The site also includes a fascinating discussion of Harry Houdini's pact with his wife Bess to attempt to communicate from beyond the grave. |
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Contemporary drill manuals dictated twenty separate steps to load and fire the Bess, including five just to replace the ramrod. |
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When Gershwin was writing the musical, he told her that he had written the part of Bess for her. |
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He was a teenager in the grip of a strong, young passion, and Bess was his unattainable beloved. |
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The Officer called his supervisor who told him to leave until they could determine whether Mr. Bess lived on trust or fee land. |
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The orchestral covers from Porgy and Bess are slightly less inspired, but have their moments. |
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I didn't want to say good bye to Bess, for I doubted that I would have such a friend at court. |
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The next day, Ms. Bess told the deceased that he had interfered with her while she was sleeping, which wasn't true. |
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Bess has little patience with postmodern, deconstructionist architects and thinkers. |
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We do not know exactly what Harry said to Bess, but it must have amounted to a proposal. |
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For several years during her girlhood, Bess was a tomboy in a house full of brothers. |
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Over the years, she had come to count on him as one of the pillars in her life, just like her father, her deceased mother, and now, her darling little Bess. |
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The British soldiers, Brown Bess muskets primed and loaded, slid down the ropes onto the shaky boats, cramming about thirty light infantrymen to each of the tiny transports. |
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Bess was in the process of elaborately braiding her long golden tresses. |
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If you visit the livery stables you can choose between riding in a covered wagon pulled by two Clydesdales, Jock and Bess, or in a horse-drawn buggy. |
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Then came Bess Myerson, a daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants who was raised in the Sholem Aleichem Houses in the Bronx. |
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Bess is paid ten coppers a week, and is provided with room and board. |
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The highwayman has been portrayed in films and books as a flamboyant and handsome figure, forever escaping in the nick of time on his trusty steed Black Bess. |
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In 1926, while rehearsing for a benefit show for the school, Queen Bess fell from the cockpit five hundred feet to her death. |
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The oldest surviving Watt engine is Old Bess of 1777, now in the Science Museum, London. |
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This line includes Snider Enfield rifles, Martini Henry rifles, Brown Bess muskets, Gurkha Kukris and accessories. |
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David Clark UE gave a talk and demonstration of the Brown Bess Musket used by our ancestors in the American Revolutionary War. |
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Cape Town Opera is no stranger to the venue, having previously premiered its Mandela Trilogy and Porgy And Bess in the city. |
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The following year, the unauthorised marriage was discovered and the Queen ordered Raleigh to be imprisoned and Bess dismissed from court. |
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Turpin is introduced with the pseudonym Palmer, and is later forced to escape on his horse, Black Bess. |
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Although fast enough to keep ahead of those in pursuit, Black Bess eventually dies under the stress of the journey. |
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Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last monarch of the House of Tudor. |
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Bess had been a sort of a gift to replace my trusty splattergun, Bessie, lost in the far north. |
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Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don't tout your bingo muns in spite of the darkmans. |
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Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. |
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Goldstein and Mowbray present a pattern-by-pattern, full-color collector's guide to the Brown Bess musket, organized chronologically by pattern date. |
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Francois Delsarte, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, and Bess Mensendieck encouraged a kind of inside-out expression that questioned the traditional nature of movement training. |
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The sun was so low that its level rays shot through the tunnels of the forest and bronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing. |
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These findings were criticised by the government's Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin, the Opposition and Indigenous leaders like Warren Mundine and Bess Price. |
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On 26 January 1569, Mary was moved to Tutbury Castle and placed in the custody of the Earl of Shrewsbury and his formidable wife Bess of Hardwick. |
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