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3 unusual facts about Traveller


Ant Whiting

Since then Ant has co-written & produced for a number of established artists, his biggest success to date has been with Rizzle Kicks as the main co-writer and producer on the platinum selling UK No. 5 album Stereo Typical where he delivered six tracks including two singles Traveller's Chant and Dreamer's.

Traveller's Joy

With extensive restrictions on how much foreign exchange British travellers can take outside the realm (then £5), a variety of English men and women are trapped in expensive Sweden.

Traveller's Tales

In July, 7th 2013, TT announced that a Lego game entitled The Lego Movie Videogame was in production, set to be released on February 7th 2014, together with a Lego Movie entitled The Lego Movie


Alodia

Ibn Hawqal is the most important external source on the country, being one of the only detailed first hand accounts of a traveller to the country.

Archibald Edmonstone

Sir Archibald Edmonstone, 3rd Baronet, Scottish traveller and writer, grandson of the above

Armenians in Cyprus

Visiting Cyprus in 1738, British traveller Richard Pococke mentions “very few Armenians, yet they have possession of an ancient church in Nicosia”, while for the island as a whole he makes mention to “a small number of Armenians, who are very poor, though they have an Archbishop and a convent in the country”.

Bill Moss

W. Stanley Moss (1921–1965), British WW II army officer, writer, broadcaster, journalist and traveller

Blue Mosque, Yerevan

As reported by 19th-century traveller H.F.B. Lynch, the Blue Mosque was commissioned to be built during the reign of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah (1736–47) by Husayn Ali Khan.

Bogd Khan

The Polish traveller Ferdinand Ossendowski recorded that he knew "every thought, every movement of the Princes and Khans, the slightest conspiracy against him, and the offender is usually kindly invited to Urga, from where he does not return alive.

Bogumil Vošnjak

In 1902, he published his travelogue in Slovene under the title Zapiski mladega popotnika ("Notes of a Young Traveller").

British Urban Film Festival

In addition, the festival (5–9 September) was to be headlined by the UK premiere screenings of "Calloused Hands" starring Andre Royo from the HBO series "The Wire", "Traveller" starring David Essex OBE, Jason Maza & Lois Winstone & the award-winning "Bloody Lip" written & directed by Adriel Leff.

Brynamman

The traveller and writer George Borrow describes aspects of Gwter Fawr in the mid-nineteenth century in his book Wild Wales which was published in 1862.

Christian Topography

Edward Gibbon, for example, said "the nonsense of the Monk was, nevertheless, mingled with the practical knowledge of the traveller" and used it in writing The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Congo Free State propaganda war

Influenced by Mary Kingsley, an English traveller and writer who showed sympathy for African peoples and respect for different cultures, he became critical of the Foreign Office for not supporting African decolonisation movements.

Denis Mackey

Mackey was born at Richmond in Melbourne to commercial traveller Alphonsus Denis Mackey and Dulcie Edith, née Reid.

Donna Barr

Barr also produced illustrations for the Traveller role-playing books, including Alien Module 8: Darrians, the MegaTraveller Player's Manual and several issues of both the Journal of the Travellers Aid Society and Challenge magazine.

Francis Whitmore

He was a keen traveller, including a visit to the Empire State Building in New York in 1931 when it opened.

Further Down the Old Plank Road

# Rosc Catha Na Nuimhain/Arkansas Traveller/The Wild Irishman - The Chieftains, Jerry Douglas

Ghazi of Iraq

When the Prince was a school boy he was taken for a biplane ride by Moye Stephens, pilot of The Flying Carpet and Richard Halliburton, traveller-adventurist, during their round-the-world flight, shortly after Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight.

Hebron glass

In 1799, English traveller William George Browne mentioned the production of "Coarse glass beads...called Hersh and Munjir" in Palestine; The "Munjir" (Mongur) were large beads, while the Hersh (Harish) were smaller.

Henri Justel

He knew Melchisédech Thévenot, the traveller and like-minded friend, and made a Recueil or collection of travels.

Henry Lynch

H. F. B. Lynch (Henry Finnis Blosse Lynch, 1862–1913), British traveller, businessman and Member of Parliament

History of Shaivism

In the 7th century the great Chinese traveller Xuanzang (Huen Tsang) toured India and wrote in Chinese about the prevalence of Shiva worship at that time, describing Shiva temples at Kanoj, Karachi, Malwa, Gandhar (Kandahar), and especially at Varanasi (Benares) where he saw twenty large temples dedicated to Shiva.

Indian Institute of Mass Communication

Željko Malnar, Croatian maverick traveller, writer and TV producer

Jarabacoa Cocktail

It is speculated that the term was coined by a traveller upon returning from a stay in Jarabacoa.

