In April 2012, Marc Jenner from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, ran in the Virgin London Marathon dressed in a Bagpuss costume to raise money for the charity, supported by Emily Firmin and Oliver Postgate's family.

During production, the Clangers grew in size from the first to the last episode, to allow Firmin to use an Action man model figure in " The Rock Collector.

The City of Desloge, Missouri was founded by Firmin V. Desloge, II son of Firmin Rene Desloge, the founder of the Desloge Family in America, who migrated from France and settled in Potosi.

Firmin Desloge, who emigrated from Nantes, France in 1822 as the founder of the Desloge Family in America, located in Potosi and established a mercantile, distillery, fur trading and lead smelting business.

In 1994, Firmin provided an illustration for a British postage stamp ( SG1804 ) featuring characters from Noggin the Nog.

Firmin is married to Joan, who knitted the Clangers from vibrant pink wool.

* Article from Something about the Author ( Volume 58 ) about Peter Firmin

Augereau became a division commander and played a significant role at the Battle of Boulou from 29 April to 1 May, where his feint attacks lured Luis Firmin de la Union's Spanish army into a false position.

Saint Fermin of Amiens ( also Firmin, from Latin, Firminus ; in Spanish, Fermín ; in Basque, Fermin ) is one of many locally venerated Catholic saints.

It has been noted that it is somewhat modeled after Farrell, but it is modeled more after Geoffrey Firmin from Malcolm Lowry 1947 novel, Under the Volcano.

Such was Louis Bourguet ( 1678 – 1743 ), who, besides his geological works, founded two periodicals which in different ways did much to stimulate the intellectual life of the Suisse Romande ; these were the Bibliothèque italique ( 1729 – 1734 ), which aimed at making more widely known the results of Italian research, and the Mercure suisse which, first issued in 1732, lasted till 1784, under different names ( rom 1738 onwards the literary section bore the name of Journée helvetique ), and secured contributions from most of the leading writers of the Suisse Romande of the day, such as Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ), Abraham Ruchat ( 1678 – 1750 ), and others.

Noggin the Nog is a popular British children's character appearing in his own TV series ( of the same name ) and series of illustrated books, the brainchild of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin.

Firmin also co-created, with Ivan Owen, the British TV puppet Basil Brush in 1963.

This resulted in the Firmin-produced characters looking like they were short in one leg, but the success of the production provided the foundation for Postgate and Firmin to start up their own company solely producing animated children's programmes.

The Smallfilms system was reliant on the company's only two employees – Postgate and Firmin – and was devoid of the modern considerations and essentials, as Postgate pointed out: " excused the interference of educationalists, sociologists and other pseudo-scientists, which produces eventually a confection of formulae which have no integrity.

Using an Irish-produced magnetic system – on which animated characters were attached to a painted background, and then photographed through a 45 degree mirror – he persuaded Peter Firmin, who was then teaching at the Central School of Art, to create the background scenes.

Based on concepts which mostly originated with Postgate, Firmin did the artwork and built the models, while Postgate wrote the scripts, did the stop motion filming and many of the voices.

* Postgate and Firmin created a map of their fictional railway which was adhered to rigidly during filming.

In 1885, Haitian anthropologist Anténor Firmin published an early work of négritude De l ' Égalité des Races Humaines (), which was published as a rebuttal to French writer Count Arthur de Gobineau's work Essai sur l ' inegalite des Races Humaines ().

He was defeated in the Battle of Günzburg by Jean-Pierre Firmin Malher's division of Michel Ney's VI Corps which was still operating on the north bank.

He taught for many years in Saint-Brieuc, then went to study in Paris, where he influenced the reformist Alfred Firmin Loisy, a founder of the failed movement to bring Catholicism into sympathy with science, the modern social sciences and philosophy, called " Catholic modernism ," which eventually precipitated the crisis in the Church under Pope Pius X in the years around 1907.

Firmin Didot was the inventor of stereotypography which entirely changed the book trade.

Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ) was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva ( Switzerland ) during his final 40 years.

Setting up their business in a disused cowshed at Firmin's home in Blean near Canterbury, Kent, Postgate and Firmin worked on children's animation programmes.

* In Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, Hugh Firmin escapes his British upbringing by enlisting as a sailor on the ship Philoctetes.

Firmin Desloge II, who died in 1930, willed to his family the original of the hand-dug pits of the original lead mining operations and the deeply rutted wagon tracks on a property.

The novel tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac ( the Aztec name of Cuernavaca ), on the Day of the Dead, November 2, 1938.

Firmin had an impact on Jean Price-Mars, the founder of Haitian ethnology and on 20th century American anthropologist Melville Herskovits.

The new president, Florvil Hyppolite, gave him an important military position in the north, but when President Tirésias Simon Sam resigned, he joined Anténor Firmin in a march on Port-au-Prince in an effort to seize control of the government.

The U. S. responded by imposing a naval blockade on the two centers still loyal to Firmin, paving the way for Alexis to seize control of the government for himself.

He died at St Firmin, near Chantilly, on the 13th of February 1806.

Before Copeau returned to Paris in June 1920, Charles Dullin had already taken on students and was giving acting lessons at the Théâtre Antoine under the tutelage of Firmin Gémier, the actor who originated the role of Ubu in Alfred Jarry's Ubu roi.

* Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ), scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy

Many fonts today are available based on Firmin Didot's typefaces.

*# Second Round — Defeated Firmin Abissi ( Benin ) on knock-out in first round

Created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin of Smallfilms, it starred a family of penguin-like creatures who lived at the back of a barn on Berrydown Farm.

Many fonts today are available based on Firmin Didot's typefaces.

From October 1840 until January 1843 he was in Paris, busy with the treasures of the Bibliothèque Nationale, eking out his scanty means by making collations for other scholars, and producing for the publisher, Firmin Didot, several editions of the Greek New Testament — one of them exhibiting the form of the text corresponding most closely to the Vulgate.

Firmin Abauzit was born of Protestant parents at Uzès, in Languedoc.

* Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Abauzit, Firmin.

He studied with Robin Mallapert and Firmin Lebel.

Haitian intellectuals, led by Louis-Joseph Janvier and Anténor Firmin, engaged in a war of letters against a tide of racism and Social Darwinism that emerged during this period.

The first full preterist exposition was finally written in 1730 by the Protestant and Arian, Frenchman Firmin Abauzit (‘ Essai sur l ' Apocalypse ’), who worked in the those time independent Republic of Geneva as a librarian.

Postgate and Firmin recognised that their product was not to be sold to or bought by children, but by the commissioning television executives.

Firmin designed the characters, and his wife knitted and ' dressed ' the Clangers.

** Firmin Abauzit, French scientist ( b. 1679 )

** Firmin Abauzit, French scientist ( d. 1767 )

Among those who gave Newton corrections for the Second Edition were: Firmin Abauzit, Roger Cotes and David Gregory.

Firmin V. Desloge, II became acquainted with mining through his father and acquired many claims in the area of what is modern day Desloge and Bonne Terre.