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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bridget Riley, D. K. Broster, Kristin Scott Thomas, Fiona Mactaggart, Rosie Boycott, Nicola Horlick, Sally Keeble, Katharine Burdekin, Lisa Jardine, Gareth Peirce, Margaret Winifred Vowles, Rachel Lomax, Tamara Beckwith, Phyllis Bentley, Betty Ridley, Maude Royden, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Damaris Hayman. Excerpt:Dame Mildred Betty Ridley, DBE (September 10, 1909 - August 1, 2005) was a leading figure in the life of the Church of England from the 1960s into the 1980s, serving as Third Church Estates Commissioner from 1972 until 1981, the first woman to hold the post. She is also remembered her role in the very successful and moving television programme Evensong , shown in the BBC 's Everyman series in December 1992. Her father, Henry Mosley, was then Rector of Poplar, London . He was later appointed Bishop of Stepney and, after nine years, Bishop of Southwell . She was educated at the independent North London Collegiate School and at Cheltenham Ladies' College . Aged 19, she married Michael Ridley, her father's chaplain, and that determined the course of her life for the next 25 years. Michael Ridley became incumbent of parishes in Pimlico and Finchley , then died at an early age in 1953, leaving his widow with four children. Ridley had always had a strong belief that women should not be excluded from those whom the Church would accept as candidates for Holy Orders. (Her father was at one time chairman of a central Council for Women's Church Work). She took many opportunities to forward this cause. She was, for example, in 1979 a founding member of the Movement for the Ordination of Women . As a widow Ridley recognised periodic bereavements as a fact of life. Her only brother had been killed on the last day of the battle of El Alamein . Yet it was not long before new doors were o... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Mick Fleetwood, Rory Mcgrath, Luke Vibert, Kristin Scott Thomas, Alan Opie, Benjamin Luxon, Katherine Roberts, Mark Prisk, Adrian Johns, Kenneth Hamilton Jenkin, D. M. Thomas, John Thomas Blight. Excerpt:Sir Adrian Johns Vice Admiral Sir Adrian James Johns KCB , CBE , ADC , is the current Governor of Gibraltar and a former senior officer in the Royal Navy . His most senior naval posting was as Second Sea Lord from 2005 to 2008. Career Educated at a grammar school in Cornwall and then Imperial College London he joined the Royal Navy in 1973. He was promoted lieutenant on 1 September 1975 (with seniority from 1 January 1975). After his initial postings he trained as a helicopter pilot, serving with 824 Naval Air Squadron as a Westland Sea King pilot aboard HMS Ark Royal , before becoming a flying instructor in 1979. His first command was HMS Yarnton in Hong Kong in 1981. He was promoted lieutenant commander on 16 October 1982. After holding various naval posts, he was promoted commander on 30 June 1988, and then commanded the frigates HMS Juno and HMS Ariadne between 1988 and 1990. He was promoted captain on 31 December 1994. In between various appointments at the Ministry of Defence he held command of HMS Campbeltown from 1995 to 1996. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2001 New Year Honours , and later that year he took command of HMS Ocean which in Spring 2003 was deployed to Iraq . For this service he received a Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service , gazetted on 31 October 2003. He relinquished command of Ocean with his promotion to rear admiral on 27 May 2003. He became Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff in May 2003 and then served as Rear Admiral Fleet Air Arm from October that year. He was promoted vice admiral and appointed Se... ... Read more

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Title: KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS.(actriz)(TT: Kristin Scott Thomas.)(TA: actress)(Entrevista)
Author: Eva Reuss
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 9, 2000
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
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Chapters: People From West Dorset (District), Thomas Sydenham, Kristin Scott Thomas, William Edward Forster, John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, Jane Digby, Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, Trevor Senior, Alexander Hood, Sidney William Ware, John Adams, Serena Scott Thomas, William Martyn, Maud Watson, William Wild, Osmond Fisher, Wessex Fm, Tryphena Sparks. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Thomas Sydenham (or Syndenham) (September 10, 1624 December 29, 1689) was an English physician. He was born at Wynford Eagle in Dorset, where his father was a gentleman of property. His brother was Colonel William Sydenham. Thomas fought for the Parliament throughout the English Civil War, and, at its end, resumed his medical studies at Oxford. He became the undisputed master of the English medical world and was known as 'The English Hippocrates. Among his many achievements was the discovery of a disease, Sydenham's Chorea, also known as St Vitus Dance. At the age of eighteen Sydenham was entered at Magdalen Hall, Oxford; after a short period his college studies appear to have been interrupted, and he served for a time as an officer in the Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War. He completed his Oxford course in 1648, graduating as bachelor of medicine, and about the same time he was elected a fellow of All Souls College. It was not until nearly thirty years later (1676) that he graduated as M.D., not at Oxford, but at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where his eldest son was by then an undergraduate. After 1648 he seems to have spent some time studying medicine at Oxford, but he was soon back in military service, and in 1654 he received the sum of £600, as a result of a petition he addressed to Oliver Cromwell, pointing...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=564669 ... Read more

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Gosford Park is a 2001 film directed by Robert Altman. The screenplay is by Julian Fellowes, based on an idea by Altman and producer Bob Balaban. It features an ensemble cast including Michael Gambon, Alan Bates, Derek Jacobi, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Eileen Atkins, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jeremy Northam, Bob Balaban, Ryan Phillippe, Stephen Fry, Kelly Macdonald, James Wilby, Clive Owen, Emily Watson, Camilla Rutherford, Tom Hollander, and Richard E. Grant. The film is set in 1932 at an English country house. A party of wealthy Britons and Americans accompanied by their servants gather at the home of Sir William McCordle for a shooting weekend. A murder occurs in the middle of the night, the film presenting the murder from both the servants' and the guests' perspective. But rather than a simple mystery to be solved, the film uses the whodunit format to create a drama showcasing the tensions of the British class system. Many intertwining subplots detail the complex relationships among the characters, both above stairs (the wealthy guests) and below (the servants). The film was very well-received by critics, with Altman, Fellowes, Mirren, and others receiving a number of awards. ... Read more

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Title: Intricacies and troubling solace: 'I've Loved You So Long' shows new a beginning; 'Everlasting Moments' is a journey into the past.(MOVIES)(Movie review)
Author: Kevin Doherty
Publication: National Catholic Reporter (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 6, 2009
Publisher: National Catholic Reporter
Volume: 45Issue: 8Page: 20(1)

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on April 17, 1997. The length of the article is 1461 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El paciente inglés.(TT: The English Patient)
Author: Mario Saavedra
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: April 17, 1997
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: v43Issue: n2287Page: p76(2)

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Title: "Buenas costumbres".(Easy Virtue)(Reseòa de pelîcula)
Author: Javier Betancourt
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 13, 2009
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on March 23, 1997. The length of the article is 686 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El paciente inglés.(TT: The English Patient)
Author: Javier Betancourt
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 23, 1997
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
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