Chamberlain eventually rejected the possibility of standing in Sheffield again, and when George Dixon to retired from his Birmingham seat in May 1876, Chamberlain was returned unopposed ( 17 June 1876 ) for the Birmingham constituency, after a period of anxiety following his nomination in which he denounced the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, accusing him of being ' a man who never told the truth except by accident.

An Australian linguist, R. M. W. Dixon, recording Aboriginal myths in their original languages, encountered coincidences between some of the landscape details being told about within various myths, and scientific discoveries being made about the same landscapes.

* the Great Barrier Reef coastline myth ( told to Dixon ) in Yarrabah, just south of Cairns, telling of a past coastline ( since flooded ) which stood at the edge of the current Great Barrier Reef, and naming places now completely submerged after the forest types and trees that once grew there.

According to Warner's autobiography, Jack of All Trades, Elizabeth II once visited the television studio where the series was made and told Warner " that she thought Dixon of Dock Green had become part of the British way of life ".

A young boy, Dixon, offers to help Jim by rapping, then claims that he told Jim who committed the murder, but Jim ignores him.

Another million seller, My Life and Prophecies, was credited " as told to Rene Noorbergen ", but Dixon was sued by Adele Fletcher, who claimed that her rejected manuscript was rewritten and published as that book.

After hosting several exhibition games at Tulane Stadium during typical New Orleans summer thunderstorms, Dixon was told by NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle that the NFL would never expand into New Orleans without a domed stadium.

Ronnie Clayton told them to stick to it and brought in second guitarist Gary Dixon to complete the foursome.

The story of Matilda Dixon, the Tooth Fairy, is told to many generations after the murder, and it is believed that her spirit visits children on the night they lose their last baby tooth, where she seeks her vengeance if they see her.

The District ’ s mayor, Sharon Pratt Dixon told the police to hold back from making arrests for looting because she feared it would only antagonize the crowd and lead to more violence.

Dixon was told that a proposed bill would be written up and that some money would be available to him.

Myers told the E-Cycle representative that Roscoe Dixon told him ( Myers ) that the E-Cycle representative would take care of him ( Myers ).

When Dixon was asked what E-Cycle was paying him for, he responded that E-Cycle could be told that the bill was withdrawn.

Myers was told that if the bill was not pulled that the money would be cut off to him and Dixon.

Roscoe Dixon had a telephone conversation in which he told the E-Cycle representative to do whatever he can to " help Barry.

Myers had a phone conversation with Dixon in which he told Dixon that he wanted to let Dixon know that E-Cycle had taken care of him, so that Dixon could thank the E-Cycle representative.

At that time Mr. Dixon told The Times that the movie had tried only to depict black anger, not to suggest armed revolt as a solution.

Wyn Craig Wade has asserted that Edward Douglass White, the Chief Justice of the United States from 1910 to 1921, told Thomas Dixon " I was a member of the Klan " at the 1915 White House screening of The Birth of a Nation.

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.

In Grady v. Corbin ( 1990 ), the Court held that a double jeopardy violation could lie even where the Blockburger test was not satisfied, but Grady was overruled in United States v. Dixon ( 1993 ).

Postmodern novelists such as John Barth and Thomas Pynchon operate with even more freedom, mixing historical characters and settings with invented history and fantasy, as in the novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Mason & Dixon respectively.

* Thomas Pynchon's three novels Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon and Against the Day are historical, and they variously contrast outrageous personal, subjective, hallucinogenic or even supernatural events with very real, well-researched accuracies from the past.

If Dixon was known to the public, the actor Jack Warner was even better known.

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's birthdate was often reported as 1918 and Dixon would offer this date to reporters, at one point even producing a passport to this effect, but she once testified in a deposition that she was born in 1910.

It was the progenitor of the long-running television series Dixon of Dock Green ( even though Dixon's murder is the central plot of the original film ).

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 ).

Huw Dixon and Claus Hansen showed that even if only part of the economy has sticky prices, this can influence prices in other sectors and lead to prices in the rest of the economy becoming less responsive to changes in demand.

Democrats, desirous to defeat Crittenden and embarrass the Whigs, pledged to vote against him at all costs, even if it meant electing Dixon.

He also had an international reputation, with Lord Denning stating " I would rank him as one of the greatest of your chief justices, rivalling even Sir Owen Dixon.

Dixon was a marauding right back, ever willing to support his winger David Rocastle and his attacking skills were still noted even though his main job ( and the main priority of the side as a whole ) was to defend.

The 2008 IndyCar season was even stronger for the Chip Ganassi Racing team with eventual champion Scott Dixon taking wins at Homestead, Indianapolis, Texas, Nashville, Edmonton, and Kentucky, and teammate Dan Wheldon finishing 4th overall after winning again at Kansas and Iowa.

Huw Dixon and Claus Hansen showed that even if menu costs applied to a small sector of the economy, this would influence the rest of the economy and lead to prices in the rest of the economy becoming less responsive to changes in demand.

Historian and biographer William Hepworth Dixon considered that Bacon's name could be included in the list of Founders of the United States of America.

Beyond Crayola, other brand name crayon manufacturers today include Rose Art Industries and Dixon Ticonderoga.

Others soon followed: James Lake ; Pleasant Green Taylor, who settled on the Urban Stewart claim ; David Jenkins, who put up a small house on the south portion of Stewart's claim ; William W. Dixon, who settled by a small creek that would bear his name ; Stephen Ordway ; Luman A. Shurtleff ; and others.

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.

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

* Leslie McFarlane, who wrote many of the original Hardy Boys books under the pen name Franklin W. Dixon

The Pringles logo is a stylized cartoon caricature of the head of a male figure ( commonly known as " Julius Pringles ") designed by Louis R. Dixon, with a large mustache and parted bangs ( until 2001, the character had eyebrows and his bow tie framed the product name ).

His name is a play on the surveyors Mason and Dixon who drew the border between Maryland and Pannsylvania in the 1760s known as the Mason-Dixon Line.

Justice Sir Owen Dixon was also absent for several years, while he served as Australia's minister to the United States in Washington .< ref name =" quadrant american eyes "> Sir George Rich was Acting Chief Justice in Latham's absence.

* The “ New Malton Road ” was the original name for the sideroad we now call Dixon Road.

He is the son of Louise Annette Talley Dixon and Darrell Bishop, who sometimes worked as a stockbroker and changed his name to Shahid Abdula after converting to Islam.

Shepp's first recording under his own name, Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet, was released on Savoy Records in 1962, and featured a composition by Ornette Coleman.

* Rage ( guitarist ), guitarist with Venom, real name John Stuart Dixon

At the Whig nominating convention, both Graves and Dixon withdrew their names and a delegate from Logan County put forward Crittenden's name without his consent.

Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors ( Leslie McFarlane, a Canadian author, being the first ) who wrote The Hardy Boys novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate ( now owned by Simon & Schuster ).

The following series or books have been published under the name Franklin W. Dixon:

He currently stars as Merle Dixon in the AMC television series The Walking Dead based on the comic book series of the same name.

Other films from the studio include Dance Hall ( 1950 ) with Petula Clark and Diana Dors ; and The Blue Lamp ( also 1950 ), whose lead character, George Dixon, took his name from Balcon's school, and later resurfaced in the long-running television drama Dixon of Dock Green.

Mick Medew continued to tour, write and record with various line-ups until 1992, when he retired the name, re-emerging after a decade long hiatus as Mick Medew and the Rumours featuring ex-Screaming Tribesmen and Lost Boys Chris Dixon and Ash Geary, with bass player Paul Hawker.

Initially focusing on the study of immune disorders under the leadership of Frank J. Dixon, over the following 25 years the faculty grew and diversified its research interests, precipitating another name change in 1977, to The Research Institute of Scripps Clinic.

Dixon quotes at length a refutation of Lightfoot's thesis in the form of a letter by Emanuel Deutsch of the British Museum, who notes that neither the name Bethany, nor any of the roots suggested by Lightfoot, appear anywhere in the Talmud.

Before turning 15, Terrell signed under the Wand subsidiary of Scepter Records after being discovered by Luther Dixon, recording the ballad, " If You See Bill ", under the name Tammy Montgomery.

* In the 2000 miniseries Joker's Last Laugh by Chuck Dixon, Jason Todd's name is mentioned by the Joker to Nightwing as a taunt for him to kill him.