Dorset - 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 fictional Wessex are in Dorset. The National Trust own Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in woods east of Dorchester, and Max Gate, his house in Dorchester. Stalbridge was home of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Poet William Barnes, authors Theodore Francis Powys, John le Carré and P.D. James and satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock are also locals. The author John Fowles lives in Lyme.
Walthamstow - 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.
Phi Beta Kappa Society - 1% of college graduates. Famous Phi Betes include: Alexander Graham Bell Leonard Bernstein Jeff Bezos George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton Glenn Close Elizabeth Dole W. E. B. Du Bois Christie Hefner William Rehnquist Condoleezza Rice Stephen Sondheim Susan Sontag Gloria Steinem Julie Taymor Mark Twain John Updike William Monroe Trotter ΦBK, the first Greek-letter fraternity, began as a secret literary and philosophical society at the College of William and Mary. The second chapter was established at Harvard University on December 4, 1779, and the third at Yale University on December 8 of the same year. Subsequent chapters were established at Dartmouth College in 1787, Union College in 1817, Bowdoin College in 1825, and Brown University in 1830. Secrecy was jettisoned during a period of strong anti-Masonic sentiment, in 1831. By.
Phelsuma - novorum ab ill. Dr. Christ Rutenberg in insula Madagascar collectorum. Zool. Anz. Leipzig 4: 46-48. Boettger, O. (1881 b). Reliquiae Rutenbergiana II: Reptilien und Amphibien. Abl. bremer naturwiss. Ver. Bremen 7: 177-190. Boettger, O. (1881 c) Die Reptilien und Amphibien von Madagaskar. Dritten Nachtrag Abh. senck. naturfors. Gesellschaft 12: 435-558. Boettger, O. (1893). Katalog der Reptilien Sammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. I. Teil Frankfurt a/M.Gesellschaft 12: 435-558. Boettger, O. (1894). Diagnose eines Geckos und Chameleons aus Südmadagascar. Zool. Anzeiger (Leipzig) 17: 137-140. Boettger, O. (1913). Reptilien und Amphibien von Madagaskar, den Inseln und dem Festland Ostafrikas (Sammlung Voeltzkow 1889-1895 und 1903-1905) in: Voeltzkow, A. 1908-1917, Reise in Ostafrika. Stuttgart 3: 269-375. Böhme, W. & Meier, H. (1981) Eine neue form der madagascariensis-Gruppe der Gattung Phelsuma.
Roger Ascham - with them himself to see them shoot." Hence Ascham's earliest English mark, the Toxophilus, the importance which he attributed to archery in educational establishments, and probably the reason for archery in the statutes of St Albans, Harrow and other Elizabethan schools. From this private tuition Ascham was sent "about 1530," at the age, it is said, of fifteen, to St John's College, Cambridge, then the largest and most learned college in either university. Here he fell under the influence of Sir John Cheke, who was admitted a fellow in Ascham's first year, and Sir Thomas Smith. His guide and friend was Robert rmber, "a man of the greatest learning and with an admirable ability in the Greek tongue." He became B.A. on February 18 1534/5. Dr Nicholas Metcalfe was then master.
William Rehnquist - William Rehnquist William Hubbs Rehnquist is the current Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Rehnquist was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 1, 1924. He married Natalie Cornell, now deceased, and has three children – James, Janet, and Nancy. From 1943-1946 he served in the U.S. Army Air Forces. He received a B.A., M.A., and LL.B. from Stanford University and an M.A. from Harvard University. He served as a law clerk for Justice Robert H. Jackson of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1951 and 1952 Terms, and practiced law in Phoenix, Arizona from 1953-1969. He served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel from 1969-1971. President Nixon nominated him to the Supreme Court, and he took his seat as.
William Shockley - William Shockley William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 - August 12, 1989) was a physicist and co-inventor of the transistor with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain. Born in London, England, to American parents, he was a descendant, on his father's side, of the American Mayflower pilgrims, John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, and his father was an alumnus of MIT. Raised in California, he received his Bachelor of Science degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1932 and his doctorate from MIT in 1936. After receiving his doctorate, he immediately joined a research group headed by Dr. C.J. Davisson at Bell Labs in New Jersey, and began moving up the management ladder. In the mid 1940's, Shockley's group, consisting of Bardeen and Brattain, sought a.
