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 ".

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.

As with his previous four novels, Fleming himself came up with the concept of the front cover design ; as he had considered Honeychile Rider to have a Venus-like quality when introduced in the book, he wanted this echoed in the cover, which he commissioned to show her on a Venus elegans shell ; the final artwork was undertaken by Pat Marriott.

" The Oxford Mail declared that " Ian Fleming is in a class by himself ", while The Sunday Times opined that " If a psychiatrist and a thoroughly efficient copywriter got together to produce a fictional character who would be the mid-twentieth century subconscious male ambition, the result would inevitably be James Bond.

He wasted no time in setting up a printing press in Bruges, in collaboration with a Fleming, Colard Mansion, and the first book to be printed in English was produced in 1473: Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, a translation by Caxton himself.

By late 1404 Robert, with the aid of his close councillors Henry Sinclair, earl of Orkney, Sir David Fleming and Henry Wardlaw, had succeeded in re-establishing himself and intervened in favour of Alexander Stewart, the earl of Buchan's illegitimate son, who was in dispute with Albany over the earldom of Mar.

One day, Kirkland is shocked to find himself requested to defend Judge Fleming, who to everyone's surprise has been accused of rape.

In the end, Kirkland sits on the court's steps, all by himself, weary from his breakdown but satisfied, knowing his antics probably cost him his practice and career in law, but will presumably finally put Fleming in jail.

To some extent the situation also reflected Fleming's own opinions, expressed in the novel as part of Bond's thoughts, where " her sexual confusion is attributable to women's suffrage "; in addition, as Fleming himself put it in the book: " Bond felt the sexual challenge all beautiful Lesbians have for men.

Fleming himself liked gold enough to commission a gold-plated typewriter from the Royal Typewriter Company, although he never actually used it.

Ian Fleming referenced the " Big Lie " in his James Bond book On Her Majesty's Secret Service when he had the pilot of a helicopter, who had flown it through French airspace illegally, respond to the flight controller's question as to who authorized the flight that he ( the flight controller himself ) had authorized it.

" Helen Broderick as Madge Hardwick orders a Horse ’ s Neck in the 1935 movie “ Top Hat .” Ian Fleming in the book Octopussy describes the Horse's Neck as being " the drunkards drink " he was also quite partial to them himself.

Additionally, Fleming told McClory that if MCA rejected the film because of McClory's involvement, then McClory should either sell himself to MCA, back out of the deal, or file suit in court.

Fleming then wrote the novel Thunderball at Goldeneye over the period January to March 1960, based on the screenplay written by himself, Whittingham and McClory.

Fleming ( then 1st Lt .) distinguished himself as the Aircraft Commander of a UH-1F transport Helicopter.

He cast himself as Polonius, Horatio, and Laertes ; Jess Borgeson as the prince ; Michael Fleming as Bernardo, Claudius, and the Ghost of Hamlet's father ; and Barbara Reinertson as Ophelia and Gertrude.

Tanner catches up with them and is about to shoot them when he himself is killed by Secret Service Sniper Lieutenant Ralph Fleming, who has recognized the former presidents due to their accidental marching in a gay pride parade he was part of and disobeys orders to shoot them.

The report, obtained by Dr. Richard Fleming of the Fleming Heart and Health Institute, showed that Atkins himself had experienced heart attack, congestive heart failure, and weight problems.

Military historian and novelist Thomas Fleming argues that President Roosevelt, himself, had wished for Germany or Japan to strike the first blow, but did not expect the United States to be hit as severely as she was in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

These included the name James Bond, which Fleming took from the American ornithologist James Bond, Bond's code number — 007 — which came both from English spy and polymath John Dee, the breaking of a World War I German diplomatic code, Bond's character and tastes, as well as Fleming himself.

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 ".

A Fleming, Wizo, who died in 1130 founded at Wiston a motte and bailey fortification, forerunner of the stone castle, for protection against the Welsh warlords: the Flemings were reportedly unpopular wherever they settled.

Ian Fleming is reported to have named Francisco Scaramanga after George Ambrose Scaramanga, a fellow student at Eton with whom he reportedly shared a lasting rivalry.

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.

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 ".

As finance minister, Fleming clashed with the governor of the Bank of Canada, James Coyne, over monetary policy and ultimately demanded and got Coyne's resignation in 1961.

According to historian Ben Macintyre, Cholmondeley got the idea from a 1939 memo written by Ian Fleming, later author of the James Bond novels.

By the time Fleming got to New York he was fed up with travelling and his biographer, Andrew Lycett notes that " his sour mood transferred to the city and indeed the country he had once loved ".

The game got off to a slow start, with Edmonton holding a 10-1 lead going into half-time, thanks to a Sean Fleming field goal and a Ricky Ray touchdown pass to Ed Hervey.

( Not surprisingly, Fleming got the first shot at Freddie Welsh, failing to unseat the lightweight champion in a May 1915 fight the newspapers awarded to Welsh.

In 1972 Fleming class officers got permission from Southwestern Academy to take the cannon, but the underclassmen who mounted new wheels on it and dragged it to campus at night thought they were stealing it.

The Aussies got an ideal start as Stephen Fleming edged Brett Lee's first delivery to the slips and the Masters XI were 0 for 1, having been put in to bat by Australia.

The Aussies got an ideal start as Stephen Fleming edged Brett Lee's first delivery to the slips and the Masters XI were 0 for 1, having been put in to bat by Australia.

Senator Cochran won by a landslide with over 61 % of the vote and Fleming got only 38 % of the vote.

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.

Walter M. Fleming, M. D., and William J. Florence took the idea seriously enough to act upon it.

* Time Lord by Clark Blaise: a biography of Stanford Fleming and the idea of standard time

Although the project came to nothing, Fleming used the idea as the basis for the Dr. No novel.

* Sir Sandford Fleming who helped create and define the idea of time zones

Alan Turing ( leading role in the creation of the modern computer ), Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell ( the first practical telephone ), John Logie Baird ( world's first working television system, first electronic colour television ), Frank Whittle ( inventor of the jet engine ), Charles Babbage ( who devised the idea of the computer ) and Alexander Fleming ( discoverer of penicillin ) were all British.

Fleming, " always reluctant to let a good idea lie idle ", turned this into the novel Thunderball which did not credit either McClory or Whittingham ; McClory then took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright and the matter was settled in 1963.

Fleming agreed to the deal, and began to write outlines for the series ; however, CBS later dropped the idea.

Her half-brother Ian Fleming, in one of his James Bond short stories " The Living Daylights ", has Bond musing about a cellist he observes from his sniper's position: " There was something almost indecent in the idea of that bulbous, ungainly instrument between her splayed thighs.

The idea was to hide the truth, of Bond's exploits, in plain sight ; along the way, Fleming created fictional tales, such as Moonraker, to keep the Soviets guessing what was fact and what was not.

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.

At the same time, Glidrose were considering the idea of asking other authors to continue writing James Bond novels, a notion that Fleming's wife, Ann, was against, but his brother, Peter Fleming, who at the time was Glidrose's director, favoured.

After a long period of negotiation, during which Ann Fleming ( Ian's widow ) raised several objections to the idea of a continuation series, Jenkins finished the manuscript for Glidrose entitled Per Fine Ounce, but it was rejected.

Bon Fleming, a local businessman, came up with the idea to build the monument, and helped to finance the total cost.