Jock McFadyen

During the 1990s McFadyen found a fellow traveller in the writer Iain Sinclair whose Downriver and Lights out for the territory mirrored the artist’s preoccupation with the eastern plains of the city and its estuary.

Kari Herbert

After leaving school she studied Media & Design in Portsmouth, then went on to work as a fashion stylist for Japanese rock bands before becoming a travel writer and photographer for newspapers and magazines such as The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Geographical and Traveller.

Ken Frank

He has also produced artwork for games from other companies, including Traveller (Game Designers' Workshop).

Kryštof

Kryštof Harant (1564–1621), Czech nobleman, traveller, humanist, soldier, writer and composer

La Cruz del Viajero

La Cruz del Viajero (The Cross of the Traveller) is a monument placed by Franciscan monks in 1672 in the small town of Magdalena Vieja (now Pueblo Libre), just outside Lima, the capital city of Peru, and the old centre of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.

Ludlow, Kentucky

Carneal later sold the land to William Bullock, a British showman, entrepreneur, and traveller, who directed John Papworth to design a utopian community for the site named Hygeia (Greek for "health").

Marc-Théodore Bourrit

In 1784-1785 he was the first traveller to attempt the ascent of Mont Blanc (not conquered till 1786), but neither then nor later (1788) did he succeed in reaching its summit.

Mir Samir

The English traveller Eric Newby and the diplomat Hugh Carless attempted to climb Mir Samir in 1956, as described in the humorous book A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush.

Nór

Eireks saga víðförla ('The Saga of Eirek the Traveller') also brings in Thrand as the first king to regin of Trondheim.

Oliver Goldsmith

Two characters in the 1951 comedy The Lavender Hill Mob quote the same line from Goldsmith's poem "The Traveller" – a subtle joke, because the film's plot involves the recasting of stolen gold.

Operation Anglo

Using a torch to signal to the waiting submarine, The signal "swimming-come in" was seen by Commander Michael St John of the HMS Traveller.

Pixton Park

The estate passed to Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert (1880–1923), diplomat, traveller and intelligence officer, associated with Albanian independence and twice offered the throne of that country.

Randolph Bresnik

This marked the second time a space traveller became a parent while in orbit; it first happened when Franz Viehböck's daughter was born while he was in space in 1991.

Richard Molyneux, 1st Viscount Molyneux

Molyneux's brother, Sir Vivian Molyneux, was a scholar, traveller and Royalist agent in the 1640s, and an uncle of Robert Earl of Caernarvon, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire.

Samuel Oschin

He was a noted adventure traveller, retracing Robert Peary's voyage to the North Pole, paddling up the Amazon in a dugout canoe, and crossing the Alps on an elephant following the model of Hannibal.

Taghaza

In 1352 the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta arrived in Taghaza after a 25 day journey from Sijilmasa on his way across the Sahara to Oualata to visit the Mali Empire.

Tefilat HaDerech

:"Traveller's Prayer" redirects here, for the 1998 album by John Renbourn, see Traveller's Prayer (album)

The Megalithic European

The Megalithic European : The 21st Century Traveller in Prehistoric Europe is Julian Cope's second book on historic sites, this time looking at continental Europe and Ireland.

The Soft Machine

# The first edition was printed by Olympia Press in Paris, in 1961, as number 88 in the Traveller Companion Series.

The Unquiet Dead

In the episode, alien time traveller the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and his companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) travel to Victorian Cardiff on Christmas, 1869 where there have been sightings of strange gas-like creatures.

Thévenot

Jean de Thévenot (1633-1667), a French traveller and nephew of Melchisédech Thévenot.

Thomas Bewick

Works using his wood engraving technique, for which he became well known, include the engravings for Oliver Goldsmith's Traveller and The Deserted Village, for Thomas Parnell's Hermit, and for William Somervile's Chase.

Thomas Hart-Davies

Hart-Davies was a very experienced traveller: visiting Siberia, Persia and much of South America.

Travels in Arabia Deserta

Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888) is a travel book written by Charles Montagu Doughty (1843 – 1926) who was an English poet, writer, and traveller.

Whitford, Flintshire

It is best known as the former home of traveller and writer Thomas Pennant and for the visit of Paul Scholes in 2011.

World Traveller Adventures

World Traveller Adventures is a collection of four movies featuring the adventures of new age rave travellers - Spiral Tribe, Desert Storm, Sound Conspiracy (Facom, Okupe and Total Resistance), Teknokrates, Tomahawk and IOT.

Xanthian Obelisk

He also sought the collaboration of Colonel William Martin Leake, a noted antiquarian and traveller and, with others, including Beaufort, was a founding member of the Royal Geographical Society.


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