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  Kingsley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Mary Kingsley was born in 1862 in her homeland of England.
Kingsley was a stay at home daughter until the death of her parents in 1892, when she was almost thirty years old.
Kingsley died at the age of thirty-eight of fever; however, she left behind lessons that will forever be eternal.
cal.jmu.edu /aleysb/Kingsley.htm   (411 words)

  
 MARY HENRIETTA KINGSLEY - LoveToKnow Article on MARY HENRIETTA KINGSLEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Miss Kingsley made careful preparations for a second visit to the same coast; and,in December 1894, provided by the British Museum authorities with a collectors equipment, she proceeded via Old Calabar to French Congo, and ascended the Ogow River.
But her chief concern was for the development of the negro on African, not European, lines and for the government of the British possessions on the West Coast by methods which left the native a free unsmashed mannot a whitewashed slave or an enemy.
Kingsleys life was written by his widow in 1877, entitled Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his Life, and presents a very touching and beautiful picture of her husband, but perhaps hardly does justice to his humour, his wit, his overflowing vitality and boyish fun.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KI/KINGSLEY_MARY_HENRIETTA.htm   (1060 words)

  
 Kingsley Amis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher.
As a young man, Kingsley Amis was vocally (A follower of Stalin and Stalinism) Stalinist, and a member of the (A political party that actively advocates a communist form of government; in Communist countries it is the sole political party of the state) Communist Party.
Kingsley Amis became associated with (British writer famous for writing spy novels about secret agent James Bond (1908-1964)) Ian Fleming's creation, (British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming) James Bond, in the 1960s, writing critical works connected with the fictional spy, either under a pseudonym or uncredited.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ki/kingsley_amis.htm   (1080 words)

  
 Performance - Interview with Ben Kingsley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kingsley has long been one of England's very top classical stage actors, playing everything from Shakespeare to Pinter (actually, and ironically, he has only played Pinter on film).
Kingsley was in the cast of Peter Brook's legendary 1970 Midsummer Night's Dream.
Kingsley immediately reveals himself to be remarkably articulate and well-informed, peppering his conversation with allusions ranging from Shamanism to Kieslowski and Tarkovsky.
www.desires.com /2.5/Performance/Kingsley/kingsley.html   (644 words)

  
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Kingsley Plantation, part of the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve administered by the National Park Service, is located on Fort George Island and includes the plantation house, a kitchen house, a barn, and the ruins of 25 of the original slave cabins.
Kingsley operated under a "task" system, which allowed slaves to work at a craft or tend their own gardens once the specified task for the day was completed.
Kingsley Plantation is at the northern tip of Ft. George Island at the Ft.
www.cr.nps.gov /goldcres/sites/kingsley.htm   (713 words)

  
 Mary Kingsley
the niece of Charles Kingsley, was born in Islington in 1862.
Although Kingsley did not consider taking his daughter with him on his travels, she was given the task of making notes on relevant material from his large collection of books on the subject.
Kingsley claimed that the country already suffered from having a poorly informed House of Commons and believed that the "addition of a mass of even less well-informed women would only make matters worse." According to Kingsley, "women are unfit for parliament and parliament is unfit for them".
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Wkingsley.htm   (2861 words)

  
 Royal African Society - Mary Kingsley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kingsley never organised a meeting; indeed the society would not be formed until a year after her death in 1900 at the age of 38.
Mary Kingsley's love of Africa is plainly evident with descriptions of the continent's people and landscape that fill the pages of both her books.
Miss Kingsley cannot be portrayed (she was) a series of surprises, each one tenderer and more surprising than the foregoing.
www.royalafricansociety.org /history/mary_kingsley   (1923 words)

  
 Biography of Kingsley
Kingsley's mother, Mary, more worldly and practical than his father, was born in the West Indies and came from a line of Barbadian sugar-plantation owners.
Kingsley was not academically outstanding, though he displayed great interest in art and natural science, especially botany and geology, and wrote much poetry.
Kingsley's knowledge of science was such that he became a fellow of both the Linnaean and Geological Societies and was even cited by Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man (1871).
www2.bc.edu /~rappleb/kingsley/Kingsleylife.html   (1629 words)

  
 Gershon Kingsley
Kingsley took a sample to Vanguard, then an innovating label specializing in folk, ethnic music, and the avant garde, and Vanguard contracted for a whole album.
Kingsley tried to follow up on its success with several other numbers, including "Cold Duck" and "Sauerkraut," but "Popcorn" was destined to remain the only major hit to spotlight the Moog.
Kingsley took a variety of arranging and composing jobs after that, continuing to experiment with the Moog and other musical technology.
www.spaceagepop.com /kingsley.htm   (874 words)

