Mr. Clifton would have preferred death and bankruptcy to having his son stay with his wife's people without contributing to his and his family's upkeep, and besides that there were the things that had to be bought for the baby, milk and orange juice and vitamins and soap, just plain soap.

The earliest academic studies of contemporary Paganism were published in the late 1970s and 1980s by scholars like Margot Adler, Marcello Truzzi and Tanya Luhrmann, although it would not be until the 1990s that the actual multidisciplinary academic field of Pagan studies properly developed, pioneered by academics such as Graham Harvey and Chas S. Clifton.

News programs interviewed Clifton as Kaufman's opening act, but the interviews invariably would turn ugly whenever Kaufman's name came up.

Promoters who thought they had caught on to the joke would hire Clifton because he was cheaper than booking Kaufman.

It was announced on May 16, 2008 that Comic Relief, in recognition of the 24th anniversary of Andy Kaufman's departure, would present " The Return of Tony Clifton ", with his Katrina Kiss My Ass Orchestra.

Clifton decided to bring Bow with him and offered her $ 50 a week, but added he couldn't say whether or not she would " fit the part ".

Clifton Springs, Australia, was also named for its local mineral springs, which would be found around Fairy Dell, if it were not closed due to possible landslips.

On reaching Penrith, the advanced portion of his army was repulsed on Clifton Moor in December 1745, and Cumberland became aware that an attempt to overtake the retreating Highlanders would be hopeless.

Actor Robert Wagner, who co-starred with Webb in the movies Stars and Stripes Forever and Titanic and considered the actor one of his mentors, stated in his memoirs, Pieces of My Heart: A Life, that " Clifton Webb was gay, of course, but he never made a pass at me, not that he would have.

" Clifton Chenier, Rockin ' Sidney and Queen Ida all garnered Grammy awards during this pivotal period, opening the door to emerging artists who would continue the traditions.

Clifton and Frank Sherman founded Dominion Foundries and Steel in 1912, creating a giant that would bring prosperity and identity to the city of Hamilton, Ontario.

Wagons would in future be exchanged at Yeovil Town, but the GWR had to build a road for Mr Paul, the owner of a private siding which had connected with their line, so that he could bring his goods to the Clifton Maybank platform instead which was still served by the SR.

The comic book hero Colonel Clifton, who is retired from the RAF, is an example of this — his proper rank would be that of Group Captain.

In 1928, Lawrence returned to Broadway opposite Clifton Webb in Treasure Girl, a Gershwin work she was confident would be a huge hit.

In the 1850s, the land that would become Clifton Hill was crown land, but unincorporated, serviced by unsurveyed tracks leading to Northcote and bounded by the surveyed roads of Heidelberg Road and Hoddle Street, which provided access to private quarries in the area, which is between Ramsden and Roseneath Streets, Clifton Hill now days, as well as the City of Melbourne quarry, located between Yambla Street and the Merri Creek.

Henry Groom, a City of Melbourne Councillor, declared, not surprisingly, " The freeholders of Clifton Hill have no desire to depreciate the value of their property by suffering it to be annexed to a swamp which to drain itself would drain our resources.

In some passages characters debate whether Clifton could ever become viable and whether investment in real estate there would not be too risky-questions which were evidently quite relevant at the time though to the modern reader the answers are obvious.

The assistant charity commissioner proposed a scheme that would reorganise the objectives of the endowed schools and secure funding for the Grammar School and the new Clifton High School for Girls.

The locomotive would then have to change ends and the train return to Clifton Hill station, where it diverged east on the line to Heidelberg.

She was a contestant on the Dick Clark-hosted $ 25, 000 Pyramid and would later appear as a panelist on Super Password, including Nathan Cook, Richard Kline, Jamie Farr, Tom Villard, Dick Gautier, Edwin Newman, Nichelle Nichols, Clifton Davis, Stephen Furst and Bert Convy.

" Clifton told the national press that while he and the reporters involved in the story were willing to be jailed for not revealing sources, the legal department of the Plain Dealer Publishing Company was worried that the newspaper itself would be sued and strongly opposed the printing of the stories.

After much speculation it was announced in December 2011 that the Titans would remain at Clifton Lane for the foreseeable future due to the deal falling through.

Prior to the construction of the Eden Valley Railway, in the 1840s, several schemes had been proposed which would have run to the Eden Valley ; one was the York & Carlisle Junction Railway, backed by the Great North of England Railway, which would have run from Northallerton to Barnard Castle then across the Pennines to Kirkby Stephen, after which two branches would have been formed to connect with the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway ; one to Tebay and the other to Clifton.

Tony Clifton is a fictitious character created and often played by stand up comedian Andy Kaufman in the late 1970s.

By the age of nineteen, using the name Clifton Webb, he had become a professional ballroom dancer, often partnering " exceedingly decorative " star dancer Bonnie Glass ( she eventually replaced him with Rudolph Valentino ), and performed in about two dozen operettas before debuting on Broadway as Bosco in The Purple Road, which opened at the Liberty Theatre on April 7, 1913, and ran for 136 performances before closing in August.

His familiar letters ( edited in two volumes by an old friend, Mr ST Irwin, in 1900 ) bear witness to the zest he carried back to his native country, although his thoughts often reverted to Clifton.

A parody of show biz entitlement and excess, Clifton is untalented, lazy ( often not bothering to remember the words to the songs ), and abusive to his audiences.

Housing is largely large Victorian terraces, which are often painted bright colours-the coloured houses one can see when standing on Bristol's harbourside and looking up at Cliftonwood are the backs of houses on Ambrose Road and Clifton Wood Terrace.

") Partridge can also often be seen bickering with DJ Dave Clifton ( played by Phil Cornwell ), who takes the slots after his own in both series of the show.

From the show's inception to series 26, episode 16, the city exterior is represented by Bristol, and well-known landmarks such as the floating harbour and Clifton Suspension Bridge are often visible in outdoor scenes.

Clifton Springs is often grouped with its neighbouring town, Drysdale.

Following the gang's escape, and eventual disbandment, a bounty of $ 3, 500 was placed on Clifton becoming popularly known as the " most killed outlaw in America ", as posses would constantly turn in a shot up corpse claiming the body as Clifton despite the fact the bodies had all ten fingers while others, who would randomly cut off three fingers, would often cut the wrong ones.

The local Pennant sandstone is frequently used as walling material, often with limestone dressings, as found on the old Temple Meads railway station and Clifton Down railway station.

This entire area is often generically ( and incorrectly ) referred to as " Clifton " despite being several distinct and separate neighborhoods.

It is divided between the municipalities of Ridley Township, Pennsylvania and Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania and is often confused with Clifton Heights, PA because the latter shares the zip code.

There are two goal posts 3 miles apart, one at Sturston Mill ( where the Up ' Ards attempt to score ), the other at Clifton Mill ( where the Down ' Ards score ).

A independent community, residents have previously conducted high profile campaigns in an attempt to retain the rural identity as a village and prevent it being subsumed into the adjoining suburban districts of Clifton and West Bridgford.

Clifton epitomized the washed-up showbiz casualty, a " star " too lazy to even bother to remember the lyrics to his songs.

Geoffrey and Katharine Clifton were based on Sir Robert Clayton East-Clayton, 9th Baronet of Marden, and 5th Baronet of Hall Place, Maidenhead, and his wife, Dorothy, both of whom were dead by the time the novel takes place.

The first modern bungee jumps were made on 1 April 1979 from the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, by members of the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club.

Clifton took the optical print and bleeped the words, meaning the words were inaudible and the film was given an appropriate rating.

Clifton, realising that there were crucial holes in the concert footage, suggested that the entire show be recreated at Shepperton Studios in August 1974, on a mock-up of the Madison Square Garden stage.

