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Speaking to Mann later that day, he told him that such a drama could work better with a man as the central character rather than a woman.
The White-Slave Traffic Act, better known as the Mann Act, is a United States law, passed June 25, 1910 ( ch.
The act is better known as the Mann Act, after James Robert Mann, an American lawmaker.
Mann worked for more and better equipped school houses, longer school years ( until 16 years old ), higher pay for teachers, and a wider curriculum.
In the body of the work, we hear that he had been at Paris and Constantinople ; had served the Sultan of Egypt a long time in his wars against the Bedouin, had been vainly offered by him a princely marriage and a great estate on condition of renouncing Christianity, and had left Egypt under Sultan Melech Madabron ( al-Muzaffar Sayf-ad-Din Hajji I who reigned in 1346-1347 ); had been at Mount Sinai, and had visited the Holy Land with letters under the great seal of the sultan, which gave him extraordinary facilities ; had been in Russia, Livonia, Kraków, Lithuania, " en roialme daresten " ( Dristra or Silistra in Bulgaria ), and many other parts near Tartary, but not in Tartary itself ; had drunk of the Well of Youth at Polombe ( Quilon on the Malabar coast ), and still seemed to feel the better ; had taken astronomical observations on the way to Lamory ( Sumatra ), as well as in Brabant, Germany, Bohemia and still farther north ; had been at an isle called Pathen in the Indian Ocean ; had been at Cansay ( Hangchow-fu ) in China, and had served the emperor of China fifteen months against the king of Mann ; had been among rocks of adamant in the Indian Ocean ; had been through a haunted valley, which he places near " Milstorak " ( i. e. Malasgird in Armenia ); had been driven home against his will in 1357 by arthritic gout ; and had written his book as a consolation for his " wretched rest ".
The malicious caricature of Sporus does Hervey great injustice, and he is not much better treated by Horace Walpole, who in reporting his death in a letter ( August 14, 1743 ) to Horace Mann, said he had outlived his last inch of character.
Olsen and Johnson led a large cast of entertainers: the comedy team of Barto and Mann ( Dewey Barto and George Mann ); Charles Whithers ; celebrity impersonators, the Radio Rogues ; Hal Sherman ; Walter Nilsson ; singing group The Charioteers ; identical-twin dancers Bettymae and Beverly Crane ; stage magician Theo Hardeen ( better known as Houdini's younger brother ); the Hawaiian music of Ray Kinney and the Aloha Maids ; Bergh and Moore ; J. C. Olsen ; Reed, Dean and Reed ( Bonnie Reed, Syd Dean, and Mel Reed ); Roberta and Ray ; The Starlings ; Dorothy Thomas ; Shirley Wayne ; Cyrel Roodney and June Winters ; Billy Adams ; and Whitey's Steppers ( also known as Whitey's Lindy Hoppers ).
Albright and Mann suggest better translation would state that the kingdom is " fast approaching.
Albright and Mann note that the author of Matthew puts the verse in the past tense so that it fits better with his narrative.
* Kevin Danell Mann, American rapper better known as Brotha Lynch Hung
William Hort Mann, better known under his pen name Billy Mann, is a successful American record producer and songwriter.

Mann and than
Working mostly on A features, he made no fewer than eight films now regarded as classic-era film noirs ( a figure matched only by Lang and Mann ).
In My Own Utopia ( 1961 ) by Elizabeth Mann Borghese, gender exists but is dependent upon age rather than sex — genderless children mature into women, some of whom eventually become men.
* September 24 – Lebanese kidnappers release Jack Mann, 77, after more than two years of captivity.
In My Own Utopia ( 1961 ) by Elizabeth Mann Borghese, gender exists but is dependent upon age rather than sex — genderless children mature into women, some of whom eventually become men.
Less than a month later, he was re-arrested for having crossed a state line, before the Mann Act was passed, with Belle Schreiber, a prostitute who had left a brothel.
Mann is author of more than 200 publications, including a textbook on electric eyeglasses and a popular culture book on day-to-day cyborg living.
Pacino, who had worked with Mann previously in Heat, was more than willing to take on the role.
Manfred Mann did albums with more covers than original songs, following the mould of Vanilla Fudge.
In early 2004, MP John Mann revealed that some 1, 200 ( more than 1 %) of the 104, 000-strong population in the area were drug addicts.
As the experienced rescuers had hoped, more than 20 miners had fled into the Alter Mann as water was rising in the newer parts of the mine.
Dr Mann is author of more than 140 peer-reviewed and edited publications, and has published two books: Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming in 2008 and The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, published in early 2012.
In statistics, the Mann – Whitney U test ( also called the Mann – Whitney – Wilcoxon ( MWW ) or Wilcoxon rank-sum test ) is a non-parametric statistical hypothesis test for assessing whether one of two samples of independent observations tends to have larger values than the other.
Although Mann and Whitney developed the MWW test under the assumption of continuous responses with the alternative hypothesis being that one distribution is stochastically greater than the other, there are many other ways to formulate the null and alternative hypotheses such that the MWW test will give a valid test.
; Robustness: As it compares the sums of ranks, the Mann – Whitney test is less likely than the t-test to spuriously indicate significance because of the presence of outliers – i. e. Mann – Whitney is more robust.
Suggested prototypes for Hollingsworth include Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Horace Mann, while the narrator is often supposed to be none other than Hawthorne himself.
The Conservative candidate, Edmund Brocklebank, was much stronger than in the previous election, and the left-wing vote was split because he was also campaigning against Tom Mann, a noted communist.
" Georgetown University biologist Janet Mann states " Scientists who study the topic are often accused of trying to forward an agenda, and their work can come under greater scrutiny than that of their colleagues who study other topics.
" According to Simon Mann, Steyn " gives succour to the maxim the pen is mightier than the sword, though he is not averse to employing the former to advocate use of the latter.
Philip Snowden, a member of the ILP, liked Mann but was critical of his inability to stay with any one party or organisation for more than a few years.
Despite the canonic status of Berlin Alexanderplatz, Döblin is often characterized as an under-recognized or even as a forgotten author ; while his work has received increasing critical attention ( mostly in German ) over the last few decades, he is much less well known by the reading public than other representatives of German modernism such as Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, or Franz Kafka.
In an interview on the Today Programme Simon Mann indicated that the operations in Angola had netted more than £ 10M.

