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Oxford and left
Upon graduation, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, though because he had switched programs and had left early for Yale University, he did not receive a degree there.
Oxford left England in the first week of February, and a month later was presented to the King and Queen of France.
When World War I broke out in Western Europe, Moseley left his research work at the University of Oxford behind to volunteer for the Royal Engineers of the British Army.
Though not taking up an academic career, he was left with an enduring and deep love for Oxford.
After his failure to capture the five members and fearing for his family's lives, Charles left London for Oxford.
Looney declared that the late play The Tempest was not written by Oxford, and that others performed or published after Oxford's death were most probably left incomplete and finished by other writers, thus explaining the apparent idiosyncrasies of style found in the late Shakespeare plays.
" Oxfordians argue that this supports their own position, since there is no evidence that William Shakespeare ever left England, but Oxford undoubtedly visited the area.
River Thames at Chiswick during the 2010 University Boat Race ( Oxford boat on right, Cambridge on left )
When Lean left Oxford during 1933, the society ended, and its name was transferred by Tolkien and Lewis to their group at Magdalen College.
He left Oxford in 1494 – after only two years – at the insistence of his father, to begin his legal training in London at New Inn, one of the Inns of Chancery.
Banks left Oxford for Chelsea in December 1763.
As a result, his will left the partners ' stock and lease in trust to Oxford University, and charged them with keeping together " my founding Materialls of the Press.
In 1261, Henry revoked his assent to the Provisions of Oxford and de Montfort, in despair, left the country.
Blunden left the army in 1919 and took up the scholarship at Oxford that he had won while still at school.
On the same English Literature course was Robert Graves, and the two were close friends during their time at Oxford together, but Blunden found university life unsatisfactory and left in 1920 to take up a literary career, at first acting as assistant to Middleton Murry on the Athenaeum magazine.
In 1654, Boyle left Ireland for Oxford to pursue his work more successfully.
In 1668 he left Oxford for London where he resided at the house of his sister, Lady Ranelagh, in Pall Mall.
Before he left Oxford ( sometime in 1600 or 1601 ), he wrote and published three long poems in popular Elizabethan styles ; none appears to have been especially successful, and one, his book of satires, ran afoul of the Anglican Church's ban on verse satire and was burned.
This had left Oxford exposed to a sudden threat from the Parliamentarian armies commanded by the Earl of Essex and Sir William Waller and forced the King to leave the city in haste and head to Worcester, where he was still in danger.
The phrase is believed to come from the end-of-episode situation in adventure silent films of the early 1900s, with the protagonist literally left hanging from the edge of a cliff, although the oldest usage the Oxford English Dictionary has is from 1937.
He went on to Magdalen College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar but left without earning a doctorate.
He went on to study music at Keble College, Oxford, serving as organist at Hertford College, but left without taking his degree.
In 1919 he left Cambridge to take the Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford in the aftermath of the Bertrand Russell affair during World War I.
He collected some of those sermons, along with some short notes and reflections, not long after he left Oxford ; this is now known as his Dicta.

