It was Dickson who suggested to Lord Selkirk that he return to the Atlantic coast by way of the United States.

The last of these, a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.

The " puzzle " approach was carried even further into ingenious and seemingly impossible plots by John Dickson Carr — also writing as Carter Dickson — who is regarded as the master of the " locked room mystery ", and Cecil Street, who also wrote as John Rhode, whose detective, Dr. Priestley, specialised in elaborate technical devices, while in the US the whodunnit was adopted and extended by Rex Stout and Ellery Queen, among others.

As a result of the work of Étienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge, many researchers in the late 19th century realized that films as they are known today were a practical possibility, but the first to design a fully successful apparatus was W. K. L. Dickson, working under the direction of Thomas Alva Edison.

The other important American competitor was the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, which used a new camera designed by Dickson after he left the Edison company.

By November 1891 William Dickson, at Edison's laboratory, was using Blair's stock for Kinetoscope experiments.

Clarissa Dickson Wright claims that it " came to Scotland in a longship from Scandinavia even before Scotland was a single nation.

Dickson Wright suggests that haggis was invented as a way of cooking quick-spoiling offal near the site of a hunt, without the need to carry along an additional cooking vessel.

Author John Dickson argues that it was common in early Christianity to kiss a fellow believer by way of greeting, and as such kissing would have no romantic connotations.

The conflict thesis, which holds that religion and science have been in conflict continuously throughout history, was popularized in the 19th century by John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White.

The college began looking for a new home at the same time that Syracuse, ninety miles to the east, was engaged in a search to bring a university to the city, having failed to convince Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White to locate Cornell University there rather than in Ithaca.

VSO was founded in 1958 by Alec Dickson through a bishop's letter

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson ( 3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935 ) was a

His father was James Waite Dickson, a Scottish artist, astronomer and linguist.

A gifted musician, his mother, Elizabeth Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, was related to the Lauries of Maxwellton ( immortalised in the ballad Annie Laurie ) and connected with the Duke of Atholl and the Royal Stuarts.

Dickson, then the Edison company's official photographer, was assigned to turn the concept into a reality.

Not technically a projector system, it was a peep show machine showing a continuous loop of the film Dickson invented, lit by an Edison light source, viewed individually through the window of a cabinet housing its components.

Dickson was the first person to make a film for a Pope, and at the time his camera was blessed by His Holiness Leo XIII.

With the Lathams, Dickson was part of the group that formed the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, before he returned permanently to work in the United Kingdom in 1897.

The 35 mm width was first used in 1892 by William Dickson and Thomas Edison, using film stock supplied by George Eastman.

* January 10 – Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence ( born 1832

Jeremy Dickson Paxman ( born 11 May 1950 ) is an English journalist, author and broadcaster.

His mother, Joan McKay ( née Dickson ), born 1920, was a housewife, and his father, Arthur Keith Paxman, worked in industry.

Other authors take delight in cherishing their alter egos: Ruth Rendell ( born 1930 ) writes one sort of crime novels as Ruth Rendell and another type as Barbara Vine ; John Dickson Carr also used the pseudonym Carter Dickson.

* Sir William Dickson ( 1898-1987 ), former head of the British armed forces, was born in Northwood

Ayer was born and grew up in the area, as did Chef Clarissa Dickson Wright, and the former Wrights ' home is now home to supermodel Kate Moss.

Politician David Mundell was born in Dumfries as were William Dickson, William Pattison Telford, Sr. and Ambrose Blacklock all of whom made their mark politically in Canada.

* John Dickson Carr, mystery writer, was born in Uniontown.

One son of Daniel Everett Slayden was Hartwell Marable Slayden b ca 1806, who had three sons who were medical doctors: William Marshall Slayden, John Dann Slayden and Hartwell Marable Slayden Jr. All three sons of Hartwell M are in the 1850 Dickson TN census, along with one of the patriarchs " William Everette Slayden " listed as a " waggonmaker " born 1788 in VA, and four other heads of households.

