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After correspondence with Miss Packard and to the joy of Miss Packard and Miss Giles, she came to Atlanta, in the fall of 1888, to help wherever needed, although there was then no money available to pay her a salary.
Miss Upton told the Trustees that the death of Miss Giles was `` the sorest grief '' the Seminary had ever been called upon to bear.
In 1929 a new church in Bath was dedicated to Saint Ælfheah, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in homage to the ancient Roman church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.
Daniel Foe ( his original name ) was probably born in the parish of St. Giles Cripplegate, London.
Yale died on July 8, 1721 in London, England, but was buried in the churchyard of the parish church of St. Giles in Wrexham, Wales.
His master, Moses Carver, was a German American immigrant who had purchased George's parents, Mary and Giles, from William P. McGinnis on October 9, 1855, for $ 700.
( The story goes that it was initiated by a certain Jenny Geddes who threw a stool in St Giles Cathedral ).
After control of Taiwan was handed to the Republic of China in 1945, the official romanization of the city name came to be " Kao-hsiung ", based on the Wade – Giles romanization of the Mandarin reading of the kanji name.
It was around this time that J. R. R. Tolkien was employed by the OED, researching etymologies of the Waggle to Warlock range ; he parodied the principal editors as " The Four Wise Clerks of Oxenford " in the story Farmer Giles of Ham.
The Commons Chamber was rebuilt after the war under the architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, in a simplified version of the old chamber's style.
Giles Corey was pressed to death during the Salem Witch Trials in the 1690s.
The only death by peine forte et dure in American history was Giles Corey, who was pressed to death on September 19, 1692, during the Salem witch trials, after he refused to enter a plea in the judicial proceeding.
The galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963.
It developed from a system produced by Thomas Wade during the mid-19th century ( ; Wade – Giles: Wei < sup > 1 </ sup >- t ' o < sup > 3 </ sup >- ma < sup > 3 </ sup > P ' in < sup > 1 </ sup >- yin < sup > 1 </ sup >), and was given completed form with Herbert Giles ' Chinese – English dictionary of 1892.
Wade – Giles was a common system of transcription in the English-speaking world for most of the 20th century, used in several standard reference books and in all books about China published in western countries before 1979.
Wade – Giles was developed by Thomas Francis Wade, a British ambassador in China and Chinese scholar who was the first professor of Chinese at Cambridge University.
The system was refined in 1912 by Herbert Allen Giles, a British diplomat in China and his son, Lionel Giles, a curator at the British Museum.
The Wade – Giles system was designed to transcribe Chinese terms, for Chinese specialists.
First forming in the Season One episode " The Harvest " to prevent The Master from opening a portal to hell, the line-up of the group varied from year to year, but the core that remained intact throughout the series ' run was Buffy herself and her best friends, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg, as well as her Watcher, Rupert Giles.
Giles was almost killed by the evil Angelus toward the end of Season Two.

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Improvements to the woodlands, gardens and estate buildings were also being made, assisted by the landscape gardener James Beattie and the painter James Giles.
At the end of the story, Giles is made Lord of Tame, and Count Of Worminghall.
Modern drug therapy for ED made a significant advance in 1983, when British physiologist Giles Brindley, Ph. D. dropped his trousers and demonstrated to a shocked Urodynamics Society audience his papaverine-induced erection.
Lack of a legitimate heir, however, remained a concern for Władysław I and in 1085 he and his wife Judith of Bohemia sent rich gifts, among which was a life size statue of a child made of gold, to the Benedictine Sanctuary of Saint Giles in Saint-Gilles, Provance begging for offspring.
In 2000, there were 1, 268 arrests made in Giles County, with 781 arrests in the city of Pulaski.
Consisting of an irregularly-shaped mixture of 18th, 19th, and 20th century buildings North Quad comprises the 18th-century buttery staircase adjoining the hall, the block containing the Senior Common Room, the 19th-century range along St Giles ', and the " Beehive " ( 1958 – 60 ), made up of non-regular hexagonal rooms.
Finding their way barred by Lake Amadeus and that their horses were getting very weak, a return was made to the Finke River and thence to Charlotte Waters and Adelaide, where Giles arrived in January 1873.
Giles ' friend Baron von Mueller raised a subscription so that a new expedition could be made.
Giles made his way back to their depot on foot in eight days, almost completely exhausted, to find that Gibson had not reached the camp.
There the preparations for his fourth journey were made, and with Tietkins again his lieutenant, and with what Giles had always wanted, a caravan of camels, a start was made on 6 May.
The structure is made of sandstone and is designed in the Prairie school of architecture by the late Alfred Giles
He had already in 1631 succeeded his father as second Baronet of Rockbourne and been created Baron Ashley, of Wimborne St Giles in the County of Dorset, in 1661, and was made Baron Cooper, of Paulett in the County of Somerset, at the same time he was given the earldom.
The floor of the Chapel of the Thistle in St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh is also made of this rock.
During the Scottish Reformation, which began in 1560, the Mary-Bell and brass candlesticks were scrapped to be made into guns, and the relic of the arm of St Giles with its diamond finger ring ( acquired in 1454 ) and other treasures were sold to the Edinburgh goldsmiths Michael Gilbert and John Hart, and the brass lectern to Adam Fullerton, for scrap-metal.
Giles lost on this point to some extent: while the governor's term remained short and he was still accountable to the General Assembly, the Constitution of 1830 abolished the Council — and thus made the governorship a bit more independent.
Giles successfully sued the author of the book, David Peace, who printed the work in 2006, from which the film was made.
Giles made his debut for the Surrey Second XI in 1990, and was named Surrey Young Cricketer of the Year in 1991.
In September 1993, he made his List A debut against the touring Zimbabweans, his first wicket being that of Grant Flower, although it would not be until the tail-end of the 1995 season before Giles began to cement his place in the Warwickshire side taking 16 wickets at an average of 22. 12 ( in 6 matches ).
On 2 July 1998, Giles made his Test debut against South Africa, and took 1 for 106 in 36 overs.
The golden jubilee of the church was celebrated in 1909, and a number of alterations were made under the direction of Giles Gilbert Scott.
The next morning she confronts Jenny at school, who admits she is a member of the Gypsy clan that cursed Angelus with his soul so long ago, and that if Angel ever felt a moment of true happiness, he would lose his soul ( revealing to Giles that Buffy and Angel made love ).
Although they have been informally betrothed for some time, her father has made financial sacrifices to give his adored only child a superior education and no longer considers Giles good enough for her.

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