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From the saddlebags, hung on a Hitchcock chair, David took out a good English razor, a present from John Hunter.
David took refuge from Absalom's forces beyond the Jordan River.
Following Fox's subsequent elimination, she took time to reflect before finally declaring for David Davis.
Quickly rising to prominence among the Pro-Boers was David Lloyd George, a relatively new MP and a master of rhetoric, who took advantage of having a national stage to speak out on a controversial issue to make his name in the party.
In 1911 he took up a government job as an " official explainer ", touring the country to explain David Lloyd George's National Insurance Act.
" So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David.
Goliath fell dead, and David took Goliath's sword and beheaded him ; the Philistines fled in terror.
From there he went by steamboat to " Quaker City " ( Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) and continued to the safe house of abolitionist David Ruggles in New York ; the whole journey took less than 24 hours.
Orwell's wedding took place in the hospital room on 13 October 1949, with David Astor as best man.
As a child, Cukor appeared in several amateur plays and took dance lessons, and at the age of seven he performed in a recital with David O. Selznick, who in later years would become a mentor and friend.
After an oil drilling operation in 1903 in Dexter, Kansas, produced a gas geyser that would not burn, Kansas state geologist Erasmus Haworth collected samples of the escaping gas and took them back to the University of Kansas at Lawrence where, with the help of chemists Hamilton Cady and David McFarland, he discovered that the gas consisted of, by volume, 72 % nitrogen, 15 % methane ( a combustible percentage only with sufficient oxygen ), 1 % hydrogen, and 12 % an unidentifiable gas.
On March 12, 2012, Los Angeles Superior Court took opening statements on the case in which former-JPL employee David Coppedge brought suit against the Lab due to workplace discrimination and wrongful termination.
He then took his sketches to Industrial Designer David Crafoord in order for him to realize the sketches into a 1: 5 scale model.
Lemmy also took part in a comedy skit titled " The Easy Guitar Book Sketch " with comedian Rowland Rivron and fellow British musicians Mark Knopfler, David Gilmour, Mark King from Level 42, and Gary Moore.
David Greig's 2010 play Dunsinane took Macbeth's downfall at Dunsinane as its starting point, with Macbeth's just-ended reign portrayed as long and stable in contrast to Malcolm's.
England ’ s Derek Randall scored 174, Australia ’ s Rod Marsh also got a century, Lillee took 11 wickets, and David Hookes, in his first test, smacked five fours in a row off England captain Tony Greig ’ s bowling.
Current league commissioner David Stern took office on April 1, 1984, and oversaw the expansion and growth of the NBA to a global commodity.
The name is a portmanteau of pub and gastronomy and was coined in 1991 when David Eyre and Mike Belben took over The Eagle pub in Clerkenwell, London.
The third and current reconstruction took place from 1 June 1988 and was completed on 1 October 1989 by Nigel Williams and Sandra Smith ( and overseen by David Akehurst ( CCO of Glass and Ceramics ) who had assessed the vase's condition during its appearance as the focal piece of an international exhibition of Roman glass and, at the conclusion of the exhibition, it was decided to go ahead with reconstruction and stabilization.
This strategy is rare, and was last seen in the NFL in the " WoodStrock " combination of Don Strock and David Woodley, which took the Miami Dolphins to the Epic in Miami and Super Bowl XVII the following year.
* Though normal television programming resumed after nearly a full week of news coverage following the attack, some daily talk shows such as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, The Daily Show and Late Show with David Letterman took additional time before beginning to broadcast new installments, with Letterman in particular stating that he was not sure he wanted to continue to do the show.
In March 1865, while Lincoln met at City Point with Grant, Sherman and Admiral David Dixon Porter, Union forces finally took Petersburg and then captured Richmond in April, after an unsuccessful Confederate assault on Fort Stedman.
David Holliday, who had been playing Gladhand since the London opening, took over as Tony, playing opposite Roberta D ' Esti's Maria, and Mary Preston as Anita.
