The Saginaw Valley, particularly the vicinity of Flint, is considered by some to be the oldest continually inhabited area of Michigan.

Disguised as a TV journalist, Moore interviews some auto workers in Flint and discovers their strong antipathy to General Motors chairman Roger B. Smith.

High-profile people are shown coming to Flint to bring hope to the unemployed, some of them interviewed by Moore.

The film depicts some of the events that would lead to the closing of plants in Flint, and other plants around the United States.

Although there were other persons who purchased land earlier, and even some who attempted to settle there, the first permanent white settler in the area is considered to be Levi Gilkey, who purchased land on May 11, 1831, and settled near the mouth of the Gilkey Creek ( in what is now part of Flint ).

In 1799 some of the Indians of this settlement went down to the mouth of Flint River and established another town of the same name.

These were based in versions of real-life cities, and some were based on real events such as the 1991 Oakland firestorm, the 1989 Hurricane Hugo in Charleston, South Carolina, or dealing with the 1970s economic recession in Flint, Michigan — but also included more fanciful ones such as a " monster " destroying Hollywood in 2001.

Instead, having built up a membership of roughly 25, 000 workers by gathering in federal unions and some locals from rival unions in the industry, the union decided to go after GM, the largest car maker of them all, by shutting down its nerve center, the production complex in Flint, Michigan.

Travis played an active role in the Flint Sit-Down Strike, aided by some veteran CP autoworkers inside Fisher Body Plant # 1 – but also by other radical workers, some belonging to Trotskyist parties, the Socialist Party or the IWW.

Many people in Flint have some knowledge of the Welsh language, although competence does vary.

striker and Wales football captain Ian Rush attended St. Richard Gwyn Catholic High school in Flint, some of his family live in the area.

The thought of establishing a part of the University of Michigan in the city of Flint started in the year 1837 when Sarah Miles wrote a letter to her family stating, “ A branch of the Michigan University at Ann Arbor is to be established in Flint at some future day .” In May 1944 the Flint Board of Education requested that the University of Michigan open a satellite campus in Flint.

Five universities enjoy major partnerships with Reutlingen University, sending students to and from all departments and in some cases offering special courses on Reutlingen's campus: Swinburne University of Technology ( Hawthorn / Melbourne, Australia ), Xi ' an University of Technology ( Xi ' an, China ), Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey ( Monterrey, Mexico ), Kettering University ( Flint, Michigan ), and Valparaiso University ( Valparaiso, Indiana ).

This frequent theme has lead some to label Campion's body of work as feminist, however, Rebecca Flint Marx argues, " while not inaccurate, feminist label fails to fully capture the dilemmas of her characters and the depth of her work.

All of M-21, except for some segments just outside of Grand Rapids and Flint, along with the highway split into two one-way streets inside Flint, is undivided surface road ; none of M-21 is freeway.

Like some of the strategy employed by co-author Eric Flint in his 1632 series, the series has recently, starting with War of Honor, begun incorporating a broader viewpoint from more than one central character, many of whom, like in the 1632 series, appeared in other series works as supporting characters.

Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint is a 1992 American short PBS documentary film, directed by Michael Moore, featuring the director returning to his hometown of Flint, Michigan to catch-up with some of the characters featured in his previous film Roger & Me ( 1989 ).

William Lane Craig and Alvin Plantinga are some of its best known advocates today, though other important Molinists include Alfred Freddoso and Thomas Flint.

Flint had to set aside several planned projects ( the Assiti Shards novels were in outline form at the time ) and do some additional co-writing with Weber as Ring of Fire gestated.

But King Edward the Second conferred not upon his sonne Edward the title of Prince of Wales, but onely the name of Earle of Chester and of Flint, so farre as ever I could learne out of the Records, and by that title summoned him to Parliament, being then nine yeres old.

Within the three acts of the play, the prosecutor ( Mr. Flint ) and Andre's defense attorney ( Mr. Stevens ) call upon a number of witnesses whose testimonies build conflicting stories.

She has an invitation for luncheon, and Flint has inculcated upon her not to show any signs of panic or fear or whatever, so she goes there.

Flint is a young, strong caveboy who was fossilized by Petra Fina with his father upon discovery of Getalong.

* Flint, Peter B., " Obituary: Dr. Robert Hofstadter Dies at 75 ; Won Nobel Prize in Physics in ' 61 ", The New York Times, November 19, 1990.

The villainous slave owner " Dr. Flint " was based on Jacobs ' former master, Dr. James Norcom.

In late 2007, the ISV Foundation of Paramount, California, announced commencement of a collaborative effort with Dr. Peter Flint, Canada Research Chair in Dead Sea Scrolls Studies of Trinity Western University ( Langley, BC Canada ) to produce a comprehensive set of footnotes for the International Standard Version documenting the variants between the biblical manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls and that of the Massoretic Text of the Hebrew Scriptures.

In early May 2008, the ISV Foundation reached a preliminary agreement by which scholars associated with Dr. Flint and his colleague Dr. Eugene Ulrich ( Notre Dame University ) would produce footnotes for the ISV concerning approximately 90 variants between the DSS and the MT contained in the Psalms and Proverbs.

* Our Man Flint ( 1966 ) .... Dr. Schneider

It was founded on January 15, 1957 by Founding Superintendent and President Dr. Calvin C. Flint.

* Dr. Calvin C. Flint ( 1957 – 1973 )

Her new masters are cruel and neglectful, and Dr. Flint, the father, takes in interest in Linda and tries to force her into a sexual relationship with him.

She is ashamed at her discretion, but she knows it is better than being raped by Dr. Flint.

Unwilling to submit to Dr. Flint ’ s abuse, but equally unwilling to abandon her family, she hides in the attic crawl space in the house of her grandmother, Aunt Martha.

She hopes that Dr. Flint, under the false impression that she has gone North, will sell her children rather than risk having them disappear as well.

Linda is overjoyed when Dr. Flint sells Benny and Ellen to a slave trader who is secretly representing Mr. Sands.

However, Dr. Flint continues to hunt for her, and escape remains too risky.

Dr. Flint continues to pursue Linda, and she flees to Boston.

Dr. Flint now claims that the sale of Benny and Ellen was illegitimate, and Linda is terrified that he will re-enslave all of them.

Dr. Flint dies, but his daughter, Emily, writes to Linda to claim ownership of her.

She uses psychological warfare and cunning to avoid the advances of Dr. Flint, which prove to be effective in the story.

Dr. Flint never recognizes that Linda is a human being with feelings, desires or unalienable rights.

Dr. Flint represents the oppressive male role in 19th-century America in that he objectifies Linda for being a woman and consistently fights with his wife.

Aunt Martha is the only slave Dr. Flint fears throughout the entire novel.

She is suspicious of a sexual relationship between Linda and Dr. Flint and in turn is vicious towards Linda.

Mrs. Flint and Dr. Flint consistently fight over his treatment of Linda, in which he protects Linda from any form of corporal punishment that Mrs. Flint considered dispensing.