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Players who remained at club were: Tom Biggs, Lee Blackett, Michael Cusack, Jon Dunbar, Stuart Hooper, James Isaacson, Chris Jones, Rob Rawlinson and Rob Vickerman.
What remained was to work out the results of Grotefend's discovery, a task performed by Eugène Burnouf, Christian Lassen and George Rawlinson.
Dáire Cerbba is stated in Rawlinson B 502 to have been born in Mag Breg ( Brega ), Mide, much of which probably remained Érainn territory at the time of his supposed floruit.
It should be noted that a passage in Rawlinson B 502 declares that Dáire Cerbba was born in Mag Breg ( Brega ), Mide, much of which probably remained Érainn or Dáirine territory at the time of his supposed floruit.

Rawlinson and at
In 1855 Rawlinson announced the discovery of non-Semitic inscriptions at the southern Babylonian sites of Nippur, Larsa, and Uruk.
For the character created by Vivian Stanshall, see Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
He was born at Chadlington, Oxfordshire, the second son of Abram Tyack Rawlinson, and elder brother of the historian, George Rawlinson.
Rawlinson was appointed political agent at Kandahar in 1840.
He was born at Chadlington, Oxfordshire, and was the younger brother of Sir Henry Rawlinson.
Vivian Stanshall ( born Victor Anthony Stanshall ; 21 March 1943 – 5 March 1995 ) was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.
( 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 ".
An LP, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, which reworked some of the material from the Peel sessions, appeared in 1978.
A projected second book, The Eating at Rawlinson End, never appeared.
A second Rawlinson album, Sir Henry at N ' didi ’ s Kraal ( 1984 ), recounts Sir Henry's disastrous African expedition, but omits the rest of the Rawlinson clan.
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.
One of his strangest films, and one he took great delight in, was Vivian Stanshall's 1980 Sir Henry at Rawlinson End in which he played the title role.
* Sir Henry at Rawlinson End ( 1980 )
* Vivian Stanshall – Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, 1978
He produced Vivian Stanshall's first foray into radio, both by overseeing Stanshall's Radio Flashes when Stanshall stood in for a vacationing John Peel, and Stanshall's Sir Henry at Rawlinson End.
Among twenty surviving manuscripts are those compiled at St Benet Holme, Norfolk, continued at Tintern Abbey ( Royal Mss 14. c. 6 ); at Norwich ( Cottonian Claudius E 8 ); Rochester ( Cottonian Nero D 2 ); St Paul's, London ( Lambeth Mss 1106 ); St Mary's, Southwark ( Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Mss B 177 ); and at St Augustine's, Canterbury ( Harleian Mss 641 ).

Rawlinson and for
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.
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 ".
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.
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.
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.
Despite this, planning for their next move was conducted between Haig, Rawlinson and Joffre.
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.
The Lord Chancellor ( Lord Dilhorne ), the Attorney General ( Sir John Hobson ) and the Solicitor General, ( Sir Peter Rawlinson ) privately gave Home their opinion that the American blockade of Cuba was a breach of international law, but he continued to advocate a policy of strong support for Kennedy.
Neighbours included the Sardinian ambassador, Sir Walter Rawlinson, Lord Northington, John Morton and the Third Earl of Abingdon, making it an appropriate house for a " great and able Lawyer ".
* The kilt is invented by Thomas Rawlinson, the English owner of an ironworks, who designs it as a cheap uniform for better maneuverability around machinery.

Rawlinson and two
Once Byng was enrolled at the Staff College, he found amongst his fellow students men with whom he would be closely associated more than two decades later Henry Rawlinson, Henry Hughes Wilson, Thomas D ' Oyly Snow, and James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane and in 1894, while en route to visit a friend at Aldershot, travelled with a cadet at the nearby Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Winston Churchill.
The play's two chief influences are Douglas Adams's The Hitchhikers ' Guide to the Galaxy and the role play game Space 1889, although another is Sir Henry at Rawlinson End by Vivian Stanshall.
Critically, Rawlinson had 950 guns and howitzers, two thirds the artillery strength available on 1 July, but was attacking on about one quarter of the 1 July frontage, only 6, 000 yards ( 5. 5 km ) compared to 22, 000 yards ( 20 km ).
A British army officer, Henry Rawlinson, had the inscription transcribed in two parts, in 1835 and 1843.
It tells the story of two young friends, Staś Tarkowski and Nel Rawlinson, kidnapped by the rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan.
The series ' writer, Philip Martin, also appeared in multiple roles, playing the gangland boss Rawlinson in the original play, the hired assassin ' The White Devil ' at the end of season two ( though Martin was credited as Larson P Whipsnide, a reference to his WC Fields inspired performance as the character ), and as himself, dictating the script to a typist, in cutaways throughout season two.
Lord Palmerston, who then became prime minister, sent a sanitary commission, consisting of Rawlinson and two medical members ( Dr. John Sutherland and Dr. H. Gavin ), with full powers from the War Office, to do whatever it thought would lead to better hygienic conditions in camp and hospital.

Rawlinson and years
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.
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.
In its early years, Monogram could seldom afford big-name movie stars and would employ either former silent-film actors who were idle ( Herbert Rawlinson, William Collier, Sr .) or young featured players ( Ray Walker, Wallace Ford ).
Main characters were played by John Bennett, Michael Golden, Ray Lonnen, Peter Birrel, Brian Rawlinson, Pat Nye, Basil Henson and Anna Wing, the latter finding new fame in the BBC soap EastEnders nearly 20 years later and which had a similar premise.
These houses were earlier called Rawlinson, Kitchner and Roberts and the new names were given in the post-independence years.

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