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Sir Thomas Browne (October 19, 1605 – October 19, 1682) was an English ... by the Royal Court, visited Norwich. Sir Thomas Browne died on October ...

Thomas Kyd (1558 – 1594) was an English dramatist who gained great ... Through his play Spanish Tragedy, Kyd introduced the genre of "revenge ...

performed in churches but later becoming more linked to the secular celebrations ... of the private theaters, drama became more oriented toward the tastes ...

had already been printed at the end of Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil ... (originally printed in 1602) in answer to Thomas Campion's Observations ...

was baptized in the church of St. Thomas's Salisbury on November ... name cannot be definitely affixed to any play until years later, when The ...

Thomas Reid (1710-1796) developed a philosophical perspective which ... Two philosophers, Thomas Reid and G. E. Moore, are most famous for ...

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (May 9, 1860 – June 19 ... The story in play or movie form has captivated millions and provided ...

and the result was one of the more libertine periods in English ... John Dryden. While performing in the Dryden play, an accident on stage put ...

One of Henry's more educated wives, Catherine displayed a keen ... became the wife of her former suitor, Thomas Seymour and gave birth to ...

Thomas Middleton (1580 – 1627) was an English Jacobean playwright ... a lengthy battle over the inheritance of Thomas and his siblings. Little ...

In Dr. Faustus, Marlowe's greatest play, he directly addresses the ... was operating as a secret agent working for Sir Francis Walsingham's ...

baptized on November 4, 1751; his father Thomas Sheridan was an actor-manager ... acquired, according to the same authority, more learning than he is usually ...

The Elizabethan era also saw England begin to play a leading role ... Day is noted in William Shakespeare's play King Henry V, when the king ...

Bishop Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Oxford Robert Harley, Francis James ... Other types of ballads, including fairy ballads such as "Thomas ...

Scotland and an English army commanded by Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk ... and damp powder, mostly they missed. The more limber, and much better-trained ...

Sir Thomas More ( February 7, 1478 - July 6, 1535) was an English ... In 1935, four hundred years after his death, More was canonized in ...

Two Noble Kinsmen, and the lost Cardenio; a play he wrote singly around this ... the preface to the printed edition of his play, Fletcher explained the failure ...

Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (April 14, 1904 – May 21, 2000) ... a famed theater director. Although he was more distinguished for his theater ...

and density of allusions, but because more often than not he addresses ... was a Puritan preacher by the name of Thomas Hill who had been a rector ...

Trollope has always remained a popular novelist. Some of more famous ... Anthony Trollope's father, Thomas Anthony Trollope, worked as ...

writing reached its conclusion in Thomas Mallory's comprehensive ... Camelot, and the Lady of the Lake also play important roles. ...

As a student he had studied piano, "which I never could play ... premieres of the Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (at The Three Choirs ...

Sir Alec Guinness CH, CBE (April 2, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an ... while his Star Wars role points towards a more technologically advanced future ...

among his parishioners, who thought him more fit for the stage than for ... wit made him some enemies, among them Sir Christopher Garneys, Alexander ...

A Gascon by birth, Piers was the son of Sir Arnaud de Gabaston, a soldier ... rebellion led by the king's cousin, Thomas Plantagenet, 2nd Earl of ...

of England. The Scottish parliament was more cautious and invited letters ... believed the Glengarry men to be the more culpable, making no mention ...

For the British composer and conductor see Sir Anthony Collins. ... the Bar. In 1698, he married the daughter of Sir Francis Child, a rich London ...

and the result was one of the more libertine periods in English ... restoration, in 1660, he granted exclusive play-staging rights, so-called ...

Ballet studio that can hold an audience of more than 180, for intimate events ... own. Both the Orchestra and the Soloists play an active role in the education ...

century, indisputable descent begins with Sir William Howard (died 1308 ... off and often required handouts from his more powerful relatives. His niece ...

1410, helped by his uncles Henry and Thomas Beaufort, he had practical ... partly in Henry's early friendship with Sir John Oldcastle. That friendship ...

who had turned away from epic poetry to more personal themes. Horace was ... verses with varying lengths. This gave it more rhythm and latitude in expression. ...

