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"Teachers Assurance (officially Teachers Provident Society Limited and previously known as the Teachers Group and simply Teachers) is a friendly society in the United Kingdom. The company offers a range of savings, investment home insurance, health and life cover for individuals and their families, designed with teachers in mind. Teachers Assurance is a mutual friendly society, which means it has no shareholders. The company is owned by, and works for, its members (the people who save and invest in their products). Any profits are shared between members or reinvested to provide services to the teaching profession. It was announced in December 2014 that the business of Teachers would, subject to regulatory and member approval, be transferred to Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society.Teachers Aassurance proposes to transfer business to Liverpool Victoria Accessed 15 May 2015 Following the vote in favour of transfer to LV= (Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society) by Teachers Assurance members at the Special General Meeting in December 2015 and the agreement of the regulators, Teachers Assurance business was transferred to LV= on 1 June 2016. History Teachers Assurance was initiated in 1877 by the NUT (National Union of Teachers). Although they are now separate companies, the two still work in partnership and Teachers Assurance is endorsed by the NUT to provide financial services to members. References External links * Teachers Assurance Category:Friendly societies of the United Kingdom "
""The Truth About George" is a short story by the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. A part of the Mr. Mulliner series, the story was first published in July 1926 in Strand Magazine, and appeared almost simultaneously in Liberty in the United States. It also appears in the collection Meet Mr. Mulliner.McIlvaine (1990), pp. 53–54, A38. Plot Overview George Mulliner, a nephew of Mr. Mulliner, was cursed with a terrible stammer but was not terribly concerned about it until he fell in love with Susan Blake, the daughter of the vicar of East Wobsley, the Worcestershire village in which they lived. Determined to get rid of the stammer, he visits a specialist in London who advises him to go and speak to three perfect strangers each day as a confidence building measure. George decides to do this immediately on the train back to London. Unfortunately, the first person he meets also stammers and to stammer back at this man 'would obviously be madness'. The second person he meets turns out to be a lunatic runaway from the local asylum who thinks he is the Emperor of Abyssinia and wishes to perform a human sacrifice with George playing the lucky lamb. George manages to escape and takes refuge under a bench seat in a railway carriage. A woman takes a seat in the same compartment, and when George emerges from under the bench and tries to speak to her, she assumes that George must be the escaped lunatic. When George, unable to speak, decides to sing instead she faints. When a thermos falls and shatters as the train passes over some points, she leaps up and pulls the emergency cord, bringing the train to a halt. When a host of rustics appear, George decides to remove himself and does so at a high speed followed by twenty-seven rustics headed by a bearded man with a pitchfork. Late that night, a bedraggled George appears at the vicarage and presents himself to Susan Blake. Cured of his stammer, he proposes and she accepts. The mob arrives and George removes himself again at top speed but his stammer is cured for ever. Publication history "The Truth About George" was illustrated by Charles Crombie in the Strand.McIlvaine (1990), p. 185, D133.127. It was illustrated by Wallace Morgan in Liberty.McIlvaine (1990), pp. 150–151, D36.7. The story was included in Nothing But Wodehouse, a collection of Wodehouse stories edited by Ogden Nash and published on 20 July 1932 by Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York.McIlvaine (1990), pp. 113–114, B2. It was also included in the Mulliner Omnibus, published in 1935 in the UK by Herbert Jenkins, and in 1974 in the US by the Taplinger Publishing Company as The World of Mr. Mulliner.McIlvaine (1990), pp. 115–116, B5. It was collected in The Most of P. G. Wodehouse, published in 1960 by Simon and Schuster, New York.McIlvaine (1990), pp. 120–121, B12. Adaptations "The Truth About George" was adapted as an episode of the BBC television series Wodehouse Playhouse. The episode was first broadcast on 23 April 1975. It was adapted for radio in 2004 as part of a series starring Richard Griffiths as Mr Mulliner. It was dramatised by Roger Davenport and directed by Ned Chaillet. The cast included Matilda Ziegler as Miss Postlethwaite and Susan, Peter Damey as a Dry Sherry and George, Martin Hyder as a Light Ale and the runaway, and David Timson as a Pint of Stout, the specialist, and a guard. See also * List of Wodehouse's Mr Mulliner stories References ;Notes ;Sources * Category:Short stories by P. G. Wodehouse Category:1926 short stories Category:Works originally published in The Strand Magazine "
"Alexander McDonnell (1798–1835) was an Irish chess master. Alexander McDonnell may also refer to: *Alexander McDonnell (engineer) (1829–1904), locomotive engineer of the Great Southern & Western Railway (Ireland), & North Eastern Railway (England) *Alexander MacDonnell, 3rd Earl of Antrim (1615–1699), Roman Catholic peer and military commander in Ireland *Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim (born 1935) See also *Alexander McDonell (disambiguation) *Alexander MacDonnell (disambiguation) "