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  John Merrick, the Elephant Man
Merrick was housed in the London Hospital where be remained until his mysterious death from suffocation.
But Merrick never got over the idea that he might be moved at any time, an obsession that Treves also focuses on in his narrative.
Merrick felt so deeply marked by the eyes of others that he told Treves he wanted his next move to be to an asylum for the blind, Perhaps he had been reading Frankenstein and recalled that the Monster's only gentle treatment came from an old blind man.
www.victorianweb.org /books/suicide/06b.html   (1250 words)

  
  Joseph Carey Merrick - The Elephant Man
Joseph Carey Merrick was born in Leicester, England in 1862.
Merrick was suffering from bronchitis and malnutrition, and Treves brought him back to the Whitechapel Hospital.
The hospital became Merrick's permanent home; in his room he wrote poetry and prose and built models from card stock, his most famous being of the St. Philip's cathedral in Birmingham, which Merrick had never seen but constructed from studying architectural drawings.
phreeque.tripod.com /joseph_merrick.html   (717 words)

  
 Mary Merrick - Mary (Millard) Miller
Mercy Merrick was born in 1720 in of Taunton, Bristol, MA.
John Freeman on 18 Dec 1672 in Eastham, Barnstable, MA.
Stephen Merrick was born in 1646 in Duxbury, Plymouth, MA.
share.geocities.com /Heartland/Ranch/8882/d255.htm   (577 words)

  
 TV ACRES: Advertising Mascots > John Merrick as Herb the Nerd (Burger King)
He was played by John Merrick, a classically trained 35-year-old actor who donned glasses, white socks, and pants that didn't quite reach his ankles.
John Merrick made personal appearances at Burger King restaurants nationwide, giving prizes to anyone who first recognized him when he entered the burger joints.
Merrick's life was chronicled in the 1980 film The Elephant Man starring John Hurt as John Carey Merrick, a charming and intelligent Englishman afflicted with Proteus Syndrome (a.k.a.
www.tvacres.com /admascots_herb.htm   (381 words)

  
 The Elephant Man DVD Review
At first the attendants and other employees at the hospital treat John (John Hurt) with horror and disgust, but as Treves works with him and uncovers the human being beneath the physical deformity the staff come to love John as a member of their own family.
It is a message that Merrick has had beaten into him most of his life and he must come to grips with it and realize himself that he is a man regardless of the shape or color of his skin.
John Merrick's mother is knocked down during pregnancy by an elephant (one of a touring menagerie).
www.dvdsense.com /item/B00003CX9S   (1798 words)

  
 The Elephant Man 1980 Starring Anthony Hopkins John Hurt
Merrick would find himself as an exhibit in a side-show ran by a cruel and impious carnival barker--who reminded us at all times we too were watchers, and he billed Mr.
Merrick was a fan of theater, and was awestruck when he meets the most famous actress of the time and she starts a friendship with him.
Merrick is recapture, and put in a cage as an exhibit where he's being billed as 'the terrible elephant man'.
www.cheapestdvdprice.com /reviews/097360134742.html   (1365 words)

  
 Origin of Merrick
John Meyrick, son of Owen Ab Meyrick of Bodean on Anglesey was born in 1538.
He was the second son of Roland Merrick of Anglesey and was knighted in Dublin in 1609 for his military prowess relating to the enforced settlement of Protestants in Ireland.
Rice Merrick, son of Meiric ap Howell of Cottrell in Glamorgan was Clerk of the Peace for Glamorgan and leading historian.
www.bluelaze.com /generations/mirick.htm   (4827 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - The Elephant Man
The Elephant Man is the story of 19th-century Englishman John Merrick and his affliction with the debilitating disease Proteous Syndrome, a crippling sickness that deforms the body, head and limbs with tumors and abnormalities.
Merrick is soon discovered by Dr. Fredrick Treves (Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs), a brilliant surgeon, and escorted from his torturous carnival sideshow life to a local hospital in London.
Merrick is a man who has spent most of his life beaten and laughed at, yet he still has compassion in his heart for the human race.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/elephantman.php   (1158 words)

