John Earle was an English bishop and writer. He was born about 1601 and died in 1665. He was educated at Oxford, and after writing some short poems gave to the world anonymously in 1628 Microcosmographie, or a Piece of the World discovered in Essays and Characters - a work full of wit, humour, and admirable character-painting. He was tutor to Charles II, accompanied him during his exile, and was held by him in the highest esteem. In 1662 he was consecrated Bishop of Worcester, and next year was translated to Salisbury. Research John Earle
John Earle was an English Anglo-Saxon scholar. He was born in 1824 and died in 1903. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, where he obtained first-class honours in classics, and was elected a fellow in 1848. In the following year he took orders, and was appointed for five years university professor of Anglo-Saxon. In 1857 he became rector of Swanswick, near Bath, and in 1871 a prebendary of Wells. The five years' rule having been rescinded, he was re-elected professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford in 1876, and continued to hold the position, together with the rectory of Swanswick, until his death. Among his contributions to the study of Anglo-Saxon and modern English are the following: Two Saxon Chronicles Parallel (1865); The Philology of the English Tongue (1871);, A Book for the Beginner in Anglo-Saxon (1877), English Plant Names from the Tenth to the Fifteenth Century (1880); Anglo-Saxon Literature (1884), a very useful and informing little manual; Handbook to the Land Charters and other Saxonic Documents (1888); English Prose:
its Elements, History, and Usage (1890); The Deeds of Beowulf (1892), a translation of the well-known Anglo-Saxon epic; The Psalter of 1539 (1894); and A Simple Grammar of English Now in Use (1898). He also wrote a book on Bath, Ancient and Modern (1864). Research John Earle (2)
The Bad News Bears Go To Japan is a sports comedy starring Tony Curtis, Jackie Earle Haley, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Antonio Inoki and Hatsune Ishihara in a story about a small time sports promoter seeing an opportunity to make a fortune with a junior netball team. The Bad News Bears Go To Japan was directed by John Berry in 1978. Research The Bad News Bears Go To Japan
The USS Earle was an American Buchanan Class destroyer of 1630 tons displacement launched in 1942. The USS Earle was powered by four Babcock and Wilcox oil-burning boilers providing a top speed of 36.5 knots. She carried a complement of 210 and was armed with four 5 inch guns; four 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns; seven 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns and five 21 inch torpedo tubes arranged in a quintuple arrangements. Research Earle
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