billy

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Another Briton, Billy Harris, travelled around the lower rungs of the circuit sleeping in his Transit van for three-and-a-half years.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

He helped found the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and won a Grammy Award in 2010 for best opera recording for Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd with the London Symphony Orchestra.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Billy Bob Thornton, “Landman” “Noah Wyle and Sterling K. Brown are locks to repeat, and Mark Ruffalo’s mournful ‘Task’ hero is another potential winner.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Franklin Graham, who has built his entire career piggybacking on the fame of his famous father, the late evangelist Billy Graham, was rewarded with a plum spot on Sunday’s roster.

From Salon • May 15, 2026

Ona’s story set alongside that of Billy Lee leaves a great puzzle: Why did Washington’s faithful manservant Billy Lee choose to stay, while Ona Judge took enormous risks to escape?

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis