He was a black rabbi, who would go to upper Pennsylvania and purchase chicken, turkeys and ducks .” Solomon Burke had six younger siblings – a sister, Laurena Burke-Corbin ( born 23 June 1946 ), and five brothers: Elec Edward " Alec " ( born 16 February 1948 ), Vladimir H. " Laddie " ( born 31 July 1949 ), Mario " Chuck " ( born 13 September 1953 ), Daniel S. " Danny " ( born 10 March 1955 ), and Jolester R. M. Burke ( born 24 September 1958 ).

Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel, Lolita, utilizes deus ex machina to drive its plot forward: In Chapter 21 of the novel, Charlotte Haze, Humbert Humbert's recent wife and the mother of Dolores " Lolita " Haze, is killed by a moving car in the street.

" Annabel Lee " was an inspiration for Vladimir Nabokov, especially for his novel Lolita ( 1955 ), in which the narrator, as a child, falls in love with the terminally ill Annabel Leigh " in a princedom by the sea ".

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

In 1955 Vladimir re-settled into her mother's new home ( at 1st Meshanskaya, 76 ).

In 1955, Vladimir enrolled in the Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering ( МИСИ ), but dropped out after just one semester to pursue an acting career.

Antanas Merkys (; born on 1 February 1887 in Bajorai, near Skapiškis, Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire ; died on 5 March 1955 in Vladimir Oblast, Soviet Union ) was the last Prime Minister of independent Lithuania, serving from November 1939 to June 1940.

He lived in Vladimir until his death the following year, on 5 March 1955.

Lolita is a 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov.

* 1955: Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita

Vladimir Viktorovich Vinogradov ( Russian Владимир Викторович Виноградов ) ( 19 September 1955, Ufa — 29 June 2008, Moscow ) was the owner and president of Inkombank, one of the largest banks in 90s ' Russia.

Vladimir Viktorovich Vinogradov was born in 1955 in Ufa, Bashkiria.

* Clare Quilty is a fictional character in the 1955 novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Vladimir Nabokov's controversial book Lolita ( 1955 ) is about a doomed relationship between a 12 year old girl and an adult scholar as they travel across the United States.

He trained many pianists, including Vladimir Ashkenazy ( winner of the second prize at the 1955 Chopin Competition ), Anatoly Dokumentov, Mikhail Voskresensky, Dmitri Sakharov, Alexander Bakhchiev, Andrei Egorov, Lev Natochenny, Boris Berman and Olga Kiun.

The band is named after a character in Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel, Lolita.

After having become acquainted with Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky by 1955, by which time El-Dabh he had been experimenting with electronic music for ten years, they later invited him to work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in 1959 as one of the first outside composers there, where he would become one of the most influential composers associated with the early years of the studio.

* Vladimir Malakhov ( footballer ) ( born 1955 ), football ( soccer ) player

A further plaque claimed that Humbert Humbert, protagonist of Lolita, had stayed in the chosen house and was arrested there in 1955 for an undisclosed crime.

On January 17, 1955, Eraño Manalo married Cristina Villanueva with whom he has six children ( Eduardo, Felix Nathaniel, Marco Erano, Lolita, Erlinda and Liberty ).

Though his most famous novel, Lolita ( 1955 ), could be considered a modernist or a postmodernist novel, his later work ( specifically Pale Fire in 1962 and Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle in 1969 ) are more clearly postmodern, see Brian McHale.

Cover of the first edition of Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov, published by Olympia Press in 1955.

* Captain Humbert Roque " Rocky " Versace, USA, POW, Medal of Honor recipient, Pentagon Hall of Heroes inductee, Ranger Hall of Fame inductee ( Class of 1955 )

" In November 1955 Philby gave a press conference in which – calmly, confidently, and without the stammer he had struggled with since childhood – he reiterated his innocence, declaring, " I have never been a communist.

The novel covers the years 1945 to 1955, and also provides the back story of Vito Corleone from early childhood to adulthood.

In 1955, he formed the first lineup of what became The Miracles with childhood friend Ronald White and classmate Pete Moore.