William Blake - William Blake William Blake (November 28, 1757- August 12, 1827) was an English poet, mystic, painter and printmaker, or "Author & Printer," as he signed many of his books. He is considered one of the last great Gothic artists. Blake was born at 28 Broad Street, Golden Square, London, England into a middle-class family. His artistic talent was noticed and encouraged from an early age. At ten years old, he began engraving copies of drawings of Greek antiquities, a practice that was then preferred to real-life drawing. Four years later he became apprenticed to an engraver, Henry Basire. After two years Basire sent him to copy art from the Gothic churches in London. At the age of twenty-one Blake finished his apprenticeship and set up as.
William Crossing - William Crossing William Crossing (1847 - 1928) was a writer and documenter of Dartmoor and Dartmoor life. He lived at Brenttor and at Mary Tavy. He was born in Plymouth, November 14, 1847. From his earliest youth he was fond of Dartmoor, his early associations centring around the neighbourhood of Sheepstor, Walkhampton, Meavy, and Yannadon. He acquired a taste for antiquities from his mother. Later on, Crossing explored Tavistock, Coryton, Lydford, Okehampton, and the northern borders of the Moor, as well as South Brent, on its southern verge. After leaving school at Plymouth, he went to the Independent College at Taunton, and then returned to finish his education at the Mannamead School. His earliest literary efforts were in the direction of fiction - 'thrilling romances,' composed.
William Strunk Jr. - William Strunk Jr. William Strunk Jr.: Professor of English, Cornell University, best known as the author of the first editions of The Elements of Style, a guide to the best English usage, which he had printed privately in 1918 for the use of his students. It became a classic on the local campus known as "the little book". In the original edition, Strunk describes the purpose of the book as follows: "It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention ... on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated." Later, as revised by E.B. White, who had been one of Strunk's students, The Elements of Style (often referred to as "Strunk and White") became the.
Nassau William Senior - Nassau William Senior Nassau William Senior (September 26, 1790 - June 4, 1864), English economist, was born at Compton, Berks, the eldest son of the Rev. JR Senior, vicar of Durnford, Wilts. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford; at the university he was a private pupil of Richard Whately, afterwards archbishop of Dublin, with whom he remained connected by ties of lifelong friendship. He took the degree of B.A. in 1811, was called to the bar in 1819, and in 1836, during the chancellorship of Lord Cottenham, was appointed a master in chancery. On the foundation of the professorship of political economy at Oxford in 1825 Senior was elected to fill the chair, which he occupied till 1830, and again from 1847 to 1852..
William Rose Benet - William Rose Benet William Rose Benét (1886 - 1950) was an American poet, writer and editor. He is the older brother of Stephen Vincent Benét. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at Yale University. He founded the Saturday Review of Literature in 1924 and continued to edit and write for it until his death. Benet's second (of four) wives was the American poet Elinor Wylie. In 1942 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book of autobiographical verse, The Dust Which Is God (1941). He is also the author of The Reader's Encyclopedia, considered the standard American guide to world literature..
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (March 2, 1705 - March 20, 1793), was a British judge. He was born at Scone in Perthshire, Scotland, a younger son of David Murray, 4th Viscount Stormont (c. 1665-1731), a member of a Jacobite family. William Murray was educated at Perth grammar school and Westminster School, of which he was a king's scholar. Entering Christ Church College, Oxford, he graduated in 1727. A friend of the family, Lord Foley, provided the funds for his legal training, and he became a member of Lincoln's Inn on his departure from Oxford, being called to the bar in 1730. He was a good scholar and mixed with the best literary society, being an intimate friend of.
William Buckley (convict) - William Buckley (convict) William Buckley (1780 - January 1, 1856), more commonly just Buckley was an Australian convict who escaped and became famous for living in an Aboriginal community for many years. His name is immortalised in the common Australian phrase Buckley's chance, which means "no chance at all". Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early life 2 Transportation and escape 3 Life with the Watourong tribe 4 Pardon 5 Return to white society Early life Buckley was born in either Marton or Tiverton in Cheshire, England, to Eliza Buckley, and brought up by his mother's parents in Macclesfield. Buckley became an apprentice bricklayer. Not suited to this, he became a foot soldier in the King's Foot Regiment, but was soon transferred to the King's Own Regiment..
