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* Norman Douglas ( 1868 – 1952 ), British writer
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General Douglas MacArthur, Mark Twain, and Norman Rockwell were perhaps the most famous smokers of this type of pipe, along with the cartoon characters Popeye and Frosty the Snowman.
A dramatized version directed by Douglas Cleverdon and starring Jane Asher was recorded in the late-1950s by Argo Records, with actors Tony Church, Norman Shelley and Carleton Hobbs, and Margaretta Scott as the narrator.
These books also gave rise to claims that he may have had relationships with both roommates Paul Ivano and Douglas Gerrad, as well as Norman Kerry, openly gay French actor Jacques Herbertot and André Daven.
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Some Bluegrass musicians in this group are Doc Watson, J. D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson, Sam Bush, Bela Fleck, John Hartford, Jerry Douglas, Norman Blake, Frank Wakefield, Bill Keith, Del McCoury and Tony Rice.
In 1998 he was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour, a UK national honour bestowed for outstanding achievement in the arts, literature, music, science, politics, industry or religion ( fellow recipients included in 2011 Douglas Hurd, former British Foreign Secretary, Norman Tebbit, former Secretary of State of Employment under Margaret Thatcher, and former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major ).
During the filming of Fiddler, Jewison was also the subject of the 1971 National Film Board of Canada documentary, " Norman Jewison, Filmmaker " directed by Douglas Jackson.
It was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Kirk Douglas ), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color ( Cedric Gibbons, Hans Peters, E. Preston Ames, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason ) and Best Writing, Best Screenplay-Adapted ( Norman Corwin ).
Although his elderly rancher-father Homer ( Melvyn Douglas ) is a deeply principled man, none of his ethics have rubbed off on Hud ; he's ( maybe ) the spoiled youngest son and baby-brother of Homer's eldest son, Norman.
It was later revealed that the decision to withdraw had been agreed at an emergency meeting during the day between Norman Lamont, Prime Minister John Major, Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine and Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke ( the latter three all being strong pro-Europeans as well as senior Cabinet Ministers ), and that the interest rate hike to 15 percent had only been a temporary measure to prevent a rout in the pound that afternoon.
Several Members of Parliament, mostly from the Conservative Party joined the group including Sir Peter Agnew, 1st Baronet, Ernest Bennett, Sir Robert Bird, 2nd Baronet, Robert Tatton Bower, Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, the Marquess of Clydesdale, Robert Vaughan Gower, Thomas " Loel " Guinness, Norman Hulbert, Archibald James, Alfred Knox, John Macnamara, Sir Thomas Moore, 1st Baronet, Assheton Pownall, Frank Sanderson, Duncan Sandys, Admiral Murray Sueter, Charles Taylor and Ronald Tree.
Norman Douglas, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, Jacques d ' Adelswärd-Fersen, Christian Wilhelm Allers, Emil von Behring, Curzio Malaparte, Axel Munthe, and Maxim Gorky are all reported to have owned a villa there, or to have stayed there for more than three months.
One of the island's most famous foreign gay exiles was Norman Douglas ; his novel South Wind ( 1917 ) is a thinly fictionalised description of Capri's residents and visitors, and a number of his other works, both books and pamphlets, deal with the island, including Capri ( 1930 ) and his last work, A Footnote on Capri ( 1952 ).
Memoirs set on Capri include Edwin Cerio's Aria di Capri ( 1928 ) ( translated as That Capri Air ), which contains a number of historical and biographical essays on the island, including a tribute to Norman Douglas ; The Story of San Michele ( 1929 ) by Swedish royal physician Axel Munthe ( 1857 – 1949 ), who built a villa of that name and Shirley Hazzard's Greene on Capri: A Memoir ( 2000 ), about her reminiscences of Graham Greene.
Foreign generals are also often given honorary appointments to the Order, for example: Marshal Ferdinand Foch and Marshal Joseph Joffre during World War I ; Marshal Georgy Zhukov, King Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Douglas MacArthur during World War II ; and General Norman Schwarzkopf and General Colin Powell after the Gulf War.
Labour under Norman Kirk won the 1972 election, and the Labour parliamentary caucus elevated Douglas, then aged 34, to Cabinet rank.
Norman and 1868
Janssen is jointly credited with detecting the element along with Norman Lockyer during the solar eclipse of 1868, and Lockyer was the first to propose that the line was due to a new element, which he named.
Pierre Janssen and Joseph Norman Lockyer discovered a new element on August 18, 1868 while looking at the chromosphere of the Sun, and named it helium after the Greek word for the Sun, ( or ).
* 1868 — Pierre Janssen and Norman Lockyer discover an unidentified yellow line in solar prominence spectra and suggest it comes from a new element which they name " helium "
While in Clifton in 1868, Symonds met and fell in love with Norman Moor, a youth about to go up to Oxford, who became his pupil.
The Norman Church of St Giles in Thurloxton dates from the 14th century but is predominantly from the 15th century with 19th century restoration, including the addition of the north aisle in 1868.
Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, from the Norman conquest to 1868, Kiveton was a hamlet of the parish of Harthill-with-Woodall.
The main building and the lodge, designed by Norman Shaw in 1868, are Grade II listed building, as is the lodge.
He edited an annual literary anthology called " La Nouvelle Année ", dedicated to the Norman literature of Jersey and Guernsey, between 1868 and 1875.
* Norman Invasion of Ireland, from An Illustrated History of Ireland ( second edition, 1868 ) by Margaret Anne Cusack
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Norman Spector called, in The Globe and Mail, for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to address the issue of the act's bar on Catholics, saying that Phillips ' marriage to Kelly would be the first time the provisions of the act would bear directly on Canada – Phillips would be barred from acceding to the Canadian throne because he married a Roman Catholic Canadian.
* Page, Norman, ‘ Housman, Alfred Edward ( 1859 – 1936 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 )
Between the 1959 – 60 Jack Hansen overdubs, the 1960s Norman Petty overdubs, various alternate takes, and Holly's undubbed originals, collectors can often choose from multiple versions of the same song.
* Tanner, Norman P., editor, Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils: Council of Constance 1414 – 18, excerpts of the sessions ( in English )
Since the beginning of Norman rule in the 12th century, the city has functioned as the capital in varying geopolitical entities: Lordship of Ireland ( 1171 – 1541 ), Kingdom of Ireland ( 1541 – 1800 ), island as part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1801 – 1922 ), and the Irish Republic ( 1919 – 1922 ).
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