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Blunden is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alice Blunden (died 1674), the subject of a notorious account of premature burial *Andy Blunden (born 1945), Australian writer and Marxist philosopher * Anna Blunden (1829–1915), English pre-Raphaelite artist * Arthur Blunden (1906–1984), English cricketer *Bill Blunden, British television and film editor * Bill Blunden (author), non-fiction writer *Edmund Blunden (1896–1974), English poet, author and critic * Godfrey Blunden (1906–1996), Australian journalist and author *Jeraldyne Blunden (1940–1999), American choreographer *John Blunden (politician) (1695–1752), Irish politician *Sir John Blunden, 1st Baronet (1718–1783), Irish baronet and politician *Mike Blunden (born 1986), Canadian ice hockey player *Peter Blunden, Australian publisher See also *Blunden baronets of Castle Blunden in the County of Kilkenny, a title in the Baronetage of Ireland * Blunden Harbour, British Columbia, small harbour and na ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alice Blunden
Alice Blunden (died 1674), of Basingstoke, was the subject of a notorious early modern account of premature burial. Marriage Alice Davies, the daughter of John Davies, married William Blunden of Basingstoke on 3 November 1656. The Blundens were a well-established local family who make regular appearances in the municipal records from the 16th century onwards. In 1671 the couple were plaintiffs in litigation brought in relation to property in Basingstoke but Mrs Blunden's notability rests entirely upon the circumstances of her death. Death A brief account was published in 1748, but the only detailed description appears in a tract which can be dated from internal evidence to the year 1675. The tract is quoted in its entirety in Baigent and Millard's ''History of Basingstoke''. According to this urtext, William Blunden was a maltster and his wife was “a fat, gross woman”, who “had accustomed herself many times to drink brandy”. One evening she imbibed a large quantity of pop ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mike Blunden
Michael Charles Blunden (born December 15, 1986) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger. Over his professional career, Blunden has appeared in over 100 National Hockey League (NHL) games with the Ottawa Senators, Tampa Bay Lightning, Montreal Canadiens, Columbus Blue Jackets and Chicago Blackhawks. Playing career Blunden was drafted 43rd overall in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft by the Chicago Blackhawks from the Erie Otters of the Ontario Hockey League. After his final year with the Otters, Blunden signed a three-year entry level contract with the Chicago Blackhawks on May 24, 2006. Months prior to signing he made his professional debut with affiliate of the Blackhawks, the Norfolk Admirals of the AHL, for the 2005–06 playoff run. Blunden made his NHL debut in the 2006–07 season with the Blackhawks playing in 9 games. His season was cut short when he suffered a shoulder injury on December 10, 2006, ruling him out for the rest of the season. On January 10, 2009, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blunder (other) , which has been used both as a synonym for "howler" and for more material blunders
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A blunder refers to a "stupid, careless mistake". Specific instances include: * Blunder (chess), a very poor move in chess * Hopetoun Blunder, an event in Australian history * Brand blunder, in marketing * Draft blunder, in American sports * Himalayan Blunder, in Indian history Television * ''Blunder'' (TV series), a British comedy programme first shown on E4 in 2006 See also There are various colloquial terms, as a rule with slightly different connotations, for various forms and contexts of blunder. For example: * Boner Boner may refer to: People with the name * Boner (surname) Arts, entertainment, and media * Boner Records, a California-based independent label * Boner Stabone, a recurring character on the TV series ''Growing Pains'' * ''Boner's Ark'', a comic ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blundell
Blundell is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: *Bryan Blundell (c. 1675–1756), English merchant and slave trader *Christine Blundell (born 1961), British make-up artist *Daphne Blundell (1916–2004), British naval officer *Denis Blundell (1907–1984), Governor-General of New Zealand *Sir Francis Blundell, 3rd Baronet (1643–1707), Irish baronet and politician *Graeme Blundell (born 1945), Australian actor, director, producer, writer and biographer *Gregg Blundell (born 1977), English footballer *Hannah Blundell (born 1994), English footballer * Henry Blundell (art collector) (1724–1810), English art collector * Henry Blundell (MP) (1831–1906), British MP *Henry Blundell (publisher) (1813–1878), New Zealand newspaper publisher *James Blundell (physician) (1791–1878), British obstetrician * James Blundell (singer) (born 1964), Australian country music singer *John Blundell (actor) (21st century), British actor *John Blundell (ec ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blindern
Blindern is the main campus of the University of Oslo, located in Nordre Aker in Oslo, Norway. Campus Most of the departments of the University of Oslo are located at Blindern; other, smaller campuses include Sentrum (law), Gaustad (medicine), St. Hanshaugen (odontology) and Tøyen (botany, zoology, geology and paleontology). The central building is the new university library, Georg Sverdrup's house. Other buildings of note are Eilert Sundt's house, the social studies building; the humanities buildings, named after Sophus Bugge, Henrik Wergeland, Niels Treschow and P. A. Munch; Frederikke, the welfare building; and Niels Henrik Abel's house, for mathematical studies, the biology building, named after Kristine Bonnevie, the first female professor at Oslo University. Though the construction of a university campus at Blindern was decided on as early as 1921, the first buildings were not ready for use before 1931. Only in 1960 was Upper Blindern, the area most associate with the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Amazing Mr Blunden
