Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

!," a self-portrait by Al Capp, excerpted from theApril 16 – 17, 1951 Li ' l Abner strips.

Alfred G. Caplin eventually became " Al Capp " because the syndicate felt the original would not fit in a cartoon frame.

Al Capp drew his own autobiography, the 34-page Al Capp by Li ' l Abner ( 1946 ), distributed to returning WWII amputee veterans.

In 1946 Capp created a special full-color comic book, Al Capp by Li ' l Abner, to be distributed by the Red Cross to encourage the thousands of amputee veterans returning from the war.

( Siegel and Shuster had earlier poked fun at Capp in a Superman story in Action Comics # 55, December 1942, in which a cartoonist named " Al Hatt " invents a comic strip featuring the hillbilly " Tiny Rufe.

According to one anecdote ( from Al Capp Remembered, 1994 ), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home — leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys who didn't speak English.

As Li ' l Abner reached its peak years, and following the success of the Shmoos and other high moments in his work, Al Capp achieved a public profile that is still unparalleled in his profession, and arguably exceeded the fame of his strip.

Between 1952 and 1972, he hosted at least five television shows – three different talk shows called The Al Capp Show ( 1952 and 1968 ) and Al Capp ( 1971 –' 72 ), Al Capp's America ( a live " chalk talk ," with Capp providing a barbed commentary while sketching cartoons, 1954 ), and a CBS game show called Anyone Can Win ( 1953 ).

In 1970, he was the subject of a provocative NBC documentary called This Is Al Capp.

His contentious public persona during this period was captured on a late sixties comedy LP called Al Capp On Campus.

Al Capp, an inductee into the National Cartoon Museum ( formerly the International Museum of Cartoon Art ), is one of only 31 artists selected to their Hall of Fame.

" The book once again reprinted the long poems " Tamerlane " and " Al Aaraaf " but also six previously unpublished poems including early versions of " To Helen ", " Israfel ", and " The City in the Sea ".

Al Fayed unsuccessfully applied for British citizenship twice-once in 1994 and once in 1999.

The city began to prosper once more, as witnessed by the Arab geographer Al Idrisi, who mentions it as a centre of business and wine production around 1150.

Aragonés is a very prolific artist ; Al Jaffee once said, " Sergio has, quite literally, drawn more cartoons on napkins in restaurants than most cartoonists draw in their entire careers.

The BBC's Newsnight observed that it is ironic that the once classified report analysing the construction of MI5's Thames House and MI6's Vauxhall Cross headquarters has been released, but the Al Yamamah report is still deemed too sensitive.

" once he realized the situation ), Sam learns from Al what originally transpired in history, and what change is mostly likely going to allow him to leap as predicted by Ziggy, though in some cases, these have proven incorrect.

The group released Aria in May 1994, which featured lead guitarist Al Pitrelli once again, who would leave Asia during the short Aria tour.

* The restaurant called The Great Escape once was a headquarter of Al Capone.

During the 1920s, entertainer Al Jolson and president Calvin Coolidge were semi-frequent visitors to the village — Jolson once performed a solo for three hours at the Pontiac Theater on Broadway.

It is believed that Israeli airline El Al uses an infrared countermeasure system – once used by the British military in Northern Ireland – that interferes with the SAM's seeker system, making it less accurate.

After the 2000 elections produced a 50-50 partisan split in the Senate, Vice President Al Gore's tie-breaking vote gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush took office and Vice President Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote gave the Republicans the majority once again.

" Sid Gillman brought class to the AFL ," Oakland Raiders managing general partner Al Davis once said of the man he served under on that first Chargers team.

* U. S. Vice President Al Gore ( Darrell Hammond took over once Ferrell started playing Bush ),

In early 2011, Al Keith joined as a percussionist, making Sugar Ray a 5-piece band once again.

Li ' l Abner never sold as a TV series despite several attempts ( including an unsold pilot that aired once on NBC on September 5, 1967 ), but Al Capp was a familiar face on television for twenty years.

On the TV show, Married with Children, Al Bundy and Jefferson D ' Arcy ( and others ) more than once ended up in an altercation over the answer to the question " Who was in the first light beer commercial?

" He once saw Browns outfielder Al Zarilla slide into a base, and said, " Zarilla slud into third!

Also in right field, and part of the 100 level seating bowl, is an area of seats know as " Kaline's Corner " an homage to Hall of Fame right fielder Al Kaline who once played for the Tigers when the team played in Tiger Stadium.

There are five important castles in the vicinity-Carbisdale Castle, built for the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland and now a youth hostel ; Skibo Castle, once the home of the industrialist Andrew Carnegie and now an exclusive hotel ; Dunrobin Castle, ancestral seat of the Duke of Sutherland ( castle and gardens open to the public ); Balnagown Castle, ancestral seat of the Clan Ross, restored and owned by Mohammed Al Fayed ; and Ballone Castle, recently restored by the owners of a local crafts business.

Other name artists who contributed at least once to Cracked include such Mad veterans as Jack Davis, Will Elder, Al Jaffee, and Basil Wolverton, and such future Mad contributors as Jack Rickard, Angelo Torres, Bill Wray, Greg Theakston, Dennis Snee, Mike Snider, Dean Norman, Charlie Kadau, May Sakami and Tom Richmond.

