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All Peoples' Association

The All Peoples' Association was a voluntary organisation to foster international amity, established in London in 1930 by Sir Evelyn Wrench, founder of the English-Speaking Union and Royal Overseas League.

American/English

This is the first of Acoustic Alchemy's albums to include EMI's Copy Control technique, designed to prevent illegal reproduction and audio ripping of the disc.

English-language Scrabble

English-language Scrabble is the original version of the popular word-based board game invented in 1938 by US architect Alfred Mosher Butts who based the game on the letter distribution in The New York Times in English.

English-medium education

Widdowson, H.G. (1998a) EIL: squaring the Circles. A Reply. World Englishes 17/3 pp.

Phillipson, Robert (1992), Linguistic Imperialism, Oxford University Press.

English-only movement

In March 2012, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was criticized by some Republican delegates from Puerto Rico when he publicly took the position that Puerto Rico, a Spanish-speaking territory, should be required to make English its primary language as a condition of statehood.

English-Speaking Union Scotland

Speakers at the Conference included Lord Robertson, Professor David Crystal, Sir Richard Dearlove, Professor Bob Worcester, Sir John Bond, Professor Stanley Wells and Sir Christopher Meyer.

Floodplain

A number of whole towns such as English, Indiana, have been completely relocated to remove them from the floodplain.

Indiana School for the Deaf

The Bilingual/Bicultural Philosophy provides language acquisition and facilitates proficiency in two languages, American Sign Language (ASL), and English.

John Franklin Bobbitt

John Franklin Bobbit (born February 16 1876, near English, Indiana) was an American educationist, a university professor and a writer.

National parliaments of the European Union

and generally in English-language speech and writing in Ireland.

Noah Webster

(October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843), was a lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author.

Terence Dolan

He acts as the School's Research Co-ordinator, and is the director of the Hiberno-English Archive website.


1979 Torneo di Viareggio

The 1979 winners of the Torneo di Viareggio (in English, the Viareggio Tournament, officially the Viareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale), the annual youth football tournament held in Viareggio, Tuscany, are listed below.

A Classic Case of Cause and Effect

A Classic Case of Cause and Effect is the second album by English rock band Laruso, released in May 2009 on Autonomy Recordings.

Academics Plus High Charter School

Academics Plus has partnered with the University of Central Arkansas, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the University of Arkansas at Monticello to offer twelve concurrent credit courses in math, English, history and music.

Adelaide Ristori

In 1857 she visited Madrid, playing in Spanish to enthusiastic audiences, and in 1866 she paid the first of four visits to the United States, where she won much applause, particularly in Paolo Giacometti's Elisabeth, an Italian study of the English sovereign.

Amantes e Mortais

Amantes e Mortais (known in English as Fast and Far) is Adelaide Ferreira's second album released in 1989.

Bowdoin prize

William Pannapacker, 1994, 1999, academic and journalist (graduate, English, American Civilization)

Cambridge Model European Council

The Cambridge Model European Council is an annual student-run conference based in the English city of Cambridge.

Choba B CCCP

The Russian album includes liner notes in Russian, from text that was originally in English by Roy Carr of the NME.

David William Parry

In December 2011, he directed the first English language production of "Shakespeare: a comedy in ten scenes, both serious and tragic" (by the Azerbajiani playwright Elchin Afandiyev).

Don LePan

He received a BA in English Literature from Carleton University in Ottawa and an MA in Renaissance Studies from the University of Sussex, where he studied under A.D. Nuttall; his research on Shakespeare’s plots became the basis for a monograph (The Birth of Expectation).

Edward Irving

See also Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age; Coleridge's Notes on English Divines; Carlyle's Miscellanies, and Carlyle's Reminiscences, vol.

English Chamber Choir

The English Chamber Choir came into existence in 1972 its earliest engagements included Haydn's Nelson Mass, Fauré's Requiem and Kodály 's Laudes Organi with Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra, and live performances at the old Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park, of the rock-opera Tommy with The Who.

English Musical Renaissance

The musicologist Colin Eatock writes that the term "English musical renaissance" carries "the implicit proposition that British music had raised itself to a stature equal to the best the continent had to offer"; among the continental composers of the period were Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Fauré, Bruckner, Mahler and Puccini.

Ernest Wilson

Ernest Henry Wilson (1876–1930), English botanist, best known as E. H. Wilson

Ferdydurke

Jerzy Skolimowski directed the 1991 film adaptation of Ferdydurke (alternate English title: 30 Door Key) with international cast including Iain Glen, Crispin Glover, Beata Pozniak, Robert Stephens, Judith Godrèche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, and Fabienne Babe.

Fineshade Wood

Fineshade Wood is a large wooded area in the county of Northamptonshire in the English East Midlands region.

Florence Kate Upton

Florence Kate Upton (22 February 1873 – 16 October 1922) was an American-born English cartoonist and author most famous for her Golliwogg series of children's books.

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton (28 August 1817 Nottingham – 20 December 1877 Birdsall House, Birdsall) was an English peer.

Horton, Berkshire

John Milton the English poet is one of the more famous former residents of Horton.

Inflammatory

The word inflammatory is not used to refer literally to fire and flammability, but is used in relation to comments that are provocative and arouse passions and emotions, however in English this is not technically correct.

