Christopher Hemsworth (born 11 August 1983) is an Australian actor. He rose to prominence playing Kim Hyde in the Australian TV series Home and Away (2004–07) before beginning a film career in Hollywood by taking on parts in the science fiction film Star Trek (2009) and the thriller A Perfect Getaway (2009).
Hemsworth went on to star in the fantasy film Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), the war film Red Dawn (2012), the action thriller Blackhat (2015), the biographical thriller In the Heart of the Sea (2015), the comedy Ghostbusters (2016), and the Men in Black film series spin-off Men in Black: International (2019). His most critically acclaimed roles include the comedy horror The Cabin in the Woods (2012) and the biographical sports film Rush (2013), in which he portrayed James Hunt.
Robert Burns manuscript with Dumfries and Galloway connection to go under the hammer
dailyrecord.co.ukMaria. The verses were originally sent by Burns to his publisher George Thomson in May 1794. In the original note, now in the Morgan Library, the poet wrote: “Now, and for six or seven months, I shall be quite in song, as you shall see by-and-by.“I got an air, pretty enough, composed by Lady Elizabeth Heron, of Heron, which she calls ‘The Banks of Cree’.
Cree is a beautiful romantic stream, and, as her ladyship is a particular friend of mine, I have written the following song to it.”The catalogue entry for the work remarks that “as with so many original Burns manuscripts our fair copy of the verses is unsigned but is finished by a characteristic calligraphic flourish” and notes that it bears “one or two small differences in wording.
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