Smith is a lifelong fan of Rolls Royce cars, buying his first Silver Shadow at Brighton Racecourse from an advert in Sporting Life for £ 5, 000.

The first formal description of the waterfall model is often cited as a 1970 article by Winston W. Royce,

In June 1970, The XYY Man was published — the first of seven Kenneth Royce spy novels whose fictional tall, intelligent, nonviolent XYY hero was a reformed expert cat burglar recruited by British intelligence for dangerous assignments — and later adapted into a thirteen-episode British summer television series broadcast in 1976 and 1977.

2008 saw the band in Eindhoven Netherlands playing at E-Day ( an electronic music festival ); later in the year they also played the Night of the Prog Festival in Loreley, Germany, as well as concerts at the Kentish Town Forum, in London on 1 November, at the Picture House, Edinburgh on 2 November, and their first live concert in the USA for over a decade, at the UCLA Royce Hall, Los Angeles on 7 November.

The first Rolls-Royce car, the Rolls-Royce 10 hp, was unveiled at the Paris Salon in December 1904, although in the early advertising it was the name of Rolls that was emphasised over that of Royce.

In August 1965, the Blue Streak was tested ( static firing trial ) with ( complete full-weight ) dummy upper stages at RAF Spadeadam ( the site was owned by Rolls Royce ), with first successful firing on 23 September 1965 lasting 135 seconds.

As early as 1802, a man named Frederick Royce lived among the Ox Indians at a place known as the Lick, two miles east of Salem and is probably the first white man to inhabit this county.

Rolls Royce had introduced a conceptually similar starter in 1946, but Chrysler's was the first volume-production unit.

Royce had always worked hard and was renowned for never eating proper meals which resulted in his being taken ill first in 1902 and again in 1911.

Saatchi then visited Gambler in a green Rolls Royce and, according to Freedman, stood open-mouthed with astonishment in front of ( and then bought ) Hirst's first major " animal " installation, A Thousand Years, consisting of a large glass case containing maggots and flies feeding off a rotting cow's head.

* EMI's first digital recording – at Abbey Road Studios – of a non-classical music track is released – UK jazz-funk duo Morrissey-Mullen covered the Rose Royce hit Love Don't Live Here Anymore.

With the Royce Gracie winning three of the first four events, the UFC quickly proved that size does not always determine the outcome of the fight.

UFC 5 also introduced the first singles match, a rematch from the inaugural UFC featuring three time champion Royce Gracie and Ken Shamrock, called " The Superfight.

For the rest of 2006, pay-per-view buy rates continued to skyrocket, with 620, 000 buys for UFC 60: Hughes vs. Gracie — featuring Royce Gracie's first UFC fight in 11 years — and 775, 000 buys for UFC 61 featuring the highly anticipated rematch between Ken Shamrock and Tito Ortiz, the coaches of The Ultimate Fighter 3.

Although Santayana was not a pragmatist in the mold of William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, Josiah Royce, or John Dewey, The Life of Reason arguably is the first extended treatment of pragmatism written.

The first owners listed are Jessie Stevens ( Jessie Royce Landis ) and her daughter Francie ( Grace Kelly ).

The Rolls-Royce 10 hp, which was the first car to be produced as a result of the agreement between Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.

The first instance is on the brake pedals during the first scene where Herbie takes control with Jim inside ( on the freeway / when Herbie runs into Thorndyke's Rolls Royce ), and in fact it is shown in all the future scenes when Jim is braking.

Saatchi arrived at the second show in a green Rolls Royce and, according to Freedman, stood open-mouthed with astonishment in front of ( and then bought ) Hirst's first major " animal " installation, A Thousand Years, consisting of a large glass case containing maggots and flies feeding off a rotting cow's head.

During the program Don Jeanes, president of Milligan College and Royce Money, president of ACU, jointly gave a presentation on the first chapter of the Gospel of John.

The name " feet first " ( also referred to as " feet forward ") was first used by Royce Creasey and refers to the rider's seating position, with feet ahead in a position ( like a car ), rather than below and astride, as with conventional bikes.

Plessey went on to produce large numbers of Pesco fuel pumps for Rolls Royce Merlin engines, and in 1940 the fuel pump for Britain's first jet engine was also supplied by Plessey.

When first signed to Aftermath entertainment, Eminem was not on good terms with the rest of D12, causing him to initially only focus on furthering the career of his Bad Meets Evil band mate Royce da 5 ' 9 ".

Joseph Brown continued in business by himself, quickly rebuilding the establishment which had been lost in the fire and beginning those first steps which were to establish him as a pioneer in raising the standards of accuracy of machine shop practice throughout the world.

Pip first learns `` the stupendous power of money '' from the sycophantic tailor, Mr. Trabb, whose brutality to his boy helper exactly matches the financial resource of each new customer, and whose fawning hands touch `` the outside of each elbow '' and `` rub '' Pip out of the shop.

The latter name is derived from a hatter's shop which was situated in front of one of the first bus stations in Nantes, France in 1823.

In 1937 he designed and produced his first snowmobile in his small repair shop in Valcourt, Quebec.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

* 1995: Thursday 27 April 1995, the purchase of a book by Paul Stanfield, Product Manager for CompuServe UK, from W H Smith ’ s shop within CompuServe ’ s UK Shopping Centre is the UK ’ s first national online shopping service secure transaction.

The first, the ' little tin idol ', was used from the inception of the Cup in 1871 – 72 until it was stolen from a Birmingham shoe shop window belonging to William Shillcock while held by Aston Villa on 11 September 1895, and was never seen again.

The first graffiti shop in Russia was opened in 1992 in Tver.

The first issue of Ithaca Money was printed at Our Press, a printing shop in Chenango Bridge, New York, on October 16, 1991.

Historians have speculated that this is where Cook first felt the lure of the sea while gazing out of the shop window.

Meanwhile, the Fust – Schöffer shop was the first in Europe to bring out a book with the printer's name and date, the Mainz Psalter of August 1457, and while proudly proclaiming the mechanical process by which it had been produced, it made no mention of Gutenberg.

* 1977 – The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she is the first victim who is not a prostitute.

When the government legalised high street betting, he turned the shop into the first betting shop in Chiswick.

It was first isolated in 1804 by Friedrich Sertürner, first distributed by him in 1817, and first commercially sold by Merck in 1827, which at the time was a single small chemists ' shop.

The first manufactured skateboards were ordered by a Los Angeles, California surf shop, meant to be used by surfers in their downtime.

On 19 October 2007, a first edition ( number 349 of 1, 000 ) was discovered inside a handbag in an Oxfam shop in Nantwich, Cheshire, mimicking the discovery of Jack Worthing as an infant.

* August 13 – The first fish and chips shop opens in London.

Dougie Millings, who was the famous tailor for The Beatles, had his first shop at 63 Old Compton Street which opened in 1962.

The Exposition's offices set up shop in the upper floors of the Rand McNally Building on Adams Street, the world's first all-steel-framed skyscraper.

St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society opened its first shop in Edinburgh in 1859, and expanded to become one of the largest Co-ops before amalgamating with the Dalziel Society of Motherwell in 1981 and being renamed Scotmid.

The Organiser II was widely used for commercial applications in companies such as Marks and Spencer, where it was used on the shop floor, and in the world's first large scale application of mobile technology in government where over 3000 were used for benefit calculations by the Employment Services department of the UK government.

In 1860, the first fish and chip shop was opened in London by Joseph Malin.