In 899, King Alfred the Great, Saxon King of Wessex, southwest England, is believed to have died on this date.
An unmarked grave in a Winchester church could be exhumed in the hunt for the remains of King Alfred the Great.
Some 200 guests were wined, dined and entertained among the Old Masters by the great pianist Alfred Brendel, long a friend of Sir Ronald's.
Past guests include the great and the good from Albert Einstein to Alfred Hitchcock.
Now that would represent a triumph for bonds which would warm the cockles of Great Uncle Alfred's heart.
In 1962, between Psycho and Marnie, his masterworks of raging id, Alfred Hitchcock, a city kid, filled the great outdoors with the embodiment of that impersonal fury.
Alfred Brendel, an Austrian pianist, received great acclaim for his recital on the opening night and again, three days later, when he played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 5 to a packed house.
This noble cause was enough to attract to the board of directors the likes of Charles Mathias , the former senator from Maryland, and Michael Nobel , great-grand-nephew of Alfred.
Scientist Alfred Russel Wallace, who proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection with Charles Darwin, corresponded with the great and good of 19th Century society.
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This noble cause was enough to attract to the board of directors the likes of Charles Mathias, the former senator from Maryland, and Michael Nobel, a great-grand-nephew of Alfred.
As the exhibition encourages viewers to explore through photographs of Alfred Stieglitz's elegant installations, the center of this movement was Stieglitz's gallery, 291, where the great impresario and photographer regularly presented the latest aesthetic challenges by the avant-garde on both sides of the Atlantic.
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