Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.

Jim Davis has also collaborated with Ball State University and Pearson Digital Learning to create Professor Garfield, a site with educational games focusing on math and reading skills and with Children's Technology Group to create MindWalker, a web browser that allows parents to limit the websites their children can view to a pre-set list.

A television cartoon show, Garfield and Friends aired for seven seasons from 1988 to 1994 ; this adaption also starred Music as the voice of Garfield, one of the very last times Lorenzo Music would voice the character was in Garfield's Phone Messages from the Official Garfield site before his death.

Sega also made video games based on Garfield for the Genesis ( Garfield Caught in the Act ) and Windows 3. 1 computers, as well as other companies made games, such as A Tale of Two Kitties for the DS, published by Game Factory, Garfield's Nightmare for DS, Garfield's Funfest for DS, and Garfield Labyrinth for Game Boy.

Also, Garfield Lasagna World Tour was also made for PS2.

Konami also released a Garfield Handheld electronic game.

In addition to being portrayed as lazy and fat, Garfield is also pessimistic, sadistic, cynical, sarcastic, sardonic and a bit obnoxious.

He enjoys destroying things, mauling the mailman, tormenting Odie, kicking Odie off the table ; he also makes snide comments, usually about Jon's inability to get a date ( in one strip, when Jon bemoans the fact that no one will go out with him on New Year's, Garfield replies, " Don't feel bad Jon.

In a 2008 strip that appeared at June 8 and also in Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties, it is implied that Jon and Liz will eventually marry.

Though he will eat nearly anything ( with the exception of raisins and spinach ), Garfield is particularly fond of lasagna ; he also enjoys eating Jon's houseplants and other pets ( mainly birds and fish ).

He also has odd relationships with household pests ; Garfield generally spares mice, and even cooperates with them to cause mischief ( much to Jon's chagrin ), but will readily swat or pound spiders flat.

* 19 September 1881 — James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States ( See also James A. Garfield assassination )

Garfield was also mentored by Platt Rogers Spencer, a prominent writing scholar.

Garfield argued with his superior for an immediate advance, also insisted upon by Lincoln and Rosecrans's commander, Gen. Halleck.

Garfield also pursued his anti-inflationist campaign against the greenback through his work on the bill for a national bank system.

Family life had also increased in importance to Garfield, who said to his wife in 1871, " When you are ill, I am like the inhabitants of a country visited by earthquakes.

It was followed by 1939's Daughters Courageous, also directed by Michael Curtiz and co-starring Claude Rains and John Garfield, though it is a story about a different family.

For the past couple of years, Evanier has also been the co-writer and voice director of The Garfield Show.

They work on the floor above the garage and are referred to but seldom seen: Ed McKenzie ( who appears in one episode, played by Stephen Elliott ), and, later, Ben Ratlidge ( who is also only seen in one episode, played by Allen Garfield ).

Garfield's detractors later used this letter, which Chase never personally disclosed, to foster widespread criticism of Garfield as a betrayer, despite the fact that Halleck and Lincoln shared the same concerns over Rosecrans's reluctance to attack, and that Garfield had openly conveyed his concerns to Rosecrans.

Chase and Garfield shared a disdain for West Point and the President, though Garfield praised the Emancipation Proclamation.

Garfield, who shared the opinion of Thaddeus Stevens, was not in favor of this action, because the rank was intended for Grant, who had dismissed Rosecrans.

Originally, the railroad's Chicago terminus was the 52nd Avenue station that it shared with the Garfield Park elevated railroad line of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad, and where passengers transferred between interurban and elevated trains.

While some critics lauded the casting of Bill Murray as the voice of the title character, Garfield: The Movie met with mostly negative reviews: Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times called it " soulless excuse for entertainment ", while Desson Thomson of The Washington Post said of the film " There's nothing to recommend about this film except its sheer innocuousness ".

Davis attracted criticism for a Garfield strip in which the last panel appeared to be a negative reference to Veterans Day that appeared in newspapers on November 11, 2010.

But some of the neighborhood's current traditions are negative ones: drug dealing, prostitution, and illegitimacy are not uncommon in today's Garfield, and children attending the neighborhood's Fort Pitt School often fall behind their peers on national tests.

Other unique themes are things like “ Garfield ’ s Believe it or Don ’ t ,” “ Garfield ’ s Law ", “ Garfield ’ s History of Dogs, and “ Garfield ’ s History of Cats ,” which show science, history and the world from Garfield ’ s point of view.

Garfield at this time endorsed the view that the Senate, via the Tenure of Office Act, had final say on Presidential appointments, a position he would radically change when President himself.

Garfield biographer Peskin concludes, " From a strictly legal point of view, Ames's testimony was worthless.

Bird's-eye view of Garfield New Jersey, image from memory. loc. gov

As First Lady, Mrs. Garfield researched the history of the White House furnishings with a view to restoring it to its former glory, but she contracted malaria and was unable to pursue the project.

New Jersey -- President Garfield at Elberon -- His first view of the ocean from his reclining-chair, Sept. 13th

Garfield opposed Confederate secession, served as a Major General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and fought in the battles of Middle Creek, Shiloh and Chickamauga.

Garfield as a Brigadier General during the Civil War

General Don Carlos Buell assigned Colonel Garfield the task of driving Confederate forces out of eastern Kentucky in November 1861, giving him the 18th Brigade for the campaign.

Garfield later commanded the 20th Brigade of Ohio under Buell at the Battle of Shiloh, where he led troops in an attempt, delayed by weather, to reinforce Maj Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, after a surprise attack by Confederate General Albert S. Johnston.

Garfield crafted a campaign designed to pursue and then trap Confederate General Braxton Bragg in Tullahoma.

Garfield was issued orders to report to Washington, where he was promoted to Major General ; shortly thereafter he gave an unambiguously abolitionist speech in Maryland.

Blaine tried to sabotage the appointment by convincing Garfield to name a nemesis of MacVeagh, William E. Chandler, as Solicitor General under MacVeagh.

In April, 1881 President Garfield was given information from Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh and Postmaster Thomas L. James of postal corruption by an alleged " star route " ringleader, Second Assistant Postmaster-General, Thomas J. Brady.

Due to its location along the route of the American frontier, the Catlett's provided hospitality to such notable patrons as General Stonewall Jackson, Henry Clay, Felix Grundy and future U. S. President James Garfield.

The argument for the petitioner was delivered by Jeremiah S. Black, former United States Attorney General and Secretary of State, James A. Garfield, future President, and New York lawyer David Dudley Field.

She was awarded the rank of Brevet-Major by General Garfield and commended by President Abraham Lincoln for her service to the union cause, and became known as Miss Major Cushman.

Several statues of historical figures are located throughout the park, including Francis Scott Key, Robert Emmet, Robert Burns, the double monument to Johann Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, General Pershing, Beethoven, Giuseppe Verdi, President Garfield, and Thomas Starr King.

MacVeagh was the 36th Attorney General of the United States in 1881 under President James A. Garfield, but resigned shortly after Garfield's death.

In 1881, President James Garfield offered him the position of Attorney General, which he declined.

On March 5, 1881, President Garfield announced his new cabinet, which included James as Postmaster General.

In March 1909, President William Howard Taft began his administration by replacing Theodore Roosevelt's appointed Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield ( son of the assassinated Republican president, James Garfield ) with Richard Ballinger, a former Mayor of Seattle who had served as Commissioner of the General Land Office ( GLO ) under Secretary Garfield.

The current president of the JFF is Captain Horace Burrell, the General Secretary is Horace Reid and the treasurer is Garfield Sinclair.