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Liverpool features in the film The 51st State ( also known as Formula 51 ), in which ex-hitman Felix DeSouza ( Robert Carlyle ) is a keen supporter of the team and the last scene takes place at a match between Liverpool and Manchester United.
From London he also wrote an endless series of letters to his agents in Europe and South America, and made friends with Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Along with Eslinger and Damasio ’ s experiment on patient E. V. R., Carlyle Jacobsen and John Fulton also experimented on chimpanzees involving the removal of the tissue from the frontal lobe ,< ref >" Lobotomy ".
In 1917, the band made the first appearance of a jazz band in a motion picture, a silent movie entitled, The Good for Nothing ( 1917 ), directed by Carlyle Blackwell, who also played the lead role as Jack Burkshaw.
Thomas Carlyle, in his Sartor Resartus ( 1834 ), compares its hero Diogenes Teufelsdroeckh on several occasions to the Wandering Jew, ( also using the German wording ' der ewige Jude ').
Carlyle is a major holder of a company called Synagro, a controvercial company that spreads marginally treated human waste, also known as sludge, on farm fields to grow food for the American dinner plate.
Carlyle also has provided detail on its links with the Bin Laden family, specifically the relatively minor investments by an estranged half brother.
The Iron Triangle also talks about links with the Bin Laden family ; the documentatry makes claims that Carlyle bought political favor to get investment dollars and arms sales to the middle east.
Reynolds Co .' s success during this period can also be measured by the concurrent success of many Winston-Salem companies which received large amounts of business from Reynolds: Wachovia National Bank became one of the largest banks in the Southeast, and the company's law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice became the largest law firm in North Carolina.
Carlyle was also influenced by him.
Some people, such as the following authors, have inferred, insinuated, or suggested that entering a state of perpetual war becomes progressively easier in a modern democratic republic, such as the United States, due to the development of a relationship network between people who wield political and economic power also owning capital in companies that financially profit from war, lobby for war, and influence public opinion of war through influence of Mass media outlets that control the presentation for the causes of war, the effects of war, and the Censorship of war: ( 1 ) " The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group " ( 2004 )" by Dan Briody ; ( 2 ) " The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It " ( 2011 ) an anthology by nine authors who are Pierre M. Sprey, George Wilson, Franklin C. Spinney, Bruce I. Gudmundsson, Col. G. I. Wilson, Col. Chet Richards, Andrew Cockburn, Thomas Christie, and Winslow T. Wheeler ; ( 3 ) " Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex " ( 2010 ), by William D. Hartung ; ( 4 ) " Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda ( 2002 ), by Noam Chomsky ; and ( 5 ) " Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media " ( 2002 ), by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky.
Froude's historical writing was characterised by its dramatic rather than scientific treatment of history, an approach Froude shared with Carlyle, and also by Froude's intention to defend the English Reformation ( which he asserted was " the hinge on which all modern history turned " and the " salvation of England ") against the interpretations of Catholic historians.
Mrs. A. Carlyle also made claims of ownership over her uncle's papers, and over the profits from their publication.
Froude wrote his Life of Carlyle according to what he understood as Carlyle's own biographical principles, describing not only Carlyle's intellectual greatness but also his personal failings.
Chelsea was also home to writers such as George Meredith, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Leigh Hunt, and Thomas Carlyle.
He has also had to deal with another usurper, in the form of an arrogant young businessman and con artist named Carlyle, who pretended to employ Octavius at his company.
Grundtvig holds a unique position in the cultural history of his country ; he has been styled the Danish Carlyle and he might also be compared to Emerson.
The undoubted passion and intensity of the text may also be due to the famous incident where he sent the completed draft of the first volume to John Stuart Mill for comment, only for Mill's maid to accidentally burn the volume to ashes, forcing Carlyle to start from scratch.
( Confusingly, Irving was also influential in the life of another Scottish Thomas Carlyle, born a few years later, whom he eventually gave a position of some responsibility within his new church.
The 51st State ( also known as Formula 51 ) is a 2001 Canadian-British action comedy film The film stars Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, Ricky Tomlinson, Sean Pertwee, Rhys Ifans and Meat Loaf.
It is also impounded in Clinton County southwest of Vandalia to form Carlyle Lake.
He also served a Co-Chairman and Director of Baker & Taylor Holdings Inc., an international distribution company ( books, video and software ) and e-commerce company that was majority owned by the Carlyle Group.
In 2002, she had a major role in The 51st State ( also known as Formula 51 ), starring opposite Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle.
The park also contains statues of physicist Lord Kelvin, writer Thomas Carlyle, Field Marshal Lord Roberts and chemist Joseph Lister, as well as memorials to local regiments the Cameronians and the Highland Light Infantry.

