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Chapman was one of the early pioneers of the American airborne concept, commanding the experimental 88th Airborne Infantry Battalion in late 1941 when he was a Lieutenant Colonel, before going on to take command of the 13th Airborne Division.
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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.
Chapman was born at the Stoneygate Nursing Home, Stoneygate, Leicester.
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.
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Chapman had several chemotherapy treatments and tumour removal surgeries within the final months of his life, and at one point he used a wheelchair.
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.
Later in that episode during the " Police Constable Pan Am Sketch ", the policeman tells a chemist " one more peep out of you and I'll do you for heresy ", with the chemist ( played by Palin ) responding that he " didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition "; except that instead of the Spanish Inquisition arriving, PC Pan Am ( played by Graham Chapman ) simply tells the chemist to shut up.
He befriends Lizzie's dad in one of the episodes and dates Matt's teacher, Miss Jasmine Chapman.
According to one of several legends, the town was given its name by Colonel Samuel Chapman, whose family owned of land in Southern Maryland, including what would become the areas of La Plata and Port Tobacco.
The nice one, Fidgit, as Palin ; the self-appointed leader, Randall, as Cleese ; the acerbic one, Strutter, as Eric Idle ; the quiet one, Og, as Graham Chapman ; the noisy rebel, Wally, as Terry Jones ; and the nasty, filth-loving one, Vermin, as Gilliam himself.
We seemed to lose Sam shortly after the opening of part one, later finding out that she had split with partner Jake Chapman for artist Henry Bond, a well-known Goldsmiths graduate.
In 2003, North Carolina Playwright Keith Smith wrote a one act musical play entitled " My Name is Johnny Appleseed ", which is presented to school children to show that the true story of John Chapman is just as interesting as the mythical figure, who is shrouded in legend.
Chapman was sufficiently impressed to give Clark a ride in one of his Formula Junior cars.
The Nimitzs CAG ( Commander, Air Group ), Commander Owens ( James Farentino ), an amateur historian, recognizes one survivor as Samuel Chapman ( Charles Durning ), a prominent United States senator who could have been Franklin Roosevelt's running mate during his final re-election bid and his eventual successor.
This satire on the Catholic Church's attitudes toward contraception and masturbation is followed by one on Protestants: Chapman plays the husband of the household next door, who lectures his wife on their church's tolerance toward having intercourse for fun, although his frustrated spouse ( Idle ) points out that they never do.
) are already seated, and all are then serenaded by a Tony Bennett-like lounge singer ( Chapman ) with the monumentally cheesy song " Christmas In Heaven ", a parody of Las Vegas-style shows, complete with women wearing plastic breasts in Santa Claus outfits ( one of which was the actress Jane Leeves in one of her first roles ).
Terrierman Eddie Chapman, who has hunted in Devon for more than 30 years, the same area that John Russell himself hunted, notes that, " I can state categorically that if given the choice, ninety-nine percent of hunt terrier men would buy an under 12 " worker, if it was available, over a 14 " one.
The Chapman strut used the driveshafts as suspension arms, thus requiring only the weight of one component rather than two.
Chapman at the wheel of one of his own Lotus Eleven sports cars, during practice for the 1956 British Grand Prix Formula Two race at Silverstone Circuit | Silverstone Lotus Development Director Mike Costin on left holding notes.
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* 1920 – Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day.
One of the most influential sketch shows was Monty Python's Flying Circus, a comedy from the late 1960s and early 1970s that introduced both British and American audiences to such luminaries as John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam.
An early settler in this part of DeKalb County was Chapman Powell, whose " Medicine House " cabin was built near 1218 Clairmont Road.
An early settler in this part of DeKalb County was Chapman Powell, whose " Medicine House " cabin was built near 1218 Clairmont Road.
Chapmanville was founded in 1800 and named for an early settler named Ned Chapman, who owned a store and ran the post office.
Nathaniel Chapman fought at Concord as a Minuteman as early as April 19, 1775, and later served in the Continental Army with General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War.
Starting early in January, 1891, Carrie Chapman Catt visited Stone repeatedly at Pope's Hill, for the purpose of learning from Stone about the ways of political organizing.
In early 1982, Chapman came to an agreement with Toyota over an exchange on intellectual property and applied expertise.
He was also an early advocate of the Chapman Stick, which he can be heard playing on some of the live Weather Report recordings of the period.
The Chapman Stick ( the Stick ) is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s.
The two-handed tapping technique was also known and occasionally used by many 1950s and 1960s jazz guitarists such as Barney Kessel, who was an early supporter of Emmett Chapman.
His early band, with whom he realized his debut album, included instead, besides himself and Keeble, Spandau Ballet's regular keyboard player, Toby Chapman, Jerry Stevenson ( guitar ), and Kevin Miller ( bass guitar ).
" In taped interviews in the early 1990s Chapman had said he did not think he could have stopped the course of events, that he had felt under a great compulsion, like a runaway train.
In addition to her early film roles, McDormand played Connie Chapman in the fifth season of the television police drama Hill Street Blues.
Whitney Houston, Tracy Chapman and Aretha Franklin were her early inspirations.
Dr. Chapman was actively involved in the NASA / DOE SPS Concept Development and Evaluation Program ( CDEP ) in the late 1970s and early 1980s and has since continued contributions to the literature on power from space.
Over the course of their twelve-year marriage, which ended in Henry ’ s death from tuberculosis in 1842, Chapman had four children, one of whom died in early childhood.
The puzzle was " invented " by Noyes Palmer Chapman, a postmaster in Canastota, New York, who is said to have shown friends, as early as 1874, a precursor puzzle consisting of 16 numbered blocks that were to be put together in rows of four, each summing to 34.
The division arrived in the European Theater of Operations in early February, coming under the command of First Allied Airborne Army, and Major General Chapman was informed that there was a possibility that the division would be required to conduct airborne operations during the closing stages of the Battle of the Bulge.
* Welcome Chapman ( 1805 – 1893 ), early Mormon leader born in Readsboro, Vermont
The band performed rhythm & blues under various names (" Sigma 6 ", " The Meggadeaths ", " The Abdabs " and " The Screaming Abdabs "), during their run with manager Ken Chapman, who also wrote some early material for the band.
However this proved to be an early dawn and Arsenal spent most of the rest of the twenties in mid-table, as Chapman took his time finding the right players to fit his new system, outlining a five year plan for success.
After attending a night-time match in Belgium in 1930 with his friend Hugo Meisl, Chapman became an early advocate of floodlights.
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