|
Verities
Verity (''alias'' Veretie, Verety, Verita, Veritie, etc.) is a female first name and a surname. As a first name it derives from the Latin feminine noun ''veritas'', meaning "truth". It is thus an equivalent of Alethea, a female first name first used in England ''circa'' 1585, derived from the ancient and modern Greek feminine noun ''αλήθεια'' (pronounced "al-ee-thia"), meaning "truth". It was adopted in England as a Puritan and Quaker virtue name, truthfulness being considered as a desirable attribute especially in women, and following a new Protestant tradition of naming children after virtues instead of saints in order to avoid idolatry. Verity is also a surname, which may have more ancient unrelated origins, possibly being a corruption of a similar word.Surnames had been adopted by families in England centuries before the Puritan era First name * Verity Crawley (born 1994), English professional bowler * Verity Barton (born 1985), Australian (Queensland) politician * Veri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-Romance, a descendant of the Latin spoken in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien language, Francien) largely supplanted. It was also substratum (linguistics), influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul and by the Germanic languages, Germanic Frankish language of the post-Roman Franks, Frankish invaders. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 16th century onward, it was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole, were established. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling. It is the sixth and penultimate novel in the ''Harry Potter'' series, and takes place during Harry Potter's sixth year at the wizard school Hogwarts. The novel reveals events from the early life of Lord Voldemort, and chronicles Harry's preparations for the final battle against him. The book was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury and in the United States by Scholastic on 16 July 2005, as well as in several other countries. It sold almost seven million copies in the first 24 hours after its release, a record eventually broken by its sequel, ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows''. There were many controversies before and after it was published, including the right-to-read copies delivered before the release date in Canada. Reception to the novel was generally positive, and it won several awards and honours, including the 2006 British Book of the Year award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Operations Executive
Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local Resistance during World War II, resistance movements during World War II. SOE personnel operated in all territories occupied or attacked by the Axis powers, except where demarcation lines were agreed upon with Britain's principal Allies of World War II, Allies, the United States and the Soviet Union. SOE made use of neutral territory on occasion, or made plans and preparations in case neutral countries were attacked by the Axis. The organisation directly employed or controlled more than 13,000 people, of whom 3,200 were women. Both men and women served as agents in Axis-occupied countries. The organisation was dissolved in 1946. A memorial to those who served in SOE was unveiled in 1996 on the wall of the west cloister of Westminster Abbey by the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Queen Mother, and in 2009 on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). Following the Allies of World War I, Allied victory over the Central Powers in 1918, the RAF emerged as the largest air force in the world at the time. Since its formation, the RAF has played History of the Royal Air Force, a significant role in Military history of the United Kingdom, British military history. In particular, during the Second World War, the RAF established Air supremacy, air superiority over Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain, and led the Allied strategic bombing effort. The RAF's mission is to support the objectives of the British Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Ministry of Defence (MOD), which are to "provide the capabilities nee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Verity
Hugh Verity, (6 April 1918 – 14 November 2001) was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and later a "special duties" squadron pilot working with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. He landed many times at clandestine airfields in occupied France to insert and extract SOE agents. He was decorated for gallantry five times. Early life Verity was born in Jamaica, the son of Dorothy and the Reverend George Beresford Verity. Pre-war, he was a frequent traveller by sea between England, Kingston, Jamaica, Bermuda and South America, where he spent some time and learned to speak Spanish. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Queen’s College, Oxford, where he joined Oxford University Air Squadron. After graduation, he taught in schools in Northern Ireland. He joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and was commissioned as a pilot officer on 8 November 1938. Royal Air Force On 8 May 1940 he was promoted flying officer, and in September 1940 was serving wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hedley Verity
Hedley Verity (18 May 1905 – 31 July 1943) was a professional cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club, Yorkshire and England national cricket team, England between 1930 and 1939. A Left-arm orthodox spin, slow left-arm orthodox bowler, he took 1,956 Wicket#Dismissing a batsman, wickets in first-class cricket at an Bowling average, average of 14.90 and 144 wickets in 40 Test cricket, Tests at an average of 24.37. Named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year, ''Wisden'' Cricketers of the Year in 1932, he is regarded as one of the most effective slow left-arm bowlers to have played cricket. Never someone who spun the ball sharply, he achieved success through the accuracy of his bowling. On pitches which made batting difficult, particularly ones Sticky wicket, affected by rain, he could be almost impossible to bat against. Verity was born in Leeds and, from an early age, wished to play cricket for Yorkshire. After establishing a good reputation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Verity
