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Burton showed a talent for English and Welsh literature at grammar school, and demonstrated an excellent memory, though his consuming interest was sports – rugby ( in fact famous Welsh centre Bleddyn Williams said in his autobiography that Burton could have gone far as a player ), cricket, and table tennis He later said, " I would rather have played for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park than Hamlet at the Old Vic.
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Burton showed a subtle flair for comedy in a 1970 guest appearance with Elizabeth Taylor on the sitcom Here's Lucy, where he recited, in a plumber's uniform, a haunting excerpt of a speech from Shakespeare's Richard II.
In February 2007, a review by the Indianapolis Star of votes in the House of Representatives for the past decade showed that Burton had missed all votes during the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic golf tournament for five years between 2001 and 2007.
He created concept art and storyboards for the project in collaboration with Rick Heinrichs, who also sculpted character models ; Burton later showed his and Heinrichs ' works-in-progress to Henry Selick, also a Disney animator at the time.
In contrast, Burton showed sympathy to the various police officers who gave evidence, despite their inconsistencies.
McDougall left the band in 1974 after the album Road Food was completed, but he showed up as the lead singer of a reformed Guess Who ( minus Burton Cummings ) in the late 1970s and into the 1980s.
For the first time in the weekend's history, all of the scoring information was not made public or announced to the student body and the scoring that was made public showed Case Hall ahead of Burton in points.
Burton and talent
Philip Burton, recognising Richard's talent, then adopted him as his ward and Richard returned to school, and, being older than most of the boys, he was very attractive to some of the girls.
Afterwards, the camera panned to show many of the on-air talent and company executives standing ( rather solemnly ) as their names were displayed on-screen and the " Southern Fantasia " ( composed especially for the show by Jonathan Burton, and performed earlier on in the programme ) played in Southern Television's final two minutes.
Lerner and Loewe, impressed by Goulet's talent, signed the virtual newcomer to play the part, opposite Richard Burton ( King Arthur ) and Julie Andrews ( Queen Guenevere ).
Al Burton, creator of the American gameshow Win Ben Stein's Money, had approached Ant & Dec's talent agency with a proposal for a new reality television show entitled Ant & Dec Get Killed ( after the film Penn & Teller Get Killed ), in which the two scheme to murder one another, framed with a lighthearted soundtrack and canned laughter.
Burton received negative public reaction and narrowly escaped being charged with several accounts of premeditated murder in British courts, and Ant & Dec refused the offer from the talent agency.
While in Athens, Burton took second place in a 1998 talent contest and was asked to open for a concert at the University of Georgia featuring OutKast and Goodie Mob.
Zenith appeared in August 1987 during a period when editor and assistant editor, Steve MacManus and Richard Burton respectively, were shaking up 2000 AD by publishing numerous new stories which gave new talent a chance.
Burton and for
Still existing on a `` Northern Union '' telegraph form is a typical peremptory message from Peru grocer J. J. Hapgood to Burton and Graves' store in Manchester -- `` Get and send by stage four pounds best Porterhouse or serloin stake, for Mrs. Hapgood send six sweet oranges ''.
For he remembered too well how he had brought back the loaded drinks to Burton and then returned to the kitchen to get weaker drinks for himself.
In the 2006 case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Ballard v. Burton, Judge Carl E. Stewart writing for the Court held that an Alford guilty plea is a " variation of an ordinary guilty plea ".
In 1965 Lerner collaborated again with Burton Lane on the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, which was adapted for film in 1970.
Burton Stephen " Burt " Lancaster ( November 2, 1913-October 20, 1994 ) was an American film actor noted for his athletic physique, blue eyes and distinctive smile ( which he called " The Grin ").
Burton ’ s fictional detective relies on practical methods-dogged legwork, knowledge of the underworld and undercover surveillance-rather than brilliance of imagination or intellect, but it has been suggested this story may have been known to Poe, who in 1839 worked for Burton.
He has scored the majority of the films for his long-time friend Tim Burton.
In 1985, Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
" About two-thirds of the soldiers were unmarried, and Burton noted a "... corps of prostitutes kept for the use of the Amazon-soldieresses.
Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.
His visit to say goodbye to BBC producer Philip Burton, a few days before he left for New York, was interrupted by a blackout.
