" Eleanor Audeley ", wife of Sir John Davies, is said to have been brought before the High Commission in 1634 for extravagances, stimulated by the discovery that her name could be transposed to " Reveale, O Daniel ", and to have been laughed out of court by another anagram submitted by Sir John Lambe, the dean of the Arches, " Dame Eleanor Davies ", " Never soe mad a ladie ".

Head of Programmes Wales at the BBC, Aneirin Talfan Davies, who commissioned several of Thomas ' early radio talks, believed that the poet's " whole attitude is that of the medieval bards.

It is said that during a visit to Alde House around 1860, one evening while sitting by the fireside, Elizabeth and Emily Davies selected careers for advancing the frontiers of women's rights ; Elizabeth was to open the medical profession to women, Emily the doors to a university education for women, while 13-year-old Millicent was allocated politics and votes for women.

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

Television series executive producer Russell T Davies wrote in Doctor Who Magazine # 356 that there is no connection between the War of the books and the Time War of the television series.

Hobart's major newspaper is The Mercury, which was founded by John Davies in 1854 and has been continually published ever since.

So the title itself is Davies ' nod to Spengler.

For example, in Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood, created by Russell T Davies, a drug used to erase the memory of characters is called " retcon "; the use of the drug is often referred to by characters as " retconning ".

In a note, Kirby states, " A very abbreviated list of twentieth-century writers on the NT who do not believe that the empty tomb is historically reliable: Marcus Borg, Günther Bornkamm, Gerald Boldock Bostock, Rudolf Bultmann, Peter Carnley, John Dominic Crossan, Stevan Davies, Maurice Goguel, Michael Goulder, Hans Grass, Charles Guignebert, Uta Ranke-Heinemann, Randel Helms, Herman Hendrikx, Roy Hoover, Helmut Koester, Hans Küng, Alfred Loisy, Burton L. Mack, Willi Marxsen, Gerd Lüdemann, Norman Perrin, Robert M. Price, Marianne Sawicki, John Shelby Spong, Howard M. Teeple, and John T.

Afterwards, it follows Tom Hanks as United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller and seven other soldiers ( Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies ) as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan ( Matt Damon ), who is the last-surviving brother of four servicemen.

Dillon-Lee is killed outside his home in Dortmund, Germany and Davies is killed at a railway station in Lichfield, England.

* October 16 – England's first residential university-level women's college, the College for Women, predecessor of Girton College, Cambridge, is founded at Hitchin by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon.

* English scientist Lord John Davies first observes what is later recognised as respiratory collapse

The English composer Peter Maxwell Davies has written eight symphonies, and is completing a ninth in 2012.

The constituency has returned a Conservative MP at most recent elections ; the current member is David Davies, first elected in 2005.

Ambassador Joseph Davies, author of Mission to Moscow, wrote that " It is generally accepted by members of the Diplomatic Corps that the accused must have been guilty of an offense which in the Soviet Union would merit the death penalty ".

Professor Davies tells us that Gerald, whom he calls " an admirable story-teller ", is the only source for some of the most famous of the Welsh folk tales including the declaration of the old man of Pencader to Henry II which concludes Descriptio Cambriae: " This nation, O King, may now, as in former times, be harassed, and in a great measure weakened and destroyed by your and other powers, and it will also prevail by its laudable exertions, but it can never be totally subdued through the wrath of man, unless the wrath of God shall concur.

The ward is represented by two councillors, Kirsty Davies and Gareth Aubrey, both members of the Liberal Democrat Party.

The history of the analysis of The Taming of the Shrew is saturated with controversy almost from its inception, something Stevie Davies summarises when she writes that response to The Shrew " is dominated by feelings of unease and embarrassment, accompanied by the desire to prove that Shakespeare cannot have meant what he seems to be saying ; and that therefore he cannot really be saying it.

Arguably, the best-known living Canadian writer internationally ( especially since the deaths of Robertson Davies and Mordecai Richler ) is Margaret Atwood, a prolific novelist, poet, and literary critic.

Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal, great-grandson of Hugo, is married to Lady Frances von Hofmannsthal, née Armstrong-Jones, daughter of the 1st Earl of Snowdon ( former husband of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon ) and his second wife, Lucy Mary Davies.

Posthumous publication of his diaries and letters, edited by Russell Davies, caused controversy — particularly Williams's caustic remarks about fellow professionals — and revealed bouts of despair, often primed by feelings of personal isolation and professional failure.

One of the main promises of CALL is the ability to individualise learning but, as with the language labs that were introduced into educational institutions in the 1960s and 1970s, the use of the facilities of multimedia centres has often devolved into rows of students all doing the same drills ( Davies 2010: Section 3. 1 ).

Unfortunately, administrators often have the mistaken belief that buying hardware by itself will meet the needs of the centre, allocating 90 % of its budget to hardware and virtually ignoring software and staff training needs ( Davies et al.

Most of the researchers like Davies and Leon Rappoport have argued that ethnic jokes do not propagate ethnic stereotypes, but are often a way of positive interaction between communities.

Davies played a largely subordinate role to his brother, often staying behind the scenes.

Live in concert, the band were often compared to local heroes The Fall, despite Davies ' prominent use of tin whistle and flute which clearly betrayed his continued love of Jethro Tull and folk rock.

