* 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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

Flanders and Swann both attended Westminster School, where in July and August 1940 they staged a revue called Go To It, and Christ Church, Oxford, two institutions linked by ancient tradition.

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.

The RSL also ensures that those who have served the country are commemorated for their service by providing funeral information to those who have served with the deceased and handing out individual red poppy flowers at the funeral to ensure that the deceased service to their country is acknowledged ( see In Flanders Fields ).

The loss of most of his Flemish troops forced Robert of Artois to flee back to Flanders.

Following the departure of Vendôme to shore up the shattered army in the Flanders, Prince Eugène and the Duke of Savoy inflicted a heavy loss on the French under the duc d ' Orléans and Ferdinand de Marsin at the Battle of Turin, driving the French out of Italy by the end of the year.

Flanders was an early and strong critic of fellow Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy ’ s " misdirection of our efforts at fighting communism ” and his role in “ the loss of respect for us in the world at large .” He felt that rather than looking inward for communists within U. S. borders, the nation should look outward at the “ alarming world-wide advance of Communist power ” that would leave the United States and Canada as “ the last remnants of the free world .” On March 9, 1954 he addressed Senator McCarthy on the Senate floor, expressing these concerns.

In the years that followed both Herford and Jeffcoat were killed in the trenches of Flanders, and Laycock never fully recovered from their loss.

Hieronymus Buclidius, a friend of Erasmus, gave more than 20, 000 francs to establish a branch of Hebrew studies at Louvain in Flanders.

During the Middle Ages, possession of Arras passed to a variety of feudal rulers and fiefs, including the County of Flanders, the Duchy of Burgundy, the Spanish branch of the House of Habsburg and the French crown.

The Minister-President of Flanders () is the head of the Flemish Government, which is the executive branch of the Flemish Region and Flemish Community ( see the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium ).

When the Habsburg empire was divided among the heirs of Charles V, the Low Countries, including Flanders, went to Philip II of Spain, of the Spanish branch of the House of Habsburg.

In 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht settled the succession and the County of Flanders went to the Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg.

His father, hoping to place the cadet branch ( or " Baldwinite " branch ) of Flanders over the county, began to associate him with his rule around 1086.

The political system in Flanders has an executive branch, the Flemish Government and a representative branch, the Flemish Parliament.

But as a result of Wars of Flanders between Spain and Netherlands, Portugal since 1580 in Iberian Union was Spanish Habsburg branch territory and closed its markets to Holland.

A fair share ( but not most ) of these territories were inherited by the Burgundian dukes, a younger branch of the French royal House of Valois in 1384, upon the death of Count Louis II of Flanders.

John's strategy was to isolate the rebel barons in London, protect his own supply lines to his key source of mercenaries in Flanders, prevent the French from landing in the south-east, and then win the war through slow attrition.

The British returned to Calais again during World War I ; it was near the front lines in Flanders, and a key port for the supply of arms and reinforcements to the Western Front.

This is perhaps most observable in the grisaille miniatures of northern Flanders, which often suggest, particularly in the strong angular lines of the draperies, a connection with the art of the wood engraver.

Almost all their raps / lyrics are in West Flemish, the Dutch dialect of the province of West Flanders, with the exception of some lines sung in Limburgish by DJ 4T4 or a mix between those two dialects.

The siege attracted aid from both England and Flanders, and while King Philip of France failed to interfere with the English supply lines or their army, Edward likewise failed to interfere with the supplying of the population of Calais by sailors loyal to France.

The line was proposed for closure in the Reshaping of British railways report which prompted it to be one of the lines featured in Flanders and Swann ’ s Slow Train, but it was reprieved.

Rustington achieved national fame in 1956 with the launch of Flanders and Swann's show At the Drop of a Hat, in which the Gnu Song contains the lines:

Goole station is mentioned in the song " Slow Train " by Flanders and Swann about various closed lines on the British railway network. No one departs, no one arrives, From Selby to Goole, from St Erth to St Ives. The Selby to Goole Line which opened in 1910, ran via the villages of Rawcliffe, Drax & Barlow until its closure in 1964.