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  Ronald Syme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Ronald Syme OM (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989), New Zealand-born historian, was an eminent classicist of the 20th century.
He was born to David and Florence Syme in Eltham, New Zealand, where he attended primary and secondary school; a bad case of measles would seriously damage his vision during this period.
Syme was also appointed Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford from 1970 until the late 1980's, where an annual lecture was established in his memory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ronald_Syme   (590 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Jennifer Syme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Syme's life ended as a result of an automobile accident in the spring of 2001 in Los Angeles.
Syme's mother, Maria St. John, claims Manson gave her daughter "various quantities of an illegal controlled substance" during a party at his home on the night of April 1, 2001.
Syme, 29, died at the scene of the crash, and cocaine was later found in her blood.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jennifer-Syme   (785 words)

  
 James Syme (www.whonamedit.com)
Syme, desperately in need of a private hospital, attracted students in such numbers — some 250 — that in 1829 he was able to commence the establishing of a surgical clinic of his own.
Syme to the Imperial Academy of Medicine of Paris, relative to the remarks of that body on the mode of treating obstinate strictures of the urethra.
Syme treated a case of iliac aneurysm by opening the sac and ligating the common iliac and the internal and external iliac arteries.
www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/2088.html   (2607 words)

  
 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 03.01.21
In this paper, Syme describes the evolution of his research interests after the journey that took him from New Zealand to Oxford as "a youth who in 1924 earned MA honours in French -- and who in the sequel wavered for a while between modern languages and the classics" (p.
Syme is justly famous for his studies of the ruling classes of the empire, of the circumstances under which they lived, married, dined, prospered or failed, and died.
In addition to the specific essays, there are two general essays in which Syme summarizes his feelings about the general historical value of studying the Roman aristocracy in a world where, by his own estimate, 86.5% of the population lived in the country (p.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1992/03.01.21.html   (957 words)

  
 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.11.17
Syme's prose was instead refreshingly austere and arctic, somehow leaving the impression that its frosty precision was a guarantee of historical veracity and insight.
Syme conceded that Strabo is often the primary, and sometimes the only, source for important information about the middle and later years of Augustus' reign, but that certainly did not stop him from disparaging Strabo and trying to correct his text.
Syme's careful studies on Strabo and Asia Minor are not going to challenge any currently fashionable approaches or topics in ancient history; but in the working out of those approaches or the researching of those topics every generation of scholars must struggle again with the sort of meticulous investigations represented in these chapters.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1995/95.11.17.html   (1633 words)

  
 Syme, David
Syme had supported Berry in the fight for protection and during the constitutional struggle, but was not satisfied with him as an administrator, and though opposed to James Service (q.v.) he recognized that Service had the very qualities Berry lacked.
In congenial company Syme could talk brilliantly and without arrogance, and he could be a good friend, but his armour of reserve helped to found the legend that he was hard, dour, and arrogant.
If Syme thought a man was a danger to his country, the order was issued that he was to be written out of his position without compromise or consideration of mitigating circumstances.
www.electricscotland.com /history/australia/syme_david.htm   (1961 words)

  
 Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Syme, John (1755-1831)
Syme, a few years older than Burns, found Dumfries society dull, and welcomed in the poet a kindred convivial spirit.
Burns was a frequent guest at Syme's villa, Ryedale, on the west side of the Nith.
Of Burns's features, Syme wrote: 'The poet's expression varied perpetually, according to the idea that predominated in his mind: and it was beautiful to mark how well the play of his lips indicated the sentiment he was about to utter.
www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/SymeJohn1755-1831.838.shtml   (685 words)

  
 Battle of Syme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of Syme was a naval battle in 411 BC between Sparta and Athens, during the Peloponnesian War.
Meanwhile, the Athenian fleet was stationed at Samos under the command of Charminus.
Charminus knew the Spartans were coming, having been informed by the Melians, and prepared to meet Astyochus at Syme.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Syme   (283 words)

