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It continued the series of Bond radio adaptations featuring Jarvis and Stephens following Dr. No ( 2008 ) and Goldfinger ( 2010 ).
He also continued his acting career: in 2007 he appeared alongside Toby Stephens and Dervla Kirwan in Betrayal at the Donmar Warehouse, in November 2008 he played Harry in the Donmar revival of T. S. Eliot's The Family Reunion and in 2009 he starred as Jeffrey Skilling in ENRON by Lucy Prebble.
In 1875, Stephens began to characterise himself as an art historian rather than a critic and in 1877 he started to write contributions for the Grosvenor Gallery catalogues, which he continued to do until 1890.
Frail but precocious, the young Stephens acquired his continued education through the generosity of several benefactors.
As the war continued and the fortunes of the Confederacy sank lower, Stephens became more outspoken in his opposition to the administration.
Although old and infirm, Stephens continued to work on his house and plantation.
Gogarty maintained close friendships with W. B. Yeats, AE, George Moore, Lord Dunsany, James Stephens, Seamus O ' Sullivan, and other Dublin literati, and continued to write poetry in the midst of his political and professional duties.
Over the years, Stephens has continued to prolifically narrate audiobooks and perform in broadcast radio dramas ; in the last three years, he has averaged four or five such performances per year.
Richard A. Stephens oversaw continued expansion of department majors, starting with the addition of a Foundations Department, which offered courses in the basic principles of art and design, along with other Fine Art departments.
Sue Stephens had continued to be kept under police surveillance and she attended a restaurant in West End Lane, in North-West London, where she was seen to meet up with Martin, who had dyed his distinctive blond hair dark.

Stephens and investigations
While in London Hawks met the American traveller John Lloyd Stephens, later to be renowned for his exploratory work and investigations of a number of mostly-unknown ancient ruins of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Central America.

Stephens and Maya
* John Lloyd Stephens ( 1805 – 52 ), explorer, writer, and diplomat, who was a pivotal figure in the rediscovery of Maya civilization throughout Middle America and in the planning of the Panama railway.
Stephens was a pivotal figure in the rediscovery of Maya civilization throughout Middle America and in the planning of the Panama railroad.
Stephens and his traveling companion, architect and draftsman Frederick Catherwood first came across Maya ruins at Copán, having landed in British Honduras ( present-day Belize ).
Stephens is the subject of a biography Maya Explorer by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen, first published in 1947.
Stephens and Catherwood are credited for the " rediscovery " of the Maya civilization, and through their publications brought the Maya back into the minds of the Western World.
Search for the Maya: The Story of Stephens and Catherwood
Alexander von Humboldt said about howler monkeys, " their eyes, voice, and gait are indicative of melancholy ", while John Lloyd Stephens described those at the Maya ruins of Copán as " grave and solemn as if officiating as the guardians of consecrated ground ".
Travel writer and early Mayanist John Lloyd Stephens reported that some local Maya people in Yucatán still said a short ritual prayer when crossing a sacbe in the early 1840s, even though they had been overgrown with jungle for centuries at the time.
* Maya Explorer: John Lloyd Stephens and the Lost Cities of Central America and Yucatán ( 1947 )
* Search for the Maya: The Story of Stephens and Catherwood ( 1973 )
* John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood explore the Maya ruins of Copan
* Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens, illustrated by Frederick Catherwood, provides much more accurate information on the ruins of the Maya civilization than previous publications and generates international interest in the subject.
* John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood explore ruins of the Maya civilization including Quiriguá, Q ' umarkaj, Palenque, and Uxmal.
Initially inspired by the books of John Lloyd Stephens, Thompson devoted much of his career to study of the Maya civilization.
* October 13-John Lloyd Stephens, American explorer of Maya civilization sites in Mesoamerica ( born 1805 ).

