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AG Paxton Has Dinner With Family of Transgender Boy

Edit NBC News 03 Sep 2016
Attorney General Ken Paxton makes good on his word to have dinner with a family who has a transgender son. Photo Credit. Biggle Family ... ....

Emelia Mitchell wins Waddesdon Stud National 138cm Championship Final (BSJA - British Show Jumping Association)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Aug 2016
'In the first round I felt as though I was holding him back too much so in the jump off I just let him go and we really went for it.' Emelia and Biggles as he is fondly known at home have been a combination since October and this is the biggest win they have had so far ......

Divan - Modern Knowledge album review: impressive, subtle and brooding

Edit The Irish Times 11 Aug 2016
The band consists of previous members of The Ambience Affair (Jamie Clarke and Marc Gallagher) and Tomorrows/ The Ghandis/Biggles Flys Again (Conor Deasy) and ......

Emilia Mitchell wins Waddesdon Stud National 138cm Championship Final (BSJA - British Show Jumping Association)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Aug 2016
'In the first round I felt as though I was holding him back too much so in the jump off I just let him go and we really went for it.' Emilia and Biggles as he is fondly known at home have been a combination since October and this is the biggest win they have had so far ......

Harry Potter and the curse of middle age: should fictional children ever grow up?

Edit The Guardian 23 Jul 2016
JK Rowling’s beloved characters are taking to the stage as adults in The Cursed Child. But are fans ever ready for their childhood heroes to grow up? Leading authors have their say ... Anthony Horowitz ... Twitter ... Twitter ... Contemporary children’s books tend to feature child protagonists, but I grew up reading books from the 50s and 60s, in which the characters were often grownups, like Biggles, or the heroes of Ronald Welch’s military tales ... ....

Angela Eagle profile: 'She’s tough – in the best possible sense'

Edit The Guardian 10 Jul 2016
Former colleagues say the MP is well-equipped to challenge Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour party leadership. Sorry, your browser is unable to play this video. Please install Adobe Flash™ and try again. Alternatively upgrade to a modern browser ... Related. Angela Eagle ... “When the prize was a Biggles book, I realised that chess was only for little boys, and that I would have to carry on, and so I did,” she recalled ... Twitter ... Related. Angela Eagle ... ....

World War II fighter pilot Bob Cowper 'made Biggles look like a wimp'

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 01 Jul 2016
Bob Cowper, one of Australia's most decorated World War Two fighter aces, is farewelled with a flyover at a funeral service at Adelaide's Morphettville Racecourse ... ....

Terry Smyth: Books that changed me

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 01 Jul 2016
Terry Smyth is an award-winning journalist, playwright, scriptwriter and songwriter, based in Sydney. He is the author of Australian Confederates and a new book, Denny Day. The Life and Times of Australia's Greatest Lawman (Ebury), about the police magistrate who brought 11 men to justice after the Myall Creek massacre ... Before reading Defoe's 1719 tale of a castaway, the only actual book I had read was Biggles Takes a Holiday ... John W ... ....

Steven Spielberg on putting his own spin on the BFG and why he thought Jaws 'would be his tombstone'

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 23 Jun 2016
Hollywood is a strange creature ... "It turned out pretty well." Advertisement. Since then, Spielberg's name has appeared alongside a vast array of now iconic films. They range from the profoundly human and personal (Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan), to science fiction (Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T.) and, in the Indiana Jones films, a series of post-Biggles "boy's own" adventure stories....

Ross is Biggles with angst, says PATRICK MARMION

Edit The Daily Mail 17 Jun 2016
Terence Rattigan’s 1960 rambling historical saga, has been revived, with Joseph Fiennes in the title role ... ....

A Computer Tried (and Failed) to Write This Article

Edit The Atlantic 08 Jun 2016
None of this turned out how it was supposed to. Here I am, a human, writing a story that was assigned to a machine ... The idea was this ... For mean ... The years like what's the play with it was not been to call the movion from the five samplo do make see planet as "more somethative to have a biggle than the finse counters to the mother take Google, eught in a releason in partable partically as the "explore of the more and the trach and sai … ... ....

Yorkshire found its voice in Kes

Edit The Guardian 21 Mar 2016
When I was growing up in Darfield near Barnsley in the early 1960s, there weren’t many writers who wrote about people who talked like me and lived in the kinds of places I lived in. Mrs Dove, the Darfield librarian, did her best to enthuse me, but mostly to no avail ... And Biggles and his mates were the Famous Five with stubble – they spoke in odd, strangled tones and used slang that sounded silly and old-fashioned ... Related ... Channel 4 ... ....

George Martin obituary

Edit The Guardian 09 Mar 2016
‘Fifth Beatle’ was a talented musician and producer who oversaw landmark albums and helped the band to stretch the boundaries of sound recording. The death of George Martin at the age of 90 is not only a sad blow to Beatles fans of all generations, but it also draws a line under a vanished age of the entertainment business ... “Now everyone thinks they’re a producer ... Twitter ... No wonder the acerbic John Lennon referred to him as “Biggles” ... ....
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