Alan Blundell
Alan Blundell (born 18 August 1947) is an English footballer, who played as a wing half in the Football League for Tranmere Rovers. He also spent one season at Wigan Athletic, playing 35 games and scoring five goals in the Cheshire League.
Une idylle à la ferme
Une idylle à la ferme is a 1912 French short film written and directed by and starring Max Linder. It is known as A Farm-house Romance in the United Kingdom. In this Pathé comedy, Max, an "elegant but disaster-prone man-about-town," visits a farm to meet a prospective wife at the behest of his wealthy uncle.
Kraft Dinner
The product known as Kraft Dinner (KD) in Canada, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Dinner or Kraft Mac and Cheese in the United States and Australia, and Macaroni Cheese or Cheesey Pasta in the United Kingdom, is a nonperishable, packaged dry macaroni and cheese product. It was first introduced under the Kraft Dinner name in both Canada and U.S. in 1937. The product also developed into several other formulations, including Easy Mac, a single - serving product designed specifically for microwave ovens.
Christmas in Ireland
Christmas celebrations in Ireland are finished on the 6th of January, variously known as Women's Christmas (Nollaig na mBan), Little Christmas or Epiphany, with people taking down their Christmas decorations.
KMXA-FM
KMXA-FM "Mix 99.9" is an Adult Contemporary radio station in Minot, North Dakota owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.. During the Christmas season "Mix 99.9" plays continuous Christmas music. The station begins playing the Christmas music the day after Thanksgiving and runs until Christmas Day.
Goat cheese
Goat cheese, goats' cheese, or chèvre ( or ; from the French word for "goat"), is cheese made from goat's milk.
Émile Fabre
Émile Fabre (24 March 1869 in Metz, France – 25 September 1955 in Paris) was a French playwright and general administrator of the Comédie-Française from 2 December 1915 to 15 October 1936. He was greatly influenced by Balzac as a young man, and most of his best-known plays deal with the sacrifice of personal happiness to the pursuit of wealth. He also wrote the libretto for Xavier Leroux's opera "Les cadeaux de Noël" (The Christmas Gifts) which was a great success when it premiered in Paris in 1915.
Petra Markham
Petra Mavis Markham (born 17 March 1944 in Prestbury, Cheshire) is a British theatre, television and film actress. She is a daughter of actor David Markham and writer Olive Dehn (1914–2007). She has three sisters: actress Kika Markham, Sonia Markham, and Jehane Markham.
Kathy Staff
Born in Dukinfield, Cheshire, Staff was best known for her role as one of the main characters, Nora Batty, in the long - running BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine. She played Nora Batty from the pilot episode in 1973 (though in the pilot and first series, she was referred to as Mrs. Batty) until 2008, the year she died from a brain tumour.
Prospect Knights FC
Prospect Knights FC, was an Australian soccer club from Prospect, Tasmania formed from the merger of Western Suburbs and Launceston Croatia Soccer Clubs the club competed in the Northern Premier League before dissolving in 2015. The club fielded a women's team, Under 18s as well as teams in all junior divisions. Prospect Knights FC played all their home games at the Prospect Park Sports Complex, off Harley Parade in Prospect, a western suburb of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. The club has also competed at the annual Australian & New Zealand Croatian Soccer Tournament on several occasions, including the 34th tournament in Geelong in 2008 and the 35th held in Adelaide in 2009.
History of radio
The next advancement was the vacuum tube detector, invented by Westinghouse engineers. On Christmas Eve 1906, Reginald Fessenden used a synchronous rotary - spark transmitter for the first radio program broadcast, from Ocean Bluff - Brant Rock, Massachusetts. Ships at sea heard a broadcast that included Fessenden playing O Holy Night on the violin and reading a passage from the Bible. This was, for all intents and purposes, the first transmission of what is now known as amplitude modulation or AM radio.
Perail
Perail is a soft cheese made with ewes milk originating in the Region of Aveyron, France. Cheeses are between 10 and 12 cm in diameter and should have an ivory coloured wrinkly rind composed mainly of "geotrichum candida". The cheese is produced by the lactic fermentation method. Typically cheeses are sold between 2 and 8 weeks of age with older cheeses exhibiting a distinctly 'sheepy' flavour.
