It has been argued that James's overthrow began modern English parliamentary democracy: the Bill of Rights of 1689 has become one of the most important documents in the political history of Britain and never since has the monarch held absolute power.

The low church Whigs had failed in their attempt to pass the Exclusion Bill to exclude James from the throne between 1679 and 1681, and James's supporters were the high church Anglican Tories.

For example, Bill Haley's incompletely bowdlerized cover of " Shake, Rattle and Roll " transformed Big Joe Turner's humorous and racy tale of adult love into an energetic teen dance number, while Georgia Gibbs replaced Etta James's tough, sarcastic vocal in " Roll With Me, Henry " ( covered as " Dance With Me, Henry ") with a perkier vocal more appropriate for an audience unfamiliar with the song to which James's song was an answer, Hank Ballard's " Work With Me, Annie ".

James's publisher agreed to distribute two annuals of essays and data-the 1987 and 1988 editions of Bill James Presents The Great American Baseball Statbook ( though only the first of these featured writing by James ).

The Mind of Bill James, a biography-cum-chronicle of James's works was published in the spring of 2006.

John W. Sheets, the bank cashier, was killed in the process by Jesse James, who believed Sheets was Samuel P. Cox, who had killed James's bushwhacker Bloody Bill Anderson during the American Civil War.

It has been argued that James's overthrow began modern English parliamentary democracy: never since has the monarch held absolute power, and the Bill of Rights 1689 has become one of the most important documents in the political history of Britain.

This profile of the then-unknown Bill James launched James's career as baseball's foremost analyst.

He is also listed as the 40th greatest non-pitcher in major-league history according to Bill James's win shares formula, one place ahead of Mark McGwire.

* John Lennard, ' Of Policemen and Poussin: Bill James's Dance to the Muzak of Crime ', in Of Sex and Faerie: Further essays on Genre Fiction ( Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, 2010 ), pp. 10 – 46

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

Bill Haley's compositions included " Four Leaf Clover Blues ", " Crazy Man, Crazy ", " What ' Cha Gonna Do ", " Fractured ", " Live It Up ", " Farewell, So Long, Goodbye ", " Real Rock Drive ", " Rocking Chair on the Moon ", " Sundown Boogie ", " Birth Of The Boogie ", " Two Hound Dogs ", " Rock-A-Beatin ' Boogie ", " Hot Dog Buddy Buddy ", " R-O-C-K ", " Rudy's Rock ", " Calling All Comets ", " Tonight's the Night ", " Hook, Line and Sinker ", " Sway with Me ", " Paper Boy ( On Main Street U. S. A .)", " Skinny Minnie ", " B. B.

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

Others include Barry Lubin, Tom Dougherty, Bill Irwin, David Shiner, Geoff Hoyle, Funny Man Poodles, John Gilkey, Eric Davis, Peter Shub, Poodles Hanneford, Bluch Landolf, Larry Pisoni, John Lepiarz, Bobo Barnett, Happy Kellams, Fumagalli, Charlie Cairoli, Bebe, Jojo Lewis, Abe Goldstein

Bill Elliott bowed out of the running and encouraged the same fans that had put him up for the prestigious award 16 times to vote for the Man in Black.

Leary has appeared as an actor in over 40 movies, including The Sandlot, as Scott's stepfather Bill, Monument Ave., The Matchmaker, The Ref, Suicide Kings, Dawg, Wag the Dog, Demolition Man, Judgment Night, The Thomas Crown Affair, and Operation Dumbo Drop.

The Convention is drafted in broad terms, in a similar ( albeit more modern ) manner to the English Bill of Rights, the American Bill of Rights, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man or the first part of the German Basic law.

" The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates ," BusinessWeek.

Names such as Christy Mathewson, Iron Man Joe McGinnity, Bill Terry, Jim Thorpe, Mel Ott, Casey Stengel, and Red Ames are just a sample of the many players who honed their skills under McGraw.

" The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a French revolutionary document passed just weeks before Congress proposed the Bill of Rights, contains certain guarantees that are similar to those in the First Amendment.

The First Amendment was one of the first guarantees of religious freedom: neither the English Bill of Rights, nor the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, contains a similar guarantee.

It was a predecessor of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the United States Bill of Rights, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.

* Bill Kastner: The Man Behind Closed Captioning

It was not the first rock and roll record, nor was it the first successful record of the genre ( Bill Haley had American chart success with " Crazy Man, Crazy " in 1953, and in 1954, " Shake, Rattle and Roll " reached No. 1 on the Billboard R & B chart ).

According to the Haley biographies Bill Haley by John Swenson and Rock Around the Clock by Dawson, the song was offered to Haley in the wake of his first national success " Crazy Man, Crazy " in 1953, after being copyrighted with the U. S. Library of Congress on March 31.

The pilot episode ( where it was originally called I'm Sorry, They're At It Again ) opened with Graeme Garden and Jo Kendall singing the words of " Three Blind Mice " to the tune of " Ol ' Man River " followed by Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor performing the lyrics of " Sing a Song of Sixpence " to the melody of " These Foolish Things ".

