Belgian journalist Jo Gérard has claimed that a family manuscript dated 1781 recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is now present-day Belgium, in the Meuse valley: " The inhabitants of Namur, Andenne, and Dinant, had the custom of fishing in the Meuse for small fish and frying, especially among the poor, but when the river was frozen and fishing became hazardous, they cut potatoes in the form of small fish and put them in a fryer like those here ".

He left this and became a freelance journalist.

The journalist became the middleman.

After having been implicated in a students ' political agitation he became a journalist, and in 1851 founded the newspaper Bremer Handelsblatt.

From 1960, Philby's formerly marginal work as a journalist became more substantial, and he frequently travelled throughout the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, and Yemen.

Foot became a journalist, working briefly on the New Statesman, before joining the left-wing weekly Tribune when it was set up in early 1937 to support the Unity Campaign, an attempt to secure an anti-fascist United Front between Labour and the parties to its left.

Alongside his political activism, he became a radio journalist, eventually becoming president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists.

She graduated from Harvard University in 1981, where she wrote for The Harvard Crimson, and became a journalist, writing for The New York Times, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal Constitution, San Jose Mercury News, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

While in San Diego he became a journalist for the Los Angeles Times as a special San Diego correspondent and also worked for San Diego Magazine and The San Diego Reader.

About that time, he became a journalist.

After the war, he became a freelance journalist, working for BBC radio before moving to television in 1948.

The most famous of all of Ingres's portraits, depicting the journalist Louis-François Bertin, quickly became a symbol of the rising economic and political power of the bourgeoisie.

The journalist and author Alan Reid described the position of the Government and Opposition as the crisis became acute in mid-October:

During this time, Gautier left La Presse and became a journalist for Le Moniteur universel, finding the burden of regular journalism quite unbearable and " humiliating.

The term was first used in The Week, a newspaper run by the radical journalist Claud Cockburn, but over time the allegations became more elaborate.

Instead, he became a journalist, working for the Royal Magazine, but found this unsatisfactory.

Virginia Tsouderou, who became Deputy Foreign Minister in the Mitsotakis government, and journalist Giorgos Karatzaferis ( later the founder and leader of a right-wing party, LAOS ) claimed that terrorism in Greece was controlled by Papandreist officers of Hellenic National Intelligence Service ( the Greek security and intelligence service ), and named Kostas Tsimas ( the head of EYP ) and Colonel Alexakis as two of the supposed controllers of 17N.

In 1956, he quit the army and became a full-time journalist, writing for the Léopoldville daily L ' Avenir.

Emile Marae a Tai, illiterate and raised in Tahiti, was brought to Chicago by French journalist Josette Giraud in 1963 and became an artist of note.

In response, coupled with the lack of suffrage in northern England, a " great assembly " was organised by the Manchester Patriotic Union, a group agitating for parliamentary reform, formed by radicals from the Manchester Observer: founder and journalist Joseph Johnson became secretary of the union, editor James Wroe its treasurer.

There he became a political journalist and published the satirical magazine " Mephistopheles " ( 1847 / 48-1852 ).

It is said that Ivan Straker, Seagram's UK chairman, became interested in the potential opportunity after reading a passionate newspaper article written by journalist Lord Oaksey, who, in his riding days, had come within three-quarters of a length of winning the 1963 National.

Sauvé then became a founding member of the Institute of Political Research and was hired as a journalist and broadcaster with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's French-language broadcaster, Radio-Canada.

Space journalist Andrew Chaikin claims that, following the death of Gus Grissom, Borman became astronaut chief Deke Slayton's choice to command the first Moon landing attempt.

He had a similar difficult relationship with the much older journalist Wolff Eder ( c1905-71 ), who became his stepfather in 1959.

Ordained in the Church of England in 1764, Newton became curate of Olney, Buckinghamshire, where he began to write hymns with poet William Cowper.

Vittoria Colonna became famous in the sixteenth century as a poet and a figure in literate circles.

The poet Christian Wernicke was born in 1661 in Elbląg, while Gottfried Achenwall became famous for his teachings in natural law and human rights law.

By the 1930s, the five-line cinquain verse form became widely known in the poetry of the Scottish poet William Soutar.

For instance, Erasmus became an intimate friend of an Italian Humanist Publio Fausto Andrelini, poet and " professor of humanity " in Paris.

In 1790, he became engaged to Johanna Rahn, who happened to be the niece of the famous poet F. G. Klopstock.

His great-grandson, Miklós Zrínyi, poet and general became of the better known stratagems of 1660s.

The Glaswegian poet Edwin Morgan became known for translations of works from a wide range of European languages.

This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Carol Ann Duffy, who was named as Poet Laureate in May 2009, the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet to take the post.

Hesiod's patrimony there, a small piece of ground at the foot of Mount Helicon, occasioned lawsuits with his brother Perses, who seems at first to have cheated him of his rightful share thanks to corrupt authorities or " kings " but later became impoverished and ended up scrounging on the thrifty poet ( Works l. 35, 396 ).

Dante's epic poems, known collectively as the Commedia, to which another Tuscan poet Giovanni Boccaccio later affixed the title Divina, were read throughout Italy and his written dialect became the " canonical standard " that all educated Italians could understand.

It thus became expected that educated Europeans should learn at least some Italian ; the English poet John Milton, for instance, wrote some of his early poetry in Italian.

Instead, in 1769, he enrolled at the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, where he became roommates and close friends with Philip Freneau, later dubbed " the poet of the Revolution.

Romantic friendships were also popular in the U. S. Enigmatic poet Emily Dickinson wrote over 300 letters and poems to Susan Gilbert, who later became her sister-in-law, and engaged in another romantic correspondence with Kate Scott Anthon.

In these early Baroque operas, broad comedy was blended with tragic elements in a mix that jarred some educated sensibilities, sparking the first of opera's many reform movements, sponsored by Venice's Arcadian Academy which came to be associated with the poet Metastasio, whose libretti helped crystallize the genre of opera seria, which became the leading form of Italian opera until the end of the 18th century.

On April 8, 1341, he became the first poet laureate since antiquity and was crowned on the holy grounds of Rome's Capitol.

He was educated in Bordeaux, where his teacher, the poet Ausonius, also became his friend.

Robert Anton Wilson ( born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 ), known to friends as " Bob ", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.

He spent five years at Charterhouse, three of which were spent with Richard Crashaw, who also became a poet.

Not only was Suleiman a distinguished poet and goldsmith in his own right ; he also became a great patron of culture, overseeing the golden age of the Ottoman Empire's artistic, literary and architectural development.

The Manchester Poetry Festival's Richard Michael became interested in sponsoring this event, and Henry Normal, an up and coming poet, initially decided to sponsor it himself.

* date unknown – Nalan Xingde, Chinese poet who became a scholar and officer in the Imperial Bodyguard ( b. 1655 )

The poet Harry Hooton became involved with it around this time.

The fresco became a source of numerous engravings circulating in Georgia at that time and inspired the poet Grigol Orbeliani to dedicate a romantic poem to it.

Murasaki became a popular subject of paintings and illustrations highlighting her as a virtuous woman and poet.