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Howe and spent
There was also Earl Howe, who earned the nickname of Lord Torbay because he spent so much time ashore in Brixham.
Contemporaries and historians have criticized Howe for both his gambling and the amount of time he supposedly spent with Mrs. Loring, with some going so far as to level accusations that this behaviour interfered with his military activities ; historian John Alden does not give these ideas credence.
Although Howe would have preferred to make a landing on the Delaware River below Philadelphia, reports of well-prepared defences dissuaded him, and the fleet spent almost an entire extra month at sea to reach Head of Elk.
Howe spent the winter in Newport, Rhode Island.
Howe spent much of the next three years with the opposition attacking the government's alleged mismanagement of the war at sea.
Most of his time there was spent engaged in practical jokes and other hi-jinx and, years later, Howe told his children that he regretted that he hadn ’ t more seriously applied himself to his studies.
Howe spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts where he apprenticed in a textile factory in Lowell beginning in 1835.
Howe spent some time in Dublin, where she worked as an actor and assistant stage director with the Gate Theatre.
On arriving at the summit, upwards of an hour was spent in the enjoyment of the wonderful prospect, of which her Majesty frequently expressed her admiration – Lord Howe pointing out the many remarkable near and distinct objects which the fineness of the day brought within the reach of view.
Howe was in the Springfield area of Wolverhampton in 1935 and spent his secondary education at St. Peter's Collegiate School.
Howe spent most of his playing career at West Bromwich Albion, joining the club as a youth player in December 1950.
Denis Browne, brother of the 1st Marquess of Sligo and a member of Grattan's Parliament ; by William Beechey, of Howe Peter-the 2nd Marquess of Sligo, who spent four months in an English jail for bribing British seamen in time of war to bring his ship, full of antiquities from Greece, to Westport.
Washington spent much of the summer of 1777 trying to anticipate and counter the moves of British General William Howe, and the lull in the fighting allowed Scott time to file a protest with Congress regarding how his seniority and rank had been calculated.
Ley spent six years as the Whalers ' captain and was one of three players in Hartford Whalers ' history to have his jersey number retired (# 2 ), joining Gordie Howe and John McKenzie.

Howe and much
The two latter reefs are much closer to Lord Howe Island, New South Wales ( about 150 km ) than to the southernmost island of the rest of the territory, Cato Island.
John Lyne and Henry Howe, in a more positive evaluation, states that " re-analysis of existing fossil data has shown, to the increasing satisfaction of the paleontological community, that Eldredge and Gould were correct in identifying periods of evolutionary stasis which are interrupted by much shorter periods of evolutionary change.
Whereas he had been required to undertake much fieldwork and excavation whilst at Edinburgh, at the Institute his position as Director meant that this was not necessary, although he did undertake one excavation at Maes Howe, a Neolithic burial tomb plundered by Early Medieaval Norse raiders, during 1954 – 55.
Head First ( 1983 ), produced again by Ashley Howe ( who, according to Goalby, became " like the sixth member of the band "), followed much in the same vein, pursueing ( according to AllMusic ) " a similar combination of heavy metal firepower and AOR sleekness ".
William Howe Downs, art critic for the Boston Evening Transcript, summed up this position in 1900 by saying " Art is not so much a matter of methods and processes as it is an affair of temperament, of taste and of sentiment … In the hands of the artist, the photograph becomes a work of art … In a word, photography is what the photographer makes it ‒ an art or a trade.
Howe recalled the army to positions much closer to New York for the winter.
Howe was born in London, the second son of Emanuel Scrope Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, who died as governor of Barbados in March 1735, and of Charlotte, a daughter of Baroness von Kielmansegg, afterwards Countess of Darlington, the half-sister of King George I which does much to explain his early rise in the navy.
It is native to the lakes, dams and coastal rivers of south-eastern Australia, New Zealand, and much of the South Pacific, including New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, Tahiti, and Fiji.
