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In 1926, Davies founded a publishing house, Peter Davies Ltd, which in 1951 released his cousin Daphne du Maurier's work about their grandfather, illustrator and writer George du Maurier, The Young George du Maurier, letters 1860 – 1867.
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* John Davies ( cricketer ) ( 1926 – 2005 ), Welsh cricketer
* John Humphreys Davies ( 1871 – 1926 ), Welsh lawyer, bibliographer and educator
The noted pacifist George Maitland Lloyd Davies was minister of Bethel and also of Maethlon Chapel in nearby Cwm Maethlon ( Happy Valley ) between 1926 and 1930.
After participating in the failed General Strike of 1926, Davies moved to London where he worked as a teacher at various schools.
Negri then met Rudolph Valentino at a costume party held by Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst at the San Simeon estate, and was Valentino's lover until his death in 1926.
For his honorary degree in 1926, Davies was introduced to the assembly at the University of Wales by Professor W. D. Thomas, M. A.
In 1926 Davies was honoured with the degree of Doctor Litteris, honoris causa from the University of Wales.
* Beverly of Graustark ( 1904 ) Gutenberg text ( filmed in 1926 with Marion Davies )
: 1926: William J. Davies
He was awarded the Military Cross after serving as an officer in World War I, and in 1926 founded the publishing house Peter Davies Ltd.
Beverly of Graustark ( 1926 ) is a silent film directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Marion Davies, Antonio Moreno and Creighton Hale.
Richard Davies ( born 25 January 1926 ) is a Welsh actor whose film and TV work covers many years but is probably best known for his performance as the exasperated schoolmaster Mr Price in the LWT popular situation comedy Please Sir !.
1926 and founded
Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party, more commonly known as Fianna Fáil () is a centrist to centre-right Irish republican and conservative political party in Ireland, founded on 23 March 1926.
Schools include Granville Boys High School which was founded in 1926, Granville Public School, Granville East Public School, Blaxcell Street Public School and Holy Family Catholic School.
The International African Institute ( IAI ) was founded ( as the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures ) in 1926 in London for the study of African languages.
The company was founded in December 1926 from the merger of four companies: Brunner Mond, Nobel Explosives, the United Alkali Company, and British Dyestuffs Corporation.
* 1926 – Charles Dolan, American businessman, founded Cablevision
The oldest, and arguably most famous, head race is the Head of the River Race, founded by Steve Fairbairn in 1926 which takes place each March on the river Thames in London, United Kingdom.
20 June 1926 – 17 October 2001 ) was an Israeli general, politician, and historian who founded the right-wing nationalist Moledet party, mainly advocating population transfer.
* 1926 – Joe Kubert, American writer and illustrator, founded The Kubert School ( d. 2012 )
Table tennis is governed by the worldwide organization International Table Tennis Federation ( ITTF ), founded in 1926.
In 1921, the Table Tennis Association was founded in Britain, and the International Table Tennis Federation followed in 1926.
The city hosts Ca ' Foscari University of Venice founded in 1868, Iuav University of Venice founded in 1926 and Venice International University an international research center founded in 1995 located on the island of San Servolo.
Bauhaus Dessau, built from 1925 to 1926 to a design by Walter Gropius founded modern architecture.
From 1917 to his death in 1926, Dzerzhinsky was first and foremost a Russian Communist, and Dzerzhinsky's involvement in the affairs of the Polish Communist Party ( which was founded in 1918 ) was minimal.
In 1926, he founded Fianna Fáil, and was head of government ( President of the Executive Council, later Taoiseach ) from 1932 to 1948, 1951 to 1954, and 1957 to 1959, when he resigned after being elected as President of Ireland.
In 1926, a separate Vereniging tot Kolonisatie van Nieuw-Guinea ( Association for the Settlement of New Guinea ) was founded.
The Tintagel Orpheus Male Voice Choir was founded in 1926 by Jack Thomas, a Welshman who worked at Trevillet Quarry.
Daimler-Benz AG () was a German manufacturer of automobiles, motor vehicles, and internal combustion engines ; founded in 1926.
Tex Rickard founded the Rangers in 1926.
* Broń Radom-men's football team, founded in 1926, currently in 3rd league.
