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3807682 | Confessions of a Window Cleaner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Confessions%20of%20a%20Window%20Cleaner | Confessions of a Window Cleaner
often stretch to his sex life with his clients. Timmy bed hops from unsatisfied housewives to even a lesbian love tryst, all the while with his main eye on successful police officer, Elizabeth Radlett, who will have none of Timmy's sexual advances. He proposes as a result, much to his fa... | 39,200 |
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... Mrs Villiers
- Sam Kydd ... 1st Removal Man
- Lionel Murton ... Brenda's Landlord
- Katya Wyeth ... Carole
- Sue Longhurst ... Jacqui Brown
- Anita Graham ... Ingrid
- Brian Hall ... 2nd Removal Man
- Robert Longden as Apprentice
# Background.
The film is essentially an adap... | 39,201 |
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Steps" (1978), and "The Riddle of the Sands" (1979). Sian Barber points that adaptations of highbrow material (for example, works by Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, Iris Murdoch) and Middlebrow material (for example, works by William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawr... | 39,202 |
3807682 | Confessions of a Window Cleaner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Confessions%20of%20a%20Window%20Cleaner | Confessions of a Window Cleaner
Greg Smith became interested in adapting the novels to screen, the hoax was maintained and Timmy Lea received credits as the author of the source material. The actual author and screenwriter, Christopher Wood, hardly resembled his creation.
"Confessions" was a low-budget film, with a bu... | 39,203 |
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campaign. It was promoted through advertisements in television and tie-ins in bookstores.
The film benefited from changes in the culture of the United Kingdom, with an increasingly permissive society and changes in aspects of the censorship standards. Its aesthetics, themes, and charact... | 39,204 |
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of buying consumer items on credit, making her reminiscent of Mrs Butler from "On the Buses".
This film series also made a point of casting actors already familiar to television audiences. The idea was probably to attract that audience to the cinema. There was a trend at the time for su... | 39,205 |
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year, following "The Aristocats" (1970). "Up Pompeii" was eighth and "Dad's Army" was 10th. The only other British comedies which surpassed them were There's a Girl in My Soup (1970, fourth in its year) and "Percy" (fifth). Hunt argues that the "Confessions" films combined the style of t... | 39,206 |
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and Sian Barber suggests a connection to another low-budget genre of the time with cramped locations and gaudy scenery: the British horror film.
In criticising the original novels, sociologist Simon Frith had argued that the books derived their unflattering depiction of the British work... | 39,207 |
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all derive from these stereotypes. Yet, the films actually tone down the criminal tendencies of the Lea family. In the books, Timmy himself is a former prison convict, having been arrested for stealing the lead off a church roof. In the films Timmy has no such history, probably in an eff... | 39,208 |
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while the Radletts are upper middle class. The romance of Timmy and Elizabeth across the wide class divide serves to showcase both positions, and contrasts the two families. But the Leas are those depicted as ridiculous in the scenes relating to the aborted wedding, while the Radletts re... | 39,209 |
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by women. This anxiety over the male performance in a sexual relationship is one aspect of the film's humour. Another is a reliance on more traditional elements of a comedy, such as slapstick and characters seen naked by accidental spectators. The sexual acts themselves are typically dep... | 39,210 |
3807682 | Confessions of a Window Cleaner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Confessions%20of%20a%20Window%20Cleaner | Confessions of a Window Cleaner
format of their predecessors and the "careful class distinctions" associated with earlier eras in favor of a contemporary setting. For example, "Virgin Witch" (1971) and "House of Whipcord" (1974) are partly set in a modeling agency, "Dracula A.D. 1972" (1972) and "Frightmare" (1974) in ... | 39,211 |
3807682 | Confessions of a Window Cleaner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Confessions%20of%20a%20Window%20Cleaner | Confessions of a Window Cleaner
genres had started depicting people whose work required them to constantly travel, such as a salesman in "O Lucky Man!" (1973) and a truck driver in "Alfie Darling" (1975). "Confessions" manages this by placing Timmy in the fringes of the working world, and interacting with clients of va... | 39,212 |
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underline their availability to Timmy. All but Elizabeth, the "nice girl" which he can not really touch. Her clothes are not less revealing, her short skirts showcase her legs and seem to invite his touch. She consequently functions much as a temptress. Yet she does not allow him to touc... | 39,213 |
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notion, the notion that sexual freedom can be achieved by people of all classes and genders.
