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In literature and journalism, Dartmouth has produced nine Pulitzer Prize winners: Thomas M. Burton, Richard Eberhart, Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, Nigel Jaquiss, Martin J. Sherwin, David K. Shipler, and Joseph Rago.
Richard Francis Burton commented on the " masculine physique of the women, enabling them to compete with men in enduring toil, hardship and privations ," and Alfred Ellis concurred that the female soldiers, " endured all the toil and performed all the hard labour.
Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.
Richard Burton starred in the first broadcast in 1954, and was joined by Elizabeth Taylor in a subsequent film.
* 1972 Under Milk Wood, starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and Peter O ' Toole
* 1962: Dylan Thomas, a short, Oscar-winning, documentary film with Richard Burton as narrator, directed by Jack Howells.
Many British actors have achieved international fame and critical success, including Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Sean Connery, Vivien Leigh, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers and Kate Winslet.
Richard Burton is judged as the Worst Actor of All Time over nominees John Agar, Tony Curtis and Victor Mature.
* Worst Actor: Richard Burton ( a highly controversial choice, considering the fact that he was Oscar-nominated many times, but made because Burton starred in so many bad films )
Richard Burton received his third Tony Award nomination when he played his second Hamlet, his first under John Gielgud's direction, in 1964 in a production that holds the record for the longest run of the play in Broadway history ( 136 performances ).
John Gielgud directed Richard Burton in a Broadway production at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in 1964 – 5, the longest-running Hamlet in the U. S. to date.
Richard Francis Burton was the first European at Lake Tanganyika.
Geneva: Richard Burton SA.
His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.
* The 1963 film Cleopatra ( played by Richard Burton )
One of the most famous was Richard Francis Burton, who traveled as a Qadiriyyah Sufi from Afghanistan in 1853.
* Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah, by Richard Burton
* 1890 – Sir Richard Francis Burton, British explorer and writer ( b. 1821 )
The explorer, Richard Francis Burton, in his study of Thule points out that it has had many definitions over the centuries.
pl: Richard Burton Matheson
The Palm House was built by architect Decimus Burton and iron-maker Richard Turner between 1844 and 1848, and was the first large-scale structural use of wrought iron.
The Palm House ( 1844 – 1848 ) was the result of cooperation between architect Decimus Burton and iron-founder Richard Turner, and continues upon the glass house design principles developed by John Claudius Loudon and Joseph Paxton.
It was commissioned in 1859 and designed by architect Decimus Burton and ironfounder Richard Turner.

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The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.
Dennett is referred to as one of the " Four Horsemen of New Atheism ", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens.
One form is equality of persons in right, sometimes referred to as natural rights, and John Locke is sometimes considered the founder of this form .< ref > Arneson Richard, " Egalitarianism ", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( 2002.
Its founder, Richard Stallman, is referred to by Steven Levy as " the last true hacker ".
Richard Bachman was also referred to in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of books.
In the Prose Edda, and a single poem in the Poetic Edda, the event is referred to as Ragnarök or Ragnarøkkr ( Old Norse " Fate of the Gods " or " Twilight of the Gods " respectively ), a usage popularized by 19th century composer Richard Wagner with the title of the last of his Der Ring des Nibelungen operas, Götterdämmerung ( 1876 ).
His two forenames were patriotic musical tributes: " Reinhard " referred to the tragic hero from Amen ( an opera written by his father ), and " Tristan " stems from Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
The mysterious Richard Plantagenet is also a possible illegitimate child of Richard III and is sometimes referred to as " Richard the Master-Builder ".
Richard Wagner's epic series of operas, Der Ring des Nibelungen, is sometimes referred to as a trilogy even though it consists of four works: Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung.
After learning that convicted mass murderer Richard Speck had been karyotyped, Telfer not only incorrectly assumed the acne-scarred Speck was XYY, but reached the false conclusion that Speck was the archetypical XYY male — or " supermale " as Telfer referred to XYY males outside of peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Richard Feynman, one of the originators and early developers of the theory of quantum electrodynamics ( QED ), referred to the fine-structure constant in these terms:
Turner has frequently been referred to as a ' great innovator ' of Rock and Roll by contemporaries such as Little Richard and Johnny Otis.
* Richard II of England ( 6 January 1367 – c. 14 February 1400 ) often referred to as Richard of Bordeaux for his place of birth.
Edward is referred to in Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry V.
In 1983, Dirk Bergen left the band to pursue graphic design, and Richard Jonckheere, referred to as Richard 23, joined as vocalist.
It is based on the life of King Richard II of England ( ruled 1377 – 1399 ) and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays concerning Richard's successors: Henry IV, Part 1 ; Henry IV, Part 2 ; and Henry V. It may not have been written as a stand-alone work.
Shortly before his execution, it is said that Tyrrell admitted, under torture, to having murdered the princes at the behest of Richard III ; however, no written record of such an important confession has ever been found or referred to.
The names themselves come from Edmondson's and Mayall's own nicknames for each other ; many of Mayall's characters are referred to by some variation of the name " Richard " and " Eddie " is taken from " Eddie Monsoon ", Edmondson's nickname since University, which is a play on his then stage name, Ade Edmondson ( compare Edina Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous, who is called " Eddie " by her friend Patsy, and is played by Edmondson's Comic Strip fellow and wife Jennifer Saunders ).
The earliest written reference to Naskapis appears around 1643, when the Jesuit André Richard referred to the " Ounackkapiouek ", but little is known about the group to which Richard was referring, other than that they were one of many " small nations " situated somewhere north of Tadoussac.

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