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	BBC News \| UK \| Satirist John Wells dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Satirist John Wells, best known for his caricatures of Denis Thatcher, has died from cancer at the age of 61.
		Mr Wells, who co-wrote Private Eye's 'Dear Bill' letters and also portrayed former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's husband on stage and television, was first diagnosed with lymphoma more than a decade ago but appeared to have overcome the disease.
		Mr Wells was initially most associated with Mrs Wilson's Diary, detailing the fictional life of the wife of the then Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/46525.stm (333 words)

	A Reply to J.P. Holding...
		Fascism, Nazism and Communism, as well as religious beliefs of many kinds, have influenced their adherents in all these ways, not infrequently to the extreme extent of leading them to the supreme self-sacrifice.
		He does not disclose that H. St. John Thackeray -- who has been called "the 'former prince' of Josephan scholars", as Holding himself records -- allowed in 1929 that the objection "carries great weight" and was "powerfully advocated " by Norden (another close student of Josephus), who regarded it as conclusive.
		Wells is merely projecting his own evaluation of religious believers onto the persons who composed the early church".
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/g_a_wells/holding.html (7761 words)

	John Osborne
		The whole world knew that it was John who established the idea that it would be to the stage that people would look for some sort of recognisable portrait of their own lives.
		John Osborne devoted his life to trying to forge some sort of connection between the acuteness of his mind and the extraordinary power of his heart.
		A lifelong satirist of prigs and puritans, whether of the Right or of the Left, he took no hostages, expecting from other people the same unyielding, unflinching commitment to their own view of the truth which he took for granted in his own.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/parade/abj76/PG/pieces/john_osborne.shtml (1614 words)

	Review Articles: July 1986
		But Wells was an extraordinarily prolific and varied writer, and there is always the hope that an exploration of his later work and of his work in other genres will shed new light on the early SF.
		Wells is a conscious artist, not in the aesthetic mode in which Scheick wants to place him, but in his ability to give shading, contour, and drama to his ideas.
		To properly appreciate Wells, we need to recognize more clearly than these books do that Wells's art cannot be adequately accounted for by conventional aesthetic values, that his is an aesthetic which finds value in specific political and historical ideas and issues.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/reviews_pages/r39.htm (4274 words)

	Brown John Scottish Essayist: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		By the...the leadership of John Knox through his...introductions by John M. Lothian in 1971...other to spread the Scottish philosophy was Dugald...
		John Bannerman, "The...the Origins of the Scottish Nation British...were resisting King John the barons of Yorkshire...the traditional Scottish policy of fishing...the papacy with the Scottish church had also very...later in 1213 King John, to thwart his enemies...
		BROWN, JOHN, Scottish essayist 1810 82, Scottish essayist.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/brown-john-scottish-essayist.jsp?l=B&p=8 (1093 words)

	John Fortune at AllExperts
		John Fortune (born John Wood on June 30, 1939) is a British satirist, comedian writer and actor, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune.
		In 1971, with John Wells, he published the comedy classic A Melon for Ecstasy, about a man who consummates his love affair with a tree.
		His work with John Bird is most notable for their series of satirical sketches The Long Johns, in which one of the Johns interviews the other in the guise of a senior figure such as a politician, businessman or government consultant.
	en.allexperts.com /e/j/jo/john_fortune.htm (294 words)

	Amazon.ca: The H.G. Wells Reader : A Complete Anthology from Science Fiction to Social Satire: Books: John Huntington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		You'd think Wells was their grandmother and they were defending her honor.
		Later Wells is a fascinating area [obviously the editor has read the totality of Wells prodigiously], but only to readers who already have a sense of what early Wells is about.
		Wells remains a major 20th century intellectual--still up for grabs by the right and left, a fugitive in the history of the novel, and a questionable presence in the development of social sciences.
	www.amazon.ca /H-G-Wells-Reader-Complete-Anthology/dp/0878333061 (2227 words)

