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Before he entered parliament, Disraeli was involved with several women, most notably Henrietta, Lady Sykes ( the wife of Sir Francis Sykes, 3rd Bt ), who served as the model for Henrietta Temple.
Of these only Henrietta Temple ( based on his affair with Henrietta Sykes, wife of Sir Francis William Sykes, 3rd Bt ) was a true success.
The book Kill or Get Killed, written by Colonel Rex Applegate, was based on the defendu taught by Sykes and Fairbairn.
However, Stephen Oppenheimer and Bryan Sykes argue that there was no population displacement, as the Anglo-Saxons had relatively little genetic impact on England.
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.
The plant's English name, Boojum, was given by Godfrey Sykes of the Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona and is taken from Lewis Carroll's poem " The Hunting of the Snark ".
The 5th New York was considered one of the elite units of the Army of the Potomac and was only one of two volunteer regiments brigaded with the regular division commanded by George Sykes.
" British comedic actor Eric Sykes was known in the United Kingdom for wearing thick, square, horn-rimmed glasses, which were in fact a sophisticated hearing aid that alleviated his deafness by allowing him to " hear " vibrations.
Eric Sykes CBE ( 4 May 1923 – 4 July 2012 ) was an English radio, television and film writer, actor and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years.
Sykes was born in Oldham, Lancashire ; his mother died during his birth.
Sykes was educated at Ward Street Central School in Oldham.
In 1955 Sykes wrote and performed in a BBC Christmas spectacular, a spoof pantomime called Pantomania, which featured many well-known BBC personalities of the era ; it was directed by Ernest Maxin, who went on to produce some of the most famous comedy routines for Morecambe & Wise.
His next venture for the BBC was a one-hour special, Sykes Directs a Dress Rehearsal, playing a harassed director in a fictional TV studio rehearsal room, just before going live to air.
The first went out under the title of Eric Sykes Presents Peter Sellers, and the second, in 1958, was called The Peter Sellers Show.
It was during this series that Sykes introduced one of his best known creations, the wordless slapstick routine The Plank, which originally appeared in Episode 2, Series 7 of Sykes And A ..., first broadcast on 3 March 1964 under that title.
In 1962 Sykes played his first starring film role, being a travelling salesman in the comedy Village of Daughters, set in an Italian village, but featuring a mostly British cast including John Le Mesurier ( who was at that time married to Hattie Jacques ), and Roger Delgado.
The spy spoof The Liquidator was directed by Jack Cardiff and starred Rod Taylor with Sykes in a secondary role.
His third film of that year was the Boulting brothers ' Rotten to the Core starring Anton Rogers ( who replaced Peter Sellers ) with Sykes.
Sykes also made another minor film appearance in 1969 in the comedy Monte Carlo or Bust !, which was also titled as Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies.
This was followed in 1971 by a six-episode series Sykes and A Big, Big Show for the BBC and a special Sykes: With the Lid Off for Thames Television.

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She had a part in My Super Ex-Girlfriend and after playing in Evan Almighty, had a bit part in License to Wed. Sykes ' first HBO Comedy Special, entitled Wanda Sykes: Sick & Tired, premiered on October 14, 2006 ; it was nominated for a 2007 Emmy Award.

