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The trademark image comes from a painting by English artist Francis Barraud, A. R. A.
When Mark Barraud died, Francis inherited Nipper, along with a cylinder phonograph and a number of recordings of Mark's voice.
In early 1899, Francis Barraud applied for copyright of the original painting using the descriptive working title Dog looking at and listening to a Phonograph.
The following year the Gramophone Company replaced the Recording Angel trademark in the upper half of the record labels by the picture painted by Francis Barraud, commonly referred to as Nipper or The Dog.
Nipper s original owner, Mark Henry Barraud, died in 1887, leaving his brothers Philip and Francis to care for the dog.
In 1898, three years after Nipper s death, Francis Barraud, his owner and brother of his first owner, painted a picture of Nipper listening intently to a wind-up Edison-Bell cylinder phonograph.
On February 11, 1899, Francis filed an application for copyright of his painting Dog Looking At and Listening to a Phonograph .” Thinking the Edison-Bell Company located in New Jersey, USA, might find it useful, he presented it to James E. Hough, who promptly said, Dogs don t listen to phonographs .” On May 31, 1899, Barraud went to the Maiden Lane offices of The Gramophone Company with the intention of borrowing a brass horn to replace the original black horn on the painting.
* August 29 – Francis Barraud, designer of HMV logo ( b. 1856 )
) The original painting was by Francis Barraud in 1893, as a memorial to his deceased brother, a London photographer, who willed him his estate including his DC-powered Edison-Bell cylinder Phonograph with a case of cylinders — some home-recorded — and his dog Nipper.
His Master's Voice ( 1898 ) by Francis Barraud.
An icon of the company was to become very well known-the picture of a dog listening to an early gramophone painted in England by Francis Barraud.
HMV stands for His Master's Voice, a painting created in 1899 by Francis Barraud, of the dog Nipper listening to a cylinder phonograph.

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`` But brother I can't take a job right now '', she said with her eyes on her ice cream, `` I'm going to have a baby, Francis Xavier's baby, my own husband's baby ''.
Two members of the Democratic-endorsed majority on the school board said they probably would vote to appeal a ruling by the state Board of Education, which said yesterday that the school committee acted improperly in its appointment of the coordinator, Francis P. Nolan 3rd, the Democratic-endorsed committee chairman, could not be reached for comment.
This use of the title is said to have originated in the right conceded to the king of France, by the concordat between Pope Leo X and Francis I ( 1516 ), to appoint abbés commendataires to most of the abbeys in France.
Saint Francis of Assisi, in Catholicism, is said to have received instruction directly from God and it is believed that he grants plenary indulgence to all who confess their sins and visit his chapel on the appropriate day.
Pope Benedict XVI said of both Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier: " not only their history which was interwoven for many years from Paris and Rome, but a unique desire — a unique passion, it could be said — moved and sustained them through different human events: the passion to give to God-Trinity a glory always greater and to work for the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ to the peoples who had been ignored.
Richardson said he based his performance of the scheming Francis Urquhart on the way Shakespeare portrayed Richard III.
In his Memoires ( 1658 ), Francis Osborne writes of " the last great Earle of Oxford, whose Lady was brought to his bed under the notion of his Mistris, and from such a virtuous deceit she ( Oxford's youngest daughter ) is said to proceed " ( p. 79 ).
Bowie, whose own music had inspired Francis and Santiago while they were at university, has said that the Pixies made " just about the most compelling music of the entire 80s ".
In Francis Barret's The Magus, it is said to make the bearer " amiable, pleasent, cheerful and honoured, removing all malice and ill-will ; it causes security in a journey, increases the riches, and health of body drives away enemies ..." In rituals, silver is said to encourages a harmonious energy and a sense of peace.
* September 14 – St. Francis of Assisi, while praying on the mountain of Verna, during a 40-day fast, is said to have had a vision, as a result of which he received the stigmata ( approximate date ).
On 13 May Powell, said the task force was sent " to repossess the Falkland Islands, to restore British administration of the islands and to ensure that the decisive factor in the future of the islands should be the wishes of the inhabitants " but the Foreign Secretary ( Francis Pym ) desired an " interim agreement ": " So far as I understand that interim agreement, it is in breach, if not in contradiction, of each of the three objects with which the task force was dispatched to the South Atlantic.
Henry arrived in the bedroom with King Francis, who is said to have stayed until the marriage was consummated.
Francis Ford Coppola said in April 2005 that he was not informed of Paramount's decision to allow the game to be made and he did not approve of it.
Katherine Howard was said to have had an affair with Francis Dereham before she came to court, in addition to committing adultery with Thomas Culpeper, and all three were executed.
The film's screenwriter, Robert Rodat, said of Mel Gibson's character: " Benjamin Martin is a composite character made up of Thomas Sumter, Daniel Morgan, Andrew Pickens, and Francis Marion, and a few bits and pieces from a number of other characters ".
As James Francis put it, " the most that can be said ... is that Apollonius appears to have been a wandering ascetic / philosopher / wonderworker of a type common to the eastern part of the early empire.
The practice is said to have begun in the late 16th century, when Queen Elizabeth I's representative Francis Throckmorton presented the Spanish Ambassador, Bernardino de Mendoza, with a specially constructed red briefcase filled with black puddings.
The restoration was confirmed by Francis Ford Coppola during a question-and-answer session for The Godfather Part III, when he said that he had just seen the new transfer and it was " terrific ".
When Sir Francis Bacon wrote an essay " Of Building ," ( XLV ) he said that " He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison.
Francis has said that not marrying Darin was the biggest mistake of her life.
The Order arose in 1520 when Matteo da Bascio, an Observant Franciscan friar native to the Italian region of the Marches, said he had been inspired by God with the idea that the manner of life led by the friars of his day was not the one which their founder, St. Francis of Assisi, had envisaged.
Pearce also notes that in her 1956 book, All the Books of My Life, Kaye-Smith said she had based " Mrs Adis " on an old story by St Francis de Sales.

