Chandler is noted for its annual Ostrich Festival.

The city was the birthplace of several noted writers, such as Alice Walker ( author of The Color Purple ), Joel Chandler Harris ( journalist and author of the Uncle Remus stories ), and Henry Grady Weaver ( author of The Mainspring of Human Progress ).

In a letter to D. J. Ibberson of 19 April 1951, Chandler noted among other things that Marlowe is 38 years old and was born in Santa Rosa, California.

In some rarer cases there were accounts where the familiars would appear at times when they were unwanted and not called upon, for instance the Huntingdonshire witch Elizabeth Chandler noted, in 1646, that she could not control when her two familiars, named Beelzebub and Trullibub, appeared to her, and had prayed for a god to " deliver her therefrom ".

All songs written by Dave Chandler, except where noted.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

A major artery with a Pacific Electric " Red Car " line between the traffic was built all the way from Hollywood, over Cahuenga Pass, through Lankershim ( now North Hollywood ) out Chandler Blvd., turning right into Van Nuys on Van Nuys Blvd.

Van Nuys is planned around the Pacific Electric Red Car line — running out Chandler Bl from Lankershim ( now North Hollywood ), turning into Van Nuys Bl, running through Van Nuys, and turning out Sherman Way to the future towns Marion ( now Reseda ) and Owensmouth ( now Canoga Park ) from Los Angeles.

The Red House Mystery was immediately popular ; Alexander Woollcott called it " one of the three best mystery stories of all time ", though Raymond Chandler, in his 1944 essay The Simple Art of Murder criticized Woollcott for that claim, referring to him as, " rather a fast man with a superlative ".

* Chandler P. Anderson, " International Red Cross Organization ," The American Journal of International Law, 1920

Several opponents, including former PC Party Treasurer Jim Prentice, social conservative candidate Craig Chandler, and Red Tory Nova Scotia MP Scott Brison, painted MacKay as a status quo or " establishment " candidate who could effectively question the Prime Minister.

In 1920, Chandler pitched a no-hitter for Grafton, North Dakota's team in the Red River Valley League.

Concurrently and perhaps pre-aware, the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company, a syndicate led by Harry Chandler, Hobart Johnstone Whitley, president of the company, James B. Lankershim, and Isaac Van Nuys, extended the Pacific Electric Railway ( Red Cars ) through the Valley to Owensmouth ( now Canoga Park and West Hills ) and laid out plans for roads and the towns of Lankershim ( now Toluca Lake ), Van Nuys, Marian ( now Reseda ) and Owensmouth.

* Chandler: Red Tide, a 1976 graphic novel by Jim Steranko

Nick Risby joined from Red Rose Radio in Preston, Tony Gillham came from Chiltern and BBC Bedfordshire, Dave Brown from Radio Tees, Rob Chandler from Radio Orwell and Adrian Finighan from Gwent Radio.

In the future, North Hollywood plans a $ 1 billion mixed-use development at Lankershim and Chandler, surrounding the Metro Red and Orange line terminals.

Chandler: Red Tide is a 1976 illustrated novel, an early form of graphic novel, by writer-artist Jim Steranko.

Dark Horse Comics had planned to publish a revised edition of Chandler: Red Tide in December 1999, with revamped and more hardboiled art and text by Steranko, but this did not see fruition.

Chandler: Red Tide did not meet sales expectations, with Steranko recalling in 2003 that, " When the book appeared it was not embraced by the comic-book community because it didn't have word balloons or captions.

Chandler: Red Tide is similar to Harold Foster's comic strip Prince Valiant in that the narrative is carried by a combination of graphics and text blocks without word balloons.

Leeds appeared in the Red Skelton film The Show-Off ( 1946 ); Lady in the Lake ( 1947 ), based on a Raymond Chandler story ; and in the Lana Turner vehicle Green Dolphin Street, where she played a Eurasian who drugs the leading man and rolls him for his money.

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4, 732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software ( 2007 ) Random House ISBN 978-1-4000-8246-9, about Mitch Kapor, collaboration and massive software endeavors, particularly the open source calendar application Chandler.

In state government the county is part of the fifteenth district so is represented by representative Bruce Chandler ( R ) in the Washington House of Representatives and Jim Honeyford ( R ) in the Washington State Senate.

At the state level, Chandler is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican Doug Magnus, and in House District 22A, represented by Republican Joe Schomacker.

Chandler was said to have taken the name Marlowe from Marlowe House, to which he belonged during his time at Dulwich College.

During the American Civil War, after the fall of Fort Sumter, in April 1861, Sumner, Chandler and Wade repeatedly visited President Abraham Lincoln at the White House speaking on slavery and the rebellion.

As presiding officer of the state senate, Chandler worked with Speaker of the House John Y.

All except 13 sitting Republicans have signed the pledge, while three Democrats have signed it ( Sen. Ben Nelson ( NE ) and House members Robert Andrews ( NJ ) and Ben Chandler ( KY )).

In the Democratic primary, Attorney General Ben Chandler defeated Speaker of the House Jody Richards.

*" Good Vibrations " ( single with Kerri Chandler ) ( Mad House Records )— 2003

Chandler currently represents the Sixth Congressional District of Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives and has since a special election in 2004.

He is a moderate to conservative Democrat and in its 2010 vote rankings, National Journal rated Chandler as being the ideological center of the House of Representatives.

Chandler is a Blue Dog Democrat as well as a member of the House New Democrat Coalition.

* U. S. Congressman Ben Chandler official U. S. House site

Worcester: Chandler House Press.

From 1803 to 1805, Chandler served in the Massachusetts Senate ; he later was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives as a Republican, serving from March 4, 1805 to March 3, 1809.

In 2003, Lerman played nine year-old Luke Chandler in the CBS made-for-television film A Painted House, based on the early life of author John Grisham and set in Black Oak, Arkansas in the early 1950s.

Chandler, a former television newscaster and recovered alcoholic, was elected to the Washington House of Representatives in 1974, where he served until 1982, and was elected as a Republican to the 98th Congress, where he represented the newly created from January 3, 1983 to January 3, 1993, when he gave up his seat for an unsuccessful candidacy for the United States Senate.

At the state level, Franklin Township is part of the 68th district of the Ohio House of Representatives, represented by Democrat Kathleen Chandler of Kent.

Mystery novelist Raymond Chandler wrote The Lady in the Lake in 1943, which revolves around a set of mysterious deaths in the San Bernardino Mountains.

He illustrated three volumes in the Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner —# 4, Mystery Ranch ; # 5, Mike's Mystery ; and # 6, Blue Bay Mystery.