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McGonagall moved north and was apprenticed as a handloom weaver in Dundee, following in his father's footsteps.
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McGonagall and moved
In 1895, McGonagall and his wife moved to Edinburgh.
McGonagall and was
William Topaz McGonagall ( March 1825 – 29 September 1902 ) was a Scottish weaver, doggerel poet and actor.
Despite the industrial revolution slowly making weavers obsolete, McGonagall appeared to prosper, as there was still need for skilled workers to perform tasks of great complexity.
The play should have ended with Macbeth's death, but McGonagall believed the actor playing Macduff was trying to upstage him, and refused to die.
McGonagall claimed he was inspired to become a poet when he " seemed to feel a strange kind of feeling stealing over, and remained so for about five minutes.
McGonagall told the man that " it was so very bad that Her Majesty had thanked for what Chief Templar had condemned.
McGonagall presented the letter but was refused entry and had to return home.
These were popular, the people of Dundee possibly recognising that McGonagall was " so giftedly bad he backed unwittingly into genius " He met with the ire of the publicans, on one occasion being pelted with peas for reciting a poem about the evils of " strong drink ".
McGonagall was outraged and wrote a poem in response entitled Lines in Protest to the Dundee Magistrates:
In 1890, McGonagall was in dire straits financially.
Despite the fact that this was a fairly transparent hoax, McGonagall would refer to himself as " Sir William Topaz McGonagall, Knight of the White Elephant, Burmah " in his advertising for the rest of his life.
Here, McGonagall met with some success, becoming a " cult figure " and was in great demand.
* The memory of McGonagall was resurrected by comedian Spike Milligan.
* A collection of 35 broadsheet poems of McGonagall, the majority signed by him, was bought for £ 6, 600 ( including commission ) from Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh auctionneers, on 16 May 2008 .< ref >
The event was commemorated in a poem, The Tay Bridge Disaster, written by William McGonagall, a notoriously unskilled Scottish poet.
Crieff was immortalised by William McGonagall in his poem " Crieff "
In 1898 William McGonagall wrote Lines in Praise of Tommy Atkins, which was an attack on what McGonagall saw as the disparaging portrayal of Tommy in Kipling's poem.
This is the hospital where Arthur Weasley is sent after he was attacked by Voldemort's snake, Nagini, in the Ministry of Magic and Minerva McGonagall is hospitalised from severe stunning when Hagrid is forced out of Hogwarts.
A poem was later written about McLean's attempt on the Queen's life by William Topaz McGonagall ,< ref >
Most importantly, like McGonagall, she was drawn to themes of accident, disaster, and sudden death ; as has been said of A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad, in her pages you can count the dead and wounded.
The battle was celebrated by the Scottish doggerel poet William McGonagall:
The action was commemorated in verse by William McGonagall, the pipe march The Heights of Dargai by J. Wallace and the fiddle tune Dargai by James Scott Skinner.
McGonagall and .
Minerva is also the first name of Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter's Head of House, and a very wise witch of Hogwarts, always concerned with the safety of her students.
* In the Harry Potter series, J. K Rowling named a leading female character Minerva McGonagall in light of the Goddess.
Also, like Minerva ( who had the ability to transform into an owl ), the character of McGonagall had the ability to transfigure into a cat.
Also, like Minerva's other trait as a goddess of war, Minerva McGonagall is shown to be a good and courageous soldier, actually dueling Tom Marvolo Riddle himself.
* The Great McGonagall ( 1974 ), untalented Scottish poet ( based on William Topaz McGonagall ) angles to become laureate, with Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria.
McGonagall has been acclaimed as the worst poet in British history.
By the 1870s, McGonagall and his family were struggling.
McGonagall realised if he were to succeed as a poet, he required a patron and wrote to Queen Victoria.
McGonagall took this as praise for his work.
The letter gave McGonagall confidence in his " poetic abilities ", and he felt his reputation could be enhanced further if he were to give a live performance before the queen.
Throughout his life McGonagall campaigned against excessive drinking, appearing in pubs and bars to give edifying poems and speeches.
