Visually, the character was an extension of Thomas Jerome Newton, the extraterrestrial being he portrayed in the film The Man Who Fell to Earth the same year.

In 1976 he earned acclaim for his first major film role, portraying Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien from a dying planet, in The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nic Roeg.

While Leonardo's experimentation followed clear scientific methods, a recent and exhaustive analysis of Leonardo as scientist by Frtijof Capra argues that Leonardo was a fundamentally different kind of scientist from Galileo, Newton and other scientists who followed him in that, as a Renaissance Man, his theorising and hypothesising integrated the arts and particularly painting.

In the influential eighteenth century French encyclopedia Encyclopedie, the entry on Woolstrope-by-Colsterworth is almost entirely a biography of Newton, this biography being so hidden because the editors of the Encyclopedie were ideologically opposed to biographies – see Great Man theory.

The horror movie The Wicker Man was filmed almost entirely on location around Newton Stewart and had its premiere at its cinema in 1972.

Other notable pop and country songs written by Taylor include " He Sits at Your Table " ( Willie Nelson ), " I Can't Let Go " ( Evie Sands, Linda Ronstadt ), " The Baby " ( The Hollies ), " Worry " ( Johnny Tillotson ), " Make Me Belong to You "( Barbara Lewis ), " I Can Make It With You " ( The Pozo Seco Singers, Jackie DeShannon ), " Any Way That You Want Me " ( The Troggs, Evie Sands, Juice Newton ), " Step Out of Your Mind ", " Country Girl City Man " ( Billy Vera and Judy Clay ), " I'll Hold Out My Hand ", " Try ( Just a Little Bit Harder )" ( Janis Joplin ), " Julie " ( Bobby Fuller Four ), " Lonely Is As Lonely Does " ( The Fleetwoods ), " Sweet Dream Woman " ( Waylon Jennings ), " A Little Bit Later On Down the Line " ( Bobby Bare ) and " Son of a Rotten Gambler " ( Emmylou Harris, the Hollies, Anne Murray ).

* X Man ( Soul Note, 1993 ) with James Newton, Anthony Cox )

* The pagan island of " Summerisle " featured in the motion picture The Wicker Man ( filmed in 1973 & directed by Robin Hardy ) is sometimes mistakenly associated with this archipelago, but in actuality The Wicker Man was filmed around Newton Stewart in Dumfries and Galloway.

In 1958, Merrill guest starred with June Lockhart in the roles of Joshua and Emily Newton in the episode " Medicine Man "" of NBC's western series, Cimarron City.

Bassist Nate Newton also plays guitar in Old Man Gloom and Doomriders.

* " Ancient Drugs ": Humans indulge in many frightening and often toxic substances ; altered states of consciousness, shamanism, trance dancing, mind-altering substances, visions, soma, wine, beer, opium, Demeter cult ( Mysteries of Elysis ), alcohol, chocolate, tobacco, coca, San Pedro cactus rites ( mescalin ), cocaine, heroine, ayahuasca ; features interviews with Douglas Sharon ( Director of San Diego Museum of Man ), Huston Smith, Andrew Weil, professor Carole Fontaine ( Andover Newton Theological School ), Wade Davis, artist Pablo Amaringo

Other notable members include: World famous scientist, George Washington Carver, the first black Rhodes Scholar Alain LeRoy Locke, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton, organizer of the Million Man March, Benjamin Chavis Muhammad, civil rights activists, Hosea Williams, Rev.

Buckmaster also played with Bowie and his band in the recordings for the original soundtrack to the science fiction film The Man Who Fell To Earth, in which David Bowie starred as Thomas Jerome Newton.

Newton directed a number of critically acclaimed productions, including George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1983 ), Heartbreak House ( 1985 ), Major Barbara ( 1987 ), Man and Superman ( 1989 ), Misalliance ( 1990 ), Pygmalion ( 1992 ), Candida ( 1993 ) and You Never Can Tell ( 1995 ), as well as Henry Arthur Jones's The Silver King, William Gillette's Sherlock Holmes, Harold Brighouse's Hobson's Choice, Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, J. M.