''The Amazing Mr. Blunden'' is a 1972 British family mystery film involving ghosts directed by Lionel Jeffries. It was based on the 1969 novel '' The Ghosts'' by Antonia Barber. It stars Laurence Naismith, Lynne Frederick, Garry Miller, Rosalyn Landor, Marc Granger, Diana Dors, Madeline Smith, and James Villiers. Plot In 1918, war widow, Mrs. Allen (Dorothy Alison) and her children, Lucy (Lynne Frederick), Jamie ( Garry Miller) and baby Benjamin are reduced to living in a squalid Camden Town flat. Just before Christmas, a mysterious old man, Mr Frederick Percival Blunden (Laurence Naismith) visits the family, introducing himself as a representative of a firm of solicitors. The family are told there is an opportunity to become the caretakers of a derelict country mansion in the Home Counties named Langley Park, which was gutted by fire years before, and is now in the charge of the solicitors. Mrs. Allen takes the post despite rumours that the house is haunted, her instructions ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blunden Harbour, British Columbia
Blunden Harbour is a small harbour and native Indian reserve in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is located the mainland side of Queen Charlotte Strait about northeast of Port Hardy. Blunden Harbour was the location of a Kwakwaka'wakw village, whose residents referred to themselves as the 'Nak'waxda'xw and are known historically as the Nakoaktok.Ronald W. Hawker. Yakuglas' Legacy: The Art and Times of Charlie James'. University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division; 6 January 2017. . p. 88–. History The location was named Blunden Harbour in 1863 by Daniel Pender, R.N., Captain of H.M. hired surveying vessel Beaver, after his 2nd Master Edward Raynor Blunden. Blunden Island, Blunden Rock and Blunden Passage are also named for Blunden. Although they moved about in the area between Cape Caution, Blunden Harbour and Seymour Inlet, by 1884 the 'Nak'waxda'xw had established a winter village at Blunden Harbour. The Kwak'wala name for this location is altern ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blunden Baronets
The Blunden Baronetcy, of Castle Blunden, in the County of Kilkenny, is a title in the Baronetage of Ireland, created on 12 March 1766 for John Blunden, who represented Kilkenny City in the Irish House of Commons. He was the son of John Blunden, a Member of Parliament for the same constituency. Blunden baronets, of Castle Blunden (1766) *Sir John Blunden, 1st Baronet Sir John Blunden, 1st Baronet (c. 1718 – January 1783) was an Irish baronet and politician. He was the only son of John Blunden and his wife Martha Cuffe, daughter of Agmondesham Cuffe. In 1739, Blunden was called to the bar at the Middle Tem ... (died 1783) *Sir John Blunden, 2nd Baronet (1767–1818) *Sir John Blunden, 3rd Baronet (1814–1890) *Sir William Blunden, 4th Baronet (1840–1923) *Sir John Blunden, 5th Baronet (1880–1923) *Sir William Blunden, 6th Baronet (1919–1985) *Sir Philip Overington Blunden, 7th Baronet (1922–2007) *Sir Hubert Blunden, 8th Baronet (born 1948) Notes References ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Peter Blunden
Peter Blunden was the Managing Director of ''The Herald and Weekly Times'', publisher of News Limited titles in Victoria, Australia; the ''Herald Sun'', ''Sunday Herald Sun'', ''The Weekly Times'' and '' mX''. A journalist, he was appointed to this role in 2001, after serving as the editor of the ''Herald Sun''. The man to whom he reported, John Hartigan, said about him "He's a person who certainly expresses energy in everything he does". He is a board member of the Alannah and Madeline Foundation and the Royal Children's Hospital The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) is a major children's hospital in Melbourne, Australia. As a major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria, the Royal Children's Hospital provides a full range of clinical services, tertiary care, as well ... Foundation. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Blunden, Peter Living people Australian journalists Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sir John Blunden, 1st Baronet
Sir John Blunden, 1st Baronet (c. 1718 – January 1783) was an Irish baronet and politician. He was the only son of John Blunden and his wife Martha Cuffe, daughter of Agmondesham Cuffe. In 1739, Blunden was called to the bar at the Middle Temple and worked then as barrister. He was appointed Mayor of Kilkenny in 1753 and served as recorder of that city until his death. Blunden entered the Irish House of Commons in 1761, sitting for Kilkenny City, the same constituency his father had also represented, until 1776. On 12 March 1766, he was created a baronet, of Blunden Castle, in the County of Kilkenny. On 25 February 1755, he married his cousin Susanna, daughter of John Cuffe, 1st Baron Desart and had by her three sons and four daughters. Blunden died at Castle Blunden in 1783 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his oldest son John. His third son Overington was a general in the British Army and sat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United K ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andy Blunden
Andy Blunden (born 11 October 1945) is an Australian writer and Marxist philosopher based in Melbourne. Biography Blunden is a member and secretary of the Marxists Internet Archive Collective (or Marxists.org), a website which contains many Marxist and Marxist related text on history, philosophy and politics along with many other topics. Another internet project Blunden is involved with is the " Marx Myths & Legends". This website hosts many articles of prominent Marxian scholars and activists dealing with misunderstandings and slander surrounding Marx and his ideas. His published works cover topics from Hegel to post-structuralism to ethics and politics. Blunden is a self-described "Hegelian Marxist with a 'pragmatist twist' using Lev Vygotsky." Works Books''Stalinism: Its Origin & Future.''1993.1997. , At Wikisource''For Ethical Politics.''2003. * ''An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity.'' Leiden: Brill, 201(hardback) Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012 (paperback). * '' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Blunden (politician)
John Blunden (c. 1695 – 8 January 1752) was an Irish politician. He was named after his father and entered the Irish House of Commons in 1727, sitting for Kilkenny City until his death in 1752. Blunden married Martha Cuffe, only surviving daughter of Agmondesham Cuffe and sister of John Cuffe, 1st Baron Desart and had by her five sons. His only surviving son John succeeded his father as Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o .... References 1690s births 1752 deaths Irish MPs 1727–1760 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kilkenny constituencies Mayors of Kilkenny {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |