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Beggar's Oil

Beggar's Oil was recorded at Long View Farms from Feb 6 - Feb 13, 2001 during the same sessions that produced Sky Like a Broken Clock.


Amelia Campbell

In 1992 she played roles in Single White Female, and Lorenzo's Oil She appeared in Ron Howard's film The Paper in 1994, where she played a teenage cub photographer named Robin.

Ashokavadana

The text also tells of Ashoka's son Kunala, who became a blind beggar due to a plot hatched by Ashoka's young queen Tisyaraksita.

Beggar Prince

Beggar Prince, originally known as Xin Qigai Wangzi (Chinese: 新乞丐王子, Hanyu Pinyin: Xīn Qǐgài Wángzǐ, Wade-Giles: Hsin Ch'i-kai Wang-tzu, literally The New The Prince and the Pauper) is a Chinese role-playing adventure game for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and PC.

Beggar's Chicken

Beggar's Chicken is a dish from Changshu, a city in China's Jiangsu province that is famous for its delicious taste.

Beggar's Holiday

An updated version of The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, it focuses on a corrupt world inhabited by rakish mobsters and their double crossing gangs, raffish madams and their dissolute whores, panhandlers and street people as they conduct their dirty business, ply their trade, and struggle to survive in brothels, shanty towns, and prisons.

In 2004, Dale Wasserman, one of the musical's producers and the author of Man of La Mancha, teamed with the Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley, California to create a revamped, updated, and radically rewritten version that toned down much of the original's social criticism and political humor.

Bone oil

Dippel's oil, a nitrogenous by-product of the dry distillation manufacture of bone char

Cecilia Chiang

Chuck Williams of Williams-Sonoma, who enjoyed the Mandarin's "beggar's chicken" dish (a whole stuffed chicken), introduced James Beard, who became a friend and learned about northern Chinese cuisine from Chiang.

Charles Coffey

His best known opera is probably The Beggar’s Wedding (1729), which capitalizes on the success of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728).

Clementine literature

In the island of Aradus, opposite the town, Peter finds a miserable beggar woman, who turns out to be Clement's mother.

Dance of the Drunk Mantis

The year after training a young Freddy Wong (Jackie Chan) in Drunken Boxing, Beggar So / Sam Seed returns to find that his wife has adopted a son Foggy.

Detective Inspector John Rebus

BBC Radio has also broadcast abridged readings of Ian Rankin's "Rebus" novels, including Let It Bleed read by Alexander Morton, Death Is Not the End read by Douglas Henshall and Beggar's Banquet read by James MacPherson.

Disciples II: Dark Prophecy

The first map of the Legions of the Damned campaign in "Servants of the Dark" is titled Beggar's Banquet, after the Rolling Stones album of the same name, the first album to feature the song "Sympathy for the Devil" - the Legions being the demonic race of the game.

Don't Make a Beggar of Me

"Don't Make a Beggar of Me" is a popular song recorded by Frank Sinatra on 2 April 1953, at his first recording session for Capitol Records, but not released until the CD reissue of his 1962 album, Point of No Return.

Douglas House, Petersham

After his death in 1725, Carlton's nephew, Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry inherited the house and, with his wife, Catherine "Kitty" Hyde, the couple played host to literary and artistic figures of the time including John Gay who is reputed to have written and rehearsed the Beggar's Opera in 1728 whilst at the riverside summerhouse in the grounds.

Escape from Hong Kong Island

However, it cultivated an arrogant and heartless sociopathic vain attitude in him: he even spat in a "blind" beggar's money pot (Tats Lau), and has neglected his family who were reduced to substandard impoverished living.

Foreign Reports

The firm had watched intensely how then Saudi Petroleum Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani had wrestled over new ways to price Saudi Arabia’s oil as he cruised the Mediterranean on his yacht during August 1985.

Goran Trenchovski

He is the author of director's notes From Beggar to King (1995), editor of the dramatic anthology Carnival Sighs (1998), the monograph Steps on the Star Planks (1999), Beckett 100 (2006) and translator of Jiří Menzel's texts Faith and Doubt (2000).