# Critical reception and impact.
## Box Office.
It has been called, "perhaps the best known and most successful British sex film" of the era, and was the top-grossing British film of 1974.
##... | 39,214 |
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male shown naked. However the sex scenes themselves are more suggestive than explicit, being essentially played for laughs. Nonetheless, it was not until 1997 that Channel 5 became the first British terrestrial channel to show the entire series of "Confessions" films. At this time the "D... | 39,215 |
3807682 | Confessions of a Window Cleaner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Confessions%20of%20a%20Window%20Cleaner | Confessions of a Window Cleaner
between the popular taste and the critics' notions of quality, and concludes that it offers significant insights on actual "audience preferences". Preferences shaped by "the tastes, values and frustrated desires of ordinary filmgoers". The film was a box office hit. In a cited example of... | 39,216 |
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In retrospect, Leon Hunt concluded that the film benefited from a combination of adult entertainment with "good clean fun", an appealing cast, and the popularity of the source novels.
## Critical.
Leon Hunt, examining the reviews of the film series, notes some highlights. Margaret Hinx... | 39,217 |
3807682 | Confessions of a Window Cleaner | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Confessions%20of%20a%20Window%20Cleaner | Confessions of a Window Cleaner
med that the films is a real confession, a confession that the British people can not properly create films, erotic images, comedy, or anything related to love. The films were unfavourably compared to the "Carry On" series (1958–1992), which the critics found harmless in comparison. Davi... | 39,218 |
3807714 | Lionel Tapscott | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lionel%20Tapscott | Lionel Tapscott
Lionel Tapscott
Lionel Eric 'Doodles' Tapscott (18 March 1894 in Kimberley, South Africa – 7 July 1934 in Kenilworth, Cape Town) was a South African cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1923.
Outside of cricket, Tapscott excelled at tennis and represented South Africa at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He mad... | 39,219 |
3807687 | Bob Catterall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Catterall | Bob Catterall
Bob Catterall
Robert Hector "Bob" Catterall (10 July 1900 in Port Elizabeth, Cape Province – 3 January 1961 in Kempton Park, Gauteng) was a South African cricketer who played in 24 Tests from 1922 to 1931.
Catterall was a right-handed batsman, usually batting in the middle order but sometimes in the ear... | 39,220 |
3807687 | Bob Catterall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Catterall | Bob Catterall
made his first-class cricket debut for Transvaal in 1920–21, achieving little in two games, but the following season he played regularly and was a consistent scorer, averaging more than 42 although he passed 50 only twice and his highest score was only 75. In 1922–23, an England team, playing non-Tests as... | 39,221 |
3807687 | Bob Catterall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Catterall | Bob Catterall
twice on his first Test appearance, the first game of the five-match series against England. In the first innings he made 39 which proved to be the top score in a poor innings of 148 all out; in the second Catterall was out for just 17, but the match was rescued by a chanceless innings of 176 by Herbie Ta... | 39,222 |
3807687 | Bob Catterall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Catterall | Bob Catterall
By contrast, the third game of the series was a high-scoring slow-scoring draw in which a day was lost to rain: Catterall made 52 in his only innings, this time opening with Taylor and putting on 110 for the first wicket.
Between the third and fourth Tests, Catterall played in a second first-class match ... | 39,223 |
3807687 | Bob Catterall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Catterall | Bob Catterall
African team was third in aggregate and fourth in the averages.
# 1924 Test series in England.
Catterall played no first-class cricket between the end of the 1922–23 season and the start of the 1924 South African tour to England, for which he was selected. He had a strange tour, as "Wisden Cricketers' A... | 39,224 |
3807687 | Bob Catterall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Catterall | Bob Catterall
Test series began badly for the South Africans: in reply to an England total of 438 made through consistent batting, the touring team were shot out in 45 minutes for just 30 in 12-and-a-half overs by Arthur Gilligan and Maurice Tate, with Catterall, opening the innings, failing to score. It was and remain... | 39,225 |
3807687 | Bob Catterall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Catterall | Bob Catterall
Catterall, batting in the middle order, led the team to a total of 390 by scoring 120, and was the last man out.
