The Scottish artist Alec Finlay has placed letterboxes with rubber stamp circle poems at locations around the world, including Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

There are one hundred planned boxes, each of which contains a rubber stamp circle poem by the Scottish poet and artist, Alec Finlay.

* Alec Finlay has published two booklets on circle poem letterboxing: Isles, Arcs & Ways ( Isle of Thanet, England, 2005 ), ISBN 19044770404 ; and Hill of Streams ( Cairnhead, Scotland, 2008 ).

** David Lean's Great Expectations, based on the Charles Dickens novel, and featuring John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness, Francis L. Sullivan, Jean Simmons, and Finlay Currie, is released to great acclaim in the UK.

The film stars Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer, Mel Ferrer and Omar Sharif, with Finlay Currie, Anthony Quayle, John Ireland, Eric Porter, Andrew Keir, Douglas Wilmer and George Murcell.

Live renga are being conducted increasingly in the West, including in the UK where artist / poets including Alec Finlay, Gavin Wade, Gerry Loose, and Paul Conneally explore and develop the form.

UK artists Gavin Wade and Alec Finlay working with poet Paul Conneally were commissioned to make public art in Hawkesley and as part of the work organised community Renga workshops across the Three Estates making a unique piece that forms part of Wade's huge Strategic Questions piece.

The Death of Adolf Hitler, a British ( 7 January 1973 ) made-for-television production, starring Frank Finlay in the title role, and Hitler: The Last Ten Days ( 1973 ), directed by Ennio de Concini, starring Sir Alec Guinness were the first Western contributions.

* Alec Finlay.

The work is clearly Lis ’ s, she even manages to stamp some of the character of her own features in the image as she does in all her male heads, yet the features remain absolutely those of the man, strong, slightly enigmatic, wry, in command, Sir Alec Guinness.

* The poem was used by Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) to inspire Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey ) in the 30 Rock episode " Everything Sunny All the Time Always ".

There is a facsimile edition with an English translation by Alec Eden.

There has been numerous delegation visits since Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home visited Bangladesh in June 1972.

There, at first unnoticed by him, lurks the young under-gamekeeper Alec Scudder ( called just Scudder for large passages of the book, to emphasise the class difference ), who has noticed Maurice.

Fellow economist Sir Alec Cairncross has said of Singer that " There are few of the developing countries that he has not visited and still fewer that he has not advised.

There is a famous story that when Eric and Alec were first selected for Surrey, they agreed they couldn't both be fast bowlers, as at that time they were.

There are concerts held in two series a year featuring the historic clavichords, harpsichords and fortepianos and occasional tours of the whole collection by its owner Alec Cobbe, who lives there.

Alec Rice Miller, better known as Sonny Boy Williamson II, is one of the important harmonicists of this era.

* 1865: In George MacDonald's novel Alec Forbes of Howglen, the character Annie Anderson is raised by her stingy relative Robert Bruce.

* July 30 – David Lean's Oliver Twist is finally shown in the United States, after 10 minutes of supposedly anti-Semitic references and closeups of Alec Guinness as Fagin are cut.

It is banned for 3 years in the U. S. because of alleged anti-Semitism in depicting master criminal Fagin, played by Alec Guinness.

* August 26 – The original Mini designed by Sir Alec Issigonis is launched.

Note: Although Grant's baptismal record records his middle name as " Alec ", it is " Alexander " on his birth certificate.

Over the objections of General Murray ( Donald Wolfit ), he is sent by Mr. Dryden ( Claude Rains ) of the Arab Bureau to assess the prospects of Prince Faisal ( Alec Guinness ) in his revolt against the Turks.

The DNA profiling technique was first reported in 1984 by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester in England, and is now the basis of several national DNA databases.

Sir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS ( born 9 January 1950 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England ) is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science to assist police detective work, and also to resolve paternity and immigration disputes.

He is said to have been the model for the bohemian painter depicted in Joyce Cary's novel The Horse's Mouth, which was later made into a 1958 film of the same name with Alec Guinness in the lead role.

He is portrayed in the original trilogy by Alec Guinness and in the prequel trilogy by Ewan McGregor, and is voiced by James Arnold Taylor in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie and television series.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is first introduced in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ( 1977 ), where he is played by Alec Guinness and is first seen rescuing Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill ) from a group of Tusken Raiders.

The organization is known for its aggressive media campaigns, combined with a solid base of celebrity support — Pamela Anderson, Drew Barrymore, Alec Baldwin, John Gielgud, Bill Maher, Stella McCartney, and Alicia Silverstone have all appeared in PETA ads.

In the BBC television sitcom May to December, solicitor Alec Callender ( portrayed by Anton Rodgers ) is a huge Perry Mason fan ; he often speaks privately to a large poster of Raymond Burr hanging on his office wall.

He is described as " a plant that thought it was Alec Holland, a plant that was trying its level best to be Alec Holland " with the result that he suffered a temporary identity crisis as he tried to surrender to his plant side.

She is approached by an archly sinister character, ' Professor ' Marcus ( Alec Guinness ), who wants to rent rooms in her house.

The passenger is Alec Harvey ( Howard ), an idealistic doctor who also works one day a week as a consultant at the local hospital.

