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 went on to impress Dwan by quickly fixing both his car and a faulty film camera and by 1916 had worked his way up to the position of cinematographer.

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.

Fleming remained with Swindon throughout a playing career spanning 1907 and 1924 and went on to live in the town for his entire life.

The difficulty of Australia's task was increased when fast bowlers Craig McDermott and Damien Fleming went home injured at the start of the tour.

It is commonly believed that the name Blofeld was inspired by the English cricket commentator Henry Blofeld's father, with whom Fleming went to school.

In the summer of 1876 Fleming went to Philadelphia with the express purpose of influencing settlers to come to Florida.

" 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 the summer of 1957 Fleming had played in the Bowmaker Pro-Am golf tournament at the Berkshire Golf Club, where he partnered the Open winner Peter Thomson: much of the background went into the match between Bond and Goldfinger.

The first postage stamp ( designed by Sir Sandford Fleming ) went into circulation in Canada that same year.

Fleming went on to develop the two-element vacuum tube known as the diode, which he patented on November 16, 1904.

Ian Fleming considered Baker to be the ideal candidate to play James Bond in the films but the role went to Sean Connery because Baker had other commitments.

Fleming went to the aid of a 6-man special forces long range reconnaissance patrol that was in danger of being overrun by a large, heavily armed hostile force.

Another early controversy was that of a lesbian kiss between Meredith Fleming and Annie Flynn with several complaints laid to the Broadcasting Standards Authority but it went no further.

Fleming was from New York City and went to school in Forest Hills, Queens.

Henry Blofeld's father ( Tom Blofeld, b. 1903, d. 1986 ) went to Eton with Ian Fleming and his name may have been the inspiration for the name of James Bond supervillain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

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.

He made this discovery 32 years before Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin, a substance derived from those moulds, but his research went unnoticed.

It could also have encouraged the Canadian Pacific Railway to seek a more northerly route for its transcontinental railway that went through the well-mapped and partially settled valley of the North Saskatchewan River, touching on Prince Albert, Battleford and Edmonton, and through the Yellowhead Pass, as originally proposed by Sandford Fleming.

McClory, Fleming and Bryce settled on the screenplay Longitude 78 West ( later renamed Thunderball ) and went into pre-production.

He went on to become an international financier in London, establishing the investment bank that bore his name for more than a century and out of which the Fleming Collection of Scottish art and the Fleming Collection Gallery was born.

Oberbeck went on to say that Amis " never quite captures the bizzare beat of a Fleming pace "; most telling, according to Oberbeck, was that " the greatest flaw in Amis ' conception of Bond is that he has attempted to transform the consummate spy-hero into something he was never meant to have been: a man with a job ".

The Sir Alexander Fleming Building on the South Kensington campus was opened in 1998 and is now one of the main preclinical teaching sites of the Imperial College School of Medicine.

Ambrose Fleming was born in Lancaster and educated at University College School, London, and University College London.

* Fleming, Walter L. Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama 1905. the most detailed study ; Dunning School full text online

* Fleming Island High School

Fleming Elementary School, Jane Long Elementary School, and Velasco Elementary School ( Grades Pre-K-4 ).

Fleming Elementary School, Velasco Elementary School, and Brazosport High School.

A. Fleming Elementary School

A. Fleming Elementary School

In addition to three high schools ( Cobourg District Collegiate Institute East ( CDCI EAST ), CDCI West and St. Mary's Secondary School ), Cobourg is home to a satellite campus of Fleming College.

His mother, Pauline Cubitt ( née Stone ), was a housewife and his father, Kenneth Fleming Blackburn, was a GP, and he was educated at Castle Court School in Parkstone, Poole, Dorset and Millfield School in Somerset, which he entered on a sports scholarship.

* Fleming, Walter Lynwood, The Sequel of Appomattox, A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States ( 1918 ) short survey from Dunning School

Fleming remained in the Air Force, becoming a colonel and a member of the Officer Training School staff at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, before his retirement in 1996.

* Fleming College-Haliburton School of the Arts

In Palm Springs, Fleming became active in local community affairs, and was elected to the Palm Springs Unified School District Board of Education.

The Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies, at Trent University, the Leslie Frost Library at Glendon College, York University, the Frost Campus at Fleming College and a school in Lindsay, Ontario, Leslie Frost Public School are named after Frost.

Born in Milton, Ontario, the son of Edward Martin, a former Reeve, and Mary Ann Fleming, Martin was educated at the Milton public school, the Toronto Normal School and University of Toronto.

Born in Fleming, Saskatchewan, Campbell attended high school at the Strathcona Collegiate Institute, now known as Strathcona Composite High School, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield, a farm near Darvel, in Ayrshire, Scotland.

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.

As the first host of " the world's greatest quiz show ," Fleming earned two Emmy Award nominations.

Because he hosted a quiz show, Fleming earned a reputation as being a storehouse of trivia.