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FitzGibbon and Thomas
Constantine FitzGibbon, Thomas ' first in-depth biographer, wrote " No major English poet has ever been as Welsh as Dylan ".
Though FitzGibbon asserts that Thomas ' negativity towards Welsh nationalism was fostered by his father's hostility towards the Welsh language.

FitzGibbon and death
On Lord Clare's death in 1864 the peerages became extinct as William John Gerald FitzGibbon ( posthumous son of the Hon.

FitzGibbon and .
* 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
On March 23, Catholic Irish apprentices in York, furious at Mackenzie's attack on Bishop Macdonnell, pelted Mackenzie and Ketchum with garbage ; riots broke out in York later that day and Mackenzie might have been killed by the crowd, but for the intervention of Tory magistrate James FitzGibbon.
Mackenzie waited for Bond Head's force of about 1000 men and one cannon, led by Colonel James FitzGibbon, which outnumbered Mackenzie's approximately 400 rebels.
On June 22, 1813, Laura Secord journeyed from Queenston to DeCew House to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon of an impending American attack.
FitzGibbon and his men were able to capture the American force and help turn the tide of the war.
Secord acquired information about a planned American attack, and stole away on the morning of 23 June to inform Lieutenant James FitzGibbon at DeCew House in the British-controlled territory.
Laura Secord warns British commander James FitzGibbon of an impending American attack at Beaver Dams.
On the evening of 22 June, Laura became aware of plans for a surprise American attack on British troops led by Lieutenant James FitzGibbon at Beaver Dams, which would have furthered American control in the Niagara Peninsula.
In his report of the battle, FitzGibbon omitted any mention of Secord, stating only that he " received information " about the threat.
She told FitzGibbon that her husband had learned it from an American officer, but years later told her granddaughter that she had overheard plans directly after being forced to house and feed, i. e. quarter, American soldiers in Queenston.
Lord Kimberley married Lady Florence FitzGibbon ( d. 1895 ), daughter of Richard FitzGibbon, 3rd Earl of Clare, on 16 August 1847.
James FitzGibbon ( 16 November 1780 – 10 December 1863 ) was a British soldier and hero of the War of 1812.
Born to Garrett ( Gerald ) FitzGibbon and Mary Widenham in Glin, County Limerick, Ireland, he enlisted in the Knight of Glin's Yeomanry Corps at age 15.
FitzGibbon fought at the Battle of Stoney Creek in 6 June 1813.
The victory made FitzGibbon a popular hero and he was promoted to Captain in the Glengarry Light Infantry Fencibles.
During the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, FitzGibbon was appointed Acting Adjutant-General of Militia.
( Constantine FitzGibbon, trans.
* November 16-James FitzGibbon, British colonel who served in Canada for 45 years ( d. 1863 )

and s
The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry s image and help mediate labor disputes.
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another s welfare ".
Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one s own welfare.
One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one s own life and existence ".
Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people s business.
* David Firestone-When Romney s Reach Exceeds His Grasp-Mitt Romney quotes the song
" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.
George Wittkowsky argued that Swift s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.
In response, Swift s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.
Critics differ about Swift s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.
Charles K. Smith argues that Swift s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.
Swift s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.
Swift s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.
Once the children have been commodified, Swift s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".
Swift uses the proposer s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.
In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).
James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.
Johnson notes Swift s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.
He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator s meaning and the text s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".

and 1965
The popular view can be summarized in an essay published in 1965, the then Captain Robert O Neill, Professor of the History of War at the Oxford University.
In his work Semantography Bliss had not provided a systematic set of definitions for his symbols ( there was a provisional vocabulary index instead ( 1965, pp. 827 – 67 )), so McNaughton s team might often interpret a certain symbol in a way that Bliss would later criticize as a “ misinterpretation ”.
On April 6, 1965, Intelsat s first satellite, the Intelsat I ( nicknamed Early Bird ), was placed in geostationary orbit above the Atlantic Ocean by a Delta D rocket.
In 1965, he organized the first international conference on liquid crystals, in Kent, Ohio, with about 100 of the world s top liquid crystal scientists in attendance.
During an effort to delay immediate transition to indigenous African rule, Rhodesia's white residents of European descent issued their government s own Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965.
His attitude towards the Commonwealth and the Federal was shaped by his first premiers conference in 1965 when Prime Minister Menzies negotiated with the Victorian premier Henry Bolte to achieve an extra grant of funds for Victoria at the expense of the other states and closed the conference before the other Premiers could object.
James Baldwin s collection Going to Meet the Man ( 1965 ) told stories of African-American life.
* René Picard, Introduction à l Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, Paris: Garnier, 1965, p. CXXX-CXXXXVII.
Then, in December 1965 and March 1966, Nature and The Lancet published the first preliminary reports by British cytogeneticist Patricia Jacobs and colleagues at the MRC Human Genetics Unit at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh of a chromosome survey of 315 male patients at The State Hospital outside Carstairs, Lanarkshire — Scotland s only special security hospital for the developmentally disabled — that found nine patients, ages 17 to 36, averaging almost 6 ft. in height ( avg.
* John Herivel, The background to Newton s Principia ; a study of Newton s dynamical researches in the years 1664-84 ( Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965 ).
In 1965, the regressive allowance for national insurance contributions was abolished and the single personal allowance, marriage allowance and wife s earned income relief were increased.
Smith s defiant response was a Unilateral Declaration of Independence, timed to coincide with Armistice Day at 11. 00 am on 11 November 1965, an attempt to garner support in the UK by reminding people of the contribution of the colony to the war effort ( Smith himself had been a Spitfire pilot ).
Wilson s immediate recourse was to the United Nations, and in 1965, the Security Council imposed sanctions, which were to last until official independence in 1979.
Elric first appeared in print in Moorcock s novella, " The Dreaming City " ( Science Fantasy # 47, June 1961 ); subsequent novellas were reformatted as the novel Stormbringer ( 1965 ), but
Modèles des Caractères de l Imprimerie, including James Mosley s introduction, Eugrammia Press, London 1965.
Many of them were included in Johnson s State of the Union address delivered on January 4, 1965.
The second edition, Fowler s Modern English Usage ( 1965 ) was revised by Sir Ernest Gowers, who updated the text, contributed entries, and deleted articles " no longer relevant to literary fashions ".
After tests on Hunter Mountain, New York in September 1965, he went on to promote ‘ slope soaring as a summer activity for ski resorts ( apparently without great success ).
Evidence of LeMay's thinking is that, in his 1965 autobiography ( co-written with MacKinlay Kantor ) LeMay is quoted as saying his response to North Vietnam would be to demand that " they ve got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or we re going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.
Bert Berns, Them s producer and composer of their 1965 hit, " Here Comes the Night ", persuaded Morrison to return to New York to record solo for his new label, Bang Records.
Cap n Crunch was the most popular children's cereal from 1965 – 1971 when Post released its fruit-flavored crispy rice cereal known as Fruity Pebbles.

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