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He returned to England, resuming his position as curate at Chipping Barnet in 1761, and began work on a book, publishing the lunar distance method of longitude calculation in 1763 in The British Mariner's Guide, which included the suggestion that to facilitate the finding of longitude at sea, lunar distances should be calculated beforehand for each year and published in a form accessible to navigators.
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:" This urn was presented to Lord Darnley by some ladies of Melbourne after the final defeat of his team, and before he returned with the members to England.
Ealdred had returned to England by 1055, and brought with him a copy of the Pontificale Romano-Germanicum, a set of liturgies, with him.
It is not known exactly when Edward the Exile's family returned to England, whether they returned with Edward in 1057, or sometime later, so it is only a possibility that they returned with Ealdred in 1058.
The fact of her birth is known because the governor of the settlement, Virginia Dare's grandfather, John White, returned to England in 1587 to seek fresh supplies.
When Jackson returned briefly to England in 1889 to marry, Housman was not invited to the wedding and knew nothing about it until the couple had left the country.
Marlborough returned to England on 14 December ( O. S ) to the acclamation of Queen Anne and the country.
Coke soon returned to England, but Asbury was the primary builder of the new church.
" The tour lasted 21 months, and the troupe — which also included Stan Laurel of later Laurel and Hardy fame — returned to England in June 1912.
They returned to England, where Clement was born as the third of four children.
Legend has it that α CVn was brighter than usual during the Restoration, as Charles II returned to England to take the throne.
Darwin was young and generally in good health, though six months previously he had been ill for a month near Valparaiso, but in 1837, almost a year after he returned to England, he began to suffer intermittently from a strange group of symptoms, becoming incapacitated for much of the rest of his life.
They worked together until the end of the war, when he returned to England to find work.
Syn returned to England on the night of a storm that wrecked his brig off the English coast in sight of Dymchurch.
Shortly after the first appearances of the Scarecrow, Nicholas Tappitt ( using the name " Colonel Delacourt ") and the ailing Imogene returned to England, ending up in Dymchurch.
Beatty was posted to the China squadron and only returned to England after being wounded at the siege of Tsientsin, eighteen months later in August 1900.
Beatty returned to England on leave where he met his future wife, Ethel Tree.
To her frustration, he made little progress and returned to England in defiance of her orders.
In 1652, when Elihu was three years old, the Yale family moved back to England and never returned to North America.
His father died in the winter of 1913, while Edwin was still in England, and in the summer of 1913, Edwin returned to care for his mother, two sisters, and younger brother, as did his brother William.
Douglass returned from England the following month.
In December 1929, after nearly two years in Paris, Blair returned to England and went directly to his parents ' house in Southwold, which was to remain his base for the next five years.
Orwell returned to England in June 1937, and stayed at the O ' Shaughnessy home at Greenwich.
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When he returned to his old school, however, he discarded them, resuming his short sighted antics.
After watching Baby Boom one night, they returned to New York City and wrote Barton Fink ( in three weeks ) before resuming the Miller's Crossing screenplay.
He quickly became dissatisfied with the education he was receiving there, and returned to Moscow several months ahead of schedule, resuming his studies there.
He returned as Stokowski's co-conductor for the 1942-43 and 1943-44 seasons, resuming full control thereafter.
Toscanini's state of mind soon underwent a change and he returned as Stokowski's co-conductor for the latter's second and third seasons resuming full control in 1944.
Welcker returned to Giessen in 1808, and resuming his school-teaching and university lectures was in the following year appointed the first professor of Greek literature and archaeology at that or any German university.
After a long visit to Spener, at that time a court preacher in Dresden, Francke returned to Leipzig in the spring of 1689, and began to give Bible lectures of an exegetical and practical kind, at the same time resuming the Collegium Philobiblicum of earlier days.
He returned to the company on 2011 to develop the XBLA port of Guardian Heroes before resuming independent work.
Dick Rauch also returned to the fold, resuming his position as head coach. Based at Boston's Braves Field, the Bulldogs nonetheless had a two-game swan song in their old stomping grounds, defeating both the Buffalo Bison on October 27 at Minersville Park and the Newark Tornadoes on October 29 at Mitchell Field.
In 1988, Slaughter returned to wrestling in the AWA, resuming some of his past feuds with the likes of Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissey, the Iron Sheik, and Col. DeBeers.
Suffering from gout, King returned to England in October 1796, and after regaining his health, and resuming his naval career, he was appointed to replace Captain John Hunter as the third Governor of New South Wales.
At the end of 1716 he left the Jesuits to join the army, but soon tired of military life, and returned to Paris in 1719, apparently with the idea of resuming his novitiate.
Indeed, the quarrels within the NCC, which Binaisa enlarged to 127 members, revealed that many rival and would-be politicians who had returned from exile were resuming their self-interested operating styles.
He returned on the August 30 episode of Raw, resuming his feud with Jericho ending in a ladder match for the vacant Intercontinental Championship at Unforgiven.
Disheartened, he returned to his hometown and turned out for Worksop Town of the Midland League in 1900 – 01, while resuming his studies, this time at Old Firth College in Sheffield.
He was appointed a Groom in Waiting in 1837, and in 1841 served for three months as a Lord of the Treasury under Melbourne, only resuming office five years later as a Lord of the Admiralty when the Whigs returned to power under Lord John Russell.
Facing the continued popularity of top-rated CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, NBC Nightly News returned to a co-anchor format from June 7, 1976 until October 9, 1979 with Brinkley resuming his old role at the NBC Washington desk ; internal disputes within NBC management prompted the network to remove Brinkley from Nightly News, assigning him to occasional documentaries until his departure for ABC in 1981.
After 1984, he returned to Europe, resuming his activities with Casa Românească and other Romanian cultural institutions in exile.
After three-and-a-half years as prisoner of war, Peeler was freed in August 1945 and returned to Australia in October, resuming his duties at the Shrine of Remembrance.
Wood returned to York by 1812, resuming his prior appointment as a magistrate.
In 2009, after three years of traveling around China, Hong Kong and Manila, Jay Fillon returned to the U. A. E., resuming his drum duties with the band.
Gimblett briefly moved to London to work, but city life was not to his taste and he returned home, resuming cricket for the Watchet club.
Between the 14th and the 19th of February, Dylan returned to New York City, resuming work at the Power Station.
After the war, they returned to Iowa in September 1945 resuming their broadcast on KMA Radio in Shenandoah.
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