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However, later that month, on 22 January, the English were defeated at the Battle of Basing and, on the 22 March at the Battle of Merton ( perhaps Marden in Wiltshire or Martin in Dorset ), in which Æthelred was killed.
The footbridge has been re-erected at Corfe Castle station on the Swanage Railway ( although some evidence suggests that this was a similar footbridge removed from the site of Merton Park Railway Station.
After a year at Merton College, Oxford, Simcoe was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, but then decided to follow the military career for which his father had intended him.
In 1944 Polanyi was elected a member of the Royal Society, and on his retirement from the University of Manchester in 1958 he was elected a Senior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford.
Robert K. Merton also coauthored ( with Elinor Barber ) The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity which traces the origins and uses of the word " serendipity " since it was coined.
" Cohen therefore considers it paradoxical " that the rise of early modern science was due at least in part to developments in Christian thought — in particular, to certain aspects of Protestantism " ( a thesis first developed as what is now sometimes called the Merton thesis ).
When his business was enlarged in 1881 by the establishment of a tapestry industry at Merton Abbey Mills, in South West London, Morris found yet another means for expressing the medievalism that inspired all his work, whether on paper or at the loom.
Mr P J M Roberts was educated at Tiffins, Kingston upon Thames and then read Modern History at Merton College, Oxford where he received a first class honours degree.
In 1931 he returned to Oxford as a Fellow of Merton College, where he was highly regarded as a tutor.
The conflicts of the Civil War soon led King Charles to Oxford, with Harvey attending, where the physician was made ' Doctor of Physic ' in 1642 and later Warden of Merton College in 1645.
Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant but was also a rugby union international having played in the first ever international match for England against Scotland in 1871.
The abbey was originally served by a community of Augustinian Canons Regular from Merton Priory and the layout of the original church at Holyrood, now known only from excavations, probably came from the 1125 church at the priory.
It was not until 1598 that the library began to thrive once more, when Thomas Bodley ( a former fellow of Merton College ) wrote to the Vice Chancellor of the University offering to support the development of the library: " where there hath bin hertofore a publike library in Oxford: which you know is apparent by the rome it self remayning, and by your statute records I will take the charge and cost upon me, to reduce it again to his former use.
The area is a possible location for the Battle of Merton, 871, in which King Ethelred of Wessex was either mortally wounded or killed outright.
Wimbledon had its own borough of Wimbledon and was within the county of Surrey ; it was absorbed into the London Borough of Merton as part of the creation of Greater London in 1965.
Wimbledon had its own borough of Wimbledon and was within the county of Surrey ; it was absorbed into the London Borough of Merton as part of the creation of Greater London in 1965.
* Lord Horatio Nelson-Admiral ; Nelson's estate, Merton Place, included part of Wimbledon at the eastern end of the Broadway, though, strictly he was a resident of Merton the neighbouring parish
The borough was formed under the London Government Act in 1965 by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Mitcham, the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon and the Merton and Morden Urban District, all formerly within Surrey.
The borough derives its name from the historic parish of Merton which was centred on the area now known as South Wimbledon.
Merton was chosen as an acceptable compromise, following a dispute between Wimbledon and Mitcham over the new borough's name.

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Robert K. Merton comments that Sumner's additional characterization robbed the concept of some analytical power because, Merton argues, centrality and superiority are often correlated, but need to be kept analytically distinct.
Visitors to Merton are often told Mob Quad, built in the 14th century, is the oldest quadrangle of any Oxford or Cambridge college and set the pattern for future collegiate architecture, but Front Quad was certainly enclosed earlier ( albeit with a less unified design ) and other colleges, for example Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, can point to their own older examples.
Friendship House had a profound impact on Merton, and he would speak of it often in his later writing.
According to Merton, " paradigm ", refers to " exemplars of codified basic and often tacit assumptions, problem sets, key concepts, logic of procedure, and selectively accumulated knowledge that guide and empirical inquiry in all scientific fields ".
Edward Merton Dorn ( April 2, 1929 — December 10, 1999 ) was an American poet and teacher often associated with the Black Mountain poets.
Additionally, the area north of Kingston Road between Merton Hall Road, Avebury Road and Kingswood Road is often included.
Some students call it " Merton's Heart " and claim that Merton visited the place often and that the trees fell when he died.
Within Western Christianity contemplation is often related to mysticism as expressed in the works of mystical theologians such as Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross as well as the writings of Margery Kempe, Augustine Baker and Thomas Merton.
Sociologist Robert K. Merton used the parable of talents to describe the reward system in science in which famous scientists often receive disproportionate credit for their contributions, whereas lesser known scientists receive less credit than their contributions actually merit.
Both Tommy and Merton like her, but she often picks Tommy over Merton.
* When he's left alone with a bad guy, Merton often asks the villain what it's like to be what they are, e. g. " So, you're a soul stealing agent of the dark dominion, what's that like?
Other bands grew up to feed the desire for mod music, often combining the music of 1960s mod groups with elements of punk music, including The Lambrettas, The Merton Parkas, Squire, and Purple Hearts.

