Poirot is contacted by Desmond Burton-Cox, Celia Ravenscroft's fiancé, who gives him the names of two governesses who had served the Ravenscroft family, who he thinks may be able to explain what happened.

Trevor Ravenscroft's 1973 book, The Spear of Destiny ( as well as a later book, The Mark of the Beast ), claims that Adolf Hitler started World War II in order to capture the spear, with which he was obsessed.

Concerning Ravenscroft's claim that Stein met Hitler in 1932, Stein himself said that the first time he actually saw Hitler in person was at a public hotel in 1932, and nowhere states that he actually spoke to Hitler.

The Robotech definition of Protoculture is similar in some respects to the Vril energy described in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel The Coming Race, a substance used by a subterranean humanoid species of Earth called the Vril-ya ; in Trevor Ravenscroft's book about the occult practices within the Nazi inner circle, Spear of Destiny, it is stated that the process of deriving Vril energy was discovered by Atlanteans, which involved " extracting life-power from seeds "; German rocket engineer Willy Ley alludes to the Nazi occult fascination with Vril energy in his 1947 article, " Pseudoscience in Naziland ", linking the Vril-ya to the Aryan race and Nazism.

In the UK, Tom Hill voiced Tony after Ravenscroft's death.

* Two plays on the same subject of King Edgar are acted in 1677: Edward Ravenscroft's tragicomedy King Edgar and Alfreda, and Thomas Rymer's Edgar, or the English Monarch.

Ravenscroft's face is used as well, projected onto the bust.

Little is known of Ravenscroft's early life.

One of Ravenscroft's best known uncredited works is as the vocalist for the song " You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.

In 1621, Thomas Ravenscroft published an expanded edition of the Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter ; Ravenscroft's edition added many more psalm tunes, some of which were composed since the first publication by leading late Tudor and early Stuart English composers such as Thomas Morley, Thomas Tallis, John Dowland, and Thomas Tomkins.

The most influential books were Trevor Ravenscroft's The Spear of Destiny and The Morning of the Magicians by Pauwels and Bergier.

In Ravenscroft's book a specific interest of Hitler concerning the Spear of Destiny is alleged.

" There are many texts of the ballad, however the oldest known musical version is in Thomas Ravenscroft's Melismata in 1611.

' Similarly, the biography of Walter Stein by Johannes Tautz does not support Ravenscroft's claim to have ever met Stein.

Both of Ravenscroft's books have been said to fail to give an accurate account of Stein's work, and to misquote him in several places.

He found that many of Ravenscroft's statements were contradicted by official records.

His first inaugural address speaks of `` my country whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love ''.

We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

And I select this sentence as its pertinent summation: `` in essence the drama of his ( Eisenhower's ) Presidency can be described as the ordeal of a nation turned conservative and struggling -- thus far with but limited and precarious success -- to give effective voice and force to that conservatism ''.

But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.

I remember Ernest Bloch in the foyer, shouting in his high-pitched voice: `` it may be a tour de force, mais mon Dieu, can anyone take this music seriously ''??

Band-pass filtering of voice can simulate the effect of a telephone because telephones use band-pass filters.

A packet voice system can produce this low jitter in a number of ways:

" It's definitely in the Swedish folk music, you can hear it in the Russian folk songs, you can hear in in the music from Jean Sibelius or Edvard Grieg from Norway, you can see it in the eyes of Greta Garbo and you can hear it in the voice of Jussi Björling.

His voice over acting talents can be heard on animated shows like Ren and Stimpy, Scooby Doo, Batman: The Animated Series, Steven Spielberg's Animaniacs, Little Wizard Adventures, The Oz Kids and Disney's Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.

In Portuguese, vowels after the stressed syllable can be pronounced with breathy voice.

Furthermore, while Neuromancer < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s narrator may have had an unusual " voice " for science fiction, much older examples can be found: Gibson's narrative voice, for example, resembles that of an updated Raymond Chandler, as in his novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 ).

Listening to the only surviving recordings of a castrato ( see below ), one can hear that the lower part of the voice sounds like a " super-high " tenor, with a more falsetto-like upper register above that.

" An author can discuss the mind and the voice, but an artist cannot show them.

