When Forrest was established the Toledo Peoria and Western Railroad had already been in operation for almost ten years and therefore, the origin of the town is unlike Fairbury, Chatsworth, Chenoa, Gridley and El Paso, all of which were founded when the railroad was first built.

Some material is from the official site of USS Forrest Sherman, produced by the Navy and therefore in the public domain.

Hanks on the film set of Forrest Gump in 1994

Forrest set up a position for an attack to repulse a pursuing force commanded by Sturgis, who had been sent to impede Forrest from destroying Union supplies and fortifications.

* In March 1911, Craig set a new record by running the 40-yard high hurdles in 5. 2 seconds, breaking the prior record held by Forrest Smithson.

* The Museum was the setting for the 1970 novel The Great Dinosaur Robbery by David Forrest, but was not featured in the film adaptation One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing, which was set in the Natural History Museum in London, England.

Karl Urban who portrayed the recurring role of gay paramedic Jamie Forrest went on to play Dr. Leonard " Bones " McCoy in the 2009 Star Trek remake and is set to star as Judge Dredd in the upcoming superhero blockbuster Dredd.

Corman planned to cast Forrest J Ackerman, the self-described " poor man's Vincent Price ", as a mechanical Phibes doppelganger that fools Inspector Trout during a sequence set in a soccer stadium.

The couple met on the set of Hustle & Flow, where Forrest, who had just graduated with a Master of Fine Arts was working as an intern.

is a musical, with lyrics by George Forrest and Robert Wright, set to music by Borodin, Forrest and Wright.

After these events, the crew invades the set of the Forrest Gump sequel being filmed in Baltimore, at Honey's suggestion.

* Marshall Law and Forrest Law, from the Tekken series of fighting games, resemble Bruce Lee's with their move set, whoops and yells and wears a sleeveless version of the tracksuit.

Competing in his fourth event, Garrels took the silver medal in the 110-meter hurdles, finishing second behind fellow American Forrest Smithson who set a new world record with a time of 15. 0 seconds.

In 2005 she set up an agency with business partner Samantha Forrest under Band and Brand.

The record for " Longest marathon on a bouncy castle ( team )" is 25 hr 25 min 25 sec, set by Will Scogin, Patrick Taylor, Miller Wright, David Wilson, Forrest Haynes and Jimbo Wilhite ( all from the United States ) at Northridge High School, Tuscaloosa, Alabama on October 10 – 11, 2008.

* 1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.

In January 1932, the New York City circle, which by then included future comic book editors Julius Schwartz and Mort Weisinger, brought out the first issue of their own publication, The Time Traveller, with Forrest J Ackerman of the embryonic Los Angeles group as a contributing editor.

The offensive line, anchored by all-pro tackle Rayfield Wright, Pro Bowlers John Niland and Ralph Neely, and future hall of famer Forrest Gregg, was also a primary reason for their success on offense ( Neely had broken his leg in November in a dirt-bike accident, and was replaced first by Gregg and then by Tony Liscio, who came out of retirement.

Forrest returned to Tennessee after the war broke out, enlisted in the Confederate States Army ( CSA ) and trained at Fort Wright in Randolph, Tennessee.

Forrest grabbed an unsuspecting Union soldier, hauled him onto his horse to use as a shield, dumped the man once he had broken clear and was out of range, then galloped back to his incredulous troopers.

' Subsequently Forrest made a report in which he left out the part which shocks humanity to read.

He thanked Forrest for the offer and said that had war broken out he would have considered it an honor to have served side-by-side with him.

Forrest J Ackerman wrote in Astounding that Triffids " is extraordinarily well carried out, with the exception of a somewhat anticlimactic if perhaps inevitable conclusion.

* Steven Seagal as Forrest Taft, a specialist who puts out oil fires who ran a afoul with Ageis Oil

Forrest County was carved out of the western portion of Perry County in 1908.

It turns out that Dr. Forrest had been tricked into divulging a secret cheese mold by Nazis posing as a humanitarian organization.

Quoting Forrest ," At this point ( near the village of Sultanpet, Figure 5 ) there was a large tope, or grove, which gave shelter to Tipu's rocketmen and had obviously to be cleaned out before the siege could be pressed closer to Seringapatam island.

Forrest was laid out on 11 December 1866 by Israel J. Krack ( 16 November 1816 – 6 June 1900 ).

Despite the violence of the time, Forrest A. Johnson, Sr., a well-respected white attorney in Natchez, began to speak out and write against the Klan.

A search expedition was sent out under John Forrest, but nothing was found, and it was decided that the story might refer to the bones of horses left for dead at Poison Rock during Robert Austin's expedition of 1854.

In 1843-1844 he made a prosperous tour in the United States, but his last visit to that country, in 1849, was marred by a riot at the Astor Place Theatre, New York, arising from the jealousy of the actor Edwin Forrest, and resulting in the death of twenty-three persons and the further injuring of one hundred, who were shot by the militia called out to quell the disturbance ; Judge Charles Patrick Daly later presided at the trial.

The last command that I ever received came from General Bedford Forrest in person at the battle of Selma which was to have all the dry grass removed from the breast-works ; that it would catch on fire whenever the fire became hot, and smoke us out.

Her supply mission was eventually carried out by ARA Forrest, which towed her to Darwin.

Bob Zaller had already left MITS and Forrest Mims was out of the Air Force and wanted to become a full-time writer.

The plane exploded before Forrest could bail out.

After buying out Chaffin's interest, Forrest took over the scripting in 1933 ; he wrote and drew the strip solo for the next three years.

According to the Medford Mail Tribune, the division's Highway Engineer, Forrest Cooper, said 28 highway bridges were out and many highways looked doubtful whether they would continue to be opened.

At one point, Tommy is said to have chased Forrest out of the building telling him to never return.

General Nathan Bedford Forrest III, the head of the Confederate military, advises that the fighting in Pittsburgh has achieved its strategic aim of destroying the city's industrial capacity and recommends pulling the Confederate troops out.

A US national tour began on February 26, 1974 at the Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia, and ended on February 13, 1975 at the Shubert Theatre, Boston.

Smaller more intimate shows can be found at venues like Cabaret Voltaire, Sneaky Pete's, The Store, The Voodoo Rooms, Bannerman's, Henry's Cellar Bar and Forrest Cafe.

" Forrest J Ackerman is interred at Glendale Forest Lawn with his wife Wendayne " Rocket To The Rue Morgue " Ackerman.

* Forrest J. Ackerman appears onstage at the 40th anniversary of " The Time Machine "

After Macready " retired " to America, he continued to perform in the role ; in 1849, he was involved in a rivalry with American actor Edwin Forrest, whose partisans hissed Macready at Astor Place, leading to what is commonly called the Astor Place Riot.

Bradbury was invited by Forrest J. Ackerman to attend the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, which at the time met at Clifton's Cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles.

Forrest J Ackerman used the term sci-fi ( analogous to the then-trendy " hi-fi ") at UCLA in 1954.

Confederate cavalry raiders Bedford Forrest and Earl Van Dorn stalled Grant's advance by breaking communications, while the Confederate army led by John C. Pemberton concentrated and repulsed Sherman's direct approach at Chickasaw Bayou.

The only known wild populations of this species exist in two locations in Queensland, the Epping Forrest National Park, and a smaller colony being established by translocating wombats to the Richard Underwood Nature Refuge at Yarran Downs.

Nick Matzke, the NCSE's Public Information Project Director at the time, served as liaison to the legal team, and was responsible for uncovering the substitution of " intelligent design " for " creationism " within drafts of Of Pandas and People, which became a devastating part of the testimony of Barbara Forrest ( also an NCSE Director ), and was cited extensively in Judge John E. Jones III's decision.

After his father's death, Forrest became head of the family at age 17.

At six feet, two inches ( 1. 88 m ) tall and 210 pounds ( 95 kg ; 15 stone ), Forrest was physically imposing and intimidating, especially compared to the average height of men at the time.

Forrest distinguished himself first at the Battle of Fort Donelson in February 1862.

A month later, Forrest was back in action at the Battle of Shiloh ( April 6 to April 7, 1862 ).

Forrest served with the main army at the Battle of Chickamauga ( September 18 to September 20, 1863 ).

I, with several others, tried to stop the butchery, and at one time had partially succeeded, but General Forrest ordered them shot down like dogs and the carnage continued.

One month later, while serving under General Stephen D. Lee, Forrest experienced tactical defeat at the Battle of Tupelo in 1864.

Forrest led other raids that summer and fall, including a famous one into Union-held downtown Memphis in August 1864 ( the Second Battle of Memphis ), and another on a Union supply depot at Johnsonville, Tennessee, on October 3, 1864 ( the Battle of Johnsonville ), causing millions of dollars in damage.

After Hood's Army of Tennessee was all but destroyed at the Battle of Nashville, Forrest distinguished himself by commanding the Confederate rear guard in a series of actions that allowed what was left of the army to escape.

On May 9, 1865, at Gainesville, Forrest read his farewell address.