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

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.

In late 1894 or early 1895, Dickson became an ad hoc advisor to the motion picture operation of the Latham brothers, Otway and Grey, and their father, Woodville, who ran one of the leading Kinetoscope exhibition companies.

Wedgwood was chairman ; also present were William Townsend Aiton ( successor to his father, William Aiton, as Superintendent of Kew Gardens ), Sir Joseph Banks ( President of the Royal Society ), James Dickson ( a nurseryman ), William Forsyth ( Superintendent of the gardens of St. James's Palace and Kensington Palace ), Charles Francis Greville ( a Lord of the Admiralty ) and Richard Anthony Salisbury, who was to become the Secretary of the new society.

The city was originally to be named " Dicksonville ," after local citizen Thomas Dickson who had donated some of his land to create a railroad depot.

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.

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The county was named for William Dickson, a Nashville physician and statesman who served in Congress at the time.

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.

Caution meets Dickson, who soon dies in the process of making love to a " Seductress Third Class ".

Drummer Dewey Martin, who had played with garage rock group the Standells and country artists such as Patsy Cline and The Dillards, was added to the roster less than a week later after contacting the group at the suggestion of the Byrds ' manager, Jim Dickson.

Andrew Dickson White ( November 7, 1832 – November 4, 1918 ) was a U. S. diplomat, historian, and educator, who was the co-founder of Cornell University.

“ Natural calamity tests the administrative structures and social bonds of any society ”, Dickson notes, and Ireland in 1740 was, “ by contemporary western European standards, lightly governed, materially poor, and socially polarized .” The Protestants were the governing class who owned land.

Soon after forming The Jet Set, Crosby introduced McGuinn and Clark to his associate Jim Dickson, who became the group's manager.

The acknowledged master of the locked-room sub-genre was John Dickson Carr, who also wrote as Carter Dickson.

One such developer was the Honourable William Dickson who, in 1816, came into sole possession of of land along the Grand River that was later to make up North and South Dumfries Townships.

" It obeys no architectural rules ," declared Dickson, who found it " productive of the happiest effects in the films.

This simple fact from combinatorics has become attributed to the American algebraist L. E. Dickson, who used it to prove a result in number theory about perfect numbers.

At Yale he was a classmate of Andrew Dickson White, who would later serve as first president of Cornell University.

It was directed by Joseph M. Newman, starred Rennie and Jeanne Crain, and was based on a 1943 play Cabin B-13 by John Dickson Carr.

The first film publicly shown on the system was Blacksmith Scene ( aka Blacksmiths ); directed by Dickson and shot by Heise, it was produced at the new Edison moviemaking studio, known as the Black Maria.

He was also featured in a 1986 feature film called Biggles: Adventures in Time, directed by John Hough with Neil Dickson in the title role.

Category: Films directed by William Kennedy Dickson

Category: Films directed by William Kennedy Dickson

It was originally conceived as an hour-long video based around their album Actually, but it turned into a surreal full-scale feature film directed by Jack Bond and co-starring Barbara Windsor, Joss Ackland, Neil Dickson and Gareth Hunt.

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.

Heinlein's Starship Troopers is an early example, along with the Dorsai novels of Gordon Dickson.

Dickson as a test of the early version of the Thomas Edison | Edison Kinetoscope # Kinetophone | Kinetophone, combining the Kinetoscope and phonograph.

Although Dickson never lived in the county named for him, his relatives played roles in its early development.

Some of the centers that were built in the 1990s and early 2000s include Dickson City Crossings, Dickson City Commons, Park Center and Commerce Plaza.

In the early 20th century Slayden was home to a department store and was considered a major community of Dickson County.

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, cites William Henry Nugent's work asserting that it was derived from the fancy, a collective term from England used to describe the fans of a specific hobby or sport from the early 18th Century to the 19th, especially to the followers of boxing.

During her early days on the London stage, Dickson was introduced to another future celebrity ( as well as centenarian ), whose name was Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later the Queen Mother.

The performances included early newsreels from around the world, many of them made by film pioneer William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, including film of the Anglo-Boer War ( 1900 ).

By early 1891, however, Dickson, his new chief assistant, William Heise, and another lab employee, Charles Kayser, had succeeded in devising a functional strip-based film viewing system.

The Kinetophone ( aka Phonokinetoscope ) was an early attempt by Edison and Dickson to create a sound-film system.

The first known movie made as a test of the Kinetophone was shot at Edison's New Jersey studio in late 1894 or early 1895 ; now referred to as the Dickson Experimental Sound Film, it is the only surviving movie with live-recorded sound made for the Kinetophone.

Laurie Dickson supervises the construction of the first movie studio called the " Black Maria " in West Orange, New Jersey which produces many of the early Kinetoscope short films of the 1890s later seen in penny arcades the following year after the studio is completed.

Oscar Dickson, along with Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Sibiryakov, had been the patron of a number of early Arctic expeditions, including Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld's Russian Arctic explorations.

A promotional tape produced for an early BBC digital radio service, Five Live Sports Plus, used Two Tribes as backing music with Patrick Allen ( or a sound-alike, presumably Peter Dickson ) explaining the new service using sport as conflict metaphor-in a parody of the parody, the tape ended with the phrase " Mine is the last analogue voice you will ever hear.

During his early years on the Supreme Court, Dickson was typically known for siding with the opinions of Laskin and Spence, creating a voting bloc that has been known as the " L-S-D connection ".

Mix never appeared on these broadcasts, and was instead played by radio actors: Artells Dickson ( early 1930s ), Jack Holden ( from 1937 ), Russell Thorsen ( early 1940s ) and Joe " Curley " Bradley ( from 1944 ).

The Dickson Experimental Sound Film is a film made by William Dickson in late 1894 or early 1895.

The soundtrack was not inventoried by the U. S. National Park Service, custodians of the Edison NHS, until the early 1960s, when a wax cylinder in a metal canister labeled “ Dickson — Violin by W. K. L.

The Panbride Bleachfield, at which linen from the expanding local industry was bleached was opened by John Dickson in the early 1840s adjacent to the railway near the mouth of the Craigmill burn on land which is now occupied by David Murray Transport.