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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 took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies ; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that " It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born ".
In January 1960 McClory visited Fleming's Jamaican home Goldeneye, where Fleming explained his intention of delivering the screenplay to MCA, with a recommendation from him and Bryce that McClory act as producer.
In the same Wall Street Journal interview, Fleming explained her increasing preference for performing in concerts, rather than opera productions, and said, having learned more than 50 operas, that she is unlikely to learn many more.
Although Celi strongly resembles his literary counterpart, his white hair contrasts with the pomaded black hair that Fleming specified in the novel, and he wears a black eye patch over his left eye for reasons that are never explained in the movie.
Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies ; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that " It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born ".
Each one arrived accompanied by native music ," Fleming explained.

Fleming and wife
He was born the eldest of seven children of James Fleming DD ( died 1879 ), a Congregational minister, and his wife, Mary Ann, at Lancaster, Lancashire and baptized on 11 February 1850.
He is best known for his role, with his wife, singer Fleming McWilliams, in the rock and roll duo, Fleming and John.
William Samuel Fleming, Sr., in 1876 owned most of the land now comprising Holly Hill, and his land holdings continued from there south through Port Orange, where he and his wife Mary lived.
He was married to Anna Dora Gaitskell from 1937, who became a Labour life peer one year after his death, but it is widely known that he had a number of affairs, even during his time in public life with the socialite Ann Fleming, the wife of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
As soon as he arrived in Peterborough in 1845, Fleming became friendly with the family of his future wife, the Halls, and was attracted to Jeanie Hall.
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.
After the death of his wife Jeanie in 1888, Fleming ` s niece Miss Elsie Smith, daughter of Alexander and Lily Smith, of Kingussie, Scotland, presided over his household " Winterholme " 213 Chapel Street, Ottawa, Ontario.
Among their collaborations are a series of mysteries featuring Victoire Vernet, fictional wife of one of Napoleon's generals, a series featuring Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft, and a series fictionalizing the espionage experiences of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
For Tracy's background, Fleming used that of Muriel Wright, a married wartime lover of Fleming's, who died in an air-raid and Bond's grief for the loss of his wife is an echo of Fleming's at the loss of Wright.
Fleming wrote to the real Bond's wife, " It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born.
" At some point during one of Fleming's visits to Jamaica he met with the real Bond and his wife as shown in a made for DVD documentary about Fleming.
A short clip was shown with Fleming, Bond and his wife.
In 1784 it became the property of Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and his wife Izabela Czartoryska, née Fleming.
He spent his early years with his parents, Lewis Fleming and his second wife Margaret Seton, on their St. Johns River plantation, " Hibernia.
Francis P. Fleming was the son Lewis Fleming ( 1798 – 1862 ) and his second wife, Margaret Seton.
* February 16-Mary Stewart Fleming, wife of Canadian Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie ( born 1794 )
In 1958 Fleming holidayed with his wife Ann in Venice and at the Lido peninsula ; Fleming was a great admirer of Thomas Mann's work Death in Venice, which was based on the Lido and the Flemings visited it for that reason, using the location as the backdrop for " Risico ".
With his wife, Mary Fleming ( Richardson ), he was the grandfather of writer Jane Mayer.

Fleming and struck
After the war, Hart-Davis was unable to obtain satisfactory terms from Jonathan Cape to return to the company, and in 1946 he struck out on his own, founding Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd, in partnership with David Garnett and Teddy Young and with financial backing from Eric Linklater, Arthur Ransome, H. E. Bates, Geoffrey Keynes, and Celia and Peter Fleming.
The Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides was struck, with Fleming as deputy chair, to investigate the potential for regulating or banning the use or sale of pesticides used for cosmetic purposes.
Following Miramax's split from Disney, Ian Fleming Publications struck a new deal for the remaining books with Hyperion Books for Children.

