There is a facsimile edition with an English translation by Alec Eden.

Alec Rice Miller, better known as Sonny Boy Williamson II, is one of the important harmonicists of this era.

Alec Finlay rubber stamp letterbox poem: " There is a fork in every path ".

* 1865: In George MacDonald's novel Alec Forbes of Howglen, the character Annie Anderson is raised by her stingy relative Robert Bruce.

* July 30 – David Lean's Oliver Twist is finally shown in the United States, after 10 minutes of supposedly anti-Semitic references and closeups of Alec Guinness as Fagin are cut.

It is banned for 3 years in the U. S. because of alleged anti-Semitism in depicting master criminal Fagin, played by Alec Guinness.

** David Lean's Great Expectations, based on the Charles Dickens novel, and featuring John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness, Francis L. Sullivan, Jean Simmons, and Finlay Currie, is released to great acclaim in the UK.

* August 26 – The original Mini designed by Sir Alec Issigonis is launched.

Note: Although Grant's baptismal record records his middle name as " Alec ", it is " Alexander " on his birth certificate.

Over the objections of General Murray ( Donald Wolfit ), he is sent by Mr. Dryden ( Claude Rains ) of the Arab Bureau to assess the prospects of Prince Faisal ( Alec Guinness ) in his revolt against the Turks.

The DNA profiling technique was first reported in 1984 by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester in England, and is now the basis of several national DNA databases.

Sir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS ( born 9 January 1950 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England ) is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science to assist police detective work, and also to resolve paternity and immigration disputes.

He is said to have been the model for the bohemian painter depicted in Joyce Cary's novel The Horse's Mouth, which was later made into a 1958 film of the same name with Alec Guinness in the lead role.

He is portrayed in the original trilogy by Alec Guinness and in the prequel trilogy by Ewan McGregor, and is voiced by James Arnold Taylor in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars movie and television series.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is first introduced in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope ( 1977 ), where he is played by Alec Guinness and is first seen rescuing Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill ) from a group of Tusken Raiders.

The organization is known for its aggressive media campaigns, combined with a solid base of celebrity support — Pamela Anderson, Drew Barrymore, Alec Baldwin, John Gielgud, Bill Maher, Stella McCartney, and Alicia Silverstone have all appeared in PETA ads.

In the BBC television sitcom May to December, solicitor Alec Callender ( portrayed by Anton Rodgers ) is a huge Perry Mason fan ; he often speaks privately to a large poster of Raymond Burr hanging on his office wall.

He is described as " a plant that thought it was Alec Holland, a plant that was trying its level best to be Alec Holland " with the result that he suffered a temporary identity crisis as he tried to surrender to his plant side.

She is approached by an archly sinister character, ' Professor ' Marcus ( Alec Guinness ), who wants to rent rooms in her house.

The passenger is Alec Harvey ( Howard ), an idealistic doctor who also works one day a week as a consultant at the local hospital.

Old Arabic Love Poem on Persian Carpet: When Laura comes to see Alec at his friend's flat, there is a Middle Eastern rug hung on the wall.

Politicians with Scottish connections continued to play a prominent part in UK political life, with Prime Ministers including the Conservatives Harold Macmillan ( whose father was Scottish ) from 1955 – 57 and Alec Douglas-Home from 1963-64.

* Ryrie, Alec, The Origins of the Scottish Reformation ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006 ) ISBN 0-7190-7105-4

The Scottish artist Alec Finlay has placed letterboxes with rubber stamp circle poems at locations around the world, including Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

There are one hundred planned boxes, each of which contains a rubber stamp circle poem by the Scottish poet and artist, Alec Finlay.

* Ryrie, Alec, The Origins of the Scottish Reformation ( Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006 )

At Westminster the differences between the Scottish Unionist and the English party could appear blurred or non-existent to the external casual observer, especially as many Scottish MPs were prominent in the parliamentary Conservative party, such as party leaders Andrew Bonar Law ( 1911-1921 & 1922-1923 ) and Sir Alec Douglas-Home ( 1963 – 1965 ), both of whom served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

: Studied in the USA, Alec is a Scottish scientist hired by Kagami for the research of tennyo legends.

This song has been remade by Alec Beaton ( with a Scottish soldier from " The Water is Wide "), Plethyn (" Gwaed ar eu Dwylo " ( Blood on their Hands ), sung in Welsh from " Blas y Pridd "), and Hannes Wader (" Es ist an der Zeit " ( It is the Time )).

* Alec Newman ( born 1974 ), Scottish actor

* Alec Forbes of Howglen, Scottish novel by George MacDonald

* Eddie Campbell's Alec stories ( collected in The King Canute Crowd, Three Piece Suit, and other books ) started with the Scottish / Australian artist as a young man drifting through life with his friends, and followed him through marriage, parenthood, and a successful artistic career.

* Alec Davies, Scottish cricketer

* Alec Linwood ( 1920-2003 ), Scottish footballer

Born in Hamilton, Herd is the son of former Manchester City player Alec Herd and the nephew of Scottish international Sandy Herd.

* Alec Young, Scottish footballer

Alec Callender-( Anton Rodgers )-a widowed, Scottish solicitor who tries to balance his work, his family and his new romance with a much younger woman, Zoë.

Alec Cheyne helped students gain a nuanced appreciation of key personalities in Scottish history which rose above the polarities of Scottish ecclesiastical conflict.

* In 1962, a Scottish newspaper, the Aberdeen Evening Express, accidentally used a picture of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home over a caption naming a Scottish Baillie called Vass.

Stodart served as a junior Scottish Office Minister under Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1963 and 1964, and at the Ministry of Agriculture in Edward Heath ’ s government, from 1970 to 1974.

Another form of market socialism was promoted by critics of central planning and general equilibrium theory, the most notable economists being Alec Nove and Janos Kornai.

Alec: How To Be An Artist ( 2000 ), a study of the art form and of Campbell's own artistic journey, and After The Snooter ( 2002 ), in which Campbell appears to have laid Alec McGarry to rest.

A few years later, Alec Bangham showed that bilayers, in the form of lipid vesicles, could also be formed simply by exposing a dried lipid sample to water.

Later in his career, when he had become Prime Minister, Dunglass ( by then Sir Alec Douglas-Home ) wrote in a memorandum: " I went into politics because I felt that it was a form of public service and that as nearly a generation of politicians had been cut down in the first war those who had anything to give in the way of leadership ought to do so ".

Live renga are being conducted increasingly in the West, including in the UK where artist / poets including Alec Finlay, Gavin Wade, Gerry Loose, and Paul Conneally explore and develop the form.

Out of what was left of the band guitarist Michael Hampton went on to form The Faith in 1981 with Alec MacKaye ( brother of Ian MacKaye, later in Ignition ) who joined on vocals and Ivor Hansen, S. O. A.

To a large extent what Jake experiences could be described as a form of culture shock, with his best man Davis ( Alec Baldwin ) as a reminder of his former culture as a single man, and feeling alienated when he overhears his neighbors converse about mundane suburban topics.