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Bullock's Park

Bullock's Park was an estate in Bristol, England between College Green and Brandon Hill.


Alan Bullock

In 1952, Bullock published Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, the first comprehensive biography of Hitler, which he based on the transcripts of the Nuremberg Trials.

Alexandra Headland, Queensland

The headland was once known as Potts Point, named after overseer John Potts employed by William Pettigrew who lived on the land from the year 1880 to 1890, when it was used to transport timber between Cotton Tree and Mooloolah River by bullock.

Bullock County, Alabama

Living descendants of Colonel Bullock include prominent American cinema film actress, Sandra Bullock.

Bullock-Clifton House

In 1873, the Federal facade was removed along with the eastern portion of the house when the signature Italianate/Eastlake facade was built facing east towards the Bardstown Turnpike, which was by this time the focal point of the area.

Bullock's

In 1988, after an ugly takeover battle between Robert Campeau and Macy's for Federated, Bullock's and I. Magnin were sold by Campeau to Macy's as a consolation prize for one billion dollars, which plunged Macy's into debt.

Charles Bridgeman

As Royal Gardener, Bridgeman tended – and in many cases, redesigned – the royal gardens at Windsor, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, St. James's Park and Hyde Park.

Cutler's Park

Historic Florence, Nebraska was built on its site, making use of what had been left when it was abandoned.

It was apparently created in August 1846 and covered all around what is now the intersection of Mormon Bridge Road and Young Street in Omaha, Nebraska, though it appears to have been completely vacated by December 1846, before even Nebraska Territory came into existence.

Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

The Foundation is based at Daiwa Foundation Japan House, a Georgian town house designed by Decimus Burton overlooking Regent's Park in central London.

Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Walk

It goes between Kensington Gardens, Green Park, Hyde Park and St. James's Park in a figure-eight pattern, passing five sites that are associated with her life: Kensington Palace, Spencer House, Buckingham Palace, St. James's Palace, and Clarence House.

DJ Homicide

Bullock was inspired to start DJing after listening to radio station KDAY and was briefly a member of The Alkaholiks.

Eugene Bridges

His father, Otheneil Bridges, performed as a blues guitarist under the name "Hideaway Slim", and his mother was a relative of Anna Mae Bullock, better known as Tina Turner.

Faulkbourne

The church, which stands close to Faulkbourne Hall, the former residence of the Bullock family, is dedicated to Saint Germanus and was restored in 1886 by the Rev. Frederick Spurrell, with the assistance of the architect Sir Arthur Blomfield.

Florence School

The first school in the Florence-area was built in what was then called Cutler's Park by Mormon pioneers in the late 1840s.

George Pipgras

He was the umpire behind the plate in one of baseball's most dramatic wins ever: on September 30, 1945, at St. Louis' Sportsman's Park, when Hank Greenberg hit a ninth inning Grand Slam, after Pipgras suggested to Greenberg that the game should be called on account of darkness.

Herb Moford

On April 11, 1962, Moford was one of four New York Mets pitchers in the first game in franchise history, an 11–4 defeat against the St. Louis Cardinals at Sportsman's Park.

Horse Guards Road

To the west of the road is St. James's Park and to the east are various government buildings, including the Horse Guards building, the Old Admiralty Buildings, the Cabinet Office, Downing Street (the entrance to which is blocked by an iron gate), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and HM Treasury.

Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings

A second explosion occurred just over two hours later, when a bomb hidden underneath the bandstand in Regent's Park exploded during a performance of the music from Oliver! by the Royal Green Jackets band to a crowd of 120 people.

I Idolize You

After years with male frontmen backing his Kings of Rhythm band, Ike Turner had finally found success after Tina Turner (née Ann Bullock) recorded "A Fool in Love".

Jalila Jefferson-Bullock

Jalila Eshe Jefferson-Bullock (born 1975 in New Orleans, Louisiana) was a state representative in the Louisiana Legislature from 2004 to 2007, representing House District 91, which she won from Rosalind Peychaud in a general election after losing to Peychaud in an earlier special election.

James Pyke Thompson

In 1924 the land surrounding the family house in Canton, Cardiff was also presented to the city; it was renamed Thompson's Park.

John Bullock

On 4 September 1439, Bishop Bullock appended his seal to the contract between Joan Beaufort, Queen Dowager, and Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar, a contract that made Livingstone guardian of the boy king, James II of Scotland.

