Smith found that the 1826 letter by James Curtis cited by Dunn and others as the first known use of the term was actually written in 1846, and a 1827 diary entry by Sandford and Son ( published in a newspaper in 1859 ) was likely an editorial comment and not from the original diary.

As Whale biographer James Curtis wrote, the play " managed to coalesce, at the right time and in the right manner, the impressions of a whole generation of men who were in the war and who had found it impossible, through words or deeds, to adequately express to their friends and families what the trenches had been like ".

When his longtime companion David Lewis died in 1987, his executor and Whale biographer James Curtis had his ashes interred in a niche across from Whale's.

* Curtis, James ( 1998 ).

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

Don Shead's Aluminium monohulls, Italian manufacturers Picchiotti and CUV, and the James Beard-Clive Curtis Cougar catamarans set the record.

In the early Meiji era, James Curtis Hepburn, following Medhurst, spelled all " e " s as " ye " in his A Japanese and English dictionary ( 1st ed.

The is named after James Curtis Hepburn, who used it to transcribe the sounds of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet in the third edition of his Japanese – English dictionary, published in 1887.

Biographer James Curtis writes: " Tracy was scarcely a blip on the box office barometer in 1935, a critics ' darling and little more ".

The last names " Flintstone " and " Rubble ", as well as other common Bedrock surnames such as " Shale " and " Quartz ", are in line with these puns, as are the names of Bedrock's celebrities: " Gary Granite " ( Cary Grant ), " Stony Curtis " ( Tony Curtis ), " Ed Sulleyrock / Sulleystone " ( Ed Sullivan ), " Rock Pile / Quarry / Hudstone " ( Rock Hudson ), " Ann-Margrock " ( Ann-Margret ), " Jimmy Darrock " ( James Darren ), " Alvin Brickrock " ( Alfred Hitchcock ), " Perry Masonry / Masonite " ( Perry Mason as played by Raymond Burr ), " Mick Jadestone and The Rolling Boulders " ( Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones ), " Eppy Brianstone " ( Brian Epstein ) and " The Beau Brummelstones " ( The Beau Brummels ).

His artistic influences include Sly & the Family Stone, Parliament-Funkadelic, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, Johnny " Guitar " Watson, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, Marvin Gaye, the Isley Brothers, Duke Ellington, Curtis Mayfield, and Stevie Wonder.

The popularity of many of the major bands was amplified by star vocalists, such as Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey, Helen O ' Connell and Bob Eberly with Jimmy Dorsey, Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb, Billie Holiday and Jimmy Rushing with Count Basie, Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest with Harry James, Doris Day with Les Brown, Toni Arden and Ken Curtis with Shep Fields and Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman.

Bonds were sold against the company to fund the new developments, but after the Internet bubble burst in 2000 and the resultant reduction in customer demand for such products, Curtis Crawford was replaced by James ( Jim ) Thorburn who reorganized the company under Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 2001 and refocused it back to the 8 and 16 bit microcontroller market.

The Impressions's " We're a Winner ", written by their lead singer Curtis Mayfield, became a virtual anthem of the black power and black pride movements, as did James Brown's " Say It Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud ", Collin Carlone's " Life As a ' Boro Black Boy ", and, unwittingly, Martha & the Vandellas ' " Dancing in the Street ".

Corman has been a mentor to young film directors including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, Curtis Hanson, John Sayles, and many others.

Brenda Castleberry, Myrtice Bunn, Donald Branch, Curtis Wilson, and James Perry.

Curtis Wilson, and James Perry were brought in as Council Members in April of 2012 and while they have not been in office long, they have already started making their mark.

Daniel Altenburg, Levi Walsworth, the Sherlock family, Samuel Sprott, David Weave, David Shoemaker, Henry Curtis, Lyman Childsey, James Cosper, and David Cosper were early residents.

A post office named " Curtis " operated briefly, from June 14 until August 23, 1881, with James Simons as postmaster.

* James Curtis Hepburn ( 13 March 1815 )-missionary and linguist ; deviser of the Hepburn system for writing Japanese in Roman characters.

Chennault was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in December 1972, along with Leroy Grumman, Curtis LeMay and James H. Kindelberger.

* Jamie Lee Curtis and James Saito ( deleted scenes ) as Sandra and Masado Banzai

His contribution in pioneering soul music led to the rise of Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and popularized the likes of Otis Redding and James Brown.

Bond scholar John Griswold notes that in the original draft of the story, Fleming killed Leiter off in the shark attack ; when Naomi Burton, Fleming's US agent with Curtis Brown protested about the death of the character, Fleming relented and Leiter lived, albeit missing an arm and half a leg.

* Bird of Prey — Adapted by Nelson S. Bond as Birds of Prey for Gruen Guild Theater, June 19, 1952 ( Season 2, Episode 7 ), starring Bill Baldwin, William Challee and Billy Curtis.

John Wayne was cast as Wead, Ken Curtis as John Dale Price, and Ward Bond played director Ford in the thinly-disguised pseudonymous character of John Dodge.

" She was a teacher and mentor to the young people of SNCC, highly influencing the thinking of such important figures as Julian Bond, Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Curtis Muhammad, Bob Moses, and Bernice Johnson Reagon, who wrote a song in Baker's honor, called " Ella's Song.

The television cast: back, from left: Doreen Thomson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Melinda Naud, Bond Gibson.

Hunt also directed some episodes of the 1971 British television series, The Persuaders !, which starred future James Bond Roger Moore, and Tony Curtis.