Pub
Many of London's pubs are known to have been used by famous people, but in some cases, such as the association between Samuel Johnson and Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, this is speculative, based on little more than the fact that the person is known to have lived nearby. However, Charles Dickens is known to have visited the Cheshire Cheese, the Prospect of Whitby, Ye Olde Cock Tavern and many others. Samuel Pepys is also associated with the Prospect of Whitby and the Cock Tavern.
Father Christmas
Father Christmas is the traditional English name for the personification of Christmas. Although now known as a Christmas gift - bringer, and normally considered to be synonymous with American culture's Santa Claus which is now known worldwide, he was originally part of an unrelated and much older English folkloric tradition. The recognisably modern figure of the English Father Christmas developed in the late Victorian period, but Christmas had been personified for centuries before then.
Naugatuck State Forest
Naugatuck State Forest is a Connecticut state forest consisting of five separate blocks in the towns of Oxford, Beacon Falls, Naugatuck, Bethany, Cheshire, Hamden, Seymour, and Ansonia. The five blocks are the Mount Sanford (Cheshire, Hamden—bordering Prospect and Bethany), East (Beacon Falls, Bethany, Naugatuck), West (Naugatuck, Oxford, Beacon Falls), Quillinan Reservoir (Seymour, Ansonia), and Great Hill (Seymour) blocks.
Alfred Anderson (veteran)
Alfred Anderson (25 June 1896 – 21 November 2005) was a Scottish joiner and veteran of the First World War. He was the last known holder of the 1914 Star (the Old Contemptibles), the last known combatant to participate in the 1914 World War I Christmas truce, Scotland's last known World War I veteran, and Scotland's oldest man for more than a year.
Christmas (Michael Bublé album)
The album is Bublé's second Christmas - themed release, after he released a five - track extended play, titled Let It Snow. Some of the songs from Let It Snow have been re-recorded for inclusion on Christmas, making Christmas his first full - length holiday release. For the album, Bublé teamed up with several well - known artists to record duets. His duet version of ``White Christmas ''with country music singer Shania Twain was based on an early arrangement by The Drifters, while his recording of`` Jingle Bells'' with The Puppini Sisters was based on the 1943 recording of Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters. He also teamed up with Latin star Thalía for a recording of ``Feliz Navidad ''. Bublé also recorded covers of Mariah Carey's`` All I Want for Christmas Is You'', and ``Blue Christmas '', and a brand new track,`` Cold December Night'', written with his longtime co-writer Alan Chang and producer Bob Rock.
Maria Elizabetha Jacson
Maria Elizabetha Jacson (1755 – 10 October 1829) was an eighteenth-century English writer, as was her sister, Frances Jacson (1754–1842), known for her books on botany at a time when there were significant obstacles to women's authorship. In some sources her name appears as Maria Jackson, Mary Jackson or Mary Elizabeth Jackson. She spent most of her life in Cheshire and Derbyshire, where she lived with her sister following her father's death.
The Man Who Invented Christmas (film)
The Man Who Invented Christmas is a 2017 biographical drama film directed by Bharat Nalluri and written by Susan Coyne based on the book of the same name by Les Standiford. It stars Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, and Jonathan Pryce. The plot follows Charles Dickens (Stevens) at the time when he wrote A Christmas Carol, and how Dickens' fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge (Plummer) was influenced by his real - life father, John Dickens (Pryce).
Coon cheese
Coon cheese is named after its American creator, Edward William Coon (1871 -- 1934) of Philadelphia, who patented a method, subsequently known as the Cooning process, for fast maturation of cheese via high temperature and humidity. Former manufacturer Kraft, and later Dairy Farmers and National Foods, have vigorously defended the trademark.
Who plays the writer known to visit both the Cheshire Cheese and the Prospect of Whitby in The Man Who Invented Christmas?
What writer was known to visit both the Cheshire Cheese and the Prospect of Whitby?
Charles Dickens
who plays #1 in the man who invented christmas
Dan Stevens