His image was replaced in 2003 by that of Elizabeth Fry.

Cook has been described by Stephen Fry as " the funniest man who ever drew breath ", although his work was also controversial.

" Stephen Fry tweeted that Columbo was " TV ’ s greatest ever detective.

Also in 1949, a new version of a 1920s blues song, " Ain't Nobody's Business " was a # 4 hit for Jimmy Witherspoon, and Louis Jordan and the Tympany Five once again made the top 5 with " Saturday Night Fish Fry ".

With the help of the English architect Maxwell Fry, Gropius was able to leave Nazi Germany in 1934, on the pretext of making a temporary visit to Britain.

Fry insisted that Grace would not have started the 1948 season with any notion of being beaten by that season's Australian touring team, for " he was sanguine " and would have put everything he could muster into the task of beating them with no acceptance of defeat " till after it happened ".

In a remake of The Dam Busters by Peter Jackson announced in 2008, Stephen Fry, the writer of the screenplay, said there was " no question in America that you could ever have a dog called the N-word ".

It was also in 1910 that Roger Fry joined the group.

Bloomsbury was also part of Fry ’ s extension of post-impressionism into the decorative arts with his Omega Workshops, which lasted until 1920.

It was narrated by Stephen Fry and included interviews with current actors and scriptwriters.

Robinson attempted a political comeback in the 2006 federal election but was defeated in Vancouver Centre in his attempt to unseat Liberal Hedy Fry.

She was a guest in episode 9 of the C series of QI, answering a question deemed impossible by host Stephen Fry by correctly naming a chemical reaction equation as an explosion in custard, earning 200 points.

Fry was born in Hampstead, London, on 24 August 1957, the son of Marianne Eve Fry ( née Newman ) and Alan John Fry, who was an English physicist and inventor.

Fry briefly attended Cawston Primary School, Cawston, Norfolk before going on to Stouts Hill Preparatory School at the age of seven, and then to Uppingham School, Rutland, where he joined Fircroft house and was described as a " near-asthmatic genius ".

The Anglo-Bavarian Brewery was built in the 1860s and still dominates the western parts of Shepton Mallet ; fairly nearby is a former workhouse and then hospital, the Norah Fry Hospital, which was built in 1848 and has now been converted into housing.

It was filmed in 2001 as The Discovery of Heaven by Jeroen Krabbé, starring Stephen Fry.

Original plans were to have Sessions and Fry as regulars with the rotation of two performers, but Stephen Fry pulled out as he was often scared performing it on radio, however, Sessions, with some persuasion from Fry, continued his role on the show.

By the 1920s Lewis Fry Richardson's interest in weather prediction led him to propose human computers and numerical analysis to model the weather ; to this day, the most powerful computers on Earth are needed to adequately model its weather using the Navier – Stokes equations.

2004 saw them continue touring, this time performing their 1990 release Frizzle Fry in its entirety.

After Howard's death in 1790 the leading reformer was Elizabeth Fry ( 1780 – 1845 ) who began visiting Newgate, which was particularly infamous for its treatment of women prisoners.

Later, Paul Fry argued against McGann's stance when he pointed out, " It scarcely seems pertinent to say that ' To Autumn ' is therefore an evasion of social violence when it is so clearly an encounter with death itself [...] it is not a politically encoded escape from history reflecting the coerced betrayal [...] of its author's radicalism.

Queens ' College has been a centre of learning for more than 550 years and its distinguished alumni include Desiderius Erasmus, Stephen Fry, Abba Eban and T. H. White.

* The show ( and in particular its host, Robert Robinson ) was the subject of a sketch by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in the second series of A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

Fry harvesting, getting the brooding fish to open its mouth and release the fry, is important if the fry are to be reared artificially.

At the time of its closure, Fry was the only remaining original member working regularly at the workshop.

When Fry was only twenty-one, the magazine Vanity Fair published a caricature of him in its issue of 19 April 1894, with the comment: " He is sometimes known as " C. B.

" He contends that " something about Frizzle Fry is ultimately and perfectly of its time and place.

The Société Elizabeth Fry du Québec offered its services to Homolka.

