Abbreviation - particular collocations of letters represented by somewhat arbitrary symbols. The commonest form of abbreviation is the substitution for a word of its initial letter; but, with a view to prevent ambiguity, one or more of the other letters are frequently added. In some languages, letters are often doubled to indicate a plural or a superlative. In modern English there are several conventions in use for abbreviations and it may not be clear which one is best. Publishers sometimes express their preferences in a style guide. Some of the questions which may arise: Upper or lower case letters? If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation will also be capital, e.g., U.S. for United States. But when abbreviating lower case letters, there is no clear guide. Usage.
Four Quartets - [...]Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance But human beings, still submerged in time and movement, are not able to perceive it, because Time past and time future Allow but a little consciousness and consciousness is required to catch the glimpses of eternity. The third stanza is a first clear statement on what the poet sees as the way to redeem time and to give a value to our actions in time: to free oneself from worldly attachments, Desiccation of the world of sense, Evacuation of the world of fancy, Inoperancy of the world of spirit; This is a repetitive idea in Eliot's later (after The Waste Land) poems (and will appear several times in the Four Quartets), and reflects his devotion for the Church's teaching.
Mary Robinson - Mary Robinson Mary Robinson is also the name of an English poet. See Mary Robinson (poet) Mary Robinson (born 21 May 1944) was the first female President of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997. She defeated Fianna Fáil's Brian Lenihan in the 1990 presidential election, becoming the first non-Fianna Fáil president in the office's history and the first Labour president. She resigned the presidency four months ahead of the end of her term of office to take up the post of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. MARY ROBINSON President of Ireland Rank: 7th Term of Office: 3 December 1990 - 12 September 1997 Number of Terms: 1 Predecessor: Patrick Hillery Successor: Mary McAleese Husband: Nick Robinson Profession: Barrister, former Senator Nominated by: Labour,.
Mary, Princess Royal - Mary, Princess Royal Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (25 April 1897 - 28 March 1965) was the third child and only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. In January 1931, following the death of her aunt, Princess Louise, Princess Mary was created Princess Royal, a title which she held until her death. She was the sixth holder of that title.1 Her Royal Highness The Princess Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary, GBE, CI, GCStJ, GCVO was born at York Cottage, Sandringham, to the then Duke and Duchess of York (later King George V and Queen Mary). Born during Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, she was named after her paternal great grandmother, her paternal grandmother, the then Princess of Wales (later Queen Alexandra), and her maternal.
Vladimir Nabokov - to my translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, an object that boils down to very little -- in comparison to the forced preliminaries -- namely, to a few things that the non-Russian student of Russian literature must know in regard to Russian prosody in general and to Eugene Onegin in particular." His career as a lepidopterist was equally distinguished. Throughout an extensive career of collecting he never learned to drive a car, and he depended on his wife Vera to bring him to collecting sites. During the 1940s he was responsible for organizing the butterfly collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. His writings in this area were highly technical. This combined with his specialty in the relatively unspectacular tribe Polyommatini of the family Lycaenidae has left this facet.
University of Durham - Kingdom's leading research universities - coming eleventh in the 2002 Research Assessment Exercise and never out of the top twenty of either the Times Good University Guide or the Sunday Times University Guide. It is a member of the 1994 Group of Universities, representing medium-sized research universities. The current Chancellor of the University is Sir Peter Ustinov. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 1.1 Stockton 1.2 Durham Today 1.3 Chancellors of the University 2 Colleges 2.4 Bailey 2.5 Hill 2.6 Queen's Campus 2.7 Others 3 Constitution 3.8 The Visitor 3.9 The Chancellor 3.10 The Vice-Chancellor 3.11 Convocation 3.12 Council 3.13 Senate 3.14 Colleges 3.15 Faculties 4 Alumni 5 External Links History The strong tradition of theological teaching in Durham gave rise to various attempts to form a university there, notably under.
Stephen Gardiner - 1555) was an English bishop and Lord Chancellor during the reign of Queen Mary I of England. He was born in Bury St Edmunds, but the date of his birth is suspect. His father is known to have been John Gardiner, a substantial cloth merchant of the town where he was born (see his will, printed in Proceedings of the Suffolk Archaeological Institute, i. 329), who took care to give him a good education. In 1511 Gardiner, still a boy, met Erasmus in Paris (Nichols's Epistles of Erasmus, ii. 12, 13). He had probably already begun his studies at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he distinguished himself in the classics, especially in Greek. He then devoted himself to the canon and civil law, in which subjects he attained so great a proficiency.
