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Johnny and Shawnessy
:" Johnny Shawnessy probably had a better guess about the river's name than anyone else as he was the only person in the County for years who made any research into the Indian culture.

Johnny and tends
As Luther tends to the disoriented Johnny, he is bombarded with racist slurs by Ray, who grew up in Beaver Canal, the white working class section of the city.

Johnny and view
Phoenix came back into public view under tragic circumstances: on October 31, 1993, his brother, River Phoenix, suffered a drug overdose and died, outside the Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room, which was co-owned by Johnny Depp at the time.
At the request of guitarist Johnny Ramone, Punk Magazine editor and illustrator John Holmstrom produced the sleeve art, a cartoonish view of the world from a rocketship with a pinhead, emblematic of the band, grabbing onto it.
The original Sunshine Skyway Bridge is featured in the old-time radio series " Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar " in the episode " The Fancy Bridgework Matter " ( 11 / 22 / 1959 ) and in the original opening credits to the 1988 Superboy TV series which showed the hero flying over the damaged original span and then turning to view the new bridge under construction.
The poem is presented as a single, rueful stanza from the point of view of a New York Giants fan seeing the talented Chicago Cubs infield of shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance complete a double play.
In view of the comedian's high popularity, in the 1950s producers would insist that a movie song be centered around Johnny.

Johnny and events
' Impi ' is also the title of a very famous South Africa song by Johnny Clegg and the band Juluka which has become something of an unofficial national anthem, especially at major international sports events and especially when the opponent is England.
Continuing Puzo's habit, as seen in The Godfather, of featuring characters who are close analogues of real life events and public figures ( as Johnny Fontane is an analogue of Frank Sinatra ), Winegardner features in his two Godfather novels analogues of Joseph, John, and Robert Kennedy, as well as an analogue for alleged organized crime figure Carlos Marcello ( Carlo Tramonti ).
Notable men who once held the position of County Sheriff were Johnny Behan, who served as the first sheriff of the new county, and who was one of the main characters during the events leading to and following the Gunfight at the O. K.
In the summer of 2008, the Little Bohemia Lodge was used in the filming of a recreation of these events in the 2009 Michael Mann film Public Enemies, a movie about Dillinger and the FBI starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger and Christian Bale as Melvin Purvis.
Johnny Aitken, in a Peugeot, in the end triumphed in all three events, his final victories at the facility.
Although he had no major championship victories in 1974, Nicklaus still achieved four top-ten finishes in the four events, three of which were in the top four, and placed second on the official money list behind Johnny Miller.
These seven runner-up finishes came over the course of 21 eventsor one second place finish for every three tournaments played — and does not include a third place finish in 1983, one shot out of the playoff between John Cook and Johnny Miller.
The book, published in 1949, records in simple detail all the events and tensions that made up the months that Johnny Gunther fought for his life and his parents sought to help him through recourse to every medical possibility then known.
In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Kevin Crust found Johnny Knoxville " surprisingly good " but felt that the script left " a lot to be desired, strewn with dialogue as flat and stale as old beer and some invented characters who make the events depicted seem more silly than anarchic ".
Featured events included an annual Toronto Symphony rendition of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, complete with the firing of the guns from the nearby HMCS Haida, and often performances by well established acts, such as BB King, Glen Campbell, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, Dizzy Gillespie, Pat Metheny and Canadian acts like Lighthouse, Bruce Cockburn, The Nylons, Luba, Men Without Hats, Doug and the Slugs, Parachute Club and Red Rider.
This usage of ' Johnny Depp ' for referring to some particular baby got passed on from person-to-person in a giant causal and historical chain of events.
The Sprawl trilogy shares this setting with Gibson's short stories " Johnny Mnemonic ," " New Rose Hotel ," and " Burning Chrome ," and events and characters from the stories appear in or are mentioned at points in the trilogy.
Johnny is privileged enough to be invited to exclusive Manoir events, usually bringing Gina, Angela and Gordy along, often against their will.
A dramatic snapshot by Johnny Jenkins ( UPI ) showed the young girl being followed and threatened by an angry white mob ; this and other photos of the day's startling events were circulated around the US and the world by the print press.
The full Crime Syndicate members later appear with the original pre-Crisis iterations of Power Ring and Johnny Quick replacing their contemporary counterparts as a mirror to the events of Green Lantern: Rebirth and Flash: Rebirth.
Johnny underwent several adventures ( each time inadvertently summoning the Thunderbolt via the use of " say, you " in his day-to-day conversation, never realizing the Thunderbolt was responsible for the extraordinary events that befell him ) before finally learning of the Thunderbolt's existence.
When the fight comes down to a struggle between Doctor Fate and the Thunderbolt, Johnny Thunder is so battered about by the combatting magic wielders-whose powers fail to do any actual damage to each other-that he finally gives up his attempts to use the Thunderbolt and wishes that none of these events had taken place.
Regardless of the theme, Johnny Downs was always a big star to the kids of the area and was always a draw when he appeared at contests, festivals, parades, or other events.
Johnny featured only marginally in the inexplicable events, at least 26 of which the investigators considered could not be accounted for by fraud.
Other interests include a lifelong passion for family history, historical places and events, folklore, country music ( especially that of Johnny Horton ), and much more.
Julie Power and Johnny Gallo are also the subject of character retcons during the course of the series: whereas in his Runaways appearance Johnny's reasons for joining the group were given as being so he could be around other ex-teen heroes who had experienced early fame as a superhero and later couldn't cope without it, this was revised in Loners to being that he used superheroics for thrill seeking and to meet women, then revised a third time to being a response to his friend being killed during a superhero battle ( though this battle-occurring during the events of the ' Wolverine: Enemy of the State ' story arc-did not actually occur until after Johnny first appeared as a member of the Los Angeles-based Excelsior group, though he is portrayed during Loners in flashbacks as still living in New York at the time, working as a superhero alongside the friend in question: Eddie McDonough, who is also portrayed as being back in the Hornet armor he lost, somehow cured of the cerebral palsy which afflicted him ).
Since the 1950s the Memorial Centre has been used for many cultural and recreational events including performances by Johnny Cash in 1958 and 1987.
Since 1992, Johnny Crawford has provided and led a California-based vintage dance orchestra for special events.

