It was not until we had returned to the city to live, while I was still at Brown and Sharpe's, that I felt the full impact of evangelical Christianity.

Mr. Brown's invention achieved this and, as a byproduct, formed the cornerstone of Brown & Sharpe's position of leadership in the gear making equipment field which lasted until the 1920's when superceded by other methods.

The new plant, dubbed Precision Park as a nod to Brown & Sharpe's history of pioneering manufacture of precise measurement tools, contained of easily-adaptable floor space.

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Suchet was recommended for the part by Christie's family, who had seen him appear as Blott in the TV adaptation of Tom Sharpe's Blott on the Landscape.

Sharpe remains faithful to his second wife, until she herself proves disloyal ; when Sharpe is falsely accused of theft and murder, she embarks on an adulterous affair with Sharpe's former friend Lord John Rossendale and steals the fortune Sharpe had accumulated in London.

In most of the novels he is a Rifle Officer, armed with a 1796 pattern heavy cavalry sword and Baker rifle, although by Sharpe's Waterloo he has also acquired a pistol.

Sharpe promoted to Lieutenant-the exact time frame is not referred to in the novels but occurred sometime after the events of Sharpe's Prey and before Sharpe's Rifles.

Starting with Sharpe's Rifles, the series followed the fortunes and misfortunes of Richard Sharpe as he rose from the ranks as a Sergeant, promoted by Wellington to Lieutenant in Portugal, to Colonel by the time of the Battle of Waterloo.

Sharpe's 1994 revision acknowledged that the risk free rate changes with time.

During his time spent in Mike Sharpe's wrestling school, Bucci wrestled as a superhero with a mullet ; his attire included a star over his right eye and a sparkly blue cape.

In popular culture, the campaign to take Gawilghur forms the background of the novel Sharpe's Fortress by Bernard Cornwell, the third in a trilogy of books covering the eponymous hero's time in the British army in India during the Napoleonic era.

The stories dramatise Sharpe's struggle for acceptance and respect from his fellow officers and from the men he commands.

Sharpe is promoted to sergeant, as has been promised, for his successful efforts ( Sharpe's Tiger ).

Unfortunately both Sharpe and his new colleagues find it difficult to adjust to Sharpe's new status and role, and his superiors in the 74th arrange for him to be transferred to the newly formed 95th Rifles Regiment.

His intelligence work for Hogan and Wellesley brings him the long lasting enmity of the fictional French spymaster Pierre Ducos, who conspires several times to destroy Sharpe's career, reputation and life.

Wellesley then gives him command of the unit for the remainder of the battle ( Sharpe's Waterloo ).

In India Sharpe asks for permission to marry Mary Bickerstaff, who later leaves him ( Sharpe's Tiger ), and has a brief affair with Simone Joubert, who bolts with gems he left with her for safe keeping ( Sharpe's Triumph, Sharpe's Fortress ).

It is while searching for evidence to clear his name that Sharpe meets and falls in love with Lucille Castineau ( nee Lassan ), the widow of a French officer killed at Vitoria ( Sharpe's Revenge, Sharpe's Waterloo ).

Promoted for gallantry to Sergeant after Siege of Seringapatam ( Sharpe's Tiger ).

Commissioned for gallantry as an Ensign after the Battle of Assaye by General Wellesley ( Sharpe's Triumph ).

Along the way they also wrote the screenplay for a film version of Whoops Apocalypse and adapted Tom Sharpe's novel Wilt for a film of the same title.

The island featured in Bernard Cornwell's novel Sharpe's Regiment as the camp ground for the fictional second battalion of the South Essex Regiment.

Tilbury Fort was used as a location for Sharpe's Regiment, starring Sean Bean ; an episode of London's Burning ( a fireman drama show ) was shot in the old fire station in Civic Square ; and a scene from an episode of James Nesbitt's Murphy's Law was filmed at Tilbury Docks ' Cruise Terminal.

He also wrote extensively for television, including scripting series such as Anything More Would Be Greedy, The Gravy Train, the sequel The Gravy Train Goes East ( which explored life in Bradbury's fictional Slaka ), and adapting novels such as Tom Sharpe's Blott on the Landscape and Porterhouse Blue, Alison Lurie's Imaginary Friends and Kingsley Amis's The Green Man.

Sharpe's campaigning was largely confined to the Napoleonic Wars, with some pre-Napoleonic India experience, whilst Hervey campaigned for many years afterwards in Canada, India, South Africa, Burma and the Balkans.

Talavera is the setting for Sharpe's Eagle, the first book written in Bernard Cornwell's " Sharpe " series, and is depicted in the conclusion of the film adaptation of the same name.

In 1848, a reviewer for Sharpe's London Magazine chid Browning for failing to clarify:

The battle features in ' Sharpe's Sword ' by Bernard Cornwell, in which Richard Sharpe helps Wellington bring the French to battle by feeding a known French spy false information.

Two African species, the Yellow-breasted Pipit and Sharpe's Longclaw are sometimes placed in a separate seventh genus, Hemimacronyx, which is closely related to the longclaws.

This has included Sharpe's Challenge, part of the Sharpe series of TV movies and co-produced with ITV ; also The State Within and Jekyll which were co-productions with the BBC.

This is contradicted in the Television adaptation Sharpe's Challenge, set in 1817, in which Sharpe claims that Lucille has already died.

Cornwell followed this with two novels and four short stories which lie between Sharpe's Rifles ( 1809 ) and Sharpe's Devil ( 1820-21 ).

After several years of rumours, more episodes were produced, called Sharpe's Challenge, which aired in April 2006, and Sharpe's Peril which aired on ITV in the autumn of 2008 and was later released on DVD.

In the 1980s he hosted a series of public television specials titled Mal Sharpe's San Francisco which included a mixture of new material and older clips.

In Sharpe's Escape ( 2004 ), one of Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe novels ( which were partly inspired by Death to the French ), a Rifleman named Matthew Dodd is separated from Sharpe's company in a skirmish during the Peninsular Campaign in 1810.

He is an editor of Bede, and also edited numerous Irish and Hiberno-Latin texts, including the two volume Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae ( 1910 ), a modern companion volume to which is Richard Sharpe's Medieval Irish saints ' lives: an introduction to Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae ( Oxford, Clarendon 1991 ).

The Sharpe's Longclaw, Hemimacronyx sharpei, is a passerine bird in the longclaw family Motacillidae, which also includes the pipits and wagtails.

The Sharpe's Longclaw is a member of the family Motacillidae, which includes the pipits and wagtails.

After Simmerson showed ill judgement and cowardice at the Battle of Talavera ( where Sharpe captured a French Imperial Eagle, which then went on to be displayed on the regiment's Colours ), Colonel William Lawford, an old friend of Sharpe's, took command.

The pub is mentioned in Tom Sharpe's novel Porterhouse Blue in which it is said to be character Scullion's favourite pub.