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Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, KC (12 May 1816 – 29 April 1905), known previously as Sir Edmund Beckett, 5th Baronet and Edmund Beckett Denison, was an English lawyer, mechanician, and controversialist, [1] as well as a noted horologist and architect.
For example, the female attendants played lutes and drums, bathed, and sprayed water from their breasts and fingernails. [44] Somadeva 's Yashas-tilaka-champu , written in the previous century (959 CE), also describes such a mechanical garden with several moving objects, but the Shringara-manjari-katha is more detailed in its description and ...
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Grimethorpe colliery was one of the deepest pits in Britain and, following similar mergers with 'Houghton Main' and 'Dearne Valley', employed 6,000 men at the time of its closure in May 1993. During mid-October of the 1984–85 miners' strike , there was a series of riots in Grimethorpe and local residents complained that the policing was too ...
Coat of arms of Ralph Fitzwilliam, Lord of Greystoke at the Battle of Falkirk, Barry argent and azure three chaplets of roses gules. Ralph Fitzwilliam (c. 1256 – 11 February 1317), or Ralph, son of William de Grimthorpe, Lord of Greystoke, was a feudal baron with extensive landholdings in the North of England, representative of a manorial lordship seated where Grimthorpe Hill rises to ...
Brassed Off is a 1996 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Mark Herman and starring Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald and Ewan McGregor. [2]The film is about the troubles faced by a colliery brass band, following the closure of their pit.
He had then taken Denver's revolver from the study and gone out into the garden to shoot himself. The confounding factor in the investigation had been the coincidence of Denver returning from Mrs Grimethorpe's, just in time to find the body, at the same time that Mary had emerged from the house for her rendezvous with Goyles. Denver is acquitted.
Secretary of War Jefferson Davis characterized the incident as "the result of a deliberately formed plan." [citation needed] Col. William S. Harney was recalled from Paris in April 1855 and sent to Fort Kearny, where he assembled a command of 600 troops, consisting of men from the 6th Infantry, 10th Infantry, 4th Artillery, and his own 2nd US ...