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21 hours ago · Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet: Tennis (world champion) MP for West Kent (1865–1868), Mid Kent (1868–1885), and Dartford (1885–1906) Lord Hazlerigg: Cricket (first-class) Candidate in the 1906 United Kingdom general election at Melton Member of the House of Lords (1945–1949) Arthur Heath: Cricket (first-class) Rugby union
21 hours ago · Oswald Mosley. Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British aristocrat and politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism. He was a member of parliament and later founded and led the British Union of Fascists (BUF).
Jul 7, 2024 · These knick-knacks are the trappings of vanity and hark back to the association of the ape with the worldly sinner. The outer clothing (boots, gloves, caps, belts) reflects the ape’s fondness for mimicking man—a predilection Topsell mentions as being useful in the capture of apes, because both heavy lead shoes and ‘little Bags made like breeches’ trap the animal in place since ‘they ...
Jul 7, 2024 · Footnote 21 William Strunk interprets this scene, and other contemporary uses of the term ‘jack’ to describe apes, as meaning that ‘the names of these performing apes have been preserved’. Footnote 22 In fact, the etymology of jackanapes seems to contradict this: OED suggests that the term arose as a name for any performing monkey much earlier than its written form in 1522.
21 hours ago · Die Wolverhampton Wanderers (offiziell: Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club) – auch bekannt als Wolves (deutsch: „ Wölfe “) – sind ein englischer Fußballverein aus der in den West Midlands gelegenen Stadt Wolverhampton. Der 1876 entstandene Klub war 1888 eines von zwölf Gründungsmitgliedern der Football League, entwickelte sich ...
21 hours ago · Baronet, britischer Historiker und Staatsmann in der Regierung William Gladstone (* 1838) 18. August: Frank Thomas, Schweizer evangelischer Geistlicher und Hochschullehrer (* 1862) 19. August: Richard Burdon Haldane, britischer Politiker und Philosoph (* 1856) 20. August: Huldreich Heusser, deutscher Automobilrennfahrer (* 1889) 25.
21 hours ago · Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener 1st Earl Kitchener ˈ k ɪ tʃ ɪ n ər 24 June 1850 5 June 1916 was a British Army o
