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.
In 1986, as a member of the Chicano student organization, MEChA, she fought against an English-only law in Arizona.
Widdowson, H.G. (1998a) EIL: squaring the Circles. A Reply. World Englishes 17/3 pp.
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Phillipson, Robert (1992), Linguistic Imperialism, Oxford University Press.
English, baby! has content-sharing partnerships with companies such Nokia in China, and HOOP Magazine in Japan.
A number of whole towns such as English, Indiana, have been completely relocated to remove them from the floodplain.
He acts as the School's Research Co-ordinator, and is the director of the Hiberno-English Archive website.
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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.
Alfred William Goldie (December 10, 1920, Coseley, Staffordshire – October 8, 2005, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria) was an English Mathematician.
Amantes e Mortais (known in English as Fast and Far) is Adelaide Ferreira's second album released in 1989.
His stories, translated into English by his wife, Helen Barolini, appeared in The New Yorker and then were collected and published as Our Last Family Countess, and other Stories.
ATN Aastha broadcasts religious and spiritual programming in Hindi, Gujarati, and English, focusing mainly on the teachings and principles of Hinduism.
The present St Martin's at Canterbury continues in the same building as the oldest church in the English-speaking world and is part of the Canterbury World Heritage site.
The Cambridge Model European Council is an annual student-run conference based in the English city of Cambridge.
Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling (1849–1936), English lawyer, politician and judge
"London Heathrow Airport" is usually rendered in Chinese text as 倫敦希斯路機場 (Lúndūn Xīsīlù Jīchǎng), with the English pronunciation of 'London' fairly accurate, and of 'Heathrow' less accurate: literally as Chinese this means "kinship, honest" (for London), "hope/rare, given/this, road" (for Heathrow), "aircraft, field", with the last syllable of "Heathrow" rendered as "lu" although the more accurate "lo" and "lou" are known Chinese words.
The Russian album includes liner notes in Russian, from text that was originally in English by Roy Carr of the NME.
The Confrontation Clause has its roots in both English common law, protecting the right of cross-examination, and Roman law, which guaranteed persons accused of a crime the right to look their accusers in the eye.
Wanting to run a team, Vetter procured the services of English-born AMA Superbike Championship winner Reg Pridmore for the 1978 season to ride a team Vetter Kawasaki Z1000 prepared by (the late) Pierre Des Roches.
The different works on Islamic (Shi’ite) jurisprudence by Al-Najafi, all written in Arabic have never been translated into English or any other language.
Dutch (official), Sranan Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the younger population), Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Javanese, English (widely spoken), French due to cultural influence from French Guiana, Portuguese and Spanish.
See also Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age; Coleridge's Notes on English Divines; Carlyle's Miscellanies, and Carlyle's Reminiscences, vol.
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.
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.
In 1902, the English politician and game shooting enthusiast Mark Hanbury Beaufoy wrote some much-quoted verses on gun safety, including many salient points.
She followed her BA with first class honours in English with a master’s degree, and in 1919 enrolled in Somerville College, Oxford, to study for her doctorate.
Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton (28 August 1817 Nottingham – 20 December 1877 Birdsall House, Birdsall) was an English peer.
John Milton the English poet is one of the more famous former residents of Horton.
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).
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 Henrik Gretton, 3rd Baron Gretton DL (9 February 1941 - 4 April 1989) was an English peer, owner of Stapleford Park in Leicestershire.
The song was also used as the title music to football show Football Focus in the 07/08 English football season.
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".
Her first novel, Glennkill (published as Three Bags Full in English), sold over 100,000 copies in the first six months after publication.
She was the wife of Sir Robert Digby, a landed English aristocrat by whom she had ten children.
Ludmila's Broken English is the second novel by Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre.
He published about one-hundred research and literary papers, several translations from French (Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal, François Souchal) English (Daniel Dafoe, Albert Manfred, James Michener, Shel Silverstein, Isaac Singer, and James Thurber) and Russian (Kornej Cukovski).