Johnny and life
His former co-star and movie son, Johnny Sheffield, wrote of him, " I can only say that working with Big John was one of the highlights of my life.
Knowing and being with Johnny Weissmuller during my formative years had a lasting influence on my life.
Chuck Berry, with " Maybellene " ( 1955 ), " Roll over Beethoven " ( 1956 ), " Rock and Roll Music " ( 1957 ) and " Johnny B. Goode " ( 1958 ), refined and developed the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, focusing on teen life and introducing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.
While Johnny hovers between life and death, his father returns and reconciles with Sally.
He also made guest appearances on other Los Angeles-based shows, such as Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and landed a starring role in CBS's Fort Laramie ( 1956 ), which depicted 19th-century life at old Fort Laramie.
Doc Holliday, who had saved Wyatt Earp's life at one time and was a very close friend, had been living in Prescott and making a living as a gambler since late 1879, where he first met future Tombstone Sheriff and sometimes gambler Johnny Behan.
Though Spider could remove Johnny's implant, this may cause both the loss of this invaluable data as well as Johnny's life ; instead, Spider directs Johnny to " Jones " that resides at Heaven, the Lo-Tek base built on the underside of the Brooklyn Bridge.
A film, Walk the Line, was released in 2005 about the life and music of Johnny Cash.
Both spacecraft carry a golden record containing sounds and images representing life and culture on Earth, including the first movements of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Guan Pinghu's Liu Shui, played on the guqin, and Chuck Berry's " Johnny B. Goode ".
Many books and films have been based on the life of Johnny Appleseed.
In 2002, he was invited to Merthyr Tydfil by Johnny Owen's family to help unveil a bronze statue commemorating boxer's life and career.
The marriage lasted only eight weeks, and produced no children, as she had soon met the love of her life Johnny Cradock.
* In the late 1950s Johnny Horton recorded a song called Jim Bridger about the life of Jim Bridger.
The series follows Johnny as he searches for meaning in his life, a quest that frequently leads to the violent deaths of those around him as well as, briefly, his own.
") contains, in addition to the actual Squee comics, the Meanwhiles that were left out of the Director's Cut of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, as well as comics of Vasquez's " real life " and Wobbly-Headed Bob.
In a cold, suppressed rage, Max handcuffs Johnny's ankle to the wrecked vehicle whilst Johnny begs for his life.
Rivers has spoken of her primary Tonight Show life as having been Johnny Carson's daughter, a reference to his longtime mentoring of her and, during the 1980s, establishing her as his regular guest host by August 1983.
Vélez's personal life was often difficult ; a five year marriage to Johnny Weissmuller and a series of romances, were highly publicized.
After spending most of his life in a nomadic existence " up and down the dial ", WKRP settles Johnny down and establishes a relatively stable ensemble of friends and associates for him.
Cornelius Boza-Edwards won the WBC world Jr. Lightweight title from Rafael Limón with a fifteen round decision in 1981 at Stockton, California, this after Limón, a Mexican, had made his infamous You know what happens to British boxers when they face Mexicans comment, in a reference to the fight between Lupe Pintor and Johnny Owen, after which Owen lost his life.
Both of his parents have no care for him ( especially his father who works