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As programming chief, Robert W. Pittman recruited and managed a team for the launch that included Tom Freston ( who succeeded Pittman as CEO of MTV networks ), Fred Seibert, John Sykes, Carolyn Baker ( original head of talent and acquisition ), Marshall Cohen ( original head of research ), Gail Sparrow ( of talent and acquisition ), Sue Steinberg ( executive producer ), Julian Goldberg, Steve Lawrence, Geoff Bolton studio producers and MTV News writers / AP Liz Nealon, Nancy LaPook and Robin Zorn, Steve Casey ( creator of the name " MTV " and its first program director ), Marcy Brahman, Ronald E. " Buzz " Brindle, and Robert Morton.
The ensuing decisions, most notably the Sykes – Picot Agreement gave birth to the French Mandate for Syria and British Mandate for Palestine, the latter of which included the territory of Transjordan which had been allocated to Abdullah I of Jordan approximately a year prior to the finalisation of the Mandate document.
* Organ – Peter Sykes transcribed The Planets for organ.
The men reunite with old-timer Freddie Sykes ( Edmond O ' Brien ), and head for Mexico.
Fraser took the impoverished Sykes to the theatre, offered him food and drink, and then asked if Sykes would like to write for him.
Sykes began providing scripts for both Fraser and Frankie Howerd and soon found himself in demand as a comedy writer.
Sykes had begun to write for television as early as 1948, but from the early 1950s Sykes began to make an ultimately successful transition from radio to TV, writing a number of series episodes and one-off shows for the BBC.
( Sykes and Milligan later jointly formed Associated London Scripts ( ALS ) with Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, a writers ' agency which lasted for well over a decade until being effectively dissolved in 1967.
) Late in 1954 Sykes began collaborating with Spike Milligan on scripts for The Goon Show, easing Milligan's workload.
That same year Sykes signed a contract as scriptwriter and variety show presenter for the newly formed independent television company ATV, while continuing to write and perform for the BBC.
In 1956 Sykes performed, wrote scripts, and acted as script editor for the pioneering Rediffusion TV comedy The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d, the first attempt to translate the humour of the Goons to television.
During 1956 – 57, Sykes also wrote for and performed in The Tony Hancock Show, where he again worked with Hattie Jacques.
At the turn of the decade Eric Sykes and his old friend and colleague Hattie Jacques co-starred in a new 30-minute BBC TV sitcom, Sykes and A ..., which Sykes created in collaboration with writer Johnny Speight, who had worked with him earlier in the 1950s on the two Tony Hancock series for ITV.

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Sykes and Milligan are credited as the co-writers of all but the first six of the 26 episodes in Series 5 ( 1954 – 55 ) and three episodes of Series 6 ( 1955 – 56 ); Sykes also wrote a 15-minute Goon Show Christmas special, The Missing Christmas Parcel, broadcast during the Children's Hour on 8 December 1955.
During 1965, Sykes made what proved to be the final series of Sykes and A ... and appearing in three major films.
His mother, Martha Sykes, came from Swanland, near Hull, and died while John was only three.
The Zionists were similarly upset, with the Sykes – Picot Agreement becoming public only three weeks after the Balfour Declaration.
He set up three main sections “ Allied ” and “ Enemy ” operations, and “ Material and Manpower ” – the latter under Frederick Sykes covered both sides and included air power.
These were for Best Technical Innovation, three for Best Entertainment Programme ( Charles Lyon's Weekend Breakfast, Jaine Sykes ' Rock Paper Scissors and Ella Belsham and Alex-James Painter's Morning Glory ), Best Specialist Music Programme ( Tobias Bown's Volume 11 ), Newcomer of the Year ( Jaine Sykes ), two for Best Female Presenter ( Katherine Godfrey and Jaine Sykes ), and Station of the Year ( Michael Brooks et al .).
In the first three years the show started / finished with the " That's Life " theme sung a resident singer, either Cheryl Kennedy, Stephanie de Sykes, Judith Bruce or Lois Lane.
Melanie Sykes guest-hosted five of the eight remaining shows, having previously hosted the show three times.
The new arrival of three servants at the house — an aging nanny and servant named Mrs. Bertha Mills ( Fionnula Flanagan ), an elderly gardener named Mr. Edmund Tuttle ( Eric Sykes ), and a young mute girl named Lydia ( Elaine Cassidy ) — coincides with a number of odd events, and Grace begins to fear that they are not alone.
His friendship with Middle Eastern traveller and advisor Sir Mark Sykes dates from his entry into parliament in 1911 when, with George Lloyd, they were the three youngest Conservative MPs.
Maj. Gen. Daniel Butterfield replaced Porter to command the V Corps at the Battle of Fredericksburg, and Generals Charles Griffin, Sykes, and Humphreys the three divisions.
The team was formed by the following players, including three ( Van Randwijck, Wentges and Wassenaar ) originally from Holland: Tom Vano, Steve Danielson, Larry Amar, Marq Mellor, Scott Williams, Steve Jennings, Steven van Randwijck, Mark Wentges, John O ' Neill, Eelco Wassenaar, Nick Butcher, Ahmed Elmaghraby, Phil Sykes, Otto Steffers, Ben Maruquin, and Steve Wagner.
Sykes Racing uses three different composite materials which include Honeycomb Carbon Composite Boats, Honeycomb Kevlar Boats, Honeycomb Glass Boats.
During Queen Victoria's reign three manufacturing firms were founded in the 1870s and 1880s by Albert Slazenger and Ralph Slazenger, William Sykes and Harry Gradidge each originally manufacturing for the increasingly popular pastimes of the day — lawn tennis, football ( soccer ) and cricket.

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