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The first-known English climber in the Alps was Colonel Mark Beaufoy ( 1764 – 1827 ), who in 1787 made an ascent ( the fourth ) of Mont Blanc, a mountain to which his fellow-countrymen long exclusively devoted themselves, with a few noteworthy exceptions, such as Principal J. D.
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The first-known poem in English by a Welshman was Hymn to the Virgin written c. 1470 by Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal.
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it was the first-known member of a new class of objects now known as centaurs, with an orbit between Saturn and Uranus.
The town's first recorded Mardi Gras ball was staged in 1881 and its first-known parade rolled in 1897.
One of the first-known, organized ski races was held here 22 January 1862.
The first-known home cinema system was designed, built and installed by Steve J. LaFontaine as a sales tool at Kirshmans furniture store in Metairie, Louisiana in 1974.
( Bowles ' first-known, completed compositional work was a translation of some Kurt Schwitters vocal pieces to piano music in Berlin ).
The first-known European to see the Platte was the French explorer Étienne de Veniard, sieur de Bourgmont in 1714, who named it the Nebraskier, after its Oto name, meaning " flat water ".
* 100, 000 BC: The first-known use is a publicity release dating from when the story was being recorded, and this title is used on subsequent lists and publicity releases.
" He was credited by Irving Fisher with the first-known enunciation of the equation of exchange between money and goods used in the quantity theory of money.
The Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Marian litany originally approved in 1587 by Pope Sixtus V. It is also known as the Litany of Loreto, for its first-known place of origin, the Shrine of Our Lady of Loreto ( Italy ), where its usage was recorded as early as 1558.
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According to the Scottish researcher Joseph Needham, the Chinese made many first-known discoveries and developments.
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In mid-to-late 2003, Hot Topic led the way with the first-known official Yip Yip merchandising, a " vintage "- look T-shirt with two Martians.
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The best-supported is the type species, P. longiceps, based on the well-preserved specimen including the first-known skull found by S. W. Williston.
* In 31, the Han Dynasty Chinese engineer and statesman Du Shi ( d. 38 ) from Nanyang invented the first-known hydraulic-powered bellows to heat the blast furnace in smelting cast iron.
Phillips County is Arkansas's seventh county, formed on May 1, 1820, and named for Sylvanus Phillips, the area's first-known white settler and representative to the first Territorial Legislature of the Arkansas Territory.
The history of Burma ( Myanmar ) covers the period from the time of first-known human settlements 13, 000 years ago to the present day.
The redear sunfish is the first-known species of Centrarchidae based on fossil records, as old as 16. 3 million years, dating back to the Middle Miocene.
The first-known helmet cam.
English and climber
* June 18 – George Mallory, English climber ( d. 1924 )
* William Cecil Slingsby ( 1849 – 1929 ), English mountain climber and alpine explorer
* Ben Moon, English rock climber
Edward Whymper ( 27 April 1840 – 16 September 1911 ), was an English illustrator, climber and explorer best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865.
* Joe Brown ( climber ) ( born 1930 ), English climber
In 1979, Ryoten Hasegawa, the leader of the Japanese contingent of a Sino-Japanese reconnaissance expedition to the north side of Everest had a brief conversation with a Chinese climber named Wang Hong-bao, in which Wang recounted that whilst on the 1975 Chinese Everest Expedition, he had seen the body of an " old English dead " at 8, 100 m, lying on his side as if asleep at the foot of a rock.
Joseph Brown, CBE ( born 26 September 1930 ) is an English climber, born the seventh and last child of a family in the Manchester suburb of Ardwick.
Brown is widely regarded as the outstanding pioneering English rock climber of the 1950s and early 1960s.
The mountain was named in 1901 by its first climber, the English explorer Edward Whymper, after Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, the sixth Governor-General of Canada ..
* Simon Hazelwood-Smith, an English climber, thinker and revolutionary
* Matt Hazelwood-Smith, a better English climber, renowned tinker and understood to be the original revolutionist.
* Kevin Thaw ( born c. 1967 ), an English climber and alpinist
Don Whillans ( 18 May 1933 – 4 August 1985 ) was an English rock climber and mountaineer.
Alison Jane Hargreaves ( February 17, 1963 – August 13, 1995 ) was an English mountain climber from Derbyshire.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a parvenu as: " A person from a humble background who has rapidly gained wealth or an influential social position ; a nouveau riche ; an upstart, a social climber.
English and Alps
The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").
At first the French and English crusaders travelled together, but the armies split at Lyon, as Richard decided to go by sea, and Philip took the overland route through the Alps to Genoa.
Notwithstanding the activity of their predecessors, the members of the English Alpine Club have found scope for further exploits, amongst which may be reckoned the first ascents of the Aletschhorn and the Schreckhorn, and the still more arduous enterprise of crossing the range by passes, such as the Jungfraujoch and Eigerjoch, which are considered amongst the most difficult in the Alps.
Indeed the English have never ceased to love and be attracted to the Alps.
They tracked them to Alba ( Scotland ), southwards through Britain, across the English Channel, through Lombardy, to the Alps, where they met an Irish girl herding sheep.
Savoie (; Arpitan: Savouè d ’ Avâl, Italian: Savoia,, English: Savoy, ) is a French department located in the Rhône-Alpes region in the French Alps.
* How the English Made the Alps by Jim Ring, ISBN 0-7195-5689-9
The Swabian Jura (, ( also, rarely ) ), sometimes also given the name Swabian Alps in English, is a low mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending from southwest to northeast and in width.
It is perhaps for this reason that Schwaebische Alb has sometimes been translated into English as ' Swabian Alps ', thus avoiding the rather formal and obscure geological name Jura.
In the 1973 English contract law case Jarvis v Swans Tours Ltd, a holidaymaker sued after not receiving the Gemütlichkeit promised by the promotional literature for a package holiday to the Swiss Alps.
His first negotiations, on behalf of a company of English miners and the Protestant Vaudois communities of the Piedmont Alps, were entirely successful, and he then obtained his full salary.
A suspense story about an English surgeon travelling in the Swiss Alps who becomes entangled in the intrigues of pre-war anti-Nazis.
* Eagle's Nest — English name given to Hitler's mountain-top summerhouse at Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps, not far from the Berghof.
In English, the name meant " Stadium of the Alps ," a reference to the nearby Alps mountain range.
The genus Soldanella, commonly known in English as snowbell, includes about 15 species of flowering plants native to European mountains, from the Pyrenees, the Apennines, the Alps, the Carpathians and the Balkans.
: a club of English gentlemen devoted to mountaineering, first of all in the Alps, members of which have successfully addressed themselves to attempts of the kind on loftier mountains.
The English term " Julian March " is a translation of the Slovene and Serbo-Croatian name for the region, Julijska krajina, first coined by the Yugoslav press 1920: the name keeps the association to the Julian Alps, but drops the term " Venetia ", which is a cultural association to Italy.
It is an English language school and offers daily ski instruction in the Swiss Alps.
After taking a ferry across the English Channel, Palin crosses the Alps by train before being stopped in Innsbruck due to an Italian railway strike.
* The Alps ( band ), an English band
Nine Black Alps are an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester, named after a line in The Couriers by Sylvia Plath and fronted by Sam Forrest.
Sennenhund, called Swiss mountain dogs or Swiss Cattle Dogs in English, are a type of dog originating in the Swiss Alps.
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