In 1999, while he hospitalized and undergoing a series of tests, the people of the UAE wrote him a personal thank-you letter with 1. 5 million signatures.

The day before her wedding, he writes her a love letter and leaves it in a pile of wedding ' thank-you ' cards.

Caroline gave the box of ' thank-you ' cards with his love letter to a friend, and it ends up at her apartment.

In appreciation for his efforts, Commissioner Bud Selig penned a thank-you letter to Granderson which read in part, " There are so many fine young men playing Major League baseball today, but I can think of no one who is better suited to represent our national pastime than you.

Upon receiving a thank-you letter with Thurman's name as editor on the letterhead, she withdrew, despite pleas from Alexander acknowledging Thurman's " selfish treatment of those who have helped him gain a place in the literary world " and stating that he would not let Thurman run amok.

The album, coupled with McCain's first DVD, Mile Marker: Songs and Stories from the Acoustic Highway ( 2002 )-which consisted of interviews, live performances and other material-served as a thank-you to long-time followers.

Similar to another contemporary ZIV Television program, Sea Hunt, each episode ended with a thank-you from the star for watching and an invitation to view again next week.

It was originally built for Colonel Peard as a thank-you from Garibaldi for support during his Italian struggle.

Ctirad believes her story and unties her from the tree, whereupon she pours the mead for the men as a celebratory thank-you gift.

In another, a wounded soldier from Toledo sends Klinger a shipment of Packo's hot dogs as a thank-you gift.

Moved by his actions, Cadence agrees to have sex with him before the ceremony, but Stifler's presence is delayed by a brief thank-you meeting Jim calls among his groomsmen, citing how he is grateful to have friends like them to back him up when he is in need.

He was so shifty you couldn't have tackled him in a phone booth, yet so humble that he wrote the Associated Press a thank-you note for naming him an All-American.

The right-leaning Toronto Sun praised his efforts on March 4, 2004, by saying that " Taxpayers should give rookie councillor Mike Del Grande a big thank-you today ", and rated him a " B " in a subsequent article on November 24, 2004, by stating that he " shakes up " people on council " with his knowledge of numbers and computers.

" Olivia allowed Dorothy to write a thank-you note when Pound's Canzoni were published — dedicated to Olivia and Dorothy — the only instance in which Dorothy was allowed direct contact with him.

The British Royal Society of Chemistry claims that British scientist Edward Harrison developed the first practical gas mask for mass production, a claim supported by a thank-you note written by Winston Churchill.

Sondheim famously hated his mother ; he once wrote a thank-you note to close friend Mary Rodgers that read, " Dear Mary and Hank, Thanks for the plate, but where was my mother's head?

In February 1978 the Stranglers began a mini-tour, playing three secret pub gigs as a thank-you to those venues and their landlords for their support during the band's rise to success.

As Iceman uses his powers to break his fall, Firestar kisses Spider-Man on the cheek as a thank-you for standing up for her.

After Coronel at a reception with the German community at Valparaiso, Admiral von Spee was presented a bouquet of flowers — in his thank-you response he stated that it would do nicely for his grave.

* Since 1971 the Province of Nova Scotia has donated the annual Christmas Tree to the City of Boston as an enduring thank-you for the relief efforts of the Boston Red Cross and the Massachusetts Public Safety Committee following the Halifax Explosion of 1917.

He later said, " I just wanted scale, to let it be my way of saying thank-you to Gene for the many good things he has done for me ".

In 2001, the City of Williamsburg, Kentucky named their new water park and miniature golf facility the Hal Rogers Family Entertainment Center as a " thank-you for all of the federal money he has brought back to Whitley County, the City of Williamsburg, and the other 40 counties he represents.

Someone — it could have been only Heinlein — had washed his face and combed his hair and turned whatever it was that Robert might have wanted to say into the equivalent of thank-you notes for a respectable English tea.

Viewers sent the cast thank-you letters and awards for their efforts.

Small prizes such as mugs and tote bags ( known as " thank-you " gifts or, euphemistically, as " premiums "), as well as entries into drawings for larger awards, are also offered by many stations in return for pledging certain amounts of money.

Kodyke had appeared at the mine one day bearing a letter from Kruger.

And indeed, his postcard did draw from Walter a letter recommending his friend, the poet Nicolas Manas, to his friend Meredith Wilder.

nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not `` compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills '', he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.

It purports to be a letter from Steele to a friend at court, who, in Miss Blanchard's opinion, could only be meant as Swift.

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.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

She ended her letter with the assurance that she considered his friendship for her daughter and herself to be an honor, from which she could not part `` without still more pain ''.

After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

A letter of a few days later from Washington's aide to Morgan stated, `` His Excellency is highly pleased with your conduct upon this occasion ''.

Sturley on November 4 answered a letter from Quiney written on October 25 which imported, wrote Sturley, `` that our countriman Mr. Wm. Shak. would procure us monei: which I will like of as I shall heare when, wheare & howe: and I prai let not go that occasion if it mai sort to ani indifferent condicions.

A fascinating letter has just reached this desk from a correspondent who likes to receive so-called junk mail.

John's thoughts raced painfully into the past as he read the letter he had just received from his sister Mary.

Jonathan's letter came, as she knew it would, and he had accepted their child's death as another judgment from God against both Kate and himself.

The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle -- it must have been late in September -- I had a vision of myself returned in ragged uniform from The Front, nearly dying, my head bandaged and blooded, and Jessica bending over me, the power of her love bringing me back to life.

On November 7, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal reprinted a letter sent to John Brown from `` E. B. '', a Quaker lady in Newport.

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

So wrote a ten year old student in a letter to his parents from North Country School, Lake Placid, New York.

I would tell them I got a letter from home stating that five of my Negroes had runaway and ten of Pappy's.

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

East River, downtown: postscript to a letter from Harlem

Both elements -- the caution about a meeting, the willingness eventually to hold one -- were reflected in a letter from the President which Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson brought back to Russia late in February.

Rose Weiss, who handles all the prayer-requests that we receive, answering each letter personally, has the serene selflessness that comes from suffering: she has had many major operations, and now gets about in a limited way on braces and crutches.

His lawyer had sent him a statement on his overdue alimony, and there was a letter from the Collector of Internal Revenue asking him to stop in his office and explain last year's exemptions.

She refolded the letter, replaced it in its envelope, and turned with relief to one from her brother George.

Tax worries, production worries, personnel worries, and the letter from Hanford College, his own alma mater, a real snapper.