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Simpson and Alan
* Senator Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming
Some of the scripts written for Hancock by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson almost repudiated a narrative structure altogether and attempted to reproduce an everyday environment with the intention of also reproducing its comedy.
He authored the far-reaching Colorado Wilderness Bill which became law in 1993, and with Senator Alan Simpson ( R-WY ) he authored major legislation focused on population stabilization.
Alan S. Brown and Chris Logan wrote in The Psychology of The Simpsons that Grampa has the least amount of " power " in the Simpson family, and that he is treated as little more than a child and is often ignored.
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote for him from 1964 to 1966 when he worked for the BBC and also for a one-off show for Thames, Frankie Howerd meets the Bee Gees, shown on 20 August 1968.
The current principal is Professor Gerry McCormac and the current chairman of court is a local businessman Alan Simpson.
( Sykes and Milligan later jointly formed Associated London Scripts ( ALS ) with Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, a writers ' agency which lasted for well over a decade until being effectively dissolved in 1967.
In December 1961 Sykes co-starred with Warren Mitchell in Clicquot et Fils, a one-off, 30-minute comedy written by Associated London Scripts colleagues Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
* The BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son is completely intact, although approximately half of the colour episodes only exist in monochrome ; this was after copies of episodes thought to be lost were recovered in the late 1990s from early home video recordings made by writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
After a short run the theatre was invaded by the Irish police and director Alan Simpson was arrested for producing " a lewd entertainment " for miming dropping a condom onto the floor.
Alan Simpson was later released.
While detained in the camp, Mineta, a Boy Scout, met fellow Scout Alan K. Simpson, future U. S. Senator from Wyoming, who often visited the Scouts in the internment camp with his troop.
Three months later, three of the six and eighteen others became the guild's first officers and board of directors: Ralph Morgan ( its first president ), Alden Gay, Kenneth Thomson, Alan Mowbray ( who personally funded the organization when it was first founded ), Leon Ames, Tyler Brooke, Clay Clement, James Gleason, Lucile Webster Gleason, Boris Karloff ( reportedly influenced by long hours suffered during the filming of Frankenstein ), Claude King, Noel Madison, Reginald Mason, Bradley Page, Willard Robertson, Ivan Simpson, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Starrett, Richard Tucker, Arthur Vinton, Morgan Wallace and Lyle Talbot.
While detained in the camp, Mineta, a Boy Scout, met fellow Scout Alan K. Simpson, future U. S. Senator from Wyoming, who often visited the Scouts in the internment camp with his troop.
Mineta, with his friend Republican Senate Whip Alan Simpson, was the driving force behind passage of H. R.
* Rob Petrie ( Robert Simpson Petrie ; played by Dick Van Dyke ) – Head comedy writer for a fictional New York television variety series called The Alan Brady Show.
** “ Hour of the Wolf ,” written by Alan Grant, art by Barry Kitson and Will Simpson, in 2000 AD # 520 – 531 ( 1987 )
Alan Simpson may refer to:
* Alan Simpson ( MP ) ( born 1948 ), British politician
* Alan K. Simpson ( born 1931 ), former United States Senator from Wyoming
* Alan Simpson ( scriptwriter ) ( born 1929 ), of Galton and Simpson, scriptwriters
* Alan Simpson ( actor ) ( born 1983 ), American actor
* Alan Simpson ( athlete ), British Olympic runner

Simpson and ":
": Lisa Simpson lists it as one of the books she would receive from the Greater Books of the Western Civilization.
Marge consoles him by telling him he is a member of a " very exclusive club ": The Simpson Family and only two members have special rings.
Simpson articulated the Alliance's core theology as the Christological " Fourfold Gospel ": Jesus Christ as Savior, Sanctifier, Healer, and Soon Coming King.
#" The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson ": " No Regards / You're Checkin ' In "-The Alf Clausen Orchestra / Julie Kavner / Nancy Cartwright / Yeardley Smith
**" The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson ": The music can be heard in the couch gag where the family, dressed as Harlem Globetrotters, pass a red, white, and blue basketball to each other ( with Maggie dunking the ball in the basket above the couch and hitting Homer in the head with it ) as they run to the couch.
There are several people known as " Mrs. Simpson ":
Simpson ": " Elizabethan schoolboys ... were commonly taught adoxography, the art of eruditely praising worthless things.

