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Letter from America was a weekly 15-minute radio series on BBC Radio 4, previously called the Home Service, which ran for 2, 869 shows from 24 March 1946 to 20 February 2004, making it the longest-running speech radio programme in history.
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* 1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
About a fifth of the law code is taken up by Alfred's introduction, which includes translations into English of the Decalogue, a few chapters from the Book of Exodus, and the " Apostolic Letter " from Acts of the Apostles ( 15: 23 – 29 ).
A milestone in the evolution of the canon of New Testament books is his Easter letter from Alexandria, written in 367, usually referred to as his 39th Festal Letter.
* Letter in Support of Lomborg in Scientific American, a defense of Lomborg's work, from Matt Ridley, former scientific correspondent of The Economist
*" The Letter from Mohaun Los " ( under the title of " Flight into Super-Time ") — Wonder Stories, August 1932 LW1
After working on the commentary for Resnais ' film Le mystère de l ' atelier quinze in 1957, Marker continued to form his own cinematic style with the feature documentary Letter from Siberia.
Paul's Epistle ( or Letter ) to Philemon, usually referred to simply as Philemon, is a prison letter to Philemon from Paul of Tarsus.
Some ancient sources, such as Hippolytus, and some modern scholars consider that the epistle " from Laodicea " was never a lost epistle, but simply Paul recycling one of his other letters ( the most common candidate is the contemporary Letter to the Ephesians ), just as he asks for the copying and forwarding of the Letter to Colossians to Laodicea.
His influence was perhaps most keenly felt when, on the Whigs ’ dismissal from office in 1834, he issued a pamphlet entitled A Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister on the Crisis.
The explicit statement that Jesus was himself the Arche does not come from John's gospel but from the Letter to the Colossians.
Letter from Paul Wolfowitz to the Minister ( government ) | Ministers of the Member State of the European Union | EU states from December 2001 as part of the US-lobbying campaign against Galileo
The doughnut claim has since been repeated by media such as the BBC ( by Alistair Cooke in his Letter from America program ), The Guardian, MSNBC, CNN, Time magazine, and The New York Times ; mentioned in several books about Germany written by English-speaking authors, including Norman Davies and Kenneth C. Davis ; and used in the manual for the Speech Synthesis Markup Language.
The scene is drawn from a footnote to the Letter to M. D ' Alembert on Spectacles | Letter to d ' Alembert where Rousseau recalls witnessing the popular celebrations following the exercises of the St Gervais regiment.
The bulk of Locke's publishing took place upon his return from exilehis aforementioned Essay Concerning Human Understanding, the Two Treatises of Civil Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration all appearing in quick succession.
* Letter from Cathy ( 2003 ) ( text from a letter by Cathy Berberian to the composer ) for female jazz voice, harp, violin, double bass, piano, percussion
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The British newspaper, The Guardian, recently reviewed the work of director Victor Sjöström and they wrote, " And in America his three most famous works-He Who Gets Slapped ( 1924 ), The Scarlet Letter ( 1926 ) and The Wind ( 1928 )-each dealt with human suffering.
In April 1768 he sent a letter to the colonial governors in America, instructing them to dissolve the colonial assemblies if they responded to the Massachusetts Circular Letter.
Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theater from 1971 to 1992.
After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for 42 years, Cooke retired in 1992, although he continued to present Letter from America until shortly before his death.
Shortly after emigrating, Cooke suggested to the BBC the idea of doing the London Letter in reverse: a 15-minute talk for British listeners on life in America.
Along the way, it picked up a new name ( changing from American Letter to Letter from America in 1950 ) and an enormous audience, being broadcast not only in Britain and in many other Commonwealth countries, but throughout the world by the BBC World Service.
On 2 March 2004, at the age of 95, following advice from his doctors, Cooke announced his retirement from Letter from America – after 58 years, the longest-running speech radio show in the world.
