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Introducing... Talk Talk

Allmusic said in their 3/5 review that the album had a "bizarre" track list, but "this will be ideal for fans who want cheap access to some of the group's best B-sides without breaking for the extensive and more expensive Asides Besides.

Whilst the remaining seven tracks cover 1986-1988, the EMI era of the band's more experimental phase, most songs in this part of the album are drawn from The Colour of Spring an Spirit of Eden.

Introducing...the Best Of

Introducing...the Best of is the first compilation album and first UK release from Swedish musician Montt Mardié.

Montt Mardié

May 2009 saw the release of his first UK release, Introducing...the Best Of.

Souvenir of Their Visit to America

Souvenir of Their Visit to America was the first of three Beatles EPs released in the United States and the only one released by Vee-Jay Records (catalogue number VJEP 1-903.) The EP featured four songs that had previously been released by Vee-Jay on the Introducing... The Beatles album.


114th Pennsylvania Infantry

He was later brought to Court-martial to face these accusations but he successfully defended himself, introducing witnesses who could attest that he had served faithfully under fire during most of the battle until he collapsed from exhaustion due to his reoccurring problems with malaria.

1986 in British radio

Replacing Radio Victory in East Hampshire, but also introducing commercial radio to Southampton, Winchester and the Isle of Wight, the station transmits with split frequencies; Ocean Sound West on 103.2FM and 1557AM and Ocean Sound East on 97.5FM (former 95FM transmitter for Radio Victory) and 1170AM, the former AM transmitter of the former ILR station.

A. M. Naik

After graduation, he went to Bombay with a note from his father introducing him to Viren J. Shah working in Mukand Iron & Steel Works Limited to apply for its engineering programme.

Aldo Biscardi

In 1993, Biscardi moved to Tele+ and took on the range of sports offered by that channel, re-introducing the Il Processo di Biscardi programme with the same formula and name, followed, in 1996, by another move to Telemontecarlo.

Artur Ekert

His subsequent work with John Rarity and Paul Tapster, from the Defence Research Agency (DRA) in Malvern, resulted in the proof-of-principle experimental quantum key distribution, introducing parametric down-conversion, phase encoding and quantum interferometry into the repertoire of cryptography.

Beyond a Joke

Meanwhile, Kochanski (Chloë Annett) decides to educate Lister (Craig Charles) and Cat (Danny John-Jules) on the finer points of etiquette by introducing them to a virtual reality rendition of "Pride and Prejudice Land" in "Jane Austen World".

Billy Duffy

Duffy got his start playing in different punk line-ups in the late 1970s, but these earlier years were more notable for his introducing Johnny Marr (The Smiths) to the guitar and encouraging Morrissey to make his singing debut with Duffy in The Nosebleeds.

C.E. Humphry

After the war, the couple remained in the city, where Helen Pearl Adam met the writer Jean Rhys, allowing her to live in the Adams' flat, editing Rhys’ first novel, Triple Sec, and introducing her to Ford Maddox Brown.

California Nights

Four King Cousins released a version of the song on their 1968 album, Introducing the Four King Cousins.

Canadian federal election, 1963

The Liberal Party of Lester Pearson ran on a platform promising that, if elected, they would begin their term with "60 Days of Decision" on questions such as introducing a new Canadian flag, reforming health care, and a public pension plan, along with other legislative reforms.

Charles Goodson-Wickes

He served as Chairman of BFFS (British Field Sports Society) from 1994–1997 and was a member of the Public Affairs Committee (1980–1987) and is Vice President of the Great Bustard Group (2008-) which is re-introducing the Great Bustard to Great Britain.

Christopher O'Riley

O'Riley claims his renditions have introduced the music of Radiohead to a classical audience as well as introducing classical music to a wider or younger audience, as he sometimes performs both standard concert repertoire, such as Shostakovich or Mozart, and Radiohead, Elliott Smith or Nick Drake interpretations at the same concert.

Colin Challen

In 2004, Challen presented a Ten Minute Rule Bill introducing the idea of David Fleming's TEQs scheme to Parliament, as a way of guaranteeing that promised emissions reductions would actually be achieved.

David Courtney

Courtney was also responsible for introducing the first Walk of Fame cultural attraction in the UK, located in Brighton.

Ernest Woodford Birch

He was instrumental in introducing a new land survey system into Perak and in urging forward the Kerian irrigation scheme.

Field hockey

Teddington Hockey Club formed the modern game by introducing the striking circle and changing the ball to a sphere from a rubber cube.

Frederick van Pelt Bryan

Bryan authored the opinion holding that D.H.Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover was not obscene, based on its "redeeming social or literary value", introducing a standard henceforth upheld by the Supreme Court.

Ikuma Arishima

In 1914, he also translated Umberto Boccioni's Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture from the Italian into Japan, thus introducing the Futurism movement to the Japanese modern art world.

Indre Østerbro

When Christian IV expanded the fortification of the inner city, he also moved the gate to near Kastellet, thus introducing the confusion that the Eastern Gate is located more northerly than the Northern Gate.

Ivan Vaughan

He played bass part-time in Lennon's first band, The Quarrymen, and was responsible for introducing Lennon to Paul McCartney at a community event (the Woolton village fête) on July 6, 1957, where The Quarrymen were performing.

Jakob Eduard Polak

Jakob Eduard Polak (12 November 1818 in Bohemia (Mořina); † 8 October 1891 in Vienna) was an Austrian physician, born to a Jewish family from Bohemia, who played an important role in introducing modern medicine in Iran.

