Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
On Giant's Shoulders is a 1979 BBC television film about the early life of thalidomide victim Terry Wiles, with Wiles playing himself. The drama also starred Bryan Pringle and Judi Dench and won an Emmy Award in 1980.
Later in the 17th century, George Herbert, in his Jacula Prudentum (1651), wrote "A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two." Samuel Taylor Coleridge , in The Friend (1828), wrote: The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on.
On Giants Shoulders may refer to: On Giant's Shoulders , a 1976 book by Marjorie Wallace and Michael Robson about the thalidomide victim Terry Wiles On Giant's Shoulders , a 1979 BBC Emmy Award winning drama based on the 1976 book
Len and Terry Wiles c. 1970. Terrence 'Terry' Wiles (born 12 January 1962) was one of the most visible thalidomide babies born in the United Kingdom. He has since become known internationally through the Emmy Award winning [1] [2] television drama On Giant's Shoulders and the best-selling book of the same name.
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the fourth studio album by English rock band Oasis, released on 28 February 2000. It was the band's first album under their new record label Big Brother Recordings .
On the Shoulders of Giants may refer to: Standing on the shoulders of giants, a Western metaphor; On the Shoulders of Giants, a 2002 compilation of scientific texts edited by Stephen Hawking; On the Shoulders of Giants, a 2011 historical sports documentary film; On the Shoulders of Giants, a 2020 album by Chris Byars
On Giants' Shoulders was written in 1998 by Melvyn Bragg. The book was assembled after a series of interviews Bragg had with current scientists about the world's greatest scientists such as Archimedes, Isaac Newton and Einstein. Bragg, who brands himself as a "non-scientist", conducted these interviews on BBC Radio 4 for other non-scientists ...
Standing on the shoulders of giants is a metaphor. Standing on the shoulders of giants may also refer to: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Tribe of Gypsies album), 2000; Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, a 2000 album by Oasis