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  Arthur Conan Doyle
Doyle himself was not a good example of rational personality: he believed in fairies and was interested in occultism.
Doyle's mother, Mary, whom he called "the Ma'am," was interested in literature, and she encouraged his son to explore the world of books.
Doyle was knighted in 1902 and in 1900 and 1906 he also ran unsuccessfully for Parliament.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /acdoyle.htm   (2100 words)

  
 Arthur Conan Doyle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conan Doyle was involved even in the campaign for the reform of the Congo Free State, led by the journalist E.
The second case—that of Oscar Slater, a German Jew and gambling-den operator convicted of bludgeoning an 82-year-old woman in Glasgow in 1908—excited Doyle's curiosity because of inconsistencies in the prosecution case and a general sense that Slater was framed.
Doyle was friends for a time with the American magician Harry Houdini, a prominent opponent of the Spiritualist movement.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle   (1523 words)

  
 Doyle (Angel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doyle came to Angel who had just moved to Los Angeles after having said goodbye to Buffy in Sunnydale.
Doyle had something of a fancy for Cordelia Chase, the other worker in Angel Investigations.
Doyle eventually gave his life to save others of another half-breed demon race, but before doing so he shared a final kiss with Cordelia, causing the gift of visions to pass over to her so that she could continue giving Angel the information he needed in his quest of "Helping the Helpless".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doyle_(Angel)   (352 words)

  
 Doyle coat of arms
John Francis Shearman asserts that the eponymous ancestor of the east Leinster Doyles was Dubhghilla, son of Bruadar, King of Idrone (Co. Carlow) in 851.
The fact that the Doyles don't appear among the traditional genealogies and also the fact that they are found in areas where the Danes were known to have strongholds supports the general view of their Scandinavian origin.
Sir John Doyle (1756-1834), a general, was one of the four sons of Charles Doyle of Bramblestown.
www.araltas.com /features/doyle   (2789 words)

  
 Arthur Conan Doyle - Biography and Works
Arthur Conan Doyle was born to a family of Roman Catholics in Edinburgh, in 1859.
Doyle married Louise Hawkins in 1884 and then in 1885 he graduated as a doctor from Edinburgh University.
Doyle followed his first novel with The Sign of Four and then in 1891 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was incrementally published by the Strand Magazine.
www.online-literature.com /doyle   (428 words)

  
 Arthur Conan Doyle, Spiritualism, and Fairies
Doyle was a credulous dupe for various kinds of nonsense.
Doyle and other believers were also not troubled by the fact that the fairy's wings never showed blurred movement, even in the picture of the fairy calmly posed suspended in mid-air.
Doyle's belief in spiritualism, convinced many people that the creator of Sherlock Holmes was not as bright as his fictional creation.
www.lhup.edu /~dsimanek/doyle.htm   (2526 words)

  
 Office of the Governor:  Biography
Governor Doyle also created a pharmaceutical purchasing pool that will help reduce the cost of prescription drug purchases for state employees and will be expanded to allow companies to share in the savings generated from the buying power of the state.
Governor Doyle signed a health care co-op bill that will help farm families lower health care costs by creating five regional health care purchasing alliances to negotiate better coverage, lower premiums for farmers, and improve health care delivery for farmers and others who are underinsured.
Governor Doyle’s parents were founding members of the modern Democratic Party in Wisconsin and he credits them for instilling in him the belief that politics and government are honorable professions, and that public service is a way to improve people’s lives.
www.wisgov.state.wi.us /biography.asp   (908 words)

  
 Powells.com Interviews - Roddy Doyle
Doyle: No, not that I know of, but I've only been home five days in the last five or six weeks, so I feel a bit out of touch.
Doyle: I was given it on Saturday, yeah.
Doyle: In The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, music allowed me, without getting boring and pedantic, to put a kind of date on her life.
www.powells.com /authors/doyle.html   (4132 words)

  
 The UnMuseum - Arthur Conan Doyle
Conan Doyle was fearful that Houdini, and the other magicians attending, would take the opportunity to ridicule his spiritualistic beliefs.
Many of the people at the meeting knew of Conan Doyle's beliefs and were aware that he owned a collection of "psychic photographs" (pictures supposedly showing ghosts, fairys, etc.) and may have connected them with Conan Doyle's comments and the motion picture equipment.
Conan Doyle started by telling the audience that he would answer no questions about the movie they were about to see, but said, "These pictures are not occult, but they are psychic because everything that emanates from the human spirit or human brain is psychic.
unmuseum.mus.pa.us /doyle.htm   (630 words)

  
 Geometry.Net - Authors: Doyle Arthur Conan
Doyle himself was not a good example of rational personality: he believed in fairies and was interested in occultism.
He is sometimes called Conan Doyle He was born in Edinburgh and sent to Jesuit preparatory school at the age of nine, and by the time he left the school in, he had firmly rejected Catholicism and probably Christianity in general, to become an agnostic.
By 1849 Doyle was identified by the public with his fairy drawings, and this association was to continue throughout the rest of his career, even when he had turned from book and magazine illustration to gallery paintings.
www4.geometry.net /authors/doyle_arthur_conan.html   (2512 words)

