Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

Fleming also became convinced that penicillin would not last long enough in the human body ( in vivo ) to kill bacteria effectively.

Fleming also discovered very early that bacteria developed antibiotic resistance whenever too little penicillin was used or when it was used for too short a period.

Fleming also endowed Bond with many of his own traits, including sharing the same golf handicap, the taste for scrambled eggs and using the same brand of toiletries.

The Keswicks have maintained a relationship with another prominent Scottish family, the Flemings, of which the author Ian Fleming was also a member.

It was also called a thermionic valve, vacuum diode, kenotron, thermionic tube, or Fleming valve.

Fleming also contributed in the fields of photometry, electronics, wireless telegraphy ( radio ), and electrical measurements.

Boothroyd also gave Fleming advice on the Berns-Martin triple draw shoulder holster and a number of the weapons used by SMERSH and other villains.

The article also compared Fleming unfavourably to John Buchan and Raymond Chandler in both moral and literary measures.

Seymour Fleming, a character in the play Babes in Arms, is also called thus.

He also appeared in other films such as the Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ) and the 1981 PBS production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and he had a small role in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( 1968 ) which was itself based on a children's book by Bond author Ian Fleming.

He was drawn to the paper, partly because he harboured political aspirations ( the paper ’ s perk as a useful stepping stone to Westminster was, by now, well established ), but also because his father had been a friend of Peter Fleming, its well known columnist.

Robert R Kirsch, writing in the Los Angeles Times, also disagreed with Boucher, saying that " the espionage novel has been brought up to date by a superb practitioner of that nearly lost art: Ian Fleming.

It is also postulated to work for Hamito-Semitic ( Fleming 1973 ), Chinese ( Munro 1978 ) and Amerind ( Stark 1973 ; Baumhoff and Olmsted 1963 ).

Cumberland County was also home to the Fleming family, which included Judge John Fleming and his son Judge William Fleming.

It is also the hometown of the pop singer Lucy Fleming, although her family moved in 2007, the family returned in 2011.

* Renée Fleming, a world famous Lyric Soprano who has sung in the world's most prestigious opera houses, and who was featured on the Lord of the Rings soundtrack, was also born in Indiana.

* She has also appeared in several sword and sandal films, including the 1954 film Queen of Babylon in which she was played by Rhonda Fleming, and the 1963 film I am Semiramis in which she was played by Yvonne Furneaux.

In February 1406, the 12 year-old James together with Orkney and Fleming at the head of a large group of followers left the safety of Bishop Wardlaw's protection in St Andrews and journeyed through the hostile Douglas territories of east Lothian — an act probably designed to demonstrate James's royal endorsement of his custodians but also a move by his custodians to further their own interests in the traditional Douglas heartlands.

A family man, deeply attached to his wife and children, he also welcomed his father Andrew Greig Fleming, Andrew's wife and six of their other children who came to join him in Canada two years after his arrival.

Thus, in the novel, one of the children was called Jemima, after the daughter of his previous employer, Hugo Pitman ; the advice Pott gave to his children also echoed that of Fleming: " Never say ' no ' to adventures.

The two loathe each other, but Fleming feels everyone will believe he is innocent if the person publicly known to hate him also argues his innocence.

This piece of apparently routine work proved very fruitful — it led to the discovery that all the stars of very faint absolute magnitude were of spectral class M. In conversation on this subject ( as I recall it ), I asked Pickering about certain other faint stars, not on my list, mentioning in particular 40 Eridani B. Characteristically, he sent a note to the Observatory office and before long the answer came ( I think from Mrs Fleming ) that the spectrum of this star was A. I knew enough about it, even in these paleozoic days, to realize at once that there was an extreme inconsistency between what we would then have called " possible " values of the surface brightness and density.

Other elements of the novel came from people Fleming knew or had heard of: Red Grant, the name of a Jamaican river guide described as " a cheerful, voluble giant of villainous aspect ", was used for the half-German, half-Irish assassin, while Rosa Klebb was partly based on Colonel Rybkin of Soviet Intelligence.

