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Portrait Of The Border Country
The Portrait of books is a series of topographical works describing the cities, Counties of England, counties, and regions of Britain and some of the regions of France. The series was published by Robert Hale (publishers), Robert Hale from the early 1960s to the mid 1980s and is part of a genre of topographical books in which Robert Hale specialised."Rural Mappings" by Catherine Brace in Its immediate predecessors were the County Books series, County Books and The Regional Books (book series), Regional Books series while the The Regions of Britain (book series), Regions of Britain series was published contemporaneously in the 1970s. There was also a Villages series. A number of the Portrait series were republished in new editions titled "The Illustrated Portrait of...". Described variously as neither literature, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of Book Series
A portrait is a portrait painting, painting, portrait photography, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better represents personality and mood, this type of presentation may be chosen. The intent is to display the likeness, Personality type, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a Snapshot (photography), snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer, but portrait may be represented as a profile (from aside) and 3/4. History Prehistorical portraiture Plastered human skulls were reconstructed human skulls that were made in the ancient Levant between 9000 and 6000 BC in the Pre-Pottery Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Arthur Manning
Stanley may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Stanley'' (1972 film), an American horror film * ''Stanley'' (1984 film), an Australian comedy * ''Stanley'' (1999 film), an animated short * ''Stanley'' (1956 TV series), an American situation comedy * ''Stanley'' (2001 TV series), an American animated series Other uses in arts and entertainment * ''Stanley'' (play), by Pam Gems, 1996 * Stanley Award, an Australian Cartoonists' Association award * '' Stanley: The Search for Dr. Livingston'', a video game Businesses * Stanley, Inc., an American information technology company * Stanley Aviation, an American aerospace company * Stanley Black & Decker, formerly The Stanley Works, an American hardware manufacturer ** Stanley Hand Tools, a division of Stanley Black & Decker * Stanley bottle, a brand of food and beverage containers * Stanley Electric, a Japanese manufacturer of electric lights * Stanley Furniture, an American furniture manufacturer * The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
Lewis John Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (né Thomas) (15 August 1908 – 4 February 1987) was a Welsh newspaper journalist and radio and television broadcaster. In later life he took the name Vaughan-Thomas after his father. Early life and education Thomas was born in Swansea, in South Wales, the second son of Dr. David Vaughan Thomas, a Professor of Music, and Morfydd Lewis, the daughter of Daniel Lewis who was one of the leaders of the Rebecca Riots in Pontarddulais. He was the older brother of Hugh Vaughan-Thomas. He attended Swansea Grammar School, in the Mount Pleasant district of Swansea. At Exeter College, Oxford, he read modern history and gained a second class academic degree. Career BBC In the mid-1930s, Vaughan-Thomas joined the BBC and, in 1937, gave the Welsh-language commentary on the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. This was the precursor to several English-language commentaries on state occasions he was to give after the Second World War. Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Lindsay (broadcaster)
Maurice Lindsay CBE (21 July 1918 – 30 April 2009) was a Scottish broadcaster, writer and poet. He was born in Glasgow. He was educated at The Glasgow Academy where he was a pupil from 1928-36. In later life, he served as an honorary governor of the school. After serving in World War II, with the 7th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), Cameronians, he became a radio broadcaster, also editing the 1946 anthology ''Modern Scottish Poetry (Faber), Modern Scottish Poetry'', and writing music criticism. He later was programme controller at Border Television. In 1962, Scottish composer Thea Musgrave set five of his children's poems in Scots language, Scots to music for voice and piano, in a song cycle called ''A Suite o Bairnsangs''. His ''Collected Poems'' (1974) drew on 12 published collections. He wrote a number of other books, including one on Robert Burns and a seminal biography of the composer Francis George Scott and mid-twentieth century Scottish classical music, entitled ''Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Storey
Edward Storey (28 February 1930 – 18 November 2018), was an English poet, dramatist and non-fiction writer. He was born at Whittlesey, part of the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire. The Fens inspired much of his work. Early career Before becoming a full-time writer in the late 1960s, Storey completed National Service and worked in adult education for the Peterborough City Education Authority and the Workers' Educational Association (WEA). His first poetry volume (''North Bank Night'') appeared in 1969 in the ''Phoenix Living Poets'' series. In an early work, ''Portrait of the Fen Country'' (1971), Storey reflected on his childhood understanding of the world as shaped by his Fenland experience. In ''Fen Boy First'' (1992), published by Robert Hale Ltd, he gave an account of growing up in Whittlesey and in ''Fen Country Christmas'' (1995) he collected a number of stories, legends and fenland superstitions. He was a founder member of the John Clare Society and the literature panel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir William Addison