Las Vegas (television) - called the "Montecito". The show is narrated by this character in the first few episodes. Played by Josh Duhamel Ed Deline, a former CIA officer, he is now the the tough-guy head of security at a Las Vegas casino. Played by James Caan Mary Connell, a former whore who "makes good" and becomes the "Special Events Director" at the casino. Played by Nikki Cox Mike Cannon, a brainy but goodlooking engineer who takes a job as Montecito's head valet parker because it pays so well. Played by James Lesure Samantha "Sam" Jane, a hottie casino host. Played by Vanessa Marcil Delinda Deline, Ed's daughter and Danny's love interest for the first few episodes. Played by Molly Sims Nessa Holt, "The Ice Queen". A casino manager with a shady past. Marsha Thomason.
Isaac Newton (in-depth biography) - born at Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the parish of Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, about 6 miles from Grantham. His father (also named Isaac Newton) who farmed a small freehold property, died before his son's birth, a few months after his marriage to Hannah Ayscough, a daughter of James Ayscough of Market-Overton. When Newton was two years old his mother married Barnabas Smith, rector of North Witham. Of this marriage there was issue, Benjamin, Mary and Hannah Smith, and to their children Sir Isaac Newton subsequently left most of his property. After a rudimentary education at two small schools in hamlets close to Woolsthorpe, Newton was sent at the age of twelve to the grammar school of Grantham. While attending Grantham school Newton lived in the house of Mr Clark, an apothecary. According to.
Goddess - Time, and yet Benevolent Mother who protects her children.) Goddess may sometimes be used strategically to dislodge an unwelcome dominance by monotheist male Deity, and her greatness and complexity tends to invoke the skills of thealogy. Although Goddess appears to mirror monotheism, the term is frequently used for an inclusive spirituality that may embrace the God, gods, goddesses, ancestral spirits, faerie etc. When Goddess is spoken of as a personal guardian, as in 'my Goddess' it means 'my worldview in Goddess spirituality.' The Goddess is also followed by Wiccans and Discordants. God/dess, God/ess, Godde Methods of trying to include both female and male divinity in one word. Goddessing Goddessing is a recent (unattributed) contribution to Goddess vocabulary, following on from Mary Daly's suggestion that Deity is too dynamic, too much in.
Dorset - otherwise mostly rural. Poole is home to Tower Park, the largest leisure complex in Europe. The conurbation, though large now, was little more than a small town on Poole quay, surrounded by heathland, in the mid 19th century. Sandbanks, a spit in Poole harbour, has the third-highest land value in the world, but was worthless a century ago. Blandford St Mary is home to the Badger brewery of Hall and Woodhouse, whilst Weymouth is acknowledged as the first ever holiday resort, used by King George III, and is still a popular seaside resort. Jutting out into the English Channel is the Isle of Portland. Dorset is famed in literature for being the native county of author and poet Thomas Hardy. Many of the places he describes in his novels in the.
Deaths in 2001 - "A Separate Peace" 29 George Harrison, 58, British musician and former member of The Beatles. 28 William Kienzle, author of murder mysteries with Catholic priest detective 24 Melanie Thornton, aged 34, singer, (plane crash near Zürich) 22 Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics. 12 Tony Miles, English chess player. 10 Ken Kesey, 66, American author, counter-cultural figure. October 2001 15 Zhang Xueliang (aged 100), Chinese warlord and military figure. Important individual in recent Chinese history 12 Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone (Quintin Hogg), aged 94 -- British lawyer and politician September 2001 22 Isaac Stern, 81, Ukrainian violinist. 13 Victor Wong, aged 74, American movie actor and artist. 11 - Barbara Kay Olson, 45, American conservative television commentator, died in terrorist attack on The Pentagon. 11 Casualties.
1953 - to use random access memory. November 9 - Cambodia becomes independent from France. November 21 - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the "Piltdown Man", held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax. December 24 - 153 people die as a result of the Tangiwai disaster when the railway bridge collapses at Tangiwai, New Zealand sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River December 30 - The first color television sets go on sale for about $1,175 (American dollars). Year in topic 1953 in film From Here to Eternity Julius Caesar The Robe 1953 in literature Casino Royale, the first James Bond novel published 1953 in music Elvis Presley records for the first time 1953.
Aberdeen - was rebuilt and a massive granite tower erected over the intervening aisles at the cost of the municipality, a new peal of 36 bells, cast in the Netherlands, being installed to commemorate the Victorian jubilee of 1887. The Roman Catholic Cathedral in Huntly Street, a Gothic building, was erected in 1859. The see of Aberdeen was first founded at Mortlach in Banffshire by Malcolm II. in 1004 to celebrate his victory there over the Danes, but in 1137 David I. transferred the bishopric to Old Aberdeen, and twenty years later the cathedral of St Machar, situated a few hundred yards from the Don, was begun. Save during the episcopate of William Elphinstone (1484-1511), the building progressed slowly. Gavin Dunbar, who followed him in 1518, was enabled to complete the structure by.
