The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words is a non-fiction history book by British writer Simon Winchester, first published...
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and Todd Komarnicki based on the 1998 book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (published in the United States as The Professor and the Madman) by Simon Winchester...
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Simon Winchester (redirect from Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers)
“Go away and don’t come back.” A film adaptation of The Surgeon of Crowthorne/THe Professor and the Madman was released in 2019 starring Mel Gibson. On...
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under the editorship of James Murray and others, one aspect of which Winchester had previously written about in 1998 in The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale...
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James Murray (lexicographer) (category Chief editors of the Oxford English Dictionary)
contributions to the dictionary, stating, "we could easily illustrate the last four centuries from his quotations alone". The book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (published...
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Dictionary (redirect from List of English language dictionaries)
HarperPerennial. ISBN 0-06-099486-X. (published in the UK as The Surgeon of Crowthorne). P. G. J. van Sterkenburg, ed. (2003). A practical guide to lexicography...
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also became the name for any booklet small enough to be made from a single quire of paper. Simon Winchester, in The Surgeon of Crowthorne, cites a specific...
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William Chester Minor (category Union army surgeons)
Helped Write Oxford Dictionary". The book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (published in America as The Professor and the Madman), by Simon Winchester, was published...
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Broadmoor Hospital (redirect from Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane)
psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England. It is the oldest of England's three high-security psychiatric hospitals, the other two being Ashworth...
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with Murray the subject of Simon Winchester's 1998 book The Surgeon of Crowthorne, which was adapted into the 1999 film The Professor and the Madman. Ogilvie...
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Mary Yonge Henry Yule Ghil'ad Zuckermann The Dictionary People The Meaning of Everything The Surgeon of Crowthorne "Dictionary Editors". Oxford English Dictionary...
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Museum of Natural History, New York City.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Winchester, Simon (1998). The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A...
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne; The Map that Changed the World Jeanette Winterson – author of books including Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Sexing the Cherry...
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Writer (section Writers of sacred texts)
ISBN 9781863171441. Winchester, Simon (1998). The Surgeon of Crowthorne: a tale of murder, madness and the love of words. London: Viking. ISBN 0670878626. Grossman...
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requests. The story of how Murray and Minor worked together to advance the OED was retold in the 1998 book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (US title: The Professor...
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Thomas T. Minor (category Union army surgeons)
life was chronicled in The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester (published in the United States as The Professor and the Madman). In 1861, when he...
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different titles in the United Kingdom and United States. Categories of such works include co-editions of books and foreign releases of films. Unless otherwise...
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the Oxford English Dictionary. New York: HarperPerennial. ISBN 978-0-06017-596-2. (The original British edition is titled The Surgeon of Crowthorne.)...
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helps Tom track his daughters GPS Karen Bryson as Helen Crowthorne, next-door neighbour to the Delaney family Safe has received positive reviews. It has...
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least 3 of the following criteria: The film is adapted from a British source material. The story is at least partially set in the United Kingdom. The film...
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Psychiatric hospital (redirect from Asylums and Care for the Insane)
Hospital in Crowthorne, Rampton Secure Hospital in Retford, and the State Hospital in Carstairs, Scotland. In Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel...
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William Ivison Macadam (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
disturbed gunman in his own laboratory at Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh. The Scotsman ran a contemporary view of him the day after his death: "Few men were more...
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James Nesbitt (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
"ITV Crime Thriller Awards: About the Awards". itv.com. Retrieved 10 October 2008. Pyle, Mike (17 June 2010). "Crowthorne couple's James Nesbitt film in...
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miles from the market square. The mining commissioner and the district surgeon were to be ex-officio members of the committee. The area of the committee's...
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The below incomplete list of 160 entries chronicles unsolved known and presumed murders in the United Kingdom from between 1536 and 1969. Victims believed...
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Walter de Sausmarez Cayley (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
he lived at Crowthorne, Berkshire, and in 1939 he was Deputy Lieutenant of Berkshire. A Banker's Family – Descendants of Edward Cayley of Stamford (1782–1868)...
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Samuel Calvert (painter) (category Artists from the London Borough of Lambeth)
on 1 January 1913 at Crowthorne, county Berkshire, England, aged 84 years. A selection of engraved images by Samuel Calvert 'The land sales at Hamilton'...
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current total of 15 series. The series features Portillo travelling around the railway networks of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man, referring...
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Louisa Mak (category Hong Kong people of Australian descent)
Examination. Mak moved to Crowthorne, Berkshire, and attended Wellington College for her matriculation, to acclimate herself to the British academic environment...
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1919 New Year Honours (MBE) (category 1919 in the United Kingdom)
Commandant, Heatherside Auxiliary Hospital, Crowthorne, Wellington College, Berkshire Herbert Joseph Moore, Secretary to the Sub-Committee for Overseas Ambulance...
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