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unusual facts about Spectator


Clare Mulley

Mulley occasionally reviews, writes and blogs for various websites and publications, including The Spectator, History Today, The Express and The Church Times.


1973 Winchester 400

Vern Schrock of Middlebury, Indiana became the most improbable of winners, as he went from spectator to event Champion in winning the fourth running of the Winchester 400.

Angus MacNeil

He also received awards from the Spectator Magazine and the Political Studies Society for setting the political agenda in Britain during 2006.

Armand Traoré

In September 2007, Traoré returned to White Hart Lane, but this time only as a spectator when he was arrested for carrying knuckle dusters into the stadium.

Benjamin Moran

From the end of 1858, Moran was co-owner of the London-based Spectator magazine, which he used to promote Buchanan's views against a generally hostile, anti-slavery British press.

Charles De Meaux

Shimkent hôtel (2003), Death of Glory (2006) and You should be the next Astronaut, all three included in the piece titled Warning to the spectator, were shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2009.

Charlotte Eagar

Whilst working for a variety of British newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times Magazine, The Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, the Spectator, The Mail on Sunday and Tatler, she has written stories from such diverse places as Sarajevo, Moscow, Baghdad, Kabul and Rome.

Daniel C. Gerould

“At that time many Broadway-bound productions tried out first in Boston, and I remember Ethel Barrymore in The Corn Is Green by Emlyn Williams and Arsenic and Old Lace with Boris Karloff. I felt myself a seasoned spectator, was at home among audiences, and was always ready to applaud bravura displays of virtuoso acting.”

Declan Mullin

Mullin came to the U.S. in 1988, working for Spectator Management Group and has had operational review responsibilities for the Louisiana Superdome, the Memphis Cook Convention Center, the Atlantic City Convention Center, the Pittsburgh Civic Center, Tampa Bay Ice Palace and Jacksonville Stadium.

Elizaveta Polonskaya

On her final return to Petrograd in the spring of 1917, she had little time for either politics or literature; to support her family, which was in dire straits after her father's death, she took a job as assistant to a municipal charity doctor on Vasilyevsky Island, and was merely a spectator when the October Revolution occurred.

Epiphenomenalism

Popular science author Tor Nørretranders has called the delay "The User Illusion" implying that we only have the illusion of conscious control, most actions being controlled automatically by non-conscious parts of the brain with the conscious mind relegated to the role of spectator.

Gaze

Theorists Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen posit that the gaze is a relationship, between offering and demanding a gaze: the indirect gaze is the spectator's offer, wherein the spectator initiates viewing the subject, who is unaware of being viewed; the direct gaze is the subject's demand to be viewed.

Gerrit Henry

Henry published feature and critical articles in After Dark, Art News, Art in America, The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times, People Magazine, Art International, The Spectator, and The New Republic.

Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, 2014

August 5, 2011: After a Twitter dispute between Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood and Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, the literary figure accepts an offer from Bratina and the Spectator to visit the city, praising the development of the arts community in Hamilton's downtown.

Hawkstone Park Motocross Circuit

Popular singer Roy Orbison visited Hawkstone Park as a spectator at the 1965 500cc British Grand Prix.

Helen Zimmern

She would also write for Fraser's Magazine, Blackwood's Magazine, the Athenaeum, the Spectator, St James's, Pall Mall Magazine, the World of Art, the Italian Rassegna Settimanale and various German papers.

Howard DeVore

1952-2005 Active member and sometime Official Editor (OE) of the Spectator Amateur Press Society (SAPS), an Amateur press association.

Iason Athanasiadis

A graduate of Oxford University, Iason has written for the Christian Science Monitor, the Financial Times, theInternational Herald Tribune, the Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, the Toronto Star, the Spectator, Newsweek, theWashington Times, the Athens News, and Australia's leading current affairs magazine The Diplomat.

John King, Baron King of Wartnaby

His interests included directorships at the Daily Telegraph, Spectator, headhunting company Norman Broadbent and engineering firm Short Brothers.

John Tomac

An accident in which Tomac struck an errant spectator in the final event at Mount Snow, Vermont, prevented him from outscoring his rival and retaining the title.

Leon Battista Alberti

In his treatise De pictura (1435) he explains the theory, of the accumulation of people, animals, and buildings, which create harmony amongst each other, and "hold the eye of the learned and unlearned spectator for a long while with a certain sense of pleasure and emotion".