Other Radio 4 programmes mocked include Letter from America, Money Box, Brain of Britain, Counterpoint, Loose Ends, You and Yours and Front Row.
This state of the town was immortalised in the December 1987 song Letter from America by The Proclaimers, the lyrics " Linwood no more " referring to the car factory being demolished and the resultant need to leave your Scottish home.
For The Proclaimers, performing " Letter from America " on The Tube was instrumental in helping the Scottish duo to their first top ten UK hit ; it was also responsible for introducing Frankie Goes to Hollywood to their record label.
* A New and Fresh English Translation of the Letter of Columbus Announcing the Discovery of America.
Although bin Laden almost always emphasized the alleged oppression of Muslims by America and Jews when talking about them in his messages, in his " Letter to America " he answered the question, " What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you ?," with
Letter from America had its origin in London Letter, a 15-minute talk for American listeners on life in Britain that Cooke recorded during the 1930s while working as London correspondent for NBC.
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Her father, James Upton, was the Upton mentioned by Hawthorne in the famous introduction to the Scarlet Letter as one of those who came into the old custom house to do business with him as the surveyor of the port.
Another important example is the Tawagalawa Letter written by an unnamed Hittite king ( most probably Hattusili III ) of the empire period ( 14th-13th century BC ) to the king of Ahhiyawa, treating him as an equal and suggesting that Miletus ( Millawanda ) was under his control.
Athanasius ' letters include one " Letter Concerning the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea " ( De Decretis ), which is an account of the proceedings of that council, and another letter in the year 367 which was the first known listing of the New Testament including all those books now accepted everywhere as the New Testament.
It repeated this success in the Australian charts and was also featured in the film, Letter to Brezhnev.
The incident was chronicled in the Boston News Letter, which called Teach the commander of a " French ship of 32 Guns, a Briganteen of 10 guns and a Sloop of 12 guns.
The information used to create the late-fourth-century Easter Letter, which declared accepted Christian writings, was probably based on the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, wherein he uses the information passed on to him by Origen to create both his list at HE 3: 25 and Origen ’ s list at HE 6: 25.
During the same Fortran Standards Committee meeting at which the name " FORTRAN 77 " was chosen, a technical proposal was incorporated into the official distribution, bearing the title, " Letter O considered harmful ".
The first article about the movie's storyline was published in a 1977 issue of " Japanese Giants " ( published by Brad Boyle ) and was written by Richard H. Campbell, creator of The Godzilla Fan News Letter.
After the Unification of Germany, in the Empire Unification of 1870 ( Letter of the Emperor ) and the Founding of the Empire 1871, there was still no common national holiday.
Rousseau as noted above, was an enthusiastic supporter of the Italians against Jean-Philippe Rameau and others, making an important contribution with his Letter on French Music.
Burke's " Letter to a Member of the National Assembly ", published in February 1791, was a diatribe against Rousseau, whom he considered the paramount influence on the French Revolution ( his ad hominem attack did not really engage with Rousseau's political writings ).
On February 12, 1788, Madison in the Federalist Letter No. 54, stated that the Constitutional three-fifths compromise clause was the best alternative for the slaves current condition and for determining representation of citizens in Congress.
In 1971 Chernenko was promoted to full membership in the Central Committee: Overseeing Party work over the Letter Bureau, dealing with correspondence.
The Ancient Library of Alexandria According to the earliest source of information, the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas, the library was initially organized by Demetrius of Phaleron, a student of Aristotle, under the reign of Ptolemy I Soter ( ca. 367 BC — ca. 283 BC ).
The quote in the Letter of Paul to the Colossians differentiating between Luke and other colleagues " of the circumcision " has caused many to speculate that this indicates Luke was a Gentile.
" " The Letter " contained the nonsense lyric, " the ' puppetutes ' of love ," which was later picked up by the Steve Miller Band as " the pompatus of love " and used in their song " The Joker ".
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