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Biafran airlift

Elechi Amadi: Sunset in Biafra: A Civil War Diary (Heinemann, African Writers Series, London, 1973).

Boyd Oxlade

The book was published by William Heinemann Australia in 1987, and the 1991 film adaptation—which Oxlade co-wrote with the film's director, John Ruane, and which starred Sam Neill, Zoe Carides and John Clarke—became a cult hit.

Butterworth, Penang

Today, Butterworth is a town suffering from decentralization with administrative and commercial centres shifted to nearby suburbs such as Seberang Jaya, Prai and Kepala Batas.

The town with a low-lying area close to sea level is bordered by Prai in the south, Seberang Jaya in the east, both are separated by the Prai River, and Telok Air Tawar in the north.

Christmas With the Joker

Christmas With the Joker is the thirty-eighth episode of the first season of the American animated television series Batman: The Animated Series, first aired on November 13, 1992, written by Eddie Gorodetsky, and directed by Kent Butterworth.

Cyril Wilkinson

During his time as Registrar of the Probate and Divorce Registry, he was joint editor of the Seventh Edition of William Rayden's Practice and law in the Divorce Division of the High Court of Justice and on appeal therefrom, published in 1958 by Butterworth.

D. Reidel

Aka itself was co-founded by Walter Jalowicz (who changed his name to Johnson and later worked for Academic Press in New York) and his son-in-law K. Jacoby, together with the physicist (and spy) Paul Rosbaud (later of Butterworth), and chemist E. Proskauer (later vice-president of John Wiley & Sons).

Donna Butterworth

Donna Butterworth (born February 23, 1956) is an American motion picture performer who acted in The Family Jewels with Jerry Lewis and Paradise, Hawaiian Style with Elvis Presley, as well as a television movie, A Boy Called Nuthin' with Ron Howard.

Edwin Butterworth Mains

Edwin Butterworth Mains (1890 - 1968) was an American mycologist.

Erhard Eppler

Eppler joined Heinemann's new party, the All-German People's Party (Gesamtdeutsche Volkspartei - GVP), in 1952, but like most members of the GVP, including Heinemann, he changed over to the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1956 after the GVP only attracted small numbers of voters in elections.

Eugene Trivizas

His first book for children published in the English language was The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury and published by Heinemann in 1993.

Federation Regiment

In 1954 and 1955, 1 Bn Federation Regiment under the command of Lt. Col. Trevor, OBE, had one confirmed kill in Sungai Bong, Butterworth by 8 Platoon, C Company.

Geormbeeyi Adali-Mortty

(ed. with Kofi Awoonor) Messages: Poems from Ghana, Heinemann, 1971.

German destroyer Z8 Bruno Heinemann

Bruno Heinemann had been fitted with four of the new weapons and they were removed after gunnery trials off Ålesund were completed.

After completing her refit, Bruno Heinemann and Paul Jakobi were bound for the Baltic via the Kiel Canal when they were attacked by 11 Handley Page Hampden bombers of No. 144 Squadron RAF on 29 September.

Gustav Heinemann

It was Heinemann's idea to found a museum for the commemoration of German liberation movements, and he was able to officially open such a place in Rastatt in 1974.

Gustav and Hilda Heinemann had three daughters: Uta (later Uta Ranke-Heinemann), Christa (mother of Christina Rau, federal president Johannes Rau's wife), and Barbara, and a son: Peter.

Hat Yai Junction Railway Station

and the Butterworth, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore Line (border point with Malaysia at Padang Besar).

International Express

The train crosses the Thai-Malaysian border at Padang Besar before reaching the destination at the port city of Butterworth, which is opposite Penang Island, a resort island on the northern west coast of Peninsular Malaysia.

Jack Butterworth, Baron Butterworth

Butterworth married his wife Doris in 1948 and they had one son and two daughters, including Anna Walker.

Butterworth's period as vice chancellor was not without controversy, particularly regarding his opposition to the establishment of a Students' union.

