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Chris Whitty. Sir Christopher John MacRae Whitty KCB FRS (born 21 April 1966) is a British epidemiologist, serving as Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government since 2019. Whitty was Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department of Health and Social Care and Head of the National Institute for Health and Care ...
Whitey Bulger. James Joseph " Whitey " Bulger Jr. ( / ˈbʌldʒər /; September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an American organized crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish Mob group in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston. [ 2][ 3] On December 23, 1994, Bulger fled the ...
Wit is a form of intelligent humour —the ability to say or write things that are clever and typically funny. [ 1] Someone witty is a person who is skilled at making clever and funny remarks. [ 1][ 2] Forms of wit include the quip, repartee, and wisecrack .
His wife described his humor, witty banter and wry observations. Those are qualities I enjoy and obviously what made me eager to read Matt’s columns and op-eds every week. My sincere condolences ...
West Side Story. West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents . Inspired by William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar ...
The Jeffersons. episodes. The following is a list of episodes of the American television sitcom The Jeffersons. A total of 253 episodes were produced and aired on CBS from January 18, 1975, to July 2, 1985, spanning a total of 11 seasons.
It is the only species in the monotypic genus Cormus. It is a deciduous tree growing to 15–20 m (49–66 ft) (rarely to 30 m or 98 ft) tall with a trunk up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) diameter, though it can also be a shrub 2–3 m (6.6–9.8 ft) tall on exposed sites. The bark is brown, smooth on young trees, becoming fissured and flaky on old trees.
The Bitter Withy. The Bitter Withy or Mary Mild ( Roud #452) is an English folk song reflecting an unusual and apocryphal vernacular idea of Jesus Christ. The withy of the title is the Willow and the song gives an explanation as to why the willow tree rots from the centre out, rather than the outside in. The song was recorded by The Kingston ...