The King's mother, the dowager Queen Mary, was even told that Simpson might have held some sort of sexual control over Edward, as she had released him from an undefined sexual dysfunction through practices learnt in a Chinese brothel.

In March 1907 he had resigned his conductorship of the Vienna State Opera, as the musical community in Vienna turned against him ( which was why he chose Prague for the work's debut ); on 12 July his first daughter died of scarlet fever ; and, even as she lay on her deathbed, Mahler learnt that he was suffering from an incurable heart condition.

It has even learnt to safely eat the poisonous cane toad by flipping it over and consuming the underparts.

Wood said, " It was one of the first tracks I learnt to play, but even to this day I can't play it exactly right.

" He said of his master: " this great intellect never learnt even to write his own name, but the most brilliant graduates of our university found in him an intellectual giant.

This is true even though Western society previously learnt from, and was informed by, the mythology of other cultures by including the study of Greek and Roman writings as part of its heritage.

But it will not necessarily be at all clear to an outside observer, or even to the speaker and hearer themselves, whether the form was already learnt and whether the rules were applied or not.

Educational costs: A part of the education budget has to be allocated for foreign language training ; even then, fluency among the foreign language students is lower than those who learnt it at home.

The two brothers are probably the latest composers who handled 16th century music as their mother-language ; suffering neither from the temptation to indulge even in such mild neologisms as they might have learnt from the elder brother's master, Nanino, nor from the necessity of preserving their purity of style by a mortified negative asceticism.

Holmes has been on this case for two years, and it has taken him to Chicago, Buffalo, and Ireland, where he learnt to play the part of a bitter Irish-American, even gaining the credentials of a member of a secret society.

It contains a discussion of some 40 phrases ( amounting to about 500 words ), which a certain Mademoiselle Héléne Smith ( a well-known spiritualist medium of Geneva ), while on a hypnotic visit to the planet Mars, learnt and repeated and even wrote down during her trance as specimens of a language spoken there, explained to her by a disembodied interpreter.

They are even consolidating the properties spread in various places and it is learnt that the prized property in Mumbai housing Belgium consulate in Cumbala hills have been disposed off for whopping sum.

Hence even Erskine H. Childers, who never learnt Irish and spoke with a distinctive Oxbridge accent that made pronouncing Irish exceptionally difficult, opted with some reluctance for the Irish version and pictures of the event show him reading from an exceptionally large board where it had been written down phonetically for him.

Vanessa especially received the brunt of Dinah's wrath when she learnt her mother had placed her for adoption without Ross even knowing about her existence.

When Mata ' pang learnt of his daughter's baptism, he became even more furious.

He even learnt to make bombs, but when he moved to Bombay in 1915, he drifted towards the Home Rule Movement, and was later elected member of the Subjects Committee of the Indian National Congress in 1917.

With the inestimable assistance of Anne M. Sullivan, Keller learnt to read and to write by Braille ; to use a typewriter ; and even to speak, and eventually mastered five languages.

The concept of mixing pathos with comedy was likely learnt from Karno: Stan Laurel, Chaplin's co-performer at the company, remembered that Karno's sketches regularly inserted " a bit of sentiment right in the middle of a funny music hall turn ".

However, this meant that the students denied themselves the opportunity to query what they had learnt or discuss it in greater detail.

The shift observed in these communities from their mother tongues into English meant that children, who could have learnt their native language from their family, are instead struggling in their mother tongue and often score poorly in high school foreign language classes.

His upbringing with a succession of tutors meant that he had not learnt to mix, and so he did not easily adapt to life in an officers ’ mess.

" He had little respect for the professors of his time, telling a friend in 1735, " there is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.

It was originally written, as certain peculiarities of construction and vocabulary clearly show, somewhere in northern England, but of the author nothing can be learnt except the fact, which he himself tells us, that he was a cleric.

There would, therefore, have been no consumer detriment ; all would have been well at this point, had nothing further untoward occurred, and the incident was a credit to National Grid-although the incident was sure to be closely studied to see if lessons could be learnt.

