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Michael Apted
APTED, Michael Nationality:British. Born:Aylesbury, England, 10 February 1941; son of Ronald William and Frances Amelia (Thomas) Apted. Education:Downing College, Cambridge University, B.A., 1961. Family:Married Joan, 9 July 1966; children: Paul, James. ... Read more |
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Daniel Day-Lewis
DAY-LEWIS, Daniel (Sometimes Day Lewis). Nationality:British. Born:London, England, 29 April 1957; son of the poet laureate Cecil Day Lewis and the actress Jill Balcon. Family:Son with the actress Isabelle Adjani. Education:Attended Bedales School and at... Read more |
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Sir Hubert von Herkomer
Herkomer, Sir Hubert von (b Waal, Bavaria, 26 May 1849; d Budleigh Salterton, Devon, 31 Mar. 1914). German-born painter, printmaker, designer, teacher, and writer who settled in England in 1857 with his father (a woodcarver) and became a British citizen. He established his reputation with The Last... Read more |
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Jan van de Cappelle
Cappelle, Jan van de (bapt. Amsterdam, 25 Jan. 1626; bur. Amsterdam, 22 Dec. 1679). Dutch marine and landscape painter. He was a wealthy Amsterdam dyer who painted in his spare time, but there is nothing of the Sunday painter in his work. Typically his paintings show handsome vessels on calm rivers... Read more |
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Sarah Trimmer
Sarah Trimmer Sarah Trimmer (1741–1810) was one of the founders of the Christian Sunday school, as well as an apologist, a person who argues in defense or justification of something, such as a doctrine, policy, or institution. In the case of Trimmer, she wrote about Christianity. In the... Read more |
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John Richardson
RICHARDSON, John 1946–PERSONALBorn in 1946, in England; son of Cliff Richardson (a special effects artist).Career: Special effects artist.Awards, Honors: Saturn Award nomination (with John Evans), best special effects, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, 1980, for Moonraker;... Read more |
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William Rowley
William Rowley , 1585?-1642?, English playwright and actor. He collaborated with many noted dramatists, including Dekker, Ford, and Webster; his best work, notably The Changeling (1622), was written with Thomas Middleton . Of Rowley's own plays, All's Lost by Lust (1622) is considered to be his... Read more |
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John Dyer
John Dyer 1700?-1758, English nature poet, b. Wales. He is best known for the topographical poem Grongar Hill (1726).... Read more |
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William Hamilton
William Hamilton 1704-54, English poet, b. Scotland. He is best known for the poem "The Braes of Yarrow" (1724).... Read more |
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Sunday schools
...interdenominational ideal of the early Sunday schools largely collapsed under...agencies.The primary aim of Sunday schools was to facilitate the...also inculcated the values of good manners, sound morals, and respectable...educational benefits to the poor, the ... |
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One Sunday Afternoon
One Sunday Afternoon (1933), a play by James S. Hagan. [Little Theatre, 322 perf...miserably unhappy and troubled man while Grimes himself has long since made a good marriage. So when Barnstead arrives at his office, Grimes does not kill... |
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newspapers
...pubs, and barbers' shops.Sunday newspapers, at first much opposed...1779 with the launch of the Sunday Monitor, joined in 1791 by...1920s. By mid-century the Sunday papers were outselling the dailies...printing and a news service so good that government ... |
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Stage Society
...given in selected theatres on Sunday nights, when they were normally...not subject to the ban on Sunday opening. Among the plays produced at similar Sunday performances was Shaw's...1923 had included A Comedy of Good and Evil (1924), by Richard... |
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theatre criticism
...into a durable art. Hunt was often at his best writing about comic actors such as Charles...campaigner, and Agate, who wrote for the Sunday Times from 1923 to 1947, was a distinguished...Harold Hobson, his opposite number on the Sunday Times, was equally persuasive about ... |
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paschal controversy
...7th century. Easter was defined as the Sunday following the full moon of Pesach, the...some eastern churches) had changed to a better nineteen‐year cycle. In the year 600...day of the paschal moon rather than the Sunday following, and for thirty years there... |