  
 The Elephant Man
Joseph Merrick, or John* as he became known in the movie, was born at 50 Lee Street, Leicester on August 5th 1862 to Mary Jane and Joseph Merrick.
John was also noted for his wonderful imagination and despite his dignified attitude, he was often charmingly childlike.
Merrick caught the interest of Frederick Treves, a surgeon at Whitechapel Hospital.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/leicestershire/28531   (495 words)

  
 John Merrick
John has been a strong influence on one of our younger stars, Danny Healy, who will be appearing with him.
John also appeared with the Jerry Macken Big Band in Galway in the 1980's and other popular bands he played with were 'Twilight' and 'The Swingers'.
Danny's admiration of John's contribution to his own development is obvious in the way he speaks of John, and there is a similar admiration returned.
www.galwayjazzclub.com /Articles/John_Merrick.html   (1021 words)

  
 John Merrick--Books About The Elephant Man
John Merrick had lived for more than twenty years imprisoned in a body that condemned him to a miserable life in the workhouse and to humiliation as a circus sideshow freak.
John Morris composes the memorable and haunting soundtrack to the 1980 David Lynch masterpiece, The Elephant Man.
Merrick faced what every human being who grows old or falls ill must endure, the sufferer's painful questions about cause and effect, about personal guilt or cosmic cruelty.
www.aboyd.com /merrick/books.html   (468 words)

  
 John Merrick Records First Professional Victory :: Former All-American wins three-hole playoff to capture Nationwide ...
Former UCLA All-American John Merrick recorded his first professional victory by winning a three-hole playoff against Gavin Coles to capture the Peek'n Peak Classic at Findley Lake, NY Sunday.
Merrick birdied four of the last five holes to force the playoff with Coles at 11-under par 277.
On the second extra playoff hole, Merrick missed a five-foot, downhill slider that would have ended things, but instead sent the twosome to the par 3, 174-yard 10th hole.
uclabruins.cstv.com /sports/m-golf/spec-rel/070306aaa.html   (320 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Elephant Man: DVD: Anthony Hopkins,Anne Bancroft   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
John Hurt portrays John Merrick, a severely deformed man nicknamed "The Elephant Man" because his face was so deformed that he barely looked human anymore.
Merrick then, briefly, becomes the latest novelty for the social elite, but this is just a variation of his freak-show years.
Kendal, John Gielgud as Carr Gomm, Wendy Hiller as Mothershead, Freddie Jones as Bytes, Michael Elphick as Night Porter, Hannah Gordon as Mrs.
www.amazon.com /Elephant-Man-Anthony-Hopkins/dp/B00003CX9S   (3302 words)

  
 Merrick wins in playoff on Nationwide Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Merrick birdied four of the final five holes in regulation to shoot four-under 68 and join Coles at 11-under-par 277.
The 24-year-old Merrick, who is in his rookie season on tour, missed the putt low.
Merrick was even par for his round through 13 holes with 11 pars, a birdie and a bogey.
www.golf.com /gdc/news/article.asp?id=40019   (661 words)

  
 Joseph Merrick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890), known as "The Elephant Man" gained the sympathy of Victorian era Britain because of the extreme deformity of his body.
Treves later commented that Merrick always wanted, even after living at the hospital, to go to a hospital for the blind so that he could find a woman there who would not be frightened of his appearance.
John is depicted looking at a small picture of his mother very often in the film.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joseph_Merrick   (1742 words)