The result in the second Test of the series, held at Lord's, was identical to the first game, and Catterall's first-innings score of 120 was a repeat performance too. He benefited from being d... | 39,226 |
3807687 | Bob Catterall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Catterall | Bob Catterall
Catterall made 45 in the second innings the match was lost with time to spare.
England won the third Test as well to take the series with two games to play: in this match, only Catterall and captain Herbie Taylor made runs in the first innings, and they jointly top-scored in the second innings with 56 ap... | 39,227 |
3807687 | Bob Catterall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Catterall | Bob Catterall
batsman's wicket at The Oval both sides made large scores, and Catterall's 95 in just 125 minutes was the highest individual score for the South Africans. That innings left him with an aggregate of 471 runs in the series and an average of 67.28, almost double the aggregate and more than double the average... | 39,228 |
3807687 | Bob Catterall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Catterall | Bob Catterall
financier Solomon Joel who sponsored it, but at the time was more widely known as "the Hon L. H. Tennyson's Team" after Lionel Tennyson, 3rd Baron Tennyson, who captained the side. The touring side played 14 first-class matches and five of them were against a team representing the whole of South Africa, a... | 39,229 |
3807687 | Bob Catterall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Catterall | Bob Catterall
to Natal and featured in just five first-class matches, in one of which, the game against Griqualand West, he made 147, which was the highest score of his entire first-class career. Similarly, 1926–27 was a domestic season only, and Catterall had a modest batting record with no centuries, although he bowl... | 39,230 |
3807687 | Bob Catterall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Catterall | Bob Catterall
enough to beat the South Africans. In the event, that expectation proved less and less realistic as the tour went on: England duly won the first two Tests, but the third was drawn, and South Africa then squared the series by winning the final two games.
The upturn in South African fortunes was based larg... | 39,231 |
3807687 | Bob Catterall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Catterall | Bob Catterall
was one of five South African scores between 60 and 80 that secured a draw after a substantial first-innings deficit. Innings of 39 and 23 in the fourth Test helped South Africa to their first win of the series, and
a score of 119 in the final match formed the backbone of the South African first innings.... | 39,232 |
3807687 | Bob Catterall | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob%20Catterall | Bob Catterall
series and an average of 42.11, Catterall was the leading regular player on the South African side, though Shunter Coen, with two not-out innings, had a better average from just two matches.
The 1928–29 South African domestic cricket season was taken up with choosing the side to tour England in 1929, and... | 39,233 |
3807702 | Klang River | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Klang%20River | Klang River
Klang River
Klang River (Malay: "Sungai Klang") is a river which flows through Kuala Lumpur and Selangor in Malaysia and eventually flows into the Straits of Malacca. It is approximately in length and drains a basin of about . Klang River has 11 major tributaries.
Because the river flows through Klang Val... | 39,234 |
3807702 | Klang River | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Klang%20River | Klang River
latitude="3.135" longitude="101.6"
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Klang River originates from the Klang Gates Quartz Ridge in Gombak, near the border with Pahang, northeast of Kuala Lumpur. It is joined by 11 major tributaries. These include Gombak River, Batu River, Kerayong River, Damansara River, Keruh River, Kuyoh River, ... | 39,235 |
3807702 | Klang River | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Klang%20River | Klang River
then passing through Ulu Klang, Bukit Antarabangsa located in Ampang Jaya, Selangor, then turn down along Ampang–Kuala Lumpur Elevated Highway till the city centre.
Kuala Lumpur is situated at the point where Gombak River flows into Klang River. The confluence is located behind Masjid Jamek. It then flows ... | 39,236 |
3807702 | Klang River | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Klang%20River | Klang River
biggest sea port, Port Klang, is also situated at the estuary of Klang river.
# Dams.
There are two major dams upstream of the river; Batu Dam and Klang Gates Dam, which provide water supply to the people of Klang Valley and mitigate floods.