* A Bit of Fry and Laurie, sketch show written by and starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie noted for its eccentric and inventive use of language

Throughout its history, The Queen's Theatre has seen such talents as Peggy Ashcroft, Fred and Adele Astaire, Tallulah Bankhead, Kenneth Branagh, Noël Coward, Henry Daniell, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Edith Evans, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Gielgud, Cedric Hardwicke, Jack Hawkins, Nigel Hawthorne, Celia Johnson, Jane Lapotaire, Alec Guinness, Rachel Kempson, Gertrude Lawrence, Robert Morley, Stephen Fry, Anthony Quayle, Basil Rathbone, Michael Redgrave, Miranda Richardson, Margaret Rutherford, Fiona Shaw, Nigel Havers, Maggie Smith, Sybil Thorndike, and Ramin Karimloo.

Also, the animated pre-school show Pocoyo has attracted a reasonably large cult following among viewers older than its target audience due to the show's humour and its narrator, Stephen Fry.

On the Futurama episode " Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences ", the main characters attend the 3010 convention ( with it being referred to as " Comic-Con Intergalactic " and the iconic eye logo now sporting multiple eyes ), where Fry looks for approval for his own comic while Bender attends a panel from Matt Groening ( creator of Futurama as well as The Simpsons ) on his new show " Futurella " ( a twist on the title of the show and a parody of its cancellation by Fox ).

Independence Day celebrations include a contest where participants attempt to cook an egg on the sidewalk with the aid of solar devices known as the Oatman Egg Fry http :// oatmangoldroad. org / events. htm Along with the rest of Arizona's US 66 towns, Oatman is fiercely proud of its Route 66 heritage and replicas of 66's black-on-white US highway shield are posted all over the town.

Fry launched her leadership campaign saying that Canada's diversity is its greatest competitive advantage-" our weapon of mass inclusion "-and called for a " non-ideological " approach to problem solving.

The Futurama episode " The Late Philip J. Fry " uses a parody of the song as three of its main characters travel through the various eras of the future, including the year 252525.

The distinguished meteorologist and mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson served as Superintendent at the Observatory between 1913 and 1918.

In forming the company, critic Roger Fry aimed to remove what he considered to be the false divisions between the decorative and fine arts, and to give his artist friends an additional income opportunity in designing furniture, textiles and other household accessories.

Saturday Night Fry was a six-part comedy series on BBC Radio 4, first broadcast between the 30th of April and the 4th of June 1988.

" With financing from Keyser Fry of Reading, he created the Duryea GEM, a cross between an automobile and a motorcycle, with a newly designed engine and suspension.

In the 18 years between Evashevski and Fry, the Hawkeyes went without a single winning season.

She played Karla Fry on Beverly Hills Cop II ( 1987 ), co-starring Eddie Murphy, and played the Dark Witch in the Italian TV Series Cave of the Golden Rose between 1992-1996.

It coincided with a gala dinner at The Imperial War Museum hosted by Stephen Fry and Lord Melvyn Bragg to raise funds for the Mind creative therapies fund and explore the relationship between creativity and mental health.

Frederick Wills had sat on University College councils and between 1900 and 1906 was the sitting MP for Bristol North, the seat that was previously occupied by Lewis Fry.

Topics covered in detail were: Paul Cézanne and Post-Impressionism in a debate between Fry and D. S. MacColl, a debate on a bust of Flora ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci and later discovered to be a forgery, and the role of archival research in the art historical reconstruction, with contributions by Herbert Horne and Constance Jocelyn Ffoulkes.

He is carrying a cricket bat which is raised as if he has just struck the ball. On their return home for the 1912 season England, captained by C. B. Fry, were involved in the first-ever triangular Test tournament, consisting of matches between England, Australia and South Africa.

Ramsgate railway station is a fine 1920s brick built station thought to have been designed by Edwin Maxwell Fry, and built between 1924-6.

Fry who represented Hampshire between 1909 – 1921

right By 1860, mule train and later stagecoach traffic between California's Central Valley, Yreka, California and Oregon had increased, and the McClouds ( and their business partner Isaac Fry ) built and operated a toll bridge over the Sacramento River at Upper Soda Springs, as well as increasing the size of the inn.

In an 1897 interview given by Oliver Armstrong Fry ( editor of Vanity Fair ) to Frank Banfield of Cassell's Magazine, it was reported that Ward received a sum of between £ 300 and £ 400 for a portrait.