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Edward Victor Sir Appleton
Appleton, Edward Victor (b. Bradford, Yorkshire, England, 6 September 1892; d. Edinburgh, Scotland, 21 April 1965) radio physics. Appleton showed exceptional promise as a boy, matriculating at the University of London at sixteen and winning a scholarship to St. John Read more |
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Nathaniel Hone
Nathaniel Hone 1718-84, Irish miniaturist and portrait painter. Hone is noted for his smoothly painted, informal portraits of middle-class subjects. His painting The Conjurer (1775) formed part of the first recorded one-man show in Great Britain.... Read more |
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Wembley Stadium
Wembley stadium. The Great Stadium at Wembley Park, London, was built to coincide with the British Empire Exhibition of 1923. Work was completed just four days before hosting its first Football Association Cup Final on 29 April 1923. It has since been a venue for a multitude of sports, including... Read more |
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Soap operas
SOAP OPERAS FROM RADIO TO TELEVISION The Rise of the Soap Opera Gilbert Seldes writes that "the daytime serial was the great invention of radio." Three "women's serial dramas"—daily radio programs intended for an audience of women, featuring a stable cast and a melodramatic,... Read more |
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Felicien Rops
Rops, Félicien (b Namur, 7 July 1833; d Essonnes [Corbeil-Essonnes], 23 Aug. 1898). Belgian printmaker (and occasional painter), active mainly in Paris (he settled at Essonnes, a few miles south of the city, in 1874). Rops was a friend of Baudelaire, who helped to launch him in the Paris art... Read more |
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Show Boat
Show Boats. Although their origins are uncertain, these floating playhouses, which brought theatre to towns along the great rivers of the United States, are a singularly American phenomenon. Possibly the earliest figure of note in their development was Samuel Drake, who in 1815 took his family of... Read more |
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Antoine Coysevox
Antoine Coysevox , 1640-1720, French sculptor. He enjoyed the patronage of Louis XIV and produced a great part of the sculpture at Versailles. His Winged Horses, at the entrance to the Tuileries gardens, and his portrait and memorial sculptures show free, vigorous, and original treatment. The bust... Read more |
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Antonio di Vicenzo
Vicenzo, Antonio di (c.1350–1401/2). Italian architect. He designed the gigantic brick Gothic church of San Petronio, Bologna (from 1390), and around the same time produced drawings for Milan Cathedral showing a main vault some 23 metres higher than that realized, although the basic design... Read more |
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Rosetta Olive Burton LeNoire
Rosetta LeNoire 1911–2002 Actress Mentored With Harlem Renaissance Greats From Black Macbeth to TV Grandmother Built Color-Blind Theater out of Love Sources Actress, singer, dancer, and producer, Rosetta LeNoire enjoyed a prolific career that spanned seventy years. However, it was... Read more |
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hypabyssal igneous rocks
...and is unusually large. It shows many features such as chilled...regional direction of the greatest horizontal pressure. The...across mainland Britain to Yorkshire. The surface of the planet Venus also shows linear features that are interpreted... |
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brass band
...of Eng., especially Lancashire and Yorkshire, where its popularity is great. Usual constitution in Brit. is cornets...being B♭ and E♭, their notation shows, respectively, 2 flats less (or 2 sharps more) than the...Works, St Hilda Colliery (reputedly the ... |
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Yorkshire tykes march into Shadow Cabinet
...upon Tyne. "It just shows what a breadth of talent...four MPs who grew up in Yorkshire - Rosie Winterton...attend a private school. Yorkshire MPs not from the region...but maintains that his great-great-great ... |
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Yorkshire Day...and let's be proud.
...come out in force to show just how proud they are...perfect time to sample some Yorkshire delicacies which have...cheese and, of course, Yorkshire Puddings. Coun Robert...that they belong to this great county and what better...that have helped make ... |
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Levi Roots captures the flavour of Yorkshire!
...co.uk is becoming a great centre-point for Yorkshire...Yorkshire to purchase a Yorkshire Rose badge and Wear it...no prouder county than Yorkshire, the White Rose is a...held with high regard by Yorkshire Folk where ever ... |
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By gum,let's hear it for an independent Yorkshire; AS THE CAMPAIGN FOR A...
...defiance triggered the Great Civil War. It was not...philologists now call The Yorkshire Response - 'Tha' what...repeated verbatim'. In Yorkshire, we even have our own...antagonise strangers. Yorkshire is the only English...bands, chrysanthemum ... |
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There's nowt so happy as Yorkshire folk. It's t'views, tha knows
...Yorkshire you've got this great pride, more people...this. If you said, "Yorkshire's more beautiful...The staple film of my Yorkshire youth was Kes, by Ken...were taken to the Great Yorkshire Show in ... |
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Minister's launch joint response for 'resilient' Yorkshire economy.
...current challenges facing Yorkshire and Humber businesses...this joint response shows us is that whilst it...every player in 'Team Yorkshire and Humber' is playing...prices would be the greatest risks to the regional...Yvette Cooper said: ... |
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Arts: Where there's muck, there's art If any English county - and its people...
...people - ie snobs - the words "Yorkshire" and "art" sit oddly together...this week in Scarborough of the Great Yorkshire Art Exhibition, at which the complicated...small works at the exhibition), Yorkshire is better known for literature... |
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Cricket: Seeking a home-grown Shoaib Local Asian talent invited to Headingley...
...if we do find one - great." All the players will...ambition is to make the Yorkshire squad for his age- group...combines playing for Yorkshire's Under-15s with...would be nice to play for Yorkshire as an Asian, but I don...that we did something to ... |
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Yorkshire viewable from outer space.
...spacecraft, just like the Great Wall of China and...6.1bn a year to Yorkshire's economy, and the Make Yorkshire Yours campaign. It...from a helicopter show the ground marking...the website address Yorkshire.com which was written... |
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Shoestring Yorkshire film scores monster hit in US.
...pole position for even greater prizes over the coming...part funded by Screen Yorkshire, the publicly-backed...production at Screen Yorkshire, said: "We are absolutely...hit movies filmed in Yorkshire. |
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