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Death on the Oxford Road is a 1933 detective novel by E.C.R. Lorac, the pen name of the British writer Edith Caroline Rivett. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is the fifth book featuring Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard who appeared in a lengthy series of novels during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction .
Sir Alec John Jeffreys, CH FRS MAE [7] (born 9 January 1950) [6] is a British geneticist known for developing techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resolve paternity and immigration disputes. [5][8][9] Jeffreys is Professor of Genetics at ...
Reading West Bridge looking westwards Oxford Road looking eastwards, 1893 The White Hart Hotel, No. 1 Oxford Road, at the corner of St Mary's Butts, 1900–1909. Oxford Road is an urban street and major arterial road in Reading, Berkshire, England, Beginning near the town centre at the meeting of St. Mary's Butts/West Street/Broad Street.
The station opened as Oxford Road on 20 July 1849 and was the headquarters of the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway (MSJAR) until 1904. [12] The station was built on the site of 'Little Ireland', a slum "of a worse character than St Giles", [13] in which about four thousand people had lived in "measureless filth and stench" [14] (according to Friedrich Engels in The Condition ...
The Oxford Martyrs were Protestants tried for heresy in 1555 and burnt at the stake in Oxford, England, for their religious beliefs and teachings, during the Marian persecution in England. [ 1 ] The three martyrs were the Church of England bishops Hugh Latimer , Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer , the Archbishop of Canterbury .
Oxford Road Show. Oxford Road Show is a music show that aired on BBC2 from 16 January 1981 to 29 March 1985. It was broadcast from the BBC 's New Broadcasting House in Oxford Road, Manchester. The show featured live music, pop music news and competitions and was also presented as addressing issues for young adults by young adults.
It had been opened as far as Islip on 1 October 1850, from Islip to a temporary station at Banbury Road on 2 December 1850, and from Banbury Road to Oxford on 20 May 1851. At the point where the main Oxford - Banbury road (now the A4165 road ) crossed the line, a level crossing was constructed, known as Oxford Road Crossing ( grid reference ...
September 27, 2024 at 9:01 PM. The Cathedral of Learning towers over the University of Pittsburgh in 2019. Authorities are investigating the second incident in a month in which a Jewish student ...