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Jackson, Glenda
...Love (1969) earned her an Academy Award for best actress. She won a second best actress Oscar for A Touch of Class (1973). Other films include Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) and Hedda (1975). She was elected... |
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Thomson, James
...publishing among other work ‘Vane's Story’, ‘Sunday up the River’, and ‘Sunday at Hampstead’. ‘Weddah’ (1871), a long poem...a war reporter; on his return he completed his best-known poem, ‘The City of Dreadful Night... |
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Irish Free State/Republic, relations with
...South, Cumann na nGaedheal/Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, are best distinguished by their relative position over Britain. de Valera...British embassy in Dublin was burnt down after Derry's Bloody Sunday, February 1972. As the northern conflict wore on, southern... |
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama
...play performed in New York which shall best represent the educational value and power of the stage in raising the standards of good morals and good manners.” The drama Pulitzer, given...1984: Glengarry Glen Ross; 1985: Sunday in the Park with George; 1987: ... |
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Sunday best
Sun·day best • n. (one's Sunday best) a person's best clothes, worn to church or on special occasions. |
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Passion
...the 5th Sunday in Lent, a week before Palm Sunday, but Passion Sunday is now fused with Palm Sunday.Passion plays are enactments of the suffering...originally, important didactic purposes. The best known of these is a late example, the ... |
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care
...care has shifted somewhat from ‘worry, grief’ to ‘care, caution’.Care Sunday the fifth Sunday in Lent; formerly also, the Sunday preceding Good Friday; Care here means ‘sorrow, trouble, grief’.don't care was made to... |
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Easter
...communion. There was no observance of Good Friday as a separate memorial day until...festival, whether it was a weekday or a Sunday. This continued for some time in Asia...Quartodecimans.Its celebration on the Sunday after the Jewish Passover was not ordered... |
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procession (liturgical)
...open air as acts of witness, e.g. on Good Friday. Other traditional processions include those on Palm Sunday, the Rogation Days, and Corpus Christi...prescribed for Vespers on the eves of Sundays and great feasts. There are also processions with the epitaphion on ... |
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Lent
...Wednesday to Holy Saturday (excluding Sundays).In the early centuries the observance...restricted to the first day of Lent and Good Friday. In the E. Church abstinence...Eucharist is confined to Saturdays and Sundays; on Wednesdays and Fridays the Liturgy... |
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roast
...she was going to roast a leg of lamb for Sunday dinner | [as adj.] (roasted) roasted...is intended for roasting: carving the Sunday roast. ∎ a dish or meal of roasted food...person at which the honoree is subjected to good-natured ridicule. |
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Mag Slécht
...land in Co. Cavan, 1 mile NE of Ballmagauran. Best remembered as the site where Crom Crúaich, an...a festival known as Domhnach Croim Dhuibh [Sunday of Black Crom], held on the last Sunday in July, persisted until the early 20th century... |
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Russian Revolution
...the military's brutal response to a Sunday March by St Petersburg workers, who wanted to deliver a petition for better working conditions to the Tsar. Despite...down in what became known as Bloody Sunday (22 January 1905). Demonstrations... |
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egg
...egg at the smaller end.Egg Saturday and Egg Sunday former names for the Saturday and Sunday before Shrove Tuesday, traditionally a time of celebration...omelette all over our suits.’See also as good be an addled egg as an idle bird, chicken... |
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dress
...garments, attire; costume, outfit, ensemble, garb; informal gear, getup, togs, duds, glad rags, threads, Sunday best; formal apparel; archaic raiment. phrases: dress down 1. even the execs dress down on Fridayssynonyms: dress informally... |
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finery
finery • noun all dressed up in her finerysynonyms: regalia, best clothes, best, Sunday best; informal glad rags. |
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good
...crackerjack.antonym: inept. 6. a good friend synonyms: close, intimate, dear, bosom, special, best, firm, valued, treasured...in-your-mouth. 14. a good reason synonyms: valid, genuine...antonym: small. 17. wear your good clothes synonyms: ... |
