* Thomas W. Allen, William R. Halliday, and Edward E. Sikes, The Homeric Hymns.

As Sikes steps back from behind the wall, we see Oliver from the back watching him in terror.

In the pan-and-scan version of the film, we see Oliver's reaction as the murder is being committed, but not when Sikes steps backward from the wall having done it.

For example, in a legend from Carmarthenshire, recorded by Sikes, a man is rescued from a fairy ring only to crumble to dust.

Gary Graham starred as Detective Matthew Sikes, a Los Angeles police officer reluctantly working with " Newcomer " alien George Francisco ( from the planet Tencton ), played by Eric Pierpoint.

In 1880 Wirt Sikes published his book British Goblins — Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions, from which comes the following passage:

) Oliver returns safely from the burglary with Sikes, rather than being accidentally shot during the break-in.

Unlike the novel, in which Nancy meets Oliver the day after he arrives at Fagin's and her sympathy for the boy is implied early in the story, she and Oliver do not even meet in the film until she helps to kidnap the boy ; and although she defends him from Fagin's anger after the kidnapping, Oliver seems to still be unaware of any real concern she may have for him until late in the film, when he leaves with Sikes to commit the burglary.

He attended Wichita Collegiate School in Wichita, Kansas from 1977 to 1980, where he was active in the theatre and had major roles in several plays, including Rusty in Guys and Dolls, Bill Sikes in Oliver!

Matthew Sikes meets a mysterious woman from his past and is thrown into an investigation of a lethal Newcomer drug.

The fifty-fifth chapter, where he is forced to flee his outraged employer, magnificently continues the theme of the guilt-hunted man from Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist and Jonas ’ s restless sense of pursuit in Martin Chuzzlewit.

Nancy, who is fiercely protective of Oliver and harbours a great deal of motherly affection and pity for him, has been trying to prevent him from being kidnapped a second time, after Oliver has finally managed to find safety in the household of the Maylie family, whom Sikes tried unsuccessfully to rob.

Bill Sikes makes his first appearance, and disperses the crowd (" My Name ").

The village was named after James Warren Sikes, Sr. ( 1856 – 1925 ), a leader in the Winn Parish Baptist church and the first postmaster in the local area.

Matthew Sikes, a rookie detective, is on his first murder investigation when he stumbles onto a deadly conspiracy that threatens his whole world.

As an example, in the film Oliver !, made in Panavision, the criminal Bill Sikes commits a murder.

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.

It was immortalised by Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist, in which the principal villain Bill Sikes meets a nasty end in the mud of ' Folly Ditch ' an area which was known as Hickmans Folly — the scene of an attack by Spring Heeled Jack in 1845 — surrounding Jacob's Island.

Sikeston, the largest city in the county and the fourth settlement to be founded, was settled in 1800 and was laid out in 1860 by John Sikes on the Cairo & Fulton Railroad.

The next day, Oliver meets Nancy, the live-in girlfriend of the terrifying Bill Sikes, a burglar whose abuse she endures because she loves him.

Former professional boxer Danny Sewell ( brother of television actor George Sewell ) was the original Bill Sikes, and remained in the role ( including the original Broadway & US touring productions ) for the best part of six years.

Danny Sewell's main competitor at audition for the role of Sikes was Michael Caine, who later stated he " cried for a week " after failing to secure the part.

It featured Victor Stiles as Oliver, Robin Ramsay as Fagin, Maura K. Wedge as Nancy, Joey Baio as The Artful Dodger, Dominic Chianese as Mr. Sowerberry, Alan Crofoot as Mr. Bumble, Danny Sewell as Bill Sikes, Bram Nossen as Mr. Brownlow, and Dodi Protero as Mrs. Bedwin.

Ron Moody returned as Fagin, with Jackie Marks as Nancy, Linal Haft as Bill Sikes, Meg Johnson as Mrs Corney, Peter Bayliss as Mr Bumble, and Geoffrey Toone as Mr Brownlow.

The cast included Jonathan Pryce ( after much persuasion ) as Fagin, Sally Dexter as Nancy, Miles Anderson as Bill Sikes, James Villiers as Mr. Brownlow, James Saxon as Mr. Bumble, Jenny Galloway as Widow Corney, David Delve as Mr. Sowerberry and Julia Deakin as Mrs. Sowerberry.

Bill Sikes was later portrayed by Steven Hartley and Joe McGann, and Nancy by Sonia Swaby, Claire Moore and Ruthie Henshall.

Interestingly, a new intermediate scene was added just after " You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two ", in which Bill Sikes enters the Thieves ’ Kitchen and “ negotiates ” with Fagin.

Burn Gorman played Bill Sikes, making his West End musical debut.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

* 1801 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.

At the time, Burr was serving as vice president under Thomas Jefferson and desperately needed the purchase price of $ 62, 500.

Thus, it has been suggested that Adams is the only major figure in American history who knew both the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln, though Martin Van Buren knew Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and his mentor Aaron Burr and met the young Lincoln while on a campaign trip through Illinois.

Precedent for the privilege arose early in the 19th century when Thomas Jefferson refused to release military documents in the treason trial of Aaron Burr and again in 1876 in Totten v. United States, when the Supreme Court dismissed a case brought by a former Union spy.

Under the system in place at the time ( Article II, Section 1, Clause 3 ), the electors could not differentiate between their two candidates, so the plan had been for one elector to vote for Thomas Jefferson but not for Aaron Burr, thus putting Burr in second place.

* February 17 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved, when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.

Their opponents were former Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson from Virginia along with Senator Aaron Burr of New York on the Democratic-Republican ticket.

< sup >( d )</ sup > A faithless elector in New York voted twice for Aaron Burr, but this violated electoral college rules and so the second vote was re-assigned to Thomas Jefferson.

In 1903 the 100, 000th Steinway grand piano was given as a gift to the White House ; it was decorated by the artists Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Maria Oakey Dewing under the supervision of the head of Steinway's Art Piano Department, Joseph Burr Tiffany.

Aaron Burr, Jr. ( February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836 ) was the third Vice President of the United States under President Thomas Jefferson.

The Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, awards the Raymond Burr Award for Excellence in Criminal Law.

Founded in 1801, the town of Burrville was named in honor of Aaron Burr, first term Vice President under Thomas Jefferson.

George Clinton succeeded Burr as the second-term Vice President for Thomas Jefferson in 1805 ( and also served as James Madison's Vice President, making Clinton the first Vice President to serve under two presidents and the first Vice President to die in office ).

It portrays its eponymous anti-hero as a fascinating and honourable gentleman, and skewers most of his contemporaries, e. g. George Washington, an incompetent general who lost most of his battles ; Thomas Jefferson, with whom Burr tied for the presidency in the election of 1800, as a fey, especially dark and pedantic hypocrite who schemed and bribed witnesses in support of a false charge of treason against Burr after almost losing the election to him ; and Alexander Hamilton, the bastard opportunist who rose with Washington, before Burr killed him in their famous duel.

Indeed, the election of 1800 did result in a tie between Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson, and it took more than 30 ballots in the House of Representatives before Jefferson became president and Burr his vice president ( as mandated by the election rules at the time ).

It has been alleged that Livingston ’ s case was damaged by then-President Thomas Jefferson, who believed that Livingston had favored Aaron Burr in the presidential election of 1800, and that he had afterwards been a party to Burr ’ s schemes.