# Privatisation.
The maintenance of Klang River was privatised... | 39,237 |
3807702 | Klang River | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Klang%20River | Klang River
innovative solution to mitigating both traffic congestion and flooding. It is a submerged tunnel which can carry both vehicular traffic as well as storm runoff on a lower level. When regular drainage infrastructure is overwhelmed, vehicles are evacuated from the tunnel and the entire tube is used as a gigan... | 39,238 |
3807702 | Klang River | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Klang%20River | Klang River
d money to help rehabilitate it. The river's condition has been described as "between critical and bad" by Gareth Jones of Wessex Water, a UK-based company that is participating in the project. Kamal Zaharin, the project mastermind, states that the plans include river cleaning, new source of drinking water,... | 39,239 |
3807727 | Mitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mitch | Mitch
Mitch
Mitch is a short form of the masculine given name Mitchell. It may refer to:
# People.
- Mitch Albom (born 1958), American author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster and musician
- Mitch Altman (born 1956), hacker and inventor
- Mitch Apau (born 1990), Dutch footballe... | 39,240 |
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mixed martial artist
- Mitch Cornish (born 1993), Australian rugby league player
- Mitch Creek (born 1992), Australian basketball player
- Mitch Daniels (born 1949), American academic administrator, businessman, author and retired politician, 49th Governor of Indiana
- Mitch English, American morning talk sho... | 39,241 |
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Mitch Harris (born 1970), American guitarist and member of England-based grindcore band Napalm Death
- Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005), American stand-up comedian
- Mitch Hewer (born 1989), British actor
- Mitchell Hurwitz (born 1963), American television writer, producer and actor
- Mitch Hyatt (born 1997), Americ... | 39,242 |
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Leader
- Mitch Merrett, Canadian record producer
- Mitch Miller (1911–2010), American oboist, conductor, recording producer and recording industry executive
- Mitch Mustain (born 1988), American college football player
- Mitch Pileggi (born 1952), American actor best known for his role in "The X-Files"
- Mit... | 39,243 |
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Williams (born 1964), American retired Major League Baseball relief pitcher
- Mitch Williams (politician) (born 1953), Australian politician and farmer
- Mitch Wishnowsky (born 1992), American football player
- Mitch Young (born 1961), American football player
- James Hart Mitchell (1899–?), English First Wor... | 39,244 |
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of novels by Vince Flynn
- Mitch Szalinski, in the movie "Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves"
- Mitch Williams (General Hospital), in the soap opera "General Hospital"
- "Mitch", nickname of Harold Mitchell, one of the principal characters in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
- Mitch, the main character in the movie "City S... | 39,245 |
3807727 | Mitch | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mitch | Mitch
liams (General Hospital), in the soap opera "General Hospital"
- "Mitch", nickname of Harold Mitchell, one of the principal characters in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
- Mitch, the main character in the movie "City Slickers"
- Mitch, in the movie "Old School", played by Luke Wilson
- Mitch Blake, a character in ... | 39,246 |
3807724 | George Parker (cricketer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20Parker%20(cricketer) | George Parker (cricketer)
George Parker (cricketer)
George Macdonald Parker (27 May 1899 in Cape Town, Cape Province – 1 May 1969 in Thredbo, Australia) was a South African cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1924.
He is almost unique in that two of the three first-class matches he ever played were Tests. He was quali... | 39,247 |
3807724 | George Parker (cricketer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20Parker%20(cricketer) | George Parker (cricketer)
play lasted only five hours due to rain, Parker took four wickets for 34 on a pitch too soft to suit him and was promptly given a place in the First Test at Edgbaston.
In that match, which ended disastrously after Arthur Gilligan and Maurice Tate produced one of the finest bowling performance... | 39,248 |
3807724 | George Parker (cricketer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20Parker%20(cricketer) | George Parker (cricketer)
Parker was not able to play in matches against counties and, despite having taken two-thirds of the wickets that had fallen in the first two Tests, he was not given a further trial. He never played first-class cricket again, and is still the only South African Test cricketer not to play first-... | 39,249 |
3807724 | George Parker (cricketer) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=George%20Parker%20(cricketer) | George Parker (cricketer)
st counties and, despite having taken two-thirds of the wickets that had fallen in the first two Tests, he was not given a further trial. He never played first-class cricket again, and is still the only South African Test cricketer not to play first-class cricket in his own country.
Parker re... | 39,250 |
3807723 | Nummy Deane | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nummy%20Deane | Nummy Deane
Nummy Deane
Hubert Gouvaine "Nummy" Deane (21 July 1895 – 21 October 1939) was a South African cricketer who played in 17 Tests from 1924 to 1931. All of his Tests were against England and he captained his country in 12 of them.