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historic
...historical could easily run for several pages—e.g.: “The Sunday Trading Act, which formally became law yesterday, removes...are now on a further easing of monetary policy and there is a good historic [read historical] correlation between falling interest... |
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last
...statement. 3. the last word in luxury and efficiency synonyms: best, peak, acme, epitome, latest; pinnacle, apex, apogee...nonpareil, crème de la crème; archaic nonsuch. last hurrah Sunday's performance was Shelley's last hurrahsynonyms: swan song... |
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best
...synonyms: best clothes, finery, Sunday best; informal glad rags. 3. give her my best synonyms: best wishes, regards, kind/kindest...synonyms: defeat, beat, get the better of, outdo, outwit, outsmart...lick. phrases: do one's ... |
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play
...involved in, compete in, do. 3. St. Joseph's plays Boston on Sunday synonyms: compete against, take on, challenge, vie with...tosynonyms: play fair, be fair, play by the rules, conform, be a good sport, toe the line. play up his agents really play up the... |
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Sunday Melts Into Just Part of the Week
...option of staying open Sundays to sell alcoholic beverages...changed, and it dragged Sunday along with it. Though Sunday still means worship and...picking up some CDs at Best Buy, moving through...a lot of Americans, Sunday's just another ... |
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SUNDAY LIQUOR A KY. HIT.(News)
...Sunday sales. As a result, Sunday business at Bellevue's popular...Before the change, a typical Sunday was 400 transactions," said...have 1,600 transactions on Sundays." Sunday sales have increased overall...sell liquor. "Business was ... |
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Sundays suddenly not so special anymore; America has changed and dragged the...
...America changed, and it dragged Sunday along with it.Though Sunday still means worship and family...errands, picking up some CDs at Best Buy, moving through a 24...for a lot of Americans, Sunday's just another day you have...gave workers the right to take ... |
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SUNDAYS ALWAYS GET US DOWN.(PERSPECTIVE)
...re free. Suddenly it's Sunday again and it feels way to soon...the want-ads are so fat on Sundays. Sure we have extra time to...that's not all of it. On Sundays we are in the mood to fantasize...different field, more money? But Sunday gloom is an equal ... |
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Sunday hunting ban up for vote in six counties: Official expects voters in...
...to hunt on private land on Sundays last year. But the privilege...state law, a county must ban Sunday hunting if a majority of its...to try to teach voters about Sunday hunting and its benefits...he talked to agreed it was a good idea, but never did much ... |
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Sundays off? Maybe not.
...You'd think he had nothing better to do. Well, he didn't: it was Sunday. It was Sunday, so the president, as he...and languid. God, he loved Sundays! After breakfast, he curled...Western concepts, Saturday-Sunday weekends. My handyman ... |
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Sunday becoming just another day
...America changed, and it dragged Sunday along with it.Though Sunday still means worship and family...errands, picking up some CDs at Best Buy, moving through a 24...for a lot of Americans, Sunday's just another day you have...gave workers the right to take ... |
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Sundays, bloody Sundays. (the press) (Britain)
...launched last September. Now the Sunday market attracts the kind of...not least the fact that the best-selling quality paper, the Sunday Times, reportedly makes a...since 1977. But would-be Sunday newspaper moguls argue that this is not because people have ... |
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SUNDAY LED ROUSING, RIGHTEOUS REVIVAL.(COMMENTARY)
...you work with and call good and get back to Heaven...Company of Norfolk. Sunday preached in Norfolk until...enemy. You were Hell's best friend.'' After that...On Feb. 22, 1920, Sunday introduced Gen. John...bath, but it does you good.'' But ... |
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SUNDAY SCHOOLS TRY TO LURE STRAYS IN TO BIBLE STUDY
...Baptist Church. "It's a new Sunday school year, kind of like...year." On the first day of Sunday school, Dakota Maatman, 8...died.") and learning some good choices he could make, whether...Maatman said. "This is better (than school) because you...religious ... |
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