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It was on the main road of Clifton, Queensland, that 70-year-old John Atkinson claimed a new record, pulled by a tri-drive Mack Titan.
* 31 December: The LVF claimed responsibility for a gun attack on the Clifton Tavern on Cliftonville Road, Belfast.
In 1850, Forrest and his wife sought divorce, after Forrest's affair with actress Josephine Clifton ; he claimed that he had found a love letter to his wife from fellow actor George W. Jamieson.
Kenny claimed in her 1943 autobiography ( co-authored by Martha Ostenso ) that she treated her first cases of infantile paralysis in 1910 while working alone as a bush nurse in the Clifton district.
At this time, Kenny requested that she be permitted to treat children during the acute stage of the disease with hot compresses ( as she claimed to have done in Clifton before the war ).
Clifton claimed to have been given the " Sweetwater " nickname as a boy because of his love of soft drinks.
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* Tony Clifton, fictional character created by Andy Kaufman
Tony Clifton is a fictitious character created and often played by stand up comedian Andy Kaufman in the late 1970s.
Characteristic of the many elaborate hoaxes and practical jokes Kaufman concocted, Clifton was not exclusively played by Kaufman — others, mainly Bob Zmuda, stepped into the role on occasion — enabling Kaufman and his accomplices to create an air of confusion as to whether Clifton was a real person or not.
Tony Clifton was a real lounge singer whom Kaufman encountered in the International Hotel in Las Vegas.
Kaufman saw Clifton as the antithesis of the sweet, gentle " Foreign Man " character he was best known for ( which was later adapted into Latka Gravas, Kaufman's character on Taxi ).
" Actually, in many cases, Andy Kaufman played Clifton.
Promoters who thought they had caught on to the joke would hire Clifton because he was cheaper than booking Kaufman.
Rodney Dangerfield was a big fan of Andy Kaufman, and hired Clifton to open for him for two shows at Bill Graham's famed Fillmore West.
The decision was made to fire Clifton, and Kaufman insisted it be done publicly, with security guards removing him from the soundstage by force.
Kaufman and Zmuda wrote a screenplay for a Tony Clifton biography.
The film pays particular attention to the various inside jokes, scams, put-ons, and happenings for which Kaufman was famous, most significantly his long-running " feud " with wrestler Jerry " The King " Lawler and his portrayal of the bawdy lounge singer Tony Clifton.
But backstage, when he meets Shapiro in person, Clifton takes off his sunglasses and we see that he is actually Kaufman.
Clifton is a “ villain character ” created by Kaufman and his creative partner, Bob Zmuda ( Paul Giamatti ).
Kaufman shows up on the Taxi set as Clifton and proceeds to cause chaos until he is removed from the studio lot.
The camera pans over the crowd and reveals Zmuda in the audience, hinting that Kaufman faked his own death as the ultimate " Kaufman stunt " and is indeed onstage as Clifton ; a neon portrait of Kaufman is shown among other comedy legends.
* Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman / Tony Clifton
In 1999, Giamatti played Bob Zmuda ( and Tony Clifton ) in the Andy Kaufman biopic, Man on the Moon.
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Furthermore, in 2002, Bligh's great-great-grandson Lord Clifton, the heir-apparent to the Earldom of Darnley, argued that the Ashes urn should not be returned to Australia because it belonged to his family and was given to the MCC only for safe keeping.
William John Clifton " Bill " Haley (; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981 ) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians.
Bill Haley was born in Highland Park, Michigan as William John Clifton Haley.
( There never was a " Clifton ’ s Cafeteria Science Fiction Club.
A son of Harry Caswell Noland ( 1896 – 1975 ), a pathologist, and his wife, Bessie ( 1897 – 1980 ), Kenneth Clifton Noland was born in Asheville, North Carolina.
The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies was edited by Clifton, while the academic publishers AltaMira Press began release of the Pagan Studies Series.
The earliest match in CricketArchive which involved Grace was in 1859, only a few days after his eleventh birthday, when he played for Clifton Cricket Club against the South Wales Cricket Club at Durdham Down, his team winning by 114 runs.
The first time he made a substantial score was in July 1860 when he scored 51 for West Gloucestershire against Clifton ; he wrote that none of his great innings gave him more pleasure.
Afterwards, the row was patched up and Gloucestershire invited the Australians to play the county team, minus Midwinter, at Clifton College.
* December 19 The Jacobite army led by Bonnie Prince Charlie ; on retreat from Derby, was defeated by the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Clifton Moor near Penrith, Cumberland.
Writing in 1904, journalist Clifton Johnson documented the " opprobrious " character of the word nigger, emphasizing that it was chosen in the South precisely because it was more offensive than " colored.
Known as ` Peter ' to his friends and colleagues, Cleave was born in Exeter in 1906, and educated at Clifton College.
On 18 February 1890, the Northcote tramway was opened by the Clifton Hill to Northcote & Preston Tramway Company.
This was Melbourne's only non-MTOC cable tram, built by local land speculators and was operated as an independent line, feeding the Clifton Hill line.
Geoffrey Clifton was, in fact, an English spy and had intelligence about Almásy's affair with Katharine.
Clifton took the optical print and bleeped the words, meaning the words were inaudible and the film was given an appropriate rating.
Unhappy with the progress of the film, Grant had Massot removed from the project and Australian director Peter Clifton was hired in his place in early 1974.
Clifton was also annoyed at the decision to remove from the film's credits the names of all the people who had worked on editing, make up and effects.
Unlike Massot, however, Clifton was invited to both the New York and London premieres of the film.
* In 2004, the record was again broken by a group from Clifton, Queensland which used a standard Mack truck to pull 120 trailers a distance of about.
It was designed in 1946 by Clifton " King of Zydeco " Chenier, and fashioned by Willie Landry, a friend and metalworker at the Texaco refinery in Port Arthur, Texas.
" The most successful version was written by Clifton W. Tayleur for actress Lucille Western, who was paid $ 350 a night for her performance as Isabel Vane.
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