The Times wrote that he " was born and educated in England, and won his earliest successes in England, although, in a freak of boyish impetuosity, he repudiated some years ago all connexion with this country, where, according to his own account, he was born by mere accident and where he learnt nothing.

At the last moment, Laxmi begs him not to leave, claiming to have learnt the error of her ways ; she tears up the property papers and tells him that she does not want his wealth, all she wants is ' her son ' and nothing more.

Says Wilder: " We seem to have learnt nothing from past experiences and our so called ' civilised ' world is still awash with personal and global atrocities.

Fortunately for Bruce, his friend, and Edward's son-in-law, Ralph de Monthermer learnt of Edward's intention and warned Bruce by sending him twelve pence and a pair of spurs.

Vincentius's object in the Commonitory is to provide himself, as he states, with a general rule whereby to distinguish Catholic truth from heresy ; and he commits what he has learnt, he adds, to writing, that he may have it by him for reference as a Commonitory, or Remembrancer, to refresh his memory.

Ronsard's period of study occupied seven years, and the first manifesto of the new literary movement, which was to apply to the vernacular the principles of criticism and scholarship learnt from the classics, came not from him but from Du Bellay.

One of Albert Victor's instructors said he learnt by listening rather than reading or writing and had no difficulty remembering information, but Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, had a less favourable opinion of him, calling him " an inveterate and incurable dawdler ".

When Cardigan learnt of what was expected of his brigade, he questioned the sanity of the order as conveyed to him by Lucan, "… allow me to point out to you that there is a battery in front, battery on each flank, and the ground is covered with Russian riflemen.

In his presidential address to the British Association in 1871, Lord Kelvin stated his belief that the application of the prismatic analysis of light to solar and stellar chemistry had never been suggested directly or indirectly by anyone else when Stokes taught it to him at Cambridge University some time prior to the summer of 1852, and he set forth the conclusions, theoretical and practical, which he learnt from Stokes at that time, and which he afterwards gave regularly in his public lectures at Glasgow. Kirchhoff These statements, containing as they do the physical basis on which spectroscopy rests, and the way in which it is applicable to the identification of substances existing in the sun and stars, make it appear that Stokes anticipated Kirchhoff by at least seven or eight years.

Having learnt glass-painting in Birmingham under Francis Eginton, he visited London in 1790 with an introduction to Benjamin West, who found him employment on the painted-glass windows of St George's Chapel at Windsor.

* Second, on a visit to Midir ( escorted by Lug, the Dagdae and Ogmae ), Fúamnach announced that she would drive Étaín away from him and employed a spell which she had learnt from her fosterfather: she conjured up a mighty wind which blew Étaín through the air for the duration of seven years, after which she came to Óengus ( Mac Óc ) in the Brug.

Following his misadventures, Tim decides that the price is too high ... only to find that everything he has learnt from his supposed mentors has made it impossible for him to turn away from magic.

Gennadius is seen to have been a learnt writer and followed the Antiochene school of literal exegesis although little writings has been left about him.

In December the House learnt that he had signed letters of grace to recusant priests and Jesuits, and summoned him to answer the charge, but the king allowed him to escape to France.

According to Bartholin, Severino was the first to present the use of freezing mixtures of snow and ice ( 1646 ), and Thomas Bartholin initially learnt about the technique from him during a visit to Naples.

Xiang Yu was furious when he learnt that Liu Bang had beat him in the race to Guanzhong, and he wanted to kill Liu after being instigated by Fan Zeng and a defector from Liu's side, Cao Wushang.

Alexander also later learnt Indian philosophy from him.

In the early 16th century many Italian artists learnt the lesson of the huge, and very rapid, international prestige that Albrecht Dürer had gained through his prints, and set out to emulate him.

He says that he learnt timing playing with Gar and also that playing with him made him a better player.

As a result of his involvement with the Board of Trustees of Georgia, Hales learnt of the problems resulting from overcrowding of ships and this spurred him to invent a ship ventilator and undertake experiments to distil fresh water from sea water and to use salt to preserve meat on board ship.

* Sunni scholars who either attended Ja ' far Al-Sadiq's lectures or learnt from him:

Years later, Kansa learnt about the child's escape and kept sending various demons to put an end to him.