Markham proposes a possible answer to the funding question: seeing that Pytheas was known as a professional geographer and that north Europe was as yet a question mark to Massalian merchants, he suggests that " the enterprise was a government expedition of which Pytheas was placed in command.

Two of the earliest recordings which have a funk beat and lyrics which are rhymed in rhythm over this type of beat were released by comedian Pigmeat Markham, " Here Come the Judge " which was released in 1968 by the Chess label and in 1969 another song about running numbers called " Who Got The Number?

He was now moving in ever more exalted social circles — a telegram to Markham in February 1907 refers to meetings with the Queen and Crown Prince of Portugal, and a later letter home reports lunching with the Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet and Prince Heinrich of Prussia.

Their only child, Peter Markham Scott, was born on 14 September 1909.

In 1913, he began a romantic relationship with the actress and painter Kyra Markham ( who was much younger than him ).

The National Antarctic Expedition, known as the Discovery Expedition after the ship Discovery, was the brainchild of Sir Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographical Society, and had been many years in preparation.

In search of more permanent employment, Shackleton applied for a regular commission in the Royal Navy, via the back-door route of the Supplementary List, but despite the sponsorship of Markham and of the president of the Royal Society he was not successful.

The character of Perry Mason was portrayed each weekday on a long-running radio series, followed by well-known depictions on film and television, including " television's most successful and longest-running lawyer series " from 1957 to 1966 starring Raymond Burr ; another series in 1973 – 1974, starring Monte Markham and Brett Somers ; and 30 made-for-TV movies filmed from 1985 to 1993.

The Ellesmere Ice Shelf was reduced by 90 percent in the twentieth century due to climate change, leaving the separate Alfred Ernest, Ayles, Milne, Ward Hunt, and Markham Ice Shelves.

In April 2008, it was discovered that the Ward Hunt shelf was fractured, with dozens of deep, multi-faceted cracks and in September 2008 the Markham shelf ( 50 km < sup > 2 </ sup > / 20 square miles ) completely broke off to become floating sea-ice.

It was subsequently somewhat hidden behind a screen of ironwork erected by Archbishop William Markham in the early 19th century.

The probate and juvenile judge was Charlotte Eufinger, the engineer Jeff Stauch, the treasurer Tamara Lowe, the auditor Mary Snider, the clerk of courts Teresa Nickle, and the recorder Teresa Markham.

McLain was born in Markham, Illinois and attended Mt.

The present mayor is Councillor Michael Markham, who was selected in May 2012.

The family lived in Campbell, California, Later, while a junior at Campbell High School, he was the youngest person voted into the Edwin Markham Poetry Society, and won first place in the Society's student poetry contest.

The Devil and Billy Markham, published in Playboy in 1979, was later adapted into a solo one-act play that debuted on a double bill with Mamet's Bobby Gould in Hell ( 1989 ) with Dr. Hook vocalist Dennis Locorriere narrating.

It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and featured, at various times, Chelsea Brown, Johnny Brown, Ruth Buzzi, Judy Carne, Richard Dawson, Henry Gibson, Arte Johnson, Goldie Hawn, Larry Hovis, Jeremy Lloyd, Dave Madden, Pigmeat Markham, Gary Owens, Pamela Rodgers, Barbara Sharma, Alan Sues, Lily Tomlin and Jo Anne Worley.

Markham was surprised that his trademark had been appropriated, and he petitioned producer George Schlatter to let him play The Judge himself.

As part of the Markham Vale scheme to regenerate the site of the former Markham Colliery site there was a proposal to build a " Solar Pyramid " to form the worlds largest functional timepiece.

The mill complex area was home to the Markham post office and Markham train station ( Philadelphia / Baltimore rail traffic )

Sir Clements Markham, the Royal Geographical Society president who opposed Borchgrevink's Antarctic plans

During the Civil War, Markham enlisted as a private in Company G, 32nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment ; he was promoted to second lieutenant and after the war returned to Wisconsin and settled in Milwaukee.

The site was occupied by a William Markham, private secretary to Warren Hastings, in 1783.

Starting in 2004 tenants in The Markham Homes were evicted, so the site might be redeveloped.