Like Hopkins, Lanier has become more popular in modern times than ... Philadelphia or Boston, he signed on to play flute for the Peabody Orchestra ...

are convinced that he was a real person, more or less accurately portrayed ... #039; ending. Overall, the epitaph more closely resembles modern English ...

the second half of the twelfth century, Thomas of Britain and Béroul. Their ... daughter of Hoel of Brittany and sister of Sir Kahedin. ...

the Royal College of Music, becoming one of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford ... greatest violist of the day. When in 1913 Sir Henry Wood selected her to ...

Anne was the daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn and his wife, Lady Elizabeth ... At the time of Anne’s birth, the Boleyn family was one of the more ...

in literary magazines The Cherwell and Sir Galahad, organizing candle ... Iceland, and towards the end of the year a play called Out of the Picture ...

War. She was a respected associate of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and ... critic of the appointed colonial governor, Thomas Hutchinson. ...

his heir, the bi-sexual king spent more time with his male favorites ... authority of parliament, which made it much more difficult for future kings ...

less to Europe (where the Pope was) and more to the industriousness and ... power was held by the ecclesiastic Thomas Wolsey. In 1511, Henry joined ...

Sir John Vanbrugh (pronounced "Van'-bru") (January ... the findings of Kerry Downes, Kerry Downes, Sir John Vanbrugh: A Biography ...

Major-General Sir Isaac Brock KB (October 6, 1769 – October 13, ... During Sir Isaac's tenure he faced desertions and near mutinies ...

was urged on the king by his chancellor, Thomas Cromwell after the death ... and instead of being taught to sing or play an instrument, she was skilled ...

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (November 18, 1836 – May 29, 1911) ... them, especially his mother, became even more strained. Gilbert had three ...

His mother's ancestry dates back to Thomas Stebbins, who immigrated ... There he appeared in a leading role in a play entitled The Truth, and decided ...

Sir Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020) was a Scottish ... Thomas Connery, named Thomas after his grandfather, was born in Fountainbridge ...

from his distinguished fellow Welshman, Sir John Williams. ... to Vienna at considerable personal risk, to play a crucial role in negotiating ...

words, Hamlet is also the longest Shakespeare play. Based on the first ... imperatives—provide the context for the play's external action. Hamlet ...

did his modernist contemporaries with their more experimental prose styles ... in 1907 with the phenomenal success of his play Lady Frederick; by the next ...

to make the treatment of prisoners more humane. Her work was supported ... Thomas Fowell Buxton, Elizabeth's brother-in-law, was elected ...

John Welles, 1st Viscount Welles and second, Thomas Kymbe ... * Anne of York (November 2, 1475–November 23, 1511, married Thomas ...

Thomas Hobbes (April 5, 1588–December 4, 1679) was an English philosopher ... degree until 1608, but he was recommended by Sir James Hussee, his master at ...

major living language and are performed more often than those of any other ... writers for centuries. Some of the more notable authors and poets ...

become most famous, including his watershed play Waiting for Godot. The play ... As he matured, Beckett's style became more and more cryptic and ...

where there is no probability for any other play to score points. ... formula before about 1050." Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) ...

King Henry VIII died, Catherine married Sir Thomas Seymour. Unfortunately ... Thomas Seymour proposed marrying Jane to his nephew, Edward VI. However ...

invaded to restore peace, and continued to play a supervisory role until Castro ... Céspedes replaced Gomez with General Thomas Jordan, who brought a well ...

to be correct. He enjoyed the patronage of Sir Joseph Banks, a wealthy botanist ... for slaves. The experiment was proposed by Sir Joseph Banks, who recommended ...

"Nestorian" Christians and of Thomas the Apostle's subcontinental ... beliefs was the hagiography of Saint Thomas, with its various tales of ...

was changing. In place of the nation as more or less the personal possession ... his favor. The lords, through the person of Sir William Trussel, then renounced ...

Jane Thornhill, the daughter of the artist Sir James Thornhill. Hogarth& ... Many of Hogarth's more successful works were series of paintings ...

not until 1700, when those periodicals grew more stabilized. ... plays (the drama, for example, of Thomas Middleton). However, the ...

community theaters around the world. The play, loosely based upon the historical ... They suggest the play is unlikely to be earlier than 1603 given that ...

