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2 unusual facts about Simpson's-in-the-Strand


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The Savoy Group was purchased in 1998 by a private equity house, Blackstone Group, and, after further changes of ownership, the Savoy Hotel and Simpson's were split off from the rest of the group in 2005 and are run by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.

The restaurant was, according to the Baedeker guide for 1866, a "large well-appointed establishment".


2011 Soul Train Music Awards

:Record of the Year (Ashford & Simpson Songwriter’s Award): Marsha Ambrosius, "Far Away"

Bendamustine

It acts as an alkylating agent causing intra-strand and inter-strand cross-links between DNA bases.

Brede, East Sussex

Worthington-Simpson supplied a third triple-expansion pump in 1939/40, and the boilers for the engines were upgraded.

Charles I. Sparks

Born on a farm near Ontario, in Jackson Township, Iowa, Sparks was educated in the rural schools and Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa.

Charlie Clemmow

Clemmow has recently filmed the part of Anne Simpson in the one off, half an hour TV drama "The Tractate Middoth", written and directed by Mark Gatiss - based on one of M. R. James's chilling short stories.

Chris Patrick-Simpson

Patrick-Simpson is best known for his role as Brendan in the film The Magdalene Sisters.

Craig Simpson

On June 20, 2012 Simpson married his Battle of the Blades partner, Jamie Salé.

David Simpson

Dana Simpson (David Craig Simpson, born 1977), writer and artist of Ozy and Millie

Democratic Convergence of Catalonia

During the decade of the late 70s and 80s it claimed a social-democratic strand within its ranks, namely personified in militants such as Ramon Trias Fargas or Miquel Sellarès.

Evelyn Hellicar

Around 1889 he entered into a short lived partnership with Sydney Vacher at Wellington Street, Strand, London.

Florida State Road 29

From Immokalee, SR 29 travels along the western edge of the Big Cypress National Preserve and the eastern edge of the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge and the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Forest before reaching its southern terminus at US 41 (Tamiami Trail).

George Charles Haité

As sales of the magazine took off with the first of its Sherlock Holmes stories beginning with A Scandal in Bohemia in the July 1891 issue, Haité's graphic rendering of London's Strand looking Eastwards with the magazine title suspended from telegraph wires was destined to become an icon of late-Victorian publishing.

Harold Iddings

Iddings was also the head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky (1910–1911), Simpson (1911–1914), Otterbein (1916–1917), and the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1920–1921).

I'm a Truck

Breeden and Simpson met in Vancouver, Washington in 1971, where Simpson agreed to record the song.

Impalefection

McKnight, T.E., A.V. Melechko, D.K. Hensley, D.G.J. Mann, G.D. Griffin, and M.L. Simpson, .

Jason McGinn

He defeated Kasey James, Pat Buck, Da Beast and Nick Nemeth in dark matches over the next two months and, with Mikey Batts, defeated the teams of Billy Kryptonite and Russell Simpson, and Jack Bull and Vic Devine.

Jennifer Boyden

Projects that feature her text include work with Buster Simpson and her husband, visual artist Ian Boyden, as well as creative nonfiction responding to work by artists such as photographer Peter deLory.

Jimbo Simpson

Indeed Sinn Féin's North Belfast spokesman, Gerry Kelly had called on the Housing Executive to move the peace lines in order to build new housing for Catholics, a statement Simpson interpreted as the same sort of encroachment that had brought him to the UDA in the first place.

John Goddard

John Theodore Goddard, solicitor appointed by Wallis Simpson as an adviser to her during divorce proceedings

Kasia Madera

She fronts the overnight bulletins on the BBC News and BBC World News, presenting the Newsday strand Thursday through Sunday from London with Rico Hizon or Sharanjit Leyl in Singapore.

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore

Soon, the rest of the Simpson family, worried about Homer, travel to India and, with Mr. Burns, journey upriver on a PBR boat and find that Homer is ruling the plant like a god.

Leverhulme Memorial

The memorial was designed by James Lomax-Simpson, and the sculptor was William Reid Dick.

Lew DeWitt

Songs he wrote for the group include "Flowers on the Wall," "Things," "Since Then," "Thank You World," "The Strand," "The Movies," and "Chet Atkins' Hand."

Lighter

In August 2011 Stephen Fry chose the lighter as the greatest gadget in his Channel 4 programme Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets, one of the 100 Greatest strand, describing it as "fire with a flick of the fingers".

Linda St. Clair

Collectors include Walt Disney Corporation President Michael Mendenhall, Bill Marriot of Marriot Hotels and Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming.

Longwood, Bronx

At this time, crime reached such a level that the 41st Precinct Station House at 1086 Simpson Street became known by the police as "Fort Apache", as was later immortalized in a 1981 movie named for it.

Madlib Medicine Show

Madlib Medicine Show #1 contains original tracks as well as "OJ Simpson remixes" of tracks from Guilty Simpson's debut album Ode to the Ghetto.

Marcia Clark

With Teresa Carpenter, she authored a book, Without a Doubt, about the Simpson case, in a deal reported to be worth $4.2 million.

