* John Candy as Irving Blitzer

Irving Blitzer is a fictional character ; the real team had several trainers, none of whom were connected to any cheating scandal.

Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

Astoria ( 1835 ), written while Irving was Astor's guest, cemented the importance of the region in the American psyche .< ref > In his Introduction to the rambling work, Irving reports that Astor explicitly " expressed a regret that the true nature and extent of his enterprize

Washington Irving was instrumental in popularizing Columbus.

The result of his experience with adapting The Demolished Man was The Fury, a science fiction psychic thriller that starred Kirk Douglas, Carrie Snodgress, John Cassavetes and Amy Irving.

Consulting and design engineer Phil Irving ( of Vincent Motorcycle fame ) was the project engineer responsible for producing the initial version of the engine.

The term " covalence " in regard to bonding was first used in 1919 by Irving Langmuir in a Journal of the American Chemical Society article entitled " The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules ".

Just outside the city of Dallas, the stadium was located in Irving, Texas.

The roof's worn paint had become so unsightly in the early 2000s that it was repainted in the summer of 2006 by the City of Irving.

After Cowboys Stadium was opened in 2009, the Cowboys turned over the facility to the City of Irving.

In 1989, Exxon announced that it was moving its headquarters and around 300 employees from Manhattan, New York City to the Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas.

He and other members from his unit wrote a play called Is This the Army ?, which was inspired by Irving Berlin's This is the Army.

According to Irving Howe, Orwell was " the best English essayist since Hazlitt, perhaps since Dr Johnson.

In the mid-1970s some Greenpeace members started an independent campaign, Project Ahab, against commercial whaling, since Irving Stowe was against Greenpeace focusing on other issues than nuclear weapons.

The tale was composed by Irving while he was living in England, and was based on popular tales told by colonial Dutch settlers of New York's Hudson River valley.

George Bernard Shaw's praise for Johnston Forbes-Robertson's performance contains a sideswipe at Irving: " The story of the play was perfectly intelligible, and quite took the attention of the audience off the principal actor at moments.

During the Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt trial it became evident that the court need to identify what was an " objective historian " in the same vein as the reasonable person, and reminiscent of the standard traditionally used in English law of " the man on the Clapham omnibus ".

This was necessary so that there would be a legal bench mark with which to compare and contrast the scholarship of an objective historian against the methods employed by David Irving, as before the Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt trial there was no legal precedent for what constituted an objective historian.

Schneider proposed this, because, in her opinion, Irving could have passed the standard Daubert tests unless a court was given " a great deal of assistance from historians ".

The new Houston team was named the Colt. 45s after a " Name The Team " contest was won by William Irving Neder.

As the chemical properties of the elements were known to largely repeat themselves according to the periodic law, in 1919 the American chemist Irving Langmuir suggested that this could be explained if the electrons in an atom were connected or clustered in some manner.

* 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American critic and academic ( d. 1933 )

* 2012 – Irving Fein, American film and television producer and manager ( b. 1911 )

* 1926 – George Irving Bell, American mountaineer ( d. 2000 )

* 1993 – Irving " Swifty " Lazar, American Hollywood talent agent ( b. 1907 )

" Yip " Harburg ( performed by Judy Garland in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz ), " White Christmas " written by Irving Berlin ( best-known performance by Bing Crosby ), " This Land Is Your Land " written and performed by Woody Guthrie, " Respect " written by Otis Redding ( best-known performance by Aretha Franklin ), and " American Pie ".

* 1867 – Irving Fisher, American economist ( d. 1947 )

Irving Langmuir ( 31 January 1881 – 16 August 1957 ) was an American chemist and physicist.

* 1895 – Irving Caesar, American songwriter and composer ( d. 1996 )

* 1905 – Irving Johnson, American sailor and author ( d. 1991 )

* 1914 – Irving Brecher, American Screenwriter ( d. 2008 )

* 1917 – Irving Penn, American photographer ( d. 2009 )

* 1920 – Irving Kristol, American pundit, columnist and author ( d. 2009 )

* 1894 – Irving Mills, American jazz music publisher ( d. 1985 )

* Miff Mole, ( Irving Milfred Mole, 1898 – 1961 ), American jazz trombonist and band leader

* 1888 – Irving Berlin, American composer ( d. 1989 )

* 1942 – John Irving, American author

* 1899 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer ( d. 1936 )

* 1876 – Irving Baxter, American athlete ( d. 1957 )

* 1917 – Irving Kaplansky, American mathematician ( d. 2006 )

* 1922 – George S. Irving, American actor