The character of Jessica Fletcher is thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie herself, and another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver, who often appears in the Hercule Poirot mysteries.

Thomas C. Fletcher of Missouri, had written, " This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government for white men.

ASU's faculty and students are served by two dedicated general-topic libraries: Hayden Library, which is the largest of the ASU libraries and is located on the Tempe campus, and Fletcher Library, located on the west campus.

* 1984 – Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau ( Embassy ) in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy.

Similarly, TV heroine Jessica Fletcher of Murder, She Wrote is confronted with bodies wherever she goes, but over the years corpses have also piled up in the streets of Cabot Cove, Maine, where she lives.

He is currently the Co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University.

As of January 2012, Dennett is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, University Professor, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies ( with Ray Jackendoff ) at Tufts University.

Despite the success of his masterwork Dido and Aeneas ( 1689 ), in which the action is furthered by the use of Italian-style recitative, much of Purcell's best work was not involved in the composing of typical opera, but instead he usually worked within the constraints of the semi-opera format, where isolated scenes and masques are contained within the structure of a spoken play, such as Shakespeare in Purcell's The Fairy-Queen ( 1692 ) and Beaumont and Fletcher in The Prophetess ( 1690 ) and Bonduca ( 1696 ).

A subset of nuisance is known as the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher, where a dam burst into a coal mine shaft.

… in most of the irregular Playes of Shakespeare or Fletcher ( for Ben Johnson's are for the most part regular ) there is a more masculine fancy and greater spirit in all the writing, then there is in any of the French.

* Tristan da Cunha is the site of a top-secret nuclear disarmament conference in Fletcher Knebel's 1968 political thriller Vanished which was adapted into a 1971 two-part NBC made-for-TV movie starring Richard Widmark.

* April 17 – WPC Yvonne Fletcher is shot and killed by a secluded gunman leading to a police siege of the Libyan Embassy in London.

** The Scornful Lady, a comedy stage play written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, is published.

The album was received well by critics ; Gordon Fletcher of Rolling Stone said " their debut album is superb ", and Chicago's Daily Herald called it an " above average debut ".

However, in this film, it is Dillinger's girlfriend Polly in red, not the Romanian informant Anna Sage ( Louise Fletcher ).

Rollo is the subject of the 17th century play Rollo Duke of Normandy written by John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Ben Jonson, and George Chapman.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher is the only African American to win in this category ( for Precious: Based on the Novel " Push " by Sapphire ); Fletcher is the only African American to win in any writing category.

More evidence is found in the fact that John Fletcher, Shakespeare's successor as house playwright for the King's Men, wrote The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed as a sequel to The Shrew, telling the story of Petruchio's remarriage after Katherina's death.

Fletcher refuses to believe that Wales is dead.

The character Fletcher is loosely based on Capt.

He is buried in the same tomb as Fletcher.

The church was a popular resting place for dramatists-John Fletcher and Philip Massinger are also buried here.

Adolphine Fletcher Terry is buried at historic Mount Holly Cemetery in downtown Little Rock.

Martha Fletcher was buried next to her husband at Arlington National Cemetery.

He is buried in Calvary Episcopal Churchyard in Fletcher, Henderson County, North Carolina.

Many nonconformist divines are also buried here, for example Dr Alexander Fletcher, ' The Children's Friend '.

Fletcher was born in December 1579 ( baptised 20 December ) in Rye, Sussex, and died of the plague in August 1625 ( buried 29 August in St. Saviour's, Southwark ).

He seems to have been buried in what is now Southwark Cathedral, although the precise location is not known ; there is a reference by Aston Cockayne to a single grave for Fletcher and Massinger ( also buried in Southwark ).

She left college during The Great Depression to work as a secretary at the Fletcher Trust Company in Indianapolis.

Following the retirement of Tim Watson and Simon Madden in the early 1990s, the team was built on new players such as Gavin Wanganeen, Joe Misiti, Mark Mercuri, Michael Long, Dustin Fletcher ( son of Ken ) and James Hird, who was taken at # 79 in the 1992 draft.

Libyan diplomats shot at 11 people and killed Yvonne Fletcher, a British policewoman.

* 1952 – Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.

On May 3, 1952, U. S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher and Lieutenant William Pershing Benedict, along with scientist Albert P. Crary, landed a modified Douglas C-47 Skytrain at the North Pole.

Conan Doyle stayed at the Royal Duchy Hotel in the town whilst writing and researching the story with his friend, Bertram Fletcher Robinson.

* May 3 – U. S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole.

The band toured widely and famously played a set opposite Fletcher Henderson at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City in.

In October 1926, Goldkette's " Famous Fourteen ," as they came to be called, opened at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City opposite the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, one of the East Coast's outstanding African American big bands.

Most historians believe Matilda was born in Winchester, but one, John M. Fletcher, argues for the possibility of the royal palace at Sutton ( now Sutton Courtenay ) in Oxfordshire.

", recorded by Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra in 1933 and released on Vocalion, " Reefer Man " for Cab Calloway in 1932, " Dynamite Rag ", " Meet Me at No Special Place ", recorded by Nat King Cole, " Alhambra Syncopated Waltzes ", " Te-na-na ( From New Orleans )", " Beale Street Mama ", recorded by Bessie Smith and Cab Calloway, and " Palesteena ( Lena from Palesteena )".

He was born in the nearby village of Combe Down and at the time of his death in July 2009 he was living in local care home Fletcher House.

* February 26, 1902: Camargo, Illinois teacher Fletcher R. Barnett shot and killed another teacher, Eva C. Wiseman, in front of her class at a school near Camargo, Illinois.

* Wit at Several Weapons, a city comedy ( 1613 ); printed as part of the Beaumont and Fletcher Folio, but stylistic analysis indicates comprehensive revision by Middleton and William Rowley.

A bronze statue of Barker, in character as Norman Stanley Fletcher, sculpted by Martin Jennings, was unveiled in a public area at the entrance of the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre in September 2010 by his widow Joy, David Jason and Ronnie Corbett.

Fletcher, Richard A., " St. James ' Catapult: The Life and Times of Diego Gelmirez ", Chapter 1 and passim: Galicia, online at http :// libro. uca. edu / sjc / sjc. htm which offers a historical and geographical background to the building of the cathedral in Compostela, and

On August 30, 2003, Reuters further quoted Hawass: " I'm sure that this mummy is not a female ", and " Dr Fletcher has broken the rules and therefore, at least until we have reviewed the situation with her university, she must be banned from working in Egypt.

A granite monument at the Person County Courthouse honors E. Fletcher Satterfield, who advanced the Confederate flag at Gettysburg.

* Thunder Bay Maritime Festival takes place at 500 W. Fletcher Street, Alpena, MI.

Lock-outs were not uncommon ; the most spectacular occurred at a pulp and paper mill owned by Fletcher Challenge and led to changes to work practices and a no-strike commitment from the union.

Surfers in the area of Fletcher Cover noted harbor seals in the water and a wounded seal on the beach at Fletcher Cove just before the attack, the latter being a typical sign of sharks feeding in the area.