name Wills Hall reflects the university's connection with the Wills family. The fortune made by their famous tobacco empire, W. D. & H. O. Wills and later...
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Country Music Hall of Fame inducted Wills in 1968 and the Texas State Legislature honored him for his contribution to American music. In 1972, Wills accepted...
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University of Bristol (section Halls of residence)
ceremonies are held in its Great Hall. The Wills Memorial Building is a Grade II* listed building. In 1920, George Wills bought the Victoria Rooms and endowed...
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the architect Sir George Oatley, who also designed the Wills Memorial Building, and Wills Hall, both of which belong to the university. This annexe came...
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Wills may refer to: Will (law), a legal document Wills, Queensland, a locality in the Shire of Boulia Division of Wills, an Australian electoral division...
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June 2008. Wills left The Jones Gang in the summer of 2015 and was replaced by Pat Davey. On 12 January 2015, in Sarasota, Florida, Wills and original...
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Pirates and the Montreal Expos. Wills is credited with reviving the stolen base as part of baseball strategy. Wills was the National League Most Valuable...
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Helen Newington Wills (October 6, 1905 – January 1, 1998), also known by her married names Helen Wills Moody and Helen Wills Roark, was an American tennis...
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funding needed to build Wills Hall, a hall of residence for Bristol University students. He also funded the building of the H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory...
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60444°W / 51.45611; -2.60444 The Wills Memorial Building (also known as the Wills Memorial Tower or simply the Wills Tower) is a neo-Gothic building in...
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Formal (university) (redirect from Formal Hall)
Redefined". Trinity Times. "In defence of Wills Hall". 8 January 2017. Lawrenceson, T.E. (1957) 'St. Anselm Hall in the University of Manchester, 1907-1957...
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only required to be gowned when graduating or at dinner as a member of Wills Hall. As at most universities, when graduating, graduands wear the dress appropriate...
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member of the Bristol tobacco manufacturing family of Wills which founded the firm of W. D. & H. O. Wills. As a philanthropist his best-known act was the funding...
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Deus vult (redirect from God wills it)
Dieux el volt and the Classical Latin Deus id vult ("God wills it") or Deus hoc vult ("God wills this"). The battle cry of the First Crusade is first reported...
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In 1985 the film, Burke & Wills, was made with Jack Thompson as Burke and Nigel Havers as Wills. Also in 1985, the spoof Wills & Burke was released with...
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boxing historians consider Wills the most egregious victim of the "color line" drawn by white heavyweight champions. Wills fought for over twenty years...
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attending Bristol University where he read Law and was a resident of Wills Hall. He has prosecuted and defended most forms of serious crime and serious...
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descended from convicts, Wills grew up in the bush on stations owned by his father, the squatter and politician Horatio Wills, in what is now the state...
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also featured extensive filming around the University of Bristol, with Wills Hall doubling as the fictional Cambridge College St. Cedd's. The production's...
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Wills Gymnasium, often referred to as Wills Gym, was a multi-purpose athletic facility on the campus of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, United States...
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July 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022. "Professor Jane Wills FBA". Jane Wills Interview Jane Wills, scholar.google.com Portals: United Kingdom Biography...
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Braves (1983–84). Wills is the son of Maury Wills, a major league shortstop who later managed the Seattle Mariners. A switch hitter, Wills played college...
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Oscar Wilde (redirect from Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout...
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School. He later read law at the University of Bristol where he resided at Wills Hall and was a member of the Barneys Club. He began his career in civil rights...
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Division, Second Department, reversed Wills' convictions and ordered a new trial. On April 22, 2021, Ruben Wills was fully exonerated and the charges were...
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Oatley, who also designed the Wills Memorial Building and Wills Hall; both of which also belong to the University. When the hall opened in 1932 a number of...
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40%. Wills outraised Chung and all other candidates that cycle. In the general election, Wills defeated Chung, 55% to 45%. While in office, Wills was chair...
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Head of the School of Modern Languages at Bristol, the Wardenship of Wills Hall, and a period as Co-Director of the South-West Consortium of the UK's...
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poet, and theologian R. P. Keigwin, Clifton housemaster, later Warden of Wills Hall James Gordon MacGregor, a science master 1877–1879 Sir William McKie,...
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Wills Cline". worldacro.com. 2010. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2024. Hudson, Mary (21 March 2018). "WILLS-Cline...
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