  
 GSE Staff, Macquarie University: John Merrick
Merrick, J.R. Endemic crayfishes of the Sydney region.
This large reference volume (Reduced A4: 275 x 210 mm, 942 pp.) is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the knowledge of vertebrate diversity within Australasia, together with discussion of the factors that influenced the evolution and distributions of the faunas we see today.
It is hoped that this book will: increase awareness of the unique Australasian vertebrate faunas; emphasize the importance of Australasian environments and the associated biodiversity; provide background for decisions that limit biodiversity loss in the region – against the trend in the current world-wide extinction crisis.
www.gse.mq.edu.au /Research/Staff/John_Merrick.shtml   (1028 words)

  
 John Merrick--The Face Within The Face   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Observing the original 1884 Whitechapel photograph of John Merrick, I noticed that there seemed in it to be two images instead of just one.
One image is the obvious countenance of John Merrick as he was in life--deformed by tumors as he was.
I discovered, working on the image, that hidden in the photograph on the left, John might have been wearing a warm and affable smile when the photograph was taken--a smile that was hidden by his deformity.
www.aboyd.com /merrick/merrick4.html   (184 words)

  
 Genealogy of Merrick and Meyrick Families   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In particular, ‘Celsie’ Merrick, a granddaughter of William Merrick, described her grandfather as being the younger of two boys born at ‘Bodorgan’ in Anglesey - ‘a mansion with large grounds’ - who were left in the care of guardians named Fuller and eventually placed into apprenticeships in London, where they later prospered.
However, in William Merrick’s case, the enumerator in Clerkenwell that year was one of the few who recorded exact ages - showing his age as ‘67’ - thus indicating that he was born in late 1773 to early 1774 - seemingly in the London area.
Finally, a John Merrick was born to ‘William Merrick, Cabinetmaker of 3 Coppice Row, Clerkenwell St James, and wife Sarah’ in 1814.
www.btinternet.com /~johnmillman/merricks.htm   (10459 words)

  
 The Elephant Man Movie -The 80s Rewind «
Merrick was born with a rare crippling and disfiguring disease which caused his appearance to be altered and had ignorant people be cruelly inhuman to him.
John constantly expresses his gratitude to Dr. Treves and the hospital staff, who although at first are shocked at his appearance, come to love him very much.
John is a great fan of the theater, although he's never been to a play, and is utterly beside himself when Mrs.
www.fast-rewind.com /elephantman.htm   (1685 words)

  
 Smith Funeral Home - Obituary
Devoted husband for 50 years of Rosalie A. (Ferri).
of Everett, Madelyn Severino and her husband Steven of Peabody, Kimberly Frizzi and her husband Cono of Malden, David Freese and his wife Gelsomina of Merrick, New York and Matthew Freese and his wife Lisa of Stratham, New Hampshire.
Loving brother of John Freese and his wife Diane of Abington and the late Evelyn Needham, Paul and Alonzo Freese.
currentobituary.com /Memory.aspx?Memory_ObitdID=36073   (204 words)

  
 Joseph Carey Merrick Tribute Web Site
The mission of this website, is to teach the courageous and inspiring Life Story of Joseph Carey Merrick, otherwise known as the Elephant Man. These pages have been created with love and in the hope that we all may learn from Joseph's story.
This site is dedicated to the life and times of Joseph Carey Merrick, (otherwise known as 'the Elephant Man'), probably the most courageous person ever to have lived.
The Royal London Hospital is not Joseph Merrick, and Joseph Merrick is not the Royal London Hospital.
www.jsitton.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /elephantman/elephant_man.htm   (2719 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Elephant Man (Widescreen): DVD: Anthony Hopkins,John Hurt,David Lynch,Anne Bancroft,John Gielgud,Wendy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
John Hurt sensitively plays the title role, based on a true story about a severely deformed man in late 19th century London who becomes the star of a freak show and the toast of society.
John Hurt's insights were particularly interesting; there are so many things that could have torpedoed the project but thankfully didn't.
Merrick was obtained from accounts written by Dr. Treves, who became so celebrated that he was chosen to be Royal Physician, so it is perhaps not surprising that Treves comes off well in this film.
www.amazon.ca /Elephant-Man-Widescreen-Anthony-Hopkins/dp/B00003CX9S   (2309 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/johnmerrickxp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Recently signed to the label Bigwave Records, the French band John Merrick Experiment plays a clever mix of traditional pop rock and electronic music.
John Merrick - the real name of the hero in David Lynch's 'Elephant Man' - is a deformed character, and JME plays a somehow deformed music, sometimes sweet and colourful, sometimes raw and evasive.
JME is an euphemism : John Merrick incarnated an 'experiment'.
www.myspace.com /johnmerrickxp   (754 words)

