* 1923 – Donald Swann, English composer and pianist ( Flanders and Swann ) ( d. 1994 )

They also feature in the songs " The Hippopotamus " and " Hippo Encore " by Flanders and Swann, with the famous refrain Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud.

* Flanders and Swann

As time went on the label also released speciality recordings of spoken-word and comedy recordings, such as the comedy recordings of The Goons and Flanders and Swann.

* Flanders & Swann

Michael Flanders, half of the 60's comedy Flanders and Swann often made public fun at Donald Swann for living in Battersea.

* Donald Swann-musician-of Flanders and Swann

The satirists Flanders and Swann used the first part of this quotation as the basis for their short monologue and song, " First and Second Law ".

( its first words ) and Flanders and Swann performed it in their revue At the Drop of a Hat ( 1956 ); it appears on the live recording.

Flanders and Swann make mention of Nerval's pet lobster in the introduction to " Je Suis Le Ténébreux ".

Flanders and Swann, writers and performers of satirical songs, wrote a lament for lines closed by the Beeching Axe entitled " Slow Train ".

Michael Williams ' book On the slow train takes its name from the Flanders and Swann song.

The similarity between the printed long s ( ſ ) and f and modern-day unfamiliarity with the former letter-form has been the subject of much humour based on the intentional misreading of s as f, e. g. pronouncing Greensleeves as Greenfleeves and song as fong in a Flanders and Swann monologue.

Flanders and Swann commemorated the loss of the branch lines and small country stations in 1964 in their song " Slow Train "; another song which remembers Beeching is The Beeching Report, a song against the Beeching Axe, recorded by the post-rock group iLiKETRAiNS.

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Flanders and Swann were a British comedy duo.

The actor and singer Michael Flanders ( 1922 – 1975 ) and the composer, pianist and linguist Donald Swann ( 1923 – 1994 ) collaborated in writing and performing comic songs.

Between 1956 and 1967, Flanders and Swann performed some of their songs, interspersed with comic monologues, in their long-running two-man revues At the Drop of a Hat and At the Drop of Another Hat, which they toured in Britain and abroad.

The pair went their separate ways during World War II, but a chance meeting in 1948 led to a musical partnership writing songs and light opera, Flanders providing the words and Swann composing the music.

In December 1956, Flanders and Swann hired the New Lindsey Theatre, Notting Hill, to perform their own two-man revue At the Drop of a Hat, which opened on New Year's Eve.

During the late Middle Ages, Flanders ' trading towns ( notably Ghent, Bruges and Ypres ) made it one of the richest and most urbanized parts of Europe, weaving the wool of neighbouring lands into cloth for both domestic use and export.

Soon afterwards, Philip of Flanders arrived in Jerusalem on pilgrimage ; he was Baldwin IV's cousin, and the king offered him the regency and command of the army, both of which Philip refused, although he objected to the appointment of Raynald as regent.

This style, which had been in use since 1554, was replaced when Philip inherited the Spanish Crown in 1556 with " Philip and Mary, by the Grace of God King and Queen of England, Spain, France, both the Sicilies, Jerusalem and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Burgundy, Milan and Brabant, Counts of Habsburg, Flanders and Tyrol ".

* Vlaams Parliament (" Flemish Parliament "; originally styled Vlaamse Raad " Flemish Council ") served both the Flemish Community ( whose same it uses ) and, in application of a Belgian constitutional option, of the region of Flanders ( in all matters of regional competence, its decisions have no effect in Brussels )

Ludendorff wrote, " On the left bank, close to the Meuse, one division had failed ... and yet both here and in Flanders everything possible had been done to avoid failure ....

* Brussels, the capital of Belgium, is a separate bi-lingual ( Dutch-French ) region ( the Brussels-Capital Region ), independent of both Flanders and Wallonia, despite being entirely surrounded by Flanders ( of which it is also the regional capital ) and sharing a common language with Wallonia ( French ).

Mute and tenor cornetts were both known by 1550 in Italy and Flanders, and no doubt also in other countries.

Antwerp ( Dutch: ) is the northernmost province both of the Flemish Region, also called Flanders, and of Belgium.

Other hills in Belgium include the Kemmelberg ( 159 m high ) and the Koppenberg ( 77 m high ) both known as being climbed by professional cyclist during the annual cycling road races of respectively Gent – Wevelgem and the Tour of Flanders.

This status quo remained intact — at least on paper — until 1528, although by then both Flanders on the left bank and Zeeland and Brabant on the right were part of the Habsburg possessions of the Seventeen Provinces.

After his initial period of maintaining independent neutrality from both France and England failed, neighboring sovereigns in the Low Countries, stimulated as a matter of policy by Philip VI of France, became John's enemies ; among the adversaries of John were the Count of Flanders, the prince-bishop of Liège, and counts of Holland and Guelders.

Normally the Spanish Netherlands would act as a buffer between the Republic and France ; to conquer the strongly fortified towns of Flanders and the south of the Republic would both be too slow and too costly for a swift and decisive campaign.

A discussion of Belgian culture requires discussing both those aspects of cultural life shared by the Belgians, regardless of what language they speak, and the differences between the main cultural communities: the Flemish people from Flanders and the French-speakers from Brussels and Wallonia — although the grouping of Brussels and Wallonia as one cultural community is sometimes rejected, for instance by the Manifesto for Walloon culture as well as certain regionalists from Brussels.

Marie was regent for Baldwin for the two years she remained in Flanders and Hainaut, but by early 1204, she had left both her children behind to join him in the East.

In any case, Baldwin's other brother Philip of Namur remained as regent, and eventually both of Baldwin's daughters Jeanne and Margaret were to rule as countesses of Flanders.

The expedition was forced to withdraw when a dispute arose between Thierry, Count of Flanders and Raynald of Châtillon, the new husband of Constance of Antioch, both of whom wanted Shaizar for themselves.

West Flanders is the only Belgian province that borders both France and The Netherlands.

It borders ( clockwise from the North ) on the Netherlands and in Belgium on the provinces of Antwerp, Flemish Brabant ( both in Flanders ), of Hainaut ( Wallonia ) and of West Flanders ( Flanders ).

He fought with some distinction both in the civil war and on foreign service and, buying the commission of mestre de camp in 1655, he went on to serve under Turenne in Flanders.

Sluis () is the name of both a municipality and a town located in the west of Zeelandic Flanders, in the south-western part of the Netherlands.

His major trench offensives — the Somme in 1916 and Flanders in 1917 — were conceived as breakthrough battles but both degenerated into costly attrition.

In the fifteenth century the cities of Flanders, especially Bruges, came to outstrip Paris as a centre of both manuscript illumination and panel painting.