# Early cricket.
Born in Eshowe, Zululand, Deane was a right-handed middle-o... | 39,251 |
3807723 | Nummy Deane | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nummy%20Deane | Nummy Deane
wickets and his bowling style is not known.
He had limited impact for Natal as a batsman and in 10 matches over four seasons his highest score for the side was 96, made against Transvaal in 1921–22. In his very first game for Transvaal in 1923–24, however, he made 165 out of 246 made while he was at the wi... | 39,252 |
3807723 | Nummy Deane | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nummy%20Deane | Nummy Deane
for failure. Deane himself merited not a single mention in the four-page Wisden article describing the highlights of the tour, and his tour figures indicate that he was rarely prominent: in 25 first-class matches, he passed 50 only once, and his 621 runs came at an average of 22.18. The one half-century was... | 39,253 |
3807723 | Nummy Deane | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nummy%20Deane | Nummy Deane
Mostly he batted in lower middle order at No 7, and his best score came in the third Test when he reverted to that position for the second innings, having opened the batting in the first innings, and made an unbeaten 47 that forced England to bat again after South Africa had followed on 264 runs behind on t... | 39,254 |
3807723 | Nummy Deane | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nummy%20Deane | Nummy Deane
in the Transvaal match against Joel's side, when he scored a second-innings 118. From 1925–26, he was captain of the Transvaal team; in his first season, the team won the Currie Cup by winning five matches out of six, and the following year Transvaal won every match they played.
# Test captain.
With this ... | 39,255 |
3807723 | Nummy Deane | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nummy%20Deane | Nummy Deane
a first-innings lead of 117, with Deane contributing 41 to a total of 250, but still lost the match by 87 runs. The turnaround in the series started with third Test, which was drawn with the South Africans finally posting a respectable total. Deane was instrumental in this: in the first innings, with the sc... | 39,256 |
3807723 | Nummy Deane | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nummy%20Deane | Nummy Deane
four wickets was achieved. And the series was tied at two wins apiece with a South African victory in the final match by eight wickets. As captain, Deane won the toss five times out of five in the series; unusually for the time in which he played, he put the England team in to bat three times, claiming that... | 39,257 |
3807723 | Nummy Deane | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nummy%20Deane | Nummy Deane
good spirit in which the tour was conducted: "They came with no flourish of trumpets, made friends both on and off the field, and left behind an impression that it is given to few touring sides to attain. Beyond all doubt this was largely due to Deane himself." Deane's batting on the tour was not up to his ... | 39,258 |
3807723 | Nummy Deane | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nummy%20Deane | Nummy Deane
at Lord's was also drawn, but was a much more exciting game in which the South Africans, having matched England in the first innings, were saved from what "Wisden" saw as likely defeat by bad light in the second innings; Deane failed in both innings. Depleted by injuries, the South Africans were beaten in t... | 39,259 |
3807723 | Nummy Deane | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nummy%20Deane | Nummy Deane
scoring his runs in 140 minutes. That innings led to him batting at No 5 in the fifth and final Test; in South Africa's only innings of the match, he came to the wicket to join Herby Taylor with the score at 25 for three, and the pair added 214 in 190 minutes before Deane was out for 93, his best Test innin... | 39,260 |
3807723 | Nummy Deane | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nummy%20Deane | Nummy Deane
tour, appearing in just two matches in the 1929–30 season in South Africa. In 1930–31, England toured South Africa; Deane did not play in the first Test of a five-match series. His replacement as captain was Buster Nupen and his 11 wickets for 150 runs in the match won the game narrowly for South Africa. "H... | 39,261 |
3807723 | Nummy Deane | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nummy%20Deane | Nummy Deane
preserved their lead and went on to win the series 1–0. After the third Test, Deane again stood down, being replaced as captain by wicketkeeper Jock Cameron, and he did not play any further Test or first-class cricket. Having been a member of the selection committee in both 1929 and 1930–31, he was also a s... | 39,262 |
3807728 | Fred Susskind | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred%20Susskind | Fred Susskind
Fred Susskind
Manfred Julius Susskind (8 June 1891 – 9 July 1957) was a South African cricketer who played in five Tests in 1924. The first Jewish Test cricketer, he was born and died in Johannesburg, South Africa.