Carlyle and study
As a teacher, Jameson had a mixed reputation for imparting enthusiasm to his students ; Thomas Carlyle, who gave serious attention to Natural History, described Jameson's lecturing style as a " blizzard of facts " and Charles Darwin apparently found the lectures boring, saying that they determined him " never to attend to the study of geology ".
The house is made up of four floors — a basement which houses the kitchen, the ground floor which was the Carlyles ' parlour, the first floor where the drawing room / library and Jane's bedroom are found, the second floor which was Thomas ' bedroom and is now the Custodian's residence, and the attic, which was converted into a study in an attempt to remove Carlyle from the constant noise of the street and neighbours.

Carlyle and great
Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.
The theory was popularized in the 1840s by Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle, and in 1860 Herbert Spencer formulated a counter-argument that has remained influential throughout the 20th century to the present ; Spencer said that such great men are the products of their societies, and that their actions would be impossible without the social conditions built before their lifetimes.
Carlyle stated that " The history of the world is but the biography of great men ", reflecting his belief that heroes shape history through both their personal attributes and divine inspiration.
He believed that the men Carlyle called " great men " were merely products of their social environment.
Social scientists argued that history was more than the result of intervention of great men as Carlyle suggested.
; and in 1810, on the recommendation of Sir John Leslie, he was chosen master of an academy newly established at Haddington, East Lothian, where he became the tutor of Jane Welsh, afterwards famous as Mrs Carlyle, one of the great letter-writers of the nineteenth century.
To Thomas Carlyle in On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History ( 1841 ), Shakespeare was one of the great poet-heroes of history, in the sense of being a " rallying-sign " for British cultural patriotism all over the world, including even the lost American colonies: " From Paramatta, from New York, wheresoever … English men and women are, they will say to one another, ' Yes, this Shakespeare is ours ; we produced him, we speak and think by him ; we are of one blood and kind with him '" (" The Poet as Hero ").
As the foremost of the great canonical writers, the jewel of English culture, and as Carlyle puts it, " merely as a real, marketable, tangibly useful possession ", Shakespeare became in the 19th century a means of creating a common heritage for the motherland and all her colonies.
Macaulay's view that the book was great because of the baseness of Boswell was brushed aside by Carlyle (" Falser hypothesis, we may venture to say, never rose in human soul "):
Both the book's title and its subtitle were phrases taken from the writing of Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish social critic and a great hero to Fitzhugh's generation of proslavery thinkers.
One other great influence appears in the admirable Life of St Bernard, which he published in 1863, that of his friend Carlyle, to whom the work is dedicated, and with whose style it is strongly colored.

Carlyle and men
In his book On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, Carlyle set out how he saw history as having turned on the decisions of " heroes ", giving detailed analysis of the influence of several such men ( including Muhammad, Shakespeare, Luther, Rousseau, and Napoleon ).
In Heroes and Hero Worship ( 1841 ), Carlyle identified the talents, skills, and physical characteristics of men who rose to power.
Apart from the Churches, men like Carlyle and Matthew Arnold -- with whom he had much in common -- influenced him ; while Herbert Spencer in England and Auguste Comte in France afforded the antithesis needful to the dialectical development of his own views.
Dr Alexander Carlyle ; containing memorials of the men and events of his time ( 1861 ), from Internet Archive
From 1856 to 1874 Norton spent much time in travel and residence on the continent of Europe and in England, and it was during this period that his friendships began with Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Edward FitzGerald and Leslie Stephen, an intimacy which did much to bring American and English men of letters into close personal relation.
It obtained immediate recognition, making Forster a prominent figure in a distinguished circle of literary men which included Leigh Hunt, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Albany Fonblanque, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens.
Aird was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he met John Wilson, Thomas Carlyle and James Hogg, as well as other men of letters.
( This is not Thomas Carlyle the essayist ( 1795 – 1881 ), although Irving knew both men.
It was founded in 1841 by a group of men who included Thomas Carlyle, who was dissatisfied with some of the policies at the British Library.
The field marshal never spared himself, bivouacking in the snow with his men, and Carlyle records that private soldiers made rough shelters over him as he slept.
The name was derived from an aphorism of Victorian writer Thomas Carlyle: " A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one ".
A marble slab was arranged, with words by Thomas Carlyle: " one of the sincerest, truest and most modest of men ".

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