Mass Transit, and after it Folio bookshop, became focal points for much of the poetic activity that was to result in the East Coast wing of the " Language " group, and here Darragh met other poets, including Susan Howe, Diane Ward, Doug Lang, Joan Retallack, and P. Inman, all of whom were also to become key members of the group.
Howe contributed much of the money he earned to providing equipment for the 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army during the Civil War, in which Howe served during the Civil War as a private in Company D and regimental postmaster from August 14, 1862, to July 19, 1865.
Throughout his first years in Europe, Howe was taking in as much as he could in the way of art, architecture and everything that was " simultaneously ancient and novel.
According to Leslie Roberts in his biography of Howe, " This was the Howe the country would soon come to know much better, the Howe on the rampage, the Howe who is impatient of criticism and deplores the debates and delays inherent in the parliamentary system.
Prior to December 31, 2001, the polluted water was being deposited directly into Howe Sound by means of Jane Creek and Britannia Creek and as much as 450 kilograms of copper was entering Howe Sound daily.
After ruling out a promotion of a sitting Associate Justice to Chief ( despite much lobbying from the legal community for prominent Justice Samuel Freeman Miller ), Grant offered the Chief Justiceship to Senators Oliver Morton of Indiana and Timothy Howe of Wisconsin, then to his own Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish, before finally submitting to the Senate his nomination of Attorney General George H. Williams on December 1.
In that fruitless meeting, held July 20, Washington pointed out that the limited powers the Howe brothers had been given were not of much use, as the rebels had done no wrong requiring an amnesty.

Howe and remainder
* Yellow-billed Spoonbill ( Platalea flavipes ): Common in south-east Australia, not unusual on the remainder of the continent, vagrant to New Zealand, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island.
He had no opportunity to gain any counterbalancing success during the short remainder of the war, but he was present at the final relief of Gibraltar by Lord Howe.
Called back to his riding after the remainder of his disastrous Prairie tour was canceled, Howe found that Fisher's appeals had caused defections among Liberals.
In 1788 he was further honoured when he was made Baron Howe, of Langar in the County of Nottingham, with remainder to his daughters and the heirs male of their bodies, and Earl Howe, with normal remainder to heirs male of his body.
He was succeeded in the barony of Howe according to the special remainder by his eldest daughter Sophia Charlotte ( see below ).
The same year he was granted a second earldom of Clanricarde in the Peerage of Ireland, with remainder, failing male issue of his own, to his daughters Lady Hester Catherine de Burgh, wife of Howe Browne, 2nd Marquess of Sligo, and Lady Emily de Burgh, and the heirs male of their bodies according to priority of birth.
Sitting upon Siward's Howe, it has throughout the life of the University been the home of the self-styled Alcuin Separatist Movement, a running gag at York, involving the secession of the college from the remainder of the university.
The remainder are all British Army officers and include Colonel Sir William Howe de Lacy ( the Quartermaster-General of the British Army ), Colonel Edward Stables and Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Milnes ( both 1st Foot Guards ), and Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon ( 3rd Foot Guards ).
Critics Rita Kempley and Desson Howe of the Washington Post also spoke positively of the film, citing the three main characters ' comical rap, the race for Peter to stop the wedding, and the relationship between Peter and Miss Lomax as the movie's most enjoyable scenes for anyone watching, although Howe also criticized the relationship between Peter and Lomax, claiming Ted Danson and Steve Guttenburg were overshadowed for the remainder of the film.
The Yellow-billed Spoonbill ( Platalea flavipes ) is common in southeast Australia ; it is not unusual on the remainder of the continent, and is a vagrant to New Zealand, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island.

Howe and year
On 9 May 2006, John Payne, Geoff Downes, John Wetton, Carl Palmer and Steve Howe contractually agreed that John Payne could continue his 15 year period with Asia as Asia Featuring John Payne.
Downes and the other three original members ( Wetton, Palmer and Howe ) convened a group meeting in England in early 2006 in anticipation of formally reforming for work that year.
Experts differ on the start date of Generation Y. William Strauss and Neil Howe use the start year as 1982, and end years around the turn of the millennium, while others use start years that are earlier or later than 1982, and end years in the mid-1990s.
On October 22 of that year, in what is known as the Battle of Red Bank, an attack by 900 Hessian troops, serving under British Major General William Howe, who then occupied Philadelphia, was repelled, with heavy losses on the Hessian side ( including the death of their commander, Colonel Carl Emil Kurt von Donop ) by the 600 Continental defenders under Colonel Christopher Greene.
A year later, Howe was offered a contract to play with the Houston Aeros of the newly formed World Hockey Association ( WHA ), who had also signed his sons Mark and Marty to contracts.
In 1974, at the age of 46, Howe won the Gary L. Davidson Trophy, awarded to the WHA's most valuable player ( the trophy was renamed the Gordie Howe Trophy the following year ).
The following year, he joined with Albert to form a Van Halen-inspired hard rock group named Howe II.
In the same year, Howe played as part of keyboardist / violinist Eddie Jobson's Ultimate Zero Project, in a line-up which included bassists Tony Levin and John Wetton, and drummers Marco Minnemann and Simon Phillips.
In each book, William Strauss and Neil Howe use 1982 as the starting birth year of this generation.
After leading British troops to a costly victory in the Battle of Bunker Hill, Howe took command of all British forces in America from Thomas Gage in September of that year.
His motives for this are uncertain ; historian John Buchanan argues that Howe was determined to attempt to draw Washington into a major engagement while both were in northern New Jersey, writing that " Washington's shift in position had whetted Howe's appetite for a major action when, if everything went right, he would finally accomplish what he and his brother's policies had denied him the previous year: the destruction of the Continental Army ", but that Howe's underlying campaign goal for the season was Philadelphia.
Every year he exhibited work of one class or another: occasionally a public monument in the round, like those of Pasquale Paoli ( 1798 ) or Captain Montague ( 1802 ) for Westminster Abbey, of Sir William Jones for University College, Oxford ( 1797 – 1801 ), of Nelson or Howe for St Paul's Cathedral ; more often memorials for churches, with symbolic Acts of Mercy or illustrations of Scripture texts, both commonly in low relief ( 1801 ), Miss Cromwell, Chichester ( 1800 ), Mrs Knight, Milton, Cambridge ( 1802 ), and many more ; and these pious labours he would vary from time to time with a classical piece like those of his earliest predilection.
In response, Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe and Wendell Phillips among others established the American Woman Suffrage Association in September of that year in Boston.
Germain approved Burgoyne's plan after having received Howe's letter, in which Howe said he would not be able to support the northern Army until late in the year, after the capture of Philadelphia.
The sceptical attitude towards Howe in Number 10 weakened him politically — even if it may have been driven to some degree by fear of him as a possible successor — a problem compounded by the resignation from the Treasury of his principal ally Nigel Lawson later in the same year.
He was then appointed to HMS Blenheim of 90 guns, and commanded her during the year in the Grand Fleet under Howe, at the relief of Gibraltar in October, and the encounter with the allied fleet off Cape Spartel.
Mahovlich had a strong finish to the season with the Red Wings, and the following year put up his best point totals in eight seasons, playing on a line with Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio, and setting his personal record for goals in a season with 49.
After Howe's first year in Halifax, engineering instruction of upperclassmen was taken away from Dalhousie and other universities in the province, and placed in a separate technical institute in which Howe had no role.
The same year, he resigned from government service to go into business with partners as C. D. Howe and Company, whose major business was initially the construction of grain elevators.
Ilya Kovalchuk recorded a Gordie Howe hat trick – a goal, an assist, and a fight – on February 4, 2012, the two year anniversary of his trade to the Devils, against the Philadelphia Flyers.
The next year, Howe was elected to the assembly as a liberal reformer, beginning a long and eventful public career.
When the Premier, William Young, was appointed as a judge later that year, Joseph Howe assumed the leadership of the party and therefore became Premier.
In 1821 he assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Howe and the same year the earldom held by his maternal grandfather was revived when he was created Earl Howe in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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