The Greek Revival façade facing Great Russell Street is a characteristic building of Sir Robert Smirke, with 44 columns in the Ionic order high, closely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene in Asia Minor.

In 1895, Parliament gave the Museum Trustees a loan of £ 200, 000 to purchase from the Duke of Bedford all 69 houses which backed onto the Museum building in the five surrounding streets-Great Russell Street, Montague Street, Montague Place, Bedford Square and Bloomsbury Street.

* 1986 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.

The first series of Phoenix in 1992 recounted the investigation of the bombing of the Victorian state police headquarters, loosely based on a real case in the mid-1980s, the Russell Street Bombing.

* March 27 – A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing a police officer.

The studios were located on Russell Street and were home to programmes like ' Scene South East ', ' Scene Midweek ', ' Southern News ', ' Farm Progress ' and the nightly epilogue, ' Guideline '.

It is well served by buses, with over 12 different routes running south down Gower Street, and both north and south through Russell Square.

Route 7 goes along Great Russell Street, past the British Museum, and on to Russell Square.

* Randolph Caldecott ( 1846 – 1886 ), illustrator, lived at No 46 Great Russell Street.

* Charles Dickens ( 1812 – 1870 ), novelist lived at 14 Great Russell Street, Tavistock Square and 48 Doughty Street.

* Thomas Henry Wyatt ( 1807 – 1880 ), architect lived at 77 Great Russell Street.

* Ricky Gervais, comedian, until recently lived in Southampton Row, Store Street and used to own one of the Penthouses in Bloomsbury Mansions on Russell Square, WC1

* George du Maurier ( 1834 – 1896 ), artist and writer, lived at 91 ( formerly 46 ) Great Russell Street

After inheriting £ 1000 in 1778 from his uncle Thomas, he invested the money in building his first known independent works, 15-17 Bloomsbury Square and 66-71 Great Russell Street in Bloomsbury.

It has a Christian church located on Russell Street, a Baptist church located on King Street, and a Methodist church located on Bush Avenue.

( Six additional plats, the most recent in 1949, expanded the village to its current size, adding all the land between Smith Street and Russell Street.

Africa was added to the school's name and remit in 1938 and the school permanently shifted to Thornhaugh Street, which runs between Malet Street and Russell Square.

The La Russell Water Pump ( circa 1904 ) conspicuously located in the middle of the road on Main Street is a local cultural icon which dates back to the early beginnings of the town.

The area known as the Parliamentary Triangle is formed by three of Burley Griffin's axes, stretching from Capital Hill along Commonwealth Avenue to the Civic Centre around City Hill, along Constitution Avenue to the Defence precinct on Russell Hill, and along Kings Avenue back to Capital Hill.

Brian Russell De Palma ( born September 11, 1940 ) is an American film director and writer.

Gottlob Frege did explicitly axiomatize a theory in which the formalized version of naive set theory can be interpreted, and it is this formal theory which Bertrand Russell actually addressed when he presented his paradox.

: Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig argue that, if we accept Searle's description of intentionality, consciousness and the mind, we are forced to accept that consciousness is epiphenomenal: that it " casts no shadow ", that is undetectable in the outside world.

Therefore, Russell and Norvig argue, Searle is mistaken about the " knowability of the mental ".

In the book Japanese Arms & Armor Introduction By Robinson, H Russell NA on page 58 there is a picture of Japanese riveted kusari, and

Paul Russell suggests that perhaps Hume's position is best characterised by the term " irreligion ".

Hume himself was uncomfortable with the terms deist and atheist, and Hume scholar Paul Russell has argued that the best and safest term for Hume's views is irreligion.

The Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn is the smuggler hero of a series of novels by Russell Thorndike.

However in the DVD, the Davros Connections, director Gary Russell points out that the explosion of Davros ' life-support chair leaves the listener to believe there is little of Davros left.

Bertrand Russell is famous for distinguishing " knowledge by description " ( a form of knowledge that ) and " knowledge by acquaintance " in Problems of Philosophy.

According to the direct-reference view, an early version of which was originally proposed by Bertrand Russell, and perhaps earlier by Gottlob Frege, a proper name strictly has no meaning when there is no object to which it refers.

Ex-soldier Snake Plissken ( Kurt Russell ) is given 24 hours to find the President of the United States, who has been captured after the crash of Air Force One.

" Snake " Plissken ( Kurt Russell ) is escorted to the prison on Manhattan Island by armed officers.

At the time, Russell described his character as " a mercenary, and his style of fighting is a combination of Bruce Lee, The Exterminator, and Darth Vader, with Eastwood's vocal-ness.

Another version is the Collector's Edition, a two-disc set featuring a remastered transfer with a 5. 1 audio track, two commentaries ( one by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell, another by producer Debra Hill and Joe Alves ), a making-of featurette, the first issue of a comic book series titled John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles, and a ten-minute deleted opening sequence.

During late 1927, Warners released The Jazz Singer, which was mostly silent but contained what is generally regarded as the first synchronized dialogue ( and singing ) in a feature film ; but this process was actually accomplished first by Charles Taze Russell in 1914 with the lengthy film The Photo-Drama of Creation.

The earliest known written evidence of the title is from the November 3, 1863, diary entry of William Howard Russell, in which he referred to gossip about " the First Lady in the Land ," referring to Mary Todd Lincoln.

He is well known for debating the existence of God with Bertrand Russell in a celebrated 1948 BBC broadcast ; the following year he debated logical positivism and the meaningfulness of religious language with his friend the analytic philosopher A. J. Ayer.

He was admired by and influential among other philosophers, and also by the Bloomsbury Group, but is ( unlike his colleague Russell ) mostly unknown today outside of academic philosophy.

Bertrand Russell noted: " The argument does not, to a modern mind, seem very convincing, but it is easier to feel convinced that it must be fallacious than it is to find out precisely where the fallacy lies.

Television series executive producer Russell T Davies wrote in Doctor Who Magazine # 356 that there is no connection between the War of the books and the Time War of the television series.

So while the general public could easily perceive Jane Russell or Sophia Loren as " Russ Meyer material ", their balanced bodies did not mesh with Meyer's precise aesthetic preferences.

Outgoing CCF leader Russell Paulley easily won the new party's leadership, defeating two minor figures who offered little in the way of policy alternatives.

Colonel John Hinton, commanding officer of the fort, was caught unawares and was captured easily by Captain Samuel P. Russell of Battery A of the 3rd New York.

Wilder's men were armed with new Spencer repeating rifles and when they attacked the Confederate 1st ( 3rd ) Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, under Colonel J. Russell Butler, was easily pushed aside.

Labour's Christine Russell gained the seat easily at the 1997 election and held it until 2010.

Running for the Liberal Party, he easily defeated Conservative candidate J. P. Laycock in the constituency of Russell.