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Sheffield had its own student secret societies ( aka final clubs or senior societies, some also known by their Greek letters ) including the Colony Club, 1848 ( now Berzelius ), the Cloister, 1863 ( now Book and Snake ), St. Anthony Hall, 1867 ( now a 3-year society, also called Delta Psi ), St. Elmo, 1889 ( also a senior society ), as well as Franklin Hall, 1865 ( Theta Xi ), York Hall, 1877 ( Chi Phi ), Sachem Hall, 1890 ( Phi Sigma Kappa ), and Vernon Hall, 1895 ( Phi Gamma Delta ).
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On 22 November 2008 Charlton suffered a 2 – 5 loss to Sheffield United at home, which meant that the club had gone eight successive games without a win and had slipped into the relegation zone — particularly disastrous considering they were among the pre-season favourites for promotion.
Benjamin Huntsman, a clockmaker from Sheffield, had pioneered a process to make crucible steel in 1740, but the British had managed to keep it secret, forcing others to import steel.
The narrator points out that the entire peacetime resources of the National Health Service, had they survived, would be unable to cope with the casualties from just the one bomb that hit Sheffield.
In 2009, the public house " The Fountain " in Sheffield City Centre was renamed " The Bessemer ", in homage to Henry Bessemer who had a huge impact on the Steel City's development.
The two associations had played 16 inter-association matches under differing rules ; the Sheffield Rules, the London Rules and Mixed Rules.
With Lady Douglas Sheffield, a young widow of the Howard family, he had a serious relationship from about 1569.
However, United ( now managed by Shearer's old boss at Blackburn, Kenny Dalglish ) had a good run in the FA Cup ; Shearer scored the winning goal in a semi final victory over Sheffield United as the team reached the final.
On that day they went down 4 – 0 to Bury and two years later they would suffer a similar fate at the hands of Sheffield United as they were beaten 2 – 1 in a replay of the 1902 final, but it had given the club a thirst for the big occasion — albeit one that would not be truly satisfied for over seven decades.
Southampton had finally broken their major honours duck and finally laid to rest memories of defeats in the 1900 FA Cup Final against Bury and more agonisingly the 1902 FA Cup Final against Sheffield United.
The event also coincided with the beginning of their first arena tour and the Daily Mirror, who had attacked the band months earlier, set up a " Justice for Jarvis " campaign backing his actions and carried out a stunt at Pulp's Sheffield Arena gig on 29 February, handing out free T-shirts.
From its beginnings, Tidioute was connected to the cutlery industry, when groups of cutlery workers who had emigrated from Sheffield, England migrated from factories in New England to the vicinity of Tidioute and northern Pennsylvania to establish their own concerns.
The original series was based on Professor Helen Witwell, a forensic pathologist based in Sheffield, whom McCrery had known while serving as a police officer.
Official investigations into the disaster criticised Sheffield Wednesday for not acting upon previous incidents that had shown the potential for crushing at Hillsborough.
The Danish fans endeared themselves to the local population with their fanatical support and exemplary behaviour, and were particularly popular amongst local landlords — a number of Sheffield public houses had to order emergency supplies of beer and cigarettes.
Ware's friend Paul Bower of Sheffield New Wave band 2. 3 who had just recorded a single for Bob Last's Edinburgh-based independent label Fast Product, took their demo to Last and he signed the band.
) Plaque located in Sheffield Hallam University commemorating The Human League's first live concertWith their reliance on technology and tape machines, the band had been nervous about playing live.
Oakey further recruited multi-instrumentalist Nic Burke, then aged 21, who he had seen playing in Sheffield, to play electric guitar and keytar.
They bought out the Dearne and Dove Canal in 1846, and acquired the Sheffield Canal from the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1848, who, as the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, had bought it in 1846.
The new company obtained an Act of Parliament on 26 August 1889, creating the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation Company, which was authorised to raise £ 1. 5 million and to purchase the four canals either by negotiation, or by compulsory purchase if after nine months negotiations with the railway company had failed to reach an agreement.
