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Hugh Leonard

Three of Leonard's plays have been presented on Broadway: The Au Pair Man (1973), which starred Charles Durning and Julie Harris; Da (1978); and A Life (1980).


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Acacio Gabriel Viegas

After his death in 1933, a life-size statue of him was erected in the Cowasji Jehangir Hall opposite Metro Cinema on his birth centenary in 1956, by the Governor of Bombay Presidency, Harekrushna Mahtab, as a tribute to the services rendered to the city.

Adso of Montier-en-Der

His writings include hymns, lives of saints, among them a life of Saint Mansuetus, Bishop of Toul (485-509), a metrical rendering of the second book of the Dialogues of Pope Gregory I, and a tractate De Antichristo or in full Epistola Adsonis ad Gerbergam reginam de ortu et tempore antichristi in the form of a letter to Gerberga of Saxony, wife of Louis IV d'Outremer).

Al-Murtada Muhammad

He withdrew to a life of scholarship and contemplation and died in Sa'dah, the centre of Zaydiyya rule, in May 922.

All I Want Is a Life

"All I Want Is a Life" is a song written by Stan E. Munsey, Tony Mullins and Don Pfrimmer, and performed by American country music artist Tim McGraw.

Bernborough

He is commemorated in the township of Oakey with a life size bronze statue located outside the Jondaryan Council chambers.

Bindlestiffs

After being suspended for the rest of the week, Andrew calls up Luke and John and tells them of his plan to hit up the city, living a life similar to that of The Catcher in the Rye.

Boris Thomashefsky

In 2011 Shuler Hensley portrayed Boris Thomashefsky in The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater, a concert stage show celebrating the Thomashefskys and the music of American Yiddish theatre hosted by their grandson the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.

Charles Sanderson, Baron Sanderson of Bowden

He was created a life peer in June 1985 as Baron Sanderson of Bowden, of Melrose in the District of Ettrick and Lauderdale and speaks regularly in the House of Lords.

Coconut doughnut

Coconut doughnuts are not usually filled, but there is an unrelated coconut doughnut that uses a coconut cream filling (like a boston cream doughnut or jelly doughnuts), which Conan O'Brien reportedly had a "life-altering experience with" during a three-day visit to Toronto in 2004: "it blew my mind," O'Brien was quoted in the Toronto Star.

Colin Hoult

In the same year he appeared as a life coach in the BBC's Life's Too Short Easter Special starring Warwick Davies, written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

Constantine A. Balanis

Balanis is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of Sigma Xi, Electromagnetics Academy, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Phi Kappa Phi.

David E. Blackmer

Blackmer was a Life Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society from 1976.

Desmosome

It is a life threatening disease with the molecular underpinnings being the desmosomal constituents (in rank of highest mutation rates) Plakophilin2, Desmoplakin, Desmoglein2, Desmocollin2 and Plakoglobin.

Dick Doran

He served as a "life teacher" and devoted friend to young Chinese pianist Lang Lang, who studied with Gary Graffman at Curtis.

Dorothy Shakespear

Her mother Olivia Shakespear, born on the Isle of Wight, lived her early years in Sussex and later in London where she, with her sister Florence, was raised to live a life of leisure.

Frank Davey

He witnessed the 1965 Watts Riots from an apartment within the curfew zone, feeling more endangered, he indicates in 'Writing a Life' (99-100) and When TISH Happens (224), by the US National Guard than by the mostly black protesters.

Gabriele Oriali

Oriali is cited in the Luciano Ligabue song Una vita da mediano (A life as halfback), one of his most popular songs.

Genesis I

Bigelow also placed a life-sciences experiment on board, which contains four Madagascar hissing cockroaches (Gromphadorhina portentosa) and approximately 20 so-called Mexican jumping beans, which are seeds containing the live larva of the moth Cydia deshaisiana.

Goya: A Life in Song

Goya: A Life in Song is a musical theatre work with music and lyrics by American composer Maury Yeston originally released in 1989 as a concept album.

Gudhem Abbey

According to a popular legend, Gudhem Abbey was founded in 1052 by Gunnhildr Sveinsdóttir, Queen Dowager of Sweden and Denmark, who returned to a life of penitence in her estate in Västergötland in Sweden, after her marriage with king Svein II of Denmark was annulled by the Church.

Hieronymus Bock

He became the prince's physician and caretaker of the kitchen garden of the count palatine and in 1533 received a life-time position as a Lutheran minister in nearby Hornbach where he stayed up to his death in 1554.

Irina Zhurina

On this stage, she performed the leading opera parts composed for high soprano (lyrical coloratura soprano), such as Antonida (A Life for the Tsar), The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka), The Swan-Princess (The Tale of Tsar Saltan), Marfa (The Tsar's Bride), the Queen of Shemakha/Shemakhan Tsaritsa (The Golden Cockerel), Violetta (Verdi's La traviata) and Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia).

James Compton

He has also been Board President of the Chicago Public Library and the Chicago Board of Education, and is a Life Trustee of the Field Museum of Natural History.

