Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.

Christopher Robin Milne's own toys are now under glass in New York.

Several of Milne's children's poems were set to music by the composer Harold Fraser-Simson.

After Milne's death in 1956, his widow sold her rights to the Pooh characters to the Walt Disney Company, which has made many Pooh cartoon movies, a Disney Channel television show, as well as Pooh-related merchandise.

* Two People ( 1931 ) ( Inside jacket claims this is Milne's first attempt at a novel.

The 1963 film The King's Breakfast was based on Milne's poem of the same name.

A. Milne's profile at Just-Pooh. com

Shepard modelled Pooh not on the toy owned by Christopher Robin, Milne's son, but on " Growler ", a stuffed bear owned by his own son.

A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories, is cuddly and likable.

* October 14 – Alan Alexander Milne's book Winnie-the-Pooh is released.

A. Milne's poem " In the dark ", in Now We Are Six, has been noted for its emulation of crib talk, a form of monologue word play used by infants to practice phonology, syntax and conversation skills

A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books and the Disney spin-offs

A. Milne's book The House at Pooh Corner.

Like other Pooh characters, Tigger is based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed animals.

Like most of the characters in Winnie-the-Pooh, Tigger was based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed animals, in this case a stuffed-toy tiger.

The first took place during the 1930s, triggered by Dingle's criticism of E. A. Milne's cosmological model and the associated theoretical methodology, which Dingle considered overly speculative and not based on empirical data.

A. Milne's The Red House Mystery ( 1922 ), by the author of the Winnie the Pooh books.

A. Milne's own son, Christopher Robin Milne, who in later life became unhappy with the use of his name, writing in one of a series of autobiographical works: " It seemed to me almost that my father had got where he was by climbing on my infant shoulders, that he had filched from me my good name and left me nothing but empty fame ".

He is somewhat less caustic and sarcastic in the Disney version than in Alan Milne's original stories.

They rode to the Rockfork House, a little farther along the opposite side of the street.

I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.

In Frankfurt, too, he directed the Museum and Opera House concerts which, in addition to the standard repertoire, featured novelties like Erdmann's Piano Concerto and Mahler's Sixth Symphony.

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

Upon complaints from the Lower House of Convocation to the House of Lords, he was removed from the Privy Council, his remark having been represented as a blasphemous affront to the clergy.

By this time, as we shall see, the Tories were already planning to `` punish '' Steele for his political writing by expelling him from the House of Commons.

Despite his defense of himself in the final paper of the Englishman and in his speech before the House, their efforts were successful.

Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.

He closes his `` letter '' by demanding that Dunkirk be demolished, that the Pretender be forced to move farther away from the coast of England, and that the Queen and the House of Hanover come to a better understanding.

Sometimes, Mrs. Coolidge would close herself in the Green Suite on the second floor, and play the piano she had brought to the White House.

All the rest of the days in the White House would be shadowed by the tragic loss, even though the President tried harder than ever to make his little dry jokes and to tease the people around him.

Now and then, the President would call for `` Little Jack, Master of the Hounds '', which was his nickname for a messenger who had worked in the White House since Teddy Roosevelt's administration, and discuss the welfare of some one of the animals.

One White House dog was immortalized in a painting.

He showed them what to do, and taught them how to keep the maids around the White House in a state of terror.

They seemed to be at the White House half the time.

The White House had chewing gum until it could chew no more, and every Christmas, Mr. Wrigley sent the President a check for $100, to be divided among all the help.

The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.

She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.

Mama was very patriotic, and one of the duties she was proudest of was repairing the edges of the flag that flew above the White House.

Taking a personal interest, she had the doctor assigned to the White House, Dr. James Coupal, look Emmett over.

On the social side, the chore Mama had at the formal receptions at the White House thrilled her the most.

The Coolidges did not always live at the White House during the Presidency.

This was not before the House but before the Judiciary Committee, where he asked for action on one of his pet bills, that calling for an investigation of the coal-railroad monopoly.

He was the House pariah.