The River Flows (novel)

The River Flows is a semi-autobiographical first novel, published in 1926, by the British writer F. L. Lucas. The title is taken from a poem by T'ao Ch'ien, translated by Arthur Waley, three lines from which form the novel's epigraph.

Doctor Dido

Doctor Dido is a historical novel by the British writer F. L. Lucas. First published in 1938, it was his third novel. With much local and antiquarian detail, it tells the story of Samuel Plampin, Doctor of Divinity at Cambridge and Vicar of St Peter's

Ulmus 'Myrtifolia Purpurea'

The Elm cultivar Ulmus 'Myrtifolia Purpurea', the Purple Myrtle-leaved Elm, was first mentioned by Louis de Smet of Ghent (1877) as Ulmus myrtifolia purpurea. An U. campestris myrtifolia purpurea Hort. was distributed by Louis van Houtte in the 1880s, by

Ernest Meysey-Thompson

Ernest Claude Meysey-Thompson was a British Army officer and Liberal Unionist Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1922 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Handsworth

Mediashopping

Mediashopping was an Italian shopping TV channel launched on September 30, 2005, that transmitted 24-hour in Italy on DTT channel 121 on Mux Mediaset 2 and on digital satellite platform SKY Italia channel 808, whose origins go back to 1998 with the

Ulmus 'Turkestanica'

The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Turkestanica' was first described by Regel as U. turkestanica in Dieck, Hauptcat. Baumschul. Zöschen (1883) and in Gartenflora (1884). Regel himself stressed that "U. turkestanica was only a preliminary name given by me; I regard

1941 Pontefract by-election

A by-election was held on 24 July 1941 for the British House of Commons parliamentary constituency of Pontefract in Yorkshire. The seat had become vacant on the death of the Labour Member of Parliament Adam Hills, who had held the seat since the 1935

The Woman Clothed with the Sun

The Woman Clothed with the Sun; being The Confession of John McHaffie concerning his sojourn in the Wilderness among the folk called the Buchanites, is a historical novella by the British writer F. L. Lucas. It purports to be an account, written in 1814

John Temple (Conservative politician)

John Meredith Temple was a British Conservative Party politician

Ronald Williams (Labour politician)

Ronald Watkins Williams was a British Labour Party politician

Jakub Landovský

Jakub Landovský, is a Czech politician, lawyer, and university pedagogue, who is currently an ambassador to NATO since 5 August 2019. He had served as the Deputy Minister of Defense from 2015 to 2019