* 1943 – World War II: The U. S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.

This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are " two countries divided by a common language "; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill.

Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion retained his social commentary and added appropriate songs for the characters of Henry Higgins and Liza Doolittle, played originally by Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.

According to Capp's brother Elliot, Alfred had finished all of Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw by the time he turned 13.

Nothing was considered more holy than the covenant of marriage, and to portray it in such a way was completely unacceptable ; however, a few more open-minded critics such as the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw found Ibsen's willingness to examine society without prejudice exhilarating.

George Bernard Shaw called Chaplin " the only genius to come out of the movie industry ".

Sarandon appeared in The Rothschilds and The Two Gentlemen of Verona on Broadway, as well making regular appearances at numerous Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw festivals in the United States and Canada.

Dublin has a world famous literary history, having produced many prominent literary figures, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett.

It went on to provide a breakthrough for some of the city's most famous writers, such as Synge, Yeats himself and George Bernard Shaw.

A point of interest is that it is probably Daniel Jones ( and not as is often thought Henry Sweet ) who provided George Bernard Shaw with the basis for his fictional character Henry Higgins in " Pygmalion ".

* Shaw v Chesterton: a Debate between George Bernard Shaw and G. K. Chesterton.

Writer George Bernard Shaw claimed to have read the complete 9th edition — except for the science articles — and Richard Evelyn Byrd took the Britannica as reading material for his five-month stay at the South Pole in 1934, while Philip Beaver read it during a sailing expedition.

At its peak of popularity eugenics was supported by a wide variety of prominent people, including Winston Churchill, Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling and Sidney Webb.

He was " the creator of ... that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg ," in which "... imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates ", and yet he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.

ELIZA was named after Eliza Doolittle, a working-class character in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, who is taught to speak with an upper-class accent.

Speakers of British English and American English sometimes have this problem, which was alluded to in George Bernard Shaw's statement " England and America are two countries separated by a common language ".

The portrait of George Bernard Shaw located at Niagara-on-the-Lake was commissioned by hotelier Si Wai Lai and sculpted by Dr. Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, CM ( 1913 – 2009 ).

* Shaw v. Chesterton, a debate between George Bernard Shaw and G. K. Chesterton ( 2000 ) Third Way Publications Ltd. ISBN 0-9535077-7-7.

" George Bernard Shaw ".

" A good man fallen among Fabians: A study of George Bernard Shaw " Lawrence and Wishart, 1974 ISBN 978-0-85315-288-0

* George Bernard Shaw at IBDb. com

* George Bernard Shaw 1937 color portrait by Madame Yevonde

* Works of George Bernard Shaw at Project Gutenberg

* The 1989 film Glory featured Frederick Douglass as a friend of Francis George Shaw.

* George Bernard Shaw blog photographs featured from the Man and Cameraman project at LSE Archives

In 1983, she took on the title role in George Bernard Shaw's Candida.

In drama, the late nineteenth century saw such " New Woman " plays as Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House ( 1879 ) and Hedda Gabler ( 1890 ), Henry Arthur Jones's play The Case of Rebellious Susan ( 1894 ) and George Bernard Shaw's controversial Mrs. Warren's Profession ( 1893 ) and Candida ( 1898 ).

As Anthony Randall, he worked onstage opposite stars Jane Cowl in George Bernard Shaw's Candida and Ethel Barrymore in Emlyn Williams's The Corn Is Green.

Classical revivals also proved popular with Broadway theatre-goers, notably John Barrymore in Hamlet and Richard III, John Gielgud in Hamlet, The Importance of Being Earnest and Much Ado About Nothing, Walter Hampden and Jose Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac, Paul Robeson and Ferrer in Othello, Maurice Evans in Richard II and the plays of George Bernard Shaw, and Katharine Cornell in such plays as Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and Candida

In 1908, she was spotted by the playwright George Bernard Shaw when she understudied the leading role of Candida in a tour directed by Shaw himself.

Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1894 and first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant.

The show's music is by Josh Schmidt, lyrics by Jan Tranen, and a book by Austin Pendleton and it's based on Candida by George Bernard Shaw.

Newton directed a number of critically acclaimed productions, including George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1983 ), Heartbreak House ( 1985 ), Major Barbara ( 1987 ), Man and Superman ( 1989 ), Misalliance ( 1990 ), Pygmalion ( 1992 ), Candida ( 1993 ) and You Never Can Tell ( 1995 ), as well as Henry Arthur Jones's The Silver King, William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes, Harold Brighouse's Hobson's Choice, Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, J. M.

* The Selected Prose of Bernard Shaw ( 1952 ).

* Shaw on Shakespeare: An Anthology of Bernard Shaw's Writings ( 1961 )

* London Music in 1888 – 89 as Heard by Corno di Bassetto ( later known as Bernard Shaw ) with Some Further Autobiographical Particulars, 1937.

* Shaw's Music: The Complete Musical Criticism Of Bernard Shaw.

" Dear Mr Shaw Selections from Bernard Shaw's postbag " Bloomsbury, 1987 ISBN 0-7475-0256-0.

* Gibbs, A. M. " Bernard Shaw, A Life ".