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Dr. and Mrs. N. Volney Ludwick have had as guests Mr. and Mrs. John J. Evans, Jr., of `` Kimbolton House '', Rockhall, Md..
When Bobbie Evans smashed up his car, the Jaguar his wife Linda had given him for his last birthday, and himself quite thoroughly with it, driving back from an afternoon's golf at Oakmont, it seemed to mark the end of a long, miswritten chapter in the social life of the community.
Linda Evans felt more wretched than she had ever dreamed Bobbie's death could move her to feeling.
They had one son, Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. and three daughters, one of whom was Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, one of the first humans injected with insulin, and who later served as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society.
According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".
Harold Evans used the memoir as a source for a chapter about Kildall in the 2004 book They Made America, concluding that Microsoft had robbed Kildall of his inventions.
Evans, who had been struggling with religious doubts for some time, became intimate friends with the progressive, free-thinking Brays, whose home was a haven for people who held and debated radical views.
Chapman had recently bought the campaigning, left-wing journal The Westminster Review, and Evans became its assistant editor in 1851.
The philosopher and critic George Henry Lewes met Evans in 1851, and by 1854 they had decided to live together.
It was not unusual for men and women in Victorian society to have affairs ; Charles Bray, John Chapman, Friedrich Engels, and Wilkie Collins all had affairs, though more discreetly than Lewes and Evans.
While continuing to contribute pieces to the Westminster Review, Evans had resolved to become a novelist, and she set out a manifesto for herself in one of her last essays for the Review, " Silly Novels by Lady Novelists " ( 1856 ).
In 1967 Svetlana defected to the USA and later married William Wesley Peters and by him had a daughter Olga ( surname now Evans ).
Craig A Evans states that although some scholars had in the past supported the Slavonic Josephus, " to my knowledge no one today believes that they contain anything of value for Jesus research ".
Craig Evans ( and separately Robert Van Voorst ) state that most modern scholars accept the position that the Testimonium is partially authentic, had a kernel with an authentic reference to Jesus, and that the analysis of its content and style support this conclusion.
According to Evans, if the passage had been an interpolation after the emergence of conflicts between Jews and Christians, it would have had a more accusative tone, but in its current form reads as one would expect it to read for a passage composed by Josephus towards the end of the first century.
But 28 years later, in an appearance on MSNBC television, Falwell said he was not troubled by reports that the nominee for Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John G. Roberts ( whose appointment was confirmed by the U. S. Senate ) had done volunteer legal work for homosexual rights activists on the case of Romer v. Evans.
Evans had given the site to them some years previously.
Shortly after Evans died, Alice Kober noted that certain words in Linear B inscriptions had changing word endings — perhaps declensions in the manner of Latin or Greek.
This overturned Evans ' theories of Minoan history by establishing that Cretan civilization, at least in the later periods associated with the Linear B tablets, had been part of Mycenean Greece.
Evans ' basement apartment had become the meeting place for several young musicians and composers such as Davis, Roach, pianist John Lewis, and baritone sax player Gerry Mulligan who were unhappy with the increasingly virtuoso instrumental techniques that dominated the bebop scene.

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It is often considered to be related to the phonetically similar Caladbolg, a sword borne by several figures from Irish mythology, although a borrowing of Caledfwlch from Irish Caladbolg has been considered unlikely by Rachel Bromwich and D. Simon Evans.
He called back Bill Evans, months away from forming what would become his own seminal trio, for the album sessions, as the music had been planned around Evans ' piano style.
" So What " and " All Blues " had been played by the sextet at performances prior to the recording sessions, but for the other three compositions, Davis and Evans prepared skeletal harmonic frameworks that the other musicians saw for the first time on the day of recording, to allow a fresher approach to their improvisations.
The Minoan civilization of Crete has been named after him by the archaeologist Arthur Evans.
Indeed, according to John Evans, Chaplain of Trinity and Extra Preacher to the Queen, instructions were left with him to reveal after Powell's death that at least one of the romantic affairs of his life had been homosexual.
Christopher Evans died of cancer in 1979, at the age of 48, shortly after The Mighty Micro had been published in hardcover.
It was the chapel of the cemetery of the Sacra Infermeria, which has since been restored and now functions as the Mediterranean Conference Centre, located in the present grounds of the Evans Building.
Evans said :" To this early civilization of Crete as a whole I have proposed — and the suggestion has been generally adopted by the archaeologists of this and other countries — to apply the name ' Minoan.
" Evans ' 1931 claim that the term was " unminted " before his use of it has been tagged a " brazen suggestion " by Karadimas and Momigliano.
She is interpreted by Dyfed Lloyd Evans as having been a euhemerized mother goddess.
Since 1924, the building has been established as the Museum of the History of Science, with exhibitions including the scientific instruments given to Oxford University by Lewis Evans ( 1853 – 1930 ), amongst them the world's largest collection of astrolabes.
Hoffman's character is said to have been based directly upon famed producer Robert Evans.
Similarities have been noted between the character and Evans ' work habits, mannerisms, quirks, clothing style, hairstyle, and large, square-framed eyeglasses ; in fact, the real Evans is said to have joked, " I'm magnificent in this film.
Hamilton County has been won by every Republican presidential candidate since Charles Evans Hughes in 1916.
The play starred Kenneth Williams, Michael Bryant, Siân Phillips, Edith Evans, Timothy West and Bernard Kay in its run ; the play has not been professionally produced since.
The Evans Mine, about halfway between the Rathbun and Darbyville, formerly operated by the American Coal Company, had already been closed by 1908.
In 1889 William Crommer and Bob Evans began operating a sawmill at Ellsinore, buying up most of the timber in the area that had not already been bought up by the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company.
He then added additional acres with a purchase from Isaac Evans, a black man whose family had been free since the 1700s.
Dylan Evans has suggested that placebos work most strongly upon conditions such as pain, swelling, stomach ulcers, depression, and anxiety that have been linked with activation of the acute-phase response.

