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By 1937 he was recognized as the leading British worker in his field, and was awarded a Royal Society fellowship to the University of Birmingham, where he worked on the electron trap theory of phosphorescence in the Professor Marcus Oliphant's physics faculty. When the war began in 1939 Randall transferred to the large group working on centimetre radar. At the time limited transmitter output was the greatest single ...

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Sir Mix-a-Lot - Albums. EP (~1987) Swass (1988) Seminar (1989) Mack Daddy (1991) Chief Boot Knocka (1994) Return of the Bumpasaurus (1996) Beepers, Benzos, and Booty: the Best of Sir Mix-a-Lot (2000) Daddy's Home (2003) Sir Mix-a-Lot - Singles. Let's G I'm A Trip Square Dance Rap RippinSee also:

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John Randall was born on 23 March 1905 at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, the only son and the first of the three children of Sidney Randall, nurseryman and seedsman, and his wife, Hannah Cawley, daughter of John Turton, colliery manager in the area. He was educated at the grammar school at Ashton-in-Makerfield and at the University of Manchester, where he was awarded a first-class honours degree in physics and a graduate prize in 1925, and an MSc in 1926. He married Doris, daughter of Josiah John Duckworth, a c ...

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In 1862 Anderson obtained his B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin, and was called to the Bar in 1863. He married Agnes Alexandrina Moore in 1873. As an intelligence officer in London he had the responsibility from 1876 onward to spy on and disrupt the Fenians. As part of this anti-Irish effort, he personally forged documents to try to implicate Irish leader Charles Stewart Parnell in terrorist activities. Anderson remained in London as a Home Office adviser in matters relating to politically motivated crime. In 1887 he became the ...

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Many references say that Henry was the second son of Sir Edward Norreys of Yattendon Castle, Berkshire, by his wife Frideswide, daughter of John Lovel, 8th Lord Lovel. Some of these also say that Edward Norreys died in 1487. So the birth date of 1482 for Henry would be consistent with this. However, Ives(2004), says that Henry was younger, born in the 1490s, and says that he was apparently the second son of Richard Norreys. Richard was Edward's younger brother. Whichever version is correct, all souces agree that Henry's grandfather, Sir William Norreys, had taken part in the Battle of Stoke in 1487 ...

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Many of these relationships were operated simultaneously. In June 1739 William began a relationship with an immigrant of German Palatine extraction, Catherine Wisenberg (1723 – April, 1759). She originally came to America as an indentured servant, but had run away, apparently with the help of relatives, and became a servant to a family called Phillips. William purchased her contract, and the couple had three children before her ...

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William Johnson died from a stroke at his home in Johnstown on July 11, 1774. His role as Superintendent of Indian Affairs was taken over by his nephew (and son-in-law) Guy Johnson. His manor house is now a New York Historic Site and is open to the public. ...

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In the novel, Sir Hugo Drax is a famous English World War II hero and post-war millionaire. His face is scarred due to an accident during the War in which his face was blown off halfway. The same accident left him with amnesia. Still, Drax was able to start up his company, "Drax Metals Ltd", which specializes and has a monopoly in the production of a metal called columbite. Drax is also the backer of the 'Moonraker' missile project being built to defend the UK against its Cold War enemies. Using the metal, columbite, it gives the missile's engine an extra layer of protection so it can burn hotter ...

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Hugo Drax is a billionaire living in California in a château that was imported from France. He owns Drax Industries, which constructs space shuttles. In addition, Drax supposedly owns the Eiffel Tower, but apparently couldn't export it from France because they wouldn't issue him an export licence. Sir Hugo Drax - Scheme. In a scheme similar to that of Karl Stromberg's plan, Drax sought to destroy the entire human race except for a small group of carefully selected humans, both male and female, that would ...

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In 1946 he moved to the Wheatstone chair of physics at King's College London, where the Medical Research Council set up the Biophysics Research Unit with Randall as the director (now known as Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics) at King's College London. During his term as director the experimental work leading to the discovery of the structure of DNA was made there by Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling, and Maurice Wilkins. Maurice Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine with James Watson and Francis Cric ...

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In 1970 he retired to Edinburgh University, where he formed a group which applied a range of new biophysical methods to study various biological problems. He continued that work with characteristic vigour until his death. In science Randall was not only original but even maverick. He made extremely important contributions to biological science when he set up, at the right time, a large multidisciplinary biophysical laboratory where his staff were able to achieve much success. His contributions as an individual worker in biophysics wer ...