  
 2. The Secret of Gabriel Syme. Chesterton, G. K. 1908. The Man Who Was Thursday
Syme received the remark with stolidity, imagining it to be a joke.
Syme took the cigar, clipped the end off with a cigar-cutter out of his waistcoat pocket, put it in his mouth, lit it slowly, and let out a long cloud of smoke.
Syme also strolled across to the table, and found lying across it a walking-stick, which turned out on examination to be a sword-stick, a large Colt’s revolver, a sandwich case, and a formidable flask of brandy.
www.bartleby.com /158/2.html   (2594 words)

  
 Syme Residence Hall
Syme and Professor S. Mann (see Mann Hall) attempted to design a canal across Nicaragua for the U.S. Government shortly after the turn of the century.
A bridge and highway specialist, Syme (pronounced Sim with a long "i") served an 18-month stay in Mecklenburg County repairing bridges destroyed by flood in 1916.
Syme also surveyed land for a N.C./S.C. boundary 80 miles inland from the coast.
www.ncsu.edu /facilities/buildings/syme.html   (180 words)

  
 {musicalbear ~ books} review > fiction > benjamin markovits > the syme papers
it soon becomes unclear, though, if syme was quite the genius that pitt needs him to be, since his ‘opium theories’ – particularly of the ‘hollow spheres’, which imagines the earth’s core as an ‘onion of concentric metallic spheres’ – seem mad.
these different parts of the narrative are like the concentric spheres of syme’s theory, greased by the prose, interlinked, and revolving with a lubricious spin.
pitt wants to prove that syme’s ideas lodged like ‘grit’ in wegener’s brain to produce his ‘pearl’ of inspiration; similarly, pitt’s ‘grit’, as it were, becomes markovits’s ‘pearl’.
www.musicalbear.com /books/review/the_syme_papers_by_benjamin_markovits   (672 words)

  
 3. The Man Who Was Thursday. Chesterton, G. K. 1908. The Man Who Was Thursday
He could not himself betray Syme, partly from honour, but partly also because, if he betrayed him and for some reason failed to destroy him, the Syme who escaped would be a Syme freed from all obligation of secrecy, a Syme who would simply walk to the nearest police station.
Syme had once thought that anarchists, under all their bravado, were only playing the fool.
The instant the election was ended and irrevocable, and Syme had received the paper proving his election, they all sprang to their feet, and the fiery groups moved and mixed in the room.
www.bartleby.com /158/3.html   (3498 words)

  
 The Syme Prosthesis Revisited - Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics, 1993 | American Academy of Orthotists & ...
Syme referred to his surgery as a disarticulation at the ankle affording ease of execution, less risk to life and a comfortable residual limb (2).
Concerning Syme's surgical technique, Harris very strongly states: "No matter how many Syme's stumps may be examined to ascertain the results, the conclusions will be misleading unless the technique of the operation is known for each case.
In brief, the proposed prosthesis is a flexible, lightweight medial-opening-type Syme with a standard foot that is bolted and adhered to the socket.
www.oandp.org /jpo/library/1993_03_095.asp   (2501 words)

  
 Syme's Amputation - Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
The Syme amputation in patients with congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia.
Syme amputation in children: indications, results, and long-term follow-up.
A comparison of the several types with the Syme amputation.
www.wheelessonline.com /ortho/symes_amputation   (220 words)

  
 James Syme
It was here that he first put into practice his method of clinical teaching, which consisted in having the patients to be operated or prelected upon brought from the ward into a lecture-room or theater where the students were seated conveniently for seeing and taking notes.
Syme's surgical writings were numerous, although the terseness of his style and directness of his method saved them from being bulky.
Syme's character is not inaptly summed up in the dedication to him by his old pupil, Dr. John Brown, of the series of essays Locke and Sydenham: "Verax, capax, perspicax, sagax, efficax, tenax."
www.nndb.com /people/347/000098053   (601 words)