Killed players become " spectators " for the duration of the round ; they cannot change their names before their next spawn, text chat cannot be sent to or received from live players ; and voice chat can only be received from live players and not sent to them ( unless the cvar < tt > sv_alltalk </ tt > is set to 1 ).

However, although creaky voice may occur with very low pitch, as at the end of a long intonation unit, it can occur with any pitch.

Some languages, such as Jalapa Mazatec, use creaky voice as a linguistically significant marker ; that is, the presence or absence of creaky voice can change the meaning of a word.

This can be point to point where the IP network carries packetised voice N x 64 Kbs speech and a separate IP signalling channel to carry the notional 64 Kbs of DPNSS signalling.

A goitre or goiter ( Latin gutteria, struma ), is a swelling of the thyroid gland, which can lead to a swelling of the neck or larynx ( voice box ).

This means that any regular Latin verb can be conjugated in any person, number, tense, mood, and voice by knowing which of the four conjugation groups it belongs to, and its principal parts.

And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, oh, then, I heard a voice which said, " There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition "; and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy.

There may also be slurring of speech, tremor of the voice and ataxic respiration.

A new party, the Republic Party, is headed by ex-Prime Minister Aram Sargsyan, brother of Vazgen Sargsyan, and has become the primary voice of the opposition, which also includes the Armenian Communist Party, the National Unity party of Artashes Geghamyan, and elements of the former Ter-Petrosyan government.

Jesus also maintained that the time would come when the dead would hear the voice of the Son of God, and all who were in the tombs would come out, the faithful to the resurrection of life, and the unfaithful to the resurrection of judgment.

Investigation of the afterlife also includes the study of ( among others ) cases of haunting, apparitions of the deceased ( including, in some cases, information conveyed by those same apparitions ), instrumental trans-communication ( recording of electronic voice phenomena on tape ), and mediumship.

He also used his gravelly voice to great effect as an advertising voice-over artist.

* The case also shows the agent when used with the passive voice of the verb.

Although they are generally classified as a cappella metal, the band also includes a drummer, and use amplifiers on some songs to distort the voice to sound more like a real guitar.

Reduction of jitter ( and also end-to-end round-trip delays ) is particularly important when carrying voice traffic, because the conversion of digitized voice into an analogue audio signal is an inherently real-time process, and to do a good job, the decoder ( codec ) that does this needs an evenly spaced ( in time ) stream of data items.

However, such voiced aspiration, also known as breathy voice or murmur, is less ambiguously transcribed with dedicated diacritics, as ⟨⟩ or ⟨⟩.

Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.

His voice became a fixture of both Memorial Stadium and Camden Yards, and his expression " Give that fan a contract ", uttered whenever a fan caught a foul ball, was one of his trademarks – the other being his distinct " Thank Yooooou ..." following every announcement ( He was also known on occasion to say " Give that fan an error " after a dropped foul ball ).

He also provided the voice of The Mayor in the 2009 film Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, the voice of Rod " Torque " Redline in Cars 2 and the voice of " Fugax " in the 2006 film The Ant bully.

Breathy voice ( also called murmured voice, soughing, or susurration ) is a phonation in which the vocal cords vibrate, as they do in normal ( modal ) voicing, but are held further apart, so that a larger volume of air escapes between them.

The Nguni languages in the southern Bantu languages family, including Phuthi, Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele and Swati, also have contrastive breathy voice.

He was also hesitant to change the formula that had brought him such success, and feared that giving the Tramp a voice would limit his international appeal.

" Slant Magazine also gave the album three out of five stars, saying " It's Marianne Faithfull's substance-ravaged voice that comes to mind most often while listening to songs like " Honey " and " For Once in Your Life.

Operating through small, child-sized vocal cords, their voices were also extraordinarily flexible, and quite different from the equivalent adult female voice.

His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

In the One Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights, the fictional storyteller Sheherazade is portrayed as being the " voice of sanity and mercy ", with her philosophical position being generally opposed to punishment by death.

There are also a number of VSAT stations in major cities such as Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Mazari Sharif, and Jalalabad, providing international and domestic voice / data connectivity.

" Romare Bearden described Alston as "... one of the most versatile artists whose enormous skill led him to a diversity of styles ..." Bearden also describes the professionalism and impact that Alston had on Harlem and the African American community: "' was a consummate artist and a voice in the development of African American art who never doubted the excellence of all people's sensitivity and creative ability.