A 1998 World Cup and 2000 European Championship winner with France, he is regarded as one of the most skilful and stylish midfielders to play the game.
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By creating significant amounts of turbulence, the most skilful bowlers have found that when an old ball deteriorates, they can make the rough side behave in the same way as the original shiny side, and make the ball swing in the opposite direction.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Crowds of light motorbikes gun their engines in parts of the Malaysian capital after dark, as their young riders face off in impromptu races to decide who is the fastest and most skilful, sometimes with dozens of vehicles pitted against each other.
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The most skilful weavers formed the upright supports of the basket, fixing them in their place by weaving the bottom part. Children wove the sides with pliable strips of fir or willow.
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Here is a player of unrivalled potential, one of the most skilful controllers of a ball in the game with the ability to outleap in the air rivals towering inches above him.
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Although he was neither the most skilful nor influential player, Dimas was however known for his stamina, work-rate and ability to chase down opponents as a full-back, as well as his commitment and ability to make attacking runs down the left flank.
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He also contributed the music to the radio programmes Bright and Early, Morning Music and On with the Bands. The Sextet was regarded by senior BBC producers as 'the best small group on radio, led by one of the most skilful accordionists in the country'.
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He played football and hurling for his club and county for many years and is generally regarded as one of the most skilful hurlers to have pulled on the Blue and White jersey of Laois. This was evidenced by his selection in 1999 on the Laois Hurling Team of the Millennium.
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Overall, in his four years at Swindon, Jenkins struggled to hold down a regular first-team place - despite being described by manager Danny Williams as the most skilful player at the club. He left the club in 1976 to play in America, having made a total of 114 appearances with 5 goals.
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He was suddenly visited by genius. Moreover he > sucked the sweet blood of vengeance against Hammond. A lovely ball lured > Hammond forward, broke at the critical length, evaded the bat and bowled > England's pivot and main hope ... This achievement set a crown on the most > skilful artistic spin bowler of the day.Growden, p 122.
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Coulthard-Clark, The Third Brother, p. 404 Regarded as one of the RAAF's most skilful cross-country pilots and navigators, Eaton came to public attention as leader of three military expeditions to find lost aircraft in Central Australia between 1929 and 1931.Coulthard-Clark, The Third Brother, pp. 297–303Lax, 100 Years of Aviation, p.
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He aimed to present an optimistic view through the heroes of his stories. He never changed his simple expositional style and thus became one of the most skilful names of Turkish stories and novels. He also wrote film scripts and plays including İspinozlar and Kardeş Payı. Dramatisations have been made of his novels and stories including Murtaza, Eskici Dükkanı.
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The Illyrians were notorious sailors in the ancient world. They were great ship builders and seafarers. The most skilful Illyrian sailors were the Liburnians, Japodes, Delmatae and Ardiaei. The greatest navy was built by Agron in the 3rd century BC. The Illyrian tactics consisted of lashing their galleys together in groups of four and inviting a broadside attack from a ram.
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But if it looked better, more people would want to play it." He praised the gameplay as "it does the job it sets out to do very well." but said the game only had "specialist appeal." VideoGamer.com's Tom Orry praised The Club as "a game packed full of style, brimming with replay value and demanding of the most skilful players around.
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On 21 October 1997 Keating was appointed manager of the Offaly senior hurling team. Offaly, unlike Laois, had enjoyed much success in the recent past. They had won the All-Ireland title in 1994 and were generally regarded as one of the most skilful groups of hurlers in the country. Unfortunately, the team also earned a reputation for being lazy when it came to training.
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The most famous translation of this poem is by Gertrude Lothian Bell, which was published in her anthology Poems from the Divan of Hafiz (1897). E. G. Browne wrote of her translations: "(They) must be reckoned as the most skilful attempt to render accessible to English readers the works of this poet."Browne, E. G. A Literary History of Persia, vol. 3, p. 273.
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Walker rarely missed matches. He incurred a remarkably low number of bookings during the first 10 years of his career, despite often dispossessing opponents with sliding challenges from all directions. While not being the tallest centre- back he could leap to beat the tallest forwards in the air, and his pace meant even the quickest and most skilful forwards very rarely got any change from him.
