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.

* 1986: " Shortcut To Somewhere " on the album Soundtracks by Tony Banks, lead vocals by Fish, produced by Richard James Burgess

Starring in the lead roles were relative Hollywood newcomer Burgess Meredith as George, and veteran actor Lon Chaney Jr. ( the son of famed silent film actor Lon Chaney Sr .) as Lennie.

* Tim Burgess ( b. 6 October 1961, Macclesfield ) – percussionist, drummer ; not the Charlatans ' lead singer, but previously in Solid Air around 1980 with 3 school friends.

In 1959, he played Homer McCauley, the dramatic lead, in a television adaptation of William Saroyan's novel, The Human Comedy, production narrated by Burgess Meredith.

His performance in If .... caught the attention of Stanley Kubrick, who cast McDowell as the lead in A Clockwork Orange, adapted from the novel of the same name by Anthony Burgess.

Both Manda and Burgess toured with Morcheeba as lead singers on their 2008 tour.

This is because the band relocated to the home town of new lead singer Tim Burgess ( who lived in Northwich ) before the 1990 release of The Charlatans ' debut single " Indian Rope ", on the band's own Dead Dead Good Records label.

Also in 1993, the Xmas 93 EP featured Tim Burgess from The Charlatans on the lead track " I Was Born on Christmas Day.

Today, a lineup led by original drummer Tim Corwin on lead vocals, John Baker lead guitar, Guy Hoffman bass, David Haag on drums, Jeff Burgess Keyboard and Warren Sawyer on rhythm guitar and keyboards tours the oldies circuit with their bubblegum classics.

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

The Charlatans ' lead singer Tim Burgess is a notable fan of the band and has cited Power, Corruption and Lies as his favourite album.

They gave their carpet bags of lead shot to a porter, who in turn gave them to the guard, Burgess, who put them in his van.

The song features The Charlatans lead singer Tim Burgess on vocals.

It was first presented on any stage in Cleveland, Ohio, in December 1936, with Burgess Meredith ( Anderson's neighbor in Rockland County ) and Peggy Ashcroft in the lead roles.

An August 14, 2005 Honolulu Advertiser article reported that Burgess is both lead attorney for Aloha for All and legal counsel for the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, a second non-profit which has gained prominence through its intense lobbying campaign against the Akaka Bill.

In the studio that day were Burgess on rhythm guitar, Cliff Hills on bass guitar, the Flores Trio ( Danny Flores on saxophone and keyboards, Gene Alden on drums, and lead guitarist Buddy Bruce ), and Huelyn Duvall contributing backing vocals.

West has stated that the voice for Farnsworth is meant to be a bit shaky and that when developing the voice he came up with " a combination of all the wizard-type characters you heard when you were a kid, Burgess Meredith and Frank Morgan in The Wizard of Oz.

Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Hans Werner Henze, William Walton, Igor Stravinsky, and Anthony Burgess also composed works for her voice.

William B. Davis of The X-Files is a member of the voice cast, but Brooke Burgess, creator of Broken Saints, confirmed that the Morley cigarettes were in the original series " WELL before Bill signed on — but he liked the nod, none-the-less.

The first is a series of essays and interviews ( Burgess is the voice of the interviewer and the interviewee ) discussing aspects of Orwell's book.

Sarah Burgess ( born 7 June 1970 ) is a puppeteer, actress and vocal artist whose roles include Trixie on the television series LazyTown, the voice of Stingy for the UK version of Lazytown, Brassy in the CBeebies series Space Pirates, puppeteer on the West End production of Doctor Dolittle and has performed as an actress and puppeteer in many productions for the Little Angel Puppet Theatre in the UK.

Lewis Tower would win election as Sauk Village's 6th mayor by a 2 to 1 majority over Village Trustee Derrick Burgess in April, 2009 and has become the first African-American to serve as Mayor.

When, in 1747, the Associate Synod, by a narrow majority, decided not to give full immediate effect to a judgment which had been passed in the previous year against the lawfulness of the Burgess Oath, Gib led the protesting minority, who broke off and formed the Antiburgher Synod ( April 10 ) in his own house in Edinburgh.

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.

* Cambridge Spies, a 2003 four-part BBC drama, recounts the lives of Philby, Burgess, Blunt, and Maclean from their Cambridge days in the 1930s through the defection of Burgess and Maclean in 1951.

* Manchee, W. H. ( 1924 ), The Westminster City Fathers ( the Burgess Court of Westminster ) 1585 – 1901: Being some account of their powers and domestic rule of the City prior to its incorporation in 1901 ; with a foreword by Walter G. Bell and 36 illustrations which relate to documents ( some pull-outs ) and artefacts.

Stem-group Priapulids are known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess shale, where their soft-part anatomy is preserved, often in conjunction with their gut contents – allowing a reconstruction of their diets.

However, many of Burgess ' loan-words, such as devochka (" girl ") and droog (" friend ") maintained both their relative spelling and meaning over the course of translation.

Among our members now living are Mr. Douglas Inglis of Worcester, Mass., Mr. Raymand Cave of Watertown Mass., Dr. Stanton Burgess of Boston Mass., Mr. George Murry of Quincy Mass., Mr. Ronald Cragg, last known address in Pennsylvania, James Grearson Sr. of this city, Mr. William Cheeney of Northfield, Vt. Other members of our troups I now recall their names ere Carl and Earl Burgess, brothers of the above mentioned doctor.

Author Anthony Burgess argued for the Gormenghast novels ' status as a major classic of the Twentieth century ; resounding with horrible images drawn from a century of war ; the Holocaust in Sepulchrave's library ; the attaching of a calf's skull to Sourdust's skeleton ; Flay and Swelter enacting their danse macabre in the hall of Spiders.

" Samuel L. French, who was Burgess of Plymouth when this letter was published, mentioned the Molly Maguires in his history, Reminiscences of Plymouth, Pa., writing that " one of their number named Dunleavy was mysteriously shot one evening in a saloon on East Main Street, which incident had the effect of putting a quietus on the band in Plymouth.

I was Burgess at the time and a committee of representative citizens reported to me, their fears of contemplated incendiarism against certain of the properties located here and connected with mining industries, and requested me to officially invoke protection from the State.

The first edition of Anthony Burgess ' novel The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End, feature their drawings before the start of each chapter.

Burgess Hill Rugby Football Club, or The Sussex All Blacks, are the local Rugby Football club, playing their home games close to Southway Primary School.

Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Tony Burton, Burgess Meredith, Burt Young and Talia Shire reprised their original roles.

A variety of primordial marine arthropods left their remains in this Burgess shale type preservation, but the larger grain size of the Emu Bay rock means that the quality of preservation is lower.

After changing their name to Manfred Mann at the behest of their label's producer John Burgess, the group signed with His Master's Voice in March 1963 and began their recorded output that July with the slow, bluesy instrumental single " Why Should We Not ?".

* The Copper Treasure-a 1998 book for teenagers by Melvin Burgess describing three 19th century mudlarks and their struggle to successfully transport a roll of stolen copper.

* Burgess, Maclean and Philby appear in the Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Endgame dealing with their defection to Russia.

In her later years, Jones lived with her friends Walter and Lillie May Burgess, on their farm in what is now Adelphi, Maryland.

The spies Guy Burgess and Kim Philby, seeking to disguise their Communist affiliations, joined the AGF in the knowledge that it was widely perceived as allied to the far right.

Rob Newman admits to growing his hair to look like Mark Gardener and Tim Burgess, out of respective bands Ride and The Charlatans, and while praising their musical accomplishments he demonstrates why you wouldn't want to ' hang out with them ' in several scenarios.