	Australian Information from Wikipedia
		The column was founded by John Betjeman, and is currently written by architectural historian Gavin Stamp using the name "Piloti".
		The Secret Diary of John Major (aged 47Â¾) (defunct) â“ A spoof weekly diary entry based on The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (aged 13Â¾) in which John Major was typically characterised as being hopelessly naÃ¯ve and optimistic.
		Maureen was supposedly a close friend of John Lennon, indeed she is often credited with bringing the notorious "more popular than Jesus" remark to public notice.
	www.thinkingaustralia.net /thinking_australia/wikipedia/default.php?title=Private_Eye (9828 words)

	Leonard Rossiter.com: The Immortal Haydon
		John Wells wrote The Immortal Haydon with Leonard Rossiter in mind as the lead role.
		Devised for the stage by Julius Gellner, the scripts were honed to perfection by Wells, Gellner and Leonard himself, planning the changes of tempo and variations of pace called for in the presentation of the turbulent life
		He lectured often up and down the country, advocating social concepts of art that anticipated those of Willam Morris and John Ruskin, and was instrumental in the establishment of many public art galleries and in the foundation of numerous Schools of Design.
	www.leonardrossiter.com /ImmortalHaydon.html (1252 words)

	Aldous Huxley
		John the Savage, raised in a reservation of American Indian primitives and abandoned by his mother in a primitive outpost, comes into this world.
		John is thinking, feeling individual, who has read Shakespeare and witnessed primitive religious rituals.
		H.G. Wells was offended by what he regarded as Huxley's betrayal of science and the future.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /ahuxley.htm (2251 words)

	Ashford, Kent Information
		Well located as a nodal point for sub-regional, national and international communications, Ashford will benefit in due course from the completion of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
		John Wells (November 17, 1936 - January 11, 1998) was an actor, writer and satirist born in Ashford.
		The John Wesley C E (Aided) Primary School is to be built on the junction of Chart Road/Cuckoo Lane, Singleton, completion expected in 2007.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Ashford,_Kent (3037 words)

	August 1st
		When the atmosphere is well charged with vapour, an ascending current, however produced, causes condensation, by exposing the vapour to cold.
		John de Wells, the English ambassador in Scotland, having boasted of the prowess of his countrymen at the Scottish court, a famous knight of that country, David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford, offered to put all questions on that point to trial by a combat on London Bridge.
		Take my advice, for I am your friend, be sober, honest, and work well when you become apprentices; for should you behave ill, and refuse to work because you are no longer slaves, you will assuredly render yourselves liable to punishment.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/aug/1.htm (4567 words)

	Private Eye (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The column was founded by John Betjeman, and is currently written by architectural historian Gavin Stamp using the name "Piloti".
		The diary has recently reappeared: first when his affair with Edwina Currie was discovered, and more recently when Major was made a KG and after he attended the funeral of Edward Heath.
		Maureen was supposedly a close friend of John Lennon, indeed she is often credited with bringing the notorious "more popular than Jesus" remark to public notice.
	www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /p/r/i/Private_Eye_4f62.html (9823 words)

	Famous Quotes by Author - The Quotations Page
		Waugh, Evelyn (3) - English novelist & satirist (1903 - 1966)
		Webster, John (1) - English dramatist (1580 - 1625)
		Wells, H. English author, historian, & utopian (1866 - 1946)
	www.quotationspage.com /quotes/W.html (832 words)

	Obituary: Harry Thompson \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited
		In a well trodden path, Thompson joined the BBC as a trainee in 1981, and worked as a researcher on BBC2's Not the Nine O'Clock News, then Radio 4's The Mary Whitehouse Experience - launching the careers of Rob Newman and David Baddiel - and producing The News Quiz, already an established favourite.
		More than any other producer since John Lloyd (the producer of Not the Nine O'Clock News and Blackadder), Harry had his finger on the pulse of comedy; he was really plugged into, if you'll excuse the word, the zeitgest of comedy.
		He had a proper instinct for when someone or something was funny - an increasingly rare trait at the managerial level in television, where most people tend now to have only an instinct for whether or not someone or something is similar to a previous hit.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1637158,00.html (1417 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Actors, Patsy Byrne (Nursie in the sitcom Blackadder II) and Mark Rylance were born in the area, with other personalities from the town including satirist John Wells from That Was The Week That Was and Bob Holness, a television presenter.
		Poets, Alfred Austin (Poet Laureate in 1896), John Fuller and philosopher Simone Weil lived in Ashford, with the later being recognised by the town's council naming a road after her.
		Dr John Wallis the internationally recognised mathematician, credited by Sir Isaac Newton as being the founder of his theory of gravity was born in the town.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Ashford,_Kent (2767 words)