* In The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies, the scholar Dunstan Ramsay and the stage magician Paul Dempster a. k. a. Magnus Eisengrim end up as the " permanent guests " and lovers of the eccentric Swiss millionaire Lieselotte Naegeli – the three of them occasionally sharing an especially large bed, though " most often in order to have a breakfast in bed or take an important decision " rather than for sex.

Davies was often known as David Davies Llandinam ( from the place of his birth, Llandinam in Powys ), in order to differentiate him from others of the same name.

Norman Davies notes that estimating strength of the opposing sides is difficult – even generals often had incomplete reports of their own forces.

Davies ' total expense claims were often higher than the average.

His notable contributions are the so-called Fulling – Davies – Unruh effect, according to which an observer accelerating through empty space will perceive a bath of thermal radiation, and the Bunch – Davies vacuum state, often used as the basis for explaining the fluctuations in the cosmic background radiation left over from the big bang.

) Though Citizen Kane is often considered one of the best films ever made, Hearst was allegedly not amused by how he — or his mistress Marion Davies, widely considered the inspiration for Susan Alexander — were depicted, and he attempted to destroy both the film and Welles ' career.

Amongst the common people who often went to the cunning folk for aid, these magical practitioners were seen as being very much distinct from witches ; as Davies noted, to the average person " witches were evil but cunning-folk were useful ".

According to Hunter Davies, the initial idea for the song's title came from a phrase often spoken by Jimmie Nicol, the group's stand-in drummer for the Australian leg of a 1964 tour.

Stonesifer likens the quality of Davies ' prose, with its often childlike realism, directness and simplicity, to that of Defoe and George Borrow, while Davies ' style was described by Shaw as that of " a genuine innocent ".

Steve Perry is the Daddies ' sole lyricist, and writes the majority of his songs in a fictional narrative format he credits as being influenced by Randy Newman and Ray Davies, often told about or through the unreliable perspective of downtrodden characters struggling against adversity.

As often happens in Davies ' novels, all is not simple ; for example, the ghost of Hoffman, trapped in limbo as a result of the unsatisfactory state of his artistic work, attends and comments on the proceedings.

The last two years of Davies ' Radio 1 career allowed him the opportunity to display his love of music ; higher-profile shows often negated the need for DJs to be heard caring for the songs they were playing, concentrating instead on the personality side of the programming.

Siobhan Davies CBE DLitt ( born 18 September 1950 in London, and often known as Sue Davies ) was a dancer with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre during the 1970s, then becoming one of its leading choreographers before founding her own company — the Siobhan Davies Dance Company — in 1988.

Although Cyril Davies left the group in 1963, Blues Incorporated continued to record, with Korner at the helm, until 1966.

* Paul Davies: Cosmic Jackpot Interview about the Anthropic Principle ( starts at 40 min ), 15 May 2007.

* Ron Davies resigns from the cabinet after being robbed by a man he met at Clapham Common and then lying about it ( 1998 )

However, this practice did cause some controversy: Numerous politicians, journalists, and authors, such as Robertson Davies, decried the change at the time, and some continue to maintain that it was illegitimate and an unnecessary break with tradition.

The story was adapted by Andrew Davies from a novel written by Michael Dobbs, a former Chief of Staff at Conservative Party headquarters.

Davies paid £ 500 for the erection of a new 1, 000-seat stand at Bank Street.

Davies suggests that the texts of Welsh law, traditionally codified by Hywel Dda at Whitland, were first assembled in book form under the aegis of Rhys.

In 2005, the IAA established the SETI: Post-Detection Science and Technology Taskgroup ( Chairman, Professor Paul Davies ) " to act as a Standing Committee to be available to be called on at any time to advise and consult on questions stemming from the discovery of a putative signal of extraterrestrial intelligent ( ETI ) origin.

In 1955 using an aqualung and swimming with fins, Bob Davies reached the bottom of Chamber 11 at depth in clear water and discovered the 12th and 13th Chambers.

Independently, Donald Davies at the National Physical Laboratory ( NPL ) in the UK had developed the same ideas a few years later ( Abbate, 2000 ).

Baran's work was similar to the research performed independently by Donald Davies at the National Physical Laboratory, UK.

A member of Davies ' team met Lawrence Roberts at the 1967 ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, bringing the two groups together.

In 1966 Davies proposed that a network should be built at the laboratory to serve the needs of NPL and prove the feasibility of packet switching.

* D. W. Davies, K. A. Bartlett, R. A. Scantlebury, and P. T. Wilkinson, A digital communications network for computers giving rapid response at remote terminals ( ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles.

From Davies ’ perspective the Tahitian were placed under detention at Tongatapu: “ The chief called Tupou would not let them proceed.

Marion Davies later recalled that Shearer came to a party at San Simeon in her Marie Antoinette costume, which required removing the door so she could enter, and four chairs so she could sit at the table.

One of the large exporters in the late nineteenth century was M. C. Davies who had mills in the Margaret River to Augusta region of the south west, and ports at Hamelin Bay and Flinders Bay.

Mary was portrayed by silent screen star Marion Davies in the 1922 film When Knighthood Was in Flower, reputed to have been, at the time of its release, the most expensive film ever made.

Davies tripled the admission prices ; consequently, the attendance at the 1975 race, won by L ' Escargot, was the smallest in living memory.

In 2002, British author Pete Davies wrote American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age, about the 1919 Army Convoy on the Lincoln Highway.