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Irving Granville and Nelson Rector who travel widely calling on business firms.
Norman, who once notably sang it at the end of a large outdoor rock concert for Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday, stated, " I don't know whether it's the text — I don't know whether we're talking about the lyrics when we say that it touches so many people — or whether it's that tune that everybody knows.
Nelson, who had been wounded in the battle, was proclaimed a hero across Europe and was subsequently made Baron Nelson.
Nelson was a highly experienced officer who had been blinded in one eye during fighting in Corsica in 1794 and subsequently commended for his capture of two Spanish ships of the line at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797.
Despite vocal opposition from Contre-Admiral Armand Blanquet, who insisted that the fleet would be best able to respond in open water, the rest of the captains agreed that anchoring in a line of battle inside the bay presented the strongest tactic for confronting Nelson.
Historian Joseph Allen recounts that on one occasion Nelson, whose eyesight was still suffering following his wound, offered toothpicks to an officer who had lost his teeth and then passed a snuff-box to an officer whose nose had been torn off, causing much embarrassment.
Other rewards were bestowed by foreign states, particularly the Ottoman Emperor Selim III, who made Nelson the first Knight Commander of the newly created Order of the Crescent, presented him with a chelengk, a diamond studded Rose, a sable fur and numerous other valuable presents.
On his return to Naples, Nelson was greeted with a triumphal procession led by King Ferdinand IV and Sir William Hamilton and was introduced for only the third time to Sir William's wife Emma, Lady Hamilton, who fainted violently at the meeting, and apparently took several weeks to recover from her injuries.
British general John Moore, who met Nelson in Naples at this time, described him as " covered with stars, medals and ribbons, more like a Prince of Opera than the Conqueror of the Nile.
Yup ' ik, with an apostrophe, denotes the speakers of the Central Alaskan Yup ' ik language, who live in western Alaska and southwestern Alaska from southern Norton Sound to the north side of Bristol Bay, on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, and on Nelson Island.
The term HyperText was coined by Ted Nelson who in turn was inspired by Vannevar Bush's microfilm-based " memex ".
In 1992, author Ted Nelsonwho coined both terms in 1963 – wrote: By now the word " hypertext " has become generally accepted for branching and responding text, but the corresponding word " hypermedia ", meaning complexes of branching and responding graphics, movies and sound – as well as text – is much less used.
Meanwhile Nelson, who had been working on and advocating his Xanadu system for over two decades, along with the commercial success of HyperCard, stirred Autodesk to invest in his revolutionary ideas.
Ted Nelson ( who had also originated the words " hypertext " and " hypermedia ") coined the term " transclusion " in his 1982 book, Literary Machines.
The team wore black armbands for the last four games in 1978 in memory of Jack " Jocko " Nelson, an assistant coach who died during the season.
The notion that philosophy, especially ontology and the philosophy of mathematics should abstain from set theory owes much to the writings of Nelson Goodman ( see especially Goodman 1977 ), who argued that concrete and abstract entities having no parts, called individuals exist.
The soothing waters of the hotel's hot spring and the lively social life on Nevis attracted many famous Europeans, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Antigua-based Admiral Nelson, and Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence, ( future William IV of the United Kingdom ), who attended balls and private parties at the Bath Hotel.
Alan Nelson, de Vere's only biographer who does not advocate the Oxfordian Theory, writes that " ontemporary observers such as Harvey, Webbe, Puttenham and Meres clearly exaggerated Oxford's talent in deference to his rank.
The current chief of the defence staff is Robert Yira Koroma, who was appointed by president Ernest Bai Koroma in August 2010 to replace Major General Alfred Nelson Williams, who was placed on terminal leave.
Biko can thus be seen as a follower of Fanon and Aimé Césaire, in contrast to more multi-racialist ANC leaders such as Nelson Mandela after his imprisonment at Robben Island, and Albert Luthuli who were first disciples of Gandhi.
The five students — Allison Reynolds ( Ally Sheedy ), Andrew Clark ( Emilio Estevez ), John Bender ( Judd Nelson ), Brian Johnson ( Anthony Michael Hall ), and Claire Standish ( Molly Ringwald )— who seem to have nothing in common at first, come together at the high school library, where they are harangued and ordered not to speak or move from their seats or sleep by the antagonistic assistant principal, Richard Vernon ( Paul Gleason ), supervising them.
At the 82nd Academy Awards Sheedy, Hall, Ringwald and Nelson all appeared in a tribute to John Hughes, along with other actors who had worked with Hughes, including Jon Cryer from Pretty in Pink, Matthew Broderick from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone.

Nelson and on
And one finds it again in Thomas Nelson Page ) to the effect that the Mayflower on its second voyage brought a cargo of Negro slaves.
Examples from the nineteenth century are the transposition of " Horatio Nelson " into " Honor est a Nilo " ( Latin = Honor is from the Nile ); and of " Florence Nightingale " into " Flit on, cheering angel ".
A Paramount employee told biographer Orrin Keepnews that Jefferson was a womanizing sloppy drunk ; on the other hand, Jefferson's neighbor in Chicago, Romeo Nelson, reports him as being " warm and cordial ," and singer Rube Lacy states that Jefferson always refused to play on a Sunday, " even if you give me two hundred.
For more than two months, Nelson chased the French, on several occasions only missing them by a matter of hours.
On 22 June, Nelson encountered a brig sailing from Ragusa and was told that the French had sailed eastwards from Malta on 16 June.
Incorrectly believing the French to be five days ahead rather than two, Nelson insisted on a direct route to Alexandria without deviation.
Making rapid time on a direct route, Nelson reached Alexandria on 28 June and discovered that the French were not there.
After a meeting with the suspicious Ottoman commander Sayyid Muhammad Kurayyim, Nelson ordered the British fleet northwards, reaching the coast of Anatolia on 4 July and turning westwards back towards Sicily.
On 28 July at Coron, intelligence was finally obtained describing the French attack on Egypt and Nelson turned south across the Mediterranean.
Brueys refused, in the belief that his squadron could provide essential support to the French army on shore, and called his captains aboard his 120-gun flagship Orient to discuss their response should Nelson discover the fleet in its anchorage.
Nelson ordered the fleet to slow down at 16: 00 to allow his ships to rig " springs " on their anchor cables, a system of attaching the bow anchor that increased stability and allowed his ships to swing their broadsides to face an enemy while stationary.
To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.
At 17: 30, Nelson hailed one of his two leading ships, HMS Zealous under Captain Samuel Hood, which had been racing Goliath to be the first to fire on the French.
Nelson focused his flagship's fire on Spartiate, while Captain Thomas Louis in Minotaur attacked the unengaged Aquilon and Captain John Peyton in Defence joined the attack on Peuple Souverain.
Nelson subsequently ignored Jefferson's instructions to remain inactive, returning to the quarterdeck shortly before the explosion on Orient to oversee the closing stages of the battle.
The wounded officers taken prisoner were held on board Vanguard, where Nelson regularly entertained them at dinner.

Nelson and surveying
This was achieved in two voyages of Ocean in January and May 1804, assisted by the Lady Nelson which had been surveying Port Dalrymple on the north coast of Van Diemens Land.
Otto Adrian Nelson, a surveying engineer for the Kennecott Mines, eventually bought up much of the town.
As a sixteen-year-old in 1841, he began a three-year surveying cadetship with his uncle Arthur Wakefield at Nelson, working for the New Zealand Company.

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