Tag: GB

Dannie Abse

Dannie Abse

Dannie Abse, CBE (born Daniel Abse on 22 September 1923 in Cardiff, Wales; died on 28 September 2014[1] in Golders Green, London) was a British author and poet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK3qbLAluIA Dannie Abse at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2013 | age 90 Dannie Abse grew up in his Jewish family with his brothers Leo Abse (1917–2008; lawyer, politician, author) and Wilfried Abse (1915–2005; psychoanalyst), who were about ten years older than him.[2] After successfully Read more [...]
Archibald Joseph Cronin

Archibald Joseph Cronin

Archibald Joseph Cronin (July 19, 1896 in Cardross, Scotland; January 6, 1981 in Glion, Switzerland) was a Scottish physician and writer. Some of his novels became international successes. His narrative is characterized by exciting plots, realistic characters, and pronounced social criticism. In his autobiography, Adventures in Two Worlds, he also unequivocally professes his Christian faith. Cronin follows the tradition of the Bildungsroman and uses the techniques of Victorian novel realism. Archibald Read more [...]
Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland – July 7, 1930 in Crowborough, Sussex, England) was a British physician and author. He wrote about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson. He is also known for the character Challenger from his novel The Lost World, which served as the basis for numerous films and a television series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7toqzP16H4c In 1880, Doyle traveled to the Arctic as a ship's doctor on the whaler Read more [...]
Ian Brunt

Ian Brunt

The 49-bell Carillon of St Colman's Cathedral in Cobh is the largest such instrument in Ireland and Britain. Dr Ian Brunt was Director of The Lanchester Early Music Festival and City Carillonneur ofNewcastle Upon Tyne, regularly giving concerts and recitals on organ, carillon, harpsichordand fortepiano. He was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain 1979-1981 as flautist, composer and general musician and has specialised in the baroque flutefor over thirty years. He performs Read more [...]
Theodore Howard Somervell

Theodore Howard Somervell

Theodore Howard Somervell OBE, FRCS (16 April 1890 – 23 January 1975) was an English surgeon, mountaineer, painter and missionary who was a member of two expeditions to Mount Everest in the 1920s, and then spent nearly 40 years working as a doctor in India. In 1924 he was awarded an Olympic Gold Medal by Pierre de Coubertin for his achievements in mountaineering (Alpinism). Somervell was born in Kendal, Westmorland, Read more [...]
Milad Shadrooh

Milad Shadrooh

Dr. Milad begann 2012 mit seiner Tätigkeit als Dozent für Zahnmedizin und hat seitdem Tausende von Zahnärzten in Zahnschienen und kosmetischer Zahnheilkunde geschult. Darüber hinaus hält er Vorlesungen für Zahnmedizinstudenten an verschiedenen Universitäten in Großbritannien und im Ausland. Im Jahr 2020 gründete Dr. Milad gemeinsam mit seinem Freund und Kollegen Dr. Robbie Hughes, einem sehr erfolgreichen Zahnarzt und Unternehmer, Avantgarde Dentistry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BREs8_u9vRg 2024 Read more [...]
Charles Bell

Charles Bell

Sir Charles Bell KH FRS FRSE FRCSE MWS (12 November 1774 – 28 April 1842) was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist, physiologist, neurologist, artist, and philosophical theologian. He is noted for discovering the difference between sensory nerves and motor nerves in the spinal cord. He is also noted for describing Bell's palsy. Charles Bell was born in Edinburgh on 12 November 1774,[2] as the Read more [...]
Cecil G. Helman

Cecil G. Helman

Cecil Helman (4 January 1944 – 15 June 2009) was a South African doctor, author, and medical anthropologist.[1][2][3][4][5] He published poetry, essays, and short stories, as well as academic books and papers. Adam Kuper, a sometime professor of anthropology at Brunel University, was lecturing on the topic at UCL when he first got to know Helman. “It was very unusual then for a medical person to do a social science course”, Read more [...]
Norwich Medics Football Club

Norwich Medics Football Club

Hello and welcome to the Facebook page of NMFC, a community based team. This page is primarily used in match selection and keeping all players updated on team events. We welcome all football lovers, both studying and working, who enjoy football to join our club! We compete with our two XI-a-side teams in Division 1 and Division 2 of the Barnes Print Central and South Norfolk League every Saturday but we also have 2 six-a-side teams that compete on Sundays in the UEA six-a-side league Read more [...]