During the 1980s and 1990s, Ritts photographed celebrities such as Diana Ross, Christopher Reeve, Belinda Carlisle, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Michael Jordan, Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Francesco Clemente, George Clooney, Cher, Mel Gibson, Elizabeth Taylor, Brad Pitt, Ronald Reagan, Julia Roberts, Steven Hawking, Nicole Kidman, Edward Norton, Tom Cruise, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dizzy Gillespie, Elton John, Annette Benning, Antonio Banderas, Richard Gere, Jack Nicholson, Cindy Crawford, and Tina Turner.

Later in the same year Pitt conducted the BBC's first broadcast symphony concert, which included Dvořák's New World Symphony and works by Saint-Saëns, Elgar and Weber.

The following year, Pitt, by now working full-time for the BBC, as its director of music, augmented the ensemble to form the " Wireless Symphony Orchestra " for a new series of concerts broadcast from Covent Garden, conducted by Bruno Walter, Ernest Ansermet and Pierre Monteux.

For many years Beckford was believed to have conducted a simultaneous affair with his cousin Peter's wife Louisa Pitt ( c. 1755-1791 ).

Recent research conducted by East Carolina University, Greenville and Pitt County historians has uncovered documentation noting that before the Civil War, the North Carolina Legislature had appropriated funds to construct dams and locks on the Tar River in an attempt to facilitate almost year round navigation for the farm products and naval stores shipping plus passenger boats which were travelling between Tarboro, through Greenville to Washington.

The novel is set in the Aegean Sea, where Dirk Pitt has been sent with Al Giordino to assist Rudi Gunn, with an expedition being conducted by NUMA.

This implicit threat to the viability of the Royal Navy became apparent in mid-September ( a month after the decision had been taken to settle Botany Bay ) and caused the Pitt Administration to begin an urgent search for new sources of supply, including from Norfolk Island, which was then added to the plan to colonise New South Wales.

* The North Carolina General Assembly passes an act establishing the town of Martinsborough, named for Royal Governor Josiah Martin, on the land of Richard Evans, which will serve as the county seat of Pitt County.

Memorial to Augustus Pitt Rivers in St Peter's Church at Tollard Royal.

Pitt Rivers created the Larmer Tree Gardens, a public pleasure garden, on the Rushmore estate near Tollard Royal in Wiltshire.

In a parallel situation for the Royal Townships of the yet-to-formed colony of Upper Canada the thoughfares of the United Empire Loyalist settlement of Cornwall, Ontario were, in 1784, named Pitt Street and Sydney Street in honour of the prime minister and his foreign secretary.

Newcombe also acquired many totem poles for the Royal British Columbia Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, the British Museum, Kew Gardens, and museums in Cambridge, Liverpool and Sydney.

* Royal Berkshire History: Thomas ' Diamond ' Pitt

When a Spanish force attacks and raids the town of Bridgetown, Blood escapes with a number of other convict-slaves ( including former shipmaster Jeremy Pitt, the one-eyed giant Edward Wolverstone, former gentleman Nathaniel Hagthorpe, former Royal Navy petty officer Nicholas Dyke and former Royal Navy master gunner Ned Ogle ), captures the Spaniards ' ship and sails away to become one of the most successful pirates / buccaneers in the Caribbean, hated and feared by the Spanish.

From Fitz Hugh Sound northwards, the route is sheltered via the various large islands in that area such as Princess Royal Island and Pitt Island.

He was 23 years old, married to Catherine Pitt, and a private in the 13th Battalion, The Royal Scots ( The Lothian Regiment ), British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC for his actions during the Battle of Loos, on 26 September 1915.

Hundreds of the objects that she and her husband found are now in the Pitt Rivers Museum, whilst her paper records are held by the Royal Geographical Society in London.

Among Wyon's medals may be mentioned: 1809, Pearce medal ; 1810, Isis medal ( re-engraved in 1813 ); medal of Wellington ; 1812, Wooldridge medal ; medal for Royal Naval College, Portsmouth ; 1813, Manchester Pitt Club medal ; ‘ Upper Canada preserved ;’ 1814, medals presented to the North American Indians ; medal of the tsar of Russia struck during the visit of the Grand Duchess of Oldenburg to the English mint ; treaty of Paris ( published by Rundell & Co. from his ‘ Peace checking the Fury of War ,’ a design which had gained the gold medal of the Society of Arts ); centenary of accession of house of Brunswick ( for the corporation of Cork ), and Liverpool Pitt club medal ; 1815, Waterloo medal, with reverse, Victory, adapted from a Greek coin of Elis ( Mayo, Medals, plate 22 ); and 1817, opening of Waterloo Bridge.

Memorial to Augustus Pitt Rivers in St Peter's Church at Tollard Royal.

By the time Adrian Boult succeeded Pitt as director of music for the BBC, the violinist Albert Sammons and the violist Lionel Tertis had gone round the country talent-spotting on behalf of the corporation.

At the suggestion of Dr. Jim Strickler, Dean of Dartmouth Medical School and a Pittsburgh native, he applied to Pitt Medical School where Dartmouth alumnus, leader, and, visionary, Dr. Albert B. Ferguson, Jr., was Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery.

