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Marston (name)
Marston is a surname of English and Scottish origin. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Ann Marston (1938-1971), American archery champion, beauty pageant contestant, and rock band manager * Edward Marston, pseudonym for English detective and historical fiction author Keith Miles * George Marston (other) * Gilman Marston (1811–1890), American politician and soldier from New Hampshire * Hilary D. Marston, American physician-scientist and global health policy advisor * Isaac Marston (1839–1891), American jurist * Jeffery Allen Marston (1831–1911), British surgeon general, honorary surgeon to Queen Victoria and King Edward VII * John Marston (playwright) (1576–1634), English poet and playwright * John Marston, founder of Marston's Brewery in England in 1834 * John Westland Marston (1819–1890), English dramatist * Levi Marston (1816–1904), American sea captain * Marvin Marston, US Army officer, founder of the Alaska Territorial Guard, also calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ward Marston
Henry Ward Marston IV (born 22 May 1952) is an American audio transfer engineer and producer, known for the conservation and reissue of historical recordings. Early life Henry Ward Marston IV, was born in Philadelphia. Blind from birth he began playing the piano at the age of four and, from 1956 to 1964, attended the Overbrook School for the Blind. He was a student of Williams College until 1973, later receiving the Williams College Bicentennial Medal for distinguished achievement in 2005. Throughout this period Marston continued his training in both piano and also the organ, including a period of advanced organ studies with Pierre Cochereau in France during the summer of 1967. In that year also Marston also formed his own jazz group and has subsequently appeared at the Café Carlyle, filling in for Bobby Short, and also at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. Conservation of recordings Marston's introduction to early recordings began when he was five, a chance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And Then There Were None
''And Then There Were None'' is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as ''Ten Little Niggers'', after the children's counting rhyme and minstrel song, which serves as a major plot element. The US edition was released in January 1940 with the title ''And Then There Were None'', taken from the last five words of the song. Successive American reprints and adaptations use that title, though Pocket Books paperbacks used the title ''Ten Little Indians'' between 1964 and 1986. UK editions continued to use the original title until 1985. The book is the world's best-selling mystery, and with over 100 million copies sold is one of the best-selling books of all time. The novel has been listed as the sixth best-selling title (any language, including reference works). Plot ''These details correspond to the text of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snake Marston (comics)
The Enforcers are a team of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually as adversaries of the superheroes Spider-Man and Daredevil. The original Enforcers consisted of Montana (Jackson Brice), the Ox (Raymond Bloch), and Fancy Dan (Daniel Brito). Publication history Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist and co-plotter Steve Ditko, the team's first appearance was in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #10 (March 1964). The Enforcers appear often in the early issues of ''The Amazing Spider-Man'', debuting in #10, and returning in #14 and 18–19, in the latter two issues teaming with the supervillain the Sandman. The team would go on to appear in '' Daredevil'' #356–357 and '' Dazzler'' #7–8, and fight Spider-Man again in ''Marvel Team-Up'' #39–40 and 138, ''Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man'' #19–20, ''Spider-Man'' #94–95, ''Spider-Man'' (vol. 2) #28, and elsewhere. Fictional team biography The Enforcers are a group of hire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quigley Down Under
''Quigley Down Under'' is a 1990 western film directed by Simon Wincer and starring Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, and Laura San Giacomo. Plot Matthew Quigley is an American cowboy with a specially modified rifle with which he can shoot accurately at extraordinary distances. Seeing a newspaper advertisement that asks for a man with his special talent, he answers using just four words: "M. Quigley 900 yards", written on a copy of the advertisement that is punctured by six closely spaced bullet holes. When he arrives in Australia, then part of the British Empire, he gets into a fight with employees of the man who hired him as they try to force "Crazy Cora" onto their wagon. After he identifies himself, he is taken to the station of Elliot Marston, who informs Quigley his sharpshooting skills will be used to eradicate the increasingly elusive Aboriginal Australians. Quigley turns down the offer and throws Marston out of his own house. When the Aboriginal manservant knocks Quigley over t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Long Goodbye (novel)
''The Long Good-bye'' is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1953, his sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe. Some critics consider it inferior to ''The Big Sleep'' or ''Farewell, My Lovely'', but others rank it as the best of his work. Chandler, in a letter to a friend, called the novel "my best book". The novel is notable for using hard-boiled detective fiction as a vehicle for social criticism and for including autobiographical elements from Chandler's life. In 1955, the novel received the Edgar Award for Best Novel. It was later adapted as a 1973 film of the same name, updated to 1970s Los Angeles and starring Elliott Gould. Plot summary The novel opens outside a club in Los Angeles called the Dancers. It is late October or early November; no year is given, but internal evidence and the publication date of the novel places it between 1950 and 1952. Philip Marlowe meets a drunk named Terry Lennox, who has scars on one side of his face. They f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Dead Redemption
''Red Dead Redemption'' is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games. A spiritual successor to 2004's ''Red Dead Revolver'', it is the second game in the ''Red Dead'' series. ''Red Dead Redemption'' is set during the decline of the American frontier in the year 1911 and follows John Marston (Red Dead), John Marston, a former outlaw whose wife and son are taken hostage by the government in ransom for his services as a hired gun. Having no other choice, Marston sets out to bring three members of his former gang to justice. The game is played from a Third-person view, third-person perspective. The player may Nonlinear gameplay, freely roam in its interactive open world, a fictionalized version of the Western United States and Northern Mexico, primarily by Equestrianism, horseback and on foot. Gunfights emphasize a gunslinger gameplay mechanic called "Dead Eye" that allows players to mark multiple shooting targets on enemies in Bull ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Marston (character)
John Marston is a fictional character in the ''Red Dead'' video game series by Rockstar Games. He is the main playable protagonist of the 2010 video game ''Red Dead Redemption'', wherein he must deal with the decline of the Wild West while being forced to hunt down the last surviving members of his old gang in exchange for the safe return of his family by the federal government. John is also the protagonist of ''Undead Nightmare'', a non-canonical, zombie apocalypse-themed expansion pack, and the secondary playable character of the 2018 prequel, ''Red Dead Redemption 2''. The latter game depicts John's life in the gang prior to its demise, and later his attempts to start an honest life with his family. Rob Wiethoff portrays John Marston in both games through performance capture. The character was developed to be a nuanced, family-focused character in the first game. When returning for the prequel, Wiethoff looked to his younger life for inspiration. The writers felt that John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marston Morse
Harold Calvin Marston Morse (March 24, 1892 – June 22, 1977) was an American mathematician best known for his work on the ''calculus of variations in the large'', a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known as Morse theory. The Morse–Palais lemma, one of the key results in Morse theory, is named after him, as is the Thue–Morse sequence, an infinite binary sequence with many applications. In 1933 he was awarded the Bôcher Memorial Prize for his work in mathematical analysis. Biography He was born in Waterville, Maine to Ella Phoebe Marston and Howard Calvin Morse in 1892. He received his bachelor's degree from Colby College (also in Waterville) in 1914. At Harvard University, he received both his master's degree in 1915 and his PhD in 1917. He wrote his PhD thesis, ''Certain Types of Geodesic Motion of a Surface of Negative Curvature'', under the direction of George David Birkhoff. Morse was a Benjamin Peirce Instructor at Harvard in 191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marston Conder
Marston Donald Edward Conder (born 9 September 1955) is a New Zealand mathematician, a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Auckland University,Staff directory listing entry Auckland U. Mathematics, retrieved 22 January 2013. and the former co-director of the New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. His main research interests are in , , and their connections with each other. Education and career Conder was born in |
Marston Clarke Buszard
Marston Clarke Buszard Queen's Counsel, Q.C. (13 July 1837 – 11 September 1921) was an English barrister and a Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons from 1880 to 1885. Buszard was born in Lutterworth. Leicestershire, the eldest son of Marston Buszard MD and his wife Sarah Catherine Clarke, eldest daughter of John Clarke of Peatling Hall who was High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1820. Buszard was educated at Rugby School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded BA 1st Class in Law and 12th senior optime in 1860, the Chancellor's medal for Legal Studies in 1863 and MA and LLM in 1863. He was called to Bar at Inner Temple in 1862 and became Queen's Counsel in 1877 and a Bencher of his Inn in 1880. Buszard was leader of the Midland Circuit for 31 years and was leading counsel to the Post Office on the Midland Circuit. At the 1874 United Kingdom general election, 1874 general election, Buszar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marston T
Marston may refer to: Places United Kingdom *Marston, Cheshire, a village and civil parish * Marston, Herefordshire, a hamlet *Marston, Lincolnshire, a village and civil parish *Marston, Oxford, a village in Oxfordshire * Marston, Church Eaton, a location in Staffordshire *Marston, Milwich, a village and civil parish in Staffordshire * Marston, North Warwickshire, a location in Lea Marston parish, Warwickshire * Marston, Rugby, a location in Wolston parish, Warwickshire *Marston, Wiltshire, a village and civil parish *Marston Meysey or Marston Maisey, Wiltshire. a village and civil parish *South Marston, Swindon, Wiltshire, a village and civil parish United States *Marston, Illinois, an unincorporated community *Marston, Missouri, a city * Marston, Maryland, an unincorporated community *Marston, North Carolina, an unincorporated community * Marston Lake, a reservoir in Denver, Colorado Elsewhere *Marston, Quebec, Canada, a township municipality * Mount Marston, Victoria Land, Antar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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