  
 Doyle.html
His first three novels, known as the Barrytown trilogy, focused on the Rabbittes, a family of eight whose lives are a mixture of "high comedy, depressing poverty and domestic chaos" (Turbide).
In the past, Doyle's raw portrayal of working-class Ireland has received as much censure as praise in his native country.
In Doyle's world, the lives are tough, and the language is rough, but beauty and tenderness survive amid the bleakness.
www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Doyle.html   (674 words)

  
 Arthur Doyle
Arthur Roy Doyle was the second boy born into a family of 5 living in the American deep south - Birmingham, Alabama that is. There were five children in the family all told, that's the way things were done then.
It is very clear that Arthur's parents were hard working and loving people - all five of their children family were to go on to achieve degrees of higher education, in fact, all but one (Arthur) hold advanced degrees (stand fast - Art is currently in progress with his degree in composition).
Doyle sounds particularly otherworldly for the first several minutes and there is a delay being produced by an overactive sound man. Doyle teams with longtime stalwart Rudolph Grey and a new rhythm section in the phenomenal Wilbur Morris and monster drummer Tom Surgal.
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 Richard Doyle
the son of the cartoonist, John Doyle, was born in London in in 1824.
As well as producing political cartoons, Doyle designed the the famous Punch cover that was used by the magazine between 1849 to 1956.
Doyle, like his father, was a devout Roman Catholic, and in 1850 he resigned from Punch in protest over the magazine's hostility to the Pope.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JdoyleR.htm   (300 words)

  
 Filmtracks: Patrick Doyle
Doyle graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1974 where he studied piano and singing.
Doyle later worked with director Judi Dench on both the theatre and television productions of "Look Back in Anger" and then completed a world tour with the Renaissance Theatre Company, for which he was both composer and musical director for the company's productions of "King Lear" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
Doyle's 1994 score for Sense and Sensibility was nominated for a Golden Globe, an Oscar for 'Best Original Dramatic Score,' and a BAFTA nomination for 'Best Film Score.' In 1996, Hamlet, a four hour epic directed by Kenneth Branagh for Castle Rock, received an Oscar nomination.
www.filmtracks.com /composers/doyle.shtml   (659 words)

  
 Doyle Sailmakers
Doyle Sailmakers provides sailors around the world with better engineered sails and unparalleled personal service.
Doyle designers integrate lessons learned at all levels of competition to enhance the performance of Doyle sails around the world.
The diverse skills and teamwork of Doyle sailmakers combines leading design theory with real-world experience to create sails that make real boats go real fast, time and time again.
www.doylesails.com   (64 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Doyle
There are some six hundred of them in the British Museum, and taken altogether they form a most interesting and graphic representation of the political history of England of the time.
Doyle retired from professional work seventeen years before his death.
He preserved his incognito to the very last and few people were aware of the fact that the initials on the caricatures formed his signature.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05151b.htm   (302 words)

  
 Doyle Brunson Biography & Interview
Doyle Brunson is to poker what Babe Ruth was to baseball -- a larger-than-life giant of a man who not only helped to revolutionize and popularize the game he loved, but set the standard for achievement and excellence by which all other players are measured.
DOYLE BRUNSON: I'm just a country farm boy who grew up in a tiny town of less than 100 people.
Note: Coming up in Part II, Doyle Brunson talks about his later years, his views on spirituality, and what it takes to be a great poker player.
www.pokerpages.com /articles/interviews/interviews-brunson01.htm   (2568 words)

  
 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Conan Doyle walked into the lobby of a hotel to meet with a man who was trying to clear his name.
Mary Foley Doyle, known as "the Ma'am" by her son Arthur, was an interesting woman.
She saved the Doyle family from ruin when her husband was institutionalized.
www.siracd.com   (418 words)

  
 Doyle Clan - The Official Doyle Clan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Clann O DubhGhaill/Clan Doyle is registered with THE CLANS OF IRELAND OFFICE in Ireland.
Some descend from kings and ruling families who were prominent in Irish history, while others descend from famous intellectual or bardic families who preserved the history and culture of their nation for posterity.
Others, like the Doyles, trace their origins to the warlike Viking invaders from Scandinavia.
www.doyle.com.au /official.htm   (265 words)

  
 Sherlockian.Net: Arthur Conan Doyle
A life-long interest in psychic matters led him to acknowledge Spiritualism as his faith; spent the years from 1918 to his death (7 July 1930) preaching Spiritualism around the world and writing books and pamphlets in support of it (The New Revelation, 1918).
The Arthur Conan Doyle Society web site includes a chronology of ACD's life as well as extensive other information.
A Friends of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection has been established at the Toronto Reference Library.
www.sherlockian.net /acd   (751 words)