# Early cricket in England.
Born in South Africa but educated in England at University C... | 39,263 |
3807728 | Fred Susskind | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred%20Susskind | Fred Susskind
Surrey in 1910. He did not win a Blue for cricket during his time at Cambridge.
# South African cricket.
Returning to South Africa, Susskind went into business: at his death in 1957 he was reported as having been a member of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange for more than 30 years. He also began playing c... | 39,264 |
3807728 | Fred Susskind | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred%20Susskind | Fred Susskind
was not followed up on, Susskind finally played a consecutive sequence of matches in the 1923–24 season and in one of these, against Border, he scored 171, which would be the highest of his career. That led to his selection for the trial match for the 1924 tour of England and with scores of 69 and 11 in t... | 39,265 |
3807728 | Fred Susskind | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred%20Susskind | Fred Susskind
"Though he scored so well, he did not command much admiration," wrote Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in its review of the tour. It went on:
Considering his advantages in height and reach, he nearly always seemed cramped in style, only on rare occasions venturing to let himself go, and no one in the team was... | 39,266 |
3807728 | Fred Susskind | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred%20Susskind | Fred Susskind
Maurice Tate. Having become the first Jewish Test cricketer, Susskind made 3 in his first Test innings, the only player to be dismissed with the assistance of a fielder, but improved on that with 51 in the second innings when South Africa totalled 390 but still lost by an innings. There was no such disast... | 39,267 |
3807728 | Fred Susskind | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred%20Susskind | Fred Susskind
"endless patience, staying at the wickets for over two hours and a half". The third Test was marginally less one-sided – South Africa followed on and lost by nine wickets – and Susskind was less successful personally, making 4 and 23. He failed again in the fourth match at Manchester, scoring just 5, but ... | 39,268 |
3807728 | Fred Susskind | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred%20Susskind | Fred Susskind
forty minutes to get his invaluable 65," it said.
In the other first-class matches on the tour, Susskind had an unspectacular record, scoring steadily across the summer but not making headlines until the tour was almost over. Then, in late matches, he hit 137 in the match against Surrey between the fourt... | 39,269 |
3807728 | Fred Susskind | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred%20Susskind | Fred Susskind
match against Warwickshire.
# Back to South Africa.
Susskind continued to play first-class cricket for Transvaal fairly regularly for the next eight South African seasons, though in some years he appeared in very few games. He did not take part in any further representative cricket and his best season w... | 39,270 |
3807728 | Fred Susskind | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fred%20Susskind | Fred Susskind
icket for Transvaal fairly regularly for the next eight South African seasons, though in some years he appeared in very few games. He did not take part in any further representative cricket and his best season was the 1931–32 season, when he was 40 and when many of the top South African players were on th... | 39,271 |
3807734 | Sheila Faith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sheila%20Faith | Sheila Faith
Sheila Faith
(Irene) Sheila Faith (born Irene Sheila Book; 3 June 1928 – 28 September 2014) was a British politician and dental surgeon. She served one term each in the House of Commons and European Parliament as a Conservative. She was a native of Newcastle upon Tyne and attended Newcastle upon Tyne Cent... | 39,272 |
3807734 | Sheila Faith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sheila%20Faith | Sheila Faith
area was removed from the county in boundary changes in 1974. She then fought Newcastle upon Tyne Central in the October 1974 general election. From 1975 to 1978 she was a member of Newcastle upon Tyne City Council for the ward of Newburn No. 3.
# Parliament.
In 1977 Faith was selected as candidate for B... | 39,273 |
3807734 | Sheila Faith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sheila%20Faith | Sheila Faith
on unopposed Private bills, and was Secretary of the Conservative backbench Health and Social Services Committee from 1979 - 83. She spoke on behalf of the pharmacists, nurses, and on medical affairs in general.
Boundary changes due to be implemented at the 1983 general election abolished the Belper const... | 39,274 |
3807734 | Sheila Faith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sheila%20Faith | Sheila Faith
Derbyshire selected another woman, the younger Birmingham city councillor Edwina Currie, who was elected with a majority of more than 8,000.)
# European Parliament and after.
The decision of Elaine Kellett-Bowman to stand down as Member of the European Parliament for Cumbria in favour of her seat in the ... | 39,275 |
3807734 | Sheila Faith | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sheila%20Faith | Sheila Faith
ament for Cumbria in favour of her seat in the British Parliament gave Faith the opportunity to resume a political career at the headquarters of the European Community, of which she was a strong supporter of British membership.