John Hornby

The pair barely survived and Critchell Bullock's diaries formed the basis of Malcolm Waldron's book Snow Man: John Hornby in the Barren Lands first published in 1931.

Langside

Langside is part of Glasgow City Council Ward 7 which also include the areas of Battlefield, King's Park and Mount Florida.

Lily Parr

The 2009 Lily Parr Exhibition Trophy took place at the Hub Regent's Park, London, as part of Camden LGBT History month again, on Sun 15th Feb after a meet the team event at the Black Cap on 14th Feb.

London Swans

They are now the only club truly based in Central London, with training and home games held at Regent's Park.

Maggie Sansone

The label features over fifty recordings of Celtic and contemporary acoustic music featuring twelve recording artists that include Al Petteway, Amy White, Bonnie Rideout, Robin Bullock, Karen Ashbrook, Paul Oorts, the City of Washington Pipe Band, Ensemble Galilei, Sue Richards, Hesperus Early Music Ensemble with Tina Chancey and more.

Mary Brown Bullock

The biggest structural achievement during Bullock's reign was the $36.5 million Science Center that includes a three-story length painting of Agnes Scott's actual DNA, along with state-of-the-art equipment in all the labs.

Meux baronets

The Meux Baronetcy, of Theobald's Park in the County of Hertford, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 30 September 1831 for Henry Meux, head of Meux's Brewery.

People's Park

Governor Ronald Reagan had been publicly critical of university administrators for tolerating student demonstrations at the Berkeley campus, and he had received enormous popular support for his 1966 gubernatorial campaign promise to crack down on what the public perceived as a generally lax attitude at California's public universities.

Queen's Park, Brighton

At the north-west corner is Pennant Lodge, once the home of Charles Freshfield.

Queen's Park, Glasgow

The park was acquired in 1857 and was designed by the world renowned Sir Joseph Paxton, also responsible for noted public parks in London, Liverpool, Birkenhead and the grounds of the Spa Buildings at Scarborough.

R.S. Allen

Allen and Bullock also created the TV series Rango, and wrote the screenplays for the feature films Girl Happy (starring Elvis Presley), The Man Called Flintstone (1966) and Don't Drink the Water (1969), among others.

Regent's Park tube station

Nearby points of interest are Regent's Park itself, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Physicians, Holy Trinity Church, Portland Place and Harley Street.

Saat Rang Ke Sapne

His vengeance is satisfied every year when he asks his employee and close friend, Mahipal (Arvind Swamy) to run a bullock-cart race, and defeat his sister's in-laws, and every year Mahipal wins.

Samuel Taylor Chadwick

He donated money to establish a natural history museum in the town's Queen's Park, which was the basis of the present Bolton Museum now relocated to the town centre.

Shawlands Academy

It is situated in Shawlands, the heart of Glasgow’s cosmopolitan South Side, between Pollok Park (and its world-famous Burrell Collection) and Queen's Park, named after Mary Queen of Scots who fought her final battle on Scottish soil at the Battle of Langside on 13 May 1568.

Sim's Park, Coonoor

The garden as some rare economic trees like Rudraksh- bead tree, Cinnamomum, Queensland karry pine, a handsome ornamental tree and graceful trees like Araucaria, Quercus, Phoenix, Magnolia, Pine, Turpentine, Tree ferns, Camellia this is all are as many attractions in this park.

Skanda Vale

In April 2007, there was controversy when the sacred bullock, Shambo, tested positive for bovine TB, and the government ruled that he must be destroyed.

St George's Park, Port Elizabeth

The complex also contains the Master Harold tearoom which was used as the setting for the apartheid era play "Master Harold"...and the Boys by Athol Fugard.

St. James's Park

Charles II opened the park to the public, as well as using the area to entertain guests and mistresses, such as Nell Gwyn.

Stark's Park

The park can clearly be seen from the railway line on the route between Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

Ted Tripp

Tripp moved to Melbourne in 1938 and on 30 July married Ruby May Bullock at Carlton.

Willow Globe Theatre

It is a scaled down version of the Globe Theatre in London, about a third of its size in diameter and similar to the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park in London.

Wingfield Bullock

Bullock was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – October 13, 1821).


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