  
 CONTROL and DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS - California Institute of Technology
John Doyle is a professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Electrical Engineering, and BioEngineering at Caltech.
His research interests are in theoretical foundations for complex networks in engineering and biology, as well as multiscale physics, and include integrating modeling, ID, analysis and design of uncertain nonlinear systems, and computation in analysis and simulation, including complexity theory to guide algorithm development.
At an auction for the California Women’s Law Center(CWLC) John Doyle recently bid and won a private screening for a movie to be shown at the Directors Guild of America on September 7th at 8pm.
www.cds.caltech.edu /~doyle   (249 words)

  
 Danny Doyle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
If Danny Doyle is a folksinger who aspires "to link his present to his country's past and live anew in knowledge of his sires," then his songs and deep affection for Ireland's dramatic history offer profound evidence that he indeed sings with the blood, defiance and humour of the Irish flowing through his veins.
Somehow, after you've heard this quintessential Irishman, you can nearly taste the salt aroma of a west Clare gale, you can faintly hear the distant call of a Kerry shepherd to his dog, and you can almost hear the mist falling on Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge.
Danny Doyle has been described as "the greatest Irish ballad singer of all time" by such extraordinary Irish music legends as Donal Lunny, and Danny's long time record producer Bill Whelan, composer of the Broadway show Riverdance.
www.irishusa.com /ddoyle   (380 words)

  
 Patrick Doyle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Patrick Doyle is best known, as a film composer, for his collaborations with actor/director Kenneth Branagh.
He was born in 1953 near Glasgow, Scotland, and studied piano and singing at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
Doyle joined Kenneth Branagh's Renaissance Theatre Company in 1987 as actor, composer and musical director, after he was commissioned to write the music for the television version of their very successful production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
web.syr.edu /~ebedgert/pd/pd.html   (330 words)

  
 The Arthur Conan Doyle Society Home Page
Earlier plans to move The Arthur Conan Doyle Society to a fully web-based operation have now changed, and publication of the Society's Journal, ACD, will continue for the foreseeable future.
The Arthur Conan Doyle Society was founded in 1989 to bring together those people sharing a common interest in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his works, and to encourage new work and investigation.
The Arthur Conan Doyle Society is not, in any way, connected with the organisation calling itself The Literary Estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, nor does the Society agree with, or endorse, many of the claims made by that organisation on its web site.
www.ash-tree.bc.ca /acdsocy.html   (241 words)

  
 Christopher Doyle (II)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Chris Doyle / Kefeng Du / Ho Fung To
Christopher Doyle (II) has 1 in-development credit available on IMDbPro.com.
Orientations: Chris Doyle - Stirred But Not Shaken (2000)....
www.imdb.com /name/nm0236313   (670 words)

  
 Doyle Bramhall
Soul rolls off DOYLE BRAMHALL's music like sugar burnt browner.
In many ways, the ten songs on the new release are both a powerful summation of all the music the Texas singer-drummer-songwriter has spent his life playing, as well as a striking stance for his future.
"I was born on Fitchburg Street in West Dallas in 1949," DOYLE BRAMHALL explains.
www.doylebramhall.com   (379 words)

  
 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Pages Decedants of Michael & Mary Doyle
It is believed Michael Doyle was the first Doyle in this family tree to arrive in America.
It is estimated he arrived in the United States in appx 1840.
Patrick J. Doyle was the Son of William & Elizabeth, wife was Anna Drinkwine
familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/d/o/y/Jerry-E-Doyle-CA   (189 words)

  
 Madhouse Manor - science fiction and fantasy
The Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald Homepage
Featuring sample chapters from most of our novels, tables of contents from most of the anthologies we've appeared in, ways to get in touch with us (if that's what you want to do), a list of bookstores where you can buy our books (which we hope you will), and opinions about books and writing
Disclaimer: All information here, including the links to other sites, are provided as is, and there is no warranty of any kind, including but not limited to the accuracy or the legality of the referenced services, information, software or any other contents in any particular country.
www.sff.net /people/doylemacdonald   (186 words)

  
 Office of the Governor
Governor and First Lady Doyle talk with kids at the Wisconsin State Fair on August 2, 2007.
Governor Doyle Announces Economic Development Plan for Northern Wisconsin
Governor Doyle Addresses Second Summit on Campus Safety
www.wisgov.state.wi.us   (151 words)

  
 Composer [Roger Doyle] / CMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Roger Doyle was born in Dublin and specialises in electro-acoustic music.
He studied composition on scholarships at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the Institute of Sonology at the University of Utrecht and the Finnish Radio Experimental Music Studio.
Roger Doyle is a member of Aosdána, Ireland’s state-sponsored academy of creative artists.
www.cmc.ie /composers/composer.cfm?composerID=35   (304 words)

  
 Congressman Mike Doyle, 14th Congressional District of Pennsylvania
Congressman Mike Doyle, 14th Congressional District of Pennsylvania
My office may be able to help you in your dealings with federal government agencies.
Congressman Doyle Introduces Legislation to Bring Community Radio to America’s Cities
www.house.gov /doyle   (60 words)

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