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Dryden and was
The child was taken by Dryden at six months old, and did not re-enter Chaplin's life for 30 years.
Livingstone2 was flown as an experiment onboard Earth Observing 1, and an F-18 at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.
In the 17th century the iambic hexameter, also called alexandrine, was used as a substitution in the heroic couplet, and as one of the types of permissible lines in lyrical stanzas and the Pindaric odes of Cowley and Dryden.
The expression, " the noble savage " was first used in 1672 by British poet John Dryden in his play The Conquest of Granada.
The principle of Cowley's Pindariques was based on a misunderstanding of Pindar's metrical practice but was widely imitated nonetheless, with notable success by John Dryden.
Despite these hindrances, his aim ( and that of his collaborator John Dryden ) was to establish serious opera in England, but these hopes ended with Purcell's early death at the age of 36.
Liberal MP Ken Dryden summarized the view of many of these dissenters, maintaining that it was a game of semantics that cheapened issues of national identity.
On January 31, 1977, it was taken by road to Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, to begin operational testing.
While at NASA Dryden Enterprise was used by NASA for a variety of ground and flight tests intended to validate aspects of the shuttle program.
* May 12 – John Dryden, English poet and dramatist who was poet laureate ( 1670 – 1688 ).
Ethnomusicologist Ter Ellingson believes that Dryden had picked up the expression " noble savage " from a 1609 travelogue about Canada by the French explorer Marc Lescarbot, in which there was a chapter with the ironic heading: " The Savages are Truly Noble ", meaning simply that they enjoyed the right to hunt game, a privilege in France granted only to hereditary aristocrats.
This view reflects the typical Age of Reason belief that men are everywhere and in all times the same as well as a Deistic conception of natural religion ( although Pope, like Dryden, was Catholic ).
* Mr Dryden – The cynical Arab Bureau official was based loosely on numerous figures, including Sir Ronald Storrs, who was head of the Arab Bureau and later the governor of Palestine.
The title of Poet Laureate, as a royal office, was first conferred by letters patent on John Dryden in 1670, two years after Davenant's death.
The film was directed by Chaplin ( with his half-brother Wheeler Dryden as assistant director ), and also written and produced by Chaplin.
He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man ( 1933 ), The Wolf Man ( 1941 ), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), and, perhaps his most notable performance, as Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).
" After their debut LP was completed in March 1966, Skip Spence quit the band and he was eventually replaced by Spencer Dryden, who played his first show with the Airplane at the Berkeley Folk Festival on July 4, 1966.
Spencer Dryden was dismissed from the band in February 1970 by a unanimous vote of the other members.
In 1996, Jefferson Airplane was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with Balin, Casady, Dryden, Kantner & Kaukonen attending & performing at the ceremony.
It was adapted by John Dryden in his very successful heroic drama Oedipus, licensed in 1678.
The highest angle of attack in sustained flight so far demonstrated was 70 degrees in the X-31 at the Dryden Flight Research Center.
Mary and William were crowned king and queen of England in 1689, and because Dryden was deeply sympathetic to James he lost his public offices and fell into political disfavor under the new reign.

Dryden and defeated
Shewman ran as an independent candidate in Morris, and defeated coalitionist John C. Dryden by 153 votes.

Dryden and 1949
* Dryden, Hugh L., and Abbott, Ira H., " The design of low-turbulence wind tunnels ", NACA, Technical Note 1755, Nov 1949.

Dryden and provincial
Dryden is currently part of the provincial electoral district of Kenora — Rainy River.
He also served as a city councillor and mayor of Dryden, and was the president of the local provincial Liberal Party riding association for almost ten years.

Dryden and election
Dryden joined the Liberal Party of Canada and ran for the House of Commons in the federal election held in June 2004.
On May 13, 2004, Eggleton announced he would not be a candidate in the 2004 federal election, making way for the nomination of Ken Dryden as the Liberal candidate in York Centre.

Dryden and by
* Absalom and Achitophel ( 1681 ) is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden.
In the Restoration and eighteenth century, poetry written in couplets is sometimes varied by the introduction of a triplet in which the third line is an alexandrine, as in this sample from Dryden, which introduces a 6-5-6 triplet after two pentameter couplets:
The Chaplins became estranged in around 1891 ; a year later, Hannah gave birth to a third son — George Wheeler Dryden — fathered by music hall entertainer Leo Dryden.
This development is being spearheaded by NASA Dryden Flight Research Center.
English heroic couplets, especially in Dryden and his followers, are sometimes varied by the use of the occasional alexandrine, or hexameter line, and triplet.
In 1691, he wrote the music for what is sometimes considered his dramatic masterpiece, King Arthur, with the libretto by Dryden and first published by the Musical Antiquarian Society in 1843.
The Indian Queen followed in 1695, in which year he also wrote songs for Dryden and Davenant's version of Shakespeare's The Tempest ( recently, this has been disputed by music scholars < ref >
Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.
* The tales of King Midas have been told by many with some variations: by John Dryden ; by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Wife of Bath's Tale ; making Midas ' queen the betrayer of the secret ( as Midas ' wife, Aristotle names Demodike ( or Hermodike ) of Kyme ; Eudemus fr.
* Decasyllabic quatrain used by John Dryden in Annus Mirabilis, William Davenant in Gondibert, and Thomas Gray
In dealing with atheism Cudworth's method is to marshal the atheistic arguments elaborately, so elaborately that Dryden remarked " he has raised such objections against the being of a God and Providence that many think he has not answered them "; then in his last chapter, which by itself is as long as an ordinary treatise, he confutes them with all the reasons that his reading could supply.
The English translation by the 17th-century poet John Dryden is another important version.
Over the objections of General Murray ( Donald Wolfit ), he is sent by Mr. Dryden ( Claude Rains ) of the Arab Bureau to assess the prospects of Prince Faisal ( Alec Guinness ) in his revolt against the Turks.
Pope's formal education ended at this time, and from then on he mostly educated himself by reading the works of classical writers such as the satirists Horace and Juvenal, the epic poets Homer and Virgil, as well as English authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare and John Dryden.

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