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Hughes concludes his chapter on Sullivan's orchestration: "[I]n this vitally important sector of the composer's art he deserves to rank as a master."Hughes, p. 118 Sullivan was a competent player of at least four orchestral instruments (flute, clarinet, trumpet and trombone) and technically a most skilful orchestrator. Though sometimes inclined to indulge in grandiosity when writing for a full symphony orchestra, he was adept in using smaller forces to the maximum effect.
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Sake Sommelier of the Year is an annual competition jointly organised by the Sake Sommelier Association. Held in London it is the first of its kind to be held outside Japan. The competition aims to find the most skilful Sake Sommeliers bringing them to the attention of their customers and raising the profile of their establishments. More than 50 sommeliers from Europe, Asia and the Middle East entered the first competition in 2013.
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Sake Sommelier of the Year World's best is an annual competition jointly organised by the Sake Sommelier Association. Held in London and around the world it is the first of its kind to be held outside Japan. The competition aims to find the most skilful Sake Sommeliers bringing them to the attention of their customers and raising the profile of their establishments. More than 50 sommeliers from Europe, Asia and the Middle East entered the first competition in 2013.
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Interpreting the names Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai in a Baraita taught that Ahiman was the most skilful of the brothers, Sheshai turned the ground on which he stepped into pits, and Talmai turned the ground into ridges when he walked. It was also taught that Ahiman built Anath, Sheshai built Alush, and Talmai built Talbush. They were called "the children of Anak" (the giant) because they seemed so tall that they would reach the sun.Babylonian Talmud Yoma 10a.
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Although scoring on his debut against Cliftonville F.C. he was unhappy about leaving the Brandywell behind and would later describe it as the "low point" of his career. He lasted just six months at the Oval, picking up an Irish Cup medal, before being allowed to leave. Glens' manager Tommy Cassidy put it like this, "(Coyle) is one of the most skilful Irish players in history, but he had to go – he was missing training and other players were taking note".
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In September 1967, Green was signed for Fourth Division Port Vale by Stanley Matthews, who Green had admired from childhood and alongside whom he had played towards the end of Matthews' playing career with Blackpool. He made a 'superb' start to his Vale career, and was seen as one of the club's most skilful players. However, he soon lost his first team place, and made just eleven appearances in 1967–68. Green then spent May to October 1968 with Vancouver Royals.
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England FA XI captain Tom Finney scored four and Bobby Brown scored two in an 8–0 thumping in front of 8000 spectators. Polyanszky then played for Hungaria, before playing in New Caledonia, then to St George-Budapest of Sydney, Australia. He returned to New Zealand in 1966 after Wellington club Petone FC paid an £80 transfer fee to St. George. Lotsy Polyanszky is often described as one of the most skilful ball players ever to play in New Zealand.
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Dissatisfied with the speed of the operation because "these would be the yard-arm men, the most skilful topmen" he gave the order that the last men off the yard would be flogged. Three young sailors, in their haste to get down, fell to their deaths on the deck, one of whom hit and injured the master Southcott. Pigot ordered their bodies thrown into the sea with the words "throw the lubbers overboard". "Lubbers" meant "awkward fools" and was a serious insult in the seaman's vocabulary.
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13 In that innings Townsend also took a brilliant running catch to dismiss the tenth man. Although on the hard pitches which ensued in late June and July his bowling was largely harmless, Townsend's skill as a batsman reached far beyond that of previous years and he hit five centuries, including four in six innings. The highest and most skilful was 159 against Lancashire on a wicket where Arthur Mold’s fast bowling kicked up dangerously.Pardon, Sydney H. (editor); John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack;36th edition (1899), p.
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One of the most skilful navigators in Australia, he was the first South Australian born seafarer to be awarded an extra masters certificate. After resigning from the pilot service in 1906, he rejoined the Adelaide Steamship Company, which sent him to England to bring out the in 1907 and the in early 1908. Following a voyage to Valparaíso in Echunga, he commanded many of the company's coastal steamers, including , Bullarra and Winfield. During his career as master and pilot, he had experienced no mishaps prior to Koombanas disappearance.
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They cleared up a number of discrepancies in the secondary spectrum of hydrogen which were shown to be due to the hydrogen molecule, and they also showed the profound influence that traces of impurities can exert on gas spectra. In 1923 Merton left Oxford to live at Winforton House in Herefordshire, the estate he had acquired with 3 miles of salmon fishing on the Wye. He was a good shot and a most skilful fisherman. He transferred his laboratory to Winforton, so that he was able to combine a sporting life with his scientific research.
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His contemporary, César Franck became better known as a composer, but was not as highly regarded as an organist. Adolphe Adam commented, "Lefébure-Wely is the most skilful artist I know"; Camille Saint-Saëns, Lefébure-Wely's successor at the Madeleine, observed, "Lefébure-Wely was a wonderful improviser … but he left only a few unimportant compositions for the organ."Ochse, pp. 49 and 51 He was the dedicatee of the "12 études pour les pieds seulement" (12 Studies for organ pedals alone) by Charles-Valentin Alkan and of the "Final en si bémol" for organ, op.
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While airborne, the group intercepted a party of four German triplanes. Closing in for an attack, Cowper managed to destroy one of the machines, while the remaining three were shot down by the other men in his patrol. Heading back to base, Cowper spotted a Pfalz D.III scout and "shepherding it by the most skilful piloting west of the lines" forced the aircraft to land, undamaged, at a British aerodrome. Thus during the period of 18 February to 6 March, he had been credited with shooting down six hostile aircraft, bringing his tally to nine.
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On 20 September 1797, he ordered the topsails to be reefed after a squall struck the ship. Dissatisfied with the speed of the operation because "these would be the yard- arm men, the most skilful topmen" he gave the order that the last men off the yard would be flogged. This policy was particularly unreasonable as the men would be spaced along the yard, and the two whose stations were furthest out would always be the last down. Three young sailors, in their haste to get down, fell to their deaths on the deck.
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Neville Cardus wrote in the 1955 Wisden: > Yet at his deadliest Barnes met a worthy opponent in H. W. Taylor, who > played with ease and assurance in each Test match...how possibly could any > mortal batsman be subjected to a severer ordeal—Barnes on matting, with > wickets falling at the other end all the time? H. W. Taylor must be counted > one of the six greatest batsmen of the post-Grace period. Cardus also wrote that Taylor's performance was "perhaps the most skilful of all Test performances by a batsman".
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After receiving some encouragement, Couté decided at the age of 18 in 1898 to go to Paris. After several lean yeans, he found some success in cabarets. He also collaborated with Théodore Botrel for the journal La Bonne Chanson. Singer and poet Jehan Rictus, who based his poems on the use of slang, was aware of Couté's talent and said of him, "Georges Oble and me, we were undoubtedly in the presence of a teenager of genius who, to his extraordinary gifts, already combined a most skilful technique and in-depth knowledge of the profession".
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Vaswani, of Indian origin, began playing cards from the age of 9, and at the age of 12, he organised a low- stakes poker game with friends on a trip to Wales. Their teacher stopped them playing, so they ended up playing for sweets instead. Vaswani has long considered seven-card stud to be the most skilful poker variant, and built up his early poker knowledge playing the £100 game at the Victoria Casino on Edgware Road. Vaswani met Joe Beevers in Luton when placing bets on dog racing and they later set up a private poker game together.
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Ronaldo is regarded as one of the greatest and most complete forwards of all time. Dubbed Il (or O) Fenomeno (the phenomenon), he was a prolific goalscorer, and despite being more of an individualistic attacker, he was also capable of providing assists for his teammates, due to his vision, passing and crossing ability. He was an extremely powerful, fast, and technical player, with excellent movement, as well as being a composed finisher. Highly regarded for his technical ability, Ronaldo was able to use both feet, despite being naturally right footed, and is considered one of the most skilful dribblers in the game.
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" In 2010, his former Barcelona teammate, Edgar Davids, said of him: "For the skills and tricks, Ronaldinho was the best player that I ever played with." Another one of his former Barcelona teammate, Henrik Larsson, echoed this view. His compatriot Willian rated him as the greatest player of all time in 2019, while Juninho described him as the most skilful player he had ever seen. In 2019, FourFourTwo described him as "possibly the best technician in the history of football in Brazil," placing him at number five in their list of "The 101 greatest football players of the last 25 years.
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An early choice for the party was Olav Bjaaland, a champion skier who was a skilled carpenter and ski-maker. Bjaaland was from Morgedal in the Telemark province of Norway, a region renowned for the prowess of its skiers and as the home of the pioneer of modern techniques, Sondre Norheim. Amundsen shared Nansen's belief that skis and sledge dogs provided by far the most efficient method of Arctic transport, and was determined to recruit the most skilful dog drivers. Helmer Hanssen, who had proved his worth on the Gjøa expedition, agreed to travel with Amundsen again.
