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Julie AndrewsDame Julie Andrews (real name Julia Elizabeth Wells) (born October 1, 1935) is a British actress and singer, particularly known for her starring roles in the musical films Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965).She was born in Surrey on October 1, 1935, and made her stage debut at an early age, appearing in London's West End in 1947. She graduated through radio (on the show Educating Archie[?])and theatre to starring in stage productions of musicals such as The Boyfriend, My Fair Lady and Camelot. When she lost the starring role in the film of My Fair Lady to Audrey Hepburn (most of whose singing had to be dubbed), she received the consolation of the starring role in Walt Disney's musical version of Mary Poppins (1964), winning an Academy Award as a result. She was nominated again, the following year, for her role as Maria von Trapp[?] in The Sound of Music (1965), and thus became, briefly, one of the most sought-after stars in Hollywood. The decline of the musical was damaging to Andrews' subsequent career, and, despite several starring roles in musical and non-musical films - including some directed by her husband, Blake Edwards, such as Victor/Victoria, S.O.B., she has been seen very rarely on screen since the early 1980s. On December 31, 1999, she was knighted by the Queen and became Dame Julie Andrews. Since then she has been struggling to recover her singing voice, following a throat operation, but had a short tour of the USA at the end of 2002 with Christopher Plummer[?], Charlotte Church[?], Max Howard[?] and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Dame Andrews' career is said to have suffered from typecasting[?], as her two most famous roles in Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music cemented her image as a "sugary sweet" personality best known for working with children. She has made several attempts over the years to break away from this image (most notably her role in S.O.B. where she appeared topless in one scene). Julie appears in the 2002 List of "100 Great Britons" (sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public), alongside such other greats as David Beckham, Aleister Crowley and Johnny Rotten. Hörnung,
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Rogers, RP˛, VI. 80 ff.; Harper, 68 ff. Here also seem to belong the
toward that of the Taylor Prism.] As has already been made evident,
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than the Taylor Cylinder is the Memorial or Nebi Yunus inscription,
there, it has the same language as the Annals group, but these
the use of well known formulae. In general, it is an abridgement of
half of the sixth expedition, the revolt of Babylon, it is our best
different account in which it is not the king but his generals who are
Taylor cylinder is fuller and better. [Footnote: I R. 43; A. Paterson,
f., 102 ff., lllff., 127 ff.; Bezold, KB. II. 118 f.; cf. King,
1907-1908.]
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constructed to carry water to the capital. In their historical
in such different fashion that they may be considered separate
of which they are the only Assyrian authority. [Footnote: III R. 14;
King, _Tukulti Ninib_, 114 ff. Menant,_Nineve et l'Assyrie_,
date is B, C, A, D, Meissner-Rost, _Bauinschriften_, 67. Squeezes
two fragments from the later part of the reign, on which is based a
Smíth-Sayce, 137 f.; the later fragment, Scheil, OLZ. VII. 69f;
Rogers, 345 f.] as well as a tablet which seems to be a draft of an
Merodach Baladan. [Footnote: III. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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