Oxford and Venice
Roma: Il Veltro, pp. 441 ( Translated from: The World of Aldus Manutius: Business and Scholarship in Renaissance Venice, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1979 ).
Historical documents confirm that Oxford lived in Venice, and travelled for over a year through Italy.
According to Anderson, Oxford definitely visited Venice, Padua, Milan, Genoa, Palermo, Florence, Siena and Naples, and probably passed through Messina, Mantua and Verona, all cities used as settings by Shakespeare.
* Summa logicae ( c. 1323 ), Paris 1448, Bologna 1498, Venice 1508, Oxford 1675.
From Oxford he made his way to Venice, where he occupied himself as a professor of mathematics.
After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.
* William of Ockham, Summa logicae Paris 1448, Bologna 1498, Venice 1508, Oxford 1675
Currently Professor at Istituto Universitario di Architettura, Venice, Kosuth has functioned as visiting professor and guest lecturer at various universities and institutions for nearly forty years, some of which include: Yale University ; Cornell University: New York University ; Duke University ; UCLA ; Cal Arts ; Cooper Union ; Pratt Institute ; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Royal Academy, Copenhagen ; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University ; University of Rome, Berlin Kunstakademie ; Royal College of Art, London ; Glasgow School of Art ; Hayward Gallery, London ; Sorbonne, Paris ; and the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna.
Johnson attended Sherborne School, Dorset, and while still an undergraduate reading Greats at Exeter College, Oxford, he took part in the Marco Polo Expedition with Tim Severin and Michael de Larrabeiti, travelling on a motorcycle from Oxford to Venice and on to India and Afghanistan.
At Oxford he acted with an amateur group called the Philothespian Society, with whom he played Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
Moretto is represented in the following collections: National Gallery, London ; Metropolitan Museum, New York ; Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna ; Staedel Museum, Frankfurt ; Gallerie dell ' Accademia, Venice ; Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia ; Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan ; National Gallery of Art, Washington ; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford ; Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, amongst others.
There are manuscripts of the Chronicle at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, and Ravenna.
UNESCO ( 1994 ), Tourism and Cities of Art: The Impact of Tourism and Visitors Flow Management in Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam, Bruges, Florence, Oxford, Salzburg and Venice.

Oxford and March
The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.
On 23 March 1581 Sir Francis Walsingham advised the Earl of Huntingdon that two days earlier Anne Vavasour, one of the Queen's Maids of Honour, had given birth to a son, and that " the Earl of Oxford is avowed to be the father, who hath withdrawn himself with intent, as it is thought, to pass the seas ".
In March 1582 there was a skirmish in the streets of London between Oxford and Anne's uncle, Sir Thomas Knyvet.
Another of Oxford's men was slain that month, and in March Burghley wrote to Sir Christopher Hatton about the death of one of Knyvet's men, thanking Hatton for his efforts " to bring some good end to these troublesome matters betwixt my Lord and Oxford and Mr Thomas Knyvet ".
In 1585 negotiations were underway for King James to come to England to discuss the release of his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, and in March Oxford was to be sent to Scotland as one of the hostages for James's safety.
From March to August 1595 Oxford actively importuned the Queen, in competition with Lord Buckhurst, to farm the tin mines in Cornwall.
After Essex's co-conspirator Sir Charles Danvers was executed on in March, Oxford became involved in a complicated suit regarding lands which had reverted to the Crown by escheat at Danvers ' attainder, a suit opposed by Danvers ' kinsmen.
* Braudy, Leo, ed., " Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings "; Oxford University Press ; 6th edition ( March, 2004 ).
The Online Oxford English Dictionary indicates use of the phrase in a March 1964 New Statesman article.
Oxford Music Online, http :// 0-www. oxfordmusiconline. com. catalogue. ulrls. lon. ac. uk / subscriber / article / grove / music / 00421 ( accessed 7 March 2010 ).
* Kline, Morris, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, Oxford University Press, USA ; Paperback edition ( March 1, 1990 ).
* March 24 – For the only time in history, the Boat Race between the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford is declared a " dead heat " ( i. e. a draw ).
* March 4 – English Civil War: Prince Rupert leaves Oxford for Bristol.
* March 21 – In Oxford, Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake for treason.
* March 10 – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English general ( b. 1443 )
Harold died at Oxford on 17 March 1040, just as Harthacnut was preparing an invasion force of Danes, and was buried at Westminster Abbey.
This parliament first met in March in Oxford but Charles dissolved it only after a few days when he made an appeal to the country against the Whigs and intended to rule without Parliament.
Podcasts of talks given at Oriel College, University of Oxford, March 20 – 22, 2007.
The University Boat Race is rowed between Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club in late March or early April, on the Championship Course from Putney to Mortlake in the west of London.
He was a first cousin to and the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and was the father of her son James VI of Scotland, who succeeded Elizabeth I of England as James I of England .< ref name = Greig > Elaine Finnie Greig, ‘ Stewart, Henry, duke of Albany Darnley ( 1545 / 6 – 1567 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 4 March 2012 </</ ref >
Roger T. Stearn, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, May 2010 ; accessed 11 March 2011 ( subscription required for the convenience link ).

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