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The philibeg or small kilt, also known as the walking kilt ( similar to the modern kilt ) was invented by an English Quaker from Lancashire called Thomas Rawlinson sometime in the 1720s for the use of the Highlanders he and Iain MacDonnell, chief of the MacDonnells of Inverness employed in logging, charcoal manufacture and iron smelting, for which the belted plaid was " cumbrous and unwieldy ".
Among the genealogies contained in the Rawlinson B 502 manuscript, dating from around 1130, is the supposed descent of Malcolm II of Scotland.
General Rawlinson was also ordered to plan an attack from the Ypres Salient on 4 February.
Haig and Rawlinson did not know the enormity of the casualties and injuries from the battle and actually considered resuming the offensive as soon as possible.
An LP, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, which reworked some of the material from the Peel sessions, appeared in 1978.
** Genealogies from Rawlinson B. 502 ( no translation available )
Text from Rawlinson B.
In vain had Major ( afterwards Sir Henry ) Rawlinson proved that they were only reproductions of the original gates, to which the Ghazni moulvies clung merely as a source of offerings from the faithful who visited the old conqueror's tomb.
The Oxford professorship was held by J. R. R. Tolkien from 1925 to 1945, by which time it was known as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon ( the name having been changed in 1916 ).
), Genealogies from Rawlinson B 502 University College, Cork: Corpus of Electronic Texts.
There was a further last-minute call for the removal of all American troops from the attack, but Monash protested to Rawlinson and received support from Haig.
), Genealogies from Rawlinson B 502.
But its massive market share started to erode in the early 1960s as rival CJME ( AM 1300 kHz ) came under the ownership of the Rawlinson family and switched from a " beautiful music " format to Top 40 rock.
Rawlinson retired from competitive athletics at the end of 2005 at the age of 33.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary silently follows Sir Henry Rawlinson in interpreting the Talmudic passage Joma 10a identifying Calneh with the modern Nippur, a lofty mound of earth and rubbish situated in the marshes on the east bank of the Euphrates, but 30 miles distant from its present course, and about 60 miles south-south-east from Babylon.
), Genealogies from Rawlinson B 502.
Nora Rawlinson, who once headed a $ 4 million book selection budget at the Baltimore County Library System, edited Library Journal for four years before stepping in as editor-in-chief of Publishers Weekly from 1992 to 2005.
* Digitised images from Rawlinson B 503, Early Manuscripts at Oxford University.
), Genealogies from Rawlinson B 502.
The Dál Fiatach are said to descend from the " Family of Cú Roí " in the Book of Glendalough ( Rawlinson B 502 ).
He was also seen in the cult film, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End ( 1980 ) from Vivian Stanshall.
), Genealogies from Rawlinson B 502 University College, Cork: Corpus of Electronic Texts.

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After discussions with Rawlinson and Plumer and the incorporation of Haig's changes, Macmullen submitted his memorandum on 14 February.
Rawlinson, in his book: Ancient and Medieval History of India claims the first Arab Muslims settled on the Indian coast in the last part of the 7th century.
Rawlinson would soon compromise with Haig's plan, despite his views on the matter.
Assessments by Haig and Rawlinson on 2 July were lacking in the failure to secure objectives during the first day of the offensive.
In 1838 Henry Rawlinson, building on the 1802 work of Georg Friedrich Grotefend, was able to decipher the Old Persian section of the Behistun inscriptions, using his knowledge of modern Persian.
Sir Henry Rawlinson attempted to prove that there was a second and older Ecbatana in Media Atropatene on the site of the modern Takht-i-Suleiman.
Rawlinson remained at home for two years, published in 1851 his memoir on the Behistun inscription, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
He contributed articles on Baghdad, the Euphrates and Kurdistan to the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, together with several other articles dealing with the East ; and he assisted in editing a translation of The Histories of Herodotus by his brother, Canon George Rawlinson.
At the Battle of Hamel on 4 July 1918, Monash, with the support of the British 4th Army commander Sir Henry Rawlinson commanded the 4th Australian Division, supported by the British 5th Tank Brigade, along with a detachment of US troops, to win a small but operationally significant victory for the Allies.
( Much of the text can be found at " Vivarchive " and at " Rawlinson End Book ") In the 1970s he recorded numerous sessions for BBC Radio 1's John Peel show which elaborated, with a mixture of eloquence and irreverence, on the weird and wonderful adventures of the inebriated and blimpish Sir Henry Rawlinson, his dotty wife Great Aunt Florrie, his " unusual " brother Hubert ( who, for speed, stature and far-seeing, habitually goes on stilts ), old Scrotum the wrinkled retainer, Mrs E, the rambling and unhygienic cook, and many other inhabitants of the crumbly Rawlinson End, plus its environs.
The Rawlinson family had been populating Stanshall's imagination for quite a while, their very first appearance ( in name, at least ) being on the Bonzos ' 1967 number The Intro & The Outro: " Great to hear the Rawlinsons on trombone ".
While living on the Searchlight, Stanshall wrote and recorded Sir Henry at Rawlinson End and also the script for the film of the same name, later produced for Tony Stratton-Smith's Charisma Records company.
The Bona Fide Occupational Qualification exception is an extremely narrow exception to the general prohibition of discrimination based on sex ( Dothard v. Rawlinson, 97 S. Ct.
Foch was pleased at Wilson ’ s appointment, although Haig noted in his diary ( 25 February ) that Wilson was no longer so keen on a strong staff under Rawlinson, his successor at Versailles.
Rawlinson then travelled in England and on the continent of Europe, where he passed several years, making very diverse collections of manuscripts, coins and curiosities, his books alone forming three libraries, English, foreign and Classical.
For a medieval source on the Trojan War that is uniquely independent of Dictys and Dares, see the " Rawlinson Excidium Troie ".
* Sir Henry Rawlinson, a fictional character created by Vivian Stanshall, used most notably on the LP Sir Henry at Rawlinson End

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The three main manuscript sources for Irish mythology are the late 11th / early 12th century Lebor na hUidre which is in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, the early 12th century Book of Leinster in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and the Rawlinson manuscript B 502 ( Rawl.
* 1934 – Alfred Rawlinson, British soldier and polo player ( b. 1867 )
* 1867 – Alfred Rawlinson, British soldier and sportsman ( d. 1934 )
In the mid-19th century, Henry Rawlinson and others deciphered the Behistun Inscription, which records the same text in Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian, using a variation of cuneiform for each language.
* February 3 – Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian ( d. 1755 )
* March 28 – Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, British general ( b. 1864 )
* April 6 – Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian ( b. 1690 )
On 9 February General Rawlinson, commander of the Fourth Army suggested that Messines Ridge could be taken in one day and that the capture of the Gheluvelt plateau should be fundamental to the attack further north.
The site was examined in 1836 by Henry Rawlinson and then by A. H. Layard.
The conduct of the battle has been a source of controversy: senior officers such as General Sir Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force and Henry Rawlinson, the commander of Fourth Army, have been criticised for incurring very severe casualties while failing to achieve their territorial objectives.
This vast increase in numbers diluted troop quality and undermined the confidence inexperienced commanders had in their men ; this was especially true of Rawlinson.
A disagreement over tactics arose between Sir Douglas Haig and his senior local commander, General Sir Henry Rawlinson, General Officer Commanding the British Fourth Army.
12 to General Sir H. Rawlinson, 16 June 1916 Stating the Objectives ') and that preparations should be made for an advance of to Bapaume should German resistance crumble, " If the first attack goes well every effort must be made to develop the success to the utmost by firstly opening a way for our cavalry and then as quickly as possible pushing the cavalry through to seize Bapaume ...." ( Note O. A. D.
Rawlinson anticipated an advance in the form of " bites " into the German defences.

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