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Firth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Firth of Thames is a bay at the mouth of the Waihou/Thames River in New Zealand. A firth is generally the result of glaciation and very often associated with a large river, where erosion caused by the tidal effects of incoming sea water passing upriver has widened the riverbed to an estuary, such as may be seen in the Firth of Clyde. Bodies of water named "firths" tend to be commoner on the east coast, or in the south west of the country, although the Firth of Lorne is an exception to this. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Firth   (817 words)

Firth of Clyde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The distinction beween the firth and the River Clyde is vague, and people will sometimes refer to Dumbarton as being on the Firth of Clyde, while the population of Port Glasgow and Greenock frequently refer to the firth to their north as "the river". The Firth of Clyde forms a large area of coastal water, sheltered from the Atlantic ocean by the Kintyre peninsula which encloses the outer firth in Argyll and Ayrshire, Scotland. The Holy Loch seen across the upper Firth of Clyde from Gourock, with Dunoon on the left and the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry MV Juno sailing past the loch. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Firth_of_Clyde   (874 words)

SOLWAY FIRTH - LoveToKnow Article on SOLWAY FIRTH The waters of the firth are shallow, and a tidal bore occurs periodically. The breadth at the mouth is 32 m.; near the head, where the Solway viaduct of the Caledonian railway crosses the firth, it is nearly i1/2 m. The fisheries are extensive, and though there are no ports of the first magnitude on the firth, a considerable shipping trade is carried on at Whitehaven, Harrington, Workington, Maryporl and Silloth in Cumberland, and at Annan, Kirkcudbright~ Creetown and Wigtown on the Scottish side. 20.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SO/SOLWAY_FIRTH.htm   (1337 words)

Colin Firth Firth was chosen for the role at the end of a long casting process that seemed to have auditioned every youngish male actor on two continents - Richard E. Grant and David Duchovny were considered for the role at different stages. Firth richly deserved the wide praise he received for his portrayal of Lawrence, which never descended into sentimentality, and yet kept the viewer rivetted on his determined battle for health and independance. Firth virtually gave up his serious career aspirations at this time, and films he completed are of lesser quality. www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Academy/4558/Firth.html   (1243 words)

Firth Firth places his own hopes on ‘generalization’ as a means to ‘avoid the appalling consequences of the continuous change of content in all expressions of a living language and of the belief that meaning can only be real in individual instances of human invention’ (P2 118; cf. Firth held ‘the first chair in general linguistics’ in England, which ‘was established in the University of London in 1944 at the School of Oriental and African Studies’ (P1 v, P2 96). Firth thus thinks it ‘all to the good’ to have the ‘chair of General Linguistics’ placed ‘at the School of Oriental and African Studies’, and hails the ‘enormous scope in the application of general linguistics’ ‘for the development of the free countries of Asia and Africa’ following ‘their rise’ (from colonialism!) (P1 171, P2 135). beaugrande.bizland.com /LINGTHERFirth.htm   (15219 words)

Vic Firth Artist Feature: Vic Firth When Vic Firth joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1951, the average age of a BSO member was fifty-five. Vic Firth was born in Massachusetts and raised in Maine, the son of a musician who started Vic on trumpet when he was four. Firth was twenty-one -- the youngest person to ever land a position with that orchestra. www.vicfirth.com /artists/vicfirth.html   (633 words)

Raymond Firth Firth was best known for his research on the Maori and other peoples of Oceania and Southeast Asia. Firth concluded in his work that "sacrifice is ultimately a personal act in which the self is symbolically given" but it is often conditioned by "economic rationality and calculation." (Sacrifice) Firth also had a great interest in the social structure and religion of the Tikopia from the Solomon Islands, and the anthropological treatment of symbols. www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/fghij/firth_raymond.html   (240 words)

Firth Home - Surname Page To the Scottish Firth is the Scots word for a fjord (a long, narrow, often deep inlet from the sea between steep cliffs and slopes), a bay, or mouth of a river. Pentland Firth, settled and married; Firths are supposedly very fair or very dark to this day; a very common Orkney family name; the family name Firth also originated in the north of England from one of a number of Firth or Frith place-names there which are derived from Old English 'frith', a wood. Thomas Firth moved to Home in Berwickshire in 1606 and Janet Firth is recorded in a census of landholders in Lanarkshire in 1630. members.tripod.com /firth_home/surname.htm   (1128 words)

The Pentland Firth The Pentland Firth lies between the northern Scottish mainland and the islands of Orkney and has a well-deserved reputation among the world's mariners as a channel to be navigated with great care. The Firth itself is not large-around 17 miles from Dunnet Head, which can serve as its westerly entrance, to the most easterly of the islets that make up the Pentland Skerries in the east. Charts of the Pentland Firth were inaccurate and of little practical use to navigators until Murdoch Mackenzie, an Orkney schoolmaster and mathematician, carried out the first modern survey of the islands in the 1740's. www.clansinclairusa.org /articles/june2001/pentlandfirth.html   (1309 words)

