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Aldous Huxley Albums
Aldous () is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname *David Aldous (actor) * David Aldous, mathematician *David Aldous, stock car driver; see List of 2008 motorsport champions *J. E. P. Aldous, Canadian composer *Lucette Aldous, Australian ballerina * Montague Aldous, surveyor of the Northwest Territories * Peter Aldous (born 1961), British politician *Robert Aldous, actor * William Aldous, judge and arbitrator Given name *Aldous Harding Hannah Sian Topp (born 1990), known professionally as Aldous Harding, is a New Zealand folk singer-songwriter, based in Lyttelton, New Zealand. Biography Harding comes from a musical family in Lyttelton, New Zealand. Her mother is folk singer ..., singer-songwriter from New Zealand * Aldous Huxley, writer {{given name, type=both Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Aldous (actor)
David Aldous is an English actor and broadcaster. He has appeared in TV series, such as ''The Bill'' and ''Casualty'', and in the film '' Loved Up''. He has also presented the programmes ''In Depth'' for GOD TV and ''Passages of Life'' for Premier Christian Radio. Since 27 July 2009, he has presented ''Hope in the Night'' from 1am to 4am on Premier Christian Radio. Family life David Aldous lives in Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ... and has four children. Teaching He was a drama teacher at Hassenbrook School in Essex. Videos David Aldous directed the Christian music video "How Deep", sung by Charlotte Lauren, music by Stuart Townend.Archived aGhostarchiveand thWayback Machine References English male television actors Living people Year of birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Aldous
David John Aldous FRS (born 13 July 1952) is a mathematician known for his research on probability theory and its applications, in particular in topics such as exchangeability, weak convergence, Markov chain mixing times, the continuum random tree and stochastic coalescence. He entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1970 and received his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1977 under his advisor, D. J. H. Garling. Since 1979 Aldous has been on the faculty at University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1980, the Loève Prize in 1993, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994. In 2004, Aldous was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 2004 to 2010, Aldous was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 1998 in Berlin and a plenary speaker at the ICM in 2010 in Hyderabad. In 2012 he became a fell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of 2008 Motorsport Champions
This list of 2008 motorsport champions is a list of national or international auto racing series with a Championship decided by the points or positions earned by a driver from multiple races. Formula cars Kart Sports car Stock car Touring car Sprint car racing Rallying Rally raid Drag racing Hillclimb Historic racing Ice racing Short Course Off Road Racing Desert Off Road Racing Rallycross Drifting Truck racing Tractor Pulling Formula off-road Dirt Trial Alternative Energy racing Time Attack Autocross Autotest Motorkhana Sprint Trials Cross country Motorcycle Road racing Motocross Enduro Trials Supercross Freestyle Motorcross Arenacross Drag racing Rally raid Desert Off-Road Racing Supermoto Flat track Speedway Ice speedway ATV Motorcross Hillclimb Snowmobile racing Water surface racing Air racing {, class="wikitable" , - style="font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold" ! Series ! Driver ! refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucette Aldous
Lucette Aldous (26 September 1938 – 5 June 2021) was an Australian prima ballerina during her performing years. She was the resident principal dancer with The Australian Ballet, and well known for performing the role of Kitri in the film of Rudolf Nureyev's production of ''Don Quixote'', receiving many honours for her years of performance including being appointed AC in the 2018 Australia Day Honours list. Early life Lucette Aldous was born in Auckland, New Zealand in September 1938 and moved to Perth, Western Australia when she was four months old. She started her training at the age of 3 in 1941 and studied under Australian teacher Phyllis Danaher. In 1955 Aldous received a scholarship to attend the Royal Ballet School in London. She later performed in a European tour as part of the Royal Ballet partnering Rudolf Nureyev in ''The Nutcracker''. Aldous later moved to Sydney for further ballet training, where in addition she attended Randwick High School. She claimed to have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montague Aldous
Montague Aldous (September 30, 1850 – May 25, 1946) was a Dominion Topographical Surveyor from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He was a participant in foundation surveys of the Northwest Territories. He was associated with A.L. Russell in 1877 in a survey west to the third meridian. Taken on Special Survey in 1879, he surveyed the fourth meridian to a point north of Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan, then ran in the 14th base line west to Stony Plain where it intersected the 5th meridian. His assistant, Charles Alexander Magrath, was later the first mayor of Lethbridge, Northwest Territories (now Alberta). In 1880 Aldous surveyed the fifth meridian south to Waterton Lakes. He spent the rest of the summer in southern Alberta's Porcupine Hills, then being taken up for ranching. Aldous accepted a job offer from the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in 1882 and soon had seven survey parties working frantically to keep up with the demand for HBC farm lots. Later he served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Aldous
Peter James Guy AldousPeter Aldous - Declaration of Interests , 2010-04-14. Retrieved 2011-05-14. (born 26 August 1961) is a British politician. He has been the (MP) for the Waveney constituency in |
Robert Aldous
Robert Aldous (born 1934 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...) is an English stage and television actor. Robert (Bob) trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, 1953–55. In a long and varied career, his main priority was the stage and he has acted with most of the major regional theatre companies and toured extensively in the UK and overseas. He was for two years associated with the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre and appeared in The School for Scandal at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, and in An Enemy of the People and Peter Pan at the National Theatre. For thirty years he was the “baddie” in big provincial pantomimes! On television he can claim appearances in Dad's Army, Dr Who, “Allo,” ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Aldous
Sir William Aldous (17 March 1936 – 17 March 2018) was an English judge and a judge in the Gibraltar Court of Appeal. Biography Born in Suffolk, Aldous was the son of barrister Guy Aldous QC and his wife, Gill Henson, daughter of Gino Henson, MFH, Master of the Blankney Hunt. Growing up in East Anglia, Aldous was a keen and eager huntsman from an early age. His father was MFH of the Essex and Suffolks, a responsibility that he passed onto Willie Aldous in 1970. He ceased hunting for real in 1976 to rejoin a serious career as a London barrister. Aldous achieved considerable success in the practice of intellectual property law that took him all the way to the bench of the Patents Court. William Aldous was head of barristers' chambers at 6 Pump Court, Inner Temple from 1980 to 1988. In 1988 he was appointed to the High Court bench and assigned to the Patents Court of the Chancery Division. In January 1993 his judgment reflected a trend towards the freedom to publish. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldous Harding
Hannah Sian Topp (born 1990), known professionally as Aldous Harding, is a New Zealand folk singer-songwriter, based in Lyttelton, New Zealand. Biography Harding comes from a musical family in Lyttelton, New Zealand. Her mother is folk singer Lorina Harding. One of the first musicians who came across her was New Zealand folk-pop singer/songwriter Anika Moa. Moa asked Harding to play support for her that night after finding her busking outside the venue she was about to play at. She has released music through independent record labels Flying Nun, Spunk, and 4AD. She has collaborated with Marlon Williams, John Parish, Mike Hadreas (also known as Perfume Genius), and Fenne Lily. 4AD announced Harding as a new signing in early 2017 just prior to the release of her second album, ''Party.'' ''Party'' was nominated for IMPALA's European Album of the Year Award. The song "The Barrel", from her third album ''Designer'' (Flying Nun, 4AD, 2019), won the 2019 APRA Silver Scroll awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an undergraduate degree in English literature. Early in his career, he published short stories and poetry and edited the literary magazine ''Oxford Poetry'', before going on to publish travel writing, satire, and screenplays. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