McGonagall constantly struggled with money and earned money by selling his poems in the streets, or reciting them in halls, theatres and public houses.
Throughout his life McGonagall seemed oblivious to the general opinion of his poems, even when his audience were pelting him with eggs and vegetables.
The proceeds provided McGonagall with enough money to live on for a time.
moved and north
The British general moved his forces north from Philadelphia to Chestnut Hill, near the right wing of the patriot encampment.
So: Means edged around on the north side of her, Jones moved in from the south.
The family moved north across the Ohio River to free ( i. e., non-slave ) territory and made a new start in what was then Perry County but is now Spencer County, Indiana.
While Crittenden was away in Richmond, Zollicoffer moved his forces to the north bank of the upper Cumberland River near Mill Springs ( now Nancy, Kentucky ), putting the river to his back and his forces into a trap.
As-gard, he conjectures, is the home of the Æsir ( singular Ás ) in As-ia, making a folk etymological connection between the three " As -"; that is, the Æsir were " men of Asia ", not gods, who moved from Asia to the north and some of which intermarried with the peoples already there.
The institution moved to a new campus constructed on the Gorge Road, north of the central business district, in 1996.
Some authors even argue that the language moved westward during Late Antiquity, after the fall of Rome, into the north part of Hispania in which Basque is spoken today.
" In response to Marlborough's manoeuvres, the Elector and Marsin, conscious of their numerical disadvantage with only 40, 000 men, moved their forces to the entrenched camp at Dillingen on the north bank of the Danube.
Having migrated to Italy from north of the Alps, some of the defeated Celts simply moved back to their kinsfolk.
Further north, Broadway follows the old Bloomingdale Road as the main spine of the Upper West Side, passing the campus of Columbia University at 116th Street in Morningside Heights, in part on the tract that housed the Bloomingdale ( Lunatic ) Asylum from 1808 until it moved to Westchester County in 1894.
John's part in the general strategy was carried out at first, but the allies in the north moved slowly.
In addition to the production of nutmeg and mace, Banda maintained significant entrepot trade ; goods that moved through Banda included cloves from Ternate and Tidore in the north, bird of paradise feathers from the Aru Islands and western New Guinea, massoi bark for traditional medicines, and slaves.
Under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor, a military column, commanded by Colonel Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and including two battalions of Sara troops, moved north from N ' Djamena ( then Fort Lamy ) to engage Axis forces in Libya, where, in partnership with the British Army's Long Range Desert Group, they captured Kufra.
Australia-New Guinea, having split from Gondwana during the early Cretaceous, drifted north and, eventually, collided with South-east Asia ; Antarctica moved into its current position over the South Pole ; the Atlantic Ocean widened and, later in the era, South America became attached to North America.
However, being still in sight of his native land he moved further north up the west coast of Scotland.
The following year, having obtained tribute from the East Anglian King Edmund, the Great Army moved north, seizing York, chief city of the Northumbrians.
In 1908, William Barks ( in an attempt to increase the family income ) moved with his family to Midland, Oregon, some miles north of Merrill, to be closer to the new railway lines.
The north, west and southern parts of the ground were converted into all-seater stands and moved closer to the pitch, a process completed by 2001.
Under the terms of the peace treaty Rome's borders moved north to Philae and the two tribes received an annual gold stipend.
Bowie moved to Switzerland in 1976, purchasing a chalet in the hills to the north of Lake Geneva.
The Romans also moved in the north by marching across the northern coast toward Panormus, but were not able to take the city.
On 17 July 1936, General Francisco Franco led the colonial army from Morocco to attack the mainland, while another force from the north under General Sanjurjo moved south from Navarre.
An invasion of Caledonia led by Severus and probably numbering around 20, 000 troops moved north in 208 or 209, crossing the Wall and passing through eastern Scotland on a route similar to that used by Agricola.
His heir Edward II moved an army north to break the siege of Stirling Castle and reassert control.
The lighter Ottoman vessels remained behind, but the battleship squadron moved on north under cover of the forts at Kumkale and engaged the Greek fleet, coming from Imbros, at 9: 40.
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