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Sybil and Two
One nation conservatism was first conceived by the Conservative British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who presented his political philosophy in two novels – Sybil, Or The Two Nations ( 1845 ) and Coningsby – published in 1845 and 1844 respectively.
Lady Blessington used him as a model for the hero of one of her novels and the novelist-cum-Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, recalled that his friend Duncombe was later to be his resource on Chartism for Sybil: or The Two Nations

Sybil and Nations
The collection contains an outstanding selection of landscape painting, a renowned Canadian prints collection including works from Walter J. Phillips and modernist printmaker Sybil Andrews, First Nations and Inuit Art, American illustration, and wildlife Art.

Sybil and 1845
During most of the 19th-century in fact, the term " tennis " referred to real tennis, not lawn tennis: for example, in Disraeli's novel Sybil ( 1845 ), Lord Eugene De Vere announces that he will " go down to Hampton Court and play tennis.
Disraeli's trilogy Coningsby ( 1844 ), Sybil ( 1845 ), and Tancred ( 1847 ) details the intellectual arguments of Young England while showing an informed sympathy for England's poor.

Sybil and by
Grand Guignol flourished briefly in London in the early 1920s under the direction of Jose Levy, where it attracted the talents of Sybil Thorndike and Noël Coward, and a series of short English " Grand Guignol " films ( using original screenplays, not play adaptations ) was made at the same time, directed by Fred Paul.
" Shaw the Villager and Human Being — a Biographical symposium ", with a preface by Dame Sybil Thorndike ( 1962 ).
: as foretold by David and the Sybil.
From 1949 until their divorce in 1963, he was married to producer Sybil Williams, by whom he had two daughters, Katherine " Kate " Burton ( born 10 September 1957 ) and Jessica Burton ( born 1961 ).
The original production featured Kenneth Cranham as Inspector Goole ( later played by Barry Foster and Philip Whitchurch ), Richard Pasco as Arthur Birling ( later played by Julian Glover, Edward Peel and William Gaunt ), Barbara Leigh Hunt as Sybil Birling ( later played by Judy Parfitt, Margaret Tyzack and Marjorie Yates ), Diana Kent as Sheila Birling ( later played by Sylvestra Le Touzel ) and Louis Hillyer as Gerald Croft.
On 14 July 2007 BBC Radio 7 broadcast an adaptation by John Foley originally aired on the BBC World Service, starring Bob Peck as Inspector Goole, John Woodvine as Arthur Birling and Maggie Steed as Sybil Birling.
* The Song of the Sybil Translation by W. H. Auden and P. B. Taylor
For the edition broadcast on Saturday 23 November 1963, the day after the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, TW3 produced a shortened 20-minute programme with no satire, reflecting on the loss, including a contribution from Dame Sybil Thorndike and the tribute song " In the Summer of His Years " sung by Martin with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.
It was very popular between the wars, with appearances by Gracie Fields, Sybil Thorndike, Ivor Novello, Markova and Noël Coward.
Dodge Center is the hometown of Shirley Ardell Mason, the multi-personality case described in the 1973 book " Sybil " by Flora Rheta Schreiber.
* In the second series of Downton Abbey, Lady Sybil Crawley and the chauffeur Tom Branson set off for Gretna Green with plans to elope, before being caught by her sisters.
Lady Sybil de Valines gave the Manor of the Holy Trinity on the east side of Beverley to the Knights Hospitallers in 1201, where they established a preceptory ; also to be found in Beverley during the 13th century were Dominican friars who were given some land by Henry III where they erected buildings, Franciscans were also present.
He was legally the son of Richard Hart-Davis, a stockbroker, and his wife Sybil née Cooper, but by the time of his conception the couple were estranged, though still living together, and Sybil Hart-Davis had many lovers at that period.
In 1891, Albert Victor wrote to Lady Sybil St Clair Erskine that he was in love once again, though he does not say with whom, but by this time another potential bride, Princess Mary of Teck, was under consideration.
Jealousy linked to aggression and low self-esteem Research by Sybil Hart, Ph. D., at Texas Tech University indicates that children are capable of feeling and displaying jealousy at as young as six months.
Following a public fund-raising effort, September 1969 saw the opening by Princess Margaret of a replacement facility, the Thorndike Theatre, named after Dame Sybil Thorndike.
Richard was baptised in the private chapel of Windsor Castle on 20 October 1944 by Lord Lang of Lambeth and his godparents were the Queen ( his paternal aunt and wife of George VI ), Princess Marie Louise ( his cousin ), the Countess of Athlone ( his cousin, for whom her daughter, the Lady May Abel Smith stood proxy ), the Duke of Buccleuch ( his maternal uncle ), the Marquess of Cambridge ( his cousin ), the Lady Sybil Phipps ( his maternal aunt ), and General the Hon Sir Harold Alexander ( for whom his wife, the Lady Margaret Alexander, stood proxy ).
Soon afterward Field landed the title role in the 1976 TV film Sybil, based on the book written by Flora Rheta Schreiber.

