" A hand-woven crown of thorns associated with the portrait is often said to have been made by the Pope but may have been woven by his wife Varina Davis.

Davis was fascinated by Paris and its cultural environment, where black jazz musicians, and African Americans in general, often felt better respected than they did in their homeland.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Davis recorded a series of albums with Gil Evans, often playing flugelhorn as well as trumpet.

Also during that time she would often sing with Spencer Davis.

Corrupt county commissioner Boss Jefferson Davis Hogg, who either runs or has fingers in just about everything in Hazzard County ( and whose exact powers, much like the terms of the Duke boys ' probation, often vary between episodes ) is forever angry with the Dukes, in particular Bo and Luke, for eternally foiling his crooked scams and is always looking for ways to get them out of the picture so that his plots have a chance of succeeding.

In live performances, Jones ' keyboard showpiece was " No Quarter ", often lasting for up to half-an-hour and sometimes including snatches of " Amazing Grace ", Joaquín Rodrigo's " Concierto de Aranjuez ", which had inspired Miles Davis ' Sketches of Spain, and variations of classical pieces by composers such as Rachmaninoff.

Davis gained a reputation as a perfectionist who could be highly combative, and confrontations with studio executives, film directors and costars were often reported.

Director Vincent Sherman recalled the intense competitiveness and animosity between the two actresses, and Davis often joked that she held back nothing in a scene in which she was required to shake Hopkins in a fit of anger.

In later years, Davis often used it as her opening line at speaking engagements.

Lake-effect snows hit the southern portion of the county harder, and even in non-lake-effect storms, the lack of a rain shadow in Davis County ( much of Salt Lake County lies in the rain shadow of the Oquirrh Mountains ) means that storms often hit Davis County harder.

Davis County is often characterized as a bedroom community.

Star Baron Davis often found himself at odds with coach Mike Montgomery and failed to remain healthy, playing in just 54 games.

William Morris Davis ( February 12, 1850-February 5, 1934 ) was an American geographer, geologist, geomorphologist, and meteorologist, often called the " father of American geography ".

Many studies in geomorphology in the decades following Davis ' development of his theories sought to fit their ideas into this framework for broad scale landscape evolution, and are often today termed " Davisian ".

According to the study, from 1990 – 1997, the Innu community of Davis Inlet had a suicide rate more than twelve times the Canadian average, and well over three times the rate often observed in isolated northern villages.

Davis does state that the terms " lagoon " and " estuary " are " often loosely applied, even in scientific literature.

Midway through this season, Paige Davis left as host, and episodes now often featured two carpenters.

The race is often cited as an example of Davis ' history of negative campaign tactics.

The John and Ken Show in Los Angeles called Davis Gumby in response to his changing positions on issues, while Mr. KABC and Al Rantel ( also in Los Angeles ) coined the term Governor Lowbeam as a reference to his alleged mishandling of the electricity crisis and his term as Chief of Staff for Jerry Brown, who was often mocked as Governor Moonbeam.

Gray Davis critics often charge that he did not respond properly to the crisis, while his defenders attribute the crisis solely to the corporate accounting scandals and say that Davis did all he could.

Davis ' personality was often described as aloof and his political style cautious and calculated instead of charismatic.

The Chronicle commented that Davis was often on the right side of the issues but that being on the right side of the issues alienated the electorate.

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

Except for Chandler, the entire radio cast of Arden, Gordon, Richard Crenna ( Walter Denton ), Gloria McMillan ( Harriet Conklin ), and Jane Morgan ( landlady Margaret Davis ) played the same roles on television.

Bob Davis acknowledges the possibility that had Coleman played, Essendon may well have won, given that Geelong had no true match for him, as Coleman was simply too skilled.

Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

Wood himself played the eponymous character, but under the pseudonym " Daniel Davis ".

Hewitt played only Davis Cup matches for the remainder of the year, recording five-set wins over Roger Federer and Juan Carlos Ferrero in the semifinals and final respectively, as Australia went on to win the Davis Cup.

Though Davis denies it in his autobiography, it is also likely that the environment in which he was living played a role.

A few critics go as far as to call Walkin the album that created hard bop, but the point is debatable, given the number of musicians who were working along similar lines at the same time ( and of course many of them recorded or played with Davis ).

Davis played some gigs at the Cafe Bohemia with a short-lived formation that included Sonny Rollins and drummer Art Taylor, and then traveled to France, where he recorded the score to Louis Malle's film Ascenseur pour l ' échafaud.

Davis, however, had neglected to inform current pianist Kelly of Evans ' role in the recordings ; Kelly subsequently played only on the track " Freddie Freeloader " and was not present at the April dates for the album.

" So What " and " All Blues " had been played by the sextet at performances prior to the recording sessions, but for the other three compositions, Davis and Evans prepared skeletal harmonic frameworks that the other musicians saw for the first time on the day of recording, to allow a fresher approach to their improvisations.

Stitt's playing with the group is found on a recording made in Olympia, Paris ( where Davis and Coltrane had played a few months before ) and the Live in Stockholm album.

The quintet played essentially the same repertoire of bebop tunes and standards that earlier Davis bands had played, but they tackled them with increasing structural and rhythmic freedom and, in the case of the up-tempo material, breakneck speed.

It also played a central role in the development of the musical style later referred to as Piedmont blues ; indeed, much of the music played by such artists of the genre as Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Boy Fuller, Elizabeth Cotten, and Etta Baker, could be referred to as " ragtime guitar.

Only in the final sets of matches at the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, the Olympic Games, Davis Cup, and Fed Cup are tie-breaks not played.

