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Cook was born in London in 1784, and entered the schools of the Royal Academy in 1800. He was a constant contributor to the exhibitions from 1808 to 1822, during which time he painted several landscapes, scenes from The Lady of the Lake, and in 1817, having been elected an Associate in the preceding year, a more ambitious work, entitled Ceres, Disconsolate for the Loss of Proserpine. [2]
The Shammar are a tribal confederation made up of three main branches: Abdah, Al-Aslam, and Sinjarah. The earliest non-Arab sources refer to Arabs as Taits, thought of as referring to the Tayy, as Iyas ibn Qabisah al-Ta'i, a governor of al-Hirah in Lower Mesopotamia in the Lakhmid kingdom, had contact with both the Byzantine and Sasanian Empires.
A photograph of Abdul Aziz bin Mutʿib, nicknamed "Al-Janāzah", the sixth Amir of Jabal Shammar. The Emirate of Jabal Shammar was established in 1836 as a vassal of the second Saudi state when the first ruler the emirate Abdullah bin Rashid was appointed as governor of Ha’il by the Saudi Imam Faisal bin Turki. [ 4 ]
The family name of Swedish swimmer Therese Alshammar has a different origin than Al(-)shamary (or any other variant spellings) because it is derived from "Hammar", which is a common Swedish name for people as well as for places. However her name seemed to have been mistaken for having a connection to the Middle East.
Asi bin Shuraim Al Shammari (Arabic: عاصي بن الشريم الشمري) (c. 1854–1937) was an Arab leader of the powerful Shammar tribe and the grandfather of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. He was a member of the Abde section of the Shammar tribe. [1] [2] He was a former tribal chief [3] and the sheikh of the southern part of the tribe. [4]
Richard M. Cook is an American academic who specializes in American literature. He was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009 and is the author of a biography of the critic Alfred Kazin . Cook teaches American literature at the University of Missouri–St. Louis . [ 1 ]
Richard Peter Cook RBA (born 1949 in Grimsby) is an English portrait and landscape artist working predominantly in oils and watercolour. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Graduating from the Royal Academy Schools in 1975, he was elected an associate of the Royal Society of British Artists the same year, becoming a full member in 1976.
Richard David Cook (7 February 1957 – 25 August 2007) was a British jazz writer, magazine editor and former record company executive. Sometimes credited as R. D. Cook , Cook was born in Kew , Surrey , [ 1 ] and lived in west London as an adult.