For instance, we read of Whiting, the last abbot of Glastonbury, judicially murdered by Henry VIII, that his house was a kind of well-ordered court, where as many as 300 sons of noblemen and gentlemen, who had been sent to him for virtuous education, had been brought up, besides others of a lesser rank, whom he fitted for the universities.

Also, the original code-breaking operation of the State Department, MI-8, run by Herbert Yardley, had been shut down in 1929 by Secretary of State Henry Stimson, deeming it an inappropriate function for the diplomatic arm, because " gentlemen don't read each other's mail ".

A further proclamation of 1538, aiming to stop the spread of Lutheran doctrine, saw Henry VIII note that " sondry contentious and sinyster opiniones, have by wrong teachynge and naughtye bokes increaced and growen within this his realme of England ", and declare that all authors and printers must allow the Privy Council or their agents to read and censor books before publication.

This evidence strongly suggests the play was still being read and performed as late as 1520, perhaps as late in Renaissance as the final years of King Henry VIII's reign.

After her death, Henry De la Beche, president of the Geological Society, wrote a eulogy that he read to a meeting of the society and published in its quarterly transactions, the first such eulogy given for a woman.

At a council of churchmen at Westminster on 25 August 1213, to which certain barons were invited, he read the text of the charter of Henry I and called for its renewal.

The Grapes of Wrath is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes due to its historical context and enduring legacy .< ref > A celebrated Hollywood film version, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, was made in 1940.

Henry James remembered hiding under a small table as a boy to hear its instalments read aloud by his mother.

Johnson was born in Galveston, Texas, the second child and first son of Henry and Tina " Tiny " Johnson, former slaves who worked at blue-collar jobs to raise six children and taught them how to read and write.

Corbett, Richard Briers, Josephine Tewson, Michael Grade and Peter Kay all read at the service, while others in attendance included David Jason, Stephen Fry, Michael Palin, Leslie Phillips, Lenny Henry, Dawn French and June Whitfield.

* Henry Travers as Joseph Newton, Charlotte's father, who loves to read crime stories

It stars Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Walker, Henry Travers, Albert Bassermann, C. Aubrey Smith, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Van Johnson, and Margaret O ' Brien and featuring narration read by James Hilton.

The publication in 1944 of the first in-depth study and analysis of Joyce's final text — A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake by mythologist Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson — tried to prove to a skeptical public that if the hidden key or " Monomyth " could be found, then the book could be read as a novel with characters, plot, and an internal coherence.

Did you ever read Henry James?

According to John Cottrell's biography of Laurence Olivier, however, Anthony Quinn was dismayed and angry when he read that Olivier was getting better reviews for his performance as Henry than Quinn had gotten, claiming that he would never have left the production if he had known that was going to happen.

In a hypothetical world where all books are published electronically, Ochse observes, readers would be " only a lightning strike, a faulty switch, a sleepy workman or a natural disaster away from becoming Henry Bemis at the end of the world "— that is, a power outage has the potential to give them time to read, yet like Bemis, they too would lose their medium for accessing their books — namely the computer.

Days and Recollections of North Stonington, Cyrus Henry Brown, paper read before the Rhode Island Historical Society, November 9, 1916.

Henry Richards Luard supposes that Paris never intended his work to be read in its present form.

Wollaston was too ill to deliver his final Bakerian in 1828 and dictated it to Henry Warburton who read it on 20 November.

The future King Henry I, who happened to hear mass there one day, was impressed by the speed with which Roger read the service and enrolled him in his own service.

He attempted to ridicule the innovators by reading aloud the Odes of Pierre de Ronsard with burlesque emphasis before Henry II, when the king's sister, Marguerite de Valois, seized the book and read them herself.

Henry Selden ( 1622 ) appears to have read the poem closely enough to admire it for its criticism of the church as well as its judgment and invention.

The Great Bible was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England.

The Horrid Henry stories are read on audiobook by the actress Miranda Richardson, and published by Orion Audio.

Because Chaplin was not a trained musician, he could not read notes and needed the help of professional composers, such as David Raksin, Raymond Rasch and Eric James, when creating his scores.

After publishing its own edition in 1979, the First Presidency announced in 1992 that the KJV was the church's official English Bible, stating " hile other Bible versions may be easier to read than the King James Version, in doctrinal matters latter-day revelation supports the King James Version in preference to other English translations.

In April 1688, James re-issued the Declaration of Indulgence and ordered all clergymen to read it in their churches.

Instead it's an intelligent, beautifully read ..." Stacy Keach played the role with an all-star cast at Joseph Papp's Delacorte Theatre in the early 70's, with Colleen Dewhurst's Gertrude, James Earl Jones's King, Barnard Hughes's Polonius, Sam Waterston's Laertes and Raul Julia's Osric.

James Tiptree Jr, in a letter to her, wrote, " Do you imagine that anyone with half a functional neuron can read your work and not have his fingers smoked by the bitter, multi-layered anger in it?

A further argument against the authenticity of the James passage is that it would have read well even without a reference to Jesus.

Wells has stated that the fact that Origen seems to have read something different about the death of James in Josephus than what there is now, suggests some tampering with the James passage seen by Origen.

James Welch, the BBC Director of Religious Broadcasting, who had read his 1940 book, The Problem of Pain.

After James took the step of forcing Anglican clergymen to read the Declaration of Indulgence — the proclamation granting religious liberty to Catholics and dissenters — from their churches in May 1688, his popularity plunged further.

At first he read Thomas Carlyle, James Hutton's Geology, Hamilton's Logic.

Many of the Founding Fathers, including Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, read Beccaria's treatise and were influenced by it.

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The structure of DNA was determined in 1953 by James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, following by developing techniques which allow to read DNA sequences and culminating in starting the Human Genome Project ( not finished in the 20th century ) and cloning the first mammal in 1996.

* Spring – James VII and II orders his Declaration of Indulgence, suspending penal laws against Catholics, to be read from every Anglican pulpit in England.

Once the convention came to order, Arkansas Senator James K. Jones, chair of the Committee on Resolutions, read the proposed platform to cheers by many delegates ; the reading of the pro-gold minority report attracted less applause.

He read Magellan and James Cook, the arctic explorers Franklin, Mackenzie and Parry, David Livingstone and Richard Francis Burton on Africa, Lewis and Clark ; and hundreds of lesser-known works by explorers and literate travelers.

To dispel rumours of a supposititious child, James had 40 witnesses attend a Privy Council meeting, but Anne claimed she could not attend because she was pregnant herself and then declined to read the depositions because it was " not necessary ".

Stephen J. Joyce, grandson of James Joyce, at a 1986 academic conference of Joyceans in Copenhagen, said “ If my grandfather was here, he would have died laughing ... Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can be picked up, read, and enjoyed by virtually anybody without scholarly guides, theories, and intricate explanations, as can Ulysses, if you forget about all the hue and cry.

The Washington speech was widely circulated and read throughout New Hampshire, and it led to Webster's 1812 selection to the Rockingham Convention, an assembly that sought to declare formally the state's grievances with President James Madison and the federal government.

On March 23, 1973, Judge Sirica read the court a letter from Watergate burglar James McCord alleging perjury had been committed in the Watergate trial, and defendants had been pressured to remain silent.

Frank Capra had read the James Hilton novel while filming It Happened One Night, and he intended to make Lost Horizon his next project.