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Edmond Hoyle (1672 – 29 August 1769) [2] was an English writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games.The phrase "according to Hoyle" (meaning "strictly according to the rules") came into the language as a reflection of his broadly perceived authority on the subject; [2] use of the phrase has since expanded to any appeal to a putative authority.
Sir Fred Hoyle (24 June 1915 ... ISBN 0330295853 2nd ed. (with new afterword), Back Bay, 1999. Gives a biographical account of modern cosmology in a novel-like fashion.
Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769), compiler of rules of card games; Sir Fred Hoyle (1915–2001), British astronomer and science fiction writer; Geoff Hoyle (born 1945), British actor; Geoffrey Hoyle (born 1942), English science fiction writer, son of Sir Fred Hoyle; Henry Hoyle (1852–1926), Australian politician and rugby league football administrator
Hoyle was born in New York on September 16, 1883. He was the son of Brigadier General Eli DuBose Hoyle (1851–1921) and Fanny De Russy (1857–1925). [2] His maternal grandfather was Brigadier General René Edward De Russy. [1] He attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., graduating in 1906. [3]
Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 3 was the third volume in Sierra On-Line's series of computer games based on the officially licensed Hoyle rules and trademark. Unlike the two previous games, this one was made with Sierra's new improved VGA engine, and focused on board games , where the previous entries in the series had featured card games .
Collective Soul is an American rock band originally from Stockbridge, Georgia. [2] Now based in Atlanta, the group consists of the brothers Ed (lead vocalist) and Dean Roland (rhythm guitarist), Will Turpin (bassist), Johnny Rabb (drummer), and Jesse Triplett (lead guitarist).
Lindsay Hoyle was born on 10 June 1957 in Adlington, the son of the future Labour MP Doug Hoyle (later Lord Hoyle) and Pauline Spencer. [5] He went to Adlington County School and Lord's College in Bolton.
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