Andrew Dickson White was born on November 7, 1832 in Homer, New York to Clara ( née Dickson ) and Horace White.

The Right Honourable Brian Dickson, born May 25, 1916 in Yorkton, was appointed Chief Justice of Canada on April 18, 1984.

* September 12 — Charles Dickson Archibald, lawyer, businessman and politician ( born 1802 )

* January 31-Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction author ( born 1923 )

Allardyce was born near Bombay, India, the son of Georgina Dickson Abbott and Colonel James Allardyce.

Dickson was born to Thomas Dickson and Sarah Elizabeth Gibson, in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, in 1916.

* January 17 – Leonard Eugene Dickson ( born 1874 ), American mathematician.

* Bobby Dickson ( born 1955 ), Scottish former footballer

Clement was born in Dickson, Tennessee, in the Hotel Halbrook, which was operated by his mother.

* Peter Dickson, ( born c. 1957 ), radio presenter, television announcer

John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington GCMG, GBE, DSO, PC ( 31 October 1866 – 6 December 1936 ), born John Poynder Dickson and known as Sir John Poynder Dickson (- Poynder ) from 1884 to 1910, was a British politician.

He picked up the nickname " Andy " at Cornell, where tradition confers that moniker on any male student surnamed White, after Cornell co-founder Andrew Dickson White.

Dickson, a photographer, worked on the photographic and optical development.

* Van Diemen's Land is a song by Barbara Dickson and is the first track on the album Parcel of Rogues

Dickson invented the first practical celluloid film for this application and decided on 35 mm for the size, a standard still used.

Dickson and his team at the Edison lab then worked on the development of the Kinetoscope for several years.

Later Jordan's results on classical groups were generalized to arbitrary finite fields by Leonard Dickson, following the classification of complex simple Lie algebras by Wilhelm Killing.

All hypercomplex number systems based on the Cayley – Dickson construction from sedenions on contain zero divisors.

* Motivating Early Modal Interpretations, based on the work of R. Clifton, M. Dickson and J. Bub.

With the departures of Boni Boyer, Sheila E., the horns, and Cat, Prince brought in Rosie Gaines on keys, drummer Michael Bland, and dancing trio The Game Boyz ( Tony M., Kirky J., and Damon Dickson ).

* Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, located on the campus of Wilkes University

During the 1950s, Karloff appeared on British TV in the series Colonel March of Scotland Yard, in which he portrayed John Dickson Carr's fictional detective Colonel March, who was known for solving apparently impossible crimes.

* John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man ( 1935, U. S. title The Three Coffins ), usually considered the quintessential locked-room mystery, replete with a tongue-in-cheek philosophical disquisition on the subject by the detective, Dr. Gideon Fell

Dickson, who directed the early Biograph shorts on which Bitzer cut his teeth.

A group of UNC students, led by Student Body President Paul Dickson, filed a lawsuit in U. S. federal court, and on February 20, 1968, the Speaker Ban Law was struck down.

Some of the photographs relate to a long-cherished but unfulfilled idea for a film based on the Harry Dickson stories by Jean Ray.

The Tennessee General Assembly passed a bill on October 25, 1803, creating Dickson County.

General James Robertson built the first iron works on Tennessee's frontier in Dickson County.

Dickson County is bordered on the northeast by the Cumberland River, and is drained by the Harpeth River.

The city housed wounded soldiers from the Battle of Prairie Grove in December 1862, and housed injured troops on Dickson Street.

Confederate troops besieged Union soldiers in Fayetteville on April 18, 1863 at the present-day intersection of College Avenue and Dickson Street, and at their headquarters.

Native American burial mounds are nearby at Dickson Mounds on Illinois Route 97.

Although Munson Seely had settled at what is now Smyrna soon after Dickson had arrived, he moved on to Muskegon County a few years later, though his name remains in Seely Creek.

The Ontario and Livingston Mutual Insurance Office and John and Mary Dickson House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.