Firth articles on Encyclopedia.com firth FIRTH [firth] or frith, Scottish term applied to an arm of the sea, usually an estuary or strait. Solway Firth SOLWAY FIRTH [Solway Firth], arm of the Irish Sea, c.40 mi (60 km) long, separating NW England from SW Scotland. Firth, Sir Raymond William FIRTH, SIR RAYMOND WILLIAM [Firth, Sir Raymond William] 1901-2002, British social anthropologist, b. www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Firth   (447 words)

Boston.com / A&E / Movies / For fortysomethings, a Firth-rate fantasy Firth might not be the ever-alluring bad boy (a la Hugh Grant, with whom he co-stars in ''The Edge of Reason" and with whom he is frequently compared), but Firth does possess the ability, say his fans, to ''smolder": the emotive eyes, the 6-foot stature, the tousled brown locks, the commanding British voice. Firth, who has been acting since the early '80s, was a known commodity in Britain before ''Pride and Prejudice." And since then, roles in ''Love Actually," ''What a Girl Wants," and ''Girl With a Pearl Earring" have brought him greater recognition on this side of the Atlantic. Instead of Miami tan, Firth is London pasty. www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2004/11/26/for_fortysomethings_a_firth_rate_fantasy?pg=full   (998 words)

Colin Firth The son of two university lecturers, Colin Firth was born in England's Hampshire county. Firth caused many a viewer to wonder where he had been for so long and suddenly he was propelled into the media spotlight. Firth shares a child with co-star Meg Tilly from the film Valmont (1989), and dated co-star Jennifer Ehle while filming the 1995 mini-series Pride and Prejudice. www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=3170   (473 words)

Oceania: Obituary: Sir Raymond Firth 1901-2002 Firth is also remembered on the island in boy children called Remon and in a song which begins `Oh Firth, chief of writing...' The Tikopia liked what Firth wrote about them. Firth carried out fieldwork in both peasant and tribal societies and, in the mid-1950s initiated a study of middle class kinship in London using anthropological techniques. Social anthropology was not recognised as a separate discipline in the earlier part of the 20th century and Firth worked to change this perception as one of the founder members of the Association of Social Anthropologists, inaugurated in 1946. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3654/is_200203/ai_n9030797   (1285 words)

COLIN FIRTH: TAKING THE LEAD Firth was catapulted to a gentler English version of superstardom when he was cast as Darcy in the screen adaptation. Firth laughed when told that there's an impression in the United States that he and the other prominent British actors in the movie are all pals. Firth wouldn't reveal much about his own secret life, except to say that "you can share these things with your partner.'' He's become guarded since his first brush with fame, when paparazzi followed him home after he had purchased a vacuum cleaner. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/12/14/PKG4U3JNFM1.DTL   (1056 words)

Colin Firth : Faces -- Images of Colin Firth Click here to select from 8 wallpapers of Colin Firth as Edward in My Life so Far. Colin Firth : Faces -- Images of Colin Firth Firth is subtle and assured as a man trying to break free from the rich family he married into and be distinct and resourceful on his own. members.aol.com /DJohn10589/index1.html   (916 words)

Colin Firth - Hope Springs Firth, who established himself as a heartthrob in the BBC's adaptation of Pride And Prejudice, will again have women swooning over him in Hope Springs, a romantic comedy tipped to be one of the summer's big box-office hits. Firth, who has also starred in Shakespeare In Love, The Importance Of Being Earnest and as football-mad Paul in the film adaptation of Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, has stuck firmly to the romantic comedy genre for his latest role. In this romantic comedy, British artist Colin Ware (Colin Firth) discovers that his fiance, Vera (Minnie Driver), the love of his life, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America and ends up in the tiny town of Hope in New England. www.firth.com /hope.html   (2849 words)

Fametracker :: The Fame Audit :: Colin Firth Colin Firth is stuck in a vehicle with Amanda Bynes, she of the post-puberty attempt at post-Nickelodeon fame. Firth's second-greatest moment of American exposure came when he played the offensive and loutish Lord Wessex in Shakespeare in Love, Viola's schlubby, cuckolded fiancé. Colin Firth is playing Amanda Bynes's father in this inside-out movie ripoff of every pallid teenybopper '60s Disney movie ever made -- and he doesn't even get second billing over the title. www.fametracker.com /fame_audit/firth_colin.shtml   (1072 words)

FIRTH - LoveToKnow Article on FIRTH Firths historical work was almost entirely confined to English history during the time of the Great Civil War and the Commonwealth; and although he is somewhat overshadowed by S. Gardiner, a worker in the same field, his books are of great value to students of this period. He was Fords lecturer in English history in 1900, and became regius professor of modern history at Oxford in succession to F. York Powell in I 904. To properly cite this FIRTH article in your work, copy the complete reference below: 33.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FI/FIRTH.htm   (222 words)

firth.cfm Firth's teaching career at the New England Conservatory also began before he had graduated, first in the preparatory department, then as head of the percussion department, a position he has held since 1950. Born June 2, 1930, in Winchester, Massachusetts, and raised in Maine, Firth is the son of Everett E. and Rosemary Firth. At age twenty-one, Firth was the youngest member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops Orchestra, the average age in 1952 being about fifty-five. www.pas.org /About/HOF/firth.cfm   (1082 words)

USA WEEKEND Magazine The fervor likely will continue as Firth brings a brooding Vermeer to the big screen in the just-out "Girl With a Pearl Earring." The adaptation of Tracy Chevalier's best-selling novel imagines the painter as obsessed with a servant girl. Firth's friends confirm the hold he has over the fairer sex. Firth concedes America's dominance in one area: "I don't think we've ever had a sexy politician. www.usaweekend.com /04_issues/040104/040104colin_firth.html   (674 words)

Colin Firth For the smitten seeking a glimpse of the early Firth, we recommend Apartment Zero from 1988, a bizarre tale of murder and political allegory set in Argentina, with Firth as a fastidious film freak and Hart Bochner as his mysterious flatmate. In Helen Fielding's novel Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget develops a crush on Firth as she watches his performance as Darcy in a BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. His parents were both academics, and due to their traveling, young Firth spent four years of his childhood in Nigeria, and one year attending junior high school in St. Louis. www.nndb.com /people/813/000043684   (419 words)

BUILDING BIG: Databank: Firth of Forth Bridge The Firth of Forth Bridge is made of a pair of cantilever arms, or beams "sticking out" from two main towers. The Firth of Forth was the first bridge built primarily of steel. The poet and artist William Morris declared it "the supremest specimen of all ugliness." Ugly or not, the Firth of Forth is a safe bridge. www.pbs.org /wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/firth_of_forth.html   (315 words)

Solway Firth The Firth is an important area for fish, with spawning and nursery areas for a number of commercial and rare fish. Their positions are largely uncharted as huge quantities of sand and mud can be moved over large distances during a single tidal cycle, making navigation of the Inner Firth treacherous. The Solway Firth contains habitats and wildlife of local, national, and international importance. omp.gso.uri.edu /doee/science/descript/solway.htm   (503 words)

Profile and Interview: Colin Firth Firth became an object of desire and obsession for her heroine, Bridget Jones. Firth: Well again, there's no— The thing about different stories and different film scripts is that they each come in their own little mini-universe. Firth: I suppose it's remarking on how little dialogue there is in the film, which I hadn't really noticed until everyone was saying it, funnily enough. www.aboutfilm.com /features/girlwithapearlearring/firth.htm   (3301 words)

Colin Firth on Fresh Air In her novel, which the film is based on, Bridget develops a crush on Firth as she watches him star in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in the role of Mr. Firth’s character in Bridget Jones, Mark Darcy, is an homage to Firth’s performance in Pride and Prejudice. Firth also co-starred in The English Patient as the spurned husband and in Shakespeare in Love as the unwanted fiancé Lord Wessex. www.spring.net /karenr/int/fa5701.html   (4111 words)

Colin Firth : Friends of Firth Scrapbook (2005) British actor Colin Firth is accompanied by his wife as he arrives for the premiere of the movie 'Nanny McPhee' in in Amsterdam on Wednesday, 01 February 2006. Firth is starring as Cedric Brown in the film directed by Kirk Jones. New** FoF "Journal".Please feel free to add your comments and post whatever you want to talk about regarding Colin. frenzoffirth.topcities.com   (558 words)

Colin Firth pictures, photos, wallpapers, desktop themes, posters, music, videos, DVDs, and memorabilia Firth was born in Hampshire, England, and spent part of his childhood in Nigeria where his family were missionaries. Firth appears to have taken these comments in good nature and said that he and Grant seem to have a "Bette Davis-Joan Crawford" kind of relationship. Despite widespread admiration for his performances, it was only with Pride and Prejudice that Firth's career really took off. www.entertainzones.com /actors/f/colin-firth   (519 words)

Firth Essence Colin Firth is a magnificently talented and versatile actor, although a huge amount of people have seemed to not take account of that fact. Firth Essence is a limited liability company; owned and operatedby Diane DeMore which includes, but is not limited to, this website. Copyright 2003-2006 by Diane M. DeMore, dba Firth Essence, LLC - All Rights Reserved. www.firthessence.net /main.html   (575 words)

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