The tale of the ear's separation from Jenkins, following the boarding of his vessel by Spanish coast guards in 1731, provided the impetus to war against the Spanish Empire, ostensibly to encourage the Spanish not to renege on the lucrative asiento contract ( permission to sell slaves in Spanish America ).

In May 2007, Jenkins extended his Dallas contract to May 2011.

The songwriting duo of Stephan Jenkins and Kevin Cadogan signed the band's first major label recording contract with Elektra records in 1996 resulting in two multi platinum albums.

Negotiations were protracted, but Jenkins was formally granted permission to write the book on May 12, 1966 ; a contract was drawn up on August 24, 1966, which stated that Jenkins would be entitled to a percentage of profits in any film made from the novel, but not from any related merchandise that might come about.

Foitek was finally available to the team and he replaced Johansson, but this would result in the second crisis of 1990 as Stefan Johansson was upset by the team's disloyalty and sued them for breach of contract and along with Alan Jenkins, he attempted to get a court injunction to block Monteverdi's planned relocation of the team.

Kevin Cadogan along with his co-writer Stephan Jenkins signed a recording contract with Elektra records in May 1996 which launched Third Eye Blind into stardom.

Cadogan told the NY Times in 1999 that he discovered 100 % of the shares had in fact been issued to Jenkins as far back as 1996 when Cadogan and Jenkins signed the definitive record contract with Elektra.

All payments were subsequently directed in the record contract to be paid to Third Eye Blind Inc., effectively cutting Cadogan out of any partnership and making Jenkins the sole " owner " of the band.

'' Private Jenkins Lloyd Jones of the Wisconsin Light Artillery wrote in his diary: `` I strolled among the Alabamans on the right, found some of the greenest specimens of humanity I think in the universe, their ignorance being little less than the slave they despise with as imperfect a dialect.

She had grown up with young Jenkins, and he had heard that they had been at the point of getting married at least twice.

It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

Nearly a century later, the English were to invade in earnest, taking Guantánamo Bay in 1741 during the War of Jenkins ' Ear with Spain.

The late-1960s brought hope of a renaissance, with third baseman Ron Santo, pitcher Ferguson Jenkins, and outfielder Billy Williams joining Banks.

It was not a commercial success in this form, and left the way free for Charles Francis Jenkins and his projector, the Phantoscope, with the first showing before an audience in June 1894.

Even Edison, initially dismissive of projection, joined the trend with the Vitascope, a modified Jenkins ' Phantoscope, within less than six months.

Left Behind is a series of 16 best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times: pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatological viewpoint of the end of the world.

LaHaye and Jenkins cite the influence of Russell S. Doughten, an Iowan film-maker who directed a series of four low-budget but popular feature-length films in the 1970s and 1980s about the Rapture and Second Coming, starting with 1972's A Thief in the Night.

Almost immediately after his election as leader he was faced with a serious crisis: the creation in early 1981 of a breakaway party by four senior Labour right-wingers, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers ( the so-called " Gang of Four "), the Social Democratic Party.

In his 2000 book Mystics and Messiahs, Philip Jenkins discussed the term's usage, and likened it to " smear words " associated with other religions ; giving examples of Shaker, Methodist, and Mormon.

Philip Jenkins in The New Anti-Catholicism suggests that the periodic revival of what he calls this " anti-papal legend " has more to do with feminist and anti-Catholic wishful thinking than historical accuracy.

The son of a Welsh coal miner who later became a union official and Labour MP, Roy Jenkins served with distinction in World War II.

Roy Jenkins is often seen as responsible for the most wide-ranging social reforms of the late 1960s, with popular historian Andrew Marr claiming ' the greatest changes of the Labour years ' were thanks to Jenkins.

Despite Edward Heath claiming it was a ' hard, cold budget, without any glimmer of warmth ' Jenkins ' first budget broadly received a warm reception, with Harold Wilson remarking that ' it was widely acclaimed as a speech of surpassing quality and elegance ' and Barbara Castle that it ' took everyone's breath away '.

On 22 November 1979 Jenkins delivered the annual Dimbleby Lecture which he called " Home Thoughts from Abroad ", detailing what he saw as the reasons for Britain's persistent underperformance as a failure of adaptability and problems associated with the two party system.

