There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

Miami rounded out its 2001 – 02 season roster with players well past their prime such as Rod Strickland, Chris Gatling, Jim Jackson, LaPhonso Ellis and Kendall Gill along with Mourning, Jones, Grant and Carter, whom the Heat signed to a controversial three-year deal that many said was far too much for the young guard.

Ellis has said that the stories in The Informers were collected and released only to fulfill a contractual obligation after discovering that it would take far longer to complete his next novel than he'd intended.

Webb Ellis was born in Salford, Lancashire ( some sources say he was born in Manchester as Webb Ellis himself said he was born there in the 1851 census as he later moved to the city ).

Thomas has said her father's surname, " Antonious ," was anglicized to " Thomas " when he entered the U. S. at Ellis Island, and that her parents could neither read nor write.

For example, the early dialect researcher A. J. Ellis said that Liverpool and Birkenhead had " no dialect proper ".

Games at Ellis Park, Loftus Versfeld, or Vodacom Park are said to present physical problems, and to influence a match in a number of other ways, such as the ball travelling further when kicked.

Screenwriter Kirk Ellis was said to be drafting a screenplay for the potential series.

An aide to Waters said that Obey had pushed her while Obey's spokesperson, Ellis Brachman, placed the blame on Waters for escalating the situation.

( Heinlein himself said he may have gotten the idea from the 1905 story Pigs is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler.

His later design work was said to have been influenced by the pioneering work of Liverpool architect Peter Ellis, who designed and built the world's first two metal-framed, glass curtain-walled buildings, Oriel Chambers ( 1864 ) and 16 Cook Street ( 1866 ).

JRT was said to have later been sold under the name " Nevada Pascal " by Ellis Computing.

In regards to Ellis ' speech writing, Beazley had said on the 7. 30 Report that if he had used any of Ellis ' speeches he would have been out of politics.

Ellis Arnall, who said that he relished a showdown with Callaway, even signed the Republican's petition.

Some of these individuals organized a write-in campaign on behalf of Ellis Arnall, who said that he neither encouraged nor discouraged their undertaking.

In 1982 at the Buddhist Society in London, Ruth Ellis's son Andre McCallum secretly taped a conversation with Humphreys ( Source: Ruth Ellis: My Sister's Secret Life, Andre McCallum ) where he said the following:

In 1977, Ellis was signed to Atlantic Records, which promised to fund the Orchestra's upcoming trip for the band's performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland in exchange for a live recording of said performance.

" I had a friend of mine named Donnie Hall, and he fought Ali ," Ellis said.

" I liked him, and I fought a lot of top-rated fighters when I was with him, but eventually I had to move on ," Ellis said.

The right hand " hurt me so bad I couldn't really fight my best after that ," Ellis said.

Chain founder Jerry Ellis said nothing had been planned yet, but Building 19 hoped to open another store in southern New Hampshire in the future.

Ellis said the book was an homage to Stephen King and the comic books he loved as a child.

It was the need to synchronize the scramblers that suggested to James H. Ellis the idea for non-secret encryption which ultimately led to the invention of both the RSA encryption algorithm and Diffie-Hellman key exchange well before either was reinvented publicly by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman, or by Diffie and Hellman.

He happened to mention an idea he had for the hall, and Ellis promptly encouraged to produce some plans, provided they could be ready in nine days.

According to people who attended the recording sessions, Ellis didn't yet have lyrics for the closing theme, so he sang nonsense words to give an idea of how it would sound.

Heinlein waived any claim, stating that he had borrowed the idea from the 1905 Ellis Parker Butler short story Pigs Is Pigs and asking only for an autographed copy of the script.

Ellis refused, stating that he " thought it was such a terrible and gimmicky idea ", and Avary eventually shot the scenes with Casper Van Dien.

Cocks was intrigued, and invented, in 1973, what has become known as the RSA encryption algorithm, realising Ellis ' idea.

A well-traveled and well-read person who counted among her friends Leo Tolstoy and Havelock Ellis, she also visited Sweden and from her trips to schools there she brought back the idea of teaching children domestic crafts, thus single-handedly establishing shop and home economics classes in the United States.

" From the same interview, Ellis mentioned that an idea for a mini-series adaptation was brought forth to HBO though it was ultimately declined and further stating the movie would be left in Roger Avary's hands if one was to be made.

More elementary is the idea that Allison and Ellison are derived from the surname Ellis, with the meaning ' son of Ellis '— a commonly accepted origin in many genealogical books and surname indexes.

Ellis elaborates her idea in autoethnography as good writing that through the plot, dramatic tension, coherence, and verisimilitude, the author shows rather than tells, develops characters and scenes fully, and paints vivid sensory experiences.

