* The first two pages of Ian Fleming's novel Diamonds Are Forever are told from the point of view of an African scorpion which kills and eats a beetle and is then casually crushed and killed itself, by one of the villains whom James Bond would later confront and eventually crush.

It is on Crab Key that Bond first finds Honeychile Rider and then Dr. No himself.

Bond and Honey then escape from No's complex in the dragon buggy.

Benson sees M at his most authoritarian in Dr. No, punishing Bond both in terms of stripping him of his gun and then sending him on what was considered at first to be a " soft " assignment.

The Fleet line was mentioned in a 1965 Times article, discussing options after the Victoria line had been completed — suggesting that the Fleet line could take a Baker Street – Bond Street – Trafalgar Square – Strand – Fleet Street – Ludgate Circus – Cannon Street route, then proceeding into southeast London.

The manor house was sacked in 1688, as its then owner Sir Henry Bond was a Roman Catholic and staunch supporter of James II.

It was named for Shadrach Bond, who was then the delegate from the Illinois Territory to the United States Congress, and who thereupon became the first governor of Illinois, serving from 1818 to 1822.

When Ellis died, the painting went for sale at Christie ’ s in London in 1876, where it was bought by the Bond Street art dealer William Agnew for the then astronomical sum of 10, 000 guineas.

In the early days, Bond had formed part of a clique with fellow Goldsmiths artist Liam Gillick ; his then partner Angela Bulloch, had gone out with Damien Hirst before Hirst went out with Maia Norman, Jay Jopling's former partner.

Until then, the Western public imagined their secret services as promoters of democracy and democratic values ; a view principally espoused in the popular James Bond thriller novels — romantic high adventures about what a Secret Service should be.

Baker gained fame as a member of the Graham Bond Organisation and then as a member of the rock band Cream from 1966 until they disbanded in 1968.

In a desperate attempt to survive being cut in two by a circular saw, Bond offers to work for Goldfinger, a ruse that Goldfinger initially refuses, but then accepts.

Bond manages to break a window, causing a depressurisation that sucks Oddjob out of the plane ; he then fights and strangles Goldfinger.

It was widely reported that he sold Bond the Nine Network at the record price of in 1987, and then bought it back three years later for a mere A $ 250 million, when Bond's empire was collapsing.

Bond is then sent a second time to Severnaya, but during the mission he is captured and locked up in the bunker's cells along with Natalya Simonova, who has been betrayed to Janus.

There Bond destroys its weaponry stores and then hitches a ride on Trevelyan's Soviet missile train, where he kills Ourumov and rescues Natalya.

Completion Bond then had the animation completed in Korea under the direction of animator Fred Calvert.

* The Spy Who Loved MeRick Sylvester, playing James Bond, escaped the bad guys by skiing off a cliff on Mount Asgard then releasing a parachute.

* The Living DaylightsThis was the third variation on a stunt that had appeared first in Moonraker and then in Octopussy ; James Bond battles a bad guy while they are both hanging outside a plane.

In any case he ignored Baldwin's advice, and Baldwin resigned ; the Legislative Assembly then refused to pass any money bills, so Bond Head dissolved the government.

After seducing her, Bond informs her that Largo killed her brother ; Bond then recruits her to spy on Largo.

The name of Gillray's publisher and print seller, Miss Hannah Humphrey — whose shop was first at 227 Strand, then in New Bond Street, then in Old Bond Street, and finally in St James's Street — is inextricably associated with that of the caricaturist himself.

One of the by-products of the episode was a B-side single from The Graham Bond Organization entitled " Waltz for a Pig ," an apparent reference to the departed producer.

Capp had earlier provided the Shmoo for a special Children's Savings Bond in 1949, accompanying President Harry S. Truman at the bond's unveiling ceremony.

Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by Dennis Potter, takes its title from " Into My Heart an Air That Kills " from A Shropshire Lad, the cycle also providing the name for the James Bond film Die Another Day: " But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day ".

" Following its completion, Chaplin embarked on the Third Liberty Bond campaign, touring the United States for one month to raise money for the Allies of World War One.

He also produced a short propaganda film, donated to the government for fund-raising, called The Bond.

An 1865 San Francisco Pacific Railroad Bond approved in 1863 but delayed for two years by the opposition of the San Francisco Board of SupervisorsAlthough the Pacific Railroad eventually benefited the Bay Area, the City and County of San Francisco obstructed financing it during the early years of 1863-1865.

There have been six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks and Jeffery Deaver ; a new novel, written by William Boyd, is planned for release in 2013.

The fictional British Secret Service agent has also been adapted for television, radio, comic strip and video game formats as well as being used in the longest continually running and the second-highest grossing film franchise to date, which started in 1962 with Dr. No, starring Sean Connery as Bond.

As the central figure for his works, Ian Fleming created the fictional character of James Bond, an intelligence officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6.

Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies ; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that " It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born ".

Fleming also endowed Bond with many of his own traits, including sharing the same golf handicap, the taste for scrambled eggs and using the same brand of toiletries.

Inspiration for James Bond.

* 1976 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

He is best known in Europe for playing the pirate Sandokan in the highly popular TV mini series and for his role as the villainous Gobinda in the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy.

They toured the US together in 1918 to promote Liberty Bond sales for the World War I effort.

In 1967 she recorded the theme song for the James Bond film You Only Live Twice.

Though the Allied governments were slow to use film as a medium for conveying a desired position and set of beliefs, individuals, such as Charlie Chaplin were considerably more successful with The Bond and Zepped.

She provided the likeness and voice for Serena St. Germaine in the 2004 video game, James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing.

Connery is best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 ( six Eon Productions films and the non-canonical Thunderball remake, Never Say Never Again ).

In the James Bond novels and short stories by Ian Fleming and others, Assistant Commissioner Sir Ronald Vallance is a recurring fictional character who works for Scotland Yard.

Smuggling is a common trope or theme in literature and can be found in a wide range of works – from the 18th century novels of Charlotte Turner Smith to Prosper Mérimée's 19th century novella, Carmen ( the inspiration for numerous films as well as Bizet's opera, Carmen ) to the James Bond novel ( and later film ) Diamonds are Forever.

rated so highly in America and the UK that MGM and the producers decided to film extra footage ( often more adult to evoke Bond films ) for two of the first season episodes and release them to theaters after they had aired on TV.