Mann and most
Mann did some of his most celebrated work with cinematographer John Alton, a specialist in what critic James Naremore describes as " hypnotic moments of light-in-darkness ".
The most common use of the Mann Act was to prosecute men for having sex with underage females.
< Dictionary. com http :// dictionary. reference. com / browse / lord >.</ ref > In only a few cases is " lord " a substantive title in itself, most commonly that of the Lord of the Manor and certain vestigial titles from the age of feudalism such as Lord of Mann, in other cases it is a generic term applied, for example, to persons who hold a title of the peerage or persons entitled to courtesy titles, or to refer to a group or body of peers.
In the 1990s most of the original 1960s line-up reformed as The Manfreds, minus Manfred Mann himself ( hence the name ), playing most of the old 1960s hits and a few jazz instrumentals, sometimes with both Paul Jones and Mike d ' Abo fronting the line-up.
Other London-based bands included the Yardbirds ( who would number their ranks three key guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page ), the Kinks ( with the pioneer songwriter Ray Davies and rock-guitarist Dave Davies ) and, Manfred Mann ( considered to have one of the most authentic sounding vocalists in the scene in Paul Jones ) and the Pretty Things, beside the more jazz-influenced acts like the Graham Bond Organisation, Georgie Fame and Zoot Money.
One of the most cited examples is the use of “ Roh = Mann = Tick ” instead of “ Romantik ” ( revealing romanticism as the craze of unsubtle men ).
Most historians treat Mann as the most important and beneficial leader of education reform in the antebellum period.
Michael Mann, who served as executive producer for the majority of the show's five-year run, is often credited with being one of the most influential Neo-noir directors.
Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet, a British resident in Florence, recalled in a letter that " The common people are convinced she went off in a hurricane of wind ; a most violent one began this morning and lasted for about two hours, and now the sun shines as bright as ever ..." The royal line of the House of Medici went extinct with her death.
Their most famous songs include " Hound Dog ", " Jailhouse Rock ", " Don't ", " Kansas City ", " Stand By Me " ( with Ben E. King ), and " On Broadway " ( with Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil ).
In 1999, she starred in the moderately successful Kachche Dhaage ( 1999 ), which was followed by six more releases, the most notable of them being Indra Kumar's drama Mann.
" Wild man " and its cognates is the common term for the creature in most modern languages ; it appears in German as wilder Mann, in French as homme sauvage and in Italian as uomo selvatico " forest man ".
Mann points to evidence suggesting that the Tale first circulated as an oral epic song for several decades before being written down, most likely in the early 13th century.
With regards to Wilamowitz this was most pronounced, but later Kerényi also started to distance himself of those aspects in Otto ’ s and Mann ’ s understanding of myth that he saw reflected in German nationalism.
Müller became one of the most important dramatists of the German Democratic Republic and won the Heinrich Mann Prize in 1959 and the Kleist Prize in 1990.
Müller is buried at Berlin's famous Dorotheenstadt cemetery, the final resting place of some of Germany's most important artists and philosophers: including Bertolt Brecht, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Heinrich Mann.
Rudd has become one of the most popular and marketable stars of Apatow films and the like, often starring with other regulars like Seth Rogen ( four films ), Jonah Hill ( three films ), Leslie Mann ( three films ), Kristen Wiig ( three films ), Jason Segel ( three films ), Steve Carell ( four films ), Elizabeth Banks ( five films ), and Joe Lo Truglio ( seven films ).
Michael Dean Lockwood ( born May 22, 1961 in Hawthorne California ) is an American guitarist and producer, a native of Bakersfield, probably most well known for producing and performing with Lisa Marie Presley and Aimee Mann.
" She said she spent most of her time reading such writers as Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann and Tolstoy.
Their apparent descendants, the House of Godred Crovan, ruled as Kings of Mann and the Isles from the 11th well into the 13th century, although they were vassals of the Kings of Norway for most of this time.
Anthony Mann ( June 30, 1906 – April 29, 1967 ) was an American actor and film director, most notably of film noirs and Westerns.
Its first principal was Edward Mann Butler, one of Kentucky's most prominent educators and a man who later became the state's most trusted historian.

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