  
 State v. Kingsley, 383 N.W.2d 828 (N.D. 1986)
Kingsley was charged with separate incidents of committing gross sexual imposition under the foregoing provision against Pamela, age 25, and Sharon, age 23, during November 1984.
We have previously held that, by presenting evidence after a motion for judgment of acquittal is denied at the close of the prosecution's case in chief, the defendant permits this court to review on appeal the entire record to determine whether substantial evidence exists to sustain the verdict.
She testified that she met Kingsley a second time while she was shopping at the Kirkwood Plaza mall, where Kingsley motioned for her to "come over and talk to him for a while." After briefly talking with Kingsley, Sharon proceeded to walk to her home which is a short distance from the mall.
www.court.state.nd.us /court/opinions/1110.htm   (1027 words)

  
 Metroactive Movies | Cinequest 2005 | Ben Kingsley
Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji in the seaside resort of Scarborough.
Kingsley possesses a too often unused facility for comedy—he says he has some unabashed comedy piece on the horizon—but I asked if he planned to tease out the hideo-comic qualities in Dickens' character.
What the two of them had in common, Kingsley suggested, was that the outside world didn't have the slightest idea of what either of them did, what it entailed—"nobody has the faintest idea," he repeated.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.02.05/kingsley-0509.html   (644 words)

  
 CD Baby: KINGSLEY MALCOLM: Kingsley
Kingsley is an anointed songwriter, arranger, and vocalist.
Kingsley's father was not a singer but was the backbone of his early start in music.
Kingsley also became a member of a local group called "friends in Christ" that toured within a four state region.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/kingsley   (515 words)

  
 Charles Kingsley: A Biography
Kingsley moved onto the public stage in 1848 in response to the working class agitation that climaxed in the Chartist collapse of that year.
Kingsley's debt to Carlyle is clear in this novel through his thinly disguised portrait of Carlyle as the character Sandy Mackaye, a thick-brogued working-class Scottish philosopher.
Kingsley believed he had located in the adventures of the great sailors of the Elizabethan age an heroic model for his own.
www.victorianweb.org /authors/kingsley/ckbio.html   (1860 words)

  
 Kingsley Lab Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kingsley, D.M. ³Sequencing the genome of threespine sticklebacks.² www.
Kingsley, D. Bone morphogenetic proteins in the formation and repair of cartilage, bone, and joints.
Kingsley, D.M. and Peichel, C. ³Molecular studies of evolutionary divergence in threespine sticklebacks² in The evolutionary biology of the threespine stickleback.
kingsley.stanford.edu /Publications.html   (827 words)

  
 kingsley coach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kingsley Coach's staff will be with you from concept to completion and beyond.
In case you can’t make a design work with us, we will help you work with the recreational vehicle customizer of your choice to complete a Kingsley RV Shell.
Because Kingsley starts with a truck chassis and not a bus, the engine is in the front and not under your bed.
www.kingsleycoach.com   (244 words)

  
 GolfDigest.com - Course Critic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kingsley is a private hideaway golf club, so remote that I had to dodge washouts on a sandy minimal maintenance logging road to reach its entry gate.
Kingsley proved to be a pure delight, full of humps and bumps that offer both good and bad bounces.
Kingsley is a private club but it does allow some outside play during an annual hickory-club event and some charity outings.
www.golfdigest.com /courses/critic/index.ssf?/courses/critic/kingsley.html   (1049 words)

  
 MANY ROLES, FACES, JUST ONE KINGSLEY
Kingsley is more modest about the role of Massoud Amir Behrani, pointing out that his character doesn't have many lines in Farsi (most are in an accented English), and that he got help on the set from a Farsi dialect coach.
Kingsley invented his name when he first struggled to break into acting, taking it partly from a grandfather who worked as a spice trader in the African nation of Zanzibar.
Kingsley just married for the third time (in a traditional Persian wedding that was reportedly inspired by his "House of Sand and Fog" research into Persian culture), and he has four children.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/21/PKGG53M5MS1.DTL   (1034 words)

  
 The Panorama of British Life: Technology, Business, Internet, News, Milestones, Life, People, Upcoming Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ben Kingsley, among the most respected and talented actors of the cinema today, is perhaps best remembered for his Oscar-winning role in "Gandhi".
Kingsley's acceptance into the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1967 was the foundation for a career that is as impressive in the theatre - if perhaps less visible - as it is on film.
Kingsley lost masses of weight, read 23 volumes of Gandhi's collected works and described the experience as similar to "having a layer of skin peeled off my eyeballs but one of the most joyful events I've ever been party to".
www.britannia.com /panorama/kngsly.html   (1231 words)