	Benjamin Haydon at AllExperts
		His disappointment was embittered by the controversies in which he now became involved with Beaumont, for whom he had painted his picture of Macbeth, and Richard Payne Knight, who had denied the beauties as well as the money value of the Elgin Marbles.
		He left a widow and three children (various others had died), who, by the generosity of their father's friends, were rescued from poverty and comfortably provided for; amongst the foremost of these friends were Sir Robert Peel, Count D'Orsay, Mr Justice Talfourd and Lord Carlisle.
		Haydon was well known as a lecturer on painting and design, and, from 1835 onwards visited all the principal towns in England and Scotland on lecture tours.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/be/benjamin_haydon.htm (1423 words)

	The Famous Fifty. Part two
		Humorist, satirist, founder of the "Verda Kato" cabaret, song-writer, novelist...a phenomenon.
		Well, I'll attempt to start at least a partial answer to my own questions.
		The national book services (in my case, the book service of ELNA in the US) are the best starting place to find the...
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/esperanto/30642/2 (547 words)

	The enemies deep within (part 2)
		They came back later when Ingrams was replaced by the much more equal opportunities satirist, Ian Hislop, who expelled Mackay and Dempster and their ilk and beefed up the magazine's investigative journalism, in accordance with the wishes of its owner, the late Peter Cook.
		His brother, John, was so right-wing that he was executed after the war for having gone over to the Nazis.
		Also discussed will be the wider international ramifications of the Wright/Angleton axis, as well as the parallel moves to impose economic order upon its allies by the US during a time of economic crisis and hardening establishment attitudes towards the Soviet bloc abroad and labour unrest at home.
	www.mail-archive.com /pen-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu/msg58471.html (4057 words)

	Bartcop Entertainment - Saturday, 20 September, 2003
		But Wells said Goodman's guest-starring role is just one way in which "West Wing," which some have criticized as being too liberal, too Democratic, will become more politically balanced this season.
		Now Wells, who took control of the series when Sorkin left in May, intends to use the show's new fictional politics to explore issues dividing real-life Washington and the nation, including debates over the economy and global security.
		Arnold Schwarzenegger is the international box-office star, but the most entertaining candidate in California's race for governor may well be Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, the author, syndicated columnist and brassy television pundit who literally pushed her way into the campaign spotlight.
	www.suprmchaos.com /bcEnt-Sat-092003.index.html (2782 words)

	ipedia.com: Encyclopedia Browse > J > Jo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton
		John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden
		John II Stanley of the Isle of Man
	fav.ipedia.com /ipedia/j/jo/index.html (226 words)

	Rigorous Intuition (v. 2.0)
		That jumble of impressions had been bearing down on me for a while, and though trying to bring them to coherence was hard, now that I've found a place to put them, I don't carry their weight in the same way.
		We'll probably go on living well beyond the end, marking each incremental degradation as the New Normal, and with the dust of death settled on every sweet thing.
		As well, on the RI forum thread, "Attack Ships on Fire" smartly noted that along with the DNA-like double helix, "there appears to be a prism effect happening near the base....another odd connection/premonition about DNA being able to emit photons of light."
	rigint.blogspot.com (7135 words)