The London Corresponding Society had affiliates in Manchester, Norwich, Sheffield and Stockport.
This echoed his attacks on Major's government which he had made before the 1992 election while still shadow chancellor, most memorably when he attacked Tory plans for cutting income tax to 20 % as " irresponsible " and joked at a Labour Party rally in Sheffield that the Tories would have a box office disaster with " Honey, I Shrunk the Economy "-in reference to the recent Disney motion picture Honey, I Shrunk the Kids-mocking the recession which was plaguing the British economy at the time.
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* de Pury, Albert, Römer, Thomas, Macchi, Jean-Daniel " Israël constructs its history: Deuteronomistic historiography in recent research " ( Sheffield Academic Press, 2000 )
Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, it is a documentary-style account of a nuclear war and its effects on the city of Sheffield in northern England.
It would also reorganize its relationship with the Sheffield Scientific School.
) At its greatest the kingdom extended at least from just south of the Humber, to the River Mersey and to the Forth ( roughly, Sheffield to Runcorn to Edinburgh ) — and there is some evidence that it may have been much greater ( see map ).
The first commercial wall was built in Sheffield, traditionally England's centre for climbing due to its proximity to the Peak District.
He took his adopted state to its first Sheffield Shield title for 10 years, Bradman weighing in with personal contributions of 233 against Queensland and 357 against Victoria.
Holmfirth used to have its own branch line, off the Huddersfield to Sheffield line ( commonly referred to as the Penistone Line ), this short, 2 mile ( 3 km ), line branched from the mainline just south of the village Brockholes.
In 1940, Reynolds Metal Company set up its first aluminum smelting facility in Sheffield, paving the way for wartime expansion of aircraft production in the country.
Spurred on by the closure of Monmouth's last grocery store, and a general decline of its retail sector, three local men ( John Oberst, Paul Sieber, and Chuck Sheffield ) led a referendum campaign to allow the sale of beer and wine.
It is located in the Sheffield suburb of Owlerton, but takes its name from the parliamentary constituency in which it lies.
Waugh ended the Sheffield Shield as the top-scorer, with 967 runs at 80. 85, prompting the ABC to select him as its Player of the Year.
As the war drew towards its end, Sheffield City Council pushed for major improvements to the system.
It largely lies in Derbyshire, but its north eastern area lies in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Sheffield was supplied with " raw " water for treatment in its own treatment plants.
West left Sheffield when the theatre closed for refurbishment in 2007 and made his West End directorial debut with the first major revival of Dealer's Choice following its transferral to the Trafalgar Studios.
Some had already anticipated the theory's emergence, with the social anthropologist Edmund Leach informing the assembled archaeologists at a 1971 discussion on the topic of " The Explanation of Culture Change " held at the University of Sheffield that cultural structuralism, which was then popular amongst social anthropologists, would soon make its way into the archaeological community.
Some backed the establishment of specialized schools of science and technology, like Harvard's Lawrence Scientific School, Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, and the newly chartered Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about to offer its first classes in 1865.
The proximity of Sheffield and its neighbours to the Upper Derwent valley were thus factors in the decision to dam the valley to create the Howden and Derwent reservoirs.
It is about east-south-east of the City of Sheffield and its population is estimated ( mid-2004 ) to be 39, 800.
The area is becoming increasingly popular with commuters owing to its relative proximity to the nearby cities of Sheffield, Lincoln and Nottingham.
The Great Central Railway ( GCR ) was a railway company in England which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897 in anticipation of the opening in 1899 of its London Extension ( see Great Central Main Line ).
Upon assuming its new title, the GCR main line ran from Manchester London Road Station via, Sheffield, and Grimsby to.
Leaving its east-west main line at Woodhouse Junction, some 5½ miles southeast of Sheffield, the line headed towards Nottingham, a golden opportunity to tap into the collieries in the north of the county before reaching that city.
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