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From youth, Giles was expected to follow the family tradition and become a Watcher, though as a teenager and young adult he rebelled, dropping out of Oxford University to experiment in dark magic and the rock music scene, until a bereavement brought him to his senses.
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From that work we learn that the higher education of the youth of Baghdad consisted principally in a minute and careful study of the rules and principles of grammar, and in their committing to memory the whole of the Qur ' an, a treatise or two on philology and jurisprudence, and the choicest Arabic poetry.
' Let's Dance ', with its little narrative surrounding the young Aborigine couple, targeted ' youth ', and ' China Girl ', with its bare-bummed ( and later partially censored ) beach lovemaking scene ( a homage to the film From Here to Eternity ), was sufficiently sexually provocative to guarantee heavy rotation on MTV.
From an imagination cultivated in her youth, Margaret Mitchell's defensive weapon would become her writing.
From his earliest youth he was fond of Dartmoor, his early associations centring around the neighbourhood of Sheepstor, Walkhampton, Meavy, and Yannadon.
Byrd himself may have held Protestant beliefs in his youth, for a recently discovered fragment of a setting of an English translation of Luther's hymn Erhalt uns, Herr, bei Deinem Wort, which bears an attribution to ' Birde ' includes the line ' From Turk and Pope defend us Lord '.
From the 1970s onwards, Egyptian pop music has become increasingly important in Egyptian culture, particularly among the large youth population of Egypt.
From the first rap vinyl recorded in the Turkish language —‘ Bir Yabancının Hayatı ’ ( The Life of the Stranger ) by King Size Terror — to the creation of an entire subgenre — Oriental hip hop — Turkish youth in Germany have embraced and moved beyond pure imitation of African American hip-hop culture.
From the late 1950s, the Schwinn Bicycle Company made use of children's television programming to expand its dominance of the child and youth bicycle markets.
From these locations, both youths had excellent views of the school cafeteria's side entrance, and each youth had initially intended to open fire upon students fleeing the school through the main entrances when bombs they intended to place inside the cafeteria detonated, with each shooter positioned to cover a main exit of the school and open fire on fleeing students.
From its headquarters in Independence, Missouri, the church offers a special focus on evangelism, peace and justice ministries, spirituality and wholeness, youth ministries and outreach ministries.
From his youth on a farm, he grew up to become a professional outfielder and veteran broadcaster for the Philadelphia Phillies and one of the most beloved sports figures in Philadelphia history.
Other important ethnographies in the discipline of sociology include Pierre Bourdieu's work on Algeria and France, Paul Willis's Learning To Labour on working class youth, and the work of Elijah Anderson, Mitchell Duneier, Loic Wacquant on black America and Glimpses of Madrasa From Africa, 2010 Lai Olurode.
From 1996 cooperation with The Norwegian Music Council has led to music seminars for youth and musicians at a high level of performance as a part of the festival.
From the 1460s until the end of his life he became one of the leading artists, painting both portraits and several large religious works, continuing the style he learned in his youth from his masters such as Rogier van der Weyden.
From this awkward position, McCarthy managed to collect together a team from the club's youth ranks, and some lower league signings, and free transfers.
From 1971 on, Gottschalk worked as a freelancer for the youth program of the Bayerischer Rundfunk ( Bavarian Broadcasting ); in 1973, he became anchor for a news program.
From his youth, he was attached to the royal court and held the office of Chamberlain to Queen Sophia.
From 2002 to 2005 the Government of the Cayman Islands sent some delinquent youth to Tranquility Bay ; the government funded the students as they were located in Tranquility Bay.
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* Robert E. Cooper, From Stepney to St Giles ': the Story of Regent's Park College, 1810-1960 ( London: Carey Kingsgate Press, 1960 ) ( 148 pages, illustrated )
From about 1648, Stony Stratford was divided between the ecclesiastic parishes of Calverton and Wolverton, and covered by two chapelries, St Giles, attached to Calverton, and St Mary Magdalen, attached to Wolverton.
* “ Walking Tall: From Grocer to Whisky Powerhouse, Johnnie Walker ’ s Been Going Strong for 186 Years ” by Giles MacDonogh, writing for Cigar Aficionado.
From the governorship, Giles encouraged Virginia's Senator Littleton Waller Tazewell to organize a southern resistance to the American System of Henry Clay centered on a boycott on northern manufactures.
Giles Smith joined Newell as the only other official member of Cleaners From Venus between 1986 and 1988, and in 1987, Newell returned to performing live under The Cleaners of
From 1959 to 1979 Graham was Usher of the Green Rod to the Order of the Thistle and participated in many state occasions including the unveiling of a memorial to King George VI in St Giles ' Cathedral, Edinburgh in 1962.
From -, Giles played in over 150 games each season for the Padres, but in 2006, his batting average dropped to a career-low. 263.
From 1777-1781 Craig was engaged on refurbishments at St Giles ' Cathedral, and also undertook works at the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens, then located on Leith Walk.
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From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.
From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.
From high in the tree, the whole block lay within range of the eye, but the ground was almost nowhere visible.
From being a hated tyrant and madman he was now the symbol of all that was noblest and best in the history of Sweden.
From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.
From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.
From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.
From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.
From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.
From proud pool-owners to perpetual hosts and handymen was a short step -- no more than the change from city clothes to trunks.
From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.
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