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* Cobham's Flying Circus, an English flying circus ( barnstorming group ) started by Alan Cobham in 1932
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Cobham's and Flying
Generally known as " Cobham's Flying Circus ", it was hugely popular, giving thousands of people their first experience of flying, and bringing " air-mindedness " to the population.
In 1937 the de Havilland Aircraft Company built a factory which supplied aircraft to Cobham's Flying Circus and manufactured propellers.
Cobham's and Circus
There are also intriguing historical connections such as America Lane, the fever hospital and Clifton ' airport ' used by Sir Alan Cobham's Air Circus between the two world wars.
Cobham's and English
Lord Hunsdon reverses Cobham's policy of hostility toward the actors of English Renaissance theatre, and returns to his father's policy of general tolerance and patronage.
Fortunately for English literature, Cobham's service in the office is brief: he dies the next year, 1597.
Cobham's and flying
* Round the Bend, the novel by Nevil Shute features Cobham's National Aviation Day flying circus as an integral part of the plot.
Cobham's and group
Pitt was part of a group of young MPs known as Cobham's Cubs.
He emerged as one of Cobham's Cubs, a group of young members of Parliament associated with Lord Cobham.
Cobham's and by
* Round the Bend ( 1951 novel ) by Nevil Shute gives a detailed account of the activities of Alan Cobham's National Aviation Day.
Furthermore, on Lord Cobham's death the barony of 1714 became extinct while he was succeeded in the barony and viscountcy of 1718 according to the special remainder by his sister Hester Temple.
This craft was eventually modified by Airspeed to Cobham's specification, for a non-stop flight from London to India, using in-flight refuelling to extend the plane's flight duration.
Soon they were joined by Cobham's rallied dragoons, who tried to attack the Jacobite rear.
Cobham's and Alan
* Alan Cobham ( mathematician ), the namesake of the Cobham's thesis in the computational complexity theory
On 22 September 1934 a Handley Page W. 10 a twin-engined biplane airline named Youth of New Zealand of Sir Alan Cobham's National Aviation Displays, crashed into a field near the canal at Aston Clinton.
Alan Cobham's de Havilland DH. 50 ( G-EBFO ) was also fitted with Shorts floats at Rochester.
During the flight to Australia, Sir Alan J. Cobham's engineer of the D. H. 50 aircraft, Mr. Arthur B. Elliot, was shot and killed after leaving Bagdad ( 5 July 1926 ).
Cobham's and Cobham
's training ground is nearby, close to Cobham and Stoke d ' Abernon railway station, and Cobham's exclusive private estates are home to many of Chelsea's players.
Stowe House in Buckinghamshire was the political base of the Cobham's Cubs | Cobham faction.
In particular he enjoyed the patronage of Lord Cobham, the leader of a faction that included George Grenville, his brother Richard, William Pitt and George Lyttelton that became known as Cobham's Cubs.
He also played on Billy Cobham's Spectrum album, which included Bolin on guitar, Billy Cobham of Mahavishnu Orchestra on drums, Leland Sklar on bass and Jan Hammer ( also of Mahavishnu Orchestra ) on keyboards and synthesizers.
The viscountcy of Cobham and its junior title the barony of Cobham were created with remainder, failing male issue, to ( 1 ) Lord Cobham's eldest sister Hester Grenville ( who succeeded as second Viscountess in 1749 and was created Earl Temple in 1750 ) and the heirs male of her body and ( 2 ) to his third sister Christian, with remainder to the heirs male of her body.
The character of Falstaff, though immensely popular from the start, aroused the ire of Lord Cobham, who objected to the use of the character's original name ( Oldcastle ), which derived from a member of Cobham's family.
" Cobham invented the class as a robust way of characterizing efficient algorithms, leading to Cobham's thesis.
McLaughlin and Cobham continued to play at full volume during the entire altercation, and McLaughlin liked the effect so much he instructed Laird, Goodman, and Hammer to sit out while he comped behind Cobham's solo later in the song.
Flying and Circus
* The Argument Sketch, a sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus
The programme comprised a series of sketches, often bizarre and surreal, frequently satirical with a disjointed style which was to become more famous in the more daring Monty Python's Flying Circus, which followed five months later.
Déjà Vu was the third episode of the second season of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British comedy program.
In 1969, Chapman and Cleese joined the other Pythons including Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin for their sketch comedy show Flying Circus.
He produced scenes for the 20th anniversary of the first broadcast of Flying Circus that month, the last time he would appear on television, but he became ill again on 1 October.
Chapman's death occurred on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the first broadcast of Flying Circus, and Jones called it " the worst case of party-pooping in all history ".
* Graham Chapman ( as " Ron Vibbentrop ") in the 1970 British television comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Naked Ant
Spacey hosted Saturday Night Live twice: first in 1997 with musical guest Beck and special guests Michael Palin and John Cleese from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; and again in the last episode of season 31 with musical guest Nelly Furtado.
The Knights ' new name changes almost nightly, improvised by the actor playing the lead Knight ( originally Hank Azaria ), but always starting with " Ecky Ecky Ecky F ' tang F ' tang Olé Biscuitbarrel ..." which itself references several famous sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus, including Election Night Special.
In October 2011, BBC Four premiered the made-for-TV comedy film Holy Flying Circus, written by Tony Roche and directed by Owen Harris.
* Holy Flying Circus
The " Dead Parrot Sketch ", alternatively and originally known as the " Pet Shop Sketch " or " Parrot Sketch ", is a popular sketch or one act from Monty Python's Flying Circus, and one of the most famous in the history of British television comedy.
Michael Palin ( left ) and John Cleese ( right ) of Monty Python performing the Cheese Shop sketch. The Cheese Shop is a well-known sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus.
According to the sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus, it was rendered by a number of Australian university lecturers.
) Although the fictitious faculty first appeared in the Bruces sketch in the TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus, the song itself was not included, making its debut on the album Matching Tie and Handkerchief as a coda for the sketch.
* Monty Python's Flying Circus
" The Funniest Joke in the World " is the title most frequently used for written references to a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch, which is also known by two other phrases that appear within it, " Joke Warfare " and " Killer Joke ", the latter being the most commonly spoken title used to refer to it.
The sketch appeared in the first episode of the television show Monty Python's Flying Circus (" Whither Canada "), first shown on October 5, 1969.
" The Spanish Inquisition " is a series of sketches in Monty Python's Flying Circus, Series 2 Episode 2, first broadcast 22 September 1970, parodying the real-life Spanish Inquisition.
It was set in a ' virtual ' computer-generated world created by young computer game designers, and starred Jack Ryder ( from EastEnders ) as Titus, with Terry Jones ( Monty Python's Flying Circus ) narrating.
During this period Cleese contacted Palin about doing the show that would ultimately become Monty Python's Flying Circus.
A comedic " precursor " to this concept occurred in an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which Terry Jones began performing a striptease while giving a fast-paced rundown of economic news.
This is reflected in the origin of the name ( derived from the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus ), in the common practice of using Monty Python references in example code, and in an occasionally playful approach to tutorials and reference materials.
A long running gag to end skits in Monty Python's Flying Circus is a policeman in a tan raincoat and a fedora bursting in, and announcing himself as so-and-so " of the Yard ".
* Peckinpah's use of violence was parodied by Monty Python in Sam Peckinpah's " Salad Days ", one of the more controversial episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which a lovely day out for an upper-class English family turns into a blood-soaked orgy of severed limbs and gushing wounds.
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