Her brother, Ben Davis, played defensive back for the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

She was replaced during most of her season seven maternity leave by Mimi Davis, played by Barbara Anderson, who had just come from the show Ironside.

A number of women have played male roles in King Lear ; most commonly the Fool, who has been played ( among others ) by Judy Davis and Emma Thompson but also, significantly, Lear himself, played by Marianne Hoppe in 1990 and by Kathryn Hunter in 1996-7.

As global interconnectedness makes legitimate suspense more difficult to achieve, several writers — including Elizabeth Peters, P. C. Doherty, Steven Saylor, and Lindsey Davis — have eschewed fabricating convoluted plots in order to manufacture tension, instead opting to set their characters in some former period.

Davis and Panzer were unhappy with Peckinpah's version, which included a grossly distorted opening sequence of two characters making love.

Historian and biographer Edmund King, whilst painting a slightly more positive picture than Davis, also concludes that Stephen, while a stoic, pious and genial leader, was also rarely, if ever, his own man, usually relying upon stronger characters such as his brother or wife.

Glen Morgan and James Wong's early influence on The X-Files mythology led to their introduction of popular secondary characters who would continue for years in episodes written by others, such as the Scully family: Dana's father, William ( Don S. Davis ); her mother, Margaret ( Sheila Larken ); and her sister, Melissa ( Melinda McGraw ).

Many actresses feared playing unsympathetic characters and several had refused the role, but Davis viewed it as an opportunity to show the range of her acting skills.

A Perfect Murder is a 1998 remake directed by Andrew Davis and starring Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow in which the characters of Halliday and Swann are combined, with the husband ( Douglas ) hiring, or rather coercing, his wife's lover ( played by Viggo Mortensen ) into a scheme to kill her.

Most are Swift Enterprises employees, such as Harlan Ames, Phil Radnor, Hank Sterling, Arvid Hanson, Slim Davis, George Dilling, Art Wiltessa, and Miss Trent — the two Toms ' office secretary and the lone female among recurring Swift Enterprises characters.

However, due to unauthorised usage, and what she regarded as a misrepresentation of her characters ( particularly Falco's father, implied to be a drunken wife-beater ), Lindsey Davis was highly displeased.

The paper's headlines read " Davis Terminated ", a reference to one of then governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger | Arnold Scharzenegger's movie characters, The Terminator.

Other attempts to bring comic strip characters to TV did not have anywhere near as much success until one of the Peanuts directors, Phil Roman, brought the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield to TV starting in 1982, resulting in 11 specials and a long-running animated series.

Julie Davis found the characters to be " superficially pretty " and " so-clean-they-look-almost-like-paper-cutouts " with " really, really gigantic eyes ", though she notes that the animal alter forms of the zodiac members were " cute and cuddly ".

One has only to watch his performances as the returning emigrant unjustly convicted in Detenuto in attesa di giudizio or the miserly sub-proletarian of Lo scopone scientifico teased by the old millionaire Bette Davis into endless card games where he hopes to find release from his poverty to appreciate his skills in the first role, while the rampant, unscrupulous doctor he plays in Il medico della mutua is the perfect example of his aptness at rendering characters who were both truly despicable and completely believable.

Several other characters, including Sadie, Dave and Lucy, were one by one written out of the series as Alison Davis ended her reign to be replaced by ex-Hollyoaks producer Sean O ' Connor.

* A second back door pilot was made for a series that would have featured Greg Antonacci and Gene Davis as Eugene Conigliaro and Mickey Long, two humorously incompetent characters who were introduced in the Rockford episode " The Jersey Bounce " ( the same character names are used in both episodes but they are clearly different characters as both of them and Rockford do not even know each other in the second episode, " Just A Coupla Guys ").

Ironically, issues of Uncanny X-Men during the time of this Excalibur had much in common with the original Excalibur: lighthearted stories by Chris Claremont, colorful art by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer, characters including Nightcrawler and Rachel Summers, and even a cameo appearance by Captain Britain.

Roger Davis ' original theme voiceover referred to the characters as " latter day heroes ".

" According to the Corner Gas tagline, it is from nowhere, but still within a relatively short drive to " The City ," where characters are often shown going to shop or attend " support meetings ," in the case of Davis and Lacey.

The musical February House, a co-production by the Long Wharf Theatre and New York's Public Theater in 2012 features Carson McCullers as one of the major characters and depicts her relationship with George Davis as well as her friendships with W. H. Auden and Erika Mann.

Davis and Korn voiced themselves in season 3 of South Park in the episode " Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery ", which features them as Scooby Doo-esque characters, driving a Mystery Machine-like van and trying to solve a mystery about pirate ghosts.

Warwick Davis stated in interviews that Willow and Leprechaun are his favourite characters that he's played in his career.

The additions, originally requested by Google ( Kat Momoi, Mark Davis, and Markus Scherer wrote the first draft for consideration by the Unicode Technical Committee in August 2007 ) and Apple Inc. ( whose Yasuo Kida and Peter Edberg joined the first official UTC proposal for 607 characters as coauthors in January 2009 ), went through a long series of commenting by members of the Unicode Consortium and national standardization bodies of various countries participating in ISO / IEC JTC1 / SC2 / WG2, especially the United States, Germany, Ireland ( led by Michael Everson ), and Japan ; various new characters ( especially symbols for maps and European signs ) were added during the consensus-building process.

In the 1954 musical film White Christmas his picture is used to depict an Army buddy ( named " Freckle-Faced Haynes ") of lead characters ( Wallace and Davis ) played by Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, and also the brother of the female leads ( the Haynes Sisters ) played by Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen.