William Boot is a fictional journalist who is the protagonist in the 1938 Evelyn Waugh comic novel Scoop. Boot is the young author of a regular column...
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into the company Boots UK. Boot was born in Radcliffe-on-Trent, England, in October 1815. He was the son of William Boot; his mother Sarah (née Fox)...
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In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware such as a button on the computer or by a software command. After...
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A Wellington boot, often shortened to welly, and also known as a gumboot, rubber boot, or rain boot, is a type of waterproof boot made of rubber. Originally...
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is a satire of sensationalist journalism and foreign correspondents. William Boot, a young man who lives in genteel poverty, far from the iniquities of...
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Ryan Thomas William Boot (born 9 November 1994) is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL League Two club Chesterfield. He...
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Bootloader (redirect from Boot loader)
bootloader, also spelled as boot loader or called bootstrap loader, is a computer program that is responsible for booting a computer. If it also provides...
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Max Boot (born September 12, 1969) is a Russian-born naturalized American author, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian. He worked as a writer...
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Boötes (/boʊˈoʊtiːz/ boh-OH-teez) is a constellation in the northern sky, located between 0° and +60° declination, and 13 and 16 hours of right ascension...
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Look up boot or boots in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A boot is a type of footwear. Boot(s) may also refer to: Boot Inn, Chester, Cheshire, England...
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Dan Quayle (redirect from William Figueroa)
Archived from the original on June 14, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018. William Boot (Christopher Hanson) (September–October 1991). "Dan Quayle: The Sequel"...
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Puss Gets the Boot is a 1940 American animated short film and is the first short in what would become the Tom and Jerry cartoon series, though neither...
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writing reviews and interviews both under his name and the pseudonym William Boot (taken from Evelyn Waugh's Scoop). In 1964, a Ford Foundation grant enabled...
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William Henry James Boot (1848 – 8 September 1918) was an English oil and watercolour artist, illustrator and author. He was born in Manchester, England...
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film 1986 A Dangerous Kind of Love Whymper Television film 1987 Scoop William Boot Television film 1988 The Mask Leonardo 1989 Henry V Louis the Dauphin...
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Boot Hill, or Boothill, is the given name of many cemeteries, chiefly in the Western United States. During the 19th and early 20th century it was a common...
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The Golden Boot Awards were an American acknowledgement of achievement honoring actors, actresses, and crew members who made significant contributions...
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since been acted in the US, South Africa and New Zealand. It features William Boot, a country mouse bored with rural life at his grandmother's house, who...
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A boot knife or a gambler's dagger is a small fixed-blade knife (usually, a dagger) that is designed to be carried in or on a boot. Typically, such a knife...
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A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector in the first block of partitioned computer mass storage devices like fixed disks or removable drives...
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Hunter Boot Limited is a British footwear manufacturer that is known for its rubber Wellington boots. Originally established in 1856 as the North British...
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Hobnail (redirect from Hobnailed boot)
hobnail is a short nail with a thick head used to increase the durability of boot soles or provide traction. Hobnailed boots (in Scotland "tackety boots")...
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A deicing boot is a type of ice protection system installed on aircraft surfaces to permit a mechanical deicing in flight. Such boots are generally installed...
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Bill Deedes (redirect from William Francis Deedes, Baron Deedes)
journalist used by Evelyn Waugh as the model and inspiration for the hapless William Boot, protagonist of the satirical novel Scoop. Deedes himself said he "spent...
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better-known account is his novel Scoop (1938), in which the protagonist, William Boot, is loosely based on Deedes. Among Waugh's growing circle of friends...
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While the BOOTES-1 station in Spain is devoted to wide-field astronomy, the additional stations (BOOTES-2 in Spain, BOOTES-3 in New Zealand, BOOTES-4 in China...
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(brother) Piers Court (house) Combe Florey House (house) Characters William Boot (Scoop) Mrs. Stitch (Scoop) Aloysius (teddy bear) (Brideshead Revisited)...
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Scoop (1987 film) (category Films with screenplays by William Boyd (writer))
(Donald Pleasence), tells William Boot (Michael Maloney) to cover the ongoing war as the correspondent for the Beast. Boot normally writes about British...
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"Ethio Info Desk". Ethio Info Desk. "Burnt to the ground, the Addis Ababa hotel where Evelyn Waugh (and Scoop's William Boot) stayed". Independent.Co.Uk....
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the first biography of the poet Alfred Tennyson, which was published by William Heinemann. In 1894, he contributed to the first issue of the magazine The...
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