He is the protagonist of the 15th-century epic poem The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, by Blind Harry.

Some accounts have uncritically copied elements from the epic poem, The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, written around 1470 by Blind Harry the minstrel.

The heroic exploits of Wallace were passed on to posterity mainly in the form of tales collected and recounted by the poet Blind Harry, the Minstrel (?- 1492 ) whose original, probably oral sources were never specified.

Blind Harry was active some two hundred years after the events described in his The Acts and Deeds of the Illustrious and Valiant Champion Sir William Wallace, c. 1470.

The two first books I ever read in private, and which gave me more pleasure than any two books I ever read again, were The Life of Hannibal and The History of Sir William Wallace modernised version of Blind Harry by William Hamilton of Gilbertfield.

Blind Harry ( c. 1440 – 1492 ), also known as Harry, Hary or Henry the Minstrel, is renowned as the author of The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, also known as The Wallace.

Blind Harry was given gifts of money by the King at New Year, as were other minor courtiers, but a payment on 2 January 1492 seems to relate to the singing of a ballad accompanied by two Gaelic harpers ' Ersche clareschaw ,' mentioned in adjacent entries.

Blind Harry mentions a number of battles or skirmishes fought by Wallace which are now regarded by historians as unhistorical.

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The brothers were finally captured by Superintendent Harry ' Snapper ' Organs ( played by Terry Jones ) of Q Division, who pursued them in a series of disguises including Blind Pew from Treasure Island, the Earl of Gloucester from King Lear, Sancho Panza from Man of La Mancha, and Ratty from Toad of Toad Hall, but these performances were met with lukewarm critical reception.

William Wallace allegedly spent 3 months in the seat of Patrick Dunbar (( New ) Cumnock or Cumno in 1296 ), according to the poem, The Wallace, by Blind Harry.

According to Blind Harry, Wallace is also said to have fought a battle at Loudoun Hill, during the Scottish Wars of Independence.

The basis for this was a poem written 150 years after the time of Wallace by a minstrel called Blind Harry.

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This way of writing was misunderstood and neglected by Chaucer's English disciples, but was followed nearly a century later by the Scottish poet, called Blind Harry ( c. 1475 ), whose The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace holds an important place in the history of versification as having passed on the tradition of the heroic couplet.

15th century minstrel Blind Harry wrote in his poem The Wallace that Wallace and his men defeated an English force at the hill in 1296 during the Wars of Scottish Independence.

Blind Harry also tells of how the English general, Fenwick, who supposedly killed Wallace's father, was killed during the battle.

Later illustrious entertainers included Chuck Mangione, Conway Twitty, Third Eye Blind, Diana Ross, Barry Manilow, and Harry Connick Jr.

* The 1994 HBO TV-movie Blind Justice is claimed to have been partially inspired by the Jonah Hex comic book character.

King Henry of Bohemia voting for Frederick actually only claimed the electoral power, as he had already been deposed in 1310 by late King Henry's son John the Blind voting for Louis.

Despite 15 years of coaching at a prominent level, Tuberville, according to an article by Jennifer Ritz in Texas Techsan, claimed in 2010 that the most high profile activity he had ever done was in 2009 between his stints at Auburn and Texas Tech, when he appeared in the Oscar-winning film The Blind Side.

The Guilds of Blind Musicians and Fortune-Tellers which were still around in China during the middle of the 20th century, claimed to have existed as far back as 200 BC.

While the format claimed itself as Modern AC, its musical lean favored Modern Rock / Alternative hits with an updated library of alternative hits from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s such as Nirvana, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Third Eye Blind and R. E. M.

The newspaper claimed in an article entitled " Aengus Turns Blind Eye To Car Jacking " that he had failed to report his car missing to the Gardai.

