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Percy and Ludgate
Following Babbage, although unaware of his earlier work, was Percy Ludgate, an accountant from Dublin, Ireland.
* Birthplace of Percy Ludgate designer of an Analytical Engine
Percy Edwin Ludgate ( August 2, 1883 – October 16, 1922 ) was an accountant in Dublin and designer of an Analytical Engine.
His interest in the history of computing was kick-started by coming across the then almost unknown work of Percy Ludgate.

Percy and wrote
The Pindarick of Cowley was revived around 1800 by William Wordsworth for one of his very finest poems, the Intimations of Immortality ode ; irregular odes were also written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley who wrote odes with regular stanza patterns.
The viol is also regarded as a suitable instrument for adult learners ; Percy Scholes wrote that the viol repertoire "... belongs to an age that demanded musicianship more often than virtuosity.
Following the Peterloo massacre of 1819, poet Percy Shelley wrote the political poem The Mask of Anarchy later that year, that begins with the images of what he thought to be the unjust forms of authority of his time — and then imagines the stirrings of a new form of social action.
Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote the poem Adonais for John Keats, and uses the myth as an extended metaphor for Keats ' death.
Percy Fender wrote:
* Greenville is the home town of the Percy family, including U. S. Senator Le Roy Percy and author William Alexander Percy who took charge of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 recovery effort and wrote Lanterns on the Levee about the Mississippi Delta.
As critic Percy Hammond wrote, sympathetically, in 1928:
Australian composer Percy Grainger, an avid Kipling reader wrote a Jungle Book cycle, which was published in 1958.
* Australian composer Percy Grainger wrote numerous settings, which he called " Irish Tune from County Derry ", in his British Folk-Music Settings.
In 1818 Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to Thomas Love Peacock: " This lake exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty, with the exception of the arbutus islands of Killarney.
Percy also wrote in defence of free love ( and vegetarianism ) in the prose notes of Queen Mab ( 1813 ), in his essay On Love ( c1815 ) and in the poem Epipsychidion ( 1821 ):
Brown was influenced by these writers and in turn exerted an influence on them and their younger studiers, for example in Godwin's later novels, or in the work of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley, who reread Brown as she wrote her novels Frankenstein ; or, The Modern Prometheus ( 1818 ) and The Last Man ( 1826 ).
Percy Greg, like his father, wrote about politics, but his views were violently reactionary: his History of the United States to the Reconstruction of the Union ( 1887 ) can be said to be more of a polemic, rather than a history.
Two amateur members of the team, Percy Fender and Rockley Wilson, wrote scathingly about the incident in their dual role as journalists covering the Tests.
In the aftermath of the defeat, Cecil Parkin, a former Test bowler and vocal critic of Gilligan's captaincy, wrote a newspaper article suggesting that Hobbs should assume the leadership of the side, albeit under the nominal captaincy of Percy Chapman.
To this day the piece is considered the classic work of symphonic band, and beginning with Holst a variety of British, American, Canadian and Australian composers wrote for the medium, including notably Percy Grainger, James Swearingen and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote a play, Prometheus Unbound, which used some of the materials of the play as a vehicle for Shelley's own vision.
In a letter ( 14 March 1803 ) to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey wrote that “ Ritson is the oddest, but most honest of all our antiquarians, and he abuses Percy and Pinkerton with less mercy than justice .”
Garrick wrote the prologue and epilogue for Hannah More's tragedy Percy, which was acted with great success at Covent Garden in December 1777.
In 1817-1818, she wrote a book which Percy Bysshe Shelley tried without success to have published.
At the time Percy Shelley wrote the poem, in Pisa, Clairmont was living in Florence, and the lines may reveal how much he missed her.
The Percy miscellany also quotes a pastoral poem by John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ), who wrote that:

Percy and about
' His Nemesis, a prose tragedy in four acts about Beatrice Cenci, partly inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Cenci, was printed while he was dying.
In The Oxford Companion to Music, Percy Scholes devotes about four pages to this subject, pointing out the similarities to an early plainsong melody, although the rhythm is very distinctly that of a galliard, and he gives examples of several such dance tunes that bear a striking resemblance to " God Save the King / Queen ".
Percy Bysshe Shelley's first published work was the Gothic novel Zastrozzi ( 1810 ), about an outlaw obsessed with revenge against his father and half-brother.
In the book she usually takes the form of a young girl in a brown dress, has warm flames in place of her eyes, and is the primary force behind Percy Jackson fulfilling the prophecy about him by showing him the importance of knowing when is the right time to concede.
During his years in Oxford, Blunden published extensively: several collections of poetry including Choice or Chance ( 1934 ) and Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ), prose works on Charles Lamb ; Edward Gibbon ; Keats's publisher ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; John Taylor ; and Thomas Hardy ; and a book about a game he loved, Cricket Country ( 1944 ).
The source of much of the animosity between the two men can be traced back to Byron ’ s belief that Southey had spread rumours about himself and Percy Shelley being in a " League of Incest " during their time on Lake Geneva in 1816, a claim that Southey strenuously denied.
At a ball attended by the Blakeneys, a verse by Percy about the " elusive Pimpernel " makes the rounds and amuses the other guests.
In addition to the direct sequels about Sir Percy and his league, Orczy's related books include The Laughing Cavalier ( 1914 ) and The First Sir Percy ( 1921 ), about an ancestor of the Pimpernel's ; Pimpernel and Rosemary ( 1924 ), about a descendant ; and The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World ( 1933 ), a depiction of the 1930s world from the point of view of Sir Percy.
* The First Sir Percy ( 1920 ) ( about an ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel )
James Smithson was born about 1765 to Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland and Elizabeth Hungerford Keate Macie.
A week after Mary's nearly fatal miscarriage, in the early hours of June 23, Percy had had a nightmare about the house collapsing in a flood, and
Henry Percy raised a small group of retainers initially ( probably about 200 ) in early July 1403 and started the long march south to meet his uncle, Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester.

Percy and engine
Hodges took a long holiday, and in his absence the managing director Percy Kidner asked Pomeroy to design an engine for cars to be entered in the 1908 RAC and Scottish Reliability Trial, held in June of that year.
The Allison Engine Company was a U. S. aircraft engine manufacturer that has its roots dating back to September 1904, when the Concentrated Acetylene Company was founded by James Allison, Percy C. ' Fred ' Avery and Carl G. Fisher.
The Allam / Dickson car went out on lap 3 with engine failure while the Goss / Hahne car, the drivers battling a broken seat on the tricky Mount Panorama Circuit, sat in second most of the way until a split oil line late in the race cost the Walkinshaw / Percy car 3 laps and any chance of victory.
Percy the Small Engine is a fictional anthropomorphic steam engine from The Railway Series of children's books written by the Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry.
In the case of Percy, it was particularly infuriating, as Awdry had built a model of the engine in order that the artist could use it as a reference.
It is not known where Percy came from, but according to the book Troublesome Engines, he was bought at an " engine workshop " by the Fat Controller.
The good wheels and extra weight has made ' Spare Percy ' into a smooth running engine almost as good as the real Percy in his best moments.
Percy is first seen in the movie Thomas and the Magic Railroad when Henry reveals the legend of the lost engine ; where he suggests that they start searching for her.
She shows an interest in men, but Jack is over-protective, and won't let any man take her out ; the elderly engine driver, Arnold Thomas ( Ivor Roberts ); his inexperienced fireman, Ralph ( Perry Benson ), who is training to be a driver ; the flirtatious guard, Percy ( Terry John ), with whom Ethel appears to be quite besotted at times.

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