Lawrence White and Jerry Markham rejected these claims and argued that products linked to the financial crisis were not regulated by Glass-Steagall or were available from commercial banks or their affiliates before the GLBA repealed Glass-Steagall sections 20 and 32. Alan Blinder wrote in 2009 that he had “ yet to hear a good answer ” to the question “ what bad practices would have been prevented if Glass-Steagall was still on the books ?” Blinder argued that “ disgraceful ” mortgage underwriting standards “ did not rely on any new GLB powers ,” that “ free-standing investment banks ” not the “ banking-securities conglomerates ” permitted by the GLBA were the major producers of “ dodgy MBS ,” and that he could not “ see how this crisis would have been any milder if GLB had never passed .” Similarly, Melanie Fein has written that the financial crisis “ was not a result of the GLBA ” and that the “ GLBA did not authorize any securities activities that were the cause of the financial crisis .” Fein noted “ ecuritization was not an activity authorized by the GLBA but instead had been held by the courts in 1990 to be part of the business of banking rather than an activity proscribed by the Glass-Steagall Act .” As described above, in 1978 the OCC approved a national bank securitizing residential mortgages.

In the 1980s housing developments came to the western part of Markham along with the industries which later flowed with technological and financial companies including Allstate.

* Cornell, within the city of Markham, Ontario, was designed with walkable neighborhoods, density to support public transit, a variety of housing types and retail.

Eventually Lae fell in September and soon afterwards, its elements were moved back to Port Moresby, before being sent to support the 7th Division's campaign in the Markham and Ramu Valleys and the advance on Madang.

Frank Markham then drafted a list of 35 constituencies where National Labour wanted to fight and wanted the Conservatives to support them.

The revision team was overseen by Baker and led by Luis Villa with key support from Gervase Markham and Harvey Anderson.

Both Redgrave and his second wife, Kika Markham, expressed support for Viva Palestina, a humanitarian convoy, led by British MP George Galloway, attempting to break what they asserted to be the siege of the Gaza Strip.

* September 4 – 5 – English-born aviatrix Beryl Markham becomes the first woman to make an East-to-West solo transatlantic flight, from Abingdon-on-Thames, England, to Baleine, Nova Scotia.

A short-lived ABC television series of the same name ran from 1969 to 1970, starring Monte Markham as Longfellow Deeds.

The act expanded Richmond Hill's borders, annexing parts of Whitchurch Township, Markham Township, Vaughan Township and King Township into Richmond Hill, expanding the area covered from to and the population from a little over 19, 000 to some 34, 000.

The Judge routine, made popular by legendary showman Sammy Davis, Jr. was borrowed from the act of long-time Burlesque entertainer Dewey " Pigmeat " Markham.

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The short segment from McCowan Road to Markham Road remained closed for over a year, as locals feared the funneling of traffic onto Main Street, which Markham Road narrows into north of the freeway.

When purchased, the highway ran from the junction of Highway 403 in Mississauga to Markham Road in Markham.

On August 23, 1952, a bi-plane piloted by Charles McKay and John Pretner took off from the island airport and crashed in the backyard of a home on Markham Street, near Dundas Street West in Toronto.

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The M ' Clintock Ice Shelf broke up from 1963 to 1966 ; the Ayles Ice Shelf broke up in 2005 ; and the Markham Ice Shelf broke up in 2008.

Police Sergeant Major Merire from Gomema village in Markham Valley near Lae was a member of the Royal Papuan and New Guinea Constabulary who joined the police force in 1936.

Clipped box met with resistance from garden patrons for its " naughtie smell " as the herbalist Gervase Markham described it.

Holles ) has been generally connected with him, but in the Dictionary of National Biography, Sir Clements R. Markham, a descendant from the same family, refers it to another contemporary of the same name, whose monument is still to be seen in Laneham church.

* Morningside Creek ( right )-flows from an area near Dension Avenue and Markham Road to southwest of the Toronto Zoo and east of Morningside Road

* Exhibition Creek-runs from north of 16th Avenue and Highway 48 to Markham and Highway 7

* Beaver Creek ( right ); flows from Richmond Hill to the future Downtown Markham development area ; bounded by Major Mackenzie Drive-Bayview Avenue to Warden-Highway 407 )

York Region Transit's bus # 15 ( Stouffville Local ) travels around the community of Stouffville, and their bus # 9 ( 9th line ) travels from the town to Markham Stouffville Hospital.

* September 4 – 5 – English-born aviatrix Beryl Markham makes the first east-to-west solo transatlantic flight by a woman, in her Percival Vega Gull The Messenger, from Abingdon-on-Thames in England to Baleine Cove on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada ( where she is forced to crash land ).

William Bateson was the first director from 1910 to 1926 ; Sir A. Daniel Hall was director, from 1926 to 1939 ; C. D. Darlington was director from 1939 to 1953 ; K. S. Dodds was director from 1953 to 1967 ; Roy Markham was director from 1967 to 1980 ; Harold Woolhouse was director from 1980 to 1988 ; Richard B. Flavell was director from 1988 to 1999.