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The Tiffin Girls' School
("Dare to be Wise") , established = , closed = , type = Grammar Academy , religious_affiliation = , president = , head_label = Headteacher , head = Ian Keary , r_head_label = , r_head = , chair_label = Chair of Governors , chair = Sarah Beeching , founders = Thomas and John Tiffin , address = Richmond Road , city = Kingston upon Thames , county = London , country = England , postcode = KT2 5PL , ofsted = yes , dfeno = 314/4010 , urn = 136615 , staff = 72 , enrolment = approx. 1200 , capacity = 1001 , gender = Girls , lower_age = 11 , upper_age = 18 , houses = Bebbington, Flavell, Nicolle, Orford, Schofield, Watson , colours = Blue and white , publication = , free_label_1 = Former pupils , free_1 = Tiffin Old Girls' / Tiffin Girls' alumnae , free_label_2 = , free_2 = , free_label_3 = , free ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sapere Aude
''Sapere aude'' is the Latin phrase meaning "Dare to know"; and also is loosely translated as “Have courage to use your own reason”, "Dare to know things through reason", or even more loosely as "Dare to be wise". Originally used in the '' First Book of Letters'' (20 BC), by the Roman poet Horace, the phrase ''Sapere aude'' became associated with the Age of Enlightenment, during the 17th and 18th centuries, after Immanuel Kant used it in the essay, " Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" (1784). As a philosopher, Kant claimed the phrase ''Sapere aude'' as the motto for the entire period of the Enlightenment, and used it to develop his theories of the application of reason in the public sphere of human affairs. In the 20th century, in the essay "What is Enlightenment?" (1984) Michel Foucault took up Kant's formulation of "dare to know" in an attempt to find a place for the individual man and woman in post-structuralist philosophy, and so come to terms with the proble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland (European Parliament Constituency)
Scotland ( sco, Scotland, gd, Alba ) was a constituency of the European Parliament created in 1999. It elected between eight and six Members of the European Parliament, MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation every 5 years from 1999 until 2020, when the constituency was abolished after the United Kingdom Brexit, left the European Union on 31 January 2020. Boundaries The constituency's boundaries were the same as those of Scotland, one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. History The constituency was formed as a result of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999, replacing a number of single-member constituencies. These were Glasgow (European Parliament constituency), Glasgow, Highlands and Islands (European Parliament constituency), Highlands and Islands, Lothians (European Parliament constituency), Lothians, Mid Scotland and Fife (European Parliament constituency), Mid Scotland and Fife, North East Scotland (European Parliament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Hoggart
Amy Hoggart (born 14 April 1986) is a British-American stand-up comedian and actress, best known for starring in '' Almost Royal'', a faux-reality show on BBC America, and ''Full Frontal with Samantha Bee'', an American political satire show on TBS. Early life Amy Hoggart was born 14 April 1986 in Washington, D.C.Horst, Carole (4 March 2016)"International Star You Should Know: English Actress Amy Hoggart" ''Variety''. She is the daughter of English journalist and broadcaster Simon Hoggart, who was a correspondent for ''The Observer'' in the 1980s. She has a brother named Richard, after their grandfather Richard Hoggart, an academic of British culture. Her uncle Paul Hoggart is a TV critic. Hoggart's family moved back to the U.K. when she was four years old. While earning a BA in English literature at King's College, Cambridge, Hoggart performed with Footlights. She went on to earn a master's degree in experimental psychology from the University of Sussex. Career Hoggart init ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloe Hayward
Chloe Hayward is an English fashion model and actress from London. Early life and education Hayward attended Tiffin Girls' School. She studied English and Drama at the University of Birmingham. Breakthrough Hayward was discovered after being spotted by Sarah Leon, an agent of Next Model Management. Whilst still at school, she appeared on the covers of such publications as Glamour, The Independent MagazineTalent issue - the model: Chloe Hayward '''' and Tank Magazine. In 2007, Hayward fronted the |
Phyllis Ginger
Phyllis Ethel Ginger (19 October 1907 – 3 May 2005) was a British artist and illustrator who, although she had a long career in several different media, is now best known for the topographical watercolours she produced during the Second World War for the Recording Britain project. Ginger was also a prolific book illustrator and designer of graphic advertisements and book covers. Biography Ginger was born in New Malden, Surrey, and attended the Tiffin Girls' School in Kingston upon Thames, where she showed some aptitude for art and attended evening classes at Kingston School of Art. Although her father, who worked for the Post Office, was an amateur artist her parents persuaded Ginger of the need for a more conventional career and she spent some years working as a junior civil servant. In 1932, Ginger enrolled at the Richmond School of Art and then began taking evening classes at the Central School of Art and Design. Aged 30, she won a scholarship which allowed her to attend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Gascoigne
Jill Viola Gascoine (11 April 1937 – 28 April 2020) was an English actress and novelist. She portrayed Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in the 1980s television series ''The Gentle Touch'' and its spin-off series '' C.A.T.S. Eyes''. In the 1990s, she also became a novelist and published three books. Early life Gascoine was born in Lambeth, the daughter of Francis Gascoine, a Quantity Surveyor, and his wife Irene, née Greenwood. She was sent to a boarding school, which she hated, later explaining that she was ridiculed by schoolteachers. After leaving school, in the 1950s, she went to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to appear in a revue.Brian Pendreigh,"Obituary: Jill Gascoine, actress who played the first female police detective on British television" '' The Herald'', 1 May 2020 Career Early in her career in the 1950s, Gascoine was a soubrette in a Great Britain tour of the '' Crazy Gang Show''. In 1956, she was a chorus dancer in the Christmas season of ''The Adventures of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