Joshua Marland "Fred" Verity (11 April 1847 – 5 February 1897) was an English engineer, inventor, iron founder, Metalsmith, brass-founder, manufacturer and retailer of ironmongery in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. With his brother Edwin, and later with his sons, he ran foundries, a workshop in Hunslet, and a large store in Leeds city centre, under the name of Verity Brothers, then Fred Verity & Sons. With Edwin he registered patents for new or improved fittings and gadgets, and produced and sold cast iron products of his era, such as kitchen ranges, manhole covers, Fireplace mantel, fireplaces, lawn mowers and roller (agricultural tool), rollers, baths, mangle (machine), mangles and other household goods, besides brass fittings. The Verity Brothers won medals at exhibitions for the design of some of their products. Background Verity's parents were the stone mason and contractor Charles Verity, mayor of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and his first wife Harriet Marland, daughter of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsie Eleanor Verity
Elsie Eleanor Verity (14 August 1894 – 9 June 1971) was known as "The First Lady of the motor trade". Biography Elsie Eleanor Verity was also known as Miss E E Verity and was born in Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire, in 1894 to William and Lilly Verity. William Verity came from a metalworking family. He began as a whitesmith, then a fitter and began a building bikes which became a motor garage in Manchester. Education Verity attended Manchester Central High School and at 16 she left school and began learning engineering from her father. He had already taught her to drive when she was 13. By the time she was 14, Verity was teaching driving. On her sixteenth birthday in 1910, she was sent by her father to drive a car back from London to Manchester (well over 200 miles), accompanied by a garage employee who had been instructed that she was to drive the entire way herself. Verity went to the Manchester College of Technology and Manchester High School of Commerce where she took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Hamilton Verity
Claude Hamilton Verity (1 May 1880 – 15 August 1949) was a Household hardware, hardware merchant, audio engineer, sound engineer and inventor, working mainly in Harrogate and Leeds, England. He was one of the earliest inventors of methods of synchronisation of sound with silent films. For that purpose, and working alone, he invented the Veritiphone, a sound box which could be operated by staff in Movie theater, cinema projection rooms. In the 1920s he demonstrated his invention in various locations in England, and also in New York City, New York for the Vitagraph Studios, Vitagraph Company of America. Background Claude Hamilton Verity came from a Yorkshire family. His grandfather was railway ganger and stonemason Charles Verity, "a man of comparatively little education" who recalled "the days when he went from town to town in search of work, with his tools on his back, [and] the humble meals he was wont to eat under the shelter of the friendly hedge". He rose to be a wealthy c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Verity
Charlotte Verity, Lady Le Brun (born 1 June 1954) is a British painter and printmaker. She lives and works in Somerset, England. In 2016, a monograph on her work, titled ''Charlotte Verity'', was published by Ridinghouse. Biography Born in Germany, Verity studied at the Slade School of Art from 1973 to 1977, receiving a prize in her final year. In 1978, she was awarded a Boise travelling scholarship, which she used to study in Italy. Verity has participated in group exhibitions such as the John Moores Painting Prize, the Whitechapel Gallery Open, the ''Hayward Annual'', the ''Discerning Eye'' and the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition. She has held solo exhibitions at Anne Berthoud Gallery (1984, 1988, 1990), Browse and Darby (1998, 2002, 2007), Purdy Hicks Gallery (2016), the Garden Museum in London (2011 and 2018), and the New Art Centre in Wiltshire (2019). In 2001, Verity joined the faculty of the Royal Drawing School in London, where she continues to teach. In 2010, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Verity
Charles Verity (27 August 1814 – 4 December 1899) was an English stone mason, building contractor and Civic mayor of Doncaster, mayor of Doncaster. He began his career as an itinerant Navvy, railway ganger but, after his ability was noticed by railway engineer Charles Bartholomew, he received building contracts, including the Frodingham Viaduct, which started him on the road to a successful career as a building contractor. He became a wealthy man and was elected mayor of Doncaster in 1881. He sired a large family, and two of his descendants were Charles Henry Verity owner of the Swinton Wagon and Railway Wheel works, and "principal in the firm of Verity & Son, wheel, tire, ''(sic)'' and axle manufacturers at Swinton, South Yorkshire, Swinton", and the inventor Claude Hamilton Verity. Background Charles Verity was born in the Wakefield area to a family of stone masons, but he ultimately settled in Doncaster. His grandfather was John Verity senior, a stone mason of Upper Green, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Verity
Anthony Courtenay Froude Verity (born 25 February 1939) is an educationalist and classical scholar and was Master of Dulwich College from 1986 to 1995. Early life He was born the son of Arthur and Alice Kathleen Verity. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, Bristol and then went on to Pembroke College, Cambridge from where he received his MA. In 1962 he married Patricia Ann Siddall with whom he has one son and one daughter.''Who’s Who 2004'', page 2251, (A&C Black: London) Career Having completed his education he went on to become Assistant Master from 1962 to 1965 at Dulwich College, the school he would later head. He then went on to Manchester Grammar School until 1969 when he took up the post as Head of Classics at Bristol Grammar School, a position he held until 1976. Whilst at the school he became editor of the publication Greece and Rome (from 1971 until 1977). In 1976 he took up his first headmastership at Leeds Grammar School from where he left to become Maste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
