* The annual Fraskettando SkaBluesJazz Festival ( official web site ), which takes place on the first weekend of July, has showcased the Blues Brothers, Eddie Floyd, Al Di Meola, Taj Mahal, Soft Machine, Mario Biondi, Mick Abrahams & Clive Bunker and many others.

In England, he was coached by Sam Mussabini, later also the coach of Harold Abrahams.

Coached by Sam Mussabini ( coach of 100 m Olympic Champions Reggie Walker and Harold Abrahams ), he won the 880 yd and 1 mile at the 1919 AAA championships and then equalled the British record of 4: 16. 8 for 1 mile.

The only people recognized to have actually completed the run in time are Lord Burghley in 1927 and Sam Dobin in 2007: contrary to the film, Harold Abrahams never attempted this race.

While vocalist Ian Anderson's creative vision largely shaped Jethro Tull's later albums, on This Was Anderson shared songwriting duties with Tull's guitarist Mick Abrahams.

Before this album, the band's original guitarist Mick Abrahams resigned because of musical differences with Ian Anderson ; Abrahams wanted to stay with the blues-rock sound of This Was, while Anderson wished to branch out into other musical forms.

The station also has a team of journalists and reporters bringing listeners the latest news and sport through their bulletins and programmes, including: Bob Bubka, Dave Rowe, David Brady, Dominic McGuinness, Faye Carruthers, Geoff Peters, Graham Courtney, Grahame Lloyd, Ian Abrahams, John Temple, Kevin Lawrence, Nick Heath, Nigel Ringland, Pete Abbott, Peter Martin, Robyn Schonhofer, Roger Hughes, Rupert Bell, Russell Hargreaves, Simon Humphreys, Simon Ward, and Tony Incenzo.

* Ian Abrahams Sonic Assassins ( Published by SAF publishing ; ISBN 0-946719-69-1 )

This concert is the only footage of Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi performing as a member of Jethro Tull ; he was a member for this show only as a favour to Ian Anderson while they looked for a replacement for Mick Abrahams.

Several films spoof it, including Woody Allen's Bananas and Love and Death, Australia, Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker's Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult ( though actually a parody of The Untouchables ), Soviet-Polish comedy Deja Vu, Jacob Tierney's The Trotsky and the Italian comedy Il secondo tragico Fantozzi.

The boundaries of two parliamentary constituencies divide Oldham: Oldham East and Saddleworth, and Oldham West and Royton ( which includes the town centre ), represented by Labour Members of Parliament Debbie Abrahams and Michael Meacher respectively.

Golding translated also the Commentaries of Caesar ( 1563, 1565, 1590 ), the history of Junianus Justinus ( 1564 ), the theological writings of Niels Hemmingsen ( 1569 ) and David Chytraeus ( 1570 ), Theodore Beza's Tragedie of Abrahams Sacrifice ( 1575 ), the De Beneficiis of Seneca the Younger ( 1578 ), the geography of Pomponius Mela ( 1585 ), Calvin's commentaries on the Psalms ( 1571 ), his sermons on the Galatians and Ephesians, on Deuteronomy and the book of Job.

The next day, Cindy Campbell ( Anna Faris ), meets up with her boyfriend Bobby Prinze ( Jon Abrahams ) and her friends, Brenda Meeks ( Regina Hall ), Ray Wilkins ( Shawn Wayans ), Greg Phillipe ( Lochlyn Munro ), and Buffy Gilmore ( Shannon Elizabeth ).

* Most races by skipper: 45 Tony Cable ( New South Wales ), 44 John Bennetto ( Tas – dec ), Lou Abrahams ( Vic ).

The band comprised Chris Abrahams ( keyboards ), Dale Barlow ( sax on E ), Jason Morphett ( sax on False Laughter & Distance ), Lloyd Swanton ( bass ) and Andrew Gander ( drums ).

This picturesque setting has attracted several filmmakers, and Orono's film credits include David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone ( 1983 ), Patrick Lussier's Dracula 2000 and Jim Abrahams ' ... First Do No Harm ( 1997-TV ), starring Meryl Streep.

* John Abrahams ( born 1952 ), South African-born cricketer

* Jon Abrahams ( born 1977 ), American actor

Past series editors have been: Blanche Colton Williams ( 1919-32 ), Harry Hansen ( 1933-40 ), Herschel Brickell ( 1941-51 ), Paul Engle ( 1954-59 ), Mary Stegner ( 1960 ), Richard Poirier ( 1961-66, assisted by William Abrahams, 1964-66 ), William Abrahams ( 1967-96 ), and Larry Dark ( 1997-2002 ).

Tony got his first professional break under the tutorship of Pacific Express bass player, Paul Abrahams.

" The writers Stansky and Abrahams, while noting that the character Flory probably had his roots in Captain Robinson, a cashiered ex-officer whom Orwell had met in Mandalay, ' with his opium-smoking and native women ', affirmed that Flory's " deepest roots are traceable to fiction, from Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim through all those Englishmen gone to seed in the East which are one of Maugham's better-known specialities.

