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English and agent
There is a noun use in US English, meaning " a chemical agent used in lethal injections "?
An early example of espionage literature is Kim by the English novelist Rudyard Kipling, with a description of the training of an intelligence agent in the Great Game between the UK and Russia in 19th century Central Asia.
* 1844 – Richard D ' Oyly Carte, English talent agent, impresario, and composer ( d. 1901 )
During the Gale era, Steed was transformed from a rugged trenchcoat-wearing agent into the stereotypical English gentleman, complete with Savile Row suit, bowler hat and umbrella with clothes later designed by Pierre Cardin.
Rowland Bowen records that 1895, the year of Grace's " Indian Summer ", was the season in which marl was first used as a binding agent in the composition of English pitches, its benefit being to ensure " good lasting wickets ".
** Brian Stonehouse, English painter and World War II secret agent ( b. 1918 )
Examples in English are the verbal nouns formed from verbs by the addition of-ing, nouns formed from verbs using other suffixes such as organization and discovery, agent nouns formed from verbs usually with the suffix-er or-or, as in actor and worker, feminine forms of nouns such as actress, lioness, nouns formed from adjectives such as happiness, and many other types.
Thus in this example, the ergative is promoted to the absolutive, and the agent ( i. e. him ), which was formerly marked by the absolutive, is deleted to form the antipassive voice ( or is marked in a different way, in the same way that in the English passive voice can still be specified as the agent of the action using by him in I was hugged by him — for example, Dyirbal puts the agent in the dative case, and Basque retains the agent in the absolutive ).
The law was named after Sir Thomas Gresham, a sixteenth century financial agent of the English Crown in the city of Antwerp, to explain to Queen Elizabeth I what was happening to the English shilling.
Richard D ' Oyly Carte ( 3 May 1844 – 3 April 1901 ) was an English talent agent, theatrical impresario, composer and hotelier during the latter half of the Victorian era.
Perhaps the earliest reference to the concept comes from the English author Wilkie Collins, writing at the time of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870: " I begin to believe in only one civilizing influence — the discovery one of these days of a destructive agent so terrible that War shall mean annihilation and men's fears will force them to keep the peace ".
The English government responded to the threat by sending an agent to assassinate Owain in Poitou in 1378.
The records of the English Hospital in Rome indicate that he stayed there in June 1514, while documents in the Vatican Archives suggest that he was an agent for Archbishop of York, Cardinal Christopher Bainbridge, and handled English ecclesiastical issues before the Roman Rota.
Its agent forced native children living on reservations into schools to learn to speak, write, and read English.
* Jimmy Grafton, English writer, producer and theatrical agent
Sir Thomas Gresham, the English financier who arranged Elizabeth I's borrowings, and whose agent in Antwerp was Clough, left London for Antwerp on August 23, only hearing about the Antwerp attacks en route ; he needed to roll-over 32, 000 Flemish pounds and borrow another 20, 000 to finance her expenses in Ireland.
Undeterred, Archer travels to an English manor house to witness the arrival of an American agent who arrives to negotiate with Mayhew over the King and the atomic bomb secrets.
Kasche wrote: " Schmidllin showed a special interest in the Jews ... Luburic told me that Schmidllin told him that the Jews must be treated in the finest manner, and that they must survive, no matter what happens ... Luburic suspected Schmidllin is an English agent and therefore prevented all contact between him and the Jews "
The station agent, Seth Raynor, who was a patriot during American Revolutionary War, disliked the name because it reminded him of the English and the colonial era ( St. George, the patron saint of England, is a symbol of the English Monarchy ).