Fleming based the character M on a number of people he knew who commanded sections of British intelligence.

A further inspiration for M was Maxwell Knight, head of MI5, who signed his memos as " M " and whom Fleming knew well.

Amis followed a tradition set by Fleming of using the names of people he knew or had met during the researches for his book and Amis drew on the names of people he met in Greece for Colonel Sun.

Although the stories and characters were fictional, a number of elements had a real life background, taken from real people or events that Fleming knew or about which he had read.

After the massacre, Fleming and his gang rode off looking to kill the remainder of the group, who they knew had gone to the neighbouring station.

" Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama In a footnote to his address, Franklin added: " Fleming knew better, for in another place — deep in a footnote ( p. 519 )— he asserted that Rapier was from Lauderdale, " educated in Canada ".

Fleming had pencilled in his own name as a crew member of the crew but, as someone who knew about Bletchley Park, he could not be placed at risk of being captured.

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections.

Writing in The Times Literary Supplement Philip Stead was more generous to Dr. No, although he thought that Fleming was offering " too opulent a feast " with the book, although he manages to pull this off, where " a less accomplished writer, lacking Mr. Fleming's quick descriptive gift and his powers of making his characters talk with such lucid and natural style, would never have got away with this story.

* Ian Fleming, in his novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, named the family patriarch " Caractacus Potts ", and in the story, explains the significance of the name to his readers.

Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle.

Following on from the character development of Bond in his previous four novels, Fleming adds further background to Bond's private life in From Russia, with Love, largely around his home life and personal habits, with Bond's introduction to the story seeing him at breakfast with his housekeeper, May.

The hospital has an Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum where visitors can see Fleming's laboratory, restored to its 1928 condition, and explore the story of Fleming and the discovery and development of penicillin through displays and video.

Whilst there, one of Fleming's friends, Duff Dunbar, gave him a copy of Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin to read and suggested that he took the time to write up the bedtime story that Fleming used to tell to tell his son Caspar each evening.

Fleming had originally conceived the card game scene as a separate short story but instead used the device for Bond and Goldfinger's first encounter.

* Ian Fleming – For Your Eyes Only ( short story collection )

* " Quantum of Solace ", a James Bond short story by Ian Fleming.

* Quantum of Solace, a James Bond film named after the Ian Fleming short story, released in October 2008

The Daily Express strip was cut short on the order of its owner, Lord Beaverbrook, after Ian Fleming signed an agreement with The Sunday Times to publish a short story.

In May 1959 Fleming, Bryce, Cuneo and McClory met first at Bryce's Essex house and then in McClory's London home as they came up with a story outline which was based on an aeroplane full of celebrities and a female lead called Fatima Blush.

On settlement, " Fleming ultimately admitted ' hat the novel reproduces a substantial part of the copyright material in the film scripts '; ' hat the novel makes use of a substantial number of the incidents and material in the film scripts '; and ' hat there is a general similarity of the story of the novel and the story as set out in the said film scripts '.

Anthony Boucher wrote that " As usual, Ian Fleming has less story to tell in 90, 000 words than Buchan managed in 40, 000 ; but Thunderball is still an extravagant adventure ".

However, the owner of the Daily Express, Lord Beaverbrook, cancelled the strip on 10 February 1962 after Fleming signed an agreement with The Sunday Times for them to publish the short story " The Living Daylights ".

Bond scholar John Griswold notes that in the original draft of the story, Fleming killed Leiter off in the shark attack ; when Naomi Burton, Fleming's US agent with Curtis Brown protested about the death of the character, Fleming relented and Leiter lived, albeit missing an arm and half a leg.

Whilst expanding on James Bond's back story, Ian Fleming wrote in You Only Live Twice that the agent had attended Fettes College, his father's old school, after having been removed from Eton.

* In the short story " Risico " by Ian Fleming, James Bond orders a Negroni

Fleming undertook some minor experiments with the format, including a story written as an homage to an author he greatly admired, W. Somerset Maugham.

In January and February 1959 Fleming adapted four of television plots into short stories at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica and added a fifth story he had written in the summer of 1958.