Marion Post Wolcott

When she found that the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin kept sending her to do "ladies' stories," Ralph Steiner took her portfolio to show Roy Stryker, head of the Farm Security Administration, and Paul Strand wrote a letter of recommendation.

Marius Barbeau

Beginning in December of that year, Barbeau carried out three months' fieldwork in Lax Kw'alaams (Port Simpson), British Columbia, the largest Tsimshian village in Canada, in collaboration with his interpreter, William Beynon, a Tsimshian hereditary chief.

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

That it is a religious allegory of Catholicism, with bells representing the sanctus bells, the cockleshells the badges of the pilgrims to the shrine of Saint James in Spain (Santiago de Compostela) and pretty maids are nuns, but even within this strand of thought there are differences of opinion as to whether it is lament for the reinstatement of Catholicism or for its persecution.

Michael Billig

This strand of work is shown in the collectively written work Ideological Dilemmas (1988 - with Condor, Edwards, Gane, Middleton and Radley), Banal Nationalism, and in his major study of ideology and the UK royal family, Talking of the Royal Family (1998, 2nd Edition).

Michael ffolkes

Ffolkes contributed to such newspapers and magazines as Strand, Lilliput, the Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, the Sunday Telegraph, Playboy, Private Eye, the New Yorker, the Reader's Digest, Krokodil, and Esquire.

Milking the Rhino

Produced by Kartemquin Films and directed by David E. Simpson, Milking the Rhino won numerous awards at multiple international film festivals, including Best Documentary at the Pan African Film Festival and San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.

Nicholas Hervey

One such event, on 25 September 1989, was the Western Goals Institute dinner at Simpson's-in-the-Strand, chaired by Lord Sudeley, for El Salvador's President, Alfredo Cristiani, and his inner cabinet.

Nigel Stafford-Clark

He also produced several television films for the Film on Four strand, including Last Day of Summer, written by Ian McEwan from his own short story, and The House, the debut drama from writer-director and People Show alumnus Mike Figgis.

North Strand Road

On the night of 31 May 1941, aircraft of the German Luftwaffe dropped four high-explosive bombs on the North Strand Road area, killing 34 and injuring 90.

Overberg branch line

Metrorail services of the Northern Line operate from Cape Town through Bellville to Strand; the rest of the line has no regular passenger service.

Paul Strand

Although he was never officially a member of the Communist Party, many of Strand’s collaborators were either Party members (James Aldridge; Cesare Zavattini) or were prominent socialist writers and activists (Basil Davidson).

Roxanne Simpson

The Ultimate Marvel version of Roxanne Simpson-Blaze appeared as John Blaze's wife.

Siggerud

Other celebrities from Siggerud include Christian Ingebrigtsen, who used to be in the boy band A1, Trude Mostue, well known in the UK as "Trude the Vet", TV host, actor and journalist, Christian Strand :no:Christian Strand (adoptive son of political editor in the newspaper Dagsavisen, Arne Strand :no:Arne Strand), plus various local celebrities, amongs other people including Christian's dad Stein Ingebrigtsen.

SS Escambia

The casualties included Chief Officer Stephen George of Wales, Second Officer John Simpson of Liverpool, Third Officer J. Meyler of London, Chief Engineer James Sturrock, Second Engineer P. Walker, all the stokers (most of whom were Chinese), other hands, and a passenger named O. Detchon of South Shields.

Stoney McGlynn

Ulysses Simpson Grant "Stoney" McGlynn (May 26, 1872 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania – August 26, 1941 in Manitowoc, Wisconsin), was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1906 to 1908.

Stuff Like That

This time vocals were provided by Ashford & Simpson, Khan, Brandy, Charlie Wilson and Ray Charles while Greg Phillinganes was playing keyboards.

Superfrog Triathlon

SUPERFROG is a half-Ironman distance triathlon held annually and based on the Silver Strand State Beach, Coronado, California.

The Triangles

Eleanor Horsburgh, Julie Conway, Katherine Simpson (née James), Matt Gormann and Robert Simpson met as school friends in Boronia, a suburb of Melbourne.

Tommy Merritt

Meanwhile, Simpson, who beat back Merritt's attempt in 2012 to return to the House, is a candidate in Januaruy 2013 for Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives against Joe Straus of San Antionio, whom Merritt had supported in 2009, when Straus ousted the previous Republican speaker, Tom Craddick of Midland.

Toonattik

The strand aired on weekend mornings from 7.25am until ITV Breakfast's closedown at 9.25am, featuring a selection of both British and imported cartoons, mainly from brands such as Disney, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network.

Yvonne Antrobus

She has made over 100 abridgments and dramatisations for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 and for independent audio publishers, including Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, The British Journalist by Andrew Marr and Days From A Different World by John Simpson.


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Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley

Sudeley was also a former Vice-president of the now-defunct Western Goals Institute, and on 25 September 1989, chaired a WGI dinner at Simpson's-in-the-Strand for El Salvador's President, Alfredo Cristiani, and his inner cabinet.

Zygmunt Szkopiak

An ardent anti-communist he was a supporter of the Western Goals Institute and was present at their dinner at Simpson's-in-the-Strand on 25 September 1989 for El Salvador's President, Alfredo Cristiani, and his inner cabinet.