In 1871, Col. Curtis, and businessmen Riley Thompson and Jacob H. Lightsey purchased property from John Hays Allen, and on that property they laid out plans for the town, centering around a public square.

* 1953-as Miss Sadie Thompson, starring Rita Hayworth, José Ferrer, Aldo Ray and Charles Bronson ; adapted by Harry Kleiner, directed by Curtis Bernhardt.

In 1983 he and Outsiders co-star, Patrick Swayze, reunited for Grandview, U. S. A., also with Jamie Lee Curtis, and Red Dawn, with Charlie Sheen and Lea Thompson.

Jennifer Beals, Jennifer Grey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Glenn Close, Ally Sheedy, Diane Keaton, Stockard Channing, Annie Potts, Robin Wright, Nancy Allen, Joan Allen, Rosanna Arquette, Kim Basinger, Ellen Barkin, Patricia Clarkson, Geena Davis, Laura Dern, Linda Fiorentino, Bridget Fonda, Carrie Fisher, Jodie Foster, Melanie Griffith, Linda Hamilton, Daryl Hannah, Helen Hunt, Holly Hunter, Goldie Hawn, Anjelica Huston, Amy Irving, Nicole Kidman, Diane Lane, Christine Lahti, Jessica Lange, Sally Field, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Heather Locklear, Andie MacDowell, Madonna, Virginia Madsen, Demi Moore, Emma Thompson, Uma Thurman, Tatum O ' Neal, Annette O ' Toole, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Greta Scacchi, Elisabeth Shue, Mary Steenburgen, Julia Roberts, Mimi Rogers, Isabella Rossellini, Meg Ryan, Meryl Streep, Sissy Spacek, Kathleen Turner, Sigourney Weaver and Debra Winger were all offered but turned down the role of Catherine Tramell.

The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver, Curtis, G. M. III, and Thompson, James J. Jr., eds.

The trial began on December 6, 1922 at the Old Bailey, with Bywaters defended by Cecil Whiteley KC, and Thompson by Sir Henry Curtis Bennett KC.

Previous guests have included Marc Emery ; Michael Badnarik ; Drew Curtis ; Cindy Sheehan ; Aubrey de Grey ; Gene Ray ; Jim Babka ; Jack Thompson ( attorney ); Daniele Ledonne ; Doug Stanhope ; Bill Westmiller, chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus ; Glen " Kane " Jacobs ; and Ron Paul, US Congressman and Presidential Candidate.

Curtis Thompson started wrestling in 1987.

Another adaptation was made in the US in 1962, starring Yul Brynner and Tony Curtis and directed by J. Lee Thompson ; this adaptation featured a significant musical score by Franz Waxman, which received an Academy Award nomination.

English musicians ( alphabetical ): The Beatles, Chicken Shack ( featuring Christine McVie ( Perfect )), Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, Cream, Lee Curtis and the All-Stars, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, Earth ( pre-Black Sabbath ), The Graduates, The Jimi Hendrix Experience ( US / UK, march 1967 ), The Jaybirds ( featuring Alvin Lee of Ten Years After ), Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas ( band ), The Liverbirds, The Overlanders, The Pretty Things, The Remo Four, The Searchers ; Richard Thompson, Soft Machine ...

Bad Attitude set their sights on the World Tag Team Championship, and on August 15 in Tampa, Florida they defeated Curtis Thompson and Jeff Justice for the NWA World Tag Team Championship.

Among the famous who have taken their own lives are Boudicca, Brutus, Mark Antony, Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Judas Iscariot, Hannibal, Nero, Virginia Woolf, Sadeq Hedayat, Sigmund Freud, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, Ernest Hemingway, Alan Turing, Sylvia Plath, Marina Tsvetaeva, Yukio Mishima, Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Cobain, Ludwig Boltzmann, Ian Curtis, and Vincent van Gogh.

They feuded with Ricky Santana and Curtis Thompson, who formed the tag team of " U. S. Male ", until Warner was forced to leave the promotion in a " loser leaves town " match on June 30, 1990.

* Skip James ( 1902 – 1969 ), American blues musician, born Nehemiah Curtis James

Hip Hop artists are known to use stage names but at times do advertise or bring out their real names such as rappers Jay-Z ( born Shawn Carter ), 50 Cent ( born Curtis Jackson ), Diddy ( born Sean Combs ), Ludacris ( born Chris Bridges ), and Lil ' Wayne ( born Dwayne Carter Jr .).

Screen legend Tony Curtis ( 1925 – 2010 ), who was born Bernard Schwartz, named himself for the titular character ; the novel from which this film was adapted was the actor's favorite.

Curtis Emerson LeMay was born in Columbus, Ohio, on November 15, 1906.

Tony Curtis ( born Bernard Schwartz ; June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010 ) was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s.

Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz in the Bronx, one of three sons of Helen ( née Klein ) and Emanuel Schwartz.

Jamie Lee Curtis ( born November 22, 1958 ) is an American actress and author.

Curtis was born in Santa Monica, California, to actor Tony Curtis and actress Janet Leigh.

John Holmes was born John Curtis Estes on August 8, 1944 in the small rural town of Ashville, Ohio, located a few miles south of the state capital of Columbus.

Born in January 1860 in Topeka, Kansas Territory prior to the arrival of statehood in January 1861, Vice President Curtis is notable as an Executive Branch officer born in a territory rather than state of the Union.

* Shannen Rossmiller, The youngest female judge in United States history, whose testimony led to the conviction of Ryan G. Anderson, and ( Alaskan pipeline terrorist ) Michael Curtis Reynolds was born and worked here.

Newton Martin Curtis, born in the town was a postmaster, brigadier general, and customs inspector.