Dimensions play a fundamental role in our perception of the world ... way of condensing (or translating) the more abstract time dimension, even ...

about elvere in The Elfin Hill, which were more like those of traditional ... when offended. In the stories, they often play the role of disease-spirits ...

based on his theories. He was friendly with Sir Henry Acland, who supported ... under the influence of his great friend, Thomas Carlyle. In Unto This Last ...

Of Mice and Men is a novel written in the form of a tragedy play. ... California to attend any performance of the play during its New York run, telling ...

Among the more famous literature works on her: * Cléopâtre by Jules ... Edwards. Based on Émile Moreau's play Cléopatre, Sardou's ...

self-interest, in practice, continued to play dominant roles yet the idea ... began to split along political lines. The more liberal wing of the Tory government ...

Sir Derek Alton Walcott KCSL OBE OCC (January 23, 1930 – March ... attracted international attention. His play Dream on Monkey Mountain ...

of the classical mechanics developed by Sir Isaac Newton. He was a pioneer ... book, which received high praise from both Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein ...

1717 to 1718. There he completed his first play, Oedipe, which was also to ... to the philosophy of John Locke and ideas of Sir Isaac Newton. He studied England ...

Although it is unknown exactly when the play was written, most scholars ... Scholarly analysis of the play has praised the play in many areas: ...

colonies, with charges of witchcraft far more commonplace in Europe--particularly ... of the three attended church also made them more susceptible to the accusations ...

England on December 23, 1657, the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith and ... Massachusetts. In Boston, they had several more children, including Josiah ...

war to the combatants in both physical and more profound, psychological torment ... known statues in London—her brother was Sir Hamo Thornycroft. There was ...

with the publication of the song, "Play That Barbershop Chord," ... However, as Thomas Edison's phonograph grew in popularity, phonograph ...

At that time in England Sir John Bennet Lawes was experimenting with ... Metallurgists Percy Gilchrist and Sidney Gilchrist Thomas invented ...

The element was not isolated until William Thomas Brande and Sir Humphry ... petalite, and amblygonite are the more important minerals containing it. ...

she read the novels of Rudyard Kipling, Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas ... Rand then wrote the highly successful play The Night of January 16th ...

Immortalized by William Shakespeare's play, Henry V, Agincourt is remembered ... although 9,200 English left Harfleur, after more sickness set in, they were ...

the public reflects a longing to understand more than the external, physical ... teachers, judges, astrologers, healers, and more. Rituals were often connected ...

After graduation, Webster was apprenticed to the lawyer Thomas W. ... father. During this time, Webster took a more active interest in politics ...

Hinduism, Theosophy and Hermeticism often more than Christianity, and in ... stagnant. Like Robert Frost in America and Thomas Hardy in England, Yeats found ...

of the many literary enmities which would play such a great role in Pope ... Pope, Gay, Swift, Arbuthnot and Thomas Parnell formed the Scriblerus ...

proclaimed: the Orange card is the one to play, and that: Home Rule is Rome ... Protestant, want to maintain the status quo. Sir James Craig, Prime Minister ...

third of seven children (his siblings were: Sir (William) Thornley Stoker ... Cathartist poet Frances Featherstone, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the ...

Hyperactivity has long been part of the human condition. Sir Alexander ... Significantly more males than females are diagnosed with ADHD. It ...

in Athelney suggesting these stories may be more than fanciful legends. ... the Danes and Saxons fought each other many more times, Alfred's peace ...

Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels, Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus ... #039;s' Moriae Encomium (1509), and Thomas More's Utopia (1516 ...

and did not allow her to visit friends or play in the street for a long time ... in London's East End. Ben Beaumont-Thomas, [https://www.theguardian ...

born in 1850. Her Irish immigrant father, Thomas O'Flaherty, was a successful ... well as of classic and contemporary novels. Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens ...

of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture ... as to the identity of the author. Sir Walter Scott wrote that "upon ...

which brings self-defense back into play. In some countries, the concept ... In Leviathan (1651), Thomas Hobbes proposed the foundational political ...

War II, and during two World Wars would play a major role in the defense ... Finisterre by a squadron under Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Calder, Villeneuve ...

