This ship was originally named the USS Kearsarge, but was renamed in honor of the previous Hornet CV-8 ( famous for the Doolittle raid ), which was lost in October 1942.

ELIZA was named after Eliza Doolittle, a working-class character in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, who is taught to speak with an upper-class accent.

Norton produced their second full album, Doolittle, which was recorded in the last six weeks of 1988 and seen as a departure from the raw sound of Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa.

Doolittle had a much cleaner sound, largely due to Norton and the production budget of US $ 40, 000, which was quadruple that of Surfer Rosa.

" Monkey Gone to Heaven " was a Top 10 modern rock radio hit in the U. S., and reached the Top 100 in the U. K. Like Surfer Rosa, Doolittle was acclaimed by fans and music critics alike.

After Doolittle tensions between Deal and Francis came to a head ( for example, Francis threw a guitar at Deal during a concert in Stuttgart ), and Deal was almost fired from the band when she refused to play at a concert in Frankfurt.

During the making of Doolittle he was listening heavily to The Beatles ' White Album.

*, launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942, fought at the Battle of Midway, and was sunk at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942

* In 1952 he was awarded the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal by the National Academy of Sciences for his contributions to Cambrian paleontology.

Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with the leads, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being played originally by Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, was a huge hit in New York and London.

In summarizing Miller's military career, General Jimmy Doolittle said, “ next to a letter from home, that organization was the greatest morale builder in the European Theater of Operations .”

LeMay was quite aware of the Japanese opinion of him: he once remarked that had the U. S. lost the war, he fully expected to be tried for war crimes, especially in view of Japanese executions of uniformed American flight crews during the 1942 Doolittle raid.

The first raid on Tokyo was the Doolittle Raid of April 18, 1942, when sixteen B-25 Mitchells were launched from USS Hornet to attack targets including Yokohama and Tokyo and then fly on to airfields in China.

Doolittle, awarded the Medal of Honor for his 1942 Tokyo raid, was the first military customer at the field on 9 October 1927.

Warner was criticized for choosing a non-singing star, Audrey Hepburn, to play the leading role of Eliza Doolittle, and indeed that year's Academy Award for Best Actress went to Julie Andrews, who had played Eliza on Broadway and the London Stage, for Mary Poppins, while Audrey Hepburn was not even nominated.

Doolittle, the last of Phelps County's towns to be formed, was incorporated on July 2, 1944.

Doolittle Raid training was conducted here.

Coney's record was soon eclipsed on September 5, 1922 by Jimmy Doolittle piloting a De Havilland DH-4 biplane from Pablo Beach to San Diego in an elapsed time of 22 hours and 35 minutes.

The idea of naming the new city after General Doolittle was well-received, along with the idea of having General Doolittle dedicate the town after the war effort.

In 1946, Lt General Jimmy Doolittle spoke at the dedication ceremony in which the town was christened in his honor.

There had never been a good reason for Doc Doolittle to grow up.

Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion retained his social commentary and added appropriate songs for the characters of Henry Higgins and Liza Doolittle, played originally by Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.

Doolittle featured the single " Here Comes Your Man ", which biographers Josh Frank and Caryn Ganz describe as an unusually jaunty and pop-like song for the band.

In the autumn of 2011 the " Lost Cities " tour continued the " Doolittle Tour " as they played many venues for the first time.

Other composers for viols include Moondog, Kevin Volans, Roy Whelden, Toyohiko Satoh, Roman Turovsky, Giorgio Pacchioni, Michael Starke, Emily Doolittle, and Jan Goorissen.

The movie stars Audrey Hepburn in the role of Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison repeating his stage performance as Professor Henry Higgins, and which will win him his only Academy Award for Best Actor.

The attacks were somewhat ineffectual at first but still fueled the desire for revenge sparked by the Doolittle Raid.

She is also acclaimed for her roles as the bartender Guinan in Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Terry Doolittle in Jumpin ' Jack Flash.

Doolittle Hall is the headquarters of the Academy's Association of Graduates and also serves as the initial reception point for new cadets arriving for Basic Cadet Training.

On an aircraft carrier entering San Diego Harbor, Admiral Hammond, in the name of the Secretary of the Navy, awards Petty Officer Second Class Joseph Brady ( Gene Kelly ) and Seaman Clarence Doolittle ( Frank Sinatra ) Silver Stars for actions on the USS Knoxville.

The Japanese killed an estimated 250, 000 civilians while searching for Doolittle ’ s men.

Rafe and Danny are both promoted to Captain, awarded the Silver Star and assigned to now-Colonel Doolittle for a dangerous and top-secret mission.

The takeoff sequences for the Doolittle Raid were filmed on the USS Constellation ( CV-64 ) | USS Constellation, a Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier | Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier

The town is named for Lt. General Jimmy Doolittle of World War Two fame who bombed Tokyo in a daring raid and helped turn the tide of the war in the Pacific.

This production turned out to be very stressful for Pryce because Martine McCutcheon, who portrayed Eliza Doolittle, was sick during much of the show's run.

He earned the Medal of Honor for his valor and leadership as commander of the Doolittle Raid while a lieutenant colonel.

) A newspaper article reported that many animals that were ' supposed to be hostile to each other but among which, in this new paradise, the greatest friendship prevails ', and this image may have been the inspiration for the Doctor Doolittle literary character.,

Leland S. Andrews also flew an American Airlines Airplane Development Vultee, powered by a Wright Cyclone engine, non-stop from Los Angeles, California, to FBF in 11: 34: 16 hours ( beat Doolittle by almost a half-hour ) and established a new transcontinental non-stop record for a passenger transport airplane.

The 2011 concert at the O2 Arena announced a new Peace One Day initiative Global Truce 2012, Razorlight and Eliza Doolittle headlined.

* September 3-Jimmy Doolittle sets a new landplane airspeed record of 296 mph ( 476 km / h ) in the Gee Bee R-1

The following year, Robyn Doolittle added two new awards for excellence in investigative journalism and newsroom leadership.

Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Charles Doolittle Walcott reached an agreement with Federico Boyd to conduct a biological inventory of the new Canal Zone in 1910, and this survey was subsequently extended to include all of Panama.

" Upon the release of Doolittle in April 1989, NME < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Edwin Pouncey added: " the wonderful ' Monkey Gone to Heaven ' is laced with lush but unobtrusive strings which nibble round the edge of the song and push it into a new realm of arrangement for the band.