The historian William Hepworth Dixon referred to the Code Napoleon as " the sole embodiment of Bacon's thought ", saying that Bacon's legal work " has had more success abroad than it has found at home ", and that in France " it has blossomed and come into fruit ".

Bogart plays embittered writer Dixon Steele, who has a history of violence and becomes a suspect in a murder case at the same time that he falls in love with a failed actress, played by Gloria Grahame.

In linguistics, R. M. W. Dixon has proposed a punctuated equilibrium model for language histories, with reference particularly to the prehistory of the indigenous languages of Australia and his objections to the proposed Pama – Nyungan language family there.

The first rail shipment of merchandise from San Francisco arrived in 1872 mistakenly addressed to “ Dixon ,” and the new spelling has been used since ( mainly out of simplicity ).

The next morning, Godfrey is shown what to do by the sardonic, wise-cracking maid, Molly ( Jean Dixon ), the only servant who has been able to put up with the antics of the family.

Since shear waves cannot pass through liquids, this phenomenon was original evidence for the now well-established observation that the Earth has a liquid outer core, as demonstrated by Richard Dixon Oldham.

Since then, Dixon has assembled a number of similar examples of Australian Aboriginal myths that accurately describe landscapes of an ancient past.

Federally, Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek is located in California's 25th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 7 and is represented by Republican Buck McKeon.

* Rene Woollard, a session guitarist and vocalist, born in Burgess Hill who has worked with Alesha Dixon, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Cheryl Cole.

Richard Dixon Oldham FRS ( 31 July 1858 – 15 July 1936 ) was a British geologist who made the first clear identification of the separate arrivals of P-waves, S-waves and surface waves on seismograms and the first clear evidence that the Earth has a central core.

He also impersonated an African prince ( also played by Ivan Dixon ) where he has to shave off his trademark mustache.

However, it has little in common with traditional Scots orthography as described in Grant and Dixon ’ s Manual of Modern Scots ( 1921 ).

Breedon has a football club, Breedon F. C., whose players include former Aston Villa trainee Jon Dixon.

The song " Sailing to Philadelphia " from Mark Knopfler's album of the same name, also has strong references to Mason and Dixon, and was inspired by Pynchon's book.

In one of the few times that Dixon is seen to lose his temper, he furiously declares there to be nothing worse than " a bent copper ", and forces Carr to take off the uniform jacket he is " not fit to wear "; only once Carr has done this does Dixon arrest him.

However, in The Blue Lamp, Dixon has a wife named Em ( Gladys Henson ) and it is mentioned that their only son, Bert, was killed in the Second World War – hence Dixon adopts a paternal aspect towards PC Andy Mitchell ( Jimmy Hanley ), a young policeman on his first day.

's albums ), newschool ( Paluch, Aifam ), rapcore ( Kazik ), ragga ( AbraDab ), crunk ( Połnocny Toruń Projekt ), bounce ( Tede ) or gangsta /" street " rap Razem Ponad Kilo, Fabuła, Dixon 37, Hemp Gru, Chada, Sobota, Peja-especially his earliest recordings ), some of the artists also mix the genres ( Słoń had hardcore punk and metal vocalists as guests on his solo albums and mixtapes with Shellerini, NON Koneksja mixes reggaeton with gangsta rap, Firma has reggae and grime influences but is mostly a gangsta / street rap group ), but the majority of Polish rappers, both on the mainstream and underground scenes, is the trueschool rap, which resembles the East Coast sound with reflective lyrics about life and other important personal subjects ( however in the underground the reflective subjects are often abandoned and replaced with emphasis on the advanced techniques of writing lyrics and rapping, such as multiple rhymes and various puns-this style is represented by Dinal, consisting of Pan Wankz, Mejdej and Urbek, Okoliczny Element, which consists of Mejdej, Ninjah and Szufla, and solo rappers such as Smarki Smark, Zkibwoy, LaikIke1 ).

The character of Dixon has further scenes filmed but, from Anderson's reactions, appear not to be working.

Wright has appeared in television commercials for the chicken sauce, Chicken Tonight, Nescafé and Ladbrokes along with Chris Kamara, Ally McCoist and former Arsenal team mate Lee Dixon.