  
 The Elephant Man (1980)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A young Anthony Hopkins is very likable and John Hurt is, well, someone you won't soon forget as John Merrick, "The Elephant Man."
This is an uplifting movie at times, too, not just a tear-jerker or horrific in showing man's cruelty to man. Be prepared for an emotional experience and an amazing story.
Why did John Merrick have quite a posh voice?
www.imdb.com /title/tt0080678   (415 words)

  
 The Elephant Man - DVD Movie Central
We first glimpse Merrick as the star attraction of a freak show, where his appearance is deemed so hideous that local law enforcement want the entire show run out of town.
There are those who would never see John Merrick as anything but a freak, and some of them get their way with him in a nightmarish sequence worthy of the best David Lynch has ever offered…it is equally repulsive and heartbreaking.
John Merrick is a wonderful character because he doesn’t change.
www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/elephant_man.htm   (946 words)

  
 Top 100 Movie Lists - The Elephant Man
John Hurt's (1984, Contact, Midnight Express) acting is absolutely fascinating.
You see Merricks personality and hope emerge from underneath the multiple layers of deformed costume.
Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs, Shadowlands, Remains of the Day, Chaplin) is excellent as always, capturing the young doctors compassion and confusion.
www.geocities.com /aaronbcaldwell/Man.html   (273 words)

  
 The Genealogy Bits: MERRICK
John MERRICK died in Nov 1709 and was buried on his plantation.
James MERRICK married Elizabeth BARRON on 10 Dec 1713 at Old Whitemarsh Church, Trappe, Talbot Co, Maryland.
was the daughter of Capt. John MERRICK and Catherine SWEENEY.
www.horsethieves.com /genebits/dennis/merrick.html   (243 words)

  
 John Merrick-Elephant Man Bones Explosion by Buckethead: Song Music Downloads
Sorry, at this time no downloads have been found for "John Merrick-Elephant Man Bones Explosion" on album Bucketheadland, Vol.
Sorry, at this time no streams have been found for "John Merrick-Elephant Man Bones Explosion" on album Bucketheadland, Vol.
John Merrick-Elephant Man Bones Explosion by Buckethead: Song Music Downloads
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 REFLECTION CHRISTIAN MUSIC RESOURCES - MIDI AND SHEET MUSIC
You Are The Christ (a vigorous new hymn by Paul Lepine based on Peter’s words in Matthew 16:16 and John 6:68)
Moths into a Flame (a medium rock song exploring the central paradox of Christianity - “losing life to gain it”).
Hymn of Creation (a modern hymn for soloist/choir/congregation based on a prayer of St John Chrysostom and originally written for a “naming and blessing” service)
www.users.zetnet.co.uk /mlehr/reflec/reflec.htm   (1817 words)

  
 W3C Technical Reports and Publications
8 November 2002, Merlin Hughes, Joseph Reagle, John Boyer - (Errata,  Translations)
First published 24 October 2001, revised 4 February 2004, John Cowan, Richard Tobin - (Errata,  Translations)
First published 21 January 1999, revised 17 December 2001, Dieter Weidenbrueck, Roy Platon, John Gebhardt, David Cruikshank, Lofton Henderson - (Errata )
www.w3.org /TR   (6274 words)

  
 The Elephant Man Figure Model Kit Freaks John Merrick Statue Joseph Carey Merrick Elephant Man Figure Model Kit
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