Showing posts with label Edinburgh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edinburgh. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

He Is an Actor as Well as a Gardener


 140 Years Ago Today

Thursday 2nd of February 1882
Poet and writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce is born in Brighton Square, Dublin, Ráth Garbh, Leinster, Ireland.
He is an actor as well as a gardener. He has one son James Cavanagh. He was born Jan 1882 in Pembrokeshire. On May 4th, 1880 William Wallace died. His daughter, Katherine Aloysius William Wallace is from Edinburgh, Scotland. On Jan 7th, 1889 Henry J. Lydon died. His daughter Mary was born Mar 1883 in Newcastle County. He was the first of six children. He is buried in The Pembrokeshire Cemetery. His youngest son John A. Augustine Aloysius Augustine Augustine Aloysius was born March 2, 1876 in Southwark, in Hampshire. He is an English citizen. On March 16, 1880 James A. Allen died. His daughter Mary was born with an unknown condition, on April 20 and 21, 1880. His second son Charles Edward Augustine John Augustine Aloysius Aloysius is born after the death of his father. He was born in Dublin, Ireland on 3rd of February 1887. On 2nd May 1887 William M. Ehrlich died. His first son William Lydon is born in Caulfield, Ireland. He was born in Bristol, England on 8th March 1892.

Saturday, December 4, 2021

He Completed the First of Three Chapters of the Poem of the Same Name


 146 Years Ago Today

Saturday 4th of December 1875
Poet and writer Rainer Maria Rilke is born as René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke in Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia.
He is known professionally. As of 1688 he has produced over 100 book works for the publishers. Born to Henri Fichler Rainer Maria Rilke on 2nd of Dec 1675. The Count of Praha 1875. He completed the first of three chapters of the poem of the same name, The Count of Praha, written by Johann Josef Karl. He was born into the family of Hobert Johann Karl He was taken by the Count of Praha in 1764 and the Count of Praha fled for safety for the Austrian provinces of Rheinmetall and Sákse. He made his family's fortune in the trade, and during his adolescence attended university in Vienna, where he continued to hone his craft and education. During his early years in Vienna he taught his first lectures at a private school where he completed the fourth volume of German, which he completed in 1897. He was an enthusiastic student of science and was a distinguished academic before becoming a professor at the University of Exeter in 1803. Prior to that, he edited the weekly Sunday Bulletin of the Society of Biology and Science in Britain and received the B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in 1904

Monday, November 15, 2021

Her First Film Was The Faint Lingerie from the BBC, Starring Adrienne Baker


 89 Years Ago Today

Tuesday 15th of November 1932
Singer and actress Petula Sally Olwen Clark is born in Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom.
She is one of seven children. In 1931, she moved to England and became acquainted with the fashion world; her first film was The Faint Lingerie from the BBC, starring Adrienne Baker, and she was born in Edinburgh a month before the Olympics began in Paris. In 1936, she moved to London where she attended St John The Baptist and learned to write, where she later worked as an editor. Her greatest achievement was writing for The Observer in 1936 and for The Telegraph in 1937. From 1937, she began working in fashion magazines and became a fashion reporter for the magazine. During this period, she also worked for magazines including the BBC and BBC Radio 4. She was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1937 by the BBC. In 1968, she established the first fashion magazine, the St John the Baptist; she became a fashion editor, she has lived in Wales and England all her life and she is the co-author of several of the most popular British publications including The Saturday Evening Post and the Evening Standard. She has produced many successful television films including The Big Bang Theory, The Little Mermaid and A Day Without A Name.
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