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In London, she was taken under the wing of the Lyceum Theatre group led by Ellen Terry ( who is said to have given her the nickname ' Pixie '), Henry Irving, and Bram Stoker and traveled with them around the country, working on costumes and stage design.
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Reared in England, she studied to be a teacher, earned several scholarships and was graduated with honors from the University of London.
I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:
She is just home from a sojourn in London where she has become the sweetheart of a young fellow named Ronnie ( we never do see him ) and has been subjected to a first course in thinking and appreciating, including a dose of good British socialism.
With this movie-to-be in London, and new faces about her there, she would soon be a more tranquil, a wiser person, all the better for her stay out here.
After four years of war-torn London, Christie hoped she can return some day to Syria, which she described as " gentle fertile country and its simple people, who know how to laugh and how to enjoy life ; who are idle and gay, and who have dignity, good manners, and a great sense of humor, and to whom death is not terrible.
* Marina and the Diamonds ( born Marina Lambrini Diamandis ), singer-songwriter who was born and brought up in Abergavenny until she moved to London at the age of eighteen.
Through the aegis of her scientific uncle, Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, a chemist and vice chancellor of the University of London, she consulted with botanists at Kew Gardens, convincing George Massee of her ability to germinate spores and her theory of hybridisation.
There is a belief that she was buried between platforms 9 and 10 in King's Cross station in London, England.
In view of the success of her novels, particularly Jane Eyre, Charlotte was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes.
In fact, she was recorded as a contact of a hostile intelligence service after giving an interview to a Soviet journalist based in London who was suspected of being a KGB intelligence officer.
When Catherine of Aragon travelled to London she brought a group of her African attendants with her, including one identified as the trumpeter John Blanke.
After her husband Joshua Raymond died, Mercy moved with her family to northern New London, Connecticut ( later Montville ), where she bought much land.
She commuted between London to be with her husband, and New York, where she was blacklisted and thus rendered unemployable during the Red Scare of 1919-1920.
Designed to Japanese specifications and ordered from the London Yarrow shipyards in 1885, she was transported in parts to Japan, where she was assembled and launched in 1887.
In a May 2011 interview Enya's manager said that she is working on a new album and will likely tour to support it, with part of the recording taking place in Abbey Road studios in London.
During the next three years, she continued her battle to qualify by studying privately with various professors, including some at the University of St Andrews, the Edinburgh Royal Maternity and the London Hospital Medical School.
The same year she was elected to the first London School Board, an office newly opened to women ; Elizabeth's was the highest vote among all the candidates.
Also in that year, she was made one of the visiting physicians of the East London Hospital for Children, becoming the first woman in Britain to be appointed to a medical post, but she found the duties of these two positions to be incompatible with her principal work in her private practice and the dispensary, as well as her role as a new mother, so she resigned from these posts by 1873.
In the same year, she co-founded London School of Medicine for Women with Sophie Jex-Blake and became a lecturer in what was the only teaching hospital in Britain to offer courses for women.
Elizabeth was brought to court, and interrogated regarding her role, and on 18 March, she was imprisoned in the Tower of London.
In 1941 she met Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters, a London surgeon with whom she began a relationship.
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That was the new advertising angle -- something about a Lloyd's of London policy to insure the secrecy of the secret ingredient.
Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.
His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!
In B. M. Spinley's portrayal of the underprivileged and undereducated youth of London, a salient finding was the inability to postpone gratification, a need to satisfy impulses immediately without the pleasure of anticipation or of savoring the experience.
The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.
After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.
He worked as a `` clothier '' in London, but was greatly concerned with religion.
Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.
He listed what he had spent for `` My own diet in London eighteen weeks, in which I was sick a month ; ;
He was in London `` searching records for our town's causes '' in 1600 with young Henry Sturley, the assistant schoolmaster.
Quiney was in London again in June, 1601, and in November, when he rode up, as Shakespeare must often have done, by way of Oxford, High Wycombe, and Uxbridge, and home through Aylesbury and Banbury.
With these and similar tales he was entertaining his English friends, all of whom he was seeing when he was not showing Blackman the sights of London and its environs.
Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.
The issue was acute because the exiled Polish Government in London, supported in the main by Britain, was still competing with the new Lublin Government formed behind the Red Army.
Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.
This trade was subject to a tariff of 7.5 per cent after February 1835, but much was smuggled into Assiniboia with the result that the duty was reduced by 1841 to 4 per cent on the initiative of the London committee.
There was Sounder, too, also a veteran of the North Rim, and Rastus and the Rake from a pack of English fox-hounds, and a collie from a London pound, and Simba, a terrier.
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As a naturalist living for two years at the headwaters of the Amazon, he had collected specimens for Mexican museums, and he had taken to the London zoo a live quetzal, the sacred bird of the old Mayans.
The Concordat of London in 1107 was a forerunner of the compromise that was taken up in the Concordat of Worms.
In December 1588 Oxford had secretly sold his London mansion of Fisher's Folly to Sir William Cornwallis ; by January 1591 the author Thomas Churchyard was dealing with rent owing for rooms he had taken in a house on behalf of his patron.
Two inquisitions were taken after Oxford's death, the first in 1604 for his property in Essex, the second in 1608 for his Great Garden property in London.
In early 1655 he was arrested at Whetstone, Leicestershire and taken to London under armed guard.
He was arrested and taken to London, where Parliament defeated a motion to execute him by 96 – 82.
H. G. Wells studying in London, taken circa 1890
For example, the will of the English colonist Robert Hayman mentions two " policies of insurance " taken out with the diocesan Chancellor of London, Arthur Duck.
It is the second largest metro system in the world in terms of route miles, after the Shanghai Metro and part of the largest system in terms of route miles when taken together with the Docklands Light Railway. The light metro lines in London are operated by the Docklands Light Railway, whereas the Shanghai Metro is a group of four companies which operate heavy rail rapid transit and light metro lines.
Supposedly taken by Robert Kenneth Wilson, a London gynaecologist, it was published in the Daily Mail on 21 April 1934.
London Transport was taken in to public ownership and became part of the British Transport Commission, which brought London Transport and British Railways under the same control for the first and last time.
The distance of the motorway from central London ( taken as Charing Cross ) varies from about near Potters Bar to near Byfleet.
The earliest patent was taken out by Henry Palmer in the UK in 1821, and the design was employed at Deptford Dockyard in South-East London, and a short line for moving stone from a quarry near Cheshunt, Hertfordshire to the River Lea.
Edmund Mortimer died in the final battle and Owain ’ s wife Margaret along with two of his daughters ( including Catrin ) and three of Mortimer's grand-daughters were taken prisoner and incarcerated in the Tower of London.
* Gruffudd, born about 1375, was captured and confined by the English in Nottington Castle and taken to the Tower of London in 1410.
#: The Three Governments have taken note of the discussions which have been proceeding in recent weeks in London between British, United States, Soviet and French representatives with a view to reaching agreement on the methods of trial of those major war criminals whose crimes under the Moscow Declaration of October, 1943 have no particular geographical localization.
As interest in rock and roll was beginning to subside in America in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was taken up by groups in major British urban centres like Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London.
On 24 March 1909, he had taken the Admiralty-based appointment of naval assistant to the Second Sea Lord which placed him conveniently in London.
Calvert suffered from bipolar disorder, at one point being sectioned under the Mental Health Act, Lemmy would sing on the single version of " Silver Machine ", his vocal an overdub of a live recording taken at the Roundhouse in London.
As a result of this decision in London, no action was taken in Canberra or Perth.
The surviving three were taken to London to meet the King and Queen, and were to an extent celebrities.
* From The Upper Deck, photography project, photos taken from London Double Deckers Buses
In line with this initiative, the Dubai International Financial Centre was announced, offering 55. 5 % foreign ownership, no withholding tax, freehold land and office space and a tailor-made financial regulatory system with laws taken from best practice in other leading financial centres like New York, London, Zürich and Singapore.
With the bankruptcy of the London Company in 1624, the settlement was taken into royal authority as a British crown colony.
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