Susan Cooper related that " The power and range of Alan Garner's astounding talent has grown with every book he's written ", whilst David Almond called him one of Britain's " greatest writers " whose works " really matter ".

During his concerts, Almond nearly always plays at least one Brel song.

Almond production in the area is one of the largest in the world.

On a Scottish map, for example, one finds " Glen Almont " followed by the parenthetical ( Glen Almond ).

According to it, Constantine and Kenneth, son of Malcolm met one day in Laudonia ( Lothian ), by the banks of the River Almond.

While most accounts place the battle near the River Almond, there were two rivers of that name in Scotland, one in Perthshire and one in Lothian.

Dave Ball's ex-wife played violin in Marc Almond's solo band, though Almond and Ball did not work again together until 1990 when Ball remixed one of Almond's singles (" Waifs And Strays ") and co-wrote and arranged some music for Almond's Tenement Symphony album in 1991.

The anti-Martinist An Almond for a Parrot ( 1590 ), ostensibly credited to one " Cutbert Curry-knave ," is now universally recognised as Nashe's work, although its author humorously claims, in its dedication to the comedian William Kempe, to have met Harlequin in Bergamo while returning from a trip to Venice in the summer of 1589.

Almond also took part as one of four members of The Immaculate Consumptive, who never released any album but did a few shows in New York and Washington D. C., at the end of 1983.

Around one and half miles north of Perth, was the junction with the Perth, Almond Valley & Methven Railway.

People photographed by Pierre et Gilles include: musicians Amanda Lear ( the cover of her 1980 album Diamonds for Breakfast, one of their first assignments ), Lio, Khaled, Étienne Daho, Marie France, Mikado, Marc Almond, Marilyn Manson, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Erasure, Deee-Lite, The Creatures, Nina Hagen and CocoRosie ( the cover of their 2007 album The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn ); model Naomi Campbell, actresses Tilda Swinton and Catherine Deneuve, actors Jérémie Renier and Layke Anderson and also designers Jean-Paul Gaultier and Paloma Picasso.

< p > Pomphray was probably name of one of the Flemish ( Belgian ) noblemen invited by King David I and his grandson Malcolm IV to settle in Scotland in the twelfth century ... Pomphray would have been granted the lands north of the Almond in return for serving the king in battle ... around the castle built by Pomphray, probably a wooden structure later replaced by a stone building, would have grown up a little settlement and farm to house and feed his adherents and servants-Pomphray's town.

During the meeting Almond had spoken of how easy amphibious landings were although he had never planned or taken part in one and then referred to Smith as Son although he was only 10 months older than he was.

With a total of 21 years of service, Almond was one of the longest-serving U. S. Attorneys in the Rhode Island District.

Almond established himself as Swindon's first-choice left-half in the 1897 – 98 campaign, missing only one Southern League match.

* Producer Mike Thorne, who used the Synclavier to shape the sound of the 80s producing bands such as Siouxsie & The Banshees, Soft Cell, Marc Almond, and Bronski Beat

Haig later served ( 1950 – 51 ) with the X Corps, as aide to MacArthur's Chief of Staff, General Edward Almond, who awarded Haig two Silver Stars and a Bronze Star with Valor device.

In 1989, Marc Almond, who had performed Brel songs on his early albums with Marc and the Mambas, released his successful Jacques, an album comprised solely of Jacques Brel songs.

Immediately afterwards, Hawk meets CIA head George Kaplan ( James Coburn ) and his CIA agents: Snickers ( Don Harvey ), Kit Kat ( David Caruso ), Almond Joy ( Lorraine Toussaint ), and Butterfinger ( Andrew Bryniarski ), who take him to Darwin and Minerva Mayflower.

During 1982, the duo spent most of their time recording and relaxing in New York City, where they met a woman named Cindy Ecstasy whom Almond would later confirm was his drug supplier ( it was Cindy Ecstasy who introduced them to the new nightclub drug of the same name ).

However they were developed in significant ways by 20th century theorists like Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, who identified the role of political culture in a democratic order as vital.

Notable authors who have been published in The Southern Review include Steve Almond, W. H. Auden, Julianna Baggott, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Rick Bass, John Berryman,

It is run from the Oxford home of historian Professor Norman Stone, who has on occasion taken part in BHHRG activities, and was co-founded by his wife Christine Stone and fellow Oxford historian Mark Almond ( who is also its chairman ).

Its trustees comprise Mark Almond, Anthony Daniels ( who writes for the Daily Telegraph under the pseudonym Theodore Dalrymple ), John Laughland, Christine Stone and Mary Walsh.

Mark Almond, who has written on Balkan matters, has criticised the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia on behalf of Albanian separatists in Kosovo as a " violation of international law " which resulted in " cultural genocide " against Serbs.

General Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the United States forces, was accused of favoritism towards Edward Almond, the controversial commander of X Corps, who was dual-hatted as the commander of X Corps and MacArthur's Chief of Staff and his personal friend.

It is also the birthplace of Rosemary Almond, who later found fame as the mother of David Almond.

* The singer Marc Almond, who was educated at Featherbank Primary School until 1968

Around 142, Roman forces arrived at Cramond by order of Emperor Antoninus Pius, who had given them the task of establishing a fort at the mouth of the River Almond.

The division's commander, Maj. Gen. Edward M. Almond, was for a time, highly regarded by George Marshall, who was a fellow Virginia Military Institute ( VMI ) graduate, and was Army Chief of Staff during World War II.

As a child, she was an irrepressible tomboy who enjoyed playing pranks on Almond ; now that she's older, she's still quite hyper, but in a more girlish way.

( Similar considerations may apply to the Scottish Countess of Almond, who was elevated before James's abdication was proclaimed in Edinburgh.

They have a son, Lincoln Douglas Almond, who is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island and has a law degree from the University of Connecticut.

Almond was for a time highly regarded by George Marshall, also a VMI graduate, who was Army Chief of Staff during World War II.

In 1950, MacArthur split X Corps from the 8th Army then placed Almond, who had no experience with amphibious operations, in command of the main landing force just before the amphibious invasions of Inchon and Wonsan.

Almond had campaigned for President John F. Kennedy, who nominated him to be a judge on the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals ( CCPA ).

James Almond was an English footballer who played as a left-half.

Furthermore, Malachi Martin goes as far as to say "... no person can be Possessed without some degree of cooperation on his or her part ," and " The effective cause of Possession is the voluntary collaboration of an individual, through his faculties of mind and will, with one or more of those bodiless, genderless creatures called demons.

He argues: " When He who is bodiless and without form ... existing in the form of God, empties Himself and takes the form of a servant in substance and in stature and is found in a body of flesh, then you draw His image ..."

Boyer builds on the ideas of cognitive anthropologists Dan Sperber and Scott Atran, who first argued that religious cognition represents a by-product of various evolutionary adaptations, including folk psychology, and purposeful violations of innate expectations about how the world is constructed ( for example, bodiless beings with thoughts and emotions ) that make religious cognitions striking and memorable.

* Doro, the bodiless, godlike character who designs a selective breeding program that spans centuries in the Patternist novels by Octavia E. Butler