Within his fictional world, Partridge was born to Dorothy Partridge on 2 April 1955 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, and spent his childhood in Norwich.

J. R. R. Tolkien in his 1955 lecture " English and Welsh " distinguishes the " native tongue " from the " cradle tongue ," the latter being the language one happens to learn during early childhood, while one's true " native tongue " may be different, possibly determined by an inherited linguistic taste, and may later in life be discovered by a strong emotional affinity to a specific dialect ( Tolkien personally confessed to such an affinity to the Middle English of the West Midlands in particular ).

After recounting his childhood in Brooklyn and his life as a young reporter on the New York Herald Tribune, the author relates some history of the Brooklyn Dodgers up to their victory in the 1955 World Series.

Economic and Cultural Renewal ( 1955 – 1975 ) However, by the mid-1950s, just as with the novel, a new generation which had only experienced the Spanish civil war in childhood was coming of age.

McClintock was born in Flemington, New Jersey, on May 6, 1955, and spent her early childhood in Clinton, New Jersey.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

A week after his 1955 graduation, he married Margaret Mitchell, his high school sweetheart.

* The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett ( 1955 ).

Olivier and Leigh in the 1955 production of Titus Andronicus

In 1953, Leigh recovered sufficiently to play The Sleeping Prince with Olivier ; and, in 1955, they performed a season at Stratford-upon-Avon in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and Titus Andronicus.

But Gielgud didn't always have the magic touch, staging a disappointing revival of Twelfth Night with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in 1955 and a disastrous production of Macbeth with Ralph Richardson in 1952.

* Leigh McCloskey ( b. 1955 )

The present terminal opened on July 20, 1955 and designed by Leigh Fisher and Associates.

A 1955 version, The Deep Blue Sea, directed by Anatole Litvak, starred Vivien Leigh and Kenneth More.

Gielgud directed a production at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre with Laurence Olivier as Malvolio and Vivien Leigh playing both Viola and Sebastian in 1955.

Victoria Leigh Blum ( born October 15, 1955 ), professionally recognized as Tanya Roberts, is an American actress best known for her role as Julie Rogers on the fifth and final season of Charlie's Angels ( 1980 – 1981 ) and as Midge Pinciotti on That ' 70s Show ( 1998 – 2001 ).

Pete Shelley ( born Peter Campbell McNeish, 17 April 1955 in Leigh, Lancashire ) is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the leader of the Buzzcocks.

Supposedly, Carroll and Alfonso were in the process of getting a divorce so he could legitimize his invalid Mexican marriage to 1940s / 1950s supermodel Dorian Leigh ( who had already aborted their first baby in 1954 and then gave birth to their son Kim on September 27, 1955 ).

In 1955, Vivien Leigh played Lady Macbeth opposite Laurence Olivier at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

The first shops opened in 1952 ( in Stone Square ) and Park Parade, Greywell Shopping Centre which is Greywell Road ( usually referred to as just Park Parade ), the main shopping area in Leigh Park, opened in 1955.

Leigh Joseph McCloskey ( born June 21, 1955 ) is an American actor.

* James " Jimmy " Ledgard won caps for England while at Dewsbury 1947 France ( 2 matches ), Wales, while at Leigh 1948 Wales, 1949 France, Other Nations, 1951 Wales, France, 1952 Other Nations ( 2 matches ), Wales, 1953 Wales, 1955 Other Nations, and won caps for Great Britain while at Dewsbury 1947 New Zealand ( 2 matches ), while at Leigh 1948 Australia, 1950 Australia ( 2 matches ), New Zealand, 1951 New Zealand, 1954 France ( 2 matches ), Australia, New Zealand ( World Cup 1954 4-caps, 1-try, 13-goals )

The owner of the periodical, Leigh Miller Freeman ( 1875 ‒ 1955 ), became a power in the commercial fisheries industry and in fisheries conservation efforts.

When Solar Lottery was first published as a novel by Ace Books as one half of Ace Double D-103 in May 1955, it was bound dos-à-dos with The Big Jump by Leigh Brackett.