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However, an initial perusal and comparison of some of the famous passages with the same parts of other versions seems to speak well of the efforts of the British Biblical scholars.
The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
* Aerated Bread Company, a former and once famous British bakery and tea-room chain
The Battle of the Nile remains one of the Royal Navy's most famous victories, and has remained prominent in the British popular imagination, sustained by its depiction in a large number of cartoons, paintings, poems and plays.
John Stuart Mill's famous opinion was that " the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings ".
Cyril Northcote Parkinson ( 30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993 ) was a British naval historian and author of some sixty books, the most famous of which was his bestseller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar within the field of public administration.
* In 1981, Attlee again entered British popular culture as one of the famous English people taunted by name in Bjørge Lillelien's legendary commentary immediately after Norway defeated England in a FIFA World Cup qualifier.
Stan Ogden and Hilda Ogden were introduced in 1964, with Hilda ( Jean Alexander ) becoming one of the most famous British soap characters of all time.
In the 19th century, the area's population began to grow as it became a major supplier of wool to the booming textile industry in Britain and shipping traffic increased ( the British, in return, began importing Morocco's now famous national drink, gunpowder tea ).
Although it is the first of 20 British North America Acts, it is still the most famous of these and is understood to be the document of Canadian Confederation.
Dhira dacoit was another famous dacoit of British India.
In the United Kingdom, at the behest of Neville Chamberlain, ( more famous for his ' peace in our time ' speech ) the entire British aviation industry was retooled, allowing it to change quickly from fabric covered metal framed biplanes to cantilever stressed skin monoplanes in time for the war with Germany.
George Frideric Handel ( German: Georg Friedrich Händel ; ) ( 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759 ) was a German-born British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.
In 1995, Nigel Short and Polgár were to play a game using the famous chess set, but British Museum refused.
* 1842 – Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4, 500 men and 12, 000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
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.
He later became a British citizen and made his famous expeditions with British sponsorship.
It has extremes of many kinds: some of the highest sea cliffs in the UK at St John's Head, which reach ; the impressive and famous sea stack, the Old Man of Hoy ; some of the most northerly surviving natural woodland in the British Isles ; the remote possibility that Arctic Char survive in Heldale Water and the most northerly Martello Towers, which were built to defend the area during the Napoleonic War, but were never used in combat.
The most famous British phrenologist of the 20th century was the London psychiatrist Bernard Hollander ( 1864 – 1934 ).
The insignia was designed by famous English novelist Daphne du Maurier, who was married to the commander of the 1st Airborne Division ( and later the expanded British Airborne Forces ), General Frederick " Boy " Browning.
There is also an urban legend that the first game of polo in America was played in Boerne, Texas at retired British officer Captain Glynn Turquand's famous Balcones Ranch.
He was a British consul by profession, famous for his reports and activities against human rights abuses in the Congo and Peru and also for his dealings with Germany before Ireland's Easter Rising in 1916.

famous and newspaper
Many of these criminals, particularly John Dillinger, who became famous for leaping over bank cages and repeatedly escaping from jails and police traps, frequently made newspaper headlines across the United States.
The lithographic printing presses are commonly used in newspaper production where fast rolling and jumping rolls are a famous part of the pressing scene in every newspaper production movie.
Henry Morton Stanley, who had been sent in a publicity stunt to find him by the New York Herald newspaper, greeted him with the now famous words " Dr Livingstone, I presume?
Lauda admitted in a 2009 interview with the German newspaper Die Zeit that an advertiser currently pays € 1. 2m for the space on his famous red cap.
In Florida in 1990, retired financial planner Jack Gargan funded a series of " I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore " ( a reference to a famous quotation from the 1976 political and mass media satire movie, Network ) newspaper advertisements denouncing the U. S. Congress for voting for legislative pay raises at a time when average wages nationwide were not increasing.
Its most famous editor, Charles Prestwich Scott, made the Manchester Guardian into a world-famous newspaper in the 1890s.
ITV Digital operated out of Marco Polo House, the south London building home to shopping channel QVC and which had once housed The Observer newspaper, but perhaps most famous as the lavish headquarters of the ill-fated British Satellite Broadcasting.
Horace Greeley was most famous for his newspaper, The New York Tribune, which ran late into the 19th century.
He was a lead editorial writer on his brother's newspaper, the New York Sun, and it was in that capacity that in 1897 he wrote his most famous editorial, Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
After the liberation, Peroutka became an editor-in-chief of the newspaper Svobodné noviny and refounded his famous revue Přítomnost under the name Dnešek (" Today ").
The influential writer Émile Zola wrote a famous open letter titled " J ' accuse " ( " I accuse " ) published in the newspaper L ' Aurore on 13 January 1898.
A newspaper article from January 1927 claims an American ice-cream was named after Pavlova: " Dame Nellie Melba, of course, has found fame apart from her art in the famous sweet composed of peaches and cream, while Mme.
Also shown that year was another of Lawrence's most famous portraits, that of the actress Elizabeth Farren, soon to be the Countess of Derby, " completely Elizabeth Farren: arch, spirited, elegant and engaging ", according to one newspaper.
The British newspaper, The Guardian, recently reviewed the work of director Victor Sjöström and they wrote, " And in America his three most famous works-He Who Gets Slapped ( 1924 ), The Scarlet Letter ( 1926 ) and The Wind ( 1928 )-each dealt with human suffering.
During the Wilson presidency, The Post was credited with the " most famous newspaper typo " in D. C. history according to Reason magazine ; The Post intended to report that President Wilson had been " entertaining " his future-wife Mrs. Galt, but instead wrote that he had been " entering " Mrs. Galt.
One famous resident was William Lowndes Yancey, a firebrand newspaper editor and statesman who was an influential advocate of States ' rights and Southern secession.
The town was laid out in 1874 and was named for Charles Dana who was a local railroad stockholder and famous newspaper editor.
It was said by one famous attorney in the U. S., William Livingston, in 1745 in a New York newspaper that the clerkship program was severely flawed, and that most mentors " have no manner of concern for their clerk's future welfare ... is a monstrous absurdity to suppose, that the law is to be learnt by a perpetual copying of precedents.
Front page of the newspaper L ’ Aurore of Thursday 13 January 1898, with the famous open letter J ' accuse | " J ’ accuse ...!
A famous victory on the 1882 tour of England resulted in the placement of a satirical obituary in an English newspaper saying that English cricket had " died ", and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.
In 1909 he became world famous for making the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft, winning the prize of £ 1, 000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper.
Today the Musée Bourdelle in Paris sits amidst brick houses at 18 rue Antoine Bourdelle, a small street between the Gare Montparnasse and the offices of the famous French newspaper Le Monde.
After having published a famous editorial in January 1995 where Ramonet coined the term " pensée unique " (" single thought ") to describe the supremacy of the neoliberal ideology, the newspaper supported the November – December 1995 general strike in France against Prime minister Alain Juppé's ( RPR ) plan to cut pensions.

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