The Golden Snitch, often referred to as simply the Snitch, is a small golden ball the approximate size of a walnut ( roughly in diameter ), developed by Bowman Wright ( 1492 – 1560 ).

Whilst most people looked for a suitable alternative bird to chase, a metal-charmer called Bowman Wright from Godric's Hollow invented a fake Snidget which he called the Golden Snitch: a golden ball with silver wings, the same size and weight as a real Snidget, enchanted to accurately follow its flight patterns.

Other notable residents of the village include Bowman Wright ( inventor of the Golden Snitch ) and Bathilda Bagshot, author of A History of Magic.

Among the club's notable alumni are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Booth Tarkington, Russel Wright, Joshua Logan, Brooks Bowman, Jimmy Stewart, José Ferrer, Wayne Rogers, Clark Gesner, Jeff Moss, David E. Kelley, Nicholas Hammond, and Brooke Shields.

He practiced sports, corporate, and immigration law with the firm Cohen, Swados, Wright, Hanifin, Bradford and Brett, including working on player contracts with Scotty Bowman, then the Sabres ' coach and general manager.

Among them were John Peters ( who launched the station as he had done with Trent in 1975 ), Craig Strong ( who drove the Trent outside broadcast van on the launch day of GEM, behind the " Olympic " runners ), Amanda Bowman, Andy Marriott, Tony Lyman Graham Wright and Paul Robey.

In 1892, it consisted of the city of Hull, the town of Aylmer, the township of Templeton, including the village of Pointe-à-Gatineau, the townships of Hull, Eardley, Masham, Wakefield, Lowe, Denholm, Aylwin, Hincks, Bowman, Bigelow, Blake, Northfield, Wright, Bouchette, Cameron, Wabasse, Bouthillier, Kensington, Maniwaki, Egan, Lytton, Sicotte, Aumond, Robertson, and all the unorganized territories west of the River du Lièvre to the southern boundary of the county of Montcalm.

* John K. Wright and George F. Carter, Isaiah Bowman, in the National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs, vol.

The player who experienced this phenomenon with the most number of at-bats in a season was Ernie Bowman, who over 125 at-bats in 1963 had a batting average of. 184 and an on-base percentage of. 181.

Allen's group soon disappeared, but the first IWW group in Britain was founded by members of the Industrial Syndicalist Education League around Guy Bowman in 1913.

Clarke was so impressed by the demonstration that he used it in the climactic scene of his screenplay for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the HAL 9000 computer sings the same song as it is being put to sleep by astronaut Dave Bowman.

Smaug was eventually slain by Bard the Bowman and Thorin claimed the mountain.

James Bowman Lindsay ( 8 September 1799-29 June 1862 ) was a Scottish inventor and author.

James Bowman Lindsay was born in Cotton of West Hills, Carmyllie near Arbroath in Angus, Scotland, son of John Lindsay, farm worker, and Elizabeth Bowman.

Bowman ( 1872 – 1959 ), an attorney from Illinois, was the first to initiate the addition of " under God " to the Pledge.

Benjamin Britten wrote the leading role of Oberon in his setting of A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ) especially for him ; the countertenor role of Apollo in Britten's Death in Venice ( 1973 ) was created by James Bowman, the best-known amongst the next generation of English countertenors.

Stan Bowman, son of Scotty Bowman, was promoted to general manager.

When Holmes was eight, his mother married Harold Bowman.

Holmes recalled that Bowman was a good father until his younger half-brother, David, was born, at which point Bowman lost interest in his non-biological children and began neglecting them.

Because he was the youngest, John began to suffer several beatings at the hands of Bowman ( who is said by Laurie Holmes in the John Holmes biography A Life Measured in Inches, 2008, to have had bipolar disorder ) that continued well into his late adolescence.

By the time he reached his teenage years, Holmes, who was very tall and strong for his age, fought back after Bowman had thrown him down a flight of stairs.

Before Woolf had even published his final report, Sir Geoffrey Bowman, a partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and former First Parliamentary Counsel, was commissioned to write a report on the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal.

Bowman County was created by the 1883 Dakota Territory legislature but eliminated in 1903 due to a lack of settlement.

The county government was first organized on July 5, 1907 ; Bowman has always been the county seat.

Monsanto stated that he was infringing their patents because the soybeans he bought from the elevator were new products that he purchased for use as seeds without a license from Monsanto ; Bowman stated that he had not infringed due to patent exhaustion on the first sale of seed to whatever farmers had produced the crops that he bought from the elevator, on the grounds that for seed, all future generations are embodied in the first generation that was originally sold.

Bowman guided Detroit to its first Finals appearance in 29 years, only to be swept by the New Jersey Devils.

Upon orbital insertion around Jupiter, however, David Bowman is confronted with a huge, black featureless monolith with the exact proportions of 1 by 4 by 9 ( the squares of the first three positive integers ).

The process of transformation in the film is David Bowman transitioning through various human ages, first from young man to a dying elderly man, the latter finally transforming into a floating fetus.

In October 1847, Lucy Stone gave her first public speech on the subject of women's rights, entitled The Province of Women, at her brother Bowman Stone's church in Gardner, Massachusetts.

Bowman was the office's first postmaster and Black the first mailcarrier.

John Bowman was the first lawyer.

Of the first German settlers in the Palmyra area, the surnames of Bindnagle, Bowman, Carmany, Deininger, Early, Forney, Gingrich, Hemperly, Hetrick, Kettering, Killinger, Naftzger, Nye, Ober, Ricker, and Zimmerman are recorded.

The FT redesign was handled by and was the first major project for design firm Shake-up Media and young American designer Ryan Bowman.

Bowman further wrote that the recording of the " What's Going On " single was " the first single to utilize all three as Marvin developed a radical approach to constructing his recordings by layering a series of contraptunal background vocal lines on different tracks, each one conceived and sung in isolation by Marvin himself.

In October 1847, she gave her first public speech on the subject of women's rights, entitled The Province of Women, at the invitation of her brother Bowman Stone, to speak at his church in Gardner, Massachusetts.

Rather than raising the Stanley Cup first, Yzerman passed the Cup to coach Scotty Bowman, who announced his retirement following the game.

In 2006 the HAC was the first major unit of the Territorial Army to convert to the Bowman communications system.

In 1926, the new company won its first major contract, the Bowman Lake dam in California.

In 1926, the new company won its first major contract, the Bowman Lake dam in California.

Edith Bowman co-presented its hour-long swansong, along with Jimmy Savile ( who had presented the first show ), Reggie Yates, Mike Read, Pat Sharp, Sarah Cawood, Dave Lee Travis, Rufus Hound, Tony Blackburn and Janice Long.

The delay in FINA's hi-tech prohibition and Phelps's unexpected second place finish ( his first loss since 2005 ) led Phelps's coach Bob Bowman to threaten a boycott of international swim competitions.

Bowman Gum of Philadelphia issued its first baseball cards in 1948.

Soul music historian Rob Bowman notes that because of the distinctive sound, soul music fans can tell often within the first few notes if a song was recorded at Stax.