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Melvin Barry Hines, FRSL (30 June 1939 – 18 March 2016) was an English author, playwright and screenwriter. His novels and screenplays explore the political and economic struggles of working-class Northern England , particularly in his native West Riding / South Yorkshire .
A Kestrel for a Knave is a novel by English author Barry Hines, published in 1968.Set in an unspecified mining area in Northern England, the book follows Billy Casper, a young working-class boy troubled at home and at school, who finds and trains a kestrel whom he names "Kes".
Kes (/ k ɛ s /) is a 1969 British coming-of-age drama film directed by Ken Loach (credited as Kenneth Loach) and produced by Tony Garnett, based on the 1968 novel A Kestrel for a Knave, written by the Hoyland Nether–born author Barry Hines. [3]
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"Candidate for a Pullet Surprise" is a poem by Jerrold H. Zar, based on an earlier short poem by Mark Eckman. It was first published in 1994 in the humour magazine Journal of Irreproducible Results. The poem uses homophones to illustrate the problem of relying on a spell checker.
The song was featured on YouTube in 2007, where it was used in an Indian commercial for the 5 Star chocolate brand. [4] It was also featured on YouTube as a nursery rhyme in 2009 by the channel Shemrock Nursery Rhymes. [5] The nursery rhyme has been recreated by many other edutainment YouTube channels targeting young children. [6]
An Arizona woman who "died" for a total of 27 minutes asked for a notepad after she was resuscitated to share an urgent message about the afterlife, her family claims.. Madie Johnson took to ...
A Closer Look, Late Night Casserole (George Har Har Martin, Close Encounters of the Richard Kind (appearance by Richard Kind), A Closer Look done in the style of The Rockford Files, Conner O'Malley does interpretive dance), Kristen and Seth say goodnight