According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu d ' esprit written in just three weeks.

Burgess has stated that the total of 21 chapters was an intentional nod to the age of 21 being recognised as a milestone in human maturation.

The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).

The Burgess Shale was discovered by palaeontologist Charles Walcott in 1909, towards the end of the season's fieldwork.

This vertical cliff was composed of the calcareous reefs of the Cathedral Formation, which probably formed shortly before the deposition of the Burgess Shale.

It was originally thought that the Burgess Shale was deposited in anoxic conditions, but mounting research shows that oxygen was continually present in the sediment.

In 1980, Anthony Burgess, author of Earthly Powers, refused to attend the ceremony unless it was confirmed to him in advance whether he had won.

Disco was an influence on house music, which was also influenced by mixing and editing techniques earlier explored by disco DJs, producers, and audio engineers like Walter Gibbons, Tom Moulton, Jim Burgess, Larry Levan, Ron Hardy, M & M and others who produced longer, more repetitive and percussive arrangements of existing disco recordings.

He was the only child of Mildred Burgess LaRue ( née Noel ) and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., who was the president of a doughnut company.

In 1963, Philby was revealed to be a member of the spy ring now known as the Cambridge Five, the other members of which were Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.

" Yuri Modin, one of the KGB controllers of the Cambridge Five, agreed: " Contrary to received opinion, it was neither Guy Burgess nor one of our own agents who lured Philby into the toils of the Soviet espionage apparatus.

At the same time, Guy Burgess was trying to get her into MI6.

On his first meeting in her office, Philby was surprised to see his old friend from Cambridge, Guy Burgess, who was already working there.

Burgess was fired for " irreverence ", and Philby was appointed as an instructor in the art of clandestine propaganda at the SOE's training establishment in Beaulieu, Hampshire.

Some ten minutes later, Rich returned and sent Burgess out on a short errand.

But all hope wasn't lost for Jess, especially when Jack Burgess, a former co-worker, came back into the picture.

Some scholars, such as Mark Burgess of the Center for Defense Information, trace the roots of Islamic terrorism back to the 11th-century Assassins, an order of Isma ' ili Shi ' ism that targeted political and religious opponents who stood in the way of the Assassins ' sectarian ideology.

Michael Cooper also introduced Southern to the Anthony Burgess novel A Clockwork Orange, and Southern later encouraged Stanley Kubrick to make his film version of the book after MGM refused to back Kubrick's planned film on Napoleon.

The Governor complained to the British Ambassador and Burgess went back to London, in disgrace.

Burgess assembled an exciting young team who finished in mid-table in the League but came back from 3-0 down in the Final of the Middlesex Senior Charity Cup to draw 4-4 with Northwood and win on penalties.

In June 2012, Burgess told Clash Magazine that his new album was due in late September ( later pushed back to an October release date ).

Inspecting the chest, Poirot finds some holes in the back and side and asks Burgess if anything in the room is noticeably different from the night of the party.

He met the San Francisco boheme Les Jeunes around Gelett Burgess and then went back to the Pueblos in spring, to the Hopi and Zuni.

In 2009, Mark Burgess and John Lever reformed to play Chameleons back catalogue material, under the name Chameleons Vox.

Riding on the back of the Two Tone wave, they had two UK Top 10 albums on CBS, both produced and mixed by Richard James Burgess, and two UK Top 10 singles.

* Longleat, Wiltshire, England: hedge maze, designed by Greg Bright, 1978, and mirror maze, designed by Adrian Fisher ; Labyrinth of Love, Renaissance style Rose garden labyrinth designed by Graham Burgess.

* Phrenology by George Burgess ( 1829-1905 ) George Burgess, Phrenologist in Bristol, England 1861-1901.

Also in 2009 Crowe persuaded young England international forward Sam Burgess to sign with the Rabbitohs over other clubs that were competing for his signature, after inviting Burgess and his mother to the set of Robin Hood, which he was filming in England at the time.

He married a daughter of Daniel Burgess, who was Vere's chaplain, and, on his father-in-law's return to England, succeeded to his place.

* Burgess Hill, a town in West Sussex, England, UK

Burgess Hill is a civil parish and a town primarily located in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England, close to the border with East Sussex, on the edge of the South Downs National Park.

Realizing he had to act fast, he ordered Burgess, who was on the embassy staff as well and living with Philby, to warn Maclean in England, where he was serving in the Foreign Office headquarters.

Focuses on and gives complete text of letter written in August 1835 by John Russell, resident of Sherburne, to Mr. Thomas Burgess in Burwash, Sussex, England.

Burgess had no Welsh connections ; he was born in England in 1756 and, after Winchester and Oxford, he had short stays in Salisbury and Durham before being appointed to his first bishopric in Wales in 1803.

Born in Boston, Burgess was " raised among staid, conservative New England gentry ".

There is some debate as to why Burgess was asked to accompany Maclean, and whether he was misled about the prospect for him returning to England.

Burgess was bribed by Jonathan Belcher and Jeremiah Dummer, the brother of Dudley's son-in-law William, to resign his commission in April 1716 without leaving England, and a new commission was issued to Samuel Shute, who promised to oppose attempts to introduce the land bank.

In the aftermath of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, Londoner A. H. Burgess, with the aid of Thomas Hughes, drew up what would be called the " English Book Donation ," which proposed that England should provide a free library to the burnt-out city.

" Burgess wrote on December 7, 1871 in the London Daily News that " I propose that England should present a Free Library to Chicago, to remain there as a mark of sympathy now, and a keepsake and a token of true brotherly kindness forever ..."

Timothy Allan Burgess ( born 30 May 1967, Salford, England ) is the lead singer of the British rock / indie act The Charlatans.

As Burgess was living in Los Angeles, California, far away from the other band members who still lived in England, fans feared that The Charlatans may split following the release of I Believe, but the band reformed to record Up at the Lake in 2004.

Influenced by key members like Thomas Burgess and Granville Penn, the Society also resolved to reform farriery and animal care by establishing a school to teach veterinary science in England.

Burgess was capped four times for England.

Burgess Hill railway station serves Burgess Hill in West Sussex, England.