English had, however, been used as a literary language for centuries before Chaucer's life, and several of Chaucer's contemporaries — John Gower, William Langland, and the Pearl Poet — also wrote major literary works in English.

It is true that Yamamoto believed that Japan could not win a protracted war with the United States, and moreover seems to have believed that the Pearl Harbor attack had become a blunder — even though he was the person who came up with the idea of a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

The highly erotic way Offenbach's operettas were originally played, with stars like Hortense Schneider — or the legendary courtesan Cora Pearl, who appeared in a revival of Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers in 1867 completely covered in diamonds and little else — created a scandalized reaction from certain parts of the general public.

* 1577 – 1580 — Taqi al-Din's Unbored Pearl

Edwin T. Layton ( later Rear Admiral Layton ), chief intelligence officer for Kimmel, and one of the officers who knew Kimmel best, provided support for Kimmel ′ s position in his book And I Was There: Pearl Harbor and Midway — Breaking the Secrets ( 1985 ).

Eve 6 then re-enlisted Don Gilmore ( Linkin Park, Dashboard Confessional, Good Charlotte, Pearl Jam )— who produced the first two Eve 6 full-lengths — to helm the sessions for Speak in Code.

Ament recalled that they requested a Pearl Jam sticker on the cover — as they had just picked their new name — because " it'll be a good thing for us ," but they were refused.

Allmusic said that " instead of doing something calculated like emulating Nirvana or Pearl Jam — or for that matter, Nine Inch Nails or Ministry — Slayer wisely refused to sound like anyone but Slayer.

In 1929, he opened his own agency, Harold Ober Associates, — representing authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha Christie, William Faulkner, Philip Wylie, Pearl Buck and Walter D. Edmonds and J. D.

* Pearl Rivers — the nom de plume of Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson

Survivor: Pearl Islands ( also broadcast as Survivor: Pearl Islands — Panama ) is the seventh season of the United States reality show Survivor.

It became nationally famous for its music scene: major blues singers, big bands, and jazz artists — such as Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine, Pearl Bailey, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie — regularly performed in the bars and clubs of Paradise Valley entertainment district.

Bottom sediments and marsh vegetation — including uprooted cypress and oak trees — blocked the mouth of the West Pearl and other parts of the channel.

In particular, they did not understand aircraft could sink battleships, nor that Japan might put the US battleship force ( the Battle Line ) out of action at a stroke — as in fact happened at Pearl Harbor.

* Pearl Witherington — courier, organiser following Southgate's arrest

* Pearl Witherington — organiser

At the March 2002 Game Developers Conference, five machinima makers — Anthony Bailey, Hugh Hancock, Katherine Anna Kang, Paul Marino, and Matthew Ross — founded the AMAS, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting machinima.

In her trial, which commenced on January 15, 1976 ( and in her dozens of previous interviews by FBI agents Charles Bates and Lawrence Lawler — any reference to which was not allowed by the presiding judge to be included in the trial ), Hearst's attorney F. Lee Bailey claimed that Hearst had been blindfolded, imprisoned in a narrow closet and physically and sexually abused.

* Salix serissima ( L. H. Bailey ) Fernald — autumn willow or fall willow

* James Burge ( 1925 – 2010 ) — English criminal law barrister, original inspiration for the fictional barrister Rumpole of the Bailey

In its early days Albion — named by John T. Bailey, an Englishman, using the Greek name for England — was a sawmill town in the Indian Territory.

All of the band's original members from the 1973 — 80 " classic period ", namely Maurice White, Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, Al McKay, Larry Dunn, Andrew Woofolk, Fred White and Johnny Graham, attended the ceremony, at which the nine of them played together for the first time in 20 years, performing " Shining Star " and " That's The Way Of the World ".

* Omnibus ( one episode, 1953 ) — Ed Bailey

Beetle Bailey ( November 21, 2007 ): In this running gag, Sergeant Snorkel hangs from a small tree growing out of a cliff, while Private Bailey is seen trying to help him — and himself

* Private Beetle Bailey — the main character and strip's namesake ; a feckless, shirking, perpetual goof-off and straggler known for his chronic laziness and generally insubordinate attitude.

* Chigger Bailey — Beetle's younger brother ( a chigger, like a beetle, is a kind of arthropod, and commonly mistaken for an insect ).

* Richard Bailey — drums

* Richard Bailey — drums, percussion

* Bailey Co. Map — 1888 bird's-eye view map of Roxbury area

" Anthony Head, who plays Giles on the series, had already been cast and was scheduled to read with LaMorte so the casting department could gauge their chemistry — which Head acknowledged, later saying, " She's gorgeous, like a David Bailey picture.

* Byron ( BY ) Bailey — 1975

Titled after the main work — a six movement suite for solo flute, piano and string orchestra — the album was inspired by, and was dedicated to, the memory of Jon's dear friend Sir John Mortimer, the English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, author and creator of British television series Rumpole of the Bailey, who died in January 2009.

Bailey, prosecutor in his Scottsboro trial, stating, " And Mr. Bailey over there — he said send all the niggers to the electric chair.

Lincoln spent many hours a week talking to politicians from across the land and using his patronage powers — greatly expanded over peacetime — to hold the factions of his party together, build support for his own policies, and fend off efforts by Radicals to drop him from the 1864 ticket.

Fluoride " loses " a pair of valence electrons because the electrons shared in the B — F bond are located in the region of space between the two atomic nuclei and are therefore more distant from the fluoride nucleus than they are in the lone fluoride ion.

* How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs — Biblical Archaeology Review

Among other things, Moseley demonstrated that the lanthanide series ( from lanthanum to lutetium inclusive ) must have 15 members — no fewer and no more — which was far from obvious from the chemistry at that time.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.

Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.

* History of Aluminium — from the website of the International Aluminium Institute

While the two are heading a caravan from Salalah, Oman, they cross the border into Yemen and find the unexplored desert area that the Necronomicon calls " Roba el Ehaliyeh " or " Roba el Khaliyeh " — presumably a reference to the Empty Quarter or " Rub al Khali ".

His pamphlet " The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France " ( 1906, republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in 1927 ) effectively launched the 20th century Orgelbewegung, which turned away from romantic extremes and rediscovered baroque principles — although this sweeping reform movement in organ building eventually went further than Schweitzer himself had intended.

The Chacoan structures altogether required the wood of 200, 000 coniferous trees, mostly hauled — on foot — from mountain ranges up to away.

Cash remittances sent back home from Armenians working abroad — mostly in Russia and the United States — are growing and contribute significantly to Armenia's Gross Domestic Product ( between 15 to 30 percent ).

According to official data, in 2007, a record-high 500, 000 tourists visited Armenia — most of them ethnic Armenians from Europe, Russia and the United States.