Evans and arranger
* 1912 – Gil Evans, Canadian pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader ( d. 1988 )
In 1948 Davis grew close to the Canadian composer and arranger Gil Evans.
Later bandleaders pioneered the performance of various Brazilian and Afro-Cuban styles with the traditional big band instrumentation, and big bands led by arranger Gil Evans, saxophonist John Coltrane ( on the album Ascension from 1965 ) and electric bassist Jaco Pastorius introduced cool jazz, free jazz and jazz fusion, respectively, to the big band domain.
He was also involved in two other recordings in the late 1980s, the first in 1987 with jazz arranger Gil Evans, who placed Sting in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs ( the CD was not released in the U. S .), and the second on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way album, where Sting performs an unusual arrangement of " Murder By Numbers ", set to the tune " Stolen Moments " by jazz composer Oliver Nelson, and " dedicated " to fundamentalist evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.
When Columbia Records producer George Avakian gave jazz arranger Gil Evans a copy of the Spanish World Library LP, Miles Davis and Evans were " struck by the beauty of pieces such as the ' Saeta ', recorded in Seville, and a panpiper's tune (' Alborada de Vigo ') from Galicia, and worked them into the 1960 album, Sketches of Spain.
Ralph Titterton, restorer of the Gray archive and co-producer of the original soundtrack CDs, and Cathy Ford, a librarian, researcher and biographer, joined film composer, conductor and arranger François Evans to produce the event in aid of the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund.
Meanwhile, between 1946 and 1949, baritone saxophonist and arranger Gerry Mulligan, arranger Gil Evans, and alto saxophonist Lee Konitz were all working for the Claude Thornhill Orchestra, whose instrumentation included a French horn and tuba.
Ian Ernest Gilmore " Gil " Evans ( né Green ) ( May 13, 1912 – March 20, 1988 ) was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, active in the United States.
* March 20-Gil Evans, jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader ( b. 1912 )
* May 13-Gil Evans, jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader ( d. 1988 )
In 2006, Evanswith the help of arranger / orchestrator Justin Gray — wrote a musical based on the strip, titled Luann: Scenes In A Teen's Life, produced by Center ARTES and performed at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido, California.
Upon leaving Eastman, Gil Evans hired her as his apprentice arranger, and she collaborated with him for the next several years, producing arrangements commissioned by Sting and scoring the films The Color of Money and Absolute Beginners.
* George Evans ( bandleader ) ( died 1993 ), English jazz bandleader, arranger and tenor saxophonist
* Gil Evans ( 1912 – 1988 ), jazz arranger
The song also made the leap into the world of jazz on several occasions, most notably by celebrated composer, arranger and conductor Gil Evans, as well as by Lew Soloff ( of Blood, Sweat and Tears fame ) on the album entitled Little Wing.
It was Ruff who introduced Daugherty to jazz arranger Gil Evans, who, at that time, was looking for an assistant.
Svengali is a live album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, recorded in 1973 by Evans with a orchestra featuring Ted Dunbar, Howard Johnson, Herb Bushler, David Sanborn, Billy Harper, Richard Williams, Trevor Koehler, and Hannibal Marvin Peterson.
From 1949 through 1950, Davis recorded twelve tunes with a nonet consisting of himself and other noted jazz musicians including arranger Gil Evans, Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz, John Lewis, Max Roach and Kenny Clarke, the arrangements for this group were scored for instruments rarely used in jazz such as French horn and tuba.
He was able to share the billing with arranger Gil Evans in a 1978 concert at the Royal Festival Hall, such was Tracey ’ s pre-eminence in the UK.
Merrill's follow-up to Helen Merrill was the 1956 LP, Dream of You, which was produced and arranged by bebop arranger and pianist Gil Evans.
This movement was later adapted by the jazz arranger Gil Evans for Miles Davis ' 1960 album Sketches of Spain.

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