He also appointed Yazid ibn al-Muhallab, once tortured by Hajjaj and a son of Al Muhallab ibn Abi Suffrah, as the governor of Fars, Kirman, Makran, and Sindh ; he immediately placed Qasim in chains.

* Umm Al Quwain Fort: A fort which was once home to the emirate ’ s ruler and guarded the entrance to the old town, overseeing the sea on one side and the creek on the other.

He strove to achieve greater autonomy from the influence of Great Britain, as embodied principally in the acquiescent behavior of the Regent, Abdul Ilah and occasionally of his friend Nuri Al Said, and once resigned as Finance Minister in Nuri Pasha's cabinet in protest at a treaty of cooperation with Great Britain to which Nuri agreed.

The organization experienced a renaissance under the leadership of Al Gore and today is once more integrated with the DNC.

While in San Diego, witnesses told the FBI he and Hazmi had a close relationship with Anwar Al Awlaki, an imam who served as their spiritual advisor.

While in San Diego, witnesses told the FBI he and Mindhar had a close relationship with Anwar Al Awlaki, an imam who served as their spiritual advisor.

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George Tenet, then-Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), later described intelligence reports of his meeting with Al Qaeda as “ frustratingly vague .” He, however, told the FIA intelligence officials in very clear terms that he had nothing to do with the Al-Qaeda or any other terrorist organization and he was only working on humanitarian issues like food, health and education.

Additionally, before he was captured, Sheikh Mohammed, along with bin al-Shibh, told an Al Jazeera reporter ( who was taken blindfolded to his hideout ) back in 2002 that the fourth target was in fact the Capitol Building.

The writer Al Aronowitz, while working on a profile of Jane Fonda for The Saturday Evening Post in the 1960s, asked Henry Fonda about Method acting: " I can't articulate about the Method ", he told me, " because I never studied it.

But, as is told in the Rotensian Chronicle ( chronicle of Alfonso III of Asturias in which Pelayo is considered the successor of the kings of Toledo, with clear goals of political legitimacy ) as well as in that of Al-Maqqari ( a Moroccan historian of the 16th century who died in Cairo, Egypt, and who could have used the Rotensian Chronicle and rewrite it eight centuries later, making it useless as a historical document ), Pelayo escaped from that city during the governorship of Al Hurr ( 717-718 ) and his return to Asturias triggered a revolt against the Muslim authorities of Gijon.

With no successful results so far, Rear Admiral Al Calavicci ( Dean Stockwell ), Sam's long-time friend and senior officer on the program, is told by the government that they are looking to shut down the funding.

ESPN. com's Marc Stein was told the Lakers were to acquire Howard, Chris Duhon and Earl Clark, the Denver Nuggets were to acquire Andre Iguodala, the Philadelphia 76ers were to acquire Andrew Bynum and Jason Richardson, and the Magic were to acquire Arron Afflalo, Al Harrington, Nikola Vucevic, Maurice Harkless, Josh McRoberts, Christian Eyenga and five total protected future ( three first-round, two second-round ) picks from each of the other three teams.

The story of the battle, told from the point of view of a dying soldier, is related in the Al Stewart song The Coldest Winter in Memory.

In April 1986, Rivera hosted the syndicated special The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault, an ill-conceived adventure where Rivera excavated what he had been told was the site of Al Capone's buried treasure trove.

In interviews with Al Stump, Cobb told of studying Crawford ’ s base-stealing technique and of how Crawford would teach him about pursuing fly balls and throwing out base runners.

" Later in August 2010, he was interviewed on the Al Jazeera programme Without Borders, when asked if he was satisfied with the performance of Paul Bremer during his year as civilian administrator in Iraq, Pachachi replied " No, Bremer was receiving his instructions from the Ministry of Defense and as I told you the Pentagon was controlled by a group of Zionist extremists.

During a preliminary hearing Ibrahim Al Qosi told Paul he does not want to be represented by an American lawyer.

On January 3, 2008, Sapp told Raiders owner Al Davis over the phone that he would retire.

Following this, Collins published The World Is Full Of Divorced Women ( unrelated to her first novel ) in 1975, and then her longest novel, Lovers & Gamblers, in 1977 which told the story of rock / soul superstar Al King.

" He told their convention they were “ a menace to American institutions .” In 1922, he was defeated in a bid for re-election by his predecessor Al Smith, whom he had unseated in 1920.

" Mehsud's death means the tent sheltering Al Qaeda has collapsed ," an Afghan Taliban intelligence officer who had met Mehsud many times told Newsweek.

Former CIA operative John Kiriakou in 2007 told CNN's " American Morning " that the waterboarding of Al Qaeda's Abu Zubayda indirectly led to the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed:

* On July 11, former FBI Tampa bureau chief Al Robinson was quoted in the St. Petersburg Times as saying that Castor " asked for more information but was not told anything.

In an interview with Al Fraser ( 1979 ), Dizzy Gillespie told his recollection of Monday nights at Minton ’ s:

Josephine told how upon arriving in Arizona she learned that “ some renegade Yuma-Apaches had escaped from the reservation to which they had been consigned and had returned to their old haunts on the war-path .” Sadie wrote the famous Indian fighter Al Sieber was tracking escape Apaches and led them to safety.