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Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...
[10] Eadred was very close to Edmund and inherited his leading counsellors, which resulted in a high degree of continuity of government when he became king. These counsellors included their mother, Eadgifu ; Oda, Archbishop of Canterbury ; Ælfsige , Bishop of Winchester ; and Æthelstan , ealdorman [ a ] of East Anglia, who was known as the ...
Edgar, the computer in the 1984 film Electric Dreams; Edgar, a farmer and alien in the 1997 science-fiction film Men in Black; Edgar, from the YouTube video Édgar's fall; Edgar, an epic brawler from the mobile game Brawl Stars; Edgar Balthazar, the butler from the 1970 Disney animated film The Aristocats
Edgar was born in Birmingham, England, into the fourth generation of a theatrical family.His maternal grandmother was the character actress Isabel Thornton, who had made films in the 1930s, including Laugh with Me (1938); [7] his maternal aunt Nancy Burman ran the Birmingham Repertory Theatre throughout the 1960s and '70s, and his mother Joan (née Burman) was an actress and BBC Overseas ...
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America [1] which is based in New York City. [2] Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year.
Edgars is a Johannesburg-based chain of stores present all over Southern Africa. The department store was previously selling clothing, shoes, homeware & beauty and under new leadership has recently shifted its focus to mass-market fashion and beauty products.
Edgar Degas (UK: / ˈ d eɪ ɡ ɑː /, US: / d eɪ ˈ ɡ ɑː, d ə ˈ ɡ ɑː /; [1] [2] born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French: [ilɛːʁ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡaʁ də ɡa]; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
The store was hit in the last Zeppelin raid on London on 19 October 1917 [10] and again rebuilt and remodelled in 1919, by Louis David Blanc and John James Joass. [ 11 ] In 1920, during a period of difficult trading for the industry, Swan and Edgar (Limited) was acquired by Harrods ' Stores Limited for a reported sum of £600,000.