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The foundation of Peterhouse dates to 1280, when letters patent from Edward I dated Burgh, Suffolk, 24 December 1280 allowed Hugo de Balsham to keep a number of scholars in the Hospital of St John, where they were to live according to the rules of the scholars of Merton.
Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes for an independent academic community and established endowments to support it.
Merton has had a reputation for having the best food in Oxford since an old Mertonian left money specifically for the improvement of the kitchens, and this budget was further augmented during the two years when Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan studied there ( 1983 – 85 ).
In 1926, when Merton was eleven, his father enrolled him in a boys ' boarding school in Montauban, the Lycée Ingres.
Merton was first exposed to and became interested in Eastern religions when he read Aldous Huxley ’ s Ends and Means in 1937, the year before his conversion to Catholicism.
Nearly ten years later, when Zen and the Birds of Appetite was published, Merton wrote in his postface that “ any attempt to handle Zen in theological language is bound to miss the point ”, calling his final statements “ an example of how not to approach Zen .” Merton struggled to reconcile the Western and Christian impulse to catalog and put into words every experience with the ideas of Christian apophatic theology and the unspeakable nature of the Zen experience.
The idea of damages was first conceived in English law during the 13th century, when the Statutes of Merton and Gloucester provided for damages in certain circumstances.
The word appeared in print in the United Kingdom as early as 1903 and United States 1904, when novelist Desmond Coke used it in his college story of Oxford life, Sandford of Merton: " There's a stunning flapper ".
Merton Street freight depot continued to handle livestock traffic for Banbury's cattle market until 1966, when this too was discontinued and the railway dismantled.
Much of the humour of the round came from the reactions of the two team captains: while Paul Merton was clearly familiar with the game and greatly enjoyed it, his opponent, Ian Hislop, admitted he'd never seen Play Your Cards Right and appeared mystified by the game's rules and etiquette ( when at one point Merton and the crowd shouted the traditional cry of " lower, lower ," to predict the next card in the hidden sequence, Hislop commented, " I'm not sure this program could get much lower!
Merton clarified the concept by stating that a certain degree of social cohesion eases the productivity of a group and is therefore functional, but it can become dysfunctional when it surpasses a certain threshold, because then the members of the group may become equally indulgent and fail to hold each other to high performance standards.
In his book Social Theory and Social Structure, Merton defines self-fulfilling prophecy in the following terms: e. g. when Roxanna falsely believes her marriage will fail, her fears of such failure actually cause the marriage to fail.
The poet was probably the third of the eleven children of his parents, and was born in West Wickham in London, in the early part of 1595 ; he was thirteen years old in June 1608, when he matriculated at Merton College, Oxford.
However, in an appearance on the TV show Room 101, he got his chance of revenge when the host, Paul Merton, unexpectedly brought Emu locked in a guillotine on stage and Parkinson took his chance by beheading the puppet, saying, " Goodbye, you foul beast.
Bringing it over near the window, where the dummy is, to get a better look at it, Sylvius and Merton are astonished when the waxen figure turns round, snatches the diamond, and points a revolver at them.
After the spacecraft Mariner 9 provided extensive imagery of Mars in 1972, a small crater ( later called Airy-0 ), located in the Sinus Meridiani (' Middle Bay ' or ' Meridian Bay ') along the line of Beer and Mädler, was chosen by Merton Davies of the RAND Corporation to provide a more precise definition of 0. 0 ° longitude when he established a planetographic control point network.
After winning a Fellowship of Merton College in 1896, and also a lecturership at Oriel College, he taught law at Oxford until 1899, when he was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn, where the Birkenhead Award bears his name.
After education at Berkhamsted School and Merton College, Oxford, Greene came to prominence as a journalist in 1934 when he became the chief correspondent in Berlin for The Daily Telegraph newspaper.
The Institution occupied Innes's former estate at Merton Park until 1945 when it moved to Bayfordbury, Hertfordshire.
Armstrong was a leading contender to take over as host of Countdown when Des O ' Connor left in 2008, although when he hosted Have I Got News for You on 24 October 2008, he said he hadn't yet accepted the job, despite team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton making jokes about his " new role ".

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