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4 unusual facts about W. H. Davies


Gerald Duckworth and Company

It was important in the development of English literature in the first half of the twentieth century, when it published such writers as Virginia Woolf (Gerald Duckworth's half-sister), W. H. Davies, Anthony Powell, John Galsworthy and D. H. Lawrence.

Great Russell Street

W. H. Davies (1871–1940), poet and writer, lived at No 14 (1916–1922).

Karl Parsons

(The previous year she had illustrated Forty Nine Poems by W. H. Davies, also for Medici).

Pillgwenlly

Portland Street in Pill was the birthplace, in 1871, of the famous "Tramp Poet" W. H. Davies and the nearby Church House Inn, where he was brought up by his grandparents, has a commemorative blue plaque.


3200 Phaethon

Simon F. Green and John K. Davies discovered it in images from October 11, 1983 while searching Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) data for moving objects.

Albert D. Nortoni

In 1918, Nortoni campaigned for the Democratic nominee for Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph E. Davies, although he ultimately lost to Irvine Lenroot.

Carbon dating the Dead Sea Scrolls

In 1991 Robert Eisenman and Philip R. Davies made a request to date a number of scrolls, which led to a series of tests carried out in Zurich on samples from fourteen scrolls.

Dudley Field Malone

As Malone bore a strong resemblance to Winston Churchill, he was called on to play Churchill in the film adaptation of Joseph E. Davies's book Mission to Moscow (1943).

H. O. Davies

He led a Nigerian delegation to the Economic Council at the United Nations in 1964, and in September 1974 Chief H.O. Davies was knighted by the French Government Chevelier de l' Ordre national du Mérite (Industrial) for his significant contributions in energizing Total Fina Oil and the Elf Petroleum companies of which he was a Director and for promoting French-Nigerian relations.

During his time at Harvard, he met with and became friends with future US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and future US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Howard R. Davies

Howard Raymond Davies was born at 351 Ladypool Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

John Frederick Mowbray-Clarke

The Mowbray-Clarkes lived in Rockland County, New York at a farm and studio called Brocken, just six miles from Arthur B. Davies.

John K. Davies

Whilst at Leicester University discovered the source of the Geminid meteors, the asteroid called 3200 Phaethon.

Joseph Davies

Joseph E. Davies (1876–1958), United States ambassador to the Soviet Union

Kay Davies

Davies continued to work with her former husband, Stephen G. Davies, on scientific projects, even after their separation in 2000.

L. P. Davies

Davies' novels The Artificial Man (1965) and Psychogeist (1966) were adapted into the 1968 film Project X and The Alien (1968) was very freely adapted into the 1972 film The Groundstar Conspiracy, starring George Peppard and Michael Sarrazin.

Llanrumney

Notables who objected included Rumney High School Governing Body, Fields in Trust, Alun Michael MP, David Melding AM, Lorraine Barrett AM, Andrew R.T. Davies AM, Cllrs Cook, Parry, Ireland, Hudson, Morgan, Joyce and RREEL.

Lloyd G. Davies

He said he was an amateur boxer in the heavyweight class and qualified for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles by winning a semifinal tournament but he did not compete in the Games themselves.

He also worked with the city's Right of Way and Land Department in the Owens Valley.

Wiretap, 1949. "Activities of the Police Department in installing mechanical eavesdropping devices in the home of gangster Mickey Cohen caused consternation and criticism in the City Council," with Davies asking, "how many other places may have received the same treatment? Could it be that possibly even the homes of a few Councilmen were not neglected?"

Native Sons of the Golden West

Lloyd G. Davies (1914–1957), Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–51

Otto Kahn-Freund

Otto Kahn-Freund had a substantial and extensive influence on a generation of British Labour Lawyers, many of whom themselves passed on his influence in their own academic work, such as Bill Wedderburn, Paul L. Davies, Mark Freedland, Roy Lewis and Jon Clarke.

Paul B. Davies

He has also scripted music videos for everyone from Kate Bush to Ken Russell.

Paul L. Davies

Outside academic work Davies was a member of the Company Law Review Steering Group, whose reports eventually led to the Companies Act 2006; he is the general editor of the Industrial Law Journal and is Deputy Chairman of the Central Arbitration Committee.

Politics and the English Language

In this he highlights the double-talk and appalling prose of J. D. Bernal in the same magazine, and cites Edmund Wilson's damnation of the prose of Joseph E. Davies in Mission to Moscow.

Quantum biology

Derek Abbott, Julio Gea-Banacloche, Paul C. W. Davies, Stuart Hameroff, Anton Zeilinger, Jens Eisert, Howard M. Wiseman, Sergey M. Bezrukov, and Hans Frauenfelder, "Plenary debate: quantum effects in biology―trivial or not?" Fluctuation and Noise Letters, 8(1), pp.

R. E. G. Davies

with Imre E. Quastler, Commuter Airlines of the United States (Smithsonian, 1995) (Reference)

S. O. Davies

(2003 reprint), Iain Dale, The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935, Politico's.

Samuel W. Davies

For the English footballer, see Samuel Richard Davies

W. J. A. Davies

He formed a notable international half-back partnership with his Royal Navy team-mate Cecil Kershaw; in their 14 matches together for England they never finished on the losing side.

During his time playing he earned 22 caps, making him England's most capped fly-half until Rob Andrew overtook him.

W. P. C. Davies

William Philip ("Phil") Cathcart Davies (born 6 August 1928), played rugby union at centre for Evesham RUFC, Cheltenham RUFC, Cambridge University, Harlequins, England and the British Lions (South Africa 1955).

Phil was a member of the Cambridge University RFC tour to Japan in 1953, the first one by Cambridge after the Second World War.

W. R. Davies

Speakers presented during the Davies years included John Mason Brown, Margaret Bourke-White, Bennett Cerf, Norman Cousins, Bernard DeVoto, Sinclair Lewis, Wayne Morse, Carl Rowan, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Dorothy Thompson.

A goal of $15,000 was set, with all funds to be directed to match federal grants for National Defense Student Loans.

The foundation was created to raise funds for the new National Defense Student Loans Program that provided low-interest loans for promising but needy students.

Walter Pach

With painters Arthur B. Davies and Walt Kuhn, he brought together leading contemporary European and American artists.


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