Musician Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago, Illinois, but spent his early childhood in Jackson, the home of his maternal grandmother., Blues harmonica player John Lee Curtis Williamson, better known as Sonny Boy Williamson, was born in Jackson.

Another important poet of the late twentieth century is Tony Curtis ( born 1946 ) from Carmarthen: he is the author of several collections, most recently War Voices ( 1995 ), The Arches ( 1998 ), and Heaven's Gate ( 2001 ).

* George Curtis Smith ( born 1935 ), U. S. federal judge

By December 1970 Burke formed eight of his children, including Kyrell " Connie " Burke Groves ; Eleanor A. Burke, who was named after his grandmother who raised him ; Melanie Burke ( born March 1960 ); Gemini Curtis Burke ( born June 3, 1961 ), Solomon Vincent Burke, Jr. ( born 15 October 1961 ); Carolyn Burke ; and John Fitzgerald Kennedy " JFK " Burke into a " kiddie-soul " group, the Sons and Daughters of Solomon, whose entire output consisted of " Think of the Children " ( later known as " Save the Children ") ( K14354 ), recorded on December 10, 1971 ; " Don't Leave Me Now " ( K14233 ) and " A Piece of Clay " ( K14354 ), recorded on 21 December 1970 ; MGM single, " Everybody's Got Fingers " ( written by Solomon Burke, and Melanie Burke and JFK Burke ), recorded on January 16, 1971 ; b / w " Don't Leave Me Now " ( MGM K14233 ), a single " Save the Children " ( 1972 ), and a 1973 album " Kid Power " ( PRD0010, MGS 2994 ), the soundtrack to Kid Power, a cartoon adaptation of Morrie Turner's Wee Pals comic strip that was part of ABC Television's Saturday morning lineup during the 1972 – 73 season, on MGM's Lion subsidiary.

Curtis Gordon's 1953 " Rompin ' and Stompin ' ", an uptempo hillbilly-boogie included the lyrics, " Way down south where I was born, They rocked all night ' til early morn ', They start rockin ', They start rockin ' an rollin '.

* January 9 – Heber Doust Curtis, American astronomer ( b. 1872 )

On January 19, 2011, Tribune Media Services announced that Locher was retiring from the strip and handing the reins to artist Joe Staton and writer Mike Curtis.

Charles Curtis ( January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936 ) was a United States Representative, a longtime United States Senator from Kansas later chosen as Senate Majority Leader by his Republican colleagues, and the 31st Vice President of the United States ( 1929 – 1933 ).

Curtis served in the House from March 4, 1893 until January 28, 1907, when he resigned, after being chosen by the Kansas Legislature, to fill the short unexpired term of Senator Joseph R. Burton in the United States Senate.

On that same day of January 28, Curtis was also tapped by Kansas ' state lawmakers for the full senatorial term commencing March 4 of that year and ending March 4, 1913.

John H. Curtis purchased the of land, which included the area that would eventually become Orangeville, on January 1, 1838 at the Dixon Land Office.

* Colonville is a mostly historical settlement in the township at Storekeeper Curtis Palmer was the first postmaster of a rural post office here, which operated from December 4, 1894, until January 15, 1904.

* Williamsville, situated northeast of Williamsville Lake, was at first platted as the Village of Unadilla on January 30, 1837, by Darwin N. Edson and the heirs of Curtis Noble.

In the B-29 campaign, Curtis E. LeMay relieved Kenneth B. Wolfe in India in July 1944, then Hansell on Guam in January 1945.

In January 1862, he reported for duty to Maj. Gen. Samuel Curtis and served under him at the Battle of Pea Ridge.

The site was featured on an episode of the American History Channel TV series Secrets of the Ancient World which aired on January 14, 2002, and in which Boston University archaeology professor Curtis Runnels refuted the theory that the site was built by Celts in ancient history.

In January 1854, the New South Wales Government proclaimed two new districts: Port Curtis and Leichhardt ( roughly today's Fitzroy Region ), and settlement began in earnest in 1855.

Twentieth Air Force commander and AAF Commanding General Henry H. Arnold grew impatient with a lack of discernible results, and replaced General Haywood S. Hansell with General Curtis LeMay as commander of XXI Bomber Command on January 21, 1945.

Born Betty Marion White in Oak Park, Illinois, on January 17, 1922, she is the daughter of Tess Curtis ( née Cachikis ), a homemaker, and Horace Lawrence White, a traveling salesman and electrical engineer.

Curtis Charles Flood ( January 18, 1938 – January 20, 1997 ) was a Major League Baseball player who spent most of his career as a center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Fate was co-founded in 1948 by Raymond A. Palmer ( editor of Amazing Stories ) and Curtis Fuller, suspended print publication in July 2009, and launched a new website in January 2010 featuring news, articles, and blogs written by experts and paranormal researchers.

Curtis Hooks Brogden ( November 6, 1816 – January 5, 1901 ) was the 42nd Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1874 to 1877.

On 25 January 1847, the Lord Auckland, carrying 87 soldiers and convicts, arrived off the southern entrance of Port Curtis and promptly ran aground on shoals off the southern tip of Facing Island.

* January 13 – The Curtiss Aeroplane Company, Curtiss Motor Company, Curtiss Engineering Company, and Burgess and Curtis merge to form the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company.

Curtis and Scarpantoni left the band after the release of Failure, and King Missile III continued as a trio, releasing two more albums: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life ( Instinct Records, January 21, 2003 ) and Royal Lunch ( Important Records, September 21, 2004 ).

Tim Curtis ( born Timothy Stephen Curtis, 15 January 1960, Chislehurst, Kent ) is a former England cricketer.