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In 2001, Obodo played for the Flying Eagles coached by Stephen Keshi at the African Youth Championship in Ethiopia. Though the team crashed out of the tournament with just one point from 3 games, Obodo showed a lot of promise in a team that had other players such as Bartholomew Ogbeche and Christopher Justice. Obodo is regarded by many as one of the most skilful and talented midfielders to play for the Super Eagles since the 1994 era. Little wonder, a sports radio personality and media mogul – noted for nicknaming Nigerian footballers – describes him as bundle of skills, a phrase which later stuck and is now synonymous with Obodo's skilfulness.
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Maradona (pictured dribbling with the ball against Belgium in 1986) had excellent close ball control and would often go on runs taking on the opposition. Described as a "classic number 10" in the media, Maradona was a traditional playmaker who usually played in a free role, either as an attacking midfielder behind the forwards, or as a second striker in a front–two, although he was also deployed as an offensive–minded central midfielder in a 4–4–2 formation on occasion. Maradona was renowned for his dribbling ability, vision, close ball control, passing and creativity, and is considered one of the most skilful players in the sport.David Patrick Houghton (2008).
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The account of this expedition is also mentioned by Irenaeus. After the war, when Moses sought to return to Egypt – Tharbis is said to have resisted and insisted that he remain in Ethiopia as her husband. He then, being "most skilful in astronomy", cast two rings; one which caused the wearer to become forgetful, and the other to cause the wearer to remember all. He gave the first ring to Tharbis, and wore the second himself, and waited for her oblivious nature to lose interest in retaining him as a husband – and when she had forgotten her love for him, he returned to Egypt alone.
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However, the series became memorable for Herbie Taylor's exceptional batting, who heralded his arrival as a new colossus in the world game, scoring a phenomenal 508 runs at an average of 50.80 against a terrific Sydney Barnes at his prime, who had claimed a record 49 wickets during the series at just 10.93. The cricket historian H.S. Altham wrote: "The English cricketers were unanimous that finer batting than his against Barnes at his best they never hoped to see." Neville Cardus noted it was "perhaps the most skilful of all Test performances by a batsman." It also led Cardus to count Taylor as "one of the six greatest batsmen of the post-Grace period".
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Bushfires were a devastating risk in her township of Warrandyte, and she contributed to the Artists' Bushfire Relief Fund Exhibition. Unfortunately some time after she passed her beloved cottage 'Blythe Bank' was lost to bushfires. > Miss Clara Southern (Mrs J. Flinn) is a sweet and original singer of the > Australian bush in colour, which, by the most skilful use of her pigments, > she realises in all its beauty and charm, its majestic silences, its > harmonies, and those mysterious distances we all know and feel when in its > midst. We can almost hear the wind sighing and sobbing through her trees and > that furtive movement of life beneath the beautiful undergrowth that > trembles in her foregrounds.
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David Wedderburn Gibson (born 23 September 1938 in Kirkliston, West Lothian) is a former Scottish footballer, who played for Livingston United, Hibernian, Leicester City, Aston Villa, Exeter City and the Scotland national team. Considered to be one of the finest and most skilful players in Leicester's history, he was the playmaker and creative force of the great Foxes side of the 1960s under Matt Gillies, including the "Ice Kings" side that fell just short of winning the 'double' in 1962–63. He scored in both legs of Leicester's 1964 League Cup final victory and also played in a further three cup finals for the club.Leicester City legend David Gibson would love to be playing today thisisleicestershire.
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Baldry received a bottle of champagne for winning the Golden Boot Award and was also said to be the most skilful, entertaining player in the tournament. On 19 July 2010, Baldry was named one of a number of former Huddersfield players selected to take part in a Huddersfield Town charity game. The match was played against a David Brown 11 and took place at Warrenside, the home of Huddersfield-based amateur club Yorkshire Lions FC. The charity involved was the Hollybank Trust, which is a company dedicated to helping people with learning difficulties and donating money to orphaned children. The charity also supports specialist schools, residential homes and provides medical treatment to patients alongside the National Health Service.
