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  Richard Reeve+ Jeene ???
Timothy Brock Reeve was born 1747 and 1829.
Timothy Reeve was born 1776 and died 1826.
Samuel Reeve was born 1781 and died 1866.
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 Biography (Christopher Reeve Homepage)
Reeve said, "What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely." Reeve told Gene Siskel: "The key word for me on him (Superman) is 'inspiration.' He is a leader by inspiration.
Reeve's hands were tangled in the horse's bridle and he landed head first, fracturing the uppermost vertebrae in his spine.
Reeve was in the forefront of those lobbying for embryonic stem cell research and he delighted in the controversy.
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  Reeve - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A reeve (Old English gerefa) was an Anglo-Saxon official of high rank, exerting local jurisdiction.
Reeve in Canada is an elected head of a small municipality,
Reeve or Hogreeve in old New England towns is a now-ceremonial position formerly in charge of rounding up loose hogs.
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 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Reeve said on Sunday he had taken a combination of alcohol and cocaine after the second day at Lord’s followed by two sleeping tablets.
Reeve, who quit Channel 4 on Friday after five years as a member of their commentary team, said that his marriage to second wife Fiona was in tatters, forcing him to turn to drugs.
Reeve, awarded an OBE in 1996 for services to cricket, believes that he is not the only cricketer to use marijuana.
www.telegraphindia.com /1050523/asp/sports/story_4774661.asp   (390 words)

  
 Christopher Reeve dies | This is London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Reeve broke his neck when he fell from his horse and landed on his head during a cross-country race nine years ago.
Reeve was being treated at the hospital for a pressure wound, a common complication for people living with paralysis.
Before his riding accident, Reeve played the piano to professional standard, had done many of his own film stunts, was an expert sailor and skier and had twice flown solo across the Atlantic.
www.thisislondon.co.uk /news/articles/13720166   (572 words)

  
 The Benner, Cleaveland and Related Families - Person Page 59
     Roger Fitch was born circa 1500 in Lindsell, Essex, England.
     Thomas Fitch was born 1590 in Braintree, Essex, England.
     Anne Reeve was born on 9 November 1593 in Bocking, Essex, England.
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 Mills & Reeve: Disclaimer and Copyright Notice
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 New England College - Press Release
Ambassador Braun visited New England College as a Democratic Presidential Candidate in the fall of 2003 and later participated in College Convention 2004, which was hosted by New England College and its Center for Civic Engagement.
Reeve is Professor emeritus in the College of Letters at Wesleyan University.
New England College (NEC) is an independent liberal arts college that prides itself on fostering close working and mentoring relations among faculty, staff, and students.
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 rediff.com: cricket channel - Perera called a 'chucker'
The 25-year-old Perera is not one of the world's top bowlers but he performed like a world-beater, taking three for 8 with his whippy medium pacers, as England were forced to follow-on after they were dismissed for 275 in reply to Sri Lanka's first innings score of 555 for 8 declared.
England's predicament was overshadowed by the row over Perera's bowling action, with television replays showing his arm bending just before the ball was released.
Reeve, now a commentator for Channel 4, told Michael Atherton on air while studying Perera's action: "I'm sorry Michael, but that is a throw.
www.rediff.com /cricket/2002/may/20chuck.htm   (257 words)