The idea, according to her early biographer Ellis Chadwick, was first suggested by her husband William Gaskell to ' sooth her sorrow '.

Scholar Hilda Ellis Davidson says that while " the idea of a link with Sumerian Inanna, ' Lady of Heaven ', was attractive to early scholars " the notion " seems unlikely.

However, Volkskas was not fond of this idea, and eventually took complete control over the stadium as a new company called Ellis Park Stadium Pty Ltd.

The Manhattan Guardian series is set in " Cinderella City " ( to separate it from the ugly sisters Metropolis and Gotham ) which is New York but with unrealised architectural projects including an idea for the Hotel Attraction proposed by Gaudí, Hans Hollein's " Rolls-Royce Building " concept for the Chase Manhattan Bank Building, Robert Moses ' Mid-Manhattan Expressway and Frank Lloyd Wright's " Ellis Island Key ".

Albert Ellis ' system, originated in the early 1950s, was first called rational therapy, and can ( arguably ) be called one of the first forms of cognitive behavioral therapy.

Starting in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, concurrently with the contributions of Ellis and Beck, Arnold A. Lazarus developed what was arguably the first form of " broad-spectrum " cognitive behavioral therapy.

Three of them ( later to be known as Liberty, Black Tom and Ellis ) were given the name Oyster Islands by the settlers of New Netherland, the first European colony in the Mid-Atlantic states.

The Federal Government assumed control of immigration on April 18, 1890 and Congress appropriated $ 75, 000 to construct America's first Federal immigration station on Ellis Island.

Today, over 100 million Americans-one third of the population-can trace their ancestry to the immigrants who first arrived in America at Ellis Island before dispersing to points all over the country.

The first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island was Annie Moore, a 15-year-old girl from Cork, Ireland, who arrived on the ship Nevada on January 1, 1892.

Some of the first examples were created ca 1981 by graffiti artist Blek le Rat in Paris ; by 1985 stencils had appeared in other cities including New York City, Sydney and Melbourne, where they were documented by American photographer Charles Gatewood and Australian photographer Rennie Ellis.

The acronym GUT was first coined in 1978 by CERN researchers John Ellis, Andrzej Buras, Mary K. Gaillard, and Dimitri Nanopoulos, however in the final version of their paper they opted for the less anatomical GUM ( Grand Unification Mass ).

* Annie Moore, first immigrant to USA to be processed at Ellis Island

The Rugby World Cup, first held in 1987, takes place every four years, with the winner of the tournament receiving the Webb Ellis Cup.

His first records were made with Eric Dolphy ( another former member of Hamilton's group ) and Don Ellis, in 1960.

In 1897, Havelock Ellis, a British sexologist, co-authored the first English medical text book on homosexuality, Sexual inversion ( Das Konträre Geschlechtsgefühle ).

) A friend of Edward Carpenter, Ellis was one of the first sexologists who did not regard homosexuality as a disease, immoral, or a crime.

Although personal accounts of taking the cactus had been written by psychologists such as Weir Mitchell in the US and Havelock Ellis in the UK during the 1890s, the German-American Heinrich Kluver was the first to systematically study its psychological effects in a small book called Mescal and Mechanisms of Hallucinations published in 1928.

On 1 August 1976, the country became a republic, and the last Governor-General, Sir Ellis Clarke, became the first President.

In 1878, Disney's father Elias had moved from Huron County, Ontario, Canada to the United States at first seeking gold in California before finally settling down to farm with his parents near Ellis, Kansas, until 1884.

He collaborated with Edwin Ellis on the first complete edition of William Blake's works, in the process rediscovering a forgotten poem " Vala, or, the Four Zoas ".

* The first usenet experiments are conducted by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis of Duke University.

The designs of the chapels are meant to represent each of the seven most prominent ethnic groups to first immigrate to New York City upon the opening of Ellis Island in 1892, the same year the Cathedral was begun.

* 2012: British actor Alexander Ellis portrays Dillinger in the first Dollar Baby screen adaptation of Stephen King's The Death of Jack Hamilton.

The first VLIW compiler was described in a Ph. D. thesis by John Ellis, supervised by Fisher.

Emergency medicine traces its development as a specialty in UK to 1952 when Mr Maurice Ellis was appointed as the first consultant in Emergency Medicine in the UK at Leeds General Infirmary.

In 1967 the Casualty Surgeons Association was established with Maurice Ellis as its first President.

The Mi-go appeared in comic books in the first three issues of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu: The Whisperer in Darkness that featured the Miskatonic Project, created by Mark Ellis.