Louis Dubose

Under Dubose's editorship, the Spectator has covered Washington politics and dateline stories from places around the United States ranging from Helena, Montana, to Shelby County, Alabama, to Port Arthur, Texas.

Love letter

The love letter continued to be taught as a skill at the start of the eighteenth century, as in Richard Steele's Spectator.

Luis Dubuc

After being a spectator at concert put on by Mouse On Mars, he purchased a Macintosh computer and experimented with electronic sounds.

Nigel Briers

But a knee injury, followed by an operation, left him as a spectator as the county, under new captain James Whitaker, took their second Championship title in 1996, and he never played first-class cricket again.

Nigel Farndale

As a freelancer he has written for, among others, the Observer, Financial Times and Spectator.

Peter Brookes

For a time he worked as cover artist for the Spectator but, in 1992, he moved to the Times, as its leader-page cartoonist, at the invitation of its newly appointed editor, Peter Stothard.

Richard Holt Hutton

In 1861 he joined Meredith Townsend as joint editor and part proprietor of the Spectator, then a well-known liberal weekly, but it did not pay.

Richard Rovere

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, he periodically contributed to Esquire, Harper's, and The American Scholar; now and then he reported on American matters for Britain's Spectator.

Richie Ashburn

During an August 17, 1957, game, Ashburn hit a foul ball into the stands that struck spectator Alice Roth, wife of Philadelphia Bulletin sports editor, Earl Roth, breaking her nose.

Rimini Protokoll

"Call Cutta", one of their recent works, was based on outsourcing: The performers or 'experts', who were employees of a call center, were located in Salt Lake, Calcutta, India, providing the audience in Berlin, Germany with individual cell phone performances, with each call center agent guiding just one spectator solely through the remote maze of lanes of Kreuzberg, Berlin, narrating the story of Subhas Chandra Bose, an Indian revolutionarist freedom fighter.

S. K. Rudra

In an obituary Gandhi wrote in Young India, he called Rudra and Andrews his revisionists and described Rudra as a silent but deeply interested spectator in the happenings of the national struggle.

SD F-1 Grand Prix

An exception to this rule would be the U.S. oval track (that looks like Daytona International Speedway sans the spectator booths and a lane for pit stops).

Slovenian Youth Theatre

On the one hand, it emphasises “meta-theatricality” as defined by Bonnie Marranca, (for instance, the focusing upon the third paradigm of the spectator and their perception and, on the other hand, the double coding of theatre springing from the tactics of the historical neo-avant-gardes, post-avant-gardes and political performances of the second half of the 20th century.

Swimming at the Summer Olympics

Along with track & field athletics and gymnastics it is one of the most popular spectator sports at the Games and the one with the second largest number of events (after Athletics).

The Hamilton Spectator

Founded by Robert Smiley and a partner, the paper was sold in 1877 to William Southam, who founded the Southam newspaper chain and made the Spectator the first of the chain.

The Pleasures of the Imagination

The ideas were largely borrowed from Joseph Addison's essays on the imagination in the Spectator and from Lord Shaftesbury.

The Pregnant Widow

The novel was published to mixed reviews, Eileen Battersby in The Irish Times calling it a "thumping disappointment", while Richard Bradford in The Spectator described it as a "unique, sometimes exquisite experience".

The Washington Spectator

Phillip Frazer has also served as publisher of the Spectator.

Tigellinus

In the 1951 film Quo Vadis, based on the novel, Tigellinus (played by Ralph Truman) is (unhistorically) stabbed to death by a soldier spectator at the cry of A sword from Plautius! in the Colosseum when the Roman people revolt against Nero at the end of the film.

Torstar Syndication Services

Content gained from internal sources, include most of the parent company, Torstar, newspapers and magazines, such as Toronto Star, the Hamilton Spectator, The Record, and Metroland Media Group.

Victoria Kamāmalu

Mark Twain, a spectator to the events, labeled the acts of the grieving Hawaiians as "pagan orgies." Twain had his letters to his newspaper in Sacramento and later he published his observations in his book Roughing It.

Victoria Park, Hong Kong

The tennis centre court, enclosed with spectator seating for 3,607, is often used to host international tennis tournaments, such as the Hong Kong Open and Hong Kong Tennis Classic.

Zdeněk Štybar

He was in contention for the victory as he was part of the leading trio with Sep Vanmarcke and Fabian Cancellara when he hit a spectator, causing him to slow down to clip in his pedals.


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