Jean Giraudoux

He became well known in the English speaking world largely because of the award-winning adaptations of his plays by Christopher Fry (The Trojan War Will Not Take Place) and Maurice Valency (The Madwoman of Chaillot, Ondine, The Enchanted, The Apollo of Bellac).

Jean-François Berdah

He is co-founder and chief-editor of the Revue d'Histoire Nordique since 2005, a bilingual French-English historical review dedicated to the history and civilisation of both Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, and director of the Centre of Excellence Jean Monnet of the University of Toulouse II-Le Mirail.

John Alday

The work contains several pieces of verse, and on their account Joseph Ritson numbered Alday among the English poets of the sixteenth century (Bibliographia Poetica, p. 114).

John Birchensha

The son of Ralph Birchensha, an English official in Ireland, and his wife Elizabeth, he lost both his parents while still quite young, and was in the household of George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare, up to the Irish rebellion of 1641.

John Gretton, 3rd Baron Gretton

John Henrik Gretton, 3rd Baron Gretton DL (9 February 1941 - 4 April 1989) was an English peer, owner of Stapleford Park in Leicestershire.

John Palmer

John Horsley Palmer (1779–1858), English banker and Governor of the Bank of England

Kill the Director

The song was also used as the title music to football show Football Focus in the 07/08 English football season.

La Dentellière

It was translated into English by George Crowther in 1976 as A Web of Lace and in 2006 by David Dugan.

La Jalousie

The title of its English editions is Jealousy, but this fails to capture the ambiguity of the French title: "la jalousie" can be translated as "jealousy", but also as "the jalousie window".

Laurie Cunningham

This was the second time an English top flight team simultaneously fielded three black players (the first being Clyde Best, Clive Charles and Ade Coker for West Ham United against Tottenham Hotspur in April of 1972) and Atkinson collectively referred to Cunningham, Batson and Regis as 'The Three Degrees' after the legendary U.S. soul singing trio.

Lucha film

When American producer K. Gordon Murray bought the rights to three of Santo’s lucha libre films, he dubbed them into English for domestic release and changed the name of the wrestling hero to "Samson".

Mynydd y Glyn

It is the mountain which was used in The Englishman who went up a Hill and came down a Mountain in which Hugh Grant and Ian McNeice star as English cartographers.

Paul Laikin

Returning home in 1947, he studied English at Columbia University and began writing for leading comedians, including Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle, Jan Murray, Ed Wynn and Alan King.

Philip Pan

Other topics covered by his book include China's shourong detention system, investigative journalism in China, and the publication and reception of An Investigation of China's Peasantry, by Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, which was later released as Will the Boat Sink the Water (2006) in its English translation.

Pieter Casteels III

He painted birds, flowers, and fruit; but his paintings have not much to recommend them, and were greatly inferior to those of an English contemporary artist, Luke Cradock.

Quebec, The Revolutionary Age 1760–1791

Quebec, The Revolutionary Age 1760–1791 is a book (ISBN 0-7710-6658-9) by Canadian historian Dr. Hilda Neatby published in 1966 in both the French and English languages as part of The Canadian Centenary Series.

R. K. Sinha

Alison Richard, The Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge, Dr Sinha served his country, his University, and scholarship with great distinction and imbued generations of students with love of the English language and its literature.

Ralf Rangnick

This was to prove his level, as he played at a string of small lowly clubs, including a stint at English non-league side Southwick while studying English on a guest year at the University of Sussex in Brighton where Rangnick studied astrophysics and was shortlisted to join the FGR's Space Programme.

Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford

Further battles included the battle of Auberoche, the siege of Aiguillon, from where he escaped prior to its lifting, a raid on Barfleur and the English victory at the Battle of Crecy, on 26 August 1346.

Richard Ward

Sir Richard Warde or Ward (died 1578), English politician and royal official

Row Your Boat

Its title is taken from the English nursery rhyme "Row, Row, Row Your Boat".

Sabras Radio

Although the majority of the schedule is presented in Hindi and English - there are speciality shows broadcasting in Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi.

Stéphane Lupasco

(Lupasco unfortunately did not read English well, and hence no references to the “anti”-psychiatry of Laing and Bateson, close in spirit to his work, are to be found.)

Sunset Song

Soon after directing The House of Mirth in 2000, English filmmaker Terence Davies and producer Bob Last planned their own adaptation of the book but had difficulty securing financing.

The Fire Eternal

The Fire Eternal is a 2007 novel by an English author, Chris d'Lacey.

Upperby

Upperby is a suburb of Carlisle, in the City of Carlisle district, in the English county of Cumbria.

Victor Ash

Vic Ash (born 1930), English jazz saxophonist and clarinetist

While

Practical English Usage by Michael Swan (OUP), a reference book for intermediate and advanced learners of English, does not include whilst but has several sections covering the usage of while.

William Coe

William Robertson Coe (1869–1955), English-born American insurance and railways business executive and philanthropist

X-Bomber

Two of the English voice actors, Jay Benedict and Garrick Hagon, had appeared in Star Wars (1977) portraying Deak and Biggs, two of Luke Skywalker's friends on Tatooine (though Hagon's role was reduced in editing and Benedict's scenes were cut altogether).