  
 Reeve's legacy: stem cell research - Stem Cell Research - MSNBC.com
Reeve, who was a fixture on Capitol Hill, became a part of the debate himself as recently as last week, getting mention on the divisive question in the presidential debate between President Bush and his Democratic challenger, John Kerry.
Reeve provided hope and inspiration to other patients and lobbied for scientists to be allowed to conduct stem cell research in the hopes of eventually curing paralysis and other illnesses, such as diabetes and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
Reeve believed the strict limits by the Bush administration on the controversial areas of stem cell research, which he criticized as misguided and inadequate, could eventually be overturned by individual states.
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 New England 9 Federal Litchfield
Reeve was born on Long Island in 1744.
Reeve decided to start a law school, and his first student was none other than his brother-in-law, Aaron Burr.
In 1810 Reeve was instrumental in bringing the Reverend Lyman Beecher, the great foe of Unitarianism, to minister in Litchfield.
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 Timeline of Anglo Saxon England 899 AD-977 AD
- Lady Aelfwynn of the Mercians is brought to the court of her maternal uncle, King Edward the Elder of England, and deprived of her authority in Mercia.
- Prince Aelfweard, brother of King Athelstan of England, is drowned en route to France and buried at Saint-Bertin.
Kings Hywel Dda of Deheubarth, Idwal Foel of Gwynedd and Morgan Mwynfawr of Morgannwg are compelled to accompany Athelstan on his campaign against King Constantine II of Alba.
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The reeve was a priest named Wulfsige and the Bishop was grateful to him for the bountiful proceeds of the land.
The wic reeve in charge of the fortified areas where the king and his family resided was not a peasant but a gentry member and a landowner in his own right.
This upper class reeve was known as the "King's Reeve" or "High Reeve" and he was on the upper side of the social scale and part of the aristocracy.
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 ABC Sport - Cricket - Former England cricketer tells of cocaine-fuelled TV commentary: report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Former England international Dermot Reeve has admitted he is fighting an addiction to cocaine and even used the drug while commentating on a Test match for the UK's Channel 4 TV.
Reeve, who played for England and Warwickshire in the 1990's and was awarded an OBE in 1996 for services to cricket, quit his job as a commentator last week after five years as part of the Channel 4 commentary team.
Reeve said that his marriage to second wife Fiona was under pressure when he first used the drug.
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 BBC SPORT | Cricket | Reeve reveals cocaine addiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Reeve revealed that in the 1990s, when he played for England and Warwickshire, he smoked marijuana in the close season.
Reeve suggested there was widespread use of "illegal substances" within cricket at that time.
Reeve told the newspaper his marriage to second wife Fiona was under pressure when he first used cocaine, but he has vowed to kick his habit.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/sport1/hi/cricket/4570193.stm   (386 words)

  
 The Choleric Reeve
The origins of the reeve cannot be adequately understood without first analyzing history during the rise of the reeve, finding out the position of the reeve, discovering who Chaucer's reeve is, and analyzing Chaucer's views of the reeve.
The Normans conquered England in the ninth and tenth centuries, and by the Eleventh century, the Norman culture was essentially French culture.
Formerly the reeve was a middle-class carpenter, but now that he has control of the manor, the elderly reeve has moved to the upper class.
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 Cricinfo - Reeve admits to cocaine addiction
Dermot Reeve, the former England allrounder and Warwickshire captain, has admitted that he was addicted to cocaine and even confessed to have commentated on a Test match for Channel Four under the influence of the drug.
Reeve, 43, quit Channel Four on Friday after five years as a member of their commentary team.
Reeve also suggested there was widespread use of "illegal substances" within cricket when he played.
content.cricinfo.com /england/content/story/209774.html   (332 words)

  
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And Reeve suggested there was widespread use of "illegal substances" withincricket at that time.
Reeve, awarded an OBE in 1996 for services to cricket, told the Mail on Sundayhis marriage to second wife Fiona was under pressure when he first used thedrug.
Reeve captained Warwickshire to six trophies in three years, including threein 1995, and earned 25 one-day international caps - appearing in two World Cups- and three Test caps.
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 Bonita Hancey Ancestors from Suffolk County England - pafg07 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Hannah FISK was born in 1731 in Rumburgh, Suffolk, England.
Thomas EDMEEDS was born in <1735> in Of Chelsfield, Kent, England.
Ann was born in <1739> in England>.
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 icLanarkshire - Reeve admits cocaine habit
Reeve, who quit Channel 4 on Friday after five years as a member of their commentary team, told the Mail on Sunday: "I want to be clean and healthy and fit for my kids and have normal highs that aren't due to cocaine.
Reeve, awarded an OBE in 1996 for services to cricket, admitted that his marriage to second wife Fiona was under pressure when he first used the drug.
Reeve captained Warwickshire to six trophies in three years, including three in 1995, and earned 25 one-day international caps - appearing in two World Cups - and three Test caps.
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 Reeve (England) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In England, a reeve was an official appointed to supervise lands for a lord.
The system was introduced by the Saxons, dating at least to the 7th century, and continued after the Norman conquest.
The reeve of an entire shire was a Shire-reeve, predecessor to the Sheriff.
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 New England College - Press Release
Reeve has published several books of fiction (The Brother, A Few Rounds of Old Maid), translations (The Garden: Poems by Bella Akhmadulina), and poetry (In the Silent Stones, The Blue Cat, and most recently, 2002's The Urban Stampede).
Reeve is also a contributor to the September 11th anthologies and has himself edited an anthology of poems and paintings, Winged Spirits, and, with Jay Meek, After the Storm: Poems on the Persian Gulf War.
Reeve received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is currently a member of the New England College Master of Arts Program in Poetry faculty.
www.nec.edu /news/press/0000038.htm   (973 words)