Meanwhile, Harrison became a record producer of some note – his résumé includes the Violent Femmes ' The Blind Leading the Naked, the Fine Young Cannibals ' The Raw and the Cooked, General Public's Rub It Better, Crash Test Dummies ' God Shuffled His Feet, Live's Throwing Copper, No Doubt's song " New " from Return of Saturn, and most recently work by The Black and White Years and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

Companies like TalkingSigns and TextSpeak Systems have pioneered solutions such as TTS for Digital Signage for the Blind, that work via standard speakers and also radio receivers ( ex: BART in the SF Bay area ).

Phonographic recordings of his work " Recordings for the Blind " are heard in the movie Places in the Heart, by the character Mr. Will.

Peter Edward " Ginger " Baker ( born 19 August 1939, Lewisham, South London ) is an English drummer, best known for his work with Cream and Blind Faith.

( Connah went on to play keyboards with a revived Go West, as well as continuing work with his own band 3 Blind Mice.

The cover of Blind Willie McTell's " Statesboro Blues " which opens the set showcases Duane Allman's slide guitar work in open E Tuning.

He took up another career with the Lincolnshire Social Service Department, as a Home Visitor for the Blind and again achieved National recognition for his charity work in providing Guide Dogs.

His work has won the Hugo Award ( for the novel Spin ), the John W. Campbell Memorial Award ( for the novel The Chronoliths ), the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award ( for the novelette " The Cartesian Theater "), three Aurora Awards ( for the novels Blind Lake and Darwinia, and the short work " The Perseids "), and the Philip K. Dick Award ( for the novel Mysterium ).

Broonzy's own influences included the folk music, spirituals, work songs, ragtime music, hokum and country blues he heard growing up, and the styles of his contemporaries, including Jimmie Rodgers, Blind Blake, Son House, and Blind Lemon Jefferson.

Day's earliest extant work, written in collaboration with Chettle, is The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green ( acted 1600, printed 1659 ), a drama dealing with the early years of the reign of Henry VI.

Schaffer claims that this is probably due to his work with Blind Guardian.

He has found great pleasure in the work of ' The Blind Letter Office ' at the Post Office, helping to decipher the nigh-illegible gibberish that some of Ankh-Morpork's less educated citizenry address their letters with-for example working out casually that ' Duzbuns Hopsit pfarmarrsc ' equals ' K.

In early 2009, The American Council of the Blind ( ACB ) established the Audio Description Project ( ADP ) to boost levels of description activity and disseminate information on that work throughout the United States and worldwide.

Eric Clapton was another guitarist with a lasting influence on the genre ; his work in the 1960s and 1970s with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, The Yardbirds, supergroups Blind Faith, Cream and Derek and the Dominos, and an extensive solo career has been seminal in bringing blues rock into the mainstream.

From 1960 onward, Hijikata funded his Ankoku Butoh projects by undertaking sex-cabaret work with his company of dancers, and also acted in prominent films of the Japanese ' erotic-grotesque ' horror-film genre, in such works as the director Teruo Ishii's Horror of Malformed Men and Blind Woman's Curse, in both of which Hijikata performed Ankoku Butoh sequences.

He proceeded to do some studio work with German speed metal band Blind Guardian and in 1989 decided to form his own project with long-time friend Ralf Scheepers, former vocalist of the band Tyran Pace.

During the 1930s, after graduating from RADA, he initially worked in repertory theatre in Rusholme and Cardiff before beginning work on the West End stage in thrillers, such as Blind Man's Bluff.

The company's Blind and Low Vision Group's products include software and hardware to help people with low vision work with their computers, organize information, and work with standard printed materials.

Researchers at University of Nevada, Reno modified a haptic feedback glove to work with the Guitar Hero freeware clone Frets on Fire, resulting in Blind Hero, a music game for visually impaired players that is played with only touch and audio.

In Bombay he completed and published his most enduring work, The Blind Owl, whose writing he started as early as 1930 in Paris.

The Blind Owl ( 1937 ) ( in Persian: بوف کور Boof-e koor ) is Sadegh Hedayat's most enduring work of prose and a major literary work of 20th century Iran.