  
 SAN FRANCISCO / Investigating officer calls fajita case 'typical bar fight' / He testifies no need to let accusers ID ...
John Syme -- who is facing internal department charges for allegedly mishandling the initial probe -- testified in uniform about the events of Nov. 20, 2002, during the assault and battery trial for Officer Matthew Tonsing and former Officer David Lee.
Syme, a 21-year veteran, was one of seven departmental supervisors who were briefly under indictment last year for allegedly conspiring to block the police investigation of the incident.
In his testimony Tuesday, Syme said he had immediately drawn the conclusion upon arriving at the scene that he was dealing with a "typical bar fight at closing time,'' given the location and what he concluded were indications that alleged victims Adam Snyder and Jade Santoro had been drinking.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/27/BAGL39H0DE1.DTL   (580 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Roman Revolution: Books: Ronald Syme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Syme successfully avoids to create a picture of ironclad necessity, which so often mars the perspective of historical writing, but it also becomes quite clear, that in the end timely and better informed decisions succeeded over poorer judgement.
Syme's analysis of the end of the Free State is as authoritative as it is magisterial.
Syme's style deliberately echoes that of his hero, Tacitus, and he is a difficult but rewarding read.
www.amazon.ca /Roman-Revolution-Ronald-Syme/dp/0198810016   (1877 words)

  
 Fairfax and Syme: David Syme and The Age
It established the David Syme Trust, prohibiting sale of the paper by the trustees or division of its assets until the death of his sons and all profits to be distributed to the beneficiaries (arguably crippling the business).
Syme's suburban papers had merged with Murdoch's Cumberland chain in 1981 as Syme Community Newspapers (later Fairfax Community Newspapers), with Murdoch's stake being acquired in 1984.
The Syme family, builders of The Age, has not attracted a study of the calibre of Gavin Souter's two studies of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Fairfax family: Company of Heralds and Heralds and Angels (Melbourne: Melbourne Uni Press 1981 and 1991).
www.ketupa.net /fairfax1.htm   (941 words)

  
 Syme Piano - Prague Post Article - 06.12.2000
David Syme, 51, is a consummate pianist - bold and forceful, subtle and tender, summoning whatever the notes call for, but injecting his own affinity, interpretation and flexibility.
It is in the concert hall, however, that Syme excels.
Praising his "exquisite control of tonal and dynamic shading," The Glasgow Herald said that "David Syme evidently views the piano as a limitless resource of color and nuance." The Boston Globe labeled Syme "a soloist who commands a big tone, the requisite sweep in a fire -breathing approach."
www.symepiano.com /press/praguepost-001206.html   (604 words)

  
 Puke Ariki - Taranaki Stories - Ronald Syme: Taranaki's Forgotten Son   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sir Ronald Syme, one-time Taranaki schoolboy, lately Camden professor of ancient history at Oxford, the holder of honorary degrees in 11 countries on five continents, died 14 years ago, a scholar who was arguably one of Taranaki's greatest sons.
Ronald Syme, younger cousin to well-known Taranaki mountaineer and horticulturalist Rod Syme, attended primary school at Eltham and then Stratford District High School before moving to NPBHS as a boarder in 1918.
Syme's writing style - clipped, passionate, heavy with allusion and often with irony - moved his work from being the sole domain of the scholar to become pleasurable reading for the interested amateur as well.
www.pukeariki.com /en/stories/arts/syme.asp   (1311 words)

  
 Biography of CONRAD SYME
Conrad Hunt Syme, the present corporation counsel for the District of Columbia, is a native of Lewisburg, Greenbrier county, West Virginia.
He was a man loved, respected and admired by all who knew him, and when he died the citizens of Greenbrier assembled in public meeting at the court house and passed resolutions expressive of their appreciation of his character and their regret at his loss.
Samuel Augustus Maverick Syme, the second son of Dr. Wilham Henry Syme, and the father of Conrad Hunt Syme, was born in Lewisburg, W. Va., April 8, 1838.
www.electricscotland.com /history/world/bios/syme_conrad.htm   (1771 words)