  
 CHRISTOPHER REEVE at THESPIAN NET
Christopher Reeve is the eldest of two sons born to a Russian scholar/ writer/ Ivy League professor and his wife, a newspaper reporter.
While at Juilliard, Reeve traveled to England for research on a thesis he was writing on British repertory theatre and was employed as a "dogsbody" -- A glorified errand boy, he later recalled -- at the noted Old Vic theatre, where he wound up teaching the British actors how to speak with an American accent.
Reeve made his cinematic debut with a supporting role in "Gray Lady Down." Following a lengthy search, the young actor traveled to England for a screen test for the lead role in the big-budgeted film based on the long-running comic book hero Superman.
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 Regia Anglorum - The Law in Anglo-Saxon England
The legislative functions of Anglo-Saxon England were carried out by the king and his council or, sometimes, by the council alone.
Codes of law were produced at regular intervals by kings, and the issue of a new code was an opportunity to add new statutes, modify existing ones, or re-state old laws that were being ignored.
Above the hundred court was the shire court which met twice a year, usually about Easter and Michaelmas (29th September), and was presided over by the ealdorman, the bishop and the king's senior reeve in the area, the shire-reeve (or sheriff), with all the major landowners in the shire, or their reeves, present.
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 BBC SPORT | ENGLAND V WEST INDIES | Reeve backs "smart" selection
Somerset coach Dermot Reeve has hailed the inclusion of Marcus Trescothick in the England Test squad for the vital third Test against West Indies as a "very smart selection".
Trescothick has made great strides since former Test all-rounder Reeve's move to Taunton and impressed selectors, teammates and England supporters with his mature attitude after being given his chance in the one-day side.
The pair were in contact during the triangular tournament and Reeve told Radio 5 Live he was over the moon about Trescothick's call-up for the Old Trafford Test.
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 Lineage from Thomas Fitch
Thomas Fitch was born in 1590 and christened 1598 in Brazenhead, Bocking, Co Essex, England.
Anne Reeve (Reve) was born on 29 November 1590 in Garret Manor, Bocking, Co Essex, England.
He resided at New England in 1638 in Norwich, New London Co, CT. Thomas served in the military in Parliamentary Wars, England and was married to Anna Stacy (Stacie) on 1 November 1632 in Bocking, Co Essex, England.
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 Cricinfo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Reeve handled his enforced idleness in good humour, learning the Spanish guitar, performing occasional back flips into the swim- ming pool and, when his mother Monica took over as England's scorer, doubtless volunteering to sharpen her coloured pencils.
If the persistent demand for autographs became a chore, Reeve obliged, amazed that he was recognised more readily in India than England.
If Reeve's sporting attitudes come from his father, his independent, competitive nature has been passed down by his mother.
content.cricinfo.com /ci/content/story/59749.html   (557 words)

  
 <%Title%> - Concord Monitor Online - Concord, NH 03301
Now, almost a decade after the accident, Reeve has regained the ability to push off a pool wall with his legs and sway his arms through the water.
"(Christopher Reeve) shouldn't be the only one privy to these kinds of treatments, and it is possible," Reeve said, who is a film and stage actress and heads the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation with her husband.
Reeve, Manganiello and Brooks are traveling around the country to raise awareness about the bill.
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 Cricket attire for auction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
England blue cricket shirt worn by Dermot Reeve during the competition and signed by the England squad.
England white replica cricket shirt signed by twelve members of the England team for the Test match v New Zealand at Edgbaston 1999.
England short sleeved shirt with England emblem and sponsors Tetley worn on the 1995/96 tour to South Africa.
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 Bloomberg.com: U.K.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
England may take as many as three spinners to Asia -- it used an all-pace attack in the fourth Test this summer.
Reeve, former fast bowler Devon Malcolm and former South Africa batsman Barry Richards said they would also take Worcestershire off-spinner Gareth Batty, who was in the squad for the last three Tests against South Africa but wasn't handed a debut.
The England batting lineup is less likely to change, although Kent player Ed Smith may be under pressure after scoring just 23 runs in four innings after his 64 on debut.
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