Later, she was elected MEP for Cumbria and Lancashire North in the 1984 Europe... | 39,276 |
3807756 | Denys Morkel | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Denys%20Morkel | Denys Morkel
Denys Morkel
Denijs Paul Beck Morkel (25 January 1906 – 6 October 1980) was a South African cricketer who played for Western Province from 1924 and in 16 Tests for South Africa from 1927-28 to 1931-32. | 39,277 |
3807752 | Henry Promnitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry%20Promnitz | Henry Promnitz
Henry Promnitz
Henry Louis Ernest Promnitz (23 February 1904 in King William's Town, Cape Province – 7 September 1983 in East London, Cape Province) was a South African cricketer who played in two Tests in the 1927-28 series against England.
A right-arm slow bowler who bowled a mixture of off and leg s... | 39,278 |
3807752 | Henry Promnitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry%20Promnitz | Henry Promnitz
ickets in the first innings (figures of 37-14-58-5) on his Test debut against England in Johannesburg. He took three wickets in the Second Test, but then lost his place to the pace bowler Arthur Ochse.
He represented Border from 1924-25 to 1927-28, Griqualand West from 1928-29 to 1932-33, and Orange Fre... | 39,279 |
3807743 | Jacobus Duminy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacobus%20Duminy | Jacobus Duminy
Jacobus Duminy
Jacobus Petrus Duminy (16 December 1897 – 31 January 1980) was a South African academic who became principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town. As a young man, he was also a cricketer who played in 3 Tests from 1927 to 1929. He was born at Bellville, a suburb of Cape Town... | 39,280 |
3807743 | Jacobus Duminy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacobus%20Duminy | Jacobus Duminy
of various academic commissions.
During his tenure as vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town he resolutely opposed apartheid, sometimes at personal risk. He also helped established multi-racial cricket weeks for boys and girls.
# Cricket career.
As a cricketer, Duminy was a left-handed opening... | 39,281 |
3807743 | Jacobus Duminy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacobus%20Duminy | Jacobus Duminy
game for Oxford University in 1921, when he was a Rhodes scholar; he did, however, win a "Harlequin" cap as a member of the University second cricket team.
Duminy reappeared in first-class cricket in the 1927–28 South African season, playing for Transvaal in two matches against the MCC touring team. In ... | 39,282 |
3807743 | Jacobus Duminy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacobus%20Duminy | Jacobus Duminy
between Herbert Sutcliffe and Ernest Tyldesley which took England's first-innings total past South Africa's with only one wicket down. Duminy did not play in the second or third Tests, but when the tour returned to Johannesburg in late January, he was picked for the fourth Test, although he had played no... | 39,283 |
3807743 | Jacobus Duminy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacobus%20Duminy | Jacobus Duminy
wickets. That was his final first-class game in South Africa. The codicil to his career was an odd one. He was not picked for the 1929 tour of England, but in the summer of 1929 was in Europe. The contemporary "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack" report states that he "happened to be on a business or profession... | 39,284 |
3807743 | Jacobus Duminy | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacobus%20Duminy | Jacobus Duminy
s an odd one. He was not picked for the 1929 tour of England, but in the summer of 1929 was in Europe. The contemporary "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack" report states that he "happened to be on a business or professional visit to Europe"; "Wisden's" obituary of Duminy in 1981 is more specific and says "he w... | 39,285 |
3807750 | Amy Chambers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Chambers | Amy Chambers
Amy Chambers
Amy Chambers (born 1952) is an Anglican priest in Fiji, and the Principal of St John the Baptist Theological College in Suva.
She was born Amy Fong Toy to a farming family of Chinese descent in the district of Dreketi, in the province of Macuata on the second largest island of Fiji, Vanua Le... | 39,286 |
3807750 | Amy Chambers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Chambers | Amy Chambers
Airport. After a brief stint with Air Fiji, she was accepted by the Anglican Church for training at St John's Theological College in Auckland, New Zealand.
Chambers completed a Diploma in Biblical Studies at St Johns, followed by a Bachelor of Theology degree at the University of Auckland, before returnin... | 39,287 |
3807750 | Amy Chambers | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amy%20Chambers | Amy Chambers
brief stint with Air Fiji, she was accepted by the Anglican Church for training at St John's Theological College in Auckland, New Zealand.