Abrahams theorises that Christmas Sports are rooted in the pre-emancipation Christmas and New Year holiday celebrations when the enslaved population had several days off.

Born into a prosperous ethnic German Jewish family in Arverne, Queens, New York City, Rodgers was the son of Mamie ( Levy ) and Dr. William Abrahams Rodgers, a prominent physician who had changed the family name from Abrahams.

The writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams, in their 1972 The Unknown Orwell, noted :" Eric Blair looked back unforgivingly on the world before 1914-it was that world that had sent him to his prep school-while George Orwell could believe it was superior to what came after it, and looked back to it nostalgically in Coming Up for Air.

In 1956, Abrahams published a roman à clef about the political community of which he had been a part in London: A Wreath for Udomo.

Abrahams discovered a reference to the ketogenic diet in an epilepsy guide for parents and brought Charlie to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, which had continued to offer the therapy.

Meanwhile, former Padmore ally Peter Abrahams published a roman à clef entitled A Wreath for Udomo ( 1956 ), which contained unflattering portrayals of the members of the London political community of which Abrahams had been a part, among them George Padmore ( as the character " Tom Lanwood ").

By 1979, The Brucelanders had secured a recording contract with the Australian branch of Mercury Records, changed their name to The Reels with the line-up of Abrahams, Bliss, Hooper, Mason, and Colin Newham on keyboards, saxophone and guitar.

It was the second album Anderson had co-written with Leo Abrahams and it saw a return to a simpler more commercial rock format.

Divorcee Anthea Bailey later told a local newspaper she and her 11-year old son had posed as Mr Abrahams ' family as part of a business arrangement so that Abrahams could create " the right impression ".

Magda ( played by Zaraah Abrahams ) according to Ellie " goes through boys like I go through takeaway pizzas "; she is quite a gossipy, bubbly sort of character, and had a brief fling with Russel in series four.

Jim Abrahams said he staged one of the boardroom scenes based on an experience he had when a large agency used many employees to get him to sign with them.

Abrahams is also the principal member of Boost Consulting, a company that offers software development and training courses with a heavy bias to use the Boost libraries.

Abrahams and Dundes take the joke

Abrahams believed the Dozens to be exaggeratedly masculine behavior unable to be expressed except in short bursts where a participant attacks his opponent's mother to cause him to attack his own mother.

In the aftermath, Don Vito Corleone ( Marlon Brando / Doug Abrahams ) comforts the child, telling him that when he is old enough and the time is right he will have his revenge.

In 1962, Folklorist Roger Abrahams explained the Dozens not only as a reaction to racism, but a mostly male behavior in a society dominated by women, hence the concentration on targeting opponents ' mothers.

Folklorist Alan Dundes asserts that by basing their approach on psychoanalytic theory, neither Dollard nor Abrahams considers that the Dozens may be native to Africa, although Dollard does not rule it out.

The film's directors, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, chose Nielsen for the role based on his ability to play " a fish in water ", stating that " You could have cast funny people and done it with everybody winking, goofing off, and silly ... we wanted people to be oblivious to the comedy.

Director Ted Post also spent considerable time working on the script writing numerous memos to Associate Producer Mort Abrahams suggesting story ideas to fix some of the narrative problems in Paul Dehn's script.

In 2008, Gates appeared on ITV1's Dancing on Ice with skating partner Maria Filippov, finishing fourth, losing a place in the final to Zaraah Abrahams and dancing partner Fred Palascak.

" Mick Abrahams, the song's author, provides vocals on the track ; David Palmer provided the horn arrangement.

Abrahams left Jethro Tull following the album's completion in a dispute over " musical differences ," so the album's title may be viewed as a wry commentary on his departure.

A few original collections followed, notably Roger Abrahams ’ and Horace Beck ’ s works on contemporary shantying in the Caribbean, yet most publications in the “ song collection ” genre are general anthologies based in Hugill and his predecessors ’ works.

In 1987 he co-founded jazz trio The Necks with Chris Abrahams on keyboards and Tony Buck on drums.

Abrahams has also been a session musician on albums for artists such as The Church, The Whitlams, Midnight Oil, Wendy Matthews, Skunkhour and Silverchair.

" A by-election to elect a new member of parliament for his former seat was held on 13 January 2011, and won by the Labour Party candidate Debbie Abrahams.

Gerald Abrahams alludes to the X-ray concept, without using that term, when he cites the aphorism, " Put your rook on the line of his queen, no matter how many other pieces intervene.

In 1986, Matthews joined Peter Blakeley and The Resurrection, with Blakeley ( ex-Rockmelons ) on lead vocals, Chris Abrahams on bass guitar and piano ( ex-The Benders ), Jim Benjamin on drums and Mark Punch on guitar ( Renée Geyer Band ).