This dilemma is being presented at a moment when for the first time ever the techniques of systems analysis make it possible to begin to attempt to handle the consider able number of variables in the environ mental picture even though verification is admittedly difficult". "When a full ...
“They’re not putting me away in a home, you know,” he said. “Of all British footballers he was, like Stanley Matthews, a player to reaffirm that professional soccer can be as much a medium of expression as chess or jazz or any other art form that you have to make up as you g...
Sir Thomas Wyatt- English poet who introduced the sonnet form to English literature (1503-1542) Sir Thomas Wyat,Wyat,Wyatt Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc. Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a ...
Churchill quickly became known for being outspoken and full of energy. He gave speeches against tariffs and in support of social changes for the poor. It soon became clear that he did not hold the beliefs of the Conservative Party, so he switched to the Liberal Party in 1904. In 1905, th...
4.(Biography) SirWilliam Jackson.1785–1865, British botanist; first director of Kew Gardens: father of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 ...
Royal Dutch Shell employees in the Netherlands were instructed to complete a form that for some amounted to a self-declared death warrant. Many did not survive the war. The Nazis did succeed in gaining control over Dobbin Castle. In the latter part of WW2, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, ...
'We recognise the club ultimately makes these decisions but our intention here is to offer honest counsel, some of which your employees may be reluctant to deliver to you, to help inform these decisions. We also want to put this on public record in the form of an o...
Napier, Sir William Francis Patrick (nāˈpēr, nəpērˈ), 1785–1860, British general and historian; brother of Sir Charles James Napier. He served in the Peninsular War and wrote a famous and still authoritative History of the War in the Peninsula (6 vol., 1828–40)....
The British Fifth Army in Italy attacked Monte Cassino; 1958: Death of composer Vaughan Williams; 1960: French philosopher and novelist Albert Camus killed in a car crash and Donald Campbell died when Bluebird broke up attempting world water speed record on Coniston Water; 1965: Death of American...
Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch to new thesaurus Noun 1. Sir John Hawkins - English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595) Hawkins, Hawkyns,...