Milieu is the word for environment in French, and, for hundreds of years, also in Dutch, German, Swedish, Danish, English, and other languages that were strongly influenced by French culture and French language, primarily during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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.
This rediscovery of Kondratiev in English-speaking academia led to his theories being extended for the first time beyond economics as, for example, political scientists such as Joshua Goldstein and geographers such as Brian Berry extended the concept of Kondratiev long waves into their own fields.
Tributh and Gärtner were both students and neither spoke English well.
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.
John Pendry (born 4 July 1943), English theoretical physicist
Philip Bickerstaffe (1639–1714) was an English merchant and the owner of Amble Works.
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.
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.
Sir Reginald Stourton of Stourton (born 1434) was an English knight.
Its title is taken from the English nursery rhyme "Row, Row, Row Your Boat".
"Sólo Tú" ( English: Only you ) is the first official single by Mexican rock guitarist Sergio Vallín featuring Raquel del Rosario from his first album Bendito Entre Las Mujeres on August 10, 2009.
Revere has appeared on a number of Korean TV shows, including English Conversation (EBS, 2001–2003) and The World Is Wide (세상은 넓다, KBS1 2006-2007).
The Saida album contains 19 songs: Zouk Love/Kizomba tracks, written in cooperation with Ronald Rubinel (Edith Lefel) and Jacob Desvarieux (Kassav'), acoustic songs, written together with Marcos Fernandez, Kim Alves and others, and a couple of R&B tracks in English, written in cooperation with producer Marcus "DL" Sisklind, Ryan Toby, Dre Robinson and others.
The Fire Eternal is a 2007 novel by an English author, Chris d'Lacey.
Tom Danby (Thompson Danby, born 1926), English rugby player
Leslie Stuart (1863–1928), English composer born as Thomas Augustine Barrett
Upperby is a suburb of Carlisle, in the City of Carlisle district, in the English county of Cumbria.
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.
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).
The 1978 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 is the second album by English rock band Laruso, released in May 2009 on Autonomy Recordings.
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.
Anne Dowriche, née Edgecumbe (died 1593), English poet and historian
B.A.D. (Not to be confused with English Post-punk group Big Audio Dynamite)
Harold Pinter (1930–2008), English playwright, and actor under the stage name David Baron
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).
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).
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.
Ernest Henry Wilson (1876–1930), English botanist, best known as E. H. Wilson
John Gamgee (1831–1894), English physician and inventor; developer of the Glaciarium (the first mechanically frozen ice rink) and the perpetual motion Zeromoter
Herbert Gordon Tidey (1879-1971) was an English railway photographer.
Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, a sequence of novels and films that chronicle the life of a thirtysomething singleton in London as she tries to make sense of life and love.
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.
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.
Jane Juska (born 1933), American author and retired English schoolteacher
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.
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".
Its English name has nothing to do with wheat or ears, but is an altered (perhaps bowdlerised) form of white-arse, which refers to its prominent white rump.
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 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.
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.
"Shouting for the Gunners" was a single released by the English football team Arsenal, with Tippa Irie and Peter Hunnigale, in 1993.
Stephen Paget (1855-1926) was an English surgeon, the son of the distinguished surgeon and pathologist Sir James Paget.
International schools that teach English as a Second Language (ESL - update of the previous English as a Foreign Language - EFL) allow their students to subscribe en masse to StoryBox as it aids their students improvement in English while they are at home.
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.
Tekseng earned a University degree in English from Miranda House, Delhi
"The Walls Fell Down" is a third single by the English rock duo The Marbles, Lead vocals by Graham Bonnet it was released in March 1969, and it was written and produced by Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, of the Bee Gees, and was also produced by Robert Stigwood, It reached #28 in the United Kingdom, but in the Netherlands it reached #3.
He was Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and English Literature in All Hallows College, Dublin.
William Robertson Coe (1869–1955), English-born American insurance and railways business executive and philanthropist
William John Swainson, FLS, FRS, (1789-1855), English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist