His uncle, George Lauder, whom he referred to as " Dod ", introduced him to the writings of Robert Burns and historical Scottish heroes such as Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, and Rob Roy.

* Malleson, George Bruce ( 1879 ) History of Afghanistan, from the Earliest Period to the Outbreak of the War of 1878 W. H.

The simulcasting of the main national news bulletins has led to the presenters of those bulletins appearing on the channel, including Huw Edwards, Fiona Bruce, George Alagiah, Sophie Raworth, Kate Silverton and Mishal Husain.

* Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare ( 1919 – 2005 )

Others demonstrated a greater interest in English language poetry, among them Norman MacCaig, George Bruce and Maurice Lindsay.

* 1825 – George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer ( d. 1898 )

* 1865: In George MacDonald's novel Alec Forbes of Howglen, the character Annie Anderson is raised by her stingy relative Robert Bruce.

Thomas R. Bruce ( postmaster 1898 – 1928 ) was the first islander to design a postage stamp, the 1922 – 1937 George V ship-design — this significantly contributed to island revenues for several years.

Many authors: Stephen R. Marsh, Stephen Perrin, Ian Lee Starcher, Anthony Affronti, Jimmy Akin II, William A Barton, Norman Doege, Bruce Dresselhaus, Ray Greer, Zoran Kovacich, George MacDonald, Steve Maurer, Sandy Petersen, Wayne Shaw, John Sullivan — most are listed because they provided one or more optional rules.

* December 4 – The Hastie fire in Kingston upon Hull, England, leads to the deaths of 3 boys and begins the hunt for Bruce George Peter Lee, the UK's most prolific killer.

* March 1 – George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer and author ( b. 1825 )

* May 8 – George Bruce Malleson, English officer and author ( d. 1898 )

Notable practitioners of Bikram Yoga include Dan Hardy, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant, David Beckham, Lady Gaga, Ashton Kutcher, Robbie Williams, Andy Murray, Charles Barkley, Jennifer Farley, Lacey Turner, Madonna, Elton Brand, Ian Somerhalder, Nina Dobrev, Brooke Shields, Bruce Bowen, John McEnroe, Beyonce Knowles, Demi Moore, Tommy Smothers, George Clooney, David Robinson, Jennifer Aniston, Jeff Bridges, Toby Jones, Lea Michele, and Kiran Chetry.

" Likewise, George Bruce in his update of Harbottle's classic military history Dictionary of Battles maintains that " Charles Martel defeated the Moslem army effectively ending Moslem attempts to conquer western Europe.

According to White, most of the never-chosen dossiers were photographs of actors of other TV series, such as George Takei, various series staffers and their wives, including Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Geller

In addition to her production duties, Whoopi Goldberg served as the permanent center square, with Bruce Vilanch, Gilbert Gottfried, Martin Mull, and Caroline Rhea as regular panelists and Brad Garrett, Jeffrey Tambor, George Wallace, and various others as semi-regular panelists.

The contestants were Kathy Najimy and Lance Bass with Betty White, George Foreman, Kathy Griffin, Bruce Vilanch, Adam Carolla, and Adrianne Curry as the panel.

Over the years, Wireds writers have included Jorn Barger, John Perry Barlow, John Battelle, Paul Boutin, Stewart Brand, Gareth Branwyn, Po Bronson, Scott Carney, Michael Chorost, Douglas Coupland, James Daly, Joshua Davis, J. Bradford DeLong, Mark Dery, David Diamond, Patrick Di Justo, Cory Doctorow, Esther Dyson, Mark Frauenfelder, Simson Garfinkel, William Gibson, Dan Gillmor Mike Godwin, George Gilder, Lou Ann Hammond, Danny Hillis, Steven Johnson, Bill Joy, Jon Katz, Leander Kahney, Richard Kadrey, Jaron Lanier, Lawrence Lessig, Paul Levinson, Steven Levy, John Markoff, Wil McCarthy, Glyn Moody, Charles Platt, Josh Quittner, Spencer Reiss, Howard Rheingold, Rudy Rucker, Paul Saffo, Evan Schwartz, Peter Schwartz, Alex Steffen, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, Kevin Warwick, Dave Winer, Belinda Parmar and Gary Wolf.

The expanded 30th anniversary edition of the 1965 official book, The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation, was notable for its exclusion of most of the evidence against the map's authenticity, concentrating instead on vindications by George Painter, and Thomas Cahill with colleague Bruce Kusko ( in which they claimed specifically that they had not analyzed the loose particles they took from the map at the time of their PIXE research ), but it did reprint a remarkable essay written in 1989 by the original book dealer Laurence Witten.

The 1970s and 80s are regarded by many as a ' golden age ' of Australian cinema, with many successful films, from the dark science fiction of Mad Max ( George Miller, 1979 ) to the romantic comedy of Crocodile Dundee ( Peter Faiman, 1986 ) and the emergence of such film directing auteurs as Gillian Armstrong, Phillip Noyce and Bruce Beresford.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Stanley Cortez, Lee Garmes, George Barnes ( uncredited ) and Robert Bruce ( uncredited ).

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

Cryer has written for many noted performers, including Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Richard Pryor, Mike Yarwood, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise.

Others to win twice in this category include: George Seaton, Robert Bolt ( who also won in two consecutive years ), Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Alexander Payne and Michael Wilson.