Old Arabic Love Poem on Persian Carpet: When Laura comes to see Alec at his friend's flat, there is a Middle Eastern rug hung on the wall.

He also directed Alec Guinness as Richard II, taking on the role of John of Gaunt in the production when the Old Vic governors insisted that either Richardson or Olivier must act in every production.

Alec rarely responded to his father in Klingon, although when he did his pronunciation was " excellent ".

Her on screen chemistry with Alec Baldwin was either criticized or praised, with Eye For Film commenting, " The film works best when Baldwin and Gellar are together – aside from the fact that Gellar seriously needs to eat a bun or two ".

Her one attempt at Shakespeare, performing Lady Macbeth opposite Alec Guinness at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1966 proved to be ill-advised, although some critics were harsher and one referred to her English as " impossibly Gallic ".

In Swamp Thing # 1 ( October – November 1972 ) Wein and Wrightson updated the time frame to the 1970s and featured a new version character: Alec Holland, a scientist working in the Louisiana swamps on a secret bio-restorative formula " that can make forests out of deserts ".

The creature, called Swamp Thing, was originally conceived as Alec Holland mutating into a vegetable-like creature, a " muck-encrusted mockery of a man ".

These two were the first of many Lean films that starred Alec Guinness, whom Lean considered his " good luck charm ".

In Mexico as I saw it, published by Thomas Nelson, Mrs Alec Tweedie, writing in 1911 about a trip of 1900 to Mexico, compares the brick roads of Monterey with those of Borkum, " the one spot on earth from which Jews are banished ".

He was known for his beautiful speaking of verse and particularly for his warm and expressive voice, which his colleague Sir Alec Guinness likened to " a silver trumpet muffled in silk ".

The boy's first name was customarily abbreviated to " Alec ".

Later in his career, when he had become Prime Minister, Dunglass ( by then Sir Alec Douglas-Home ) wrote in a memorandum: " I went into politics because I felt that it was a form of public service and that as nearly a generation of politicians had been cut down in the first war those who had anything to give in the way of leadership ought to do so ".

Baldwin is the youngest brother of notable actors, Alec, Daniel and William, sometimes collectively known as the " Baldwin brothers ".

The Club was courted by many Conservative politicians, not least the Conservative Party leader Alec Douglas Home who was guest-of-honour at the Club's annual dinners of 1964 and 1969, and Enoch Powell, who, in a speech in 1968, claimed that " it was due to the Monday Club that many are brought within the Conservative Party who might otherwise be estranged from it ".

At lunch Snow returned to the dressing room he apologised to the chairman of selectors Alec Bedser and promised to do so to Gavaskar when an enraged Mike Griffith charged in and shouted " That's the most disgusting thing I've ever seen on the field ".

Mike Denness asked for Snow to go to the West Indies in 1973-74, remembering his record 27 wickets ( 18. 66 ) in 1967-68, but the chairman of selectors Alec Bedser overruled him because Snow " was not a good team man ".

Alec convinced Bill that the opportunity was more important than what he would be paid immediately: " it's what you're going to get later that counts ".

The established pace bowlers in 1949 were Alec Coxon and Ron Aspinall, both fast-medium, while captain Norman Yardley was a " capable third seam bowler ".

Both Mabel and Alec became immersed in the Baddeck community and were accepted by the villagers as " their own ".

Key has often been criticized for his weight, and at one stage early in his career weighed 16 stone before Alec Stewart told him to " buck his ideas up ".

A few weeks after Up for the Cup had been transmitted in 1981, the then head of ATV casting the late Alec Fyne contacted Donn to enquire what Bowen was doing during the following month, he said " Nothing, I can ’ t get him out of ".

The port was received well by the journalists in the industry ; GameSpy site Planet Half-Life noted that it was a shame that an official PC version of Decay never emerged, while British journalist Alec Meer stated that it was " fantastic to have this short but sweet lost Half-Life episode on PC at last, and it even has something the PS2 version didn't — online play ".

" Alec Wilder described it in his book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900-1950 as " a maverick, an unprecedented experiment and one which, to this day, after hearing it hundreds of times, I cannot sing or whistle or play from start to finish without the printed music ".

After his death he received many tributes, including from Tasmanian Returned and Services League ( RSL ) State President Ian Kennett, who said that Mr Alec William Campbell was a great Australian and that he " led a full and happy life and put his energies, upon returning to Hobart, back into his career and family ".

Richie Benaud said that Lindwall was " technically the best fast bowler " that he ever saw .< Ref name =" p211 "/> During the 1950s, Lindwall's action was copied by young children and a number of first-class Australian bowlers, including Ron Gaunt, John Power and Barry Fisher consciously copied his action .< Ref name =" az "/> Alan Davidson, who succeeded Lindwall as Australia's pace spearhead, labelled him as " the best fast bowler I ever saw ".< Ref name =" a159 "> Armstrong, p. 159 .</ ref > Lindwall's childhood hero Harold Larwood rated Dennis Lillee to be equal to Lindwall " but not ahead of him ".< Ref name =" a159 "/> Following Lindwall's tour of England in 1953, his English counterpart Alec Bedser said that Lindwall was " the best fast bowler I've seen, because of his variety and control ".