) As L. C. Croft has written, " Much of Gosse's success was due to the fact that he was essentially a field naturalist who was able to impart to his readers something of the thrill of studying living animals at first hand rather than the dead disjointed ones of the museum shelf.

In 2006, Lara Croft was inducted into the Walk of Game and the Guinness Book of World Records has recognised her as the " Most Successful Human Virtual Game Heroine.

In the 2000s, Kane Waselenchuk, Jack Huczek, Jason Mannino, Ben Croft, and Rocky Carson have all excelled, but Waselenchuk has been dominant the last two seasons losing only once since September 2008.

The unseen working class woman who Goole claims has committed suicide whilst pregnant with Eric Birling's baby, and who has been mistreated by each member of the Birling family and by Gerald Croft.

The inspiration for the store has also been credited to Rossiters of Paignton department store from the time Lloyd and Croft spent there, and the former Clements of Watford.

Phillips has remained busy in both stage and television productions, along with character roles in films like Empire of the Sun ( 1987 ) directed by Steven Spielberg and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ( 2001 ).

The Welney Croft Cricket Club ( WCCC ) has been a centre of attention and social gathering for over 50 years for the locals to the village.

Rastrick has its own Library which can be found on Crowtrees Lane and a Doctors surgery at Rastrick Health Centre which is on Chapel Croft.

Gordonstoun also has a notable fictional alumna, the heroine of Tomb Raider, Lara Croft was supposed to have attended the school in sixth year, and has also been used to advertise it.

Author Lee B. Croft, in his satiric novel, Toadies: The Explanation of Toxicomania in American Society, has coined the word " bufoglossation " to describe the deliberate licking of Bufo toads for hallucinogenic purposes, but psychoactive substance information site Erowid warns against such use because of the cardiotoxins included in the toads ' venom.

Films based on British historical events ; RMS Titanic, Piracy in the Caribbean, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Great Escape, historical people ; William Wallace, Lawrence of Arabia, King Arthur, Elizabeth I, British stories ; The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, James Bond, The Chronicles of Narnia, Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Treasure Island, The War of the Worlds among many others, while British video game Tomb Raider featuring English archaeologist Lara Croft, has been made into feature films.

Croft has also been licensed for third-party promotion, including television and print advertisements, music-related appearances, and as a spokesmodel.

Lara Croft is depicted as an athletic woman ; she has brown eyes and hair, frequently kept in a plait or ponytail.

Lara Croft has appeared in two motion pictures.

Firby Croft has four houses and a common garden plot.

To date it has received in excess of 4. 5 million hits and portrays Dora as a ' Lara Croft ' type teenaged adventurer.

Painswick has one school, Croft Primary School.

2007 saw all of the races took place at Knockhill, but the series has organised “ away ” rounds at Croft and Anglesey in recent years.

The starting point has not changed in many years, although the town has changed around it ; as a consequence, the starting podium is currently located in the town's main car park, which is named Shaw Croft, this being the ancient name of the field in which it stands.

has rarely been repeated on television, which Croft believed was probably due to its unusual length, which does not suit current broadcasting slots ( his other series such as Dad's Army and Allo, ' Allo are 30 minutes in duration ).

Two movies — Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life — have been produced starring American actress Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, the first of which is still the highest-grossing film adaptation of a video game ever released in US, and third worldwide.

Two feature films have been created based on the Tomb Raider universe: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in 2001, and the 2003 sequel Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, both starring Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft.

Croft had been very impressed with the actor and knew that he had the ability to play a man much older than his real age.

Salzman thought it could have been built either at the end of the 16th century or in the 17th century but Pevsner suspected the involvement of J. Croft, the architect who restored the church in 1861.

He was violently attacked by Humphrey Hody and later by William Wotton for putting forward a pseudo-translation but Henry Herbert Stephen Croft ( 1842 – 1923 ) later discovered that there was a Neapolitan gentleman at that time bearing the name of Poderico, or, Latinized, Pudericus, with whom Elyot may well have been acquainted.