Fleming and me
Fleming decided Bond should look a little like both the American singer Hoagy Carmichael and himself and in Casino Royale, Vesper Lynd remarks, " Bond reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless.
Fleming said " She took over my management and helped steer me in the right direction ".
Fleming spent part of her childhood growing up in New Zealand: " My parents packed me off to some friends in New Zealand when I was 16, hoping I would grow up a little and perhaps change my mind about acting.

Fleming and Anglo-Saxon
There are multiple theories of the origin of Leving ( Anglo-Saxon, Fleming, Frank, Norman, and even Hungarian ).

Fleming and yet
* The town was incorporated in 1852 as Shinn's Town by an act of the Virginia Legislature, as West Virginia did not yet exist as an independent state, and Solomon S. Fleming was elected the first mayor.
Based upon the success of his Fleming biography, The Life of Ian Fleming ( 1966 ), MI6 instruct Pearson to write 007's biography ; he is introduced to a retired James Bond — who is in his fifties, yet healthy, sun-tanned, and with Honeychile Ryder, the heroine of Dr. No. Most of James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 is Bond telling his life story, including school and first MI6 missions, referring to most every novel and short story and, notably, to Colonel Sun, the Robert Markham series-continuation novel.
Griffin thought Fleming was " authoritative, yet warm and interesting ," and Fleming was invited to audition for the role of host for a quiz show Griffin was developing.
In the main, he admires Fleming ’ s achievement, yet does not withhold criticism where the material proves unsatisfactory or inconsistent, especially when the narration slips into ‘ the idiom of the novelette ’.

Fleming and very
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 discovered very early that bacteria developed antibiotic resistance whenever too little penicillin was used or when it was used for too short a period.
Selznick had already been unhappy with Cukor (" a very expensive luxury ") for not being more receptive to directing other Selznick assignments, even though Cukor had remained on salary since early 1937 ; and in a confidential memo written in September 1938, four months before principal photography began, Selznick flirted with the idea of replacing him with Victor Fleming.
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.
A. Fleming, of University College London, in the investigation of the electrical behaviour of substances cooled to very low temperatures.
* Pittock, very small Italian neighborhood located just off PA 51 Northbound, before the Fleming Park Bridge
( Fleming was always very modest about his own contribution to the partnership – he once said " the best doubles partnership in the world is McEnroe and anybody.
Richardson also thought that " in reforming Bond Mr. Fleming has reformed his own story-telling which had been getting very loose ".
Fleming was a very elegant left handed batsman and played many brilliant shots such as his favourite flick off the pads, straight drive, cover drive and cut shots. He was also a very clever captain and his field placings for many batsmen like Damien Martyn at point and aggressive captaincy made the opposition struggle for their runs. He was also a prolific slip catcher and fielded well in close-in positions.
In a letter to John Pearson in 1965 when he was researching his biography on Ian Fleming, The Life of Ian Fleming, Jenkins revealed that in the late 1950s he had discussed the idea of a James Bond novel set in South Africa with Fleming, and even written a synopsis of it, which Fleming had very much liked.
Children were also sometimes played by older actors at the time ; the sixteen year-old Judy Garland had very convincingly played twelve year-old Dorothy Gale in the 1939 film classic The Wizard of Oz, another film directed by Victor Fleming, and the nineteen-year-old Charlotte Henry had played Alice in Alice in Wonderland ( 1933 ).
Truly's name is very much the opposite of the usual Fleming female character names, being innocent and rather treacly, although still a pun.
The origin of the village's name is still not very clear, but it is understood to come from a house called " Dunkirk ", lived in by a Fleming from Dunkerque on the border between France and Belgium.
In 1895, at a large meeting at the Melbourne Town Hall, Fleming and John White moved a motion successfully opposing the Melbourne Lord Mayor, Sir Arthur Snowden, from chairing the meeting because of remarks he had made supporting very low wages.
The first prototype ALC No 1 was built by J. Samuel White of Cowes to a design by Fleming Jenkin, but it was not very successful.

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