Walthamstow - Snaresbrook Chingford Nearest tube station: Walthamstow Central tube station (Victoria Line) Nearest railway stations: Blackhorse Road railway station Queen's Road railway station St James Street railway station Walthamstow Central railway station Wood Street railway station =See Also= The History of Walthamstow Statistics and further info about Walthamstow The KnoWhere Guide to Walthamstow The William Morris Gallery.
Rochester, England - This was the second see after Canterbury. AD676 Rochester was sacked by Ethelred of Mercia. AD842 Sacked by the Danes AD877 Alfred of Wessex orders the building of ships to fight the Danes. This could be the start of Medway's military shipbuilding history. AD884 Under seige from the Danes again AD930 Rochester has a right to mint coins. All this is evidence of an important and thriving continuous civic life. AD1077 Gundulf is consecrated as Bishop. AD1080 Gundulf commences the new cathedral, on the site between the Roman Wall and Watling Street, over the previous cathedral. AD1087 Gundulf commences building the Norman Castle. Its curtain wall follow roman walls, and its keep is 113 ft high, 70 ft x 70 ft in breadth. AD1130 The Norman cathedral is complete. AD1215 Seiged.
Planets in science fiction - Most of them are nearly indistinguishable from Earth, which is why Brian M. Stableford calls them "Earth-Clones". In these, differences with Earth life are mostly social (like Barrayar in the science fiction of Lois McMaster Bujold). More physically unusual planets have been in the hard science fiction books. Unusual Social environment Typical examples are prison planets, primitive cultures, political or religious extremes and pseudo-medieval societies. See Utopia, Dystopia. Anarres — Ursula K. Le Guin's Dispossessed (anarchist) Barrayar — Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan series (feudal military culture) Brontitall — The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy; planet of bird people who live in the ear of a statue after shoe shop disaster. Cetaganda — Bujold's Vorkosigan series (genetically engineered culture) Chthon — Piers Anthony's Chthon (prison planet) Dorsai — Gordon R. Dickson's.
Orion (mythology) - world along the same cultural pathways that brought the Lady who was worshiped as Cybele in Anatolia and Ishtar in Mesopotamia. There were several "pomegranate" places called Side in the Greek world, though not in Boeotia. One was in the Peloponnese, north of Cape Malea. Another Side, daughter of Taurus, gave her name to a place in Pamphylia, a country only marginally Greek during classical times and now part of modern Turkey. Still another Side committed suicide at her Mother's tomb, to escape advances made by her father. She was transmuted to a pomegranate tree, and he to a kite, emblem of a robber in the Greek mind. Because of the legendary connection, it was said that a kite never landed in a pomegranate tree. In the sixth century B.C.E. Polycleites.
List of years in television - Over 125 million Americans tune in to watch the final episode of M*A*S*H 1982 in television - Cheers and Family Ties debut on NBC 1981 in television - MTV debuts on Cable television, playing music videos 24 hours a day; Hill Street Blues and Dynasty premiere 1980 in television - "Who shot J.R.?" cliffhanger on Dallas 1970s 1979 in television - 43 million viewers watch Elvis! on ABC. 1978 in television - The premiere of Dallas on CBS paves the way for the return of the prime time Soap opera 1977 in television - South Africa has television service for the first time. 1976 in television - UK punk group the Sex Pistols cause controversy and outrage by swearing on national television 1975 in television - Saturday Night Live 's first.
List of songs whose title does not appear in the lyrics - 1.8 Audioslave 2 B 2.9 Bad Religion 2.10 The Band 2.11 The Bangles 2.12 Ray Barretto 2.13 The Beatles 2.14 Belle and Sebastian 2.15 Black Sabbath 2.16 Blackalicious 2.17 Mary J. Blige 2.18 The Bloodhound Gang 2.19 David Bowie 2.20 Bright Eyes 2.21 Brothers Johnson 2.22 Buffalo Springfield 2.23 Butthole Surfers 3 C 3.24 The Capris 3.25 The Cardigans 3.26 The Carpenters 3.27 Rodney Carrington 3.28 Neko Case 3.29 Cibo Matto 3.30 The Clash 3.31 Clutch 3.32 Cocteau Twins 3.33 Leonard Cohen 3.34 Coldplay 3.35 Harry Connick, Jr 3.36 Counting Crows 3.37 Country Joe and the Fish 3.38 The Cowsills 3.39 Brenda Craven 3.40 Cream 3.41 David Crosby 3.42 Sheryl Crow 4 D 4.43 Dead Kennedys 4.44 Death By Stereo 4.45 The Descendants 4.46 Dido 4.47 Dinosaur Jr 4.48 Donovan 4.49.
