There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

However, ten years later, Stadtholder Maurice of Orange, proposed to continue the war with Spain, but also to distract attention from Spain to the Republic.

Meanwhile, Debussy was having one of his first major successes with in 1902, leading a few years later to ‘ who-was-precursor-to-whom ’ debates between the two composers, in which Maurice Ravel would also get involved.

Enclosing the image inside static vignettes or masks of shapes other than circular also began to appear in films during the years 1914-1919, including symbolic shapes such as a cruciform cut-out in the Mary Pickford film Stella Maris ( Marshall Neilan, 1918 ), and Maurice Elvey in Britain put romantic scenes inside a heart-shaped mask in Nelson ; The Story of England's Immortal Naval Hero ( 1918 ) and The Rocks of Valpré ( 1919 ).

Maurice Tourneur was also highly ranked for the pictorial beauties of his films, together with the subtlety of his handling of fantasy, while at the same time he was capable of getting greater naturalism from his actors at appropriate moments, as in A Girl's Folly ( 1917 ).

Furthermore, it has been established that a substantial portion of it was taken, without citation, from a 1864 satire on Napoleon III by one Maurice Joly ( his French language work, The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu )-so that it also constitutes plagiarism.

Maurice Summerfield of the Charles Summerfield Ltd company contributed some design ideas to Hoshino Gakki and also imported Ibanez and CSL guitars into the UK with Hoshino Gakki cooperation from 1964 – 1987.

She also starred in the successful musicals Lili ( 1953 ), with Mel Ferrer ; Daddy Long Legs ( 1955 ), with Fred Astaire, and Gigi ( 1958 ) with Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier.

Maurice Vallery-Radot, grandson of the brother of the son-in-law of Pasteur and outspoken Catholic, also holds that Pasteur fundamentally remained Catholic.

They also learned from Goldstine that, back in the UK, Douglas Hartree and Maurice Wilkes were actually building another such machine, the pioneering EDSAC computer, at the University of Cambridge.

The " pompatus " line is also a reference to an earlier song of his, " Enter Maurice ", which was recorded the previous year:

Petty was born in Level Cross, North Carolina, the son of Elizabeth ( née Toomes ) and Lee Arnold Petty, also a NASCAR driver and the older brother of Maurice Petty.

He also had some public support for his staying on in the War Cabinet for the duration, which was strongly backed by Sir Maurice Hankey, former WW1 Colonel and member of both WW1 & WW2 War Cabinets.

Directors such as Albert Capellani ( a French director who also did work in America directing Alla Nazimova films ) and Maurice Tourneur insisted on naturalism in their films.

Berman also worked with former Next Generation producer Maurice Hurley to develop possible story ideas.

However, Vidal's works were influential for the historical Annales School, who also shared the rural bias with the contemporary geographers, and Durkheim's concept of social morphology was later developed and set in connection with social geography by sociologists Marcel Mauss and Maurice Halbwachs.

The White Russian is also the drink of choice of Maurice Moss, an IT guy on the British sitcom The IT Crowd.

" 813 " may also refer to a duology of novels by Maurice Leblanc, starring his gentleman thief Arsène Lupin.

** Mary and David Boies also endowed a " Maurice Greenberg Chair " at the Yale Law School.

In 1930, Ellington and his Orchestra connected with a whole different audience in a concert with Maurice Chevalier and they also performed at the Roseland Ballroom, " America's foremost ballroom ".

The dramatic score by Maurice Jarre and the Super Panavision 70 cinematography by Freddie Young are also highly acclaimed.

Maurice Ronet and Dilip Kumar were also considered.

Husserl's conception of phenomenology has been criticised and developed not only by himself, but also by his student and assistant Martin Heidegger, by existentialists, such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, and by other philosophers, such as Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas, and Dietrich von Hildebrand.

Mayall was the star of The New Statesman ( 1987 – 92 ), a series created by Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks, whose biggest success, Birds of a Feather ( 1989 – 98 ), also deviated from British practice in being scripted by a team of writers.

Psychologism was also criticized by Charles Sanders Peirce and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

As an art critic, he campaigned on behalf of the “ great gods nearest to his heart ”: he sang the praises of Auguste Rodin, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Auguste Renoir, Félix Vallotton, and Pierre Bonnard, and was an early advocate of Vincent Van Gogh, Camille Claudel, Aristide Maillol, and Maurice Utrillo ( cf.

By 1975 Barnard had been hired by Parnelli Jones to work alongside Maurice Philippe designing the team's Formula One racer which campaigned from 1974 to 1976.

Derrida continued to produce readings of literature, writing extensively on Maurice Blanchot, Paul Celan, and others.

She was deeply influenced by the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who wrote extensively on perception, vision, embodiment, and painting.

Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia was first described in 1883 by Adolph Strümpell, a German neurologist, and was later described more extensively in 1888 by Maurice Lorrain, a French physician.

The field of nomography was invented in 1884 by the French engineer Philbert Maurice d ’ Ocagne ( 1862-1938 ) and used extensively for many years to provide engineers with fast graphical calculations of complicated formulas to a practical precision.

The Balkans had been pacified under Maurice, the Avars and Slavs having been kept at bay.

After his victory on the eastern frontier, Maurice was free to focus on the Balkans.

Meanwhile, Maurice was making plans for resettling devastated areas in the Balkans by using Armenian settlers.

Frustrated with the lack of support he received from the Exarch ( R. A. Markus describes him as a " large thorn in Gregory's side "), the Pope tried to circumvent Romanus ' authority by appealing to the Byzantine Emperor Maurice in 595, but this proved fruitless, given the fact that Maurice saw more emphasis in maintaining a link between Ravenna and the Balkans, where he kept the Avars and Slavs at bay.

These soon became so serious that a league was formed to crush him, and Maurice of Saxony led an army against his former comrade.

But the refusal to give the Protestants the right to vote and the consternation produced by the success of Maurice in his campaign against Charles V in 1552 effectually put an end to Protestant cooperation.

On 15 August 1642, with eight men, his mother and maids, he held out against Princes Rupert and Maurice with 18 troops of horses and dragoons.

* 1999 – Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.

* Byzantine Emperor Maurice disposes of Priscos and installs his own brother Peter as commander-in-chief in charge of the war against the Avars.

** Maurice maneuvers cautiously against the Duke of Parma near Arnhem.

Melanchthon on his way to Trent at Dresden saw the military preparations of Maurice of Saxony, and after proceeding as far as Nuremberg, returned to Wittenberg in March 1552, for Maurice had turned against the emperor.

Maurice Besnier has remarked that a temple to Iuppiter was dedicated by praetor Lucius Furius Purpureo before the battle of Cremona against the Celtic Cenomani of Cisalpine Gaul.

In 602, having created unrest in the legions by reforms intended to reduce the expenses of their maintenance, Maurice ordered the Balkan army, then campaigning against the Avars, to winter on the north side of the Danube, the unprotected far side of the river's protective boundary.

Lumumba and two other comrades from the government, Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito, were lined up against a tree and shot one at a time.

Some critics have found Derrida's treatment of this issue surprising, given that, for example, Derrida also spoke out against antisemitism and, in the 1960s, broke with the Heidegger disciple Jean Beaufret over a phrase of Beaufret's that Derrida ( and, after him, Maurice Blanchot ) interpreted as antisemitic.

The most common preventative measure against mumps is a vaccination with a mumps vaccine, invented by American microbiologist Maurice Hilleman at Merck.

Pelagius appealed for help from Emperor Maurice against the Lombards, but the Byzantines were of little help, forcing Pelagius to " buy " a truce and turn to the Franks, who invaded Italy, but left after being bribed by the Lombards.

Pursuant to the settlement, the painting was returned to the Shefner Family in resolution of litigation commenced against the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., Maurice Tuchman and Esti Dunow, the authors of the Soutine Catalogue Raisonnée.

A prominent general in his youth, Maurice fought with success against the Sassanid Persians.

Maurice had to continue the war against Persia.

Although the Senate advised against it with one voice, Maurice assisted Khosrau to regain his throne with an army of 35, 000 men.

In 591 Maurice launched several campaigns against Slavs and Avars – with good prospect of turning the tide.

Maurice organized the rebellion against Spain into a coherent, successful revolt.

As part of his efforts to find allies against Spain, Maurice received Moroccan envoys such as Al-Hajari.

Most urged to entrench the army across the road to Ostend, forcing Maurice to attack along a narrow front where the Dutch cavalry, mostly heavy, would not be effective against the lighter Spanish cavalry.

The Sapena and Ávila Tercios in the Dutch right made quick progress against the Frisian regiment, and Maurice sent his entire second line to protect that sector, stabilizing the front.

Maurice then sent his entire cavalry against the Spanish flank, except for the small body of cavalry in the second line that he kept in reserve behind the infantry.