Freeport’s water shortage and provided more electrical power, although ... in the United States, led by former slave Thomas Peters (1738-1792). Sharp ...

the University of British Columbia (1965), Sir George Williams University ... 1964 to 1965, Instructor in English at the Sir George Williams University ...

a sustained fictional narrative of more than one thousand pages that ... Quixote and adapted the story for his lost play Cardenio, Cervantes is considered ...

earlier field research, such as the work of Sir Oliver Lodge in England, the ... under a red light, wearing headphones that play white noise or pink noise ...

act through which one could understand more of the attributes of the Creator ... College, of which his father's friend, Sir Henry Wotton, was then provost ...

Ice hockey one of the more physical sports, is one of the four major ... rules, being played in Nova Scotia. Author Thomas Chandler Haliburton included ...

called Moorish. The word was also used more generally in Europe to refer ... during the second millennium B.C.E. and the more ancient African indigenous ...

*A Book of 'Characters' from Theophrastus, Joseph Hall, ... *Life of a Lady: A Play in Three Acts (1936) with Derek Patmore ...

statesmen including Lord Melbourne, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Derby, Lord ... common to the period, as expressed in Thomas Carlyle's The French ...

title was the "Eddie," to honor Thomas Edison, the inventor of the ... Angeles Clippers, and Los Angeles Sparks play an extended length of road games. ...

lenses are tinted a faint blue to make them more visible when immersed in cleaning ... Many consider their appearance to be more attractive with contact lenses ...

operas, or "entertainments," for Thomas German Reed. ... Sullivan were suddenly in demand to write more operas together. Over the ...

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire (KBE ... law. But his films made in the 1930s were more openly political. Modern Times ...

with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known ... production of The Room in 1957. His second play, The Birthday Party, closed ...

and French. After reading Osceola by Thomas Mayne Reid at the age of ... known books. It has been translated into more than 30 languages. ...

to the fort, and was eventually joined by more than 900 warriors from a half ... British Superintendent of Indian Affairs Sir William Johnson. The attention ...

practice is based on the principal that the more independent two transmission ... example, a second edition of a Shakespeare play may include an addition alluding ...

Socrates and Plato were more known for their interests in ethics and ... had operated by rational thought far more than by empirical observation ...

|+ The Rt Hon. Sir Winston Churchill |align="center" colspan ... The Right Honorable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM ...

to express “extra-musical” ideas, even more so if those ideas have religious ... lives. Mahler seemed to communicate more with the viola-player Natalie ...

region. The Himalayas are also believed to play an important part in the formation ... in May 1999. Over a period of 30 years, ten more expeditions failed to conquer ...

in the United States, with an enrollment of more than 40,000. Despite having ... that depends less on intellect and more on the heart. ==Mission & ...

the town of Vitry. The town was burned, and more than 1,000 people, who had ... her lack of children. Bernard then became more kindly towards her: "My ...

in literature (See Coriolanus, the play by William Shakespeare, c ... and Albania during the Enver Hoxha regime. More recently it has been used ...

Knighted in 1915, Tagore renounced using the title 'Sir' ... was among his most productive, writing more than half the stories of the ...

Thomas Hayward Dare was a goldsmith from Taunton and a Whig politician ... the town before the militias could join up. More recruits joined his disorganised ...

The term engineering itself has a much more recent etymology, deriving ... The first steam engine was built in 1698 by mechanical engineer Thomas ...

literature about the concepts of fair-play, justice and about the mother ... in the process. In 1615, King James I sent Sir Thomas Roe as his ambassador ...

It covered about 14.3 million square miles (more than 37 million square kilometers ... exploited at Britain's advantage and more often than not at the cost ...

Other, more colorful titles for the god of fertility include the Samian ... a place of honor for possessing two of the more peculiar origin stories in ...

ended the siege in only nine days. Several more swift victories led to Charles ... on the rehabilitation trial testimony more often suggests that her fellow ...

but its development owes even more to C. L. Stevenson. Brandt, 1959 ... #039;s brand of emotivism, they would later play a significant role in Stevenson ...

English identity and giving Parliament more scope. His need to raise money ... Europe with full force, killing a third or more of England's population. ...

of the British Expeditionary Force, under Sir John French. A series of engagements ... General Sir John French blamed the failure on the shortage of shells ...

a banjo or other instruments, could play more widely in public. This ... Blues songs from this period, such as Leadbelly's or Henry Thomas ...

with football, Pelé's electrifying play and ability to score spectacular ... He was named after the American inventor Thomas Edison. His parents decided ...