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He said: "This book changed my life ... and made a raving mystery fan (and therefore ultimately a mystery writer) out of me. ... The book must be 'one of the most skilful pastiches in the history of literature. An amazing piece of work, whomever did it'." Disliking arguments with Campbell over editorial decisions, after 1950 Sturgeon only published one story in Astounding. Sturgeon wrote the screenplays for the Star Trek episodes "Shore Leave" (1966) and "Amok Time" (1967, written up and published as a Bantam Books "Star Trek Fotonovel" in 1978). The latter featured the first appearance of pon farr, the Vulcan mating ritual, the sentence "Live long and prosper"Nimoy (1995), p. 67.
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According to American historian John Lothrop Motley and others, the siege of Ostend became progressively known as a 'great academy' in which the science and the art of war taught by the most skilful practitioners to all of Europe.Motley pp 63 – 64 Many names were given to the siege by pamphlets such as Military school of Europe, War College and the New Troy. Distinguished families in Europe flocked to the inside and outside of Ostend. Many from Scotland and France as well as England and Holland went to learn of the art of war under Francis Vere whom they considered a distinguished veteran, despite the act that he was considerably annoyed by all the attention.
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According to Levine, the game used to have martial associations, and tested prowess: :"The ultimate goal of yubi lakpi... is to present the coconut to the King, or the head of the tribe (as in the original game of buzkashi, where the goat was offered to the King after the match). In modern times, a 'King' is selected to receive the offering. :"For this reason, it is a game of individuals where each player is vying to win the coconut and get the reward. In the original games, the King would watch the players to see who was the most skilful, and possessed qualities for the battlefield (as with mukna kanjei [a Manipuri game similar to hockey] and polo) Each player therefore wishes to impress.
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V. Sundramoorthy is a former Singapore international footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s, and is widely touted as one of the country's most skilful and talented footballers ever. He is the current football manager for Laos. He coached the LionsXII, a Singapore-based team playing in the Malaysia Super League, and held a dual appointment as the head coach of the Under-23 team from 2011 to 2013 when he announced his plans to sign with the Malaysian Premier League team, Negeri Sembilan. After coaching Negeri Sembilan for half a season in 2014, he returned to Singapore to take the helm at Tampines Rovers for almost 2 years, then a 2-year stint as head coach of Singapore.
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The former had already been written when the Academy of Bordeaux proposed the cause of the tides as the subject of a prize essay. He submitted an extract which was deemed worthy of the prize and his success led him to publish the entire work at Paris, 1726. This treatise, based as it is upon the supposed rotation of the earth about the moon, is of interest only from an historical point of view, as a contribution to the solution of a problem which has engaged the attention of the most skilful analysts since the time of Newton. The "Traité général des horloges", Paris, 1734, as its name indicates, is a general treatise on the history and the art of constructing time-pieces.
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In the summer of 1882, after a season in which The Wednesday reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup, the cricket and football teams split permanently, and by the end of 1925 the cricket team had disbanded. In the 1880s Wednesday became a permanent fixture in the FA Cup as they attempted to move away from local competitions, however in the 1886–87 season Wednesday did not meet the deadline for entry and a revolt by several of their most skilful players followed. Several players, all involved in the earlier Zulus controversy, temporarily left the club to play for a local works team which had managed to submit its entry on time. Later in the season the same players threatened to walk out permanently and set up a professional club called Sheffield Rovers.
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One person who took particular note of the children was the German diplomat Friedrich Melchior von Grimm, whose journal records Wolfgang's feats in glowing terms: "the most consummate Kapellmeister could not be more profound in the science of harmony and modulation". Leopold's own assessment, written a few months later, was similarly effusive: "My little girl, although only 12 years old, is one of the most skilful players in Europe and, in a word, my boy knows more in his eighth year than one would expect for a man of forty".Kenyon, p. 56Zaslaw, pp. 28-29 On 24 December the family moved to Versailles for two weeks during which, through a court connection, they were able to attend a royal dinner, where Wolfgang was reportedly allowed to kiss the hand of the Queen.
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219 Six other priests stood trial with him. The prisoners (like all those accused of treason until 1695) were not allowed the benefit of legal counsel, and indeed the most skilful advocate would have been of little avail before judges who were determined to presume everything against rather than for the accused. Sir John Kelynge and Mr. Serjeant Stroke prosecuted. The princpal prosecution witnesses were Oates, Bedloe, Thomas Dangerfield, and Miles Prance. Dangerfield, who was a notorious thief and confidence trickster, and well known to be such by Scroggs and his fellow judges, thus proved Anderson to be a priest: ‘My lord, about the latter end of May of beginning of June, when I was a prisoner for debt in the King's Bench Prison, this person took occasion to speak privately to me, and desired me to go into his room.
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Ekarius p. 152 These writings, along with Darwin's correspondence via their mutual friend William Yarrell, aided Darwin in the inception of Darwin's theory of natural selection. Darwin's seminal work On the Origin of Species, first published in 1859, cited Sir John's experiments in pigeon breeding, and recalled "That most skilful breeder, Sir John Sebright, used to say, with respect to pigeons, that 'he would produce any given feather in three years, but it would take him six years to obtain head and beak.'" Darwin also cited Sir John extensively regarding the Sebright bantam, as well as pigeon and dog breeding, in his 1868 work Variation of Plants and Animals Under Domestication, his 1871 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, and his book on Natural Selection (which was not published in his lifetime).
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The brainchild of Aston Villa's William McGregor, the competition became known as The Football League. Sudell himself suggested the name "Football League", as an alternative to McGregor's suggestion, "Association Football Union".Inglis, League Football and the Men Who Made It, p9 Plans to create the competition had been ongoing for a period of months without Preston's involvement, but as the most skilful team McGregor was keen to interest them.Inglis, League Football and the Men Who Made It, p6 Once involved, Sudell was eager for the embryonic League to assert primacy in relation to other competitions, joining with J. J. Bentley to propose that "The clubs forming the League shall support each other and bind themselves to carry out in the strictest sense the arrangements for matches between them, and not allow them to be cancelled on account of any cup competition or other matches".
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Language in Modern Literature was reviewed widely and received mixed assessments in various academic journals. While most acknowledged that Korg's book was useful, certain reviewers found his analysis too repetitive and simplistic. Victor Sage, writing in the Journal of Beckett Studies, pointed out that Korg limited his argument to a few writers and critics throughout the book, and this gave the text a repetitive quality. Sage complained about "the deliberate limitation and re-use of material, and went on to note that "a curious, nagging expectation, not to be removed by the most skilful writing, arises in the reader's mind at about the half-way stage, that the same names are going to crop up again and again in new permutations, for Professor Korg has tended to compound his method by using his critics over and over again in a similar fashion to his authors.
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In Hall's obituary in the Birmingham Post, he is remembered as "one of [Birmingham City's] most skilful and popular players … who harnessed a keen intelligence to natural footballing ability to make a mark of considerable distinction on the game", adding that "his style of play, which tried to ensure any defensive move was turned smoothly and quickly to attack, and his demeanour on and off the field were classic examples to young devotees of the game". Meanwhile, The Daily Telegraph remarked that Hall "met the physical challenge on the field without flinching and with a fair tackle. Few defenders ever mastered the handicap of lack of height so competently". In 1956, The Sunday Times paid tribute to a Birmingham City defence termed "superb" and opined "clearly if [Gil] Merrick is an emperor among goalkeepers, then Hall and [Ken] Green, Birmingham's backs … are very worthy paladins".
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So great was his intellectual authority and his fame as a teacher that he was the subject of a popular quip: "Pragam videre, Arriagam audire"—"To see Prague, to hear Arriaga".. His name has now become very obscure; but it still maintains a place in the history of philosophy. Among the abortive attempts which were made in the course of the seventeenth century, principally by the religious orders in Spain, to resuscitate the philosophy of the schoolmen, the Cursus Philosophicus of Arriaga, scholastic alike in contents, in arrangement, and in form, was one of the most skilful. Even a cursory inspection of the work shows its author to have been a man of great acuteness and subtlety, and of praiseworthy candour. The position which he occupies in the annals of speculative philosophy has been indicated by Morhof and Bayle, whose view is adopted by Brucker, and is fully supported by the tenor of Arriaga's writings.
