Prior to its proclamation as a British settlement in 1836, the area around Adelaide was inhabited by the indigenous Kaurna Aboriginal nation ( pronounced " Garner " or " Gowna ").

In a recent academic study that was published in the Journal of Finance, Drexel University ’ s LeBow College of Business professors Jie Cai, Jacqueline Garner, and Ralph Walkling examined how corporate shareholders voted in nearly 2, 500 director elections in the United States.

After being booed at the 2004 All-Star Game held in Houston, manager Jimy Williams was fired and replaced by Phil Garner, a star on the division-winning 1986 Astros.

Jay Garner was appointed Interim Civil Administrator with three deputies, including Tim Cross.

Garner was replaced in May 2003 by L. Paul Bremer, who was himself replaced by John Negroponte on April 19, 2004 who left Iraq in 2005.

In 1933, incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis announced the election of House Speaker John Nance Garner as his successor, while Garner was seated next to him on the House dais.

Rob Hampson was Garner's replacement, with Garner teaching him the bass parts before leaving, although Hampson only lasted a week.

Gelbart-scripted films for television included Barbarians at the Gate ( 1993 ), a true story about the battle for control of the RJR Nabisco corporation starring James Garner that was based on the best-selling book of that name ; Weapons of Mass Distraction ( 1997 ) starring Ben Kingsley and Gabriel Byrne as rival media moguls and And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself ( 2003 ) starring Antonio Banderas as the Mexican revolutionary leader.

In late 1995, he appeared in Devious, an amateur video drama set between the second Doctor's trial at the end of The War Games and before the start of Spearhead From Space, which shows an interim ( between second and third ) Doctor played by Tony Garner being told he was " never meant to be the Doctor " and that the third, played by Jon, will complete him.

Along with Malcolm Marshall, Hadlee was seen as the finest fast bowler of his time, despite the contemporaneous presence of Dennis Lillee, Imran Khan, Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Kapil Dev and Wasim Akram among others.

Alan Garner was born in the front room of his grandmother's house in Congleton, Cheshire, on 17 October 1934.

The Garner family had passed on " a genuine oral tradition ", teaching their children the folk tales about The Edge, which included a description of a king and his army of knights that slept under it, guarded by a wizard, and in the mid 19th century, Alan's great-great grandfather Robert had carved the face of a bearded wizard onto the rock of a cliff next to a well that was known in local folklore as the Wizard's Well.

Alan's own grandfather, Joseph Garner, " could read, but didn't and so was virtually unlettered ", but instead taught his grandson the various folk tales about The Edge, with Alan later remarking that as a result he was " aware of Edge's magic " as a child, when he would often play there with his friends.

It was at Toad Hall, on the afternoon of Tuesday 4 September 1957, that Garner set about writing his first novel, which would result in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.

Garner sent his debut novel to the publishing company Collins, where it was picked up by the company's head, Sir William Collins, who was on the look out for new fantasy novels following on from the recent commercial and critical success of J. R. R.

Philip himself would devote a chapter to both The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath in his book A Fine Anger: A Critical Introduction to the Work of Alan Garner ( 1981 ), which was based on his earlier Ph. D thesis awarded by the University of London the previous year.

In the 2011 BBC Radio 4 adaptation Robert Powell played the narrator ; he has known Garner since he was a schoolboy at Manchester Grammar School.

Struan Rodger who played the dwarf Durathror, was in a radio production of another Garner story, Elidor, when he was thirteen years old.

James Garner, who played the namesake character, was a member of the ownership group.

However, it was in the limited overs cricket that Garner put his height to use with devastating effect.

In 1986 he resigned from Somerset, in protest against the sacking of his friends Sir Viv Richards and Joel Garner, and joined Worcestershire, playing for that county between 1987 and 1991.

She also composed the libretto for the opera Margaret Garner ( 2005 ), based on the life and trial of an enslaved woman who escaped with her family across the river.

Political correctness often is satirized, for example in the Politically Correct Manifesto ( 1992 ), by Saul Jerushalmy and Rens Zbignieuw X, and Politically Correct Bedtime Stories ( 1994 ), by James Finn Garner, presenting fairy tales re-written from an exaggerated PC perspective.

In 1950, Garner and his colleagues proposed establishing a new institution for the purpose of making private investments in the developing countries served by the Bank.

In 1959, he made a guest appearance on Maverick, opposite James Garner, as a cowardly villain intent on marrying a rich girl for money.

The Farmer-Labor Party eventually voted for the Democrats ' candidate for speaker John Nance Garner, who later became Vice-President under Franklin Roosevelt.

Wang has made wedding gowns for many well-known public figures, such as Chelsea Clinton, Karenna Gore, Ivanka Trump, Campbell Brown, Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Victoria Beckham, Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Garner, Sharon Stone, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Hilary Duff, Uma Thurman, Holly Hunter, Kate Hudson, Khloe Kardashian and Kim Kardashian.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt found Johnson to be a welcome ally and conduit for information, particularly with regard to issues concerning internal politics in Texas ( Operation Texas ) and the machinations of Vice President John Nance Garner and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn.

In the late 19th century the Hall had been divided into two agricultural labourers ' cottages, but Garner obtained both for a total of £ 670, and proceeded to convert it back into a single home.

Whilst engaged in writing in his spare time, Garner attempted to gain employment as a teacher, but soon gave that up, believing that " I couldn't write and teach ; the energies were too similar ", and so began working as a general labourer for four years, remaining unemployed for much of that time.

" Later Phillips produced Lie Detector as a series for PAX / ION — some of the guests included Paula Jones, Reverend Paul Crouch accuser Lonny Ford, Ben Rowling, Jeff Gannon and Swift Boat Vet, Steve Garner.

In October 2010 Garner was named interim manager of the West Indies for the tour of Sri Lanka.

The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad was also used in the filming of the 1996 comedy My Fellow Americans starring Jack Lemmon and James Garner when they stumble on to a charter train full of UNC-Chapel Hill fans headed for the NCAA Final Four.

In 1891, the village of Garner's Station had its charter repealed, and in 1905 application was made and granted for its reinstatement as the Town of Garner.

The late Parker Rand believed that Garner was named for a family that lived in the area and later moved to Texas.

William S. Powell stated that Garner was named for its founder, H. C. Garner.

Some skirmishes occurred in the area, as witnessed by the carefully preserved bullet holes in New Bethel Church and the “ Garner ” house, which is said to have been used as a hospital for wounded soldiers.

Farming was the chief source of income for the early settlers of Garner and nearby areas, with cotton the principal crop.

John Nance Garner Museum in Uvalde ( closed in 2010 / 2011 for renovation )

In 2010, the company HarperCollins brought out a special 50th anniversary issue of the book, containing a new preface by Garner and praise from various other figures involved in children's literature, while 2011 saw BBC Radio 4 produce a radio adaptation.

It stars James Garner as F. Ross Johnson, the CEO of RJR Nabisco, and Jonathan Pryce as Henry Kravis, his chief rival for the company.

Forming a software company called Robitron Software Research, Inc. in 1987 with his father, Robert J. Garner, and his sister Pam, he worked as a software developer until 1997 when his father retired and the company was disbanded.

He played a season in 1867 with the impressive new company at Queen's Theatre that included Irving, Henrietta Hodson, Lionel Brough and Charles Wyndham, where he appeared in such works a H. J. Byron's Dearer Than Life, as Michael Garner, and W. S. Gilbert's La Vivandière, as Sergeant Sulpizio.

In 2008, the company moved its headquarters to a new $ 12 million building in Greenfield North off Interstate 40 in Garner, North Carolina.