" When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer ," Fleming would later say, " But I suppose that was exactly what I did.

About 20 years later, John Ambrose Fleming ( scientific adviser to the Marconi Company

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 ".

* 1968 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.

When he was two years old, he moved to Torrance, California and later to the Harbor City neighborhood where he went to Fleming Junior High School in Lomita and took drama classes.

One of Fleming's neighbours in Jamaica, and later his lover, was Blanche Blackwell, mother of Chris Blackwell of Island Records: Fleming named the guano-collecting ship in Dr. No as Blanche.

These included his cocktail, (" The Vesper "), which Fleming said " I sampled several months later and found it unpalatable " and Bond's diet.

In fact, Niven had been Bond creator Ian Fleming's first choice to play Bond in Dr. No. Casino Royale co-producer Charles K. Feldman said later that Fleming had written the book with Niven in mind, and therefore had sent a copy to Niven.

Fleming later thanked Boothroyd for his suggestions by making him Major Boothroyd, the armourer in Dr. No.

* William H. Carpenter ( 1821-1885 ), Fleming postmaster in the 1850s and later U. S. Consul to Foochow, China, 1861-1865

Three days later Malcolm Fleming of Cumbernauld, their chief adherent, shared the same fate.

Fleming served in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada ( later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada ) and was appointed to the rank of Captain on January 1, 1862.

In his later years he retired to his house in Halifax, later deeding the house and the 95 acres ( 38 hectares ) to the city, now known as Sir Sandford Fleming Park ( Dingle Park ).

Biographers note that Sayers ' later relationship with Bill White and her marriage to the fellow writer Oswald Atherton " Mac " Fleming provide grist for Vane's struggle to balance love ( and perhaps marriage to Wimsey ) and her work.

Fleming had known Higham Park as a guest of its later owner, Walter Wigham, chairman of Robert Fleming & Co.

One of Fleming's neighbours in Jamaica, and later his lover, was Blanche Blackwell, mother of Chris Blackwell of Island Records ; Fleming used Blanche as the model for Pussy Galore, although the name " Pussy " came from Mrs " Pussy " Deakin, formerly Livia Stela, an SOE agent and friend of his wife's.

Congressman F. Bradford Morse assisted in the city's selection for " Model Cities " status ; Brendan Fleming, UML, Math Department, faculty member, after his election to the Lowell City Council proposed the first Historic District “ The Mill and Canal District ” which was approved in 1972 ; Gordon Marker, Executive Director of Model Cities and an urban planner, was instrumental in designing the concept for an Urban Park based on Historic Preservation and Economic Revitalization ; Patrick Mogan, Education Administrator and later Superintendent of Schools, was primarily interested in Lowell ’ s children and strongly advocated the preservation and sharing of their cultural experiences ; and the Lowell Historical Society which opened the Lowell Museum in 1976.

Other early examples of techno-thriller, written before the category had been well defined as a sub-genre, include Moonraker by Ian Fleming, Fail-Safe ( 1962 ) by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, The Penetrators ( 1965 ) by Hank Searls ( writing as Anthony Grey ); Tree Frog by Martin Woodhouse ( 1966 ), North Cape ( 1969 ) by Joe Poyer, and Firefox by Craig Thomas ( 1977 ), later made into a movie, and Shuttle Down, by G. Harry Stine ( writing as Lee Correy ) ( 1981 ).

The RCA Music Group later continued its operations and contained " marquee " Jive acts such as Britney Spears, Lucy Fleming and Pink.

Two years later, in November 1620, Oxenstierna married again, this time with Margareta Bielke, daughter of Claes Nilsson Bielke and Elin Fleming.

Victor Fleming, later director of Gone with the Wind, and Henry Hathaway, who later directed True Grit, both learned their craft on Grey films.

The title of Crane's original, 55, 000-word manuscript was " Private Fleming / His various battles ", but in order to create the sense of a less traditional Civil War narrative, he ultimately changed the title to The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War.

The train that hauled the coal out of Fleming would make stops in Neon and it is an accepted legend by locals that a man on the train would yell instructions to people climbing on board the train saying " Knee On " This was soon changed to Neon and replaced the name Chip.

After seeing the film, Hornby expressed his happiness with John Cusack's performance as Rob Gordon ( changed from Rob Fleming in the book ), saying, " At times, it appears to be a film in which John Cusack reads my book ".

Fleming changed it to be less obvious.

Back in Britain in December 1959, Fleming met with McClory and Whittingham for a script conference ; shortly afterwards McClory and Whittingham sent Fleming a script, Longitude 78 West, which Fleming considered to be good, although he changed the title to Thunderball.

The novel was published in America in August by the New American Library, after Fleming changed publishers from Viking Press after The Spy Who Loved Me.

Fleming changed the title to Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.

Starr was born in rural Wilsondale, West Virginia, to Lora Evans and Goodlow Mullins ( later changed to Fleming ).

The village where the manor house was built in the 17th century was originally called Andersta but the name was changed when came into the ownership of Henrik Fleming.

It was during Benson's tenure that the company changed names from Glidrose Publications Ltd to Ian Fleming Publications ; the publisher's new name appeared first in High Time to Kill, ( 1999 ).

For the 2002 film Die Another Day, Eon Productions wanted to use the name Colonel Sun Liang-tan for the main villain, but when the Fleming estate insisted on royalties for the use of the name, they changed the name to Colonel Tan-Sun Moon.

Until 2003, they first rinsed in Millikan Pond, but the location has changed owing to administrative request, and now all the Pageboys rinse off completely in the Fleming showers.

Patrick Allen was Posthumus, and Tom Fleming played the title role.

Fleming wrote the novel in January and February 1957 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica and initially gave it the title of The Wound Man.

When it turned out that the title " Double-O Duck " could not be used as the Ian Fleming estate owned the ' double-o ' title, Disney TV Animation held a competition to come up with a replacement.

" Ho was even briefly mentioned when Alexander Fleming was considered for Person of the Century in 1999, since Fleming could be portrayed as representative of other disease-fighting scientists including Ho, but the title ultimately went to Albert Einstein.

In 1899, Fleming was given the title of Curator of Astronomical Photographs.

The title Thunderball came from a conversation Fleming had about a US atomic test.

A major production was that of Robert Carsen, staged originally for the Opera de Paris in 1999 and repeated at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, which featured Renée Fleming in the title role.

Rouge Dragon was the title of heraldic researcher Robin de la Lanne-Mirrlees who asked Fleming not to use the title in the book ; in a play on words, Fleming used Mirrlees's address, a flat in Basil St and combined it with a dragon-like creature, a basilisk, to come up with the name.

Under the chairmanship of David Will, the then Scottish Football Association Vice-President and a future Vice-Presidents of FIFA, and the player-management of ex-Dundee stalwart Ian Fleming, the club pipped Meadowbank Thistle to the title by one point.

* Little Egypt is a highly fictionalized 1951 film about the legendary World's Fair dancer, produced by Universal International, and starring Rhonda Fleming in the title role.

In 1993, Fleming sang the role of Alaide in Bellini's La straniera with the Opera Orchestra of New York, made her debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in the title role of Rossini's Armida, and her debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago in the title role of Carlisle Floyd's Susannah.

In 1996, Fleming sang the title role in Rossini's Armida at the Pesaro Festival, the role of Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte at the Met, and the soprano solos in the Verdi Requiem with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Ca