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Boyd's novels include: A Good Man in Africa, a study of a disaster-prone British diplomat operating in West Africa, for which he won the Whitbread Book award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1981 ; An Ice-Cream War, set against the background of the World War I campaigns in colonial East Africa, which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was nominated for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1982 ; Brazzaville Beach, published in 1991, which follows a female scientist researching chimpanzee behaviour in Africa ; and Any Human Heart, written in the form of the journals of a fictitious twentieth century British writer, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2002.
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Works include William Boyd's An Ice-Cream War ; Sebastian Faulks ' Birdsong and The Girl at the Lion d ' Or ( concerned with the War's consequences ); Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy and Sebastian Barry's A Long Long Way.
Examples include Pitman Shorthand, Boyd's Syllabic Shorthand, Samuel Taylor's Universal Stenography, the French Prévost-Delaunay, and the Duployé system, adapted to write the Kamloops Wawa ( used for Chinook Jargon ) writing system.
The reservoirs include Boyd's Corners and West Branch, with the latter being the east-of-Hudson terminus of the Catskill / Delaware system and an important link in the NYC water supply.
These include Harrisburg and Fair Garden to the east and Catlettsburg and Boyd's Creek to the north.
The feature films include: Scoop ( 1987 ), adapted from the Evelyn Waugh novel ; Stars and Bars ( 1988 ), adapted from Boyd's own novel ; Mister Johnson ( 1990 ), based on the 1939 novel by Joyce Cary ; A Good Man in Africa ( 1994 ), also adapted from his own novel ; and The Trench ( 1999 ) which he also directed.
His television screenwriting credits include: Good and Bad at Games ( 1983 ), adapted from Boyd's short story about English public school life ; Dutch Girls ( 1985 ); Armadillo ( 2001 ), adapted from his own novel ; A Waste of Shame ( 2005 ) about Shakespeare ; Any Human Heart ( 2010 ), adapted from his own novel ; and Restless ( 2012 ), also adapted from his own novel.
Other villages include Mattingley, Camps, Hummingbird, West Farm, Boyd's and Stone Fort, also known as Bloody Point, home of the infamous Kalinago Genocide of 1626.
' Boyd's Double ', the first of these to be documented ( found prior to 1905 ), is still the darkest green in colour ; others include ' Cockatoo ', ' Ermine Spiky ' and ' Irish Green '
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By the fourteenth, Greene's army had outrun the British and crossed the Dan River at Irvine's ferry in Halifax County, Virginia with boats being delivered from Boyd's ferry in Halifax and from Dix's ferry in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
Late on 10 November, after a day spent marching under intermittent fire from British gunboats and field guns, Wilkinson set up his headquarters in Cook's Tavern, with Boyd's troops bivouacked in the woods around.
Scott's force was reinforced by the leading troops of Boyd's brigade, which was just landing, and the British were driven back in turn.
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Sensing danger to Boyd's broad definition of individual rights, Justice McKenna dissented in Wilson, declaring that Hughes's distinction between personal and corporate papers was " a limitation by construction " on an important " constitutional security for personal liberty.
Despite another nomination for Best Picture and winning two Oscars for frequent collaborator Russell Boyd's cinematography, and for sound effects editing, the film's box office success was moderate ($ 93 million at the North American Box Office ).
On June 21, 2010, a music video for Boyd's first single from The Wild Trapeze, entitled " Runaway Train ," was released online.
On December 8, 1796, the General Assembly authorized eight commissioners to establish at Boyd's Ferry on the south side of the Dan River the town of South Boston, named for Boston, Massachusetts.
Boyd's acolytes were also largely responsible for developing the Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II or " Warthog " ground-support aircraft, though Boyd himself had little sympathy of the " air-to-mud " assignment.
John Boyd's briefing Patterns of Conflict provided the theoretical foundation for the " defense reform movement " ( DRM ) in the 1970s and 1980s.
Today, younger reformers continue to use Boyd's work as a foundation for evolving theories on strategy, management and leadership.
In summary, the Boyd's Cove Beothuk took debris from an early modern European fishery and refashioned materials for their own purposes.
Subsequently, after the survivors were returned Berry threatened them that they would be taken to Europe in order to answer for their crimes unless they released the Boyd's papers.