English and Thomas
Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist, coined the word agnostic in 1869.
The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.
The earliest recorded use of this term in English dates to 1648, in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survet of the West Indies.
The first recorded English antitrinitarian was John Assheton who was forced to recant before Thomas Cranmer in 1548.
* 1630 – Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician ( d. 1673 )
The Baptist movement originated with Thomas Helwys, who left his mentor John Smyth ( who had moved into shared belief and other distinctives of the Dutch Waterlander Mennonites of Amsterdam ) and returned to London to start the first English Baptist Church in 1611.
Later General Baptists such as John Griffith, Samuel Loveday, and Thomas Grantham defended a Reformed Arminian theology that reflected more the Arminianism of Arminius than that of the later Remonstrants or the English Arminianism of Arminian Puritans like John Goodwin or Anglican Arminians such as Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond.
* 1571 – Thomas Lupo, English composer and viol player ( d. 1627 )
* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
* 1785 – Thomas De Quincey, English author ( d. 1859 )
* 1776 – Thomas Bladen Capel English navy admiral ( d. 1853 )
* 1580 – Thomas Middleton, English dramatist ( d. 1627 )
* 1816 – Thomas Hazlehurst, English chapel builder ( d. 1876 )
Notable American restaurant chefs include Thomas Keller, Charlie Trotter, Grant Achatz, Alfred Portale, Paul Prudhomme, Paul Bertolli, Frank Stitt, Alice Waters, and celebrity chefs like Mario Batali, Alton Brown, Emeril Lagasse, Cat Cora, Michael Symon, Bobby Flay, Ina Garten, Todd English, Sandra Lee, and Paula Deen.
It was consecrated in 1197 with a dedication to the deceased Saint Thomas Becket, whom the king had met at the English court.
An early professed empiricist, Thomas Hobbes, known as an eccentric denizen of the court of Charles II of England ( an " old bear "), published in 1651 Leviathan, a political treatise written during the English civil war, containing an early manifesto in English of rationalism.
In the 18th century there were increasing numbers of such collections, including Thomas D ' Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy ( 1719 – 20 ) and Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ( 1765 ).
Thomas Carlyle translated Goethe ’ s novel into English, and after its publication in 1824, many British authors wrote novels inspired by it.
Haydn portrait by Thomas Hardy ( English painter ) | Thomas Hardy, 1792
Hedonism, for example, teaches that this feeling is pleasure — either one's own, as in egoism ( the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes ), or everyone's, as in universalistic hedonism, or utilitarianism ( the 19th-century English philosophers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick ), with its formula of the " greatest pleasure of the greatest number.
Thomas G. Tucker suggests a root in " cry " words and refers to English plaint, plaintiff, and so on.

English and Randolph
Despite the excommunication of Bruce and his followers by Pope Clement V, his support slowly strengthened ; and by 1314 with the help of leading nobles such as Sir James Douglas and Thomas Randolph only the castles at Bothwell and Stirling remained under English control.
Furthermore, Randolph Quirk and Gabriele Stein thought about a Nuclear English, which, however, has never been fully developed.
* Quirk, Randolph ( 1981 ), “ International Communication and the Concept of Nuclear English ”, in: Smith, Larry E.
* June – Thomas Randolph, English poet and dramatist ( d. 1635 )
A further key publication was Randolph Quirk's ' Towards a description of English Usage ' ( 1960 ) in which he introduced The Survey of English Usage.
In January 1565 Thomas Randolph, the English ambassador to Scotland, was told by the Scottish queen that she would accept the proposal.
According to the English diplomats Thomas Randolph and the Earl of Bedford, the murder of David Rizzio ( who was rumored to be the father of Mary's unborn child ) was Darnley ’ s own addition to the plot of winning over the Crown Matrimonial.
Randolph Adolphus Turpin ( 7 June 1928 – 17 May 1966 ), better known as the Randy Turpin, was an English boxer who was considered by some to be Europe's best middleweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s.
John Randolph, released from English custody in a prisoner-exchange in 1341, visited David II in Normandy before returning to Scotland.
* December 9-Elsie Randolph, English actress, dancer and singer
The best of these were illustrated by the triumvirate of English illustrators Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane, and Kate Greenaway whose association with colour printer and wood engraver Edmund Evans produced books of great quality.
The award is named for Randolph Caldecott, a nineteenth-century English illustrator.
The English magazine continued in operation for more than 40 years under several owners and editors until it was bought by the William Randolph Hearst company in 1916.
( Lord Randolph was her husband's courtesy title as the younger son of a duke and in English law does not qualify as a noble title.
Thomas Randolph ( 15 June 1605 – March 1635 ) was an English poet and dramatist.
* Randolph ( given name ), masculine given name in the English language
* Randolph ( surname ), surname in the English language
His father was a nephew of John Randolph of Roanoke and his mother was Flora Beverly, whom he later described as a woman of mixed English, French, German, Native American and Malagasy ancestry.
* Nuclear English, proposed by Randolph Quirk and Gabriele Stein but never fully developed
It was originally published as a fourteen consecutive day series of installments in El Espectador newspaper in 1955 ; it was later published as a book in 1970, and then translated into English by Randolph Hogan in 1986.
He was a researcher under Randolph Quirk between 1962 and 1963, working on the Survey of English Usage.
During the early 1960s, Randolph Quirk and colleagues, among them Valerie Adams, Derek Davy and David Crystal, conducted an ambitious project known as the Survey of English Usage.
He joined up with the English agent Thomas Randolph ( alias Barnaby ) and they travelled incognito to Scotland via Flanders.

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