Its producers and writers ( Jimmy Perry and David Croft ) had themselves been redcoats at Butlins.

In writing the series, the two writers drew on research and personal accounts from the period ; Jimmy Perry's grandfather had been in service as a butler and David Croft's mother, Anne Croft, had been a musical comedy star in the 1920s, giving them some ideas of life both above and below stairs.

A hierarchy of grammatical relations had already been formulated to help explain possibilities for relative clause formation ( first presented as Keenan and Comrie ’ s ( 1972 ) NP accessibility hierarchy ; see Croft 1990: 147 ), and Comrie argued that a similar hierarchy was in play, at least in some constructions, in the marking of the original A argument when a base transitive clause is causativized.

The term has been used in books by commentator Laura Ingraham, and academics Stuart Croft, Stephen Chan, and Paul L. Moorcraft and Philip M. Taylor.

T-Touch watches have been recently featured on Angelina Jolie's wrist in the movies Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Recently these male heroic protagonists have occasionally been replaced by heroines, Lara Croft being an example.

*" Joseph Harold Greenberg " by William Croft ( 2003 ) ( also: HTML version )

*" Complete bibliography of the publications of Joseph H. Greenberg " by William Croft ( 2003 )

One of the most common manifestations of stanzaic form in poetry in English ( and in other Western European languages ) is represented in texts for church hymns, such as the first three stanzas ( of nine ) from a poem by Isaac Watts ( from 1719 ) cited immediately below ( in this case, each stanza is to be sung to the same hymn tune, composed earlier by William Croft in 1708 ):

As Janet Croft notes, Tolkien's literary reaction to war at this time differed from most post-war writers by eschewing irony as a method for distancing events and instead using mythology to mediate his experiences.

For example, in the first Tomb Raider game manual, Lara Croft is said to have survived a plane crash in the Himalayas at the age of twenty one, and was later disowned by her parents, who are still living.

However, in the Lara Croft movie, Lara's father gets killed by the Illuminati ( see Tomb Raider ).

A map indicating places visited by Lara Croft during the video games:

2010's Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light uses recycled musical cues from Legend, Anniversary, and Underworld by composers Troels Brun Folmann and Colin O ' Malley.

The film was directed by Simon West and starred Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft.

Genetic Linguistics: Essays on Theory and Method, edited by William Croft.

These include Hall's Croft ( the one-time home of Shakespeare's daughter, Susanna, and her husband Dr. John Hall ) and Nash's House, which stands alongside the site of another property, New Place, owned by Shakespeare himself, wherein he died.

He appears pleased at the economic and social cachet brought by his daughter's engagement to Gerald Croft, and resents Goole's intrusion on the family.

The original production featured Kenneth Cranham as Inspector Goole ( later played by Barry Foster and Philip Whitchurch ), Richard Pasco as Arthur Birling ( later played by Julian Glover, Edward Peel and William Gaunt ), Barbara Leigh Hunt as Sybil Birling ( later played by Judy Parfitt, Margaret Tyzack and Marjorie Yates ), Diana Kent as Sheila Birling ( later played by Sylvestra Le Touzel ) and Louis Hillyer as Gerald Croft.

* LETS FAQs, by John Croft of the Gaia Foundation

The pikes, made from obsolete Lee-Enfield rifle bayonet blades welded to a steel tube, took the name of " Croft's Pikes " after Henry Page Croft, the Under-Secretary of State for War who attempted to defend the fiasco by stating that they were a " silent and effective weapon ".

It was written mainly by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, with contributions by Michael Knowles and John Chapman.

The theme song, written by the show's co-writer David Croft and composer Ronnie Hazlehurst, consists of a lift girl ( whose voice was provided by Stephanie Gathercole ) announcing each floor over the musique concrète sounds of a cash register ( which basically serves as the only percussion instrument ) and a simple musical accompaniment.