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Dead Can Dance are an Australian neoclassical darkwave band from Melbourne. Currently composed of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry,the group formed in 1981. They relocated to London the following year. Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described Dead Can Dance's style as "constructed soundscapes of mesmerising grandeur and solemn beauty;African polyrhythms,Gaelic folk,Gregorian chant,Middle Eastern music,mantras,and art rock."
The Diggers were a group of religious and political dissidents in England,associated with agrarian socialism. Gerrard Winstanley and William Everard,amongst many others,were known as True Levellers in 1649,in reference to their split from the Levellers,and later became known as Diggers because of their attempts to farm on common land.
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Gerrards Cross is a town and civil parish in south Buckinghamshire,England,separated from the London Borough of Hillingdon at Harefield by Denham,south of Chalfont St Peter and north bordering villages of Fulmer,Hedgerley,Iver Heath and Stoke Poges. It spans foothills of the Chiltern Hills and land on the right bank of the River Misbourne. It is 19.3 miles (31.1 km) west-north-west of Charing Cross,central London. Bulstrode Park Camp was an Iron Age fortified encampment.
Gerrard Street is a street in Toronto,Ontario,Canada. It consists of two separate parts,historically referred to as Lower Gerrard and Upper Gerrard. The former stretches between University Avenue and Coxwell Avenue for 6 km,across Old Toronto. The latter portion starts 300 m north of Lower Gerrard's eastern terminus and runs between Coxwell Avenue and Clonmore Drive,between Victoria Park Avenue and Warden Avenue,in Scarborough for another 4 km.
Steven George Gerrard is an English professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of Saudi Pro League club Al-Ettifaq. Described by pundits and fellow professionals as one of his generation's greatest players,Gerrard spent the vast majority of his playing career as a central midfielder for Liverpool and the England national team,captaining both.
Martin David Crowe was a New Zealand cricketer,Test and ODI captain as well as a commentator. He played for the New Zealand national cricket team between 1982 and 1995,and is regarded as one of the country's greatest batsmen.
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Michael Watkinson is a former English cricketer who played four Test matches and one One Day International in the mid-1990s. A right-handed batsman and right-arm bowler of either medium-pace or off-spin,he was instrumental in Lancashire County Cricket Club's successes in the 1990s,later becoming the county's director of cricket.
Rosmini College is a state integrated Catholic secondary school for boys,situated in Takapuna,Auckland,New Zealand. The school caters to Years 7-13,and currently has a roll of approximately 1120 students and staff of 75 teachers. Founded in 1962 by its first headmaster,Father Phillip Catcheside,the school was named after Antonio Rosmini,founder of the Institute of Charity. The school's motto is Legis Charitas Plenitudo,translated as 'Charity Fulfills the Law',or sometimes translated as 'Love Fulfills the Law'. Tom Gerrard was the school's principal from 1976 until 2014,making him New Zealand's longest serving principal. Gerrard died in 2020.
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Martin James Guptill is a New Zealand international cricketer who plays as an opening batsman in limited overs formats of the game. Guptill is the first cricketer from New Zealand and the fifth overall to have scored a double century in a One Day International match and holds the current record for the highest individual score in Cricket World Cup matches and the second highest score in One Day Internationals of 237 not out. In March 2021,Guptill played in his 100th T20I match.
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Charles K. Gerrard,also known as Charles Kavanagh,was an Irish-American motion-picture actor,and the elder brother of actor and film director Douglas Gerrard.
Anthony Gerrard is a former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He made over 500 professional appearances in a career spent mainly in the English Football League,notably at Walsall where he won the 2006-07 League Two title and at Cardiff City where he was on the losing side as he faced his cousin Steven Gerrard's Liverpool side in the 2012 Football League Cup Final. He began his career at the Everton Academy but failed to break into their senior side.
Mission:Impossible 2 –Music from the Original Motion Picture Score is an original score album by Hans Zimmer for the 2000 film Mission:Impossible 2. Lisa Gerrard provided contralto vocal cues for certain tracks in her second collaboration with Hans Zimmer in the same year along with Gladiator.
Nicholas Peter Gerrard Wright is a former English cricketer. Wright was a left-handed batsman,his bowling style is unknown. He was born in Mill Hill,Middlesex.
The 2015 Major League Soccer All-Star Game,the 20th annual Major League Soccer All-Star Game,took place on July 29,2015 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in the Denver suburb of Commerce City,Colorado,the home of the Colorado Rapids. The game was televised live on Fox Sports 1 and UniMás in the United States,and TSN and RDS in Canada.
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