Johno Johnson

Johnson has been awarded a life membership of the Labor Party, and a papal knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.

Jonathan Steinberg

He was co-editor of The Historical Journal, Cambridge University Press, from 1990 to 2000 and his biography Bismarck: A Life was published by Oxford University Press in early April, 2011.

Lautoka

Captain William Bligh spotted and roughly charted the coasts of Lautoka while making his epic voyage to Timor, in the wake of the Mutiny on the Bounty in which he and a few sailors loyal to him were thrown overboard and cast adrift on a life boat.

Leo Melamed

In 1940, the Japanese consul general to Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara, issued his family a life-saving transit visa, and they made the long trek across Siberia to safe haven in Japan.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Josyane Savigneau, Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life (1993).

Michael Weishan

Weishan's research in landscape design overlaps with a life-long love of architecture, architectural design and archaeology, and his first published work (1991) was as editor and co-contributor (along with noted Harvard archaeologist George M.A. Hanfmann) of The Byzantine Shops at Sardis, volume 9 of the Sardis Archaeological Series published by the Harvard University Press.

Mike Whitney

On 8 March 2009 Mike Whitney was inducted as a life member by the South Sydney Rabbitohs for his contribution in being a Director on the Football Club Board in the critical period during the Club’s battle for reinstatement to the competition between 1999 and 2001.

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

Sources used are Ibn Ishaq (references here are to Ferdinand Wüstenfeld’s edition of Sirat Rasul Allah, a life of the Prophet by Muhammad ibn Ishaq in the annotated recension of Ibn Hisham).

Nelson Adams

He was listed in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities while attending Howard University, and is a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, and a Life Scout of the Boy Scouts of America.

Niagara Scow

Since a rescue boat was out of the question, the Niagara Falls (Ontario) Fire Department tried using a grappling gun to shoot a life line out towards the barge, from atop the roof of the Toronto Power House while awaiting the arrival of the US Coast Guard from Youngstown, New York to bring a heavier grappling gun.

Pet Shop Boys: A Life in Pop

A Life In Pop is a 2006 documentary about English electronic dance music duo Pet Shop Boys.

Pete Dexter

He began writing fiction after a life-changing 1981 incident in which a mob of locals in the neighborhood of Schuylkill, armed with baseball bats and upset by a recent column about a drug deal-gone-wrong murder, beat the writer severely.

Phillip Jauregui

Since 2005, he has been a member of Prison Fellowship – Alabama Council, and serves on the Board of Directors with Sav-A-Life.

Robert DeMott

A lifelong fly fisherman, DeMott is an International Federation of Fly Fishers Certified Casting Instructor, a graduate of Western Rivers Professional Guide School, a member of both the American Museum of Fly Fishing and the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum, Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, Anglers' Club of New York,and a life member of Trout Unlimited.

Robert Frost: A Life

Robert Frost: A Life is a 2000 biography of the American poet Robert Frost written by Jay Parini.

Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti

His son, Ayman Sabawi Ibrahim, was also arrested by the US and was serving a life sentence until his escape from prison on 9 December 2006.

Saint Giovanni Battista de Rossi

Lady Elizabeth Herbert wrote a life of him in English.

Sheep on the Road

It is a life-size bronzes of six sheep and a shepherd, sculpted in 1991 by acclaimed Northern Irish sculptor, Deborah Brown.

Sor Marcela de San Félix

For many women of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and Baroque periods to live a life completely retired from the world implied that they could live a life not only fully committed to God, but it also meant that they were able to devote time to their own writing, to their community and perhaps they could even have a place in the administration of their own convents.

Stuart: A Life Backwards

Stuart: A Life Backwards is a biography by Alexander Masters of his friend Stuart Shorter, formerly, at various times, a prisoner and a career criminal.

Tarascosaurus

A life-size reconstruction of this dinosaur can be seen at Dinosauria, a dinosaur museum located in Espéraza, France.

Ted Rowlands, Baron Rowlands

He was appointed a CBE in 2002, and in June 2004 he was given a life peerage, as Baron Rowlands, of Merthyr Tydfil and of Rhymney in the County of Mid-Glamorgan.

Tony Hicks

Hicks also co-wrote songs with UK singer Kenny Lynch—for The Hollies, such as "What A Life I've Led", "Look What We've Got", "Promised Land", the US hit single "Long Dark Road" (all 1971) and "Blue in the Morning" (1972) and "Faded Images", recorded by Cilla Black on her 1971 album Images.

William Alexander, Lord Stirling

He dabbled in mining and agriculture and lived a life filled with the trappings befitting a Scottish Lord.

William Coxe

He also edited Gay's Fables, and wrote a Life of John Gay (Salisbury, 1797), Anecdotes of G. F. Handel and J. C. Smith (London, 1798), and a few other works of minor importance.

William of St-Thierry

On account of long infirmities and a lifelong desire for a life of contemplation, William resigned his abbacy in 1135 and entered the newly established Cistercian abbey at Signy, also in the diocese of Reims.