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Bard's blessing

If at any jovial meeting, any man retired, for however short a time, he was obliged, before he was permitted to resume his seat, to make an apology for his absence in rhyme.


A Run for Your Money

Meanwhile, Twm recognizes a familiar face: Huw Price (Hugh Griffith), a down-on-his-luck harpist and traditional Chief Singer with whom he had once won the grand prize at an important Welsh music festival.

Amos Elkana

At Bard he focused on electronic music and took lessons with Pauline Oliveros, David Behrman, Richard Teitelbaum, George Lewis, Maryanne Amacher, Larry Polansky and more.

Åpen Post

The show became one of Norway's most popular TV productions though it was the center of criticism due to controversial episodes such as Bård Tuft Johansens "Chicken stunt", involving the then Norwegian Labour Party leader Thorbjørn Jagland.

Archibald B. Darragh

Bard was born in La Salle Township, Michigan, and attended the common schools and a private academy in Monroe.

Arif Şirin

Arif Şirin, commonly known as Ozan Arif ("Arif the Bard") (10 June 1949 in Alucra district - ) is a Turkish lyricist, composer, singer, and bağlama performer, foremost known for his songs with lyrics propagating the Turkish nationalist cause.

Asik

Ashik, a mystic troubadour or traveling bard, in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, and Iran

Bambir

They soon morphed into their folk "bard rock" style, arranging pieces by Komitas and moving on to their own original material, changing their name to Bambir.

Bard

From its Romanticist usage, the notion of the bard as a minstrel with qualities of a priest, magician or seer also entered the fantasy genre in the 1960s to 1980s, for example as the "Bard" class in Dungeons & Dragons, Bard by Keith Taylor (1981), Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish by Morgan Llywelyn (1984), and in video games in fantasy settings such as The Bard's Tale (1985).

The legendary suicide of The Last Bard (c. 1283), was commemorated in the poem The Bards of Wales by the Hungarian poet János Arany in 1857, as a way of encoded resistance to the suppressive politics of his own time.

Bardsdale, California

He laid out the town with such street names as San Cayetano, Hueneme, Sespe, Santa Paula, Ventura, Owen, Ojai and Simi Streets, running from north to south, including Chambersburg Street, which was named for Thomas Bard's hometown of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Cannon–Bard theory

The main assertions of the Cannon–Bard theory are that emotional expression results from the function of hypothalamic structures, and emotional feeling results from stimulations of the dorsal thalamus.

Cerdd dafod

One of the earliest texts on the subject is credited to Einion Offeiriad (fl c.1320-c.1349) a bard considered to have been under the patronage of Rhys ap Gruffudd.

Ceridwen

The child did not die, but was rescued on a Welsh shore – near Aberdyfi according to most versions of the tale – by a prince named Elffin ap Gwyddno; the reborn infant grew to became the legendary bard Taliesin.

Culture of Somalia

Due to the Somali people's passionate love for and facility with poetry, Somalia has often been referred to as a "Nation of Poets" and a "Nation of Bards", as, for example, by the Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence.

Darrin Drader

He was also an avid video game player, and was influenced by games such as Pool of Radiance, Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar, and Bard's Tale.

David Bard

Bard was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1795 to March 3, 1799.

Dead Rabbits

Lyrics detailing the Dead Rabbits' battle with the Bowery Boys on July 4, 1857, were written by Henry Sherman Backus ("The Saugerties Bard") in Hoboken, NJ.

Declaration of Reasonable Doubt

The petition was presented to William Leahy of Brunel University by the actors Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance on 8 September 2007 in Chichester, England, after the final matinee of the play I Am Shakespeare on the topic of the bard's identity, featuring Rylance in the title role.

Edmund Falconer

Gambling on the Bard to turn a profit, he directed productions of Macbeth, As You Like It, Henry IV and Romeo and Juliet.

Elaine Cunningham

Amongst Elaine's most popular characters are the half-elf Arilyn Moonblade, the bard Danilo Thann, the quirky drow wizard Liriel Baenre, her companion the Rashemi berserker Fyodor, and Elaith "The Serpent" Craulnober (created by Ed Greenwood).

Emmanuel Dongala

Bard President Leon Botstein, who has aided a number of refugee professors, offered him a job teaching chemistry at the American college.

Harry Bard

Harry Erwin Bard (August 27, 1867 - July 13, 1955) was secretary of the Pan American Society of the United States.

Hovhannes Hakhverdyan

Hakhverdyan is the grandfather of famous Armenian bard Ruben Hakhverdyan.

Jim MacCool

Jim MacCool (born 1963) is a British dramatic poet in the shanachie or travelling bard tradition.