Robert Jeffrey took over from David Holliday as Tony and Jill Martin played Maria.

David and firm
The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.
Two other counts were related to tax evasion in transactions Milken carried out for a client of the firm, David Solomon, a fund manager.
David in turn would hand over to his brother Sir Robert control of the firm.
David Boies ( born March 11, 1941 ) is an American lawyer and chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner.
Dr. Marlene Krauss, the daughter of Julius Krauss, and David Elder, the grandson of Joseph Gross and the son of playwright and screenwriter Lonne Elder III, replaced Stanley Bard with the management company BD Hotels NY ; that firm has since been terminated as well.
David McGowan has written that there is no reason to believe the GPL could force proprietary software to become free software, but could " try to enjoin the firm from distributing commercially a program that combined with the GPL'd code to form a derivative work, and to recover damages for infringement.
Douglas's absence from his power base in the Lothians and the Scottish marches encouraged Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and Sir David Fleming of Biggar, both firm supporters of Robert III, to take full advantage to become the principal political force in the area.
One such, investment bank Dillon, Read made an offer of $ 7. 5 million, but Woods and RCA chief David Sarnoff held firm at $ 8 million.
The church was erected because of the generosity of Captain David King of the shipbuilding firm of Bullard King & Co which also ran the Natal Direct Shipping Line, which ran ships direct from London to Durban without stopping at the Cape.
* David Marquardt-co-founder of venture capital firm August Capital
In 1826, William H. Ashley retired from the fur trade, and in a complicated business arrangement sold his share to the newly created firm of Jedediah Smith, David E. Jackson, and William L. Sublette.
Pereda, in turn, was overthrown in November 1978 by democratically-oriented officers under General David Padilla who, embarrassed by the events of the last few months ( and suspecting that Pereda did not intend to call new elections either ), promptly set a firm date for a new vote.
William supported women's suffrage and the Boer cause in the Boer War, and was a firm supporter of Temperance and, until he allied himself with the Conservatives, David Lloyd-George.
Henry David Thoreau's poem " Though All the Fates " pays homage to " New England's worm " which, in the poem, infests the hull of " he vessel, though her masts be firm ".
** David Brown Ltd., his eponymous manufacturing firm
In 1970, Charles was joined at the family firm by his brother David H. Koch.
The former Boer general, Jan Smuts, wrote to David Lloyd George in 1919: " My experience in South Africa has made me a firm believer in political magnanimity, and your and Campbell-Bannerman's great record still remains not only the noblest but also the most successful page in recent British statesmanship ".
Special Collections also contains the Chamberlain collection of papers from Neville Chamberlain, Joseph Chamberlain and Austen Chamberlain, the Avon Papers belonging to Antony Eden with material on the Suez Crisis, the Cadbury Papers relating to the Cadbury firm from 1900 to 1960, the Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts of Alphonse Mingana, the Noël Coward Collection, the papers of Edward Elgar, Oswald Mosley, and David Lodge, and the records of the English YMCA and of the Church Missionary Society.
He is a co-founder and senior member of the Frontier Group, a private equity investment firm co-founded by David Robb ( formerly with The Carlyle Group ) and to which Sanford McDonnell and Norm Augustine are senior advisors.
The landscape architect and engineer in charge of the newly named " Garden State Parkway " was Gilmore David Clarke, of the architectural firm of Parsons, Brinkerhof, Hall and MacDonald, who had worked with Robert Moses on the parkway systems around New York City.
* David Lewis Company, a financial consulting firm executing work in FP & A, Financial Reporting & Accounting and Financial Systems for its Fortune 1000 clients.
Despite business setbacks in 1866 and 1867, David was running the Oppenheimer Brothers warehouse in Yale by 1868 and was a partner in the firm by 1871.
In his memoirs, Scott recalled that David Barclay requested an exclusive option to buy the firm and to keep it secret from all but two directors.
His English-born father, David, founded the Dial Import Corporation, an importing and exporting firm, and his mother, Frances ( née Haar ), helped run the business.

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