Sir William Wilkinson Addison (4 April 1905 – 1 November 1992) was an English historian, writer and jurist. He is significant for his research and books on Essex and East Anglian subjects. Biography William Addison was born in 1905 at Mitton, now in the Ribble Valley of Lancashire, England. His direct ancestors were from King's Meaburn—then Westmorland, now Cumbria—and were 14th-century tenants from Grasmere to Bowness. The Addison family were borough administrators and recorders at Clitheroe, one a Constable of Lancaster Castle, and supported the restoration of parish churches and two grammar schools, one of which, Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, William Addison attended.Kneale, Kenneth (1992); ''Essex Heritage'', Leopards Head Press, pp.3-14. Morris, Richard; "Sir William Addison (1905-1992) – a retrospective" in Loughton and District Historical Society: Newsletter 165', March/April 2005, pp.3-5 After Addison's marriage in 1929 to Phoebe Dean, daughter o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Nimmo (author)
Ian Nimmo (born 25 July 1985) is a Scottish rugby union player who plays as a lock forward. Nimmo moved to Perthshire, Scotland at the age of 14. He has been capped by Scotland at Under 19 and Under 20 levels and was included in the Scotland under 20 squad for the 2005 and 2009 Junior World Cups. In July 2012 Nimmo joined Welsh regional team Newport Gwent Dragons. having previously played for Leicester Tigers and Cornish Pirates. In September 2013 Nimmo joined London Irish on a short loan deal On 7 November 2013, Ian Nimmo had signed to London Welsh in the RFU Championship The RFU Championship is an English rugby union competition comprising twelve clubs. It is the second level of men's English rugby and is played by both professional and semi-professional players. The competition has existed since 1987, when Eng .... References External linksNewport Gwent Dragons profile 1985 births Living people Dragons RFC players Heriot's Rugby Club players Leicester Tigers p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter A
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, a Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), a Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather * ''Peter'' (album), a 1972 album by Peter Yarrow * ''Peter'', a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * "Peter", 2024 song by Taylor Swift from '' The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology'' Animals * Peter (Lord's cat), cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Wightman
Ralph Wightman (26 July 1901 – 28 May 1971) was an English lecturer, journalist, author, and radio and television broadcaster. He wrote many books on farming and the countryside and in the 1950s and 1960s became a well-known national figure, especially as a regular guest on the BBC radio programme ''Any Questions?'' Life A younger son of Tom Wightman, a farmer, and butcher of Piddletrenthide in Dorset, Wightman was educated at Beaminster Grammar School and Armstrong College, Newcastle, part of the University of Durham, where he graduated BSc in agricultural chemistry.The Ralph Wightman Story at dorset-ancestors.com, accessed 1 February 2014‘WIGHTMAN, Ralph’, in '' Who Was Who 1971–1980'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1989 repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Unsworth
Cicerone Press is an English publisher, founded in 1969, specialising in guidebooks for walkers, climbers, trekkers and cyclists. The company's first publication was a climbing guide to the English Lake District, and over the past 50 years they have published a range of guidebooks covering walking, trekking and cycling around the world. History The company was founded in 1969 when the late Walt Unsworth (1928-2017) and Brian Evans, in frustration at the lack of suitable climbing guides to areas of the English Lake District, came together to produce a climbing guide. The very first guide, ''The Northern Lake District'' was published in March 1969. It consisted of just 40 pages and included hand-drawn illustrations by Evans who, two years later, wrote and illustrated a companion guide to climbs in ''The Southern Lake District,'' Cicerone's second title. ''Winter Climbs in Ben Nevis and Glencoe'' followed later the same year. Since 1999, Cicerone has been developing under the ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vian Smith " in the original ''Star Trek'' t ...
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Norman Duerden
Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 9th and 10th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norman conquest of southern Italy in the 11th and 12th centuries ** Normanist theory (also known as Normanism) and anti-Normanism, historical disagreement regarding the origin of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and their historic predecessor, Kievan Rus' ** Norman dynasty, a series of monarchs in England and Normandy ** Norman architecture, romanesque architecture in England and elsewhere ** Norman language, spoken in Normandy ** People or things connected with the French region of Normandy Arts and entertainment * ''Norman'' (2010 film), a 2010 drama film * ''Norman'' (2016 film), a 2016 drama film * ''Norman'' (TV series), a 1970 British sitcom starring Norman Wisdom * ''The Normans'' (TV series), a documentary * "Norman" (song), a 1962 song w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