  
 Concert pianist David Syme takes stage in Northport
Syme, who has played at Kennedy Center and with the London Philharmonia, will play a concert on Saturday at the Northport Community Arts Center.
The concert, titled "Play it Again Syme" after his first CD, promises to be an eclectic mix of pop and classics, said the pianist, who lives in West Bloomfield.
Syme studied at the Juilliard School of Music.
www.record-eagle.com /2005/jul/08syme.htm   (415 words)

  
 Jennifer Syme
A lot of what is known about her centered around tragic circumstances: First, the 1999 stillbirth of the baby she expected with Reeves, and second, her untimely death in 2001 at age 28.
Marilyn Manson, who was featured in "Lost Highway" and also agreed to make cameo appearances in the MD TV series, was claimed responsible for her death when having been negligent in "instructing the woman to operate a motor vehicle in her incapacitated condition".
Syme was the one who introduced Manson to Lynch, which led to Manson receiving a small part in Lost Highway.
www.mulholland-drive.net /cast/jennifer.htm   (559 words)

  
 Paul Syme
Dr Paul Syme is a Part-time Senior lecturer in the Department with a full time clinical commitment in the Borders General Hospital (BGH), a busy District General Hospital near Edinburgh.
Dr Syme formerly worked as an MRC Clinical Scientist at the University of Oxford on the quantitation of NMR spectra under Professor Sir George Radda.
Syme P, Byrne A, Chen R. J Cerebrovas Dis 16 (suppl 4) 13 (Poster presentation ESC 2003).
www.geriatric.med.ed.ac.uk /paul_Syme.htm   (900 words)

  
 S. Syme: ZoomInfo Business People Information
Syme's summary was automatically generated using 29 references found on the Internet.
Syme is Principal Investigator of The Wellness Guide Project in California which is attempting to empower people and communities using printed materials, television, and community resource development.
Syme has done research on risk factors for heart disease, with a major focus on psychosocial risk factors such as job stress, social support, and poverty.
www.zoominfo.com /people/syme_s._19969071.aspx   (387 words)

  
 Temple Beth El, Bloomfield Hills, MI - Rabbi Syme
After graduating from the University of Michigan with Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1967, Rabbi Syme was preparing to continue his education and accept a fellowship in psychology.
In 2004 Rabbi Syme was honored by MINDS and the St. Vincent DePaul Society.
Rabbi Syme is married to the former Dr. Jill Young and one son Joshua, his pride and joy.
www.tbeonline.org /staff/rabbis   (597 words)

  
 The Man Who Was Thursday - Part II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Syme spun round smartly, and stared backwards at the track which they had travelled.
Syme snatched a sword, and took it in his teeth; he stuck two others under his arm-pits, took a fourth in his left hand and the lantern in his right, and leapt off the high parade on to the beach below.
Syme's sword was broken, but he rent a bludgeon from the fist of a fisherman, flinging him down.
www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/detective/TheManWhoWasThursday/chap15.html   (2200 words)

  
 Here's a first: classical pianist Syme to take requests | www.azstarnet.com ®
Syme, who will perform Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, was barely into his 20s when he followed music teacher Ozan Marsh from New York to the UA.
Syme has studied at Juilliard but he is convinced he learned the finer points of his craft here under Marsh.
Syme went on to perform as a soloist in the world's finest concert halls, including Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center in this country and throughout 11 European countries.
www.dailystar.com /dailystar/allheadlines/63603.php   (604 words)

  
 DAVID SYME   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
David Syme made his performance début at age fourteen with his high school orchestra in the Beethoven First Concerto and when he was eighteen played the Rachmaninov - Second concerto with the Detroit Symphony (with whom he has subsequently appeared on numerous occasions).
He commands a vast repertoire and is as convincing in Bach, Mozart, or Beethoven as in Liszt or Rachmaninov, and is perhaps best known for his stunning renditions of the 19th Century Romantics, particularly Chopin.
Syme has appeared at the Meadowbrook Music Festival, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, and continues to concertize actively throughtout North America and Europe.
www.todorov.co.uk /ARTISTS/syme.htm   (188 words)

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