The first new productions designed specifically for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre's stage began from April 2011, with Michael Boyd's Macbeth, part of the RSC's 50th Birthday Season celebrations, which run from April to December 2011.
President Kennedy, unaware of Boyd's CIA connection, taps Boyd — now also working for Robert Kennedy's Justice Department civil rights task force — to investigate the Blessington operation and advise whether to implement the CIA's invasion strategy.
The best known is the shot, against a glowing orange background, down the barrel of a loaded. 45 revolver ( belonging to Boyd's grandfather ) and was used by Jonas Mekas for the cover of the April – May – June 2007 Anthology Film Archives catalog.
This village near Canada's capital city of Ottawa was first known as Boyd's Mills, after the proprietor of the local mill on the Bear Brook, first to process white pine lumber, later a grain mill when the land was cleared in the eary 19th century and wheat farming began, later as Eastman's Springs, for Danny Eastman, who built the first inn to lodge travelers.
It is often claimed that Goffin and King were amused by Boyd's individual dancing style, so they wrote " The Loco-Motion " for her and had her record it as a demo ( the record was intended for Dee Dee Sharp ).
Critics have also complimented Boyd's and James ' voice acting for the character in the later installments of the series, though IGN expressed disappointment at the character's reduced lines in The Curse of Monkey Island.
Alexandra Boyd and Charity James have also been praised for their voicing of Elaine ; Computer Games Magazine described Boyd's work for The Curse of Monkey Island as " wonderful ", though lamented that she did not speak more in the game, while Macworld admired the character's depiction in Escape from Monkey Island as " beautiful and plucky ".
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The play was again adapted to the world of gangsters in Don Boyd's 2001 My Kingdom, a version which differs from all others in commencing with the Lear character, Sandeman, played by Richard Harris, in a loving relationship with his wife.
Boyd's key concept was that of the decision cycle or OODA loop, the process by which an entity ( either an individual or an organization ) reacts to an event.
On 2 September, Wilkinson himself had gone to Fort George, which the Americans had captured in May, to arrange the movement of Brigadier General John Parker Boyd's division from Fort George to rendezvous with the troops from Sacket's Harbor.
In 1998, Boyd published Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960, which presents the paintings and tragic biography of a supposed New York-based 1950s abstract expressionist painter named Nat Tate, who actually never existed and was, along with his paintings, a creation of Boyd's.
There is a mausoleum in the cemetery which was established by the widow of Robert 9th Lord Lindsay and is called " Lady Boyd's House " as she subsequently married the 6th Lord Boyd of Kilmarnock.
While natural factors doomed Jamestown, they also literally wiped out Boyd's Ferry, which was virtually entirely destroyed by flooding of the Dan River in Halifax County around 1800.
Boyd's Hawaiian marketing, which extended to the Fremont and Main Street Station with their later acquisitions, is credited with helping to build a large Hawaiian community in Las Vegas, which is sometimes called " the ninth island ".
When the Rangers acquired him from Montreal in the 1991 midseason, it looked like a deal which might lead to a division title, and though Boyd's work with the Expos before coming to Texas wasn't as good ( 6-8, 3. 52 ), it was plenty good enough for the pitching-poor Rangers.
Boyd's successor as Lord Advocate, Elish Angiolini, has agreed to appear before the Fingerprint Inquiry which began on 2 June 2009.
Boyd's record was condemned by the Roman Catholic Church in Boston when it was released on the grounds that it mixed kissing with Christmas, ignoring the fact that mistletoe, under which many couples kiss, is traditionally hung in many homes during the Christmas season.
Another aspect of Boyd's character which has occasionally compromised his impartiality is his weakness for attractive women, at least one of whom turned out to be implicated in a murder investigated by the team.
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* Malcolm Boyd's Book of Days ( Random House, 1968 )
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* Brabson's Ferry Plantation, near Boyd's Creek ; established by Andrew Evans in early 1790s and purchased by John Brabson in 1798.
Ironically, Bobby Kennedy ( learning of Boyd's CIA connection and erratic behavior upon discovering the wire tap ), fingers Boyd as the person trying to set up the president ; he fires Boyd from the Justice Department, severing his ties with the Kennedys, and making an enemy of Boyd.
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