Jang Yoon-ju

Infinite Challenge's Introducing My Ugly Friend special (ep 304-305) - Special appearance, festival lady

Jean Palairet

While working as London agent for Jacob Boreel, Palairet apparently played a part in introducing the game of cricket to the Netherlands: in 1765 he sent four balls and 12 bats to the Netherlands, and attempted to find a copy of a rule-book for the game.

Johann Friedrich Böckelmann

In 1670, Böckelmann moved to teach at Leiden, where he had lasting influence by introducing the new methodus compendiarium - a teaching method based no longer on the Corpus Iuris Civilis itself, but on shorter summaries.

Kottakkal Madhu

As a singer, Madhu is known for experimenting with newer nuances in the Raga vistara (elaboration of a Raga) and introducing new Ragas.

Local Government Act 1988

The United Kingdom Local Government Act of 1988 was famous for introducing the controversial Section 28 into law.

Magna Science Adventure Centre

Tim Caulton directed exhibition development, introducing spectacular exhibits that bridged science and art, such as Ned Kahn's fire tornado, "The Big Melt" (described below) and works by San Francisco 'artist in electricity' Cork Marcheschi.

Marine Corps Brig, Quantico

Over the years, there were some prominent inmates at the Brig, including John Hinckley, Jr., a would-be presidential assassin, Clayton J. Lonetree, the Marine Security Guard who provided classified information to the KGB while stationed at the U.S. Embassy, Moscow from 1984 to 1986, and Rayful Edmond, largely credited with introducing crack cocaine into the Washington, D.C., area.

Monk Montgomery

He is perhaps the first electric bassist of significance to jazz, introducing the Fender Precision Bass to the genre in 1951, although he was most famously seen playing the later Fender Jazz Bass, which became his signature instrument.

Movement director

Michel Saint-Denis taught movement in London and was an influential associate director alongside Peter Brook at the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1962–1966, introducing influences from his work in Paris with his uncle Jacques Copeau.

Nightjohn

The novel was adapted as a TV film which aired on the Disney Channel starring Carl Lumbly as John, Beau Bridges as the slaveholder, and introducing Allison Jones as Sarny.

OBK

The group was famous for introducing the electronic music in Spain in the 1990's (in the early 1980's some Spanish synthpop bands as Azul y Negro and Aviador Dro, among others, had gained great success also).

Odobenocetops

It was identified that the species was Odobenocetops leptodon when Nigel Marven was introducing it.

Paranoimia

The 7" single features a monologue about Max Headroom being scared and unable to sleep (hence "Paranoimia", a portmanteau of "paranoia" and "insomnia"). The 12" has a completely different vocal with Headroom as a master of ceremonies, talking about the music and introducing the band (which he claims comprises Peter O'Toole, Martina Navratilova, Cher and the Pope).

Peter Keefe

Keefe's work on the series is credited with introducing American audiences to Japanese animation and influenced later children's programs like Dragon Ball Z, Pokémon and Power Rangers.

Prada gender discrimination case

“For Prada, fashion, luxury and style have always been aspects of a project that goes beyond production of clothes, footwear and handbags. Interest and careful observation of the world, society and culture are at the core of Prada’s creativity and modernity. This has pushed Prada beyond the physical limitations of boutiques and showrooms, leading us to interact with diverse, seemingly distant worlds, and introducing, very naturally, a new way of creating fashion.”

Richard Bandler

Lomond would have a profound influence on Bandler's future, introducing him and Grinder to Milton Erickson; together, the three of them formed some of the foundational models for Neuro-linguistic programming.

The Hollowing

In addition to introducing Native American culture into Ryhope wood, mythagos about Jack (as in Jack and the Beanstalk), the Tower of Babel and Jason and the Argonauts appear, the last two of which involve variations on myths that are uncharacteristically non-English in origin.

The Sleeping Years

Upon their release the EPs garnered critical acclaim, featuring on BBC Radio 1’s Introducing, the Guardian’s writer’s play list and on the cover mount of Rolling Stone and Word Magazine.

Theo Van Leeuwen

His books include Introducing Social Semiotics and Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design which he co-authored with Gunther Kress.

Theodore Durrant

A notorious right wing politician and inventor, Noel Pemberton Billing was publishing that the production was meant to sap British military and spiritual values by introducing indecent ideas (i.e., homosexuality) into the public from Wilde's writings.

Timeline of number theory

1260 — Al-Farisi gave a new proof of Thabit ibn Qurra's theorem, introducing important new ideas concerning factorization and combinatorial methods.

To Fili Tis Zois

It also contains a bonus feature introducing the landscapes and hotels of the island Sifnos, Greece.

Travancore

In this battle, the admiral of the Dutch, Eustachius De Lannoy, was captured; later he joined the Travancore army and rose up to become the commander of the Tranvancore forces and modernised the Travancore army by introducing better firearms, artillery and the European style of military drills and discipline.

Vindaloo

Joey Ramone also references chicken vindaloo when introducing the song "I Wanna Be Well" on the 1979 It's Alive album.

Welcome 2 Detroit

As the title suggests Welcome 2 Detroit is a showcase of the talent from J Dilla's hometown, introducing a pre-Slum Village Elzhi on the song "Come Get It", and making room for his longtime 1st Down partner Phat Kat on the appropriately titled "Featuring Phat Kat".

Wonderland Greyhound Park

Casino gambling is currently against the law in Massachusetts and governor Deval Patrick's idea of introducing it to the state failed to make it through the legislature in 2007.


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