Most Muslim scholars have regarded the story as historically implausible, while opinion is divided among western scholars such as Leone Caetani and John Burton, who argue against, and William Muir and William Montgomery Watt, who argue for its plausibility.
Richard Burton received his third Tony Award nomination when he played his second Hamlet, his first under John Gielgud's direction, in 1964 in a production that holds the record for the longest run of the play in Broadway history ( 136 performances ).
The performance was set on a bare stage, conceived to appear like a dress rehearsal, with Burton in a black v-neck sweater, and Gielgud himself tape-recorded the voice for the Ghost ( which appeared as a looming shadow ).
In 1938, G. E. Taylor, a South African tourist, filmed something in the loch for three minutes on 16 mm colour film, which was in the possession of Maurice Burton.
In a 1982 series of articles for New Scientist, Dr Maurice Burton proposed that sightings of Nessie and similar creatures could actually be fermenting logs of Scots pine rising to the surface of the loch's cold waters.
Avicenna suggests, in remarkable similarity with Robert Burton, many causes for melancholy, including the fear of death, intrigues surrounding one's life, and lost love.
14 March 1321 / 1322 ), died following the Battle of Burton Bridge, then was posthumously executed for treason by Edward II
Several rings were built in Europe during the five years that it took to obtain funding for the project, but the extensive project revisions resulted in a superior design that was quickly constructed and paved the way for Nobel Prizes in 1976 for Burton Richter and in 1995 for Martin Perl.
The argument that the textures achieved with CGI cannot match the way real textures are captured by stop motion also makes it valuable for a handful of movie makers, notably Tim Burton, whose puppet-animated film Corpse Bride was released in 2005.
Burton and English
The last English translation of the novel in the 20th century was by Burton Raffel, published in 1996.
* 1937 – Beryl Burton, English cyclist ( d. 1996 )
* 1800 – Decimus Burton, English architect, designed the Pharos Lighthouse ( d. 1881 )
Lacerda died within a few weeks of arriving at Kazembe ’ s but left a valuable journal which was carried back to Tete by his priest and which was later translated into English by the explorer Sir Richard Burton.
* January 25 – Robert Burton, English scholar ( b. 1577 )
* February 8 – Robert Burton, English scholar ( d. 1640 )
In the introduction to her own translation, Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, writes that Burton " managed to get a rough approximation of the text published in English in 1883, nasty bits and all ".
* 1885 – 1888 – Sir Richard Francis Burton publishes an English translation from several sources ( largely the same as Payne ).
In Desert Rats ( 1953 ), Burton plays a young English captain in the North African campaign during World War II who takes charge of a hopelessly out-numbered Australian unit against the indomitable Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ( James Mason ).
When English Football League Two side Burton Albion Football Club built their new stadium in 2005, Pirelli became the title sponsor the new ground.
The Burton United team of 1906 – 07 in English football | 1906 – 07
Burton United Football Club was an English football club from Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire that played in The Football League between 1901 and 1907, before folding in 1910.
In Kingdom Hearts II, Yen Sid is given a speaking role and is voiced in English by Corey Burton.
His English voice actor is Corey Burton.
Joe Jackson ( born David Ian Jackson, 11 August 1954, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire ) is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001.
Robert Burton ( 8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640 ) was an English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy.
The book has continued as a favourite among many 20th and 21st-century authors, such as Anthony Burgess ( who said " Most modern books weary me, but Burton never does "), William H. Gass ( who wrote the introduction to the 2001 omnibus edition ), and Llewelyn Powys ( who dubbed it " the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing ").
The person generally attributed to having used the word in English is Sir Richard Francis Burton, the famous explorer.
A version of local color regionalism that focused on minority experiences can be seen in the works of Charles W. Chesnutt ( African American ), of María Ruiz de Burton, one of the earliest Mexican American novelists to write in English, and in the Yiddish-inflected works of Abraham Cahan.
Voiced by Corey Burton in English and Minoru Inaba in Japanese.
* Richard Francis Burton ( 1821 – 1890 ) – English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat ; known for his travels and explorations within Asia and Africa as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures ; according to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian, and African languages.
Burton is also the location of the English National Football Centre, due to be opened in 2012.
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