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( 1892 – 1939 ), who called himself Torquemada in honour of the great Inquisitor — for compilers to use evocative pseudonyms.
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He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.
Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.
It has been edited by G. Waitz and published in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores, Band xxvi ( Hanover and Berlin, 1826 – 1892 ).
1892 and 1939
** Rafai ca. 1875 Sultanate, 8 April 1892 under Congo Free State protectorate, March 31, 1909 under French protectorate ; 1939 Sultanate suppressed
Torquemada ( Edward Powys Mathers, 1892 – 1939 ), who set for The Saturday Westminster from 1925 and for The Observer from 1926 until his death, was the first setter to use cryptic clues exclusively and is often credited as the inventor of the cryptic crossword.
It featured an introduction by her friend William Butler Yeats, who wrote several pieces based on the legend, including the plays On Baile's Strand ( 1904 ), The Green Helmet ( 1910 ), At the Hawk's Well ( 1917 ), The Only Jealousy of Emer ( 1919 ) and The Death of Cuchulain ( 1939 ), and a poem, Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea ( 1892 ).
After coal was discovered and mining began in nearby Carterville, Harrison, and his cousins Ephraim Snyder Herrin and Mrs. Williams in 1892 prospected for coal beginning at the southwest corner of Williams ' farm, identified in 1939 as the corner of Legion Boulevard and East Herrin St. ( Legion Blvd no longer appears on the maps, but the reference indicates the intersection was the North and North East public roads.
Founded in 1867 as a Bielefeld sewing machine repair company, AG Dürkoppwerke employed 1, 665 people in 1892 ; it used Waffenamt code " WaA547 " from 1938 to 1939 as the Dürkopp-Werke, and merged with other Bielefeld companies to form Dürkopp Adler AG in 1990.
Alice Brady ( born Mary Rose Brady, November 2, 1892 – October 28, 1939 ) was an American actress who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into talkies.
People involved in the arts and born in the town include the actress Kathleen Harrison in 1892 ; Alfred Wainwright, author of the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, in 1907 ; broadcaster Russell Harty in 1934 ; the internationally renowned Contemporary artist Ross Eccles in 1937, many of his paintings feature Blackburn and Lancashire scenes and landmarks ; the writer Josephine Cox in 1941 who set many of her novels in Lancashire ; the actor Anthony Valentine in 1939 ; the actor Michael Billington, star of UFO in 1941 ; actor Ian McShane in 1942 ; rock musician Tony Ashton in 1946 ; actor Jon Walmsley in 1956 ; film maker Michael Winterbottom in 1961 ; actor Steve Pemberton in 1967 ; actress Wendi Peters in 1968 ; actor / comedian Lee Mack in 1968 ; television host Debbie Travis ; author Tony O ' Neill in 1978 ; television presenter and documentary director Michael Gibson in 1980 ; and singer and actress Diana Vickers in 1991.
* Jaroslav Krejčí ( 1892 – 1956 ), Minister of Justice from 1939 to 1945, as well as Minister President from 1942 to 1945.
Winners in 1883 – 84, 1887 – 88, 1889 – 90, 1892 – 93, 1895 – 96, 1896 – 97, 1906 – 07, 1913 – 14, 1920 – 21, 1923 – 24, 1933 – 34, 1935 – 36, 1938 – 39, 1939 – 40, 1957 – 58, 1993 – 94 1995 – 96 ( wins post 1990 to be checked )
In 1892 Saracens moved from Crown Lane, Southgate, to Firs Farm, Winchmore Hill then played on nine different grounds before the move to Bramley Road for the 1939 – 40 season ( although the Second World War actually prevented them from playing there until 1945 ).
gracilis ( Marsh 1888 ) Matthew & Brown 1922 ; Dromaeosaurus explanatus ( Cope 1876 ) Kuhn 1939 ; Dromaeosaurus minutus ( Marsh 1892 ) Russell 1972 ( an alvarezsaurid ); Dromaeosaurus falculus ( Cope 1876 ) Olshevsky 1979 and Dromaeosaurus mongoliensis ( Barsbold 1983 ) Paul 1988 ( Velociraptor ).
Edward Powys Mathers ( 28 August 1892 – 3 February 1939 ) was an English translator and poet, and also a pioneer of compiling advanced cryptic crosswords.
* General Francisco Franco ( 1892 – 1975 ), ruled Spain as dictator after the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 1939 ).
Together, they had six children: Nadezhda Mariusovna Petipa ( 1874 – 1945 ), Evgeniia Mariusovna Petipa ( 1877 – 1892 ), Victor Mariusovich Petipa ( 1879 – 1939 ), Lyubov Mariusovna Petipa ( 1880 – 1917 ), Marius Mariusovich Petipa II ( 1884 – 1922 ), and Vera Mariusovna Petipa ( 1885 – 1961 ).
* William Rees Morgan Davies ( 1863 – 1939 ), British Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire, 1892 – 1898
Andrés Fernández de Córdova Nieto ( 28 May 1892 – 3 October 1983 ) was President of Ecuador from December 1939 to August 1940.
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