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A Sonata For Violin And Piano, called `` Bella Bella '', by Robert Fleming, was given its first United States performance.
It was also called a thermionic valve, vacuum diode, kenotron, thermionic tube, or Fleming valve.
In 1906, Lee De Forest of the U. S. added a control " grid " to the valve to create a vacuum tube RF detector called the Audion, leading Fleming to accuse him of copying his ideas.
: One century ago, in November 1904, John Ambrose Fleming FRS, Pender Professor at UCL, filed in Great Britain, for a device called the Thermionic Valve.
In his introduction to the first, The Saint on TV, Charteris called these volumes a team effort in which he oversaw selection of stories, initially adaptations of scripts written the 1962 – 69 TV series The Saint, and with Fleming Lee writing the adaptations ( other authors took over from Lee ).
On radio, Verne Lundquist and Al Wisk announced the game for the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network, and Jack Fleming and Myron Cope called the game for the Steelers Radio Network.
Locally, Verne Lundquist and Brad Sham called the game for the Cowboys on KRLD-AM in Dallas, while Jack Fleming and Myron Cope called it for the Steelers on WTAE-AM in Pittsburgh.
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.
In late 1963, Eastwood's co-star on Rawhide, Eric Fleming, rejected an offer to star in an Italian-made western called A Fistful of Dollars, to be directed in a remote region of Spain by the then relatively unknown Sergio Leone.
That film, along with a war-adventure called The Guns of Navarone directly inspired producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman to invest in their own spy-adventure based on the novels of Ian Fleming.
Seymour Fleming, a character in the play Babes in Arms, is also called thus.
The first person narrator of the novel is an unnamed medical doctor turned politician ( called Dr Stephen Fleming in the Louis Malle film ) whose promotion from MP to cabinet member is imminent.
Fleming, better known as the creator of James Bond, took his inspiration for the subject from a series of aero-engined racing cars called " Chitty Bang Bang ", built by Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s at Higham Park.
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 Sunday Times called Goldfinger " Guilt-edged Bond ", whilst the Manchester Evening News thought that " Only Fleming could have got away with it ... outrageously improbable, wickedly funny, wildly exciting ".
Fleming dropped out and was replaced by Ian Stuart Black, and a new format / character to be called " Lone Wolf " was developed.
He has a pet called Alexander Lemming, ( a pun on Alexander Fleming ).
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.
Both McClory and Fleming claim to have come up with the concept of SPECTRE ; Fleming biographer Andrew Lycett and John Cork both note Fleming as the originator of the group, Lycett saying that " proposed that Bond should confront not the Russians but SPECTRE ..." whilst Cork produced a memorandum in which Fleming called for the change to SPECTRE:
Cork also noted that Fleming used the word " spectre " previously: in the fourth novel, Diamonds Are Forever, for a town near Las Vegas called " Spectreville ", and for " spektor ", the cryptograph decoder in From Russia, with Love.

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In an article he submitted for the medical journal The Lancet during World War I, Fleming described an ingenious experiment, which he was able to conduct as a result of his own glass blowing skills, in which he explained why antiseptics were killing more soldiers than infection itself during World War I. Antiseptics worked well on the surface, but deep wounds tended to shelter anaerobic bacteria from the antiseptic agent, and antiseptics seemed to remove beneficial agents produced that protected the patients in these cases at least as well as they removed bacteria, and did nothing to remove the bacteria that were out of reach.
Fleming was the first to push these studies further by isolating the penicillin, and by being motivated enough to promote his discovery at a larger scale.
Fleming describes these two principles.
Colonel Thornton Fleming Brodhead ( 1822 – 1862 ) was one of the island's most prominent residents in these fields of endeavor.
By 1985 there were plans to publish the manuscript as it stood, together with some of the other short Wimsey pieces, both published and unpublished, but these failed due to the death of Sayers ' son and heir Anthony Fleming in that year.
The most recent of these was Thunderball, a novel Fleming initially published under his own name, but which was the subject of a legal action by its co-authors, Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham.
Ian Fleming took these aspects for his " M ", Sir Miles Messervy-using Cumming's other initial for the name and having M always write in green ink.
According to the Mundell – Fleming model of 1962 and 1963, a small, open economy cannot achieve all three of these policy goals at the same time: in pursuing any two of these goals, a nation must forgo the third.
Both of these men were too valuable to stay long, once the immediate threat of invasion was over, and both later served in Burma, Fleming in deception work, Calvert in the Chindits.
Soon afterwards, the nobility of Finland, led by the Sigismund-appointed Governor, Klaus Fleming, rejected these decisions.
When these plans were scrapped, Fleming novelized the work into his ninth official novel, Thunderball ; however, the novel only credited Fleming.
On this basis, Fleming ( 1991 ) has classified Shabo as Nilo-Saharan and, within Nilo-Saharan, as nearest to Koman, while Ehret ( 1995 ) has argued that neither Nilo-Saharan nor Afro-Asiatic present any convincing similarities, seeing the Koman words as early loans and saying that " once the evidence of these influences is identified and separated out, there is little else to suggest that Shabo might belong to the Nilo-Saharan family.
The friendly regard in which the Marquess was held in Berlin was reflected in Hitler indiscreetly informing his guest, in October 1936, of his intended moves both on Czechoslovakia and Poland years in advance of these two invasions being actioned ( Fleming, page 189 ).
The majority of these stories have, as of 2008, never been collected in book form, unlike the Fleming works.
Fleming exhibited her singing ability, dueting with Crosby on “ Once and For Always ” and soloing with “ When Is Sometime .” She and Crosby recorded these songs for a 78 rpm Decca soundtrack album.
In April the Earl of Hertford gave him particular instructions to carefully entertain offers of alliance from Lord Maxwell and his heir, Robert, and Lord Fleming if these Scottish lords were to " enter.
The most notable of these is Fleming N along the southern rim, while another, only slightly smaller crater cuts across the lower eastern rim.
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Fleming.
Due to the success of SilverFin and Blood Fever, Hollywood has been interested in adapting these novels to film ; however, Ian Fleming Publications and Charlie Higson have said they hope to release a few more books before possibly considering it.
Fleming has denied these allegations, writing " the ultraleft Southern Poverty Law Center is always railing against ' right-wing extremism.

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" However, she considered that " it really is time to stop treating Ian Fleming as a Significant Portent, and to accept him as a good, if rather vulgar thriller-writer, well suited to his times and to us his readers.

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