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Key figures in the movement included Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Hans Arp, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, Johannes Baader, Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Richard Huelsenbeck, Georg Grosz, John Heartfield, Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, Kurt Schwitters, and Hans Richter, among others.
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.
Richardson said he based his performance of the scheming Francis Urquhart on the way Shakespeare portrayed Richard III.
Examples include works by Richard Strauss, Maurice Duruflé, Francis Poulenc, Charles Villiers Stanford, Edmund Rubbra, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Lennox Berkeley, Morten Lauridsen, Edward Elgar, Hugo Distler, Ernst Krenek, and Michael Finnissy.
One of the most famous was Richard Francis Burton, who traveled as a Qadiriyyah Sufi from Afghanistan in 1853.
Natural law theories have, however, exercised a profound influence on the development of English common law, and have featured greatly in the philosophies of Thomas Aquinas, Francisco Suárez, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes, Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, John Locke, Francis Hutcheson, Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, and Emmerich de Vattel.
* 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.
While Richard was at Warwick's estate, he developed a close friendship with Francis Lovell, which would remain strong for the rest of his life.
Richard made overtures to Landais, offering military support for Landais's weak regime under duke Francis II of Brittany in exchange for Henry.
Richard honored his brother, Francis Lightfoot Lee ( another signer of the Articles of Confederation and the Declaration of Independence ), by naming his youngest son after him.
Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin ( Narcisse et Echo, 1911 ), Claude Debussy ( Jeux, 1913 ), Maurice Ravel ( Daphnis et Chloé, 1912 ), Erik Satie ( Parade, 1917 ), Manuel de Falla ( El Sombrero de Tres Picos, 1917 ), Richard Strauss ( Josephslegende, 1914 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite ; Chout, 1915 revised 1920 ; Le pas d ' acier, 1926 ; and The Prodigal Son, 1929 ), Ottorino Respighi ( La Boutique fantasque, 1918 ), Francis Poulenc ( Les biches, 1923 ) and others.
* February 13 – Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke become the first Europeans to discover Lake Tanganyika.
* Richard Francis Burton — translation of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ( 1885 – 1888 )
It is usually attributed to renowned orientalist and author Sir Richard Francis Burton, but the chief work was done by the pioneering Indian archaeologist, Bhagwanlal Indraji, under the guidance of Burton's friend, the Indian civil servant Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, and with the assistance of a student, Shivaram Parshuram Bhide.
Unabridged and unexpurgated translations were made, first by John Payne, under the title The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night ( 1882, nine volumes ), and then by Sir Richard Francis Burton, entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night ( 1885, ten volumes ) – the latter was, according to some assessments, partially based on the former, leading to charges of plagiarism.
* 1885 – 1888 – Sir Richard Francis Burton publishes an English translation from several sources ( largely the same as Payne ).
* The Thousand Nights and a Night in several classic translations, including unexpurgated version by Sir Richard Francis Burton, and John Payne translation, with additional material.
He read Magellan and James Cook, the arctic explorers Franklin, Mackenzie and Parry, David Livingstone and Richard Francis Burton on Africa, Lewis and Clark ; and hundreds of lesser-known works by explorers and literate travelers.
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However, statements by contemporaries of Stanley like Sir Richard Francis Burton, who claimed " Stanley shoots negroes as if they were monkeys ", paint a very different picture.
Explorer, ethnologist, and author Richard Francis Burton traveled by coach in the summer of 1860 to document life in Great Salt Lake City, to investigate the claims of anti-Mormonists of his day, and to broaden his knowledge of the new faith.
Wedgwood was chairman ; also present were William Townsend Aiton ( successor to his father, William Aiton, as Superintendent of Kew Gardens ), Sir Joseph Banks ( President of the Royal Society ), James Dickson ( a nurseryman ), William Forsyth ( Superintendent of the gardens of St. James's Palace and Kensington Palace ), Charles Francis Greville ( a Lord of the Admiralty ) and Richard Anthony Salisbury, who was to become the Secretary of the new society.
Each episode featured, apart from Palin, well-known guest actors including Ian Ogilvy, Kenneth Colley, Liz Smith, Roy Kinnear, Frank Middlemass, Iain Cuthbertson, John Le Mesurier, Jan Francis, Denholm Elliott, Richard Vernon, Joan Sanderson and others.

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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 Burton referred to them as " special slaves of the king, bear the dignified title of royal wives.
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.
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 )
* Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah, by Richard Burton
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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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