Simpson and British
Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.
Illustration by William Simpson ( artist ) | William Simpson shows action in a British artillery battery during the Crimean War with cannons firing and being loaded, and men bringing in supplies.
* Simpson, Mark S. ( 1986 ) The Russian Gothic Novel and its British Antecedents, Slavica Publishers
In a 1994 academic paper, the folklorist Jacqueline Simpson noted that British folklorists remembered Murray with " embarrassment " and a " sense of paradox.
* 1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
An up-to-date translation by R. S. Simpson, based on the demotic text, appears on the British Museum website.
The King wanted to marry Wallis Simpson, whom Baldwin and other British politicians considered unacceptable as Queen, as she was an American divorcée.
He had a number of criminal aliases known by the British police, amongst them Edward Edwards, Arnold Thompson and Edward Simpson.
* May 14 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician ( b. 1710 )
* August 20 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician ( d. 1761 )
This ban was lampooned in cartoons and satirical TV shows, such as Spitting Image, and in The Day Today and was criticised by freedom of speech organisations and British media personalities, including BBC Director General John Birt and BBC foreign editor John Simpson.
In 1821 the North West Company was forcibly merged ( at the behest of the British government ) into the Hudson's Bay Company after armed conflict in the Red River Colony between the two companies. George Simpson, director of Hudson's Bay Company, visited the Columbia District in 1824-25, journeying from York Factory.
He in turn hired five other top British car engineers. They were Kenneth Barnett body design, engineers John Simpson and Edward Chapman, John Crosthwaite ex-BRM as chassis engineer and Peter Slater as chief development engineer.
Later examples of the hyperreal approach pioneered by Galton and Simpson in some of their Hancock scripts include The Royle Family, Early Doors, Gavin & Stacey and The Office, as well as many British dramedies.
Later in the 20th century several British pathologists, Bernard Spilsbury, Francis Camps, Sydney Smith and Keith Simpson pioneered new forensic science methods in Britain.
British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin advised Edward that for political and religious reasons he could not marry Mrs Simpson and remain king.
A series of distinguished British actresses have portrayed Queen Mary on stage and screen, including Dame Wendy Hiller ( on the London stage in Crown Matrimonial ), Dame Flora Robson ( in A King's Story ), Dame Peggy Ashcroft ( in Edward & Mrs Simpson ), Phyllis Calvert ( in The Woman He Loved ), Gaye Brown ( in All the King's Men ), Dame Eileen Atkins ( in Bertie and Elizabeth ), Miranda Richardson ( in The Lost Prince ), Margaret Tyzack ( in Wallis & Edward ), and Claire Bloom ( in The King's Speech ).
" Baldwin expressed his belief that Mrs. Simpson would be unacceptable to the British people as queen, but agreed to take further soundings.
* Bob Simpson ( British Columbia politician ), member of Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for Cariboo North
Returning to London, Childe became a private secretary again in 1922, this time for three British Members of Parliament, including John Hope Simpson and Frank Gray, both of whom were members of the centre-left Liberal Party.
Buchan conveyed to Buckingham Palace and British prime minister Stanley Baldwin Canadians ' deep affection for the King, but also the outrage to Canadian religious feelings, both Catholic and Protestant, that would occur if Edward married Simpson.
Simpson has been a member of the board of trustees at Queen's University ; the board of overseers at Green College, University of British Columbia ; the advisory board of the Review of Constitutional Studies at the University of Alberta ; the editorial board of The Queen's Quarterly, and the Canadian Consortium for Asia-Pacific Security at York University and the University of Toronto.
* 1859-Protestant missionaries arrive in Japan ; Revivals in North America and the British Isles generate interest in overseas missions ; Albert Benjamin Simpson ( founder of Christian and Missionary Alliance ) is converted by the revival ministry of Henry Grattan Guinness

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