filner Democrat 1992 Running California 52 Duncan Hunter Republican 1980 Running California 53 Susan Davis Democrat 2000 Running Colorado 1 Diana DeGette.
Homonym - lead the verb, or moped the motorized bicycle and moped the past tense of mope are examples of homographs. In some accents, various sounds have merged in that they are no longer distinctive, and thus words that differ only by those sounds in an accent that maintains the distinction (a minimal pair) are homophonous in the accent with the merger. Some examples are pin and pen in many southern American accents, and merry, marry, and Mary in many western American accents. The pairs do, due and forward, foreword are homophonous in most US accents but not in most British accents. Similarly, affect, effect are distinguished in some careful or cultivated speech. Homograph disambiguation is critically important in Speech synthesis, but otherwise, homonyms are mostly curiosities, of limited linguistic interest compared to.
Generation X - Love and Kurt Cobain) and the Post-Busters (Ani DiFranco and Alanis Morissette). "Baby Busters" was, in fact, the only name to be used for this generation before Coupland's book came out. Jonathan Pontell begins the generation at 1966, placing 1965 as part of Generation Jones. In Europe, the generation is often known as Generation E, or simply known as the Nineties Generation, along the lines of such other European generation names as "Generation of 1968" and "Generation of 1914". In France, the term Génération Bof is in use, with "bof" being a French word for "Whatever", the defining Gen-X saying. In Iran, they are called the Burnt Generation. This generation's parents are the Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation. Generation X's typical grandparents are the G.I. Generation. Generation X's children will.
Gitta Sereny - was briefly an observer at the Nuremberg trials, which she attended for four days in 1945. Her books include biographies of: Mary Bell (1972) the killers of Jamie Bulger Albert Speer Franz Stangl.
University of London - institutes of the University are, as of October 2003: Recognised Bodies: Birkbeck, University of London Goldsmiths College Heythrop College Imperial College London, incorporating Imperial College at Wye Institute of Education King's College London (KCL), incorporating the Institute of Psychiatry and The Guy's, King's and St Thomas' School of Medicine London Business School London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Queen Mary incorporating St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry Royal Academy of Music Royal Holloway Royal Veterinary College School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), incorporating the London School of Jewish Studies School of Pharmacy University College London (UCL), incorporating the Eastman Dental Institute, the Institute of Child Health, the Institute of Neurology, the Institute of Ophthalmology, the Royal.
