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Collins was born in Paddington, London, the daughter of Elsa Collins ( née Bessant ), a dance teacher and nightclub hostess, and Joseph William Collins ( died 1988 ), an agent whose clients would later include Shirley Bassey, the Beatles and Tom Jones.
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His three-round total of 210 was three strokes better than the next best score, a 213 by Bill Collins, the tall and deliberate Baltimorean who had been playing very well all winter long.
Australian captain Herbie Collins was stripped of all captaincy positions down to club level, and some accused him of throwing the match.
Collins decided to record it in the late 1960s amid an atmosphere of counterculture introspection ; she was part of an encounter group that ended a contentious meeting by singing " Amazing Grace " as it was the only song to which all the members knew the words.
Collins, who has a history of alcohol abuse, claimed that the song was able to " pull her through " to recovery.
The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.
Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module ( LM ) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command spacecraft, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.
The 1960 Hollywood film version of the story, Esther and the King, was directed by Raoul Walsh and starred Joan Collins and Richard Egan.
He was with the station at its launch, and while it was being tested during the previous year, under the name Network Y. Charles has also hosted the stations Breakfast Show ( 2004 ) and has sat in for Andrew Collins, Phil Wilding, Phill Jupitus and Radcliffe & Maconie.
At the end of November, a meeting was held in the rooms of Canon John Collins, chaired by the editor of the New Statesman, Kingsley Martin, to launch the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Collins was chosen as its Chairman, Bertrand Russell as its President and Peggy Duff as its organising secretary.
The Committee of 100 was created as a separate organisation partly for that reason and partly because of personal animosity between Collins and Russell.
Cy Young's career is seen as a bridge from baseball's earliest days to its modern era ; he pitched against stars such as Cap Anson, already an established player when the National League was first formed in 1876, as well as against Eddie Collins, who played until 1930.
After her death, his widow, Genevieve Collins Linebarger, was interred with him on November 16, 1981.
The team, which was composed of Earnhardt, Earnhardt, Jr., Andy Pilgrim, and Kelly Collins, finished 4th overall and 2nd in class.
In late 1954, Gen. J. Lawton Collins was made ambassador to " Free Vietnam " ( the term South Vietnam came into use in 1955 ), effectively elevating the country to sovereign status.
His PI, Dan Fortune, was consistently involved in the same sort of David-and-Goliath stories that Hammett, Chandler, and Macdonald wrote, but Collins took a sociological bent, exploring the meaning of his characters ' places in society and the impact society had on people.
My arguments perverted some others, particularly Collins and Ralph ; but each of them having afterwards wrong'd me greatly without the least compunction, and recollecting Keith's conduct towards me ( who was another freethinker ) and my own towards Vernon and Miss Read, which at times gave me great trouble, I began to suspect that this doctrine, tho ' it might be true, was not very useful.
In the United States in the 1930s, distributism was treated in numerous essays by Chesterton, Belloc and others in The American Review, published and edited by Seward Collins.
Argentine boxer Carlos Monzon, who didn't have a clear diction, had his voice dubbed by a professional actor when he played the lead in the drama La Mary, and Gert Frobe, who played Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film of that name ( Goldfinger ) was because of his heavy German accent dubbed by Michael Collins.
On February 3, 2012 it was announced that actress Jane Levy, who currently stars in the television series Suburgatory, would be replacing Lily Collins as the star of the upcoming remake.
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Michael Collins, a key figure in the War of Independence, was born near Clonakilty and assassinated during the civil war in Béal na Bláth, both in west Cork.
Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy on October 31, 1930, to United States Army Major General James Lawton Collins, who would serve in the army for 38 years.
Murray was born and raised in Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, the son of Lucille ( née Collins ), a mail room clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, a lumber salesman.
Murray, one of nine children, was born in Chicago, the son of Lucille ( née Collins ), a mail room clerk, and Edward J. Murray II, a lumber salesman.
William “ Bootsy ” Collins ( bass guitar, vocals, drums, songwriter, producer ; born October 26, 1951 )
Nancy A. Collins ( born 10 September 1959 ) is a United States horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue.
Film legend Dana Andrews was born on a farmstead just outside Collins, and actor Gerald McRaney, and NFL stars Steve McNair, Correll Buckhalter and former NBA star Randolph Keys, were all born in Collins.
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Christie features as a character in Gaylord Larsen's Dorothy and Agatha and The London Blitz Murders ' by Max Allan Collins.
* Bell, A. Melville ( 1967 ), " Visible Speech ", London: Simpkin Marshall ; rpt in facsimile in B. Collins and I. Mees ( 2006 ), " Phonetics of English in the 19th Century ", London: Routledge.
These included An Elopement à la Mode and The Pickpocket: A Chase Through London, made by Alf Collins for the British branch of the French Gaumont company, Daring Daylight Burglary, made by Frank Mottershaw at the Sheffield Photographic Company, and Desperate Poaching Affray, made by the Haggar family, whose main business was exhibiting films made by others in their traveling tent theatre.
* Hunter, Robert and McTaggart, David, Greenpeace III: Journey into the Bomb ( London: William Collins Sons & Co., 1978 ).
Hiro, Dilip, Between Marx and Muhammad: The Changing Face of Central Asia, Harper Collins, London, 1994, pp 112 – 3.
In the 1980s, American and European dancers from California, New York, London and Sweden ( such as Sylvia Sykes, Erin Stevens, Steven Mitchell, Terry Monaghan and Warren Heyes who formed London's Jiving Lindy Hoppers performance troupe, and Stockholm's Rhythm Hot Shots / Harlem Hot Shots ) went about ' reviving ' Lindy Hop using archival films such as Hellzapoppin ' and A Day at the Races and by contacting dancers such as Frankie Manning, Al Minns, Norma Miller, Jewel McGowan and Dean Collins.
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