When the Achaeans entertained Wednesday last at their annual Carnival masquerade ball, Miss Margaret Pierson was chosen to rule over the festivities, presented at the Muncipal Auditorium and chosen as her ladies in waiting were Misses Clayton Nairne, Eleanor Eustis, Lynn Chapman, Irwin Leatherman of Robinsonville, Miss. and Helene Rowley.

Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.

* Johnny Appleseed John Chapman ( September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 ), also known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

To date, one Major League player has died as a result of being struck by a pitch: Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head by Carl Mays on August 16, 1920, and died the next morning.

In Scotland the only one which has survived the convulsions of the 16th century is Aberdeen Breviary, a Scottish form of the Sarum Office ( the Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the diocese of York ), revised by William Elphinstone ( bishop 1483 – 1514 ), and printed at Edinburgh by Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar in 1509 – 1510.

Shortstop Ray Chapman, who often crowded the plate, was batting against Carl Mays, who had an unusual underhand delivery.

Graham Arthur Chapman ( 8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989 ) was an English comedian, writer, actor, and one of the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty Python.

Cleese said that he and Chapman believed " There was something very funny there, if we could find the right context for it.

Cleese complimented Chapman by saying that he was " very possibly the best actor of all of us ".

Chapman's memoir, A Liar's Autobiography, was published in 1980 and, unusually for a work of this type, had five authors: Chapman, his partner David Sherlock, Alex Martin, David Yallop and Douglas Adams.

Although writing had begun in the late 1970s, Chapman was finally able to secure funding for his much cherished pirate project Yellowbeard in 1982.

Chapman was also to have played a guest role as a television presenter in the Red Dwarf episode " Timeslides ", but died before filming was to have started.

Chapman was a tall ( 6 ' 2 "/ 1. 88 m ), craggy pipe-smoker who enjoyed mountaineering and playing rugby.

Chapman later told a story in his college tour that when he went public, a member of the television audience wrote to the Pythons to complain that she had heard a member of the team was gay, adding that the Bible said any man who lies with a man should be taken out and stoned.

Chapman was a vocal spokesman for LGBT rights, and in 1972 he lent his support to the fledgling newspaper Gay News, which publicly acknowledged his financial and editorial support by listing him as one of its " special friends ".

Chapman met Tomiczek when the teenager was a runaway from Liverpool.

After discussions with Tomiczek's father, it was agreed that Chapman would become Tomiczek's legal guardian, and Tomiczek later became Chapman's business manager.

Cleese continued after a break from laughter in the audience, claiming that Chapman had whispered in his ear the night before while he was writing the speech, saying:

Palin later spoke, saying that he liked to think that Chapman was there with them all that day —" or rather, he will be in about 25 minutes ," a reference to Chapman's habitual lateness when they were all working together.

Ojril: The Completely Incomplete Graham Chapman, a collection of previously unpublished material, was released in 1999.

At one time, the script for " Out of the Trees ", written by Chapman and Adams in 1975 ( and later extensively rewritten by Chapman with Bernard McKenna ), was online.

In September, 2012, a British Comedy Society blue plaque, to commemorate Chapman, was unveiled at The Angel pub in Highgate, North London, by Jones, Palin, Barry Cryer and Carol Cleveland.

They had two children, Tammy Sue " Sissy " Bakker Chapman ( born March 2, 1970 ) and Jamie Charles " Jay " Bakker ( born December 18, 1975 ).

It tells the story of Brian Cohen ( played by Graham Chapman ), a young Jewish man who is born on the same day as, and next door to, Jesus Christ, and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah.

Chapman was born in Burnopfield, County Durham, England.

Sir Alexander Chapman " Alex " Ferguson, ( born 31 December 1941 ) is a Scottish football manager and former player who has managed Manchester United since 1986.

Lawrence was born illegitimate in Tremadog, Wales, in August 1888 to Sir Thomas Chapman and Sarah Junner, a governess who was herself illegitimate.

* Johnny Appleseed, born John Chapman ( September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 ), was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced the apple to large parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

Twin boys were born in their dwelling during the first winter, originating a long life of descendants, among whom was Henry Chapman Mercer.

* Marshall Chapman ( born 1949 ), singer-songwriter

* Duane Lee Chapman, or Dog the Bounty Hunter, was born and reared in Pampa.

John Chapman was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, the second child ( after his sister, Elizabeth ) of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Chapman ( née Simonds, married February 8, 1770 ) of Massachusetts.

Supposedly, the only surviving tree planted by Johnny Appleseed is on the farm of Richard and Phyllis Algeo of Nova, Ohio Some marketers claim it is a Rambo, although the Rambo was introduced to America in the 1640s by Peter Gunnarsson Rambo, more than a century before John Chapman was born.

* Dagmar Lahlum-resistance worker in World War II and fiancée of Eddie Chapman was born here

* May 12-George Chapman, dramatist, poet and translator ( born c. 1559 )

Phillip Chapman Lesh ( born March 15, 1940 in Berkeley, California ) is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career.

Iakovos " Jake " Chapman ( born 1966 ) and Konstantinos " Dinos " Chapman ( born 1962 ) are English visual artists, often known as the Chapman Brothers, who work together as a collaborative sibling duo.

Jake Chapman was born in Cheltenham and Dinos Chapman in London.

In May 1979, while at the album release party for her second album, My Father's Eyes, Grant met Gary Chapman, writer of the title track ( and future husband ).

The former film building at Chapman University in Orange, California is named in honor of DeMille.

The Chapman Effect also known as diminished return, occurs when an employee is at fault for impeding the projected return of a company.

* How Is This Going to Continue ?, a novel by James Chapman, presents itself as the libretto to a musical work by a composer whose ( fictional ) entry in The Grove Dictionary of Music is quoted at length.

Chapman had several chemotherapy treatments and tumour removal surgeries within the final months of his life, and at one point he used a wheelchair.

She stayed at the house of John Chapman, the radical publisher whom she had met at Rosehill ( near Coventry ) and who had printed her translation.

Graham Chapman, still suffering from alcoholism, was so determined to play the lead role – at one point coveted by Cleese – that he dried out in time for filming, so much so that he was also able to act as the on-set doctor on top of his acting duties.

In 1998 there was a follow up with their Live at Aspen, with the supposed ashes of Chapman.

Possibly unbeknown to Cleese and Chapman at the time they wrote the sketch, there are in fact two species of parrot that live in the alpine regions of South Island in New Zealand-an area known as " Fiordland " for the many fjords it contains.

When Chapman insisted that it was funny, they presented it at a reading for the other Python members.

Chapman had been dining with his lover and future fiancée Betty Farmer at the Hotel de la Plage immediately before his arrest and made a spectacular exit through the dining room window ( which was shut at the time ) when he saw undercover police coming to arrest him for crimes on the mainland.

Chapman was sent to Norway to teach at a German spy school in Oslo, Norway.

Chapman had two fiancées at the same time on opposite sides of the war, Freda Stevenson in England and Dagmar Lahlum in Norway, each under the protection of and financially assisted by their respective governments.

According to Simon Chapman, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney, the burning agents in cigarette paper are responsible for fires and reducing them would be a simple and effective means of dramatically reducing the ignition propensity of cigarettes.

The team played on a strictly amateur basis for 1895 at least, with a team featuring a number of works employees including Thomas Freeman ( ships fireman ), Walter Parks ( clerk ), Tom Mundy, Walter Tranter and James Lindsay ( all boilermakers ), William Chapman, George Sage, and William Chamberlain and apprentice riveter Charlie Dove.

Idle started at Cambridge only a year after his future Pythons fellows Graham Chapman and John Cleese.

This poem was widely believed in the Renaissance to have been pre-Homeric: George Chapman reflects at the end of his completion of Marlowe's version that the dead lovers had the honour of being ' the first that ever poet sung ’.

Ben Chapman portrayed the Gill-man for the majority of the film shot at Universal City, California.