James Currey

At Heinemann, working with Chinua Achebe, Currey had spent more than a decade pioneering Heinemann's African Writers Series, the set of volumes that was a crucial factor in expanding the reach of African literature after World War II, particularly in English.

John O. Reed

(ed. and tr. with Clive Wake) French African Verse, London, etc.: Heinemann Educational, 1972.

(ed. with Clive Wake) A Book of African Verse, London: Heinemann Educational, 1964.

With Clive Wake he published several anthologies, as well as translations from French of the work of Léopold Sédar Senghor and Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, in Heinemann's African Writers Series.

Judy GeBauer

She is published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc., Playscripts, Inc., and Heinemann Books, and in Dramatics Magazine.

KOMTAR

The Tower Tourist Center on Level 60 gave visitors an excellent panoramic view of the city, the mainland (Butterworth) and Penang Bridge.

Larry Heinemann

Since then Heinemann has received literature fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Fulbright Scholarship to research Vietnamese folklore, legends, and mythology at Huế University.

Mainly on the Air

It was published in 1946 by Heinemann and is a collection of the texts of a series of six BBC Radio broadcasts from 1935 to 1945 and six essays.

Manning formula

Chanson, H. (2004), The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, UK, 2nd edition, 630 pages (ISBN 978 0 7506 5978 9)

Margot Heinemann

Heinemann was educated at Roedean School and at King Alfred School in London, and read English at Newnham College, Cambridge from 1931, later graduating from Cambridge University with a BA with first class honours.

Mark Aarons

Ratlines: How the Vatican's Nazi Networks Betrayed Western Intelligence to the Soviets, with John Loftus, William Heinemann, 1991 (US edition: Unholy Trinity: How the Vatican's Nazi Networks Betrayed Western Intelligence to the Soviets, with John Loftus, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992).

Mike Butterworth

Butterworth trained as an artist at Camberwell College of Arts and worked briefly as a tutor in drawing at Nottingham College of Art.

Mitsubishi Ki-21

The 3rd, 12th, 60th and 98th Air Groups, based in French Indochina, struck British and Australian targets in Thailand and Malaya, bombing Alor Star, Sungai Petani and Butterworth under escort by Nakajima Ki-27 and Ki-43 fighters.

Nick Howard discography

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(Nick Howard & Michael Heinemann)

North Chadderton School

South Chadderton County Secondary School, another secondary modern, was on Butterworth Lane.

Penang International Airport

Passengers arriving or departing from the north will have a view of George Town, Butterworth and the Penang Bridge.

Rantau Panjang railway station

Trains between Malaysia and Thailand (the International Express or Ekspres Antarabangsa, between Butterworth and Bangkok, and the Ekspres Langkawi, between Kuala Lumpur and Hat Yai) cross the border on the western branch of the Malay network at Padang Besar railway station.

RMAF Butterworth

As of October 2008, the Australian Defence Force continues to maintain a presence at RMAF Butterworth as part of Australia's commitment to the Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA), with No. 19 Squadron RAAF and a detachment of AP-3C Orion aircraft from No. 92 Wing RAAF being located at the airfield.

Ryan Butterworth

Ryan Eric Butterworth (born 14 April 1981) is a Zimbabwean cricketer who plays for the Mashonaland Eagles.

The Green Economist

The founding editors of The Green Economist are Miriam Kennet, Volker Heinemann and Judith Felton.

The Radium Woman

It was published by Heinemann in 1939 with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings as chapter headings.

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig is a children's picture book written by Eugene Trivizas (Evgenios Trivizas), illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, and first published by Heinemann in 1993.

Uta Ranke-Heinemann

In 1999, to protest against the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, she entered the German presidential election as a candidate of the left-wing PDS, running against her niece's husband, Johannes Rau, who was elected in the end.

William Barry Lord

The best-known of these is Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel and Exploration first published in 1868 in serial form, and lavishly illustrated with woodcuts and text contributions by Thomas Baines and engraved by Butterworth & Heath.


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