Chambers completed a Diploma in Biblical Studies at St Johns, followed by a Bachelor of Theology degree at the University of Auckland, before returning to Fiji in Dece... | 39,288 |
3807745 | Shunter Coen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shunter%20Coen | Shunter Coen
Shunter Coen
Stanley Keppel "Shunter" Coen (14 October 1902 – 28 January 1967) was a South African cricketer who played in two Tests in 1927–28. He was born in Heilbron, Orange Free State, and died in Durban, Natal.
# First-class cricket.
Coen was a right-handed middle-order or opening batsman and a rig... | 39,289 |
3807745 | Shunter Coen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shunter%20Coen | Shunter Coen
Griqualand West team. He then followed this, in his only other first-class match of the season, with 103 against a team of English Test and county players on an unofficial tour organised by the South African entrepreneur S. B. Joel.
Coen had an indifferent season in 1925–26, but in 1926–27 he suddenly eme... | 39,290 |
3807745 | Shunter Coen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shunter%20Coen | Shunter Coen
he made 172 in the second innings, so the game was lost by only 111 runs. The following match, against Natal he was promoted to open the innings and made 165, putting on 305 for the second wicket with Mick Commaille; this was then somewhat overshadowed by a first-wicket partnership of 424 for Natal, but it... | 39,291 |
3807745 | Shunter Coen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shunter%20Coen | Shunter Coen
Test cricket.
An England team toured South Africa in 1927–28 and Coen, despite failure in the Orange Free State match against the touring side, was called up for Test duty. Before the first Test, however, he played one match for the touring team: MCC was one player short for the first-class two-day match ... | 39,292 |
3807745 | Shunter Coen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shunter%20Coen | Shunter Coen
But in South Africa's second innings, he batted at No 10 because of his injury; he came in to bat with the score at 78 for eight, still 39 runs short of avoiding an innings defeat, and he and Cyril Vincent put on 80 for the ninth wicket, a record at the time for Tests against England, and when the innings ... | 39,293 |
3807745 | Shunter Coen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shunter%20Coen | Shunter Coen
African won to square the rubber. In this game, Coen opened the innings with Herby Taylor and scored 28 in the first innings and an unbeaten 25 in the second when South Africa, set just 69, won the game by eight wickets. With two not-outs in his four Test innings, Coen topped the South African batting aver... | 39,294 |
3807745 | Shunter Coen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shunter%20Coen | Shunter Coen
in 1929–30 and then in 1930–31 he started playing for Western Province; initially, he had little success, and he was not picked for the next South African Test tour, the 1931–32 tour to Australia and New Zealand. Ironically, while the tour was taking place, Coen had a second season in which he excelled wit... | 39,295 |
3807745 | Shunter Coen | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shunter%20Coen | Shunter Coen
for Western Province; initially, he had little success, and he was not picked for the next South African Test tour, the 1931–32 tour to Australia and New Zealand. Ironically, while the tour was taking place, Coen had a second season in which he excelled with the bat, making 630 runs at an average of 63. Am... | 39,296 |
3807757 | Ellen Hoog | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen%20Hoog | Ellen Hoog
Ellen Hoog
Ellen Martijn Hoog (, born 26 March 1986) is a Dutch field hockey player. She became part of the national team in 2004 and since then has played in 127 matches, scoring 32 goals. She won Olympic gold medals in 2008 and 2012 and a silver medal in 2016. She is a member of the Amsterdamsche Hockey &... | 39,297 |
3807757 | Ellen Hoog | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen%20Hoog | Ellen Hoog
Her father died of cancer a week after the European Championship victory in Ireland. After his death she had difficulties picking up her normal life again, but regained the motivation to start playing when the new season started in October 2005.
In 2012, Hoog became the first player to decide a major champi... | 39,298 |
3807763 | Eduard Fuchs | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eduard%20Fuchs | Eduard Fuchs
Eduard Fuchs
Eduard Fuchs (31 January 1870, Göppingen – 26 January 1940, Paris) was a German Marxist scholar of culture and history, writer, art collector, and political activist.
Fuchs' father was a shopkeeper. Early in his life, the younger Fuchs developed socialist and Marxist political convictions. I... | 39,299 |
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