* In June 2001, Elton John sold 20 of his cars at Christie's, saying he didn't get the chance to drive them because he was out of the country so often.

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Christie's notebooks are open to imaginative interpretation and coloring in hindsight, and John Curran argues in his book Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks that Sleeping Murder was still being planned at the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s.

Boyd Neel had conducted the first music heard in the renovated Glyndebourne opera house in 1934, in private performances, at John Christie's invitation.

John Christie's original theatre was soon enlarged and improved many times after its initial construction.

Christie even thought of placing a murder at the Club with Oliver being one of the suspects / detective but it came to nothing ( Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, edited by John Curran ).

Another important architectural book was John Thorpes book of architecture, it was purchased at an auction held at Christie's on the 3 April 1810 and cost Soane twenty seven and half Guineas, the book contains nearly 300 plans and elevations of Elizabethan architecture & Jacobean architecture, mainly large mansions.

The one critic who was not so keen on the book was Christie's publisher, John Lane, who had wanted her to write another detective novel along the lines of The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

Also in 2012, the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted a joint motion by Christie's and Sotheby's to dismiss a class-action suit under the California Resale Royalty Act brought against them by artists Chuck Close and Laddie John Dill and the estates of artists Robert Graham and Sam Francis.

The following months saw him star as British Transport Police officer Mal Craig in the second series of BBC One's Five Days, Roman soldier Bothos in Neil Marshall's feature Centurion, stalking victim Jan Falkowski in U Be Dead, and Colonel John Arbuthnot in the Agatha Christie's Poirot adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express.

* Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime ( 1983 ) – " The Affair of the Pink Pearl " – John Rennie

In 1989, John Lennon's jukebox surfaced in an auction of Beatles memorabilia at Christie's, and was sold for £ 2, 500 ($ 4, 907 ) to Bristol-based music promoter John Midwinter.

* General John Gordon MacArthur, a fictional murder victim from Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None

John starred with her husband Geoffrey Beevers in an episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot titled " Problem at Sea " as Mr & Mrs Tolliver.

The Incident of the Dog's Ball was published in Britain in September 2009 in John Curran's Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years Of Mysteries.

John Davy Hayward in the Times Literary Supplement of July 10, 1937, whilst still approving of Christie's output, commented on some length at a what he felt was a central weakness of this book: " Who, in their senses, one feels, would use hammer and nails and varnish in the middle of the night within a few feet of an open door!

Philip John Stead concluded his review in the Times Literary Supplement of December 12, 1958, with, " The solution of Ordeal By Innocence is certainly not below the level of Mrs Christie's customary ingenuity, but the book lacks other qualities which her readers have come to expect.

The original story surfaced in 2009 in Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran.

John would become a " connoisseur of jewels ", building up a large collection, and became famous for his opulent clothes and also, according to French chroniclers, for his fondness for bad wine.

" She admitted a fondness for the early paintings of John Everett Millais and " the wonderful things " of Edward Burne-Jones.

" John Taylor of Duran Duran also has expressed fondness for the group ; Talk Talk opened for Duran Duran back in 1982.

John Bull's surname is also reminiscent of the alleged fondness of the English for beef, reflected in the French nickname for English people, les rosbifs ( the " Roast Beefs ").

Stapleton's fondness for dada, surrealism and absurdist humor are demonstrated in much of NWW's output, which, though it draws directly on a wide assortment of genres ( including cabaret music, nursery rhymes, John Cage, The Beach Boys, krautrock, ambient music, and easy listening ) retains a distinctive and recognizable aura.

John and Catherine were the only Swedish monarchs to reside in the Finnish part of the Swedish realm for any length of time, and their alleged fondness for the land inspired Finnish nationalists.

His fondness for John Dickinson's The Liberty Song is believed to be the reason Kentucky adopted the state motto " United we stand, divided we fall ".

In London, he acquired the nickname ' Lord Dashalong ' because of his fondness for racing through the streets in a carriage with four horses ; along with Lord Worcester, Lord Barrymore, Sir John Lade, Colonel Berkeley and Charles Buxton, Lord Sefton was a founding member of the Four-in-Hand ( also known as Four-Horse ) Club.

His fondness for the local history of his native Washington County, Indiana led him to push for the creation of the John Hay Center of Salem, Indiana.

His performance has become a classic among English translations for its racy, spirited rendering of the original, but has been faulted by translators such as John Ormsby ( who had a fondness for it ), for being so literal that certain words and phrases are completely mistranslated.

The story begins with John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester ( Depp ), delivering his prologue, the main themes of which are his fondness for drink, his sexual proclivities, and his disdain for his audience.

John Stone Stone early displayed a fondness for the study of physics and chemistry.

Shakspeare's fondness for children is every where shown ;— in Prince Arthur, in King John ; in the sweet scene in the Winter's Tale between Hermione and her son ; nay, even in honest Evans's examination of Mrs. Page's schoolboy.

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.

One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

John the Baptist used total immersion in the River Jordan for believers ; ;

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

The corporation voted on September 27, 1598, that Quiney should ride to London about the suit to Sir John Fortescue, chancellor of the Exchequer, for discharging of the tax and subsidy.

His mother Bess, who could not write herself, reminded her husband through Sturley to buy the apron he had promised her and `` a suite of hattes for 5 boies the yongst lined & trimmed with silke '' ( for John, only a year old ).

High-speed buses on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, operating between downtown Washington and Cabin John, Glen Echo and Brookmont, would constitute an alluring sample of what the new National Capital Transportation Agency can do for this city.

Shunted aside by the rampant organizers for John F. Kennedy last year, who relegated it to a somewhat subordinate role in the Presidential campaign, the CDC plainly intends to provide the party's campaign muscle in 1962.

when his Holiness Pope John 23, first called for an Ecumenical Council, and at the same time voiced his yearning for Christian unity, the enthusiasm among Catholic and Protestant ecumenicists was immediate.

Equally significant, Pope John has said that Catholics themselves bear some responsibility for Christian disunity.

For an instant John longed for the sound of the bells of Noyon-la-Sainte, the touch of his mother's hand, the lilt of Charles's voice in the square raftered rooms, his father's bass tones rumbling to the canons, and the sight of the beloved bishop.

John lifted his hand for silence.

To tell John something he would find out for himself.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of June 11th to 17th, 1961, as Miss Rhode Island Pageant Week, with deep appreciation to the Jaycees, local and statewide, for the presentation of their beautiful Pageants and the encouragement of all Rhode Island girls to participate.

Suppose John Jones, who, for 1960, filed on the basis of a calendar year, died June 20, 1961.

As has been the custom for the past several years, John Cross, Jr., Bench Show Chmn. of Westminster, arranged for the Juniors' meeting before the Class, and invited two speakers from the dog world to address them.

John Vernon had had all the patronage he cared for -- he had prospered, but he could not retire from horsedom.

Mr. John Magee, whose work has been discussed in this chapter, was quoted in a New Yorker Magazine profile as saying: `` Of course, you have to remember it's a good thing for us chartists that there aren't more of us.

Although Rhode Islanders were preparing for the state elections, they watched John Brown's trial with extreme interest.

Concerning the sentence, Foss wrote, `` If it be possible that mercy shall override vengeance and that John Brown's sentence shall be commuted to imprisonment, it would be well -- well for the country and for Virginia ''.