Two English translations of the Various History, by Fleming ( 1576 ) and Stanley ( 1665 ) made Aelian's miscellany available to English readers, but after 1665 no English translation appeared, until three English translations appeared almost simultaneously: James G. DeVoto, Claudius Aelianus: Ποιϰίλης Ἱοτορίας (" Varia Historia ") Chicago, 1995 ; Diane Ostrom Johnson, An English Translation of Claudius Aelianus ' " Varia Historia ", 1997 ; and N. G. Wilson, Aelian: Historical Miscellany in the Loeb Classical Library.

This accolade, and its associated publicity, led to a surge in sales that made Fleming the biggest-selling crime writer in the US.

The county was made from parts of Fleming, Montgomery, and Mason County, Kentucky.

After one attempt at repairing the engine failed, Engineer Albert Lodge made the decision to switch engines and start again making it from Fleming to Jesup in less than 33 minutes.

Other films that Fleming made with Tracy include Captains Courageous ( for which Tracy won his first Oscar ), A Guy Named Joe, and Test Pilot.

Like Zborowski, Fleming names his car because of the noise it made — and the noise a car made was important to Fleming.

Some years previously a plane had depressurised over the Lebanon and an American passenger had been sucked out of the window and Fleming, who was not a comfortable airline passenger, had made note of the incident to use it.

Although the plot was grandiose, the critic noted that: " it sounds – and is – fantastic ; the skill of Mr. Fleming is to be measured by the fact that it is made not to seem so.

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 ).

Such a camel train is described in the accounts of the journey made by Peter Fleming and Ella Maillart in the Gobi Desert in the mid-1930s.

" 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.

The FAC directed the Green Berets to detonate their mines as Fleming made a last attempt to rescue them.

Fleming made a successful takeoff through a barrage of hostile fire and recovered safely at a forward base.

Under the direction of Harlow Shapley, the observatory had already offered more opportunities in astronomy to women than other institutions, and notable achievements had been made earlier in the century by Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, Annie Jump Cannon, and Henrietta Leavitt.

Daniel Vettori made his debut as an 18-year-old in 1997, and when he took over from Fleming as captain in 2007 he was regarded as the best spinning allrounder in world cricket.

He made 22 films from the 1950s to the 1980s, including four installments of the James Bond series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming.

Also in 1989, Fleming made her debut with the New York City Opera as Mimi in La Bohème and her debut with The Royal Opera, London, as Dirce in Cherubini's Médée.

In 1991, Fleming made her Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Opera debut portraying Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro.

In 1992, Fleming made her debut with Grand Théâtre de Genève as Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte.

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.

Fleming also made debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Eva in Wagner's Meistersinger.

" Fleming grew the mould in a pure culture and found that it produced a substance that killed a number of disease-causing bacteria.

Fleming based his fictional creation on a number of individuals he came across during his time in the Naval Intelligence Division during World War II, admitting that Bond " was a compound of all the secret agents and commando types I met during the war ".

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.

This was 228 pages long and was eventually heavily altered by Fleming, with a number of significant re-writes.

Fleming also knew of the story of Eugene Karp and his journey on the Orient Express: Karp was a US naval attaché and intelligence agent based in Budapest who, in February 1950, took the Orient Express from Budapest to Paris, carrying a number of papers about blown US spy networks in the Eastern Bloc.

In August 1956, Fleming had commissioned Richard Chopping for fifty Guineas to provide the art for the cover, based on Fleming's design ; the result won a number of prizes.

In 1963, Fleming settled out of court with McClory, which awarded McClory the film rights to Thunderball, although literary rights would stay with Fleming and thus allow continuation author John Gardner to use SPECTRE in a number of his novels.

Baillie was twice married, firstly to Lilias Fleming, of the family of Cardarroch, by whom he had a large number of children, but only five survived him ; she died in June 1653.

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.

Fleming had based the actual character on American gold tycoon Charles W. Engelhard, Jr .. Fleming also used a number of his own experiences within the book, and the round of golf played with Goldfinger was based upon a tournament in 1957 at the Berkshire Golf Club in which Fleming partnered the Open winner Peter Thomson.

Auric Goldfinger was described by Raymond Benson as " Fleming's most successful villain to date " and Fleming gives him a number of character flaws that are brought out across the novel.

The book was dedicated to " gentle reader, William Plomer ", the editor of a number of the Fleming novels.

Fleming took part in a select number of promotional activities, including appearing on the television programme The Bookman and attending a book signing at Harrods.

The highest-placed Scottish entry was Alexander Fleming in 20th place, with the highest Welsh entry, Owain Glyndŵr, at number 23.

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

Over the course of twelve novels and two collections of short stories, Fleming provided a number of details relating to M's background and character.

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 '.

In the first World Cricket Tsunami Appeal charity match, he was promoted to bat at number 6 ahead of specialist batsmen Stephen Fleming and Matthew Hayden, but was dismissed first ball trying to slog Muttiah Muralitharan.

A number of its lines and the general plot resemble those of a contemporary broadside ballad " Patrick Fleming " ( also called " Patrick Flemmen he was a Valiant Soldier ") about an Irish highwayman executed in 1650.

Fleming has released a number of music recordings on the Decca label.