Jim Wearne

In spring 2002 at Castel Pendynas, Pendennis, Falmouth in Cornwall, Wearne was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd for services to Cornish Music in America (in Cornish: Rag gonys dhe Ylow Kernewek yn Ameryky) with the bardic name Canor Gwanethtyr - Singer of the Prairie.

Johnny Moynihan

Known as "The Bard of Dalymount", he was a co-founder of the band Sweeney's Men with Andy Irvine and 'Galway Joe' Dolan (who was later replaced by Terry Woods).

Lancieux

The Scottish poet and writer Robert W. Service known as the "Bard of the Yukon" used to spent summers in Lancieux from 1913 until his death in 1958.

Leslie Charleson

General Hospital (Dr. Monica Bard Webber Quartermaine #2 - August 17, 1977–present)

Martin Rolinski

Through Hansson, Rolinski got in touch with Bard, and Roliński subsequently became the lead singer of Bard's new band Bodies Without Organs together with Marina Schiptjenko and Bard himself.

My Old School

The same article speculates that a Bard professor's wife, Rikki Ducornet, was the inspiration for "Rikki Don't Lose That Number".

Ola Hansson

In 1906 Vilhelm Ekelund, a major poet of the next generation, published a paeanic poem hailing him as the like of Pindar, the bard of his province and a poetic forerunner.

Polymer Solution Casting

The history of these technologies dates back to many highly regarded names in the medical industry including Medtronic, BioMedicus, Bard, Terumo, Research Medical Inc., Shiley, Polaris Plastics, and Caplugs.

Prince Rhun

In The Castle of Llyr, Prince Rhun sets out on a journey with Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper, Fflewddur Fflam the Bard, and the creature Gurgi on a quest to protect the Princess Eilonwy from an unknown danger.

Przemysław Gintrowski

The title song of the programme, “Mury”, based on the song written by Catalan bard Lluis Llach L'Estaca - has become an informal anthem of "Solidarity" and the symbol of the fight against the regime.

Saint Hervé

His birthplace is stated as being Guimiliau (Gwimilio) (and sometimes as Wales), and his legend states that he was the son of a renowned bard named Hyvarnion, a former member of the court of Childebert I.

Sergey Kalugin

Due to this fact and good promotion (Kalugin and his songs from the Nigredo were featured on the Russian mainstream Radio of Russia, with its millions of listeners at the time) he became known among both Russian rock and bard audience.

A year later he released his first successful album Nigredo featuring flamboyant complex lyrics and music, the latter unusual for both Russian bard and acoustic rock as it had been before.

Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski

Stanisław Korab-Brzozowski (1876 - 1901 in Warsaw) Polish poet and translator, brother of a poet Wincenty Korab-Brzozowski and son of a romantic bard Karol Brzozowski.

Tanvir Mokammel

Achin Pakhi (The Unknown Bard): A documentary on the life and musicology of Fakir Lalon Shah, the doyen among the wandering sect of the folk-singers of rural Bengal known as the Bauls.

The Leveller

Members, who met for collective meetings initially in the Euston and Kings Cross areas of north London, and later in Brixton, included: Roger Andersen, Nick Anning, Julia Bard, Imogen Bloor, Dave Clark, Andy Curry, Brian Deer, Tim Gopsill, Cheryl Hicks, Terry Ilott, Phil Kelly, HO Nazareth, Mike Prest, Jane Root, Rose Shapiro, Russell Southwood, Dave Taylor, Adam Thompson, John Verner, Ian Walker.

The Lost String

It features performances of a range of Ribot's music and appearances by Anthony Coleman, Brad Jones, EJ Rodriguez, Los Cubanos Postizos, Catherine Janiaux, The Lounge Lizards, Shrek, Christine Bard, Ted Reichman, John Zorn, Ned Rothenberg, Sim Caine, Bruce Cox, Dave Hofstra and Arto Lindsay.

Theophilus Jones

He planned to write a history of Radnorshire which, however, never materialised; and he began a translation of Ellis Wynne's romance Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsg (Visions of the Sleeping Bard).

Thomas R. Bard

Thomas R. Bard and his brother, Dr. Cephas Little Bard, established the Elizabeth Bard Memorial Hospital in Ventura as a memorial to their mother.

War of the Ring

In Dale, both King Brand and King Dáin II Ironfoot were killed, and were succeeded by their sons Bard and Thorin III Stonehelm.

Yekaterina Gradova

In 1979 she played a small but significant role (Svetlana Volokushina) in the another Soviet blockbuster "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed" (starring another great Soviet film star and bard Vladimir Vysotsky).


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