James Marriott was born on 29 October 1730. In June 1746 he was sent to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and graduated in 1751. Although he had wanted a job in the church, he decided to switch to law in 1755, maybe because his stepfather, a very good lawyer, told him to. He spent three years as librarian to the Duke of Newcastle. He joined the College of Advocates and began his legal job in which he wrote two books on law.
While he served the Duke of Newcastle, he began to flatter others with nice words, which gave him the job of Receiver of Land Tax for Suffolk, but did not do much else until King George III was made king in 1760, when he left Newcastle for the new king. In 1767 he was made king's advocate, mostly because there was no one else to do it. In 1767 he served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge for a year and in 1768.
For the next ten years he kept trying to get a better job, making Lord Grafton very angry in the process.In 1778 he was knighted and made the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, responsible for cases involving boats and the Navy. His work as king's advocate was not impressive, because of his lack of good choice-making and bad courtroom behaviors, as well as his aggressive speeches against his own co-workers. In 1781 he was elected to Parliament for Sudbury. Marriott worked for Lord Shelburne, who strongly opposed war.
The French Revolutionary Wars in 1793 caused the Navy to be used more and more, which made Marriott judge on more cases than he normally would, even though he was able to make some important decisions. He was also re-elected for his Parliament job in 1796. he had supported someone else, but then changed his mind and ran for election himself. Marriott remained in Parliament until 1802, shortly before he died.
Marriott quit his job in 1798. He returned to Twinstead Hall and stayed there until he died on 21 March 1803, having rebuilt the local church. The year before he died he wrote his most important book, "Formulare instrumentarum", a book about his job with Naval law that caused Naval law in the United States to change. He also made a lot of poems and legal books that were not important. He never married, his one try in 1760 causing both the girl and her father to say "no." Instead he took care of his mother until her death.
Swiss Federal Railways
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The company headquarters is in Bern.
In the Zurich-Bern-Basel triangle, travel times between the cities is under one hour.
SBB also operates international EuroCity and EuroNight trains in Switzerland.
Mon, Switzerland
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Since 2015, Mon became a part of the municipality of Albula/Alvra.
Davos Wiesen
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Nufenen
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It is on the San Bernardino tunnel road.
On 1 January 2019 the former municipalities of Hinterrhein, Nufenen and Splügen merged to form the new municipality of Rheinwald.
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The son of the Qajar dynasty ruler Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Mozaffar ad-Din was named crown prince and sent as governor to the northern province of Azerbaijan in 1861.
Carles Santos
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Santos was commissioned to compose works for a variety of special occasions, including the opening ceremonies of the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona and the opening of the 2001 Biennial of Arts in Valencia.
Santos died on 4 December 2017 at the age of 77.
Arif Dirlik
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Dirlik died in Eugene, Oregon on December 1, 2017 at the age of 77.
Manuel Marín
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Marín died in Madrid on 4 December 2017 at the age of 68 from lung cancer.
Jimmy Hood
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Hood died on 4 December 2017 of a heart attack in Lanarkshire, Scotland, aged 69.
Ian Twitchin
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Twitchin died on 3 December 2017, at the age of 65.
Mackenzie Crook
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Crook was born in Maidstone, Kent, England. He grew up in Dartford, Kent. He has been married to Lindsay since April 2001. The couple have two children, a son and a daughter.
The Office (British TV series)
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"The Office" is about David Brent (Gervais), an office manager in Slough, and his employees dealing with his cringe personality.
The series was adapted into an American version of the same name, starring Steve Carell.
Bocconi University
Bocconi University () is a private university in Milan, Italy. It provides undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate education. The university's main subjects are economics, business management, finance, law, political science and public administration.
Bocconi University was founded in 1902 by Ferdinando Bocconi, an Italian politician and business man. He named the university after his son Luigi. Luigi was a soldier in the Italian army. He was killed in 1896 in a war between Italy and Ethiopia. The center of the present campus of Bocconi University is on Via Sarfatti. It was built in 1941. Since then several new buildings have been added.
In 2017 the university had a total of 13,824 students. About 1600 students come from outside Italy. The president of the university is Mario Monti.
Men's rights movement