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2011 and survives with a lengthy Latin inscription recording Schaw's intellectual skills and achievements.RCAHMS Inventory Fife: David Stevenson, Origins of Freemasonry (1988) The tomb inscription remains the most valuable source of biographic information, and was composed by Alexander Seton, translated it reads: > This humble structure of stones covers a man of excellent skill, notable > probity, singular integrity of life, adorned with the greatest of virtues – > William Schaw, Master of the King's Works, President of the Sacred > Ceremonies, and the Queen's Chamberlain. He died 18th April, 1602. Among the > living he dwelt fifty-two years; he had travelled in France and many other > Kingdoms, for the improvement of his mind; he wanted no liberal training; > was most skilful in architecture; was early recommended to great persons for > the singular gifts of his mind; and was not only unwearied and indefatigable > in labours and business, but constantly active and vigorous, and was most > dear to every good man who knew him.
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Armed Constabulary ambushed by Titokowaru's forces at Te Ngutu o Te Manu War flared again in Taranaki in June 1868 as Riwha Titokowaru, chief of the Ngāti Ruanui's Ngaruahine hapu (sub-tribe), responded to the continued surveying and settlement of confiscated land with well-planned and effective attacks on settlers and government troops in an effort to block the occupation of Māori land. Coinciding with a violent raid on a European settlement on the East Coast by Te Kooti, the attacks shattered what European colonists regarded as a new era of peace and prosperity, creating fears of a "general uprising of hostile Māoris"..David Morris, Speaker of the House of Representatives, March 1869, as cited by Belich. Titokowaru, who had fought in the Second Taranaki War, was the most skilful West Coast Māori warrior. He also assumed the roles of a priest and prophet of the extremist Hauhau movement of the Pai Mārire religion, reviving ancient rites of cannibalism and propitiation of Māori gods with the human heart torn from the first slain in a battle.
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Ari Mikkola returned up front for the League season before Warren signed a man who would be many people's nomination for the most skilful player to play for an Altrincham team, Oleg Sinkov, Gavrilenko having been released a few weeks earlier. Sinkov and former Fife Flyers netminder, Colin Downie, made their debuts as Sinkov announced himself with five goals against Blackburn and the Metros only lost two more League games in the season, clinching a playoff place with an 8-1 away victory in the last League game at Blackburn (Sinkov scoring six). The outcome of the promotion playoffs would always be down to the two games against Solihull and after a narrow 11-9 home victory, Metros were very much the underdogs for the away return against Chartrand, Chabot, Pound & Co. We then witnessed what was undoubtedly Metros’ finest hour as they took the Barons apart winning 14-3 (Paul Broadhurst top scoring with four) to secure promotion in style. The Metros’ Lada sponsorship and a new arena being built in Manchester were symptomatic of a boom time in British ice hockey.
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Loades 1996 p. 17 At the same time Edmund Dudley's attainder was lifted and John Dudley was restored "in name and blood". The King was hoping for the good services "which the said John Dudley is likely to do".Loades 1996 p. 18 At about age 15 John Dudley probably went with his guardian to the Pale of Calais to serve there for the next years.Loades 1996 p. 20 He took part in Cardinal Wolsey's diplomatic voyages of 1521 and 1527, and was knighted by Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, during his first major military experience, the 1523 invasion of France.Loades 1996 pp. 20–22, 24–25 In 1524 Dudley became a Knight of the Body,Loades 1996 p. 22 and from 1534 he was responsible for the King's body armour as Master of the Tower Armoury.Ives 2009 p. 99 Being "the most skilful of his generation, both on foot and on horseback", he excelled in wrestling, archery, and the tournaments of the royal court, as a French report stated as late as 1546.
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It is possible to look through the history of biology from the ancient Greeks onwards and discover anticipations of almost all of Charles Darwin's key ideas. As an example, Loren Eiseley has found isolated passages written by Buffon suggesting he was almost ready to piece together a theory of natural selection, but states that such anticipations should not be taken out of the full context of the writings or of cultural values of the time which made Darwinian ideas of evolution unthinkable. When Darwin was developing his theory, he investigated selective breeding and was impressed by Sebright's observation that "A severe winter, or a scarcity of food, by destroying the weak and the unhealthy, has all the good effects of the most skilful selection" so that "the weak and the unhealthy do not live to propagate their infirmities." Darwin was influenced by Charles Lyell's ideas of environmental change causing ecological shifts, leading to what Augustin de Candolle had called a war between competing plant species, competition well described by the botanist William Herbert.
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