	Pakistani Shiites torch cars to protest massacre Space probe swings into lunar orbit UK tiger trainer quits the circus ...
		With a price tag of $63 million, the Lunar Prospector is a modest successor to the multibillion-dollar Apollo project, which put 12 men on the surface of the moon from 1969 to 1972.
		London- John Wells, British satirist who taunted prime minister Margaret Thatcher on stage and in print, has died, British newspapers reported on Monday.
		Wells made millions laugh with his "Dear Bill" letters, a chronicle of Thatcher's premiership in the 1980s through the eyes of her husband Denis.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=5670 (3539 words)

	OFF THE TELLY: Features/Channel 4 At 20/Comedy on Channel 4: Part Two
		Meanwhile, Rude Health provided a rare starring role for veteran satirist John Wells, cast here as a doctor whose financial ambition was at odds with his desire to exploit the system and enjoy an easy life.
		The year was seen out in suitably fine style by John Wells and the Three Wise Men, a Christmas Day special in which the veteran satirist presented his own take on the story of the nativity.
		Although many viewers may well have overlooked the series due to its early evening timeslot and subtitled nature, Xerxes is fondly remembered by those who saw it, and long overdue for a repeat showing.
	www.offthetelly.co.uk /features/c4/comedy2.htm (4856 words)

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		CNN to carry reminders of US attacks Matt Wells, media correspondent Thursday November 1, 2001 The Guardian CNN is to risk accusations of bias by ordering news presenters to end reports from Afghanistan with a reminder that the Taliban regime harbours terrorists who supported the September 11 attacks on the US.
		TODD Yes, and they also are well aware that if=20 Greenspan intends to induce a recession for them, they want get it over=20 with now, as opposed to two years from now.
		John Keggie, the deputy general secretary of the Communications Workers' Union (CWU) condemned the situation as "irresponsible" given the pressures facing postal workers following the US terrorist attacks.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2001-November.txt (17930 words)

	Literary Surrey- ISBN 1-873855-50-8
		Eager to build up his health, he threw himself into boating, cycling, even the losing battle with slugs in the garden—and into writing his extraordinarily inventive "scientific romances." Others, including William Cobbett who was born and raised here, found more of their material in the natural world, and never lost their passion for it.
		The nineteenth-century satirist Thomas Love Peacock, for instance, needs little introduction in Shepperton, where Peacock House occupies a prominent place facing Lower Halliford Green, and is graced with a fine peacock weathervane as well as a blue plaque.
		Plentifully illustrated with recent photographs, as well as reproductions of old paintings and engravings, this book convinces the reader of the beauty of the Surrey countryside and the mesmerising effect it had on those sensitive souls who experienced it in earlier, more bucolic era....
	www.johnowensmith.co.uk /books/lis1873855508.htm (3990 words)

	The Twelve Obscure Programmes of Christmas
		In 1988 they called on the services of John Wells - a sadly undervalued mainstay of Private Eye and a satirist in the old sense of the word (so, not just laughing at Anne Widdecombe's hairstyle then) to produce a wry spin on the story of the traditional story of the nativity.
		In the end, Garnett's move to ITV was deemed to be as unsuccessful as, well, any other comedy character or performer's move to ITV, and within a couple of years Speight had taken him and his 'vile' comedy back to the BBC.
		In the mid-1980s, the BBC suddenly started to take a more serious approach to their drama productions aimed at children, and the stuffy tweeness of old was replaced by gripping crime thrillers, unsettling ventures into the supernatural and an obsession with exploring 'real' issues.
	www.tv.cream.org /christmas/obscure.htm (2557 words)

	College protest as Tumim is 'hounded out'
		Student leaders at the college, affectionately known in Oxford as Teddy Hall, claimed that the acrimonious dispute had exposed infighting among the governing body.
		John Houghton, president of the Junior Common Room, which called the meeting of undergraduates on Sunday, said: "Sir Stephen brought a breath of fresh air to the college and used his personality and connections to try to sell it.
		John Dunbabin, vice-principal of the college - alma mater of Sir Robin Day, Gen Sir Michael Rose and John Wells, the satirist - said Sir Stephen had found some of the "gifts and attributes" he used in his earlier career were not "readily transferable" to St Edmund Hall.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/06/16/ntum16.html (653 words)

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