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Commander-in-chief General Braddock commissioned Johnson a major general and tasked him to lead militia forces against Crown Point. In September, his expedition defeated Baron Dieskau at the Battle of Lake George. In recognition of this victory he was awarded £5,000 and made a baronet in November. In 1758 he was part of General Abercrombie's failed attempt to take Fort Ticonderoga. Johnson led an Indian and militia force as part of General John Prideaux's siege of Fort Niagara in the summer of 1759. When Prideaux was killed, he took ...

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Henry Norreys had come to Court during his youth, and became a close friend with King Henry VIII who appointed him a Gentleman of the Bed Chamber. He was granted many offices by the King, the first in 1515 being keeper of Foliejon Park in Winkfield. He was serving in the king's privy chamber by 1517. In 1518 he became weigher at the common beam at Southampton, then the great mart of the Italian merchants. on 28 January 1518/19 he was appointed bailiff of Ewelme. In 1519 ...

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This section mainly follows Ives (2005). In the backgound to the case against Norreys were the negotiatons which were being carried out with the French ambassador at Greenwich on April 18, 1536. It was clear to Thomas Cromwell, that Anne Boleyn stood in the way of what he sought to achieve. With the King's approval he started to investigate and to secure evidence for charges of treason to be laid against Anne, Norreys, and four other courtiers. Norreys was accused of being solicited by Anne at Westminster on October 6, 1 ...

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His father, British envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the state of Columbia, was the fourth son of Sir James Cockburn, 8th baronet, his three uncles having died without heirs. His mother was Yolande, daughter of the vicomte de Vignier. He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, of which he was elected a fellow, and afterwards an honorary fellow. He entered at the Middle Temple in 1825, and was called to the bar in 1829. Three years afterward, the Reform Bill was passed, and in 1833 Cockburn and MC Rowe published a ...

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Sir Robert Peel's secretary, Edward Drummond, was shot by Daniel McNaghten in 1843. Cockburn, briefed on behalf of the assassin, made a speech which helped to establish the insanity defense in Britain for the next century. In 1844, he appeared in Wood v. Peel to determine the winner of a bet (the Gaming Act was passed in the following year) as to whether the Derby winner Running Rein was a four-year-old or a three-year-old. Running Rein could not be produced, and as a result Cockburn lost the case, while his strenuous advocacy ...

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is written in the style that linguists have termed the Alliterative Revival of the fourteenth century. Instead of focusing on a metrical syllabic count and rhyme, the alliterative form relied on the agreement of (usually a pair of) stressed syllables at the beginning of the line with (usually) a third and fourth at the end of the line. The line always finds a "breath-point" at some point after the first two stresses, dividing the line in ...

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The three other pieces found with Gawain, although untitled in their longhand exposition, have come to be known as Pearl, Patience, and Cleanness (alternately Purity). It is understood that the Cotton manuscript is in the hand of a copyist and not of the author. There is thus nothing explicit that says all four poems in the manuscript are by the same poet. However, from a comparative analysis of dialect, verse form and diction, it has become generally accepted that the four poems are in fact by the same aut ...

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As has been noted, the poem is written in the North-West Midlands dialect of Middle English, a dialect that influenced greatly the development of the Scots language. However, it must be considered as something of a dead tributary to the course of history that the English language would take. As a result, the untranslated poem is only dimly intelligible to those who have not studied Middle English. As Tolkien tells us, "[i]ndeed in their own time the adjectives 'dark' and 'hard' would probably have been applied to these poems by most people who enjoyed the works of Chaucer." Her ...

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In 1908, Fleming donated the property to the citizens of Halifax for use as a park and proposed the construction of a tower within the "Dingle" to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the establishment of respresentative government in Nova Scotia; the province having been the first colony in the British Empire outside the United Kingdom to have such a form of government. An ardent imperialist, Fleming also intended the proposed tower to serve as a memorial to the development of parliamentary institutions in the British Empire, now the ...

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In 1829 his career of authorship began with the appearance of the well-known essay on the "Philosophy of the Unconditioned" (a critique of Auguste Comte's Cours de philosophie)--the first of a series of articles contributed by him to the Edinburgh Review. He was elected in 1836 to the Edinburgh chair of logic and metaphysics, and from this time dates the influence which, during the next twenty years, he exerted over the thought of the younger generation in Scotland. Much about the same time he began the preparation of an annota ...

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