They remained unbeaten and also beat Newton Heath, who became Man United in 1902, in the promotion test match, McLean, the club's penalty taker, bagged himself a very respectable 5 goals during the promotion campaign.

It was released through Son Of Man, the label he co-owns with Newton.

Her numerous television credits include Angelica in Sword of Freedom ( 1958 ), Yolanda in The Invisible Man tv series episode " Crisis in the Desert ", a regular role in A Family At War and You're Only Young Twice, a 1971 television play by Jack Trevor Story, as Mena in the Doctor Who story " The Leisure Hive " and guest starred as the mariticidal Liz Newton in the UFO episode " The Square Triangle ".

* The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, The Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

He wanted to play the Chorus in Olivier's Henry V, but the role went to Leslie Banks, and he longed desperately to be cast against type as Bill Sikes in David Lean's Oliver Twist, but Lean thought him wrong for the part and cast Robert Newton instead.

During the war, Southern Home Guard units sometimes lynched white Southerners whom they suspected of being Unionists or deserters ; one example of this was the hanging of Methodist minister Bill Sketoe in the south Alabama town of Newton in December 1864.

On December 3, 1864, a local Methodist minister named Bill Sketoe was lynched just north of Newton by local Home Guard elements led by Captain Joseph Brear.

While Bill Drummond of KLF is from Newton Stewart he is one of the Queen of the South fans included here.

He was replaced by Bill Pearson, who became assistant editor after promoting Don Newton as the new Phantom artist and writing scripts for that title.

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 ).

Actor Robert Newton, best known for his portrayals of Long John Silver and Bill Sikes in the 1948 David Lean film Oliver Twist, was born in Shaftesbury.

He then worked for a second time with Adam Rifkin, this time starring in The Dark Backward ( 1991 ) with Bill Paxton ; this quirky comedy also featured fellow actor Rob Lowe, as well as Lara Flynn Boyle, James Caan, and Wayne Newton ; Nelson plays the worst comedian in stand-up comedy history.

* Liberal Democrats: Emma Nicholson, Susan Bell, Arthur Bell, Hugh Dykes, John Lee, Paul Howell, Bill Newton Dunn, Peter Price, Keith Raffan, Anna McCurley, Harold Elletson, Sir Cyril Townsend, Peter Thurnham

* Bill Newton Dunn ( European People's Party ) ( suspended from the party on September 23, 2000, and joined the European Liberal, Democrat and Reform Party on November 21, 2000 )

# Bill Newton Dunn

The lynching of Bill Sketoe, a Methodist minister from Newton, Alabama who had allegedly deserted the Southern army in late 1864, is a case in point.

Other IMT identities included Joff Ellen, Val Ruff, Panda Lisner, Mary Hardy, Rosie Sturgess, Patti McGrath ( later Patti Newton ), Toni Lamond, Philip Brady, Johnny Ladd, Noel Ferrier, Elaine McKenna, Bill McCormick, Ted Hamilton, The Tune Twisters and the Channel 9 Ballet.

Newton criticized all the methods, pointing out their weak points, and it is due mainly to his evidence that the Committee brought in the report which was accepted by the House, and shortly afterwards was converted into a Bill, passed both Houses, and received the royal assent.

By chance, Fagin's associate, the vicious Bill Sikes ( Robert Newton ), and Sikes ' kind-hearted girlfriend ( and former Fagin pupil ) Nancy ( Kay Walsh ) run into Oliver on the street and forcibly take him back to Fagin.

* Robert Newton as Bill Sikes

William " Bill " Newton Dunn ( born 3 October 1941 in Greywell, Hampshire ) is a British politician.

* Bill Newton Dunn MEP official site

* Bill Newton Dunn profile at the European Parliament

* Bill Newton Dunn profile at the site of the Liberal Democrats

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