In 1926, he founded the Étoile Nord-Africaine ( North African Star ) party, to which Messali Hadj, also a member of the PCF and of its affiliated trade union, the Confédération générale du travail unitaire ( CGTU ), joined the following year.
The organisation was decimated then, and further disintigration occurred in 1926 when Fianna Fáil was founded.
By 1926, management of the club had passed on to a new generation of members, and it was through their efforts that Odd were finally admitted into the regional series in 1927, ten years after the club was founded.
In 1926, Monsanto founded and incorporated a company town named Monsanto, later renamed Sauget, Illinois.
1926 and publishing
A. Griffith resulting in the publishing in 1926 of An Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design.
In 1926 the Institute expanded its reach beyond education and publishing by sponsoring the first non-commercial Christian radio station in America, WMBI.
" However, in 1926 he decided to go ahead, and ceased publication of The Experimenter to make room in his publishing schedule for a new magazine.
It was through Fitzgerald that Perkins met Ernest Hemingway, publishing his first major novel, The Sun Also Rises, in 1926.
* An Gúm has been publishing books in Irish since 1926 under the aegis of the Irish State.
Barnes had a long and active retirement, continuing to support the International Labour Organization, serving as chairman of the Co-operative Printing Society, and publishing several books, including his autobiography, From Workshop to War Cabinet ( 1923 ), and a History of the International Labour Office ( 1926 ).
After publishing Die Fahrt ins Weltall (" Travel in Outer Space ") in 1926, Ley became one of the first members of Germany's amateur rocket group, the Verein für Raumschiffahrt ( VfR-" Spaceflight Society ") in 1927 and wrote extensively for its journal, Die Rakete (" The Rocket ").
In 1926, Janco further antagonized the traditionalists by publishing sensual drawings for Camil Baltazar's book of erotic poems, Strigări trupeşti lîngă glezne (" Bodily Exhortations around the Ankles ").
Some of Dudeney's most famous innovations were his 1903 success at solving the Haberdasher's Puzzle ( Cut an equilateral triangle into four pieces that can be rearranged to make a square ) and publishing the first known crossnumber puzzle, in 1926.
As anti-German sentiment increased between the two world wars, Ridder successfully transitioned into English language publishing by acquiring the Journal of Commerce in 1926.
Jehovah's Witnesses ' publishing organization, Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, had printed its own edition of the King James Version since 1926, but did not obtain the rights to print ASV until 1944.
The corporation was formed in Quincy on July 1, 1926, as a publishing company upon the consolidation of Quincy Herald, direct descendant of the Illinois Bounty Land Register first published in Quincy in 1835, and the Quincy Whig-Journal, descendant of the Quincy Whig founded in 1838.
Along with Beckett and Borges, a commonly cited transitional figure is Vladimir Nabokov ; like Beckett and Borges, Nabokov started publishing before the beginning of postmodernity ( 1926 in Russian, 1941 in English ).
The expanded book edition was published in 1926 by the Berlin-based Buchmeister publishing house, which was owned by the left-leaning, trade unions affiliated book sales club Büchergilde Gutenberg.
In the same year ( 1926 ), the book club Büchergilde Gutenberg, which was Traven's publishing house until 1939, published his second novel Das Totenschiff ( The Death Ship ).
In 1926, he moved to New York and took a post as music director for Chappell Music ( a publishing house now owned by Warner Music Group ), and was music editor for such Broadway luminaries as Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin.
Brailsford went to Soviet Russia in 1920 and again to the USSR in 1926, publishing two books on the subject.
The Atlanta History Center was founded in 1926 by fourteen men as the Atlanta Historical Society and the next year began publishing the " Atlanta Historical Bulletin ".
In 1926, he joined Josef Florian's Christian community in Stará Říše and worked in its publishing house as a translator.
It has been alleged for years that American publishing executive Michael Temple Canfield ( 1926 – 1969 ) was the illegitimate son of Prince George and Kiki Preston.
Meantime, by 1925, Gumperz became head of " all the German Communist party publishing " but quit in 1926 out of dissatisfaction with the Soviet Union, to which he had been traveling frequently on business ( This Deception, p. 55 ).
After the death of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, Ruth White questioned the Will's authenticity as early as 1926, and openly opposed Shoghi Effendi's Guardianship, publishing several books on the subject.
In 1926, Wang began publishing a religious newspaper, Spiritual Food Quarterly.
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