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Alfred Beckley ( 1802 – 1888 ) said he gave Raleigh County its name in honor of Sir Walter Raleigh ( 1552 – 1618 ), the “ enterprising and far-seeing patron of the earliest attempts to colonize our old Mother State of Virginia ,” according to Raleigh County: West Virginia by Jim Wood.
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It was founded by his son Alfred Beckley ( US Army general and Confederate militia commander, born in Washington, D. C .).
His son Alfred Beckley founded the town of Beckley on the western lands and named it in honor of his father.
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" The attribution of the line to Barrington is considered apocryphal since the 1911 discovery by Sydney book collector Alfred Lee of the 1802 book in which the line first appeared.
In 1905, the Sydney book collector Alfred Lee discovered the 1802 English book " Original Poems and Translations ... chiefly by Susanna Watts ," which collected poems by Watts and others.
* Alfred Cumming ( governor ) ( 1802 – 1873 ), Governor of the U. S. Territory of Utah from 1858 to 1861
His younger brother, Benjamin Wyon ( 1802 – 1858 ), his nephews, Joseph Shepherd Wyon ( 1836 – 1873 ) and Alfred Benjamin Wyon ( 1837 – 1884 ), and his cousin, William Wyon ( 1795 – 1851 ) were also distinguished medallists.
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Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski () ( July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950 ) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.
Born in Stockholm, Alfred Nobel was the fourth son of Immanuel Nobel ( 1801 – 1872 ), an inventor and engineer, and Andriette Ahlsell Nobel ( 1805 – 1889 ).
Through his father, Alfred Nobel was a descendant of the Swedish scientist Olaus Rudbeck ( 1630 – 1702 ), and in his turn the boy was interested in engineering, particularly explosives, learning the basic principles from his father at a young age.
Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.
Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.
Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS ( 8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913 ) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.
Alfred and 1888
Howerd was born the son of a soldier, Francis Alfred William ( 1887 – 1935 ) and Edith Florence Howard ( née Morrison, 1888 – 1962 ) at the City Hospital in York, England, in 1917 ( not 1922 as he later claimed ).
Forbes ( 1809 – 1868 ), A. T. Malkin ( 1803 – 1888 ), John Ball ( 1818 – 1889 ), and Sir Alfred Wills ( 1828 – 1912 ).
* Alfred Hunt ( 1817 – 1888 )-first president of Bethlehem Iron Company, precursor of Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).
The show, put on by puppeteer and filmmaker Demian, was an adaptation of Ubu on the Hill, an 1888 play by Alfred Jarry.
Among his other more important works are G. Courbet, et ses œuvres ( 1878 ); L ' Histoire des Beaux-Arts en Belgique 1830-1887 ( 1887 ); En Allemagne ( 1888 ), dealing especially with the Pinakothek at Munich ; La Belgique ( 1888 ), an elaborate descriptive work with many illustrations ; La Vie belge ( 1905 ); and Alfred Stevens et son œuvre ( 1906 ).
Despite these claims, the assignment of the work to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza was generally accepted, until Alfred Paul Victor Morel-Fatio, in 1888, demonstrated the untenability of that candidate.
Her most famous novel, The Lodger ( 1913 ), based on the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, has been adapted for the screen five different times ; the first movie version was Alfred Hitchcock's silent film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog ( 1927 ), followed by Maurice Elvey's in 1932, John Brahm's in 1944, Man in the Attic in 1953, and David Ondaatje's in 2009.
In 1888 she originally ran with Alfred H. Love, except when he was nominated he wasn't informed of it.
Alfred Ludwig Heinrich Karl Graf von Waldersee ( 8 April 1832, Potsdam – 5 March 1904, Hanover ) was a German Generalfeldmarschall who served as Chief of the Imperial German General Staff from 1888 to 1891 and as Allied Supreme Commander in China in 1900-1901.
Levy also collaborated with Alfred Lacroix in Les Minéraux des roches ( 1888 ) and Tableau des minéraux des roches ( 1889 ).
A few months later he joined the Nobel's mechanical factory owned by a Swede named Ludvig Nobel ( 1831 – 1888 ), brother of Alfred Nobel of Nobel Prize fame, where he worked until 1877.
The Divine Service: Rite One is based on the Danish Ritual of 1685 ; The Divine Service Rite Two is from the Common Service from 1888 ; The Divine Service: Rite Three is a new setting by Dr. Alfred Fremder ; and The Divine Service: Rite Four is the Lutheran " Chorale Mass ".
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