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In his landmark work, The Singer of Tales, Albert Lord refers to the work of Francis P. Magoun and others, saying the documentation is complete, thorough, and accurate.
For example, Immanuel Kant used pure description to discuss recognition and its components and Sir Francis Bacon claimed that the simple observation of the rote recollection of a previously learned list was no use to the art of memory.
In 1848, the General Conference stated, when the Church has collected ... a great population born within bosom, she cannot fulfill her high mission unless she takes measure to prevent this population from being withdrawn from under her care in the period of its youth .” The first two American bishops of the Methodist Church, Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury, opened a preparatory school in Abingdon, Maryland in 1787.
The movie opens with Eddie Kearns debuting The Broadway Melody .” He tells some chorus girls he s brought the Mahoney Sisters to New York to perform it with him in Francis Zanfield s latest revue.
Amy Crawford, in Smithsonian Magazine, stated that modern historians such as William Gilmore Simms and Hugh Rankin have written accurate biographies of Marion, including Simms The Life of Francis Marion .” The introduction to the 2007 edition of Simms ' book was written by Sean Busick, a professor of American history at Athens State University in Alabama, who wrote,
" Francis Marion was a man of his times: he owned slaves, and he fought in a brutal campaign against the Cherokee Indians ... Marion's experience in the French and Indian War prepared him for more admirable service.
* Allan, Kenneth R. Metamorphosis in 391: A Cryptographic Collaboration by Francis Picabia, Man Ray, and Erik Satie in Art History 34, No. 1 ( February, 2011 ): 102-125.
In 1790 he was assigned to the South Carolina militia under Brigadier General Francis Swamp Fox Marion
The name of Marion came from Francis Marion, the American Revolutionary War hero, known as the Swamp Fox and the man upon whom the movie " The Patriot " was based.
In recognition of Francis William Schey and his contribution to social welfare the area occupied by the labour settlement was renamed Scheyville ”.
* Allan, Kenneth R. Metamorphosis in 391: A Cryptographic Collaboration by Francis Picabia, Man Ray, and Erik Satie .” Art History 34, No. 1 ( February, 2011 ): 102-125.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Virgin: Francis Picabia s La Sainte Vierge .” Word & Image 12, No. 2 ( April – June 1996 ): 218-242.
Nathaniel Ramsay / Key-Ramsey House Site ( CE-1300 ): Originally, the home of Francis Key, birthplace of John Ross Key and Father of Francis Scott Key composer of the Star Spangled Banner .” This structure was indicated in Benjamin Latrobe s 1813 sketch of Charlestown, located where the Charlestown Parsonage for St. John s Methodist Church stands today.
Members of the Borough Council are George Eckhardt, Ron Esposito, Francis Butch Gazzara, Gary Kemmerer, Matt Olive and Greg Schenker.
Founded in 1844, the city was named in honor of Brigadier General Francis Marion, the American Revolutionary War Hero whose talent in guerilla warfare earned him the name Swamp Fox ”.
The name of Marion came from Brigadier General Francis Marion, the American Revolutionary War hero, known as the Swamp Fox and the man upon whom the movie " The Patriot " was based.
* O ' Brien, Francis J. Jr. ( Moondancer ) Indian Place Names — Aquidneck Indian Council
Francis Brooke, adviser to Ahmed Chalabi and former employee of The Rendon Group said, Those arguments are false.
Stoke Bruerne Park in Northamptonshire was built by Sir Francis Crane, receiving the assistance of Inigo Jones ”, between 1629 and 1635.
Francis Asbury had a great distrust of person popularity, and equally marked distaste of personal publicity ”.

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