• Alfred John Fairbank CBE (12 July 1895 – 14 March 1982) was a British calligrapher, palaeographer and author on handwriting. Fairbank was a founding member...
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  • in Five Daughters, and as Alfred "Freddie" Lennon in the biopic Lennon Naked. In December 2023, it was announced that Fairbank had been cast as Eddie Knight...
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    second, much more eccentric italic for it to the design of calligrapher Alfred Fairbank, which also did not receive the same attention as the normal version...
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    as a more eccentric alternative. This italic face was designed by Alfred Fairbank and named "Bembo Condensed Italic", Monotype series 294. Some Arts...
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    John King Fairbank (May 24, 1907 – September 14, 1991) was an American historian of China and United States–China relations. He taught at Harvard University...
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  • and more legible handwriting in general. It was founded in 1952 by Alfred Fairbank and other members of the Society of Scribes & Illuminators. The Scotsman...
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    Graily Hewitt, Irene Wellington, Harold Curwen and Stanley Morison, Alfred Fairbank, Florence Kingsford Cockerell, Eric Gill and Percy Delf Smith. He also...
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  • Look up Fairbank in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fairbank is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alfred John Fairbank (1895-1982)...
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    calligraphers, including Graily Hewitt, Stanley Morison, Eric Gill, Alfred Fairbank and Anna Simons. Johnston also devised the crafted round calligraphic...
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    presented in La Operina was also revived in the 20th century with Alfred Fairbank's book A Handwriting Manual (1932), Getty-Dubay italic script, and the...
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    1 Hutchinson & Co., London Fairbank, Alfred, (1932) The Dryad Writing cards, The Dryad Press, Leicester Fairbank, Alfred, (1932) A Handwriting Manual...
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  • Fairhurst, bridge designer and chess player (born 1903) 14 March – Alfred Fairbank, calligrapher and author on handwriting (born 1895) 15 March – Edgell...
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    Johnston's book Writing & Illumination & Lettering was published in 1906, Alfred Fairbank's book A Handwriting Manual in 1932 and the Dryad Writing Cards in 1935...
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    Alfred Thayer Mahan (/məˈhæn/; September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914) was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most...
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    Renaissance Handwriting: An Anthology of Italic Scripts, co-authored with Alfred Fairbank, World Publishing Company & Faber and Faber In 1967, Wolpe prepared...
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  • John Elliott (architect) Ali Omar Ermes Mabel Esplin Germano Facetti Alfred Fairbank John Farleigh Celia Fiennes (artist) Ray Finch Peter Firmin Margaret...
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  • handwriting. Taking the time to study recommendations from English writer Alfred Fairbank and the Beacon Press company, Laudon designed LTD Handskrift, a script...
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  • Hornby became acquainted with Alfred John Fairbank, whose portrait she painted (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1961). Fairbank was a founding member of...
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  • record of the practice of typography. Bruce Rogers' Centaur Roman Alfred Fairbank's Arrighi Italic, also called Bembo Condensed Italic Bembo Italic, based...
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    of Guzhu) 孤竹析辨 (Guzhu analysis identified) Sun (2006). Fairbank & Goldman (2006), p. 33. Fairbank & Goldman (2006), p. 34. Needham (1971), p. 43. Yi, Yan...
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    Writing and Lettering. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 7. Fairbank, Alfred J. (1977). A Book of Scripts. London: Faber. p. 9. Nickell, Joe (2003)...
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    of Cheney's Halliburton gang." Harvard historian and sinologist John K. Fairbank used the word synarchy in his 1953 book Trade and Diplomacy on the China...
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    The Great Lakes, a collection of five freshwater lakes located in North America, have been sailed upon since at least the 17th century, and thousands of...
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    24 May 1951 Edward Daniel Auer, 18 January 1957 – February 1963 Henry Fairbank Rood, February 1963 – July 1967 Ronald Gurr Stagg, July 1967 – 25 July...
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    Eastern Responses, 1830–1975 (1975). online Crofts, Alfred. A history of the Far East (1958) online Fairbank, John K., Edwin Reischauer, and Albert M. Craig...
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    Andrew 2002, p. 14. Overy & Wheatcroft 1999, p. 289. Joes 2004, p. 224. Fairbank & Goldman 2006, p. 320. Hsu & Chang 1971, p. 30. Hsu & Chang 1971, p. 33...
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    Lane (1965) Roy Franklin Nichols (1966) Hajo Holborn (1967) John King Fairbank (1968) C. Vann Woodward (1969) Robert Roswell Palmer (1970) David M. Potter...
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  • Maloney, Sean Murray, Trevor Peacock, Pete Postlethwaite, Christopher Fairbank, John McEnery, Richard Warwick, Christien Anholt The Russia House Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
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    control over China, and led to the Late Qing reforms. According to John King Fairbank: The opening of the country in the 1860s facilitated the great effort to...
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    purposes. McCoy, Alfred W. "Opium History, 1858 to 1940". Archived from the original on 4 April 2007. Retrieved 4 May 2007. Fairbank, John; Goldman, Merle...
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