Jenkins was disappointed with Owen's move to the right, and his acceptance and backing of some of Thatcher's policies.

From 1987, Jenkins remained in politics as a member of the House of Lords as a life peer with the title Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, of Pontypool in the County of Gwent.

This was clearly shown in their obituary cartoon with the caption: Roy Jenkins, 1920 – 2003.

He fronted Club Homeboy, an international BMX club, with Mark " Lew " Lewman and Andy Jenkins, both co-editors of Freestylin ' Magazine in the mid-to late 1980s, where Jonze worked as a photographer.

Jonze was also a co-founder and editor of Dirt magazine along with Mark Lewman and Andy Jenkins, as well as an editor for Grand Royal Magazine and senior photographer for Transworld Skateboarding.

An incident also mentioned was when Major Jenkins had invited Gunners Milligan and Edgington to his bivouac to play some jazz with him, only to discover that the musicianship of the aforementioned gunners was far superior to his own ability to play the military tune ' Whistling Rufus '.

In November 1965, Jenkins met with Harry Saltzman, co-producer of the James Bond films between 1962 and 1974, and Charles Tyrell from Glidrose to discuss the possibility of his making his South African synopsis into the first James Bond ' continuation ' novel.

Despite such promising-sounding material, and the fact that Jenkins was a best-selling thriller writer in the Fleming mould, had been a friend and colleague of Fleming's and had apparently had his blessing and input for the project, Glidrose rejected Jenkins ' submitted manuscript.

After Ian Fleming's death, it was reported that Glidrose Productions commissioned Jenkins to write a James Bond novel in 1966.

After a long period of negotiation, during which Ann Fleming ( Ian's widow ) raised several objections to the idea of a continuation series, Jenkins finished the manuscript for Glidrose entitled Per Fine Ounce, but it was rejected.

Roy Jenkins noted that Wilson's retirement " was disfigured by his, at best, eccentric resignation honours list, which gave peerages or knighthoods to some adventurous business gentlemen, several of whom were close neither to him nor to the Labour Party.

On arriving in England on 11 June, Jenkins addressed his grievances to the king, and gave a deposition which was passed to the Duke of Newcastle in his capacity as Secretary for the Southern Colonies.

In his deposition of 18 June 1731, Jenkins stated that the Spanish captain, " took hold of his left Ear and with his Cutlass slit it down, and then another of the Spaniards took hold of it and tore it off, but gave him the Piece of his Ear again.

News of the plot leaked when Josiah Keeling gave information on it to Sir Leoline Jenkins ; and the plot was publicly discovered 12 June 1683.

" He also praised Lord Jenkins for his work and gave the recommendations a cautious welcome, pointing out in particular that change would help address the " complete absence of Conservative representation in Scotland ", a reference to the then most recent election in which the Conservatives failed to win a single seat in Scotland, despite winning 17. 5 % of the Scottish vote.

This win gave Hackenschmidt a credible claim to the world title, cemented in 1905 with a win over American Heavyweight Champion Tom Jenkins in the United States.

* In " Doppelgangland ", Anya Jenkins asks for beer and the bartender kept insisting she provide proof of age until she gave up and settled for a Coke.

Wilson's choice of appointments caused lasting damage to his reputation ; former Home Secretary Roy Jenkins noted that Wilson's retirement " was disfigured by his, at best, eccentric resignation honours list, which gave peerages or knighthoods to some adventurous business gentlemen, several of whom were close neither to him nor to the Labour Party.

Roly Jenkins, with 183 wickets in 1949, gave them briefly the best attack in county cricket, but they soon declined again and their form in the 1950s was indifferent at best.

In July 2007 Jenkins gave a concert at Margam Park in south Wales, performing alongside Paul Potts and Juan Diego Flórez.

During a 4th of July interview in 1969 with then St. Louis Cardinals sportscaster Harry Caray, Cubs pitcher, Ferguson Jenkins, gave a name to Kessinger's trademark play at shortstop -- The Down Pat.

Elizabeth Jenkins, eldest daughter of James, gave all her land to the Salvation Army upon her death in 1900, in recognition of their support in her old age.

Before the war, Grant also gave land on Jenkins Street for Atlanta's first Black church, Bethel Church ( now Big Bethel Baptist Church ), and defended the church ’ s right to the property after the Civil War.