The news-ticker crawl in the episode includes such items as " JFK Posthumously Joins Republican Party " and " Albert Einstein + Brad Pitt = Dick Cheney ".

Victoria Brewery ( 1882 ), between Albert and Victoria Streets, is notable as an early work of William Pitt.

In 1918 the constituency consisted of " That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point at the intersection of the centre lines of Parliamentary Road and Castle Street, thence southward along the centre line of Castle Street to the centre line of Alexandra Parade, thence eastward along the centre line of Alexandra Parade to the centre line of Firpark Street, thence southward along the centre line of Firpark Street and Ark Lane to the centre line of Duke Street, thence westward along the centre line of Duke Street to the centre line of Sydney Street, thence southward along the centre line of Sydney Street to the centre line of Gallowgate, thence westward along the centre line of Gallowgate to the centre line of Saltmarket, thence southward along the centre line of Saltmarket and Albert Bridge to the centre line of the River Clyde, thence westward along the centre line of the River Clyde to a point in line with the centre line of McAlpine Street, thence northward along the centre line of McAlpine Street, Pitt Street and Scott Street to the centre line of New City Road, thence south-eastward along the centre line of New City Road and Cowcaddens to the centre line of Buchanan Street, thence southward along the centre line of Buchanan Street to the centre line of Parliamentary Road, thence north-eastward along the centre line of Parliamentary Road to the point of commencement.

At the nomination meeting in the electorate on 5 September 1879, Joseph Shephard, Albert Pitt, Oswald Curtis and Acton Adams were proposed, the latter three without their knowledge or consent, presumably by opponents of George Grey who had the support of Shephard.

One-time National Football League player and Hall-of-Famer Tony Dorsett played football for the Hopewell Vikings, setting several records during his high school career, then moving to the Pitt Panthers, and the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos of the NFL, setting even more records and ensuring his enshrinement into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

There was no thought at this stage that the BBC would maintain a full-scale symphonic orchestra, which would comprise up to 100 players ; with Reith's approval, Pitt engaged various orchestras for a BBC concert series in 1924 at the Central Hall, Westminster.

The principal are the statues of George Washington in the State-house at Boston, Massachusetts ; of George III in The Guildhall, London ; of George IV at Brighton ; of William Pitt the Younger in Hanover Square, London ; of James Watt in Westminster Abbey and in Glasgow ( also a bust, plus one of William Murdoch, at St. Mary's Church, Handsworth ); of William Roscoe and George Canning in Liverpool ; of John Dalton in Manchester Town Hall ; of Lord President Blair and Lord Melville in Edinburgh, etc.

In the years following William's birth, Jacob Blount built a plantation, Blount Hall, in Pitt County, North Carolina.

Blount's childhood home in Pitt County, North Carolina, Blount Hall, burned down in the 1960s, though a historical marker stands near the site.

Lord Harrowby survived her by nine years and died in December 1847 at his Staffordshire residence, Sandon Hall, aged 85, being, as Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville says, " the last of his generation and of the colleagues of Mr Pitt, the sole survivor of those stirring times and mighty contests.

St Kilda Town Hall is an impressive building by William Pitt.

He was born at Blount Hall, in what is now Pitt County, North Carolina and was educated at home.

Durfee Hall was named after William Pitt Durfee, who from 1884 to 1929 served as Professor of Mathematics and Chair of the Mathematics Department.

* John Pitt ( of Crow Hall ) ( c. 1673 – 1731 ), British Member of Parliament for St Ives and Stockbridge, probably son of George Pitt of Strathfieldsaye ( d. 1694 )

NEKAAL received a $ 56, 060 grant from NASA's Near Earth Objects ( NEO ) tracking program to acquire the Pitt telescope from Lindley Hall, Kansas University.

* The location of exterior that Trevor drives round while Jill sees Mr Pitt at the Planning Department is Wakefield Town Hall but Mr Pitt's office is on Cookridge Street and is actually above where Revolution bar now is and the view from his window looks up Rossington Street ( the old City of Leeds School is on the right, and the Merrion Centre can be seen at the top of the street ).

When the owners of Grace Bros, the Coles Myer Group decided to redevelop their Sydney flagship store they decided that it would also be appropriate to include third-party retail stores on the lower levels, thus providing an open link from Sydney's Town Hall subway station and QVB to the Pitt Street Mall, the heart of the city's retailing precinct.

The undefeated 1927-28 Pitt National Championship team featured Naismith Hall of Fame inductee Chuck Hyatt | Charlie Hyatt

In addition, the McCarl Panthers Hall of Champions, which pays homage to and displays memorabilia from past Pitt athletics achievements, and the official Pittsburgh Panthers Team Store are located in the main lobby of the Pete.

The 1980 Pitt Panthers also featured four future College Football Hall of Fame inductees: Covert, Dan Marino, Hugh Green, and May.

Pitt Gymnastics host home meets at Fitzgerald Field House, has a Gymnastics Training Center at the adjacent Trees Hall, and is coached by Debbie Yohman.