Stephens and ruins
Stephens had written his classic `` incidents of travel '' about these regions a hundred years before, and Catherwood, who had studied Piranesi in London and the great ruins of Egypt and Greece, had drawn the splendid illustrations that accompanied the text.
Both the ruins and cave were visited and described briefly by John Lloyd Stephens at the start of the 1840s, but no detailed scholarly examination of the ruins was made until that of Eric von Euw in 1973 ( in part because Stephens and other early visitors failed to note that there were surviving inscriptions ).
American explorer John Lloyd Stephens and English architect Frederick Catherwood visited the site in 1840, at which time the site was a confused jumble of overgrown ruins.
Hawks noted how " n repeated conversations with the present writer, the attention of Mr. Stephens was called to the ruins of Guatemala and Yucatan "; the two books Stephens had later written on his explorations of that region are regarded as foundational works in the then-young science of American archaeology.

Stephens and with
Confederate Vice President Stephens led a group to meet with Lincoln, Seward, and others at Hampton Roads.
Johnson did not deal harshly with Confederate leaders, as he had earlier indicated he would ; he expanded his pardons to include those in the highest ranks of the Confederacy, including their Vice-President, Alexander H. Stephens.
In 1964, he appeared as Richard Kimble's nephew in ABC's The Fugitive in the 15th episode entitled " Home Is The Hunted "; as Barry in the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour, episode " Sunday Father "; as himself three times in the ABC sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ; in the Disney film For the Love of Willadena ; and as a troubled orphan taken home with Darrin and Samantha Stephens in Bewitched episode " A Vision of Sugarplums " ( December 1964 ).
The case of R v. Dudley and Stephens ( 1884 ) 14 QBD 273 ( QB ) is an English case which dealt with four crew members of an English yacht, the Mignonette, who were cast away in a storm some from the Cape of Good Hope.
The punter, with an impromptu dash to his right, tossed the ball and it was caught by George Stephens, who ran 70 yards for a touchdown.
At the same time, Hawks was becoming friends with barn stormers and pioneer aviators at Rogers Airport in Los Angeles, getting to know men like Moye Stephens.
The Knights became better organized with a national vision when they replaced Stephens with Terence V. Powderly.
... the maid of honor, Miss Annie Stephens, was as pretty as a French pastel, in a directoire costume of yellow satin with a long coat of green velvet sleeves, and a vest of gold brocade ... The bride was a fair vision of youthful loveliness in her robe of exquisite ivory white and satin ... her slippers were white satin wrought with pearls ... an elegant supper was served.
The different appearance of the character is either ignored ( as was done with the character of Darrin Stephens on the television show Bewitched, Vivian on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, or Claire on My Wife and Kids ), or explained within the series, such as with " regeneration " in Doctor Who, or the Oracle in The Matrix Revolutions.
He was also the primary author of most of the scripts, although he co-wrote many scripts with various collaborators, most notably Larry Stephens and Eric Sykes.
Most of the early shows were co-written with Stephens ( and edited by Jimmy Grafton ) but this partnership faltered after Series 3.
Milligan and Stephens reunited during Series 6, but towards the end of Series 8 Stephens was sidelined by health problems, and Milligan worked briefly with John Antrobus.
Stephens and E. Lyall Swete, along with the actress Heather McIntyre.
It is generally agreed that the term originated with the first book in Beadle & Adam's Beadle ’ s Dime Novel series, Maleaska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter, by Ann S. Stephens, dated June 9, 1860.
This story is repeated uncritically in some later histories, and subsequently " Malgo the Briton " is mentioned in Thomas Stephens ' notes on an 1888 publication of Y Gododdin, with the stated suggestion that Maelgwn was an ally of " Aeddan " against the Pictish king Bridei.
Hunt arranged with Frederick Stephens to give her funds to emigrate to Australia so that she would not interfere with Woolner's wedding plans.
* Norm Stephens, world-famous guitar player who played with Merle Haggard, Lefty Frizzell, and Hank Thompson, was a long-time resident.
* New Rome still having problems with theft, Steve Stephens & Kirk D. Richards.
Stephens City ( ) is an incorporated town in the southern part of Frederick County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 1, 829 at the time of the 2010 Census.
Dissatisfied with the name, the townsfolk chose " Stephens City ".

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