Several streets and aviation related facilities in various New Zealand cities are named after him, including George Bolt Memorial Drive, the main access road to Auckland International Airport.

Davey enrolled at the University of British Columbia in 1957 where he met the influential poetry theorist Warren Tallman and student writers George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, Carol Bolt, and Fred Wah, and in 1960 the charismatic San Francisco poet Robert Duncan.

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Gabreski's 6½ MiG-15 kill credits make him one of seven U. S. pilots to become an ace in more than one war ( the others being Whisner, Colonel Harrison Thyng, Colonel James P. Hagerstrom, Colonel Vermont Garrison, Major George A. Davis, Jr., and U. S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel John F. Bolt ).

Contributing writers included George Bowering, Fred Wah, Frank Davey, Daphne Marlatt, David Cull, Carol Bolt, Dan McLeod, Robert Hogg, Jamie Reid, and Lionel Kearns.

Michael George Francis Ventris, OBE ( 12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956 ) was an English architect who, along with John Chadwick and Alice Kober, deciphered Linear B, a previously unknown ancient script discovered at Knossos by Arthur Evans.

Ronald William George " Ronnie " Barker, OBE ( 25 September 19293 October 2005 ) was an English actor, comedian, writer, critic, broadcaster and businessman.

Van Morrison, OBE ( born George Ivan Morrison ; 31 August 1945 ) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician.

Sir Trevor McDonald OBE ( born George McDonald on 16 August 1939 ) is a Trinidadian-British newsreader and journalist.

In 1917, George V created the OBE ( Order of the British Empire ) to recognize services to the nation made by commoners ( anyone who is not a Peer in their own right or the Sovereign.

George MacDonald Fraser, OBE FRSL ( 2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008 ) was an English-born author of Scottish descent, who wrote historical novels, non-fiction books and several screenplays.

George MacDonald Fraser was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) in 1999.

It is a rich haven of sport and recreation in the area a fact recognised when the long-serving manager George Beacom was given an OBE for services to sport in the local community.

Glenys Kinnock MEP, The Rt Hon Neil Kinnock, Jan Morris CBE, Dr Alex Moulton CBE RDI FREng, Dervla Murphy, Steven Norris, Jeremy Paxman, Jonathon Porritt CBE, Claire Rayner OBE, Richard Rogers, Bettina Selby, Jon Snow, The Rt Hon the Lord Waldegrave of North Hill, The Rt Hon Sir George Young MP.

* George Baker OBE CBE, High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea ( 1974 – 1977 )

Arthur George Bottomley, Baron Bottomley, OBE, PC ( 7 February 1907 – 3 November 1995 ) was a British Labour politician, Member of Parliament and minister.

Donald George ' Don ' Revie, OBE, ( 10 July 1927 – 26 May 1989 ), was an English footballer who played for Leicester City, Hull City, Sunderland, Manchester City and Leeds United as a deep-lying centre forward.

Sir George Shearing, OBE ( August 13, 1919February 14, 2011 ) was an Anglo-American jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records.

Leslie George Scarman, Baron Scarman, OBE, PC ( 29 July 1911 – 8 December 2004 ) was an English judge and barrister, who served as a Law Lord until his retirement in 1986.

George Vere Arundel Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway GCMG DSO OBE ( 24 March 1882 – 27 March 1943 ) was a British politician.

Bought by E. G. Martin ( Commander Evelyn George Martin RNR OBE ) in 1923 she was refitted and won the first Fastnet race from seven starters in August 1925.

Other people on the Board Of Directors were Martin George ( Chairman ), Dr Mary Archer MA, David Ball, Jean Barker OBE, David Cocks, Tony Durham MA, William Gibbs, Harry Giltrap, Patrick Sharman & Richard Winfrey.

George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig, 2nd Earl Haig OBE KStJ RSA DL ( 15 March 1918 – 9 July 2009 ) succeeded to the Earldom of Haig on 29 January 1928, at the age of nine, upon the death of his father, Field Marshal the 1st Earl Haig.

Alfred George Gardyne de Chastelain, DSO, OBE ( 1906 – 1974 ) was a British businessman, soldier, and secret agent, noted for his actions during World War II.

Gordon Cameron Jackson, OBE ( 19 December 1923 – 15 January 1990 ) was a Scottish Emmy Award-winning actor best remembered for his roles as the butler Angus Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs and as George Cowley, the head of CI5, in The Professionals.

Jason Leonard OBE ( born Barking, London, 14 August 1968 ), also known as " The Fun Bus ", is an English former rugby union prop forward who held the world record for winning the most international caps until 2005, when it was surpassed by Australia's scrum-half George Gregan.

George Brinton McClellan, Jr., CM, OBE, DFC, O. Ont, CD ( August 13, 1908, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan – July 19, 1982, Edmonton, Alberta ) served as the 13th Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, from November 1, 1963 to August 14, 1967.

Sir Richard Christopher Sharples KCMG OBE MC ( 6 August 1916 – 10 March 1973, St. George, Bermuda ) was a British politician and Governor of Bermuda who was shot dead by assassins linked to a small militant Bermudian Black Power group called the Black Beret Cadre.

Lieutenant Colonel Herbert George " Blondie " Hasler, DSO, OBE ( 27 February 1914 – 5 May 1987 ) was a distinguished Royal Marines officer in the Second World War, responsible for many of the concepts which ultimately led to the post-war formation of the Special Boat Service.