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A city named Chip existed near the community that became Fleming and it was quickly built up and served as a trading center for the nearby coal towns.
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.
Fleming served in the photographic section during World War I, and acted as chief photographer for President Woodrow Wilson in Versailles, France.
Later in the war, he served with Ian Fleming.
During the American Civil War, Fleming served the Confederate cause by enlisting as a private in the 2nd Florida Regiment and received a battlefield promotion to First Lieutenant, and subsequently to the rank of Captain.
By the end of the war, Fleming had served under four generals: John Magruder, Joseph Johnston, John Bell Hood, and Robert E. Lee.
After he left office, Fleming served on the board of trustees of the new Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home.
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.
During the Civil War, his son Fleming Bates served with the Confederates, under the command of General Sterling Price.
He served in this capacity with co-receivers Joseph B. Fleming and James E. Gorman ( who had been president of the railroad since 1917 ) until his death in 1943 in Tucson, Arizona.
In between his terms as governor, he served as state Comptroller under Governor Francis P. Fleming.
He is often confused with his contemporary, Colonel William Fleming, who briefly served as Governor of Virginia during the American Revolution.
After a nationwide search Fleming, who had served as interim president for more than a year, was elected by the trustees as the University ’ s eighth president, beginning his presidency on May 8, 2012.
Grant's great friend Sir Sandford Fleming served as chancellor of Queen's for most of Grant's tenure.
In retirement, Fleming has worked for several charities, especially in the field of cancer care, and has served on the committees of many related organizations.
Another notable member was William Fleming, who also served as the third governor of Virginia.
In September, 1890 Fleming was first elected as a delegate of the Victorian Operative Bootmakers Union to the Trades Hall Council, and later served on the Executive.
Fleming was a World War II veteran who served in the U. S. Navy for three and a half years as the pilot of a patrol bomber in the Atlantic.
Fleming served as President of the Young Democrats of Mississippi ( 1991 – 92 ), Chair of the Hinds County Democratic Executive Committee ( 1996 – 99 ), National Committeeman of The Young Democrats of America ( 1993 – 95 ), and as campaign manager for the Henry J. Kirksey for Mayor Campaign ( 1993 ).
Fleming has also served as chief operating officer for New Horizon Ministries, Inc., a non-profit agency in Jackson.
Fleming served his Alabama friends well by ridiculing carpetbaggers, even if in the process he had to distort and misrepresent.

Fleming and throughout
Fleming used his experiences of his espionage career and all other aspects of his life as inspiration when writing, including using names of school friends, acquaintances, relatives and lovers throughout his books.
" Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher — described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man "— was again damning of Fleming's work, saying " it's harder than ever to see why an ardent coterie so admires Ian Fleming's tales ".
Fleming remained with Swindon throughout a playing career spanning 1907 and 1924 and went on to live in the town for his entire life.
Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher – described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson, as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man " – was damning in his review, saying that From Russia, with Love was Fleming's " longest and poorest book ".
Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher — described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man "— was again damning, although even he admitted that " you can't argue with success ".
On 25 October 2006, Fleming captained his country for the 194th time in an ODI-a world record, overtaking Arjuna Ranatunga. He played well throughout the 2007 World Cup scoring 353 runs at an average of 39. 22 and was New Zealand's second highest run getter in the tournament. He failed in the semi-final against Sri Lanka scoring just 1 off 4 balls as New Zealand went on to lose the match and crashed out of the tournament.
Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher — described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man "— described what his main issue with Fleming's work was: " his basic weakness as a storyteller, which can be summed up in two words: ' no story.
The primary was billed as a contest between the hard line " old-school union man " Orcherton versus the " new wave " moderate Fleming which was seen as the symbolic struggle that was occurring throughout the party.
" His mother was a spy in World War I. Ian Fleming was his boss throughout the Second World War.
Fleming used his experiences of his espionage career and all other aspects of his life as inspiration when writing, including using names of school friends, acquaintances, relatives and lovers throughout his books.
John Fleming, the leader of the massacre, was never captured, and was allegedly responsible for further massacres throughout the Liverpool Plains and New England regions.
Fleming has toured extensively throughout Ireland, UK, United States, Netherlands and Australia.
Each year, a parade theme is selected VHP official puppet artists Alex Kahn and Sophia Michahelles and approved by Fleming as the basis for an anchoring performance at the head of the parade, and as a suggestion to inspire individual marchers throughout its course.

Fleming and World
Following World War I, Fleming actively searched for anti-bacterial agents, having witnessed the death of many soldiers from sepsis resulting from infected wounds.
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 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 ".
* Fleming, Andrew ( 2005 ) St. Kilda and the Wider World: Tales of an Iconic Island.
The Spektor machine used as the bait for Bond was not a Cold War device, but had its roots in the World War II Enigma machine, which Fleming had tried to obtain during his time in Naval Intelligence Division.
Obelisk monument to Burt M. Fleming ( 1894-1918 ), cited for bravery in World War I, is located on the lawn of the Kimble County courthouse.
from the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming ) originally introduced in the DuckTales episode " Double-O-Duck " as the " Foreign Organization for World Larceny.
* Ian Fleming, ( 1960s ) Some of the James Bond experiences are based in his own World War II spy missions.
* Fleming, Andrew ( 2005 ) St. Kilda and the Wider World: Tales of an Iconic Island, Windgather Press ISBN 1-905119-00-3
The drug's success in saving soldiers in World War II dying from infected wounds earned Fleming, Florey and Chain the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1945.
Other candidates for Moneypenny's inspiration include Vera Atkins of Special Operations Executive ; Paddy Ridsdale, a Naval Intelligence secretary ; and Joan Bright Astley, whom Fleming dated during World War II, and who was noted for giving a warm and friendly reception to senior officers who visited her office to view confidential papers.
Fleming based much of M's character on Rear Admiral John Godfrey, Director of Naval Intelligence of the Royal Navy, and Fleming's superior during World War II.
Mirrlees also discovered that the line of the Bonds of Peckham bears the family motto " The World is Not Enough ", which Fleming appropriated for Bond's own family.
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.
Fleming also sang at World Trade Center site shortly after the September 11 attacks.
* Thomas Fleming, The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I ( NY: Basic Books, 2003 )
" Reid Fleming, World ’ s Toughest Milkman " is a comicbook character created by David Boswell which first appeared in 1980.
* Hugh Honour and John Fleming, A World History of Art, 1st edn.
* Thomas Fleming, The Illusion Of Victory: America In World War I ( NY: Basic Books, 2003 )
After Windows of the World, Crump holds a discussion on sports issues at 20: 45, called The Final Whistle, with New Zealand sports journalists Joseph Romanos or Penny Miles, American journalist Helene Elliott or British journalist Richard Fleming.
Fleming also took on the role as the NDP tourism critic and objected to Tourism Minister Bill Bennett's decision not to participate in the National Vigil Project ( a light display honouring Canadians killed World War One ) due to costs and, in response to funding cuts to Tourism BC, he criticized government self-promotional advertising.

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