Bowers v. Hardwick - have suggested that Bowers should be understood in the historical context of the AIDS epidemic, which was in a relatively early stage in 1986. In the early 1980s, the epidemic had occasioned a large amount of unsympathetic and sensationalistic press coverage about homosexuality, which previously had been something of a taboo topic in the U.S. mass media. When the Bowers case came to the Court, some have suggested, homophobia in America was at a high point. Opponents of sodomy laws have criticized Bowers not only for its result but also because of the Court's dismissive treatment of the liberty and privacy interests of gay men and lesbians. The majority opinion in Bowers, written by Justice Byron White, framed the legal question as whether the constitution creates "a fundamental right to engage.
Michael Swanwick - Earth (2000), along with several smaller collections. A novella, Griffin's Egg, was published in book form in 1991 and is also collected in Moon Dogs. He has collaborated with other authors on several short works, including Gardner Dozois ("Ancestral Voices", "City of God", "Snow Job") and William Gibson ("Dogfight"). Stations of the Tide won the Nebula for best novel, and several of his shorter works have won awards as well: the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for "The Edge of the World" in 1989, the World Fantasy Award for "Radio Waves" in 1996, and Hugos for "The Very Pulse of the Machine" and "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur" in 1999 and 2000, respectively. His novelette "Slow Life" (2002) won the Hugo Award at Torcon 3 in August 2003. Swanwick has written about the field.
List of people by name: Wi - List of people by name: Wi List of people by name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z WaWc - Wd - We-Wg - Wh - Wi - Wj-Wn - Wo-Wq - Wr-Wt - Wu - Wv-Wz Wiberg, Pernilla, alpine skier Wichterle, Otto, scientist, contact lens inventor Wickenheiser, Hayley, (born 1978) Wickert, Erwin, (born 1915), narrator Wickwire, Jim, (born 1940), US climber of K2 Widdecombe, Ann, (born 1947), British MP, unlikely sex symbol Widman, Michael, (died 1977), labor union organizer Widmark, Richard, (born 1914), actor.
Islam as a political movement - looseness. In the 1917 during the Russian Revolution, when hold on the Muslim hinterlands from Moscow was drastically reduced, some local movements declared constitutions based on Islamic Law. A common pronouncement in them was that women were equal to men and would have the same democratic rights. These were crushed by the Soviet Union which subordinated Muslim countries into itself. What Islamic politics that existed, was local and quite suppressed. Islam is sometimes militant Today Islamic political movements are usually at least somewhat more conservative than their secular counterparts in the Islamic World. Furthermore, some movements within Islam hold that a much more interventionist militant Islam is required to eject and prevent corrupt influences on children, women, and the young in particular. The term radical Islamist has come into use in.
U.S. false claims law (in depth) - this paper is on medical fraud, I will explore that category in greater detail. Medical fraud subcategories include: double billing; use of untrained personnel to provide services; failure to supervise unlicensed personnel; distribution of unapproved devices or drugs; forgery of physician's signatures; creation of phony insurance companies or employee benefit plans; upcoding; unbundling; kickbacks; services provided without medical necessity; fraudulent cost reports; inadequate care, and; use of substandard equipment. Federal health care enforcement initiatives On March 21, 1995, FBI Director Louis Freeh stated that organized crime has "penetrated virtually every legitimate segment of the health care industry." That is why Attorney General Janet Reno ranks health care fraud "one of the highest priorities" of the Justice Department. Congress responded to Reno and Freeh by passing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability.
History of modern anatomy - dissection of the human body became part of the training of students of medicine, and this is one of the greatest debts, though by no means the best recognized, of the many which medical science owes to the remarkable William Hunter. Before his time the anatomy professors of the most celebrated schools both at home and abroad used one or at most two subjects to illustrate their courses of lectures, and were in the habit of demonstrating the performance of surgical operations not on human bodies but on those of lower animals. Few students dissected the human body, because for such dissection they had no opportunities. The English law, since the time of Henry VIII, allowed only the bodies of persons executed for murder to be dissected, and the supply seems.