This has been a great topic of debate among musicologists for decades, and it has even been suggested by Graham Dixon that Monteverdi ’ s setting of the Vespers is more suited towards use for the feast of Saint Barbara, claiming, for example, that the texts taken from Song of Songs are applicable to any female saint.

Dixon recommended that the forts be maintained and strengthened, even though they were not in ideal locations, because much work had been done on them and the Confederates might not have time to build new ones.

Dixon and a local civic group had been seeking a NFL franchise for over 5 years and had hosted record crowds for NFL exhibition games.

Similarly, Nancy Drew mystery books are published as though they were written by Carolyn Keene, The Hardy Boys books are published as the work of Franklin W. Dixon, and The Bobbsey Twins series are credited to Laura Lee Hope, although several authors have been involved in each series.

Dixon had been a key player in the expansion of the NFL into New Orleans and the New Orleans Saints began play in 1967.

Official USFL football. The USFL was the brainchild of David Dixon, a New Orleans antiques dealer, who had been instrumental in bringing the New Orleans Saints to town.

Disputes between British Columbia and Alaska over the Dixon Entrance of the Hecate Strait between Prince Rupert and the Queen Charlotte Islands have not been resolved.

It is not clear if Dixon or Romer considered it impossible to do so, or if they were simply not familiar with the prior analysis of " applied ideas ", " intellectual capital ", " talent ", or " innovation " where instructional and individual contributions have been carefully separated, by economic theorists.

There is still a regrettable under-representation of artists of African, African-American, or African-European origins in the conducting profession, but there have been notable exceptions, such as Henry Lewis, Dean Dixon, James DePreist, Paul Freeman, and Michael Morgan.

Three basic properties of equilibrium in general have been proposed by Huw Dixon, These are:

Modern attempts to reconstruct a musically valid playing style for Border music such as the Dixon tunes have been very successful, and several respected pipers play in such styles.

Other such experiments, though limited in depth, had been done by: George Dixon in 1780 in Cockfield, Jean-Pierre Minckelers in 1785 in Louvain, and Archibald Cochrane in 1787 at his estate Culross Abbey.

Tiger Bay's most famous native residents have been singer Shirley Bassey, and rugby league stars Frank Whitcombe, Billy Boston and Colin Dixon.

These instruments seem to have been well-established in Northumberland by the early 18th century ; many of the tunes in the William Dixon manuscript are suitable for such simple chanters, and a painting of Joseph Turnbull, Piper to the Duchess of Northumberland, in Alnwick Castle, shows him with such a set.

The necessity of an efficient transport network for County Durham had been realised as far back as 1767 by George Dixon and other coalmine operators.

Subsequent titles have been written by a number of different ghostwriters, all under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon.

At the end of that third performance on August 8, 1966 — only the fifth time the play had been performed in public — the SFPD raided the venue and arrested actors Billie Dixon ( Jean ) and Richard Bright ( Billy ).

Several aspects of the I-880 facility have been constructed in designated floodplains such as the 1990 interchange improvements at Dixon Landing Road.

It was dug out of the sand in which it had been buried for nearly 2, 000 years and was encased in a great iron cylinder, long and in diameter, designed by the engineer John Dixon and dubbed Cleopatra, to be commanded by Captain Carter.

The police in The Sweeney were far removed from the cosy BBC world of Dixon of Dock Green, or even from the BBC's slightly more realistic Z-Cars ( which itself had been co-created by Troy Kennedy-Martin ).

Dixon had been as far as 2 and a half minutes behind with 10 km to go, but steadily loomed over Smith's shoulder.

Jeremiah Dixon served as assistant to Charles Mason in 1761 when the Royal Society selected Mason to observe the transit of Venus from Sumatra.

In 2002, Juan Dixon was honored as a part of the ACC 50th Anniversary men's basketball team, one of only 8 Terrapins selected to the 50-man team.

She was selected to be the keynote speaker for the 2009 Washington & Jefferson College Commencement exercises and is Cornell University's A. D. White ( Andrew Dixon White ) Professor at Large.

Ayoade was part of the original cast of Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding's The Mighty Boosh: he was selected to play the role of dangerous villain Dixon Bainbridge.