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Peter Moore, the London Town Crier, [31] [32] held the position for more than 30 years. He was Town Crier to the Mayor of London, [clarification needed] the City of Westminster, and London boroughs, and was also a freeman and liveryman of the City of London. He died on 20 December 2009. [31] Alan Myatt holds two Guinness World Records.
Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor and one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck the 12th-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
In the mid 1700s, the English water-colourist, Paul Sandby created a series entitled London Cries depicting English shopkeepers, stall-holders and itinerant street vendors. The Dutch engraver, Marcellus Laroon began working in London in the mid-1700s where he produced his most famous work, the series, The Cryes of London . [ 47 ]
When news broke that the Duchess of Cambridge had given birth to a son on Monday afternoon, there was one who (if unexpectedly) stole the spotlight for a moment in
Gregory Peck played beloved father Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, and according to his children, the Oscar-winning actor wasn’t too far off the mark in real life. “Of all the children ...
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The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest printed use to an Alabama newspaper in 1835. [2] Peckerwood was in use in reference to white people by 1859; it often suggested a white person who was rustic or poor. [2] [3] The shortened form peck was in use in the same sense in the 1920s. [8]
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