  
 Kingsley, Charles --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Charles Kingsley was born on June 12, 1819, in Devonshire, England.
François Rabelais in Gargantua uses the phrase à la venue des cocquecigrues to mean “never.” Charles Kingsley in The Water Babies has the fairy Bedonebyasyoudid report that there are seven things he is forbidden to tell until “the coming of the Cocqcigrues.” The word is of French origin.
Kingsley in effect challenged him to justify the honesty of his life as an Anglican.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275283?tocId=9275283   (667 words)

  
 Charles Kingsley Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Born on July 12, 1819, to Charles Kingsley, Sr., and Mary Lucas Kingsley, he counted among the early formative influences on his life his witnessing of the Bristol Riots in 1831.
In February 1842, Kingsley left Cambridge to read for Holy Orders; in July of that year he became curate of Eversley Church in Hampshire, which he served for the rest of his life.
Largely on the strength of his historical fiction Kingsley was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge in 1860; in 1861 he was appointed tutor to the Prince of Wales.
www.applebookshop.co.uk /author/kingsley.htm   (744 words)

  
 Anna Kingsley Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kingsley Plantation, an area of the National Park Service's Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, is located on Fort George Island, near the mouth of the St. Johns River.
A free woman, Anna Kingsley petitioned the Spanish government for land, and land grant records show that in 1813 she was granted title to five acres on the St. Johns River.
An influential planter, Zephaniah Kingsley was appointed to the 1823 territorial legislative council.
www.nps.gov /timu/education_guide/anna_kingsley/anna_kingsley_home.htm   (2539 words)

  
 Exploring Florida Kingsley Plantation Photograph Gallery
Anna was purchased by Kingsley as a slave in 1806 when she was 13 years old.
The kitchen house at the Kingsley Plantation was known as the "Ma'am Anna House" because it was also Anna's living quarters.
All that is left of the unreconstructed slave cabins at Kingsley Plantation are the tabby walls.
fcit.usf.edu /florida/photos/historic/kingsl/kingsl.htm   (654 words)

  
 Background - Kingsley Plantation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kingsley continued to acquire property in north Florida and eventually possessed more than 32,000 acres, including four major plantation complexes and more than 200 slaves.
Kingsley was against the restrictive laws, arguing that more humane treatment would ensure peace and the perpetuation of slavery.
To escape what Kingsley called a “spirit of intolerant prejudice,” Anna Jai and their sons moved to Haiti in 1837.
www.nps.gov /timu/indepth/kingsley/kingsley_family_society.htm   (343 words)

  
 Mary Henrietta Kingsley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kingsley, Mary Henrietta (1862-1900), British explorer of West and Central Africa, who was the first European to visit parts of Gabon.
Kingsley was born in London, the daughter of a medical doctor who traveled extensively.
Kingsley made her final trip to Africa in 1899, planning to visit West Africa again, but the outbreak that year of the Boer War in South Africa led her to travel there instead.
www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/kingsley.html   (289 words)

  
 Get To Know- Kingsley Area Public Schools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kingsley Area Schools is a small rural district located in the southern half of Grand Traverse County.
The Kingsley area is experiencing significant residential growth due to it's proximity to larger communities and various opportunities for excellent healthcare and numerous recreational activities.
The Kingsley district is known for its quality schools, hard work, and small town atmosphere.
www.tbaisd.k12.mi.us /get_to_know/get_kingsley.asp   (150 words)

  
 Kingsley Associates - Real Estate Consulting
Kingsley Associates has been delivering results for real estate companies since 1985.
Kingsley Associates' focused research and seasoned professionals distill intelligence from data and action from information.
Kingsley Associates is at the convergence of real estate business intelligence, working with the best and brightest in the industry.
www.kingsleyassoc.com   (86 words)

  
 Kingsley College - A Wesleyan School of Theology & Bible College, Melbourne
Kingsley is committed to equipping and developing people to go out and shape their world - whether in full-time professional ministry, through counselling or in everyday living.
With an emphasis on the application of theology to practical ministry, Kingsley provides training in biblical studies, pastoral theology and practice, counselling, urban mission, theology and Christian spirituality.
At Kingsley, we seek to provide students with an exciting, challenging place where they can be equipped to follow God's call on their lives.
www.kingsley.vic.edu.au   (183 words)

  
 Fort Madison Bed Breakfast Inn Iowa Hotel Lodging Accommodation Casino IA Midwest Lake Cooper Mississippi River
Kingsley Inn is a combination of the modern comforts of an elegant hotel and the warmth and atmosphere of a bed and breakfast.
From this step onward, your stay at Kingsley Inn will enchant you with the aura of another age -- a period when life was slower, more peaceful; when courteous people took the time to care.
Just across the street from Kingsley Inn is Old Fort Madison, which has been restored and is staffed with re-enactors who take the visitor through the daily activities of life in an 1800's frontier military outpost.
www.virtualcities.com /ons/ia/z/iaz3601.htm   (479 words)

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