Wingate's father's "Cousin Rex," Sir Reginald ... that Britain had a providential role to play in this process. Wingate learned ...

She only partially recovered, and Poe began to drink more heavily ... some of his stories, and introduced him to Thomas W. White, editor of the Southern ...

century, poetry has sometimes been more loosely defined as a fundamental ... had ritual as well as aesthetic importance. More recently, thinkers have struggled ...

In other violence, Klansmen killed more than 150 African Americans ... shows, to become less political and more simply a way of avoiding prosecution ...

corresponds to temperatures of a little more than 7,000 K down to a little ... years, allowing life a chance to evolve. More luminous main-sequence stars ...

through the nineteenth century, and became more associated with women. loss results in severe melancholic symptoms more profound than mourning; not ...

Most of England consists of rolling hills, but it is more mountainous ... name "London" has long applied more generally to the whole metropolis ...

Bruderlin MacLean Publishing Services. The more acceptable and correct expression ... been another factor in the promotion of the more inclusive term "Indigenous ...

Iota,620 Isaeus]. stoa.org. According to Sir Richard C. Jebb, a British ... Athens' needs and interests.Thomas N. Habinek, Ancient Rhetoric ...

He began to play small parts in quite a few films. He was typically ... The doctor reportedly replied, "No sir, you've been very brave." ...

became courtesans, and Julie took the new, more French name of Youle and the ... and his friend Alexandre Dumas père. The play they attended was Britannicus ...

though its historical reality may have been more of the nature of a border ... the Umayyad forces as 80,000 strong or more. Writing in 1999, Paul K. ...

his crusades, Graham preached the gospel to more people in person than anyone ... and Jean and a younger brother, Melvin Thomas.Morrow Coffey Graham, They ...

fruits, and so forth. Even microorganisms play a role in human nutrition ... proportioned nutrition gives a person more options in life, enabling ...

tariffs at home, free markets overseas were more desirable for the sale of ... incurred, the United States returned to more isolationist policies through ...

"McCarthyism" later took on a more general meaning, not necessarily ... There were also more subtle forces encouraging the rise of McCarthyism ...

More than 40 million Americans, and millions of others around the ... County Kerry, and killed John fitz Thomas, Lord of Desmond, his son ...

a true soldier, and at the end we all felt more like good friends and comrades ... who would play an enormous role in Patton's future career. During ...

westerly, from the North Atlantic Current. More than 50 percent of the days ... against France on the continent but more significantly in India under ...

counts, Islam serves as the tradition for more than a billion men and women ... of the net worth of savings kept for more than a year, with few exemptions ...

For the Ottomans, it became progressively more difficult to distinguish ... amongst them figures who would later play a prominent role in the war ...

that Pericles' selection of this play, which presents a nostalgic ... those of Athenian parentage on both sides.Thomas R. Martin, [https://www.perseus ...

region that Charles I of England, granted to Sir Robert Heath in 1629. The ... annually. The interior receives a little more snow, although nowhere in ...

More Minutemen arrived soon thereafter and inflicted heavy damage ... bridge, were hit and killed instantly. Four more men were wounded, but the ...

Reagan to smoothly improvise a fictional play-by-play—in which the batter ... and political philosophies were supposedly more moderate than Reagan's ...

ancient authors. In some contexts there are more "prakritisms" (borrowings ... of the Indo-European language family by Sir William Jones, and played ...

many argue that he dealt with the natives more humanely than did his successors ... In 1514, Cortés led a group that wanted more natives for the settlers. ...

whose charismatic claim to power was more attractive than the failed ... mass of the socialist movement adhered more to sentimental loyalty to ...

and a base linked to a sugar and one or more phosphate groups is called ... means that the edges of the bases are more accessible in the major groove ...

as Spain's sole monarch adopted a more aggressive policy than he ... with the Spanish in order to defeat their more-powerful enemies, such as ...

not military capability, their priority are more likely to value peace and ... political opponents, Wilhelm came to adopt more ambivalent feelings toward ...

The forms with the Latin ending -a taken together remain more common ... after brief resistance, but was treated more leniently: although the city ...