Both were made with a view to winning support for the British war effort, especially in the U. S. Niven's Film Unit work included a small part in the deception operation that used minor actor M. E. Clifton James to impersonate Field Marshal Montgomery.

This group generally consists of those who were playing during the " Golden Age " in the 1950s, including Wade Mainer and his Mountaineers, Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, the Stanley Brothers, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs with the Foggy Mountain Boys, Hylo Brown and The Timberliners, Ervin T. Rouse, who wrote the standard " Orange Blossom Special ", Reno and Smiley, the Sauceman Brothers, Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, Jim & Jesse, Jimmy Martin and the Osborne Brothers, Red Allen ( who also recorded with the Osborne Brothers for MGM in the mid-fifties ), Mac Wiseman, Mac Martin and the Dixie Travelers, Carl Story and his Rambling Mountaineers, Buzz Busby, The Lilly Brothers, Bill Clifton and Jim Eanes.

In 1860, Brunel's Hungerford suspension bridge, over the Thames in London, was demolished to make way for a new railway bridge to Charing Cross railway station, and its chains were purchased for use at Clifton.

With over 3, 300 students enrolled at Clifton High School, it is the largest single facility high school in New Jersey ; Elizabeth High School had more students, but they were spread over multiple campuses before the school was split into separate academies.

* Many scenes from The Sopranos were filmed in town, including the parking lot of the Valley Regency on Valley Road, Main Memorial Park, and Clifton High School.

The first settlements in what is now Clifton Park were established in the 17th century.

Country Knolls ( North ), Country Knolls South, and the earlier Clifton Knolls were built by the local Clifton Park housing development company owned by Robert Van Patten.

As railroads were quickly replacing flatboats as the preferred mode of transportation and shipping in East Tennessee, the residents of New Port sought to build the new Cocke County Courthouse in Clifton.

The borough was expanded in 1937 when Clifton CP, Hipperholme UD, Norwood Green and Coley CP and part of Southowram UD were added.

Some notable musicians who were members of the orchestra include violinists Samuel Antek, Henry Clifton, Felix Galimir, Josef Gingold, Daniel Guilet ( concertmaster 1952-54 ), Harry Lookofsky, Mischa Mischakoff ( concertmaster 1937-1952 ), Albert Pratz, David Sarser, Oscar Shumsky, Herman Spielberg and Andor Toth ; violists Carlton Cooley, Milton Katims, William Primrose, and Tibor Serly ; cellists Frank Miller, Leonard Rose, Harvey Shapiro and Alan Shulman ; double bassists Homer Mensch and Oscar G. Zimmerman ; flutists Carmine Coppola, Arthur Lora and Paul Renzi ; clarinetists Augustin Duques, Al Gallodoro, David Weber and Alexander Williams ; saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer ; oboists Robert Bloom and Paolo Renzi ; bassoonists Elias Carmen, Benjamin Kohon, William Polisi, Leonard Sharrow and Arthur Weisberg ; French horn players Arthur Berv, Harry Berv, Jack Berv and Albert Stagliano ; and tuba player William Bell, among others.

The population in Clifton Ward was 12, 017 of which 91. 1 % were born in England and 4. 9 % from outside the United Kingdom.

In 1878 the girls were transferred to the new Clifton girls ' school and Burton Lane continued as an infants ' school until 1892 when they rejoined the girls school.

The Brook Street premises were closed in 1909 and pupils transferred to a new school building, on a 5½ acre site on Queen Anne's Road, Clifton.

The first zydeco vest frottoir ( rubboard ) was designed by Clifton Chenier, the " King of Zydeco ," in 1946 while he and his brother, Cleveland, were working at an oil refinery in Port Arthur, TX.

Clifton Ward suggested that weathering with earthquakes as a secondary agent could be responsible, while J E Marr and R A Daly believed that earthquakes were unnecessary and suggested that frost action with other unspecified agents was more likely.