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    Beckett Hall (or Beckett House) is a country house at Shrivenham in the English county of Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire). The present house dates...
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    surrounded Beckett Hall. In the 17th century it was the home of Henry Marten, the regicide. Later the Barrington family owned the estate and lived at Beckett Hall...
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    Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ˈbɛkɪt/ ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and...
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  • Leeds Beckett University (LBU), formerly known as Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) and before that as Leeds Polytechnic, is a public university in...
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    Joshua Patrick Beckett (born May 15, 1980) is an American former professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). A three-time MLB All-Star...
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    horologist and architect. Beckett was born at Carlton Hall near Newark, Nottinghamshire, England, and was the eldest son of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, MP...
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    Margaret Mary Beckett, Baroness Beckett, GBE, PC (née Jackson; born 15 January 1943), is a British politician. She was a Member of Parliament for more...
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    Barrington remained a widower until his death at his country estate, Beckett Hall at Shrivenham in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), in February 1793, aged...
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  • on location in its namesake city, it tells the story of attorney Andrew Beckett (Hanks) who comes to ask a personal injury attorney, Joe Miller (Washington)...
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  • Mercury Beckett Hall or Beckett House, a 19th-century mansion in Oxfordshire, England Beckett Nunatak, Victoria Land, Antarctica, a rock nunatak Beckett Park...
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    Scott Hastings Beckett (October 4, 1929 – May 10, 1968) was an American actor. He began his career as a child actor in the Our Gang shorts and later costarred...
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    Beatrice Helen Beckett (27 July 1905 – 29 June 1957) was the first wife of British politician Anthony Eden. She was the third daughter of Sir William...
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    Barry Edward Beckett (February 4, 1943 – June 10, 2009) was an American keyboardist, session musician, record producer, and studio founder. He is best...
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    Waiting for Godot (category Plays by Samuel Beckett)
    (/ˈɡɒdoʊ/ GOD-oh or /ɡəˈdoʊ/ gə-DOH) is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in...
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    writer. She is best known for her work in theatre, performing in Samuel Beckett adaptations among other works. She began her career in the Fox Kids series...
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    Barrington was the fourth son of John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington of Beckett Hall at Shrivenham in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). He enlisted in the navy...
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  • same name by crime fiction writer Simon Beckett. The series stars Harry Treadaway, Samuel Anderson, Jefferson Hall and Jeanne Goursaud. It premiered on 12...
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  • Dr. Samuel John Beckett is a fictional character and the protagonist on the 1989-1993 science fiction television series Quantum Leap, played by Scott...
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    act of parliament in 1710, and the other by an admirer John Wildman of Beckett Hall at Shrivenham, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). Barrington was now one of...
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  • (2008) (as Galen Beckett) The House on Durrow Street (2010) (as Galen Beckett) The Master of Heathcrest Hall (2012) (as Galen Beckett) Crypt of the Shadowking...
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    military training in the late 1930s, after the War Office purchased Beckett Hall, an 1830s country house, together with the surrounding estate. It lies...
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    on February 1, 1964, from the laundry room of the all-male dormitory Beckett Hall. The station soon gained a reputation by airing interviews with Angela...
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    International Beckett Festival. In 2020 he founded the multi-disciplinary arts company Unreal Cities with composer Nick Roth, whose work includes two Beckett Biennales...
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    (2006) Beckett Hall (2007) Elder Hall (2007) Noggle Christian Ministries Center (1986, 2008) University Chapel (2010) Wesley Seminary (2013) Ott Hall of Science...
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  • Hall Award for Best Director. In 1955, Hall introduced London audiences to the work of Samuel Beckett with the UK premiere of Waiting for Godot. Hall...
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    Fair Play (1972), The Intruders, Shenandoah, and Bristle Face. Barry Beckett, Hall of Fame keyboardist, member of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section otherwise...
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    (JSCSC), Shrivenham, Oxfordshire Shrivenham Leadership Centre (SLC), Beckett Hall, Shrivenham Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre (AFCC), Shrivenham Nuclear...
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    of Salisbury and Bishop of Durham in England. Barrington was born at Beckett Hall in Shrivenham in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), the home of his father...
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    Beckett Park (also known as Becketts Park) is a residential area and a large public park in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is in the Weetwood ward...
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    of James Johnson and Ann Boville[citation needed] He died in 1905 at Beckett Hall, Shrivenham, Berkshire, a country house he had leased from Viscount Barrington...
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