Harry Theyard

He began his career with the New Orleans Opera Association in secondary parts, including appearances in Salome (1949), Le nozze di Figaro (1956), Il trovatore (opposite Herva Nelli, 1958) and The Beggar's Opera (directed by Lillian Gish, 1958).

In paradisum

The melodic highpoint in this setting comes on the name of Lazarus, the poor beggar in Luke's Gospel.

In the Realm of Fancy

With Ao Gum united with Chur Wun, Lei Xuan proceeds to abandon the material realm for that of the immortals, during his ascent and farewell to Ao Gum it is revealed that the beggar is Lei Xuan and that Lei Xuan is Tieguai Li, Iron-Crutch Li of the Eight Immortals.

Kalács

In the Szeged region at All Saints unfilled kalács was baked called All Saints' Kalács (mindönszentök kalácsa, kóduskalács = Beggar's Kalács), which was given to beggars at the gate of the graveyard.

Kartika Affandi-Koberl

Following in the populist footsteps of Affandi, Kartika also has a long history of painting rural and dispossessed people such as fishermen, farmers, workers and beggars.

Laura Joyce Bell

On October 6, 1884 Bell was engaged at the Casino in a revival of, The Beggar Student, from the German, Der Bettelstudent, by Carl Millöcker.

Macho ya Mji

The comic, first published on 26 March 1998 by Sasa Sema Publications, stars two boys and a blind beggar in Nairobi.

Nutricia North America

The company also manufactures Lorenzo's Oil, the treatment for a rare neurological disease called adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) that was featured in the 1992 movie Lorenzo’s Oil with Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte.

Quest of the Delta Knights

The plot is markedly similar to that of Robert Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy, including its essentially identical setup of a young slave boy—who is really the lost heir of a powerful family—being bought for a pittance by a seeming beggar, who is himself really a spy, and who suspects the boy's true identity.

René Favaloro

Following his suicide, it was revealed that he had written a letter to Argentine President Fernando de la Rúa, that had never been read, in which he expressed being tired of "being a beggar in his own country," and asked for De la Rúa's help to raise money to help the Foundation.

Seefeel

Quique (Redux Edition) (Too Pure / Beggar's Banquet, 2007)

St Martin's College

The College is named after St Martin of Tours, a Roman soldier who tore his cloak in two to clothe a naked beggar and later had a vision of Christ wearing the cloak.

The Beggar Queen

The Beggar Queen (1984) is a fantasy novel by Lloyd Alexander, the concluding book of a series often called the Westmark trilogy.

The Beggar's Benison

The full title of the club is "The Most Ancient and Most Puissant Order of the Beggar's Benison and Merryland, Anstruther", where the word 'Merryland' is a euphemism for the female body - used often in contemporary erotic literature.

The Bishop's Heir

In 1985, The Bishop's Heir was ranked 26th in an annual poll of fantasy novels by Locus magazine readers, placing it between T. E. D. Klein's The Ceremonies and Lloyd Alexander's The Beggar Queen.

The Blind Beggar of Alexandria

A popular hit, Blind Beggar was staged 22 times through April 1597.

The Blind Beggar of Alexandria was hardly the first disguise play to appear on the Elizabethan stage; the anonymous The Knack to Know an Honest Man (1594), another Admiral's play, is one prior instance, and others can be noted.

They Live by Night

Many minor roles were played by actors and friends of Ray's from his time in the New York theater, including Marie Bryant from Beggar's Holiday (the nightclub singer), Curt Conway (the man in the tuxedo at the night club), and Will Lee (the jeweler).

Ulrich von Hutten

In 1508, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica reports him a shipwrecked beggar on the Pomeranian coast, while the New International Encyclopedia describes him as stricken down with the pestilence and recovering.

Wilson Harris

His most recent novels include Jonestown (1996), which tells of the mass-suicide of followers of cult leader Jim Jones, The Dark Jester (2001), his latest semi-autobiographical novel, The Mask of the Beggar (2003), and The Ghost of Memory (2006).


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