Sybil and Benjamin
The novel has attracted the attention of scholars, including Jay Clayton, who explores the book's attitude toward hacking, as well as its treatment of Babbage and Ada Lovelace ; Herbert Sussman, who demonstrates how the book rewrites Benjamin Disraeli's novel Sybil ; and Brian McHale, who relates it to the postmodern interest in finding a " new way of ' doing ' history in fiction.
Members of the PPU have included Vera Brittain, Benjamin Britten, Clifford Curzon, Alex Comfort, Eric Gill, Ben Greene, Laurence Housman, Aldous Huxley, George Lansbury, Kathleen Lonsdale, Reginald Sorensen, George MacLeod, Sybil Morrison, John Middleton Murry, Peter Pears, Max Plowman, Arthur Ponsonby, Bertrand Russell, Siegfried Sassoon, Donald Soper, Sybil Thorndike, Michael Tippett and Wilfred Wellock.
Vice-presidents have included Leo McKern the actor, scientists Kathleen Lonsdale and Professor Charles Coulson, Benjamin Britten, Sybil Morrison, Sybil Thorndike the actress, Vera Brittain, Dr Albert Belden and Professor Glenn Paige.

Sybil and Disraeli
During the 1840s Disraeli wrote three political novels collectively known as " the Trilogy "– Sybil, Coningsby, and Tancred.

Two and Nations
* 2007 – Two car bombs explode at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office.
Two decades earlier the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 had stated that the United Kingdom and the dominions were " equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations ".
Two other major memorial sites associated with the genocide are in Kicukiro District: Rebero Genocide Memorial Site where 14, 400 victims are buried and the Nyanza-Kicukiro Genocide Memorial Site where 5, 000 victims were killed after Belgian soldiers who serving in the United Nations peacekeeping forces abandoned them.
After the establishment of the Commonwealth of Two Nations, republicans supported the status quo, of having a very weak monarch, and opposed those who thought a stronger monarchy was needed.
Two years later, the United Nations adopted a closely related treaty, the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
Clockwise, from left: United Nations soldiers during the Korean War, which was the first UN authorized conflict ; Two atomic explosions from the RDS-37 and Operation Upshot-Knothole | Upshot-Knothole ( Soviet and American, respectively ) nuclear weapons, symbolizing the escalation of Cold War tensions between the two nations in the 1950s ; Israeli troops prepare to fight the Egypt ians during the Suez Crisis of 1956 ; A replica of Sputnik I, the world's first satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 ; Fidel Castro leads the Cuban Revolution in 1959 ; North Sea flood of 1953
Two former German colonies, Rwanda and Burundi, were mandated to Belgium by the League of Nations.
Two of these are the United Nations Convention Against Torture and for international conflicts the Geneva Conventions III and IV.
Two of the unrealized designs are alternative designs for a stamp issue ( United Nations, Senegal ) and were therefore not performed.
Two Germany | German flags at the United Nations Organization building in New York, 1973
Two years later, Reagan told the United Nations, " I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world ".
The Armistice documents that ended World War Two were typed on an IBM, as was the original United Nations Charter.
*" Billy Two Willies ", played by Abbott, a representative of First Nations, asserting their right to sell tax-free cigarettes and run casinos.
* At the special request of Nelson Mandela, Benjamin Zephaniah hosts the president's Two Nations Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.
* Two days before his scheduled update to the United Nations on Iraqi cooperation with inspection, Hans Blix credits Iraq with " a great deal more of cooperation now ", although still expressing some skepticism as to whether or not the cooperation would continue.
Two years later, managed by Dutchman Guus Hiddink and composed of many 2004 Oceania Nations Cup scorers such as Tim Cahill, Harry Kewell, Mark Bresciano, Brett Emerton, John Aloisi, Australia reached the Second Round of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.
Two Truth Commissions, the REMHI report, sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church, and the CEH report, conducted by the United Nations as part of the 1996 Accords of Firm and Durable Peace, documented widespread human rights abuses committed by Ríos Montt's military regime, including widespread massacres, rape, torture, and acts of genocide against the indigenous population.
Urban workers bore the full range of hardships associated with early capitalism, and the intensely nationalistic atmosphere of the day bred frictions between Poles and the other peoples remaining from the old heterogeneous Commonwealth of Two Nations.
Francis Pegahmagabow MM & Two Bars, ( March 9, 1891 – August 5, 1952 ) was the First Nations soldier most highly decorated for bravery in Canadian military history and the most effective sniper of World War I.
* Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: an Epic History of Two Nations Divided
It is used in the fictional Republic of the Two Crowns ( based on the Republic of Two Nations ), in the alternate timeline of Ill Bethisad.
" Making Two Nations: The Origins of the Civil War " 2003 speech

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