Highlights of the tour included Chicago's Bill Champlin playing with the band, and members of Huey Lewis and the News playing on Chicago's percussion-laden hit " I'm a Man ".

The collection includes the work of many photographers from Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Clementina Maude, Gustave Le Gray, Benjamin Brecknell Turner, Frederick Hollyer, Samuel Bourne, Roger Fenton, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ilse Bing, Bill Brandt, Cecil Beaton ( there are over 8000 of his negatives ), Don McCullin, David Bailey, Jim Lee and Helen Chadwick to the present day.

* Bill McKinney as Mountain Man

Jerry Seinfeld is an avid fan and " The Old Man " ( Season 4, Episode 18, aired 18 February 1993 ) featured a cantankerous old man named " Sid Fields ," played by veteran actor Bill Erwin, as a tribute to Sidney Fields, the landlord from the Abbott & Costello TV show.

Scenes were also shot at the studio for Michaelangelo Antonioni's Zabriski Point ( back lot house explosion ), Paul Newman in Pocket Money, Bill Cosby's feature debut, Man and Boy ( western street ), and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure ( western street ).

* Show Boat ( 1961 New York City Center revival )— Andrew Frierson singing " Ol ' Man River ", and Carol Bruce, from the 1946 Broadway revival, singing " Bill ".

* 1986 – Bill Simpson, Scottish actor ( b. 1931 )

* 1914 – Bill Veeck, American baseball executive ( d. 1986 )

* 1986 – Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a Mission Specialist.

In 1986, the Western Stand was renamed the Ponsford Stand in honour of Victorian batsman Bill Ponsford.

* 1986: Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

Vice President George H. Bush visited Oman in 1984 and 1986, and President Bill Clinton visited briefly in March 2000.

Around 1986, Bill Stephney, the former Program Director at WBAU, was approached by Sam the Assassin and offered a position with the label.

* 1931 – Bill Simpson, Scottish actor ( d. 1986 )

Other fourth Labour government innovations included greater recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi through the Waitangi Tribunal, Homosexual Law Reform, the Constitution Act 1986 and the New Zealand Bill of Rights.

The story was based on the actual experiences of Bill Lishman, who in 1986 started training geese to follow his ultralight and succeeded in leading their migration in 1993.

Senator Jake Garn was flown on the Shuttle in 1985, followed by Representative Bill Nelson in 1986.

His first three were co-written by fellow journalist Bill Montalbano: Powder Burn ( 1981 ), Trap Line ( 1982 ), and A Death in China ( 1986 ).

In 1986, Davis ran against six other contenders in his race for State Controller ; several of those candidates, including Democrat John Garamendi and Republican Bill Campbell, were arguably better known at the time.

" Sarducci has appeared in four cold openings in the 1979 – 1980 season ( on episodes hosted by Steve Martin, Teri Garr, Elliott Gould, and Rodney Dangerfield ), two commercial parodies (" MX-5 Tampons " on the 1981 – 1982 Christmas episode hosted by Bill Murray and " Bocce Ball My Way " on the last episode of the 1985 – 1986 season hosted by Anjelica Huston and Billy Martin ), and two monologues on the 1985 – 1986 season ( the first hosted by Madonna in a pretaped sketch showing Madonna's wedding to Sean Penn ( played by Robert Downey, Jr .) and the second on the Christmas episode of the 1985 – 1986 season hosted by Garr as Sarducci's alter ego, Pope Maurice ).

The Superintendent of Westford's Public Schools is Everett " Bill " Olsen, who has held that role since 1986.

Scenes in the 1986 movie Gung Ho ( starring Pittsburgh native Michael Keaton ), the 1996 movie Kingpin ( starring Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, and Bill Murray ), and the 2000 movie " Wonder Boys " ( starring Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, and Robert Downey Jr .) were shot in Rochester.

This needs to be expanded to include, for example, Harvey Wollman, Governor of South Dakota ; the McNichol twins ( Army Generals ); twins Dennis Koslowski and Duane Koslowski, Olympic wrestlers ( Dennis won Silver in ' 92 and Bronze in ' 88 Greco-Roman wrestling ; Duane won a world championship in 1986 ); Air Force Major General Chris Divich ; Air Force Lt. Col. Duane Divich ; " Smokey " Joe Mendel, tied the world record for the 100-yd dash in 1931 ; NFL pro football player Bill Noetlich ; and there are more.

The Allman Brothers Band reunited in 1986 for a pair of benefit concerts for promoter Bill Graham in New York and Macon.

In New Zealand, section 16 of the Constitution Act 1986 states that " a Bill passed by the House of Representatives shall become law when the Sovereign or the Governor-General assents to it and signs it in token of such assent ".

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

Other members have included Dwayne Goettel ( 1986 – 1995 ), Dave " Rave " Ogilvie ( long-time associate, producer, and " unofficial " fourth member until 1995 ), Mark Walk ( 2003 – present ), and a number of guests, including Bill Leeb ( 1985 – 1986, under the pseudonym Wilhelm Schroeder ), Al Jourgensen ( 1989 ), and many others.