During this period, Nápoles also became a fan favorite in southern California, and, after beating Fate Davis, on February 15 of 1969 in Mexico, he was given an opportunity to win the world championship when he faced the current champion Curtis Cokes in Inglewood, on April 18.

The decade started with Rob Reiner's Misery ( 1990 ), based on the book by Stephen King, with Kathy Bates as an unbalanced fan named Annie who terrorizes, in her care, an incapacitated author named Paul ( James Caan ); in one horrifying scene, she ' hobbles ' his ankles so that he can't escape, a battered wife who left her sadistic husband to find a better life was vengefully pursued in Sleeping with the Enemy ( 1991 ), Curtis Hanson's The Hand That Rocks the Cradle ( 1992 ), with Rebecca De Mornay as a nanny intent on seeking revenge against her dead obstetrician husband's patient ( Annabella Sciorra ), Unlawful Entry ( 1992 ) with Ray Liotta as cop being obsessed with a woman he saved, Barbet Schroeder's suspenseful Single White Female ( 1992 ), with Bridget Fonda and her obsessed roommate-from-hell Jennifer Jason Leigh, Harold Becker's Malice ( 1993 ) with Alec Baldwin and Nicole Kidman, and lastly Anthony Minghella's psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley ( 1999 ) with Matt Damon being obsessed with, and then assuming the identity of, Jude Law.

Haig was a fan of Joy Division and " It's Kinda Funny " was inspired by the death of Ian Curtis.

In the 1990s and into the 2000s decade, other artists such as Lifehouse, MercyMe, Natalie Grant, Kathy Troccoli, Sixpence None the Richer, Steven Curtis Chapman, and Michael W. Smith have crossed in between the Christian and secular worlds with little disapproval from their fan bases.

Early rowing machines are known to have existed from the mid 1800s, a US patent being issued to WB Curtis in 1872 for a particular hydraulic based damper design.

" Whale's biographer Curtis rejects the notion that Whale would have identified with the Monster from a homosexual perspective, stating that if the highly class-conscious Whale felt himself to be an antisocial figure, it would have been based not in his sexuality but in his origin in the lower classes.

Anderson agreed to play Nancy Rizzi, the first girlfriend of John Curtis ( based on Landon and played by Lance Kerwin ), saying she was very thrilled to have been asked.

The ancient Egyptians also used dyadic fractions in measurement, with denominators up to 1 / 64, using a notation based on the Eye of Horus ( see, e. g., Curtis ).

* Never Forget ( 7 May 2008 – 15 November 2008 ), a new musical with a book by Daniel Brocklehurst, Guy Jones and Ed Curtis based on the 1990s songs of the band Take That and the music and lyrics of Gary Barlow.

Boeing ( 707 ) Boeing ( 707 ) ( alternately titled Boeing Boeing ) is a 1965 American bedroom farce comedy film, based on the 1960 French play Boeing-Boeing, and starring Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis.

In 1990, Martin Lee got together with songwriters Paul Curtis and David Kane to compose a musical based on The Butterfly Children books by Angela and Pat Mills.

It was composed in 1913 and is based on North American indigenous tribal melodies drawn from the studies of this native music by ethnomusicologist, Natalie Curtis Burlin.

Under Major General Curtis LeMay, the U. S. 20th Air Force, based in the Mariana Islands, undertook low-level incendiary bombing missions, results of which were soon measured in the number of square miles destroyed.

Records is an American independent record label founded by Curtis Casella in Boston, Massachusetts which is currently based in San Diego.

ABC-Paramount was based in New York, but it recorded a number of Chicago soul acts through its Chicago offices, most notably The Impressions, led by guitarist and songwriter Curtis Mayfield.

The 1975 film Lepke, starring Tony Curtis, was based on Buchalter's life.

Florio was a regular topic on active anti-tax broadcasting from talk radio stations New Jersey 101. 5, Curtis Sliwa's AM Radio Talk Show and Bob Grant's AM Radio Talk show, both based in New York City.

Cain made a return to the Superman franchise, with a special guest role in a seventh season episode of Smallville as the immortal Dr. Curtis Knox, a character based upon the DC Comics villain Vandal Savage.

Curtis Roads suggests a taxonomy of cloud morphology based on atmospheric clouds: cumulus, stratocumulus, stratus, nimbostratus, and cirrus ; as well as nebulae: dark or glowing, amorphus or ring-shaped, and constantly evolving.

Curtis ' poem B-Girls, much of which is based on his observations of people who visited his grandmother's bar, Slugger Anns, led to Curtis ' inclusion in the 1979 book The Poets ' Encyclopedia.

* In 2004, a film based on Curtis ' life, Superstar in a Housedress, brought Jackie Curtis back to the limelight, exposing some little known facts about the performer to the public.

From " Dancin ' Party " ( 1977 ), the band produced their own records with more cover versions including " I Wonder Why " ( originally by Dion and the Belmonts ), " Blue Moon " ( based on The Marcels ' interpretation ) and another Curtis Lee original " Pretty Little Angel Eyes ", again co-written by Tommy Boyce.

Some of his works include music videos for Depeche Mode's " Enjoy the Silence " ( 1990 ) and Nirvana's " Heart-Shaped Box " ( 1993 ), as well as the Ian Curtis biopic Control ( 2007 ), George Clooney's The American ( 2010 ), and A Most Wanted Man ( 2013 ) based on John le Carré's 2008 novel of the same name.

The film is based on Deborah Curtis ' book Touching From A Distance about her late husband and the biography Torn Apart by Lindsay Reade ( Tony Wilson's ex-wife ) and Mick Middles.

A TV movie, Nicholas ' Gift, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Alan Bates, was based on the event.