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1. Gertrude Elizabeth Lady Colin Campbell , Blood

A Woman's Walks

Gertrude Elizabeth Blood (1857¿-¿1911) war die jüngste Tochter eines irischen Großgrundbesitzers. Nach der skandalumwitterten Scheidung von Lord Colin Campbell, dem jüngsten Sohn des 8th Duke of Argyll, wandte sie sich dem Journalismus und der Literatur zu, insbesondere der Gattung Reisefeuilleton. Statt in den höchsten Kreisen der britischen Gesellschaft verkehrte sie nunmehr mit Schriftstellern und Künstlern wie George Bernard Shaw, Henry James, Edward Burne-Jones und James McNeill Whistler. Bekannt für ihre Schönheit, ihre Intelligenz und ihren Esprit, etablierte sie sich erfolgreich als moderne unabhängige Frau, die die Wochenzeitung Ladies Field herausgab, malte, radelte, ritt, focht, fischte, schwamm und sang und sich öffentlich für Fahrradwege, Feuerbestattung und das Recht der Frau auf Rauchen einsetzte. Auf ihren zahlreichen Reisen kamen ihr ihre ausgezeichneten Sprachkenntnisse zugute: Italienisch, Französisch, Deutsch, Spanisch und Arabisch. In ihren Spaziergängen einer Frau (A Woman's Walks), einer Sammlung von Prosastücken, die sie seit 1889 in der Zeitschrift The World publizierte, erweist sich Lady Colin Campbell als scharfe Beobachterin. Mit ironischer Distanz und einem guten Schuss Humor schildert sie die Skurrilitäten ihrer Mitmenschen.Zum ersten Mal erscheinen ihre legendären Feuilletons hier in deutscher Sprache. Ein echtes Lesevergnügen!

1. Colin Campbell

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Colin Campbell (Geologist)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Colin J. Campbell, PhD Oxford, (born in Berlin, Germany in 1931) is a retired British petroleum geologist who predicted that oil production would peak by 2007. The consequences of this are uncertain but drastic, due to the world's dependency on fossil fuels for the vast majority of its energy. His theories have received wide attention but are disputed by some in the oil industry and have not significantly changed governmental energy policies at this time. In order to deal with declining global oil production, he has proposed the Rimini protocol. Influential papers by Campbell include The Coming Oil Crisis, written with Jean Laherrère in 1998 and credited with convincing the International Energy Agency of the coming peak; and The End of Cheap Oil, published the same year in Scientific American. He was referred to as a "doomsayer" in The Wall Street Journal in 2004.

Alfred E. Green

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alfred E. Green (July 11, 1889 in Perris, California - September 4, 1960 in Hollywood, California) was a prolific movie director and assistant director. Green entered film in 1912 as an actor for the Selig Polyscope Company. He became an assistant to director Colin Campbell. He then started to direct two-reelers until he started features in 1917. Although his career lasted until the 1950s, Green directed number of movies with major stars such as Mary Pickford, Wallace Reid, and Colleen Moore. In 1935, Green directed the movie, Dangerous, with Bette Davis having the starring role. As a result, Davis won Best Actress for her performance. It was followed by Green's next success, The Jolson Story. However,The Jolson Story was followed by a string of B-movies. After retiring from motion pictures, he directed several TV episodes.

Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Field Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde GCB, KSI (20 October 1792 - 14 August 1863) was a British Army officer from Scotland who led the Highland Brigade in the Crimea and was in command of the 'Thin red line' at the battle of Balaclava. He later commanded the relief army in the Indian Mutiny of 1857. He was born Colin Macliver, the eldest of the four children of John Macliver, a carpenter in Glasgow, Scotland, and his wife Agnes Campbell. He was educated at the High School of Glasgow, but the age of ten, his mother's brother Colonel John Campbell placed him in the Royal Military and Naval Academy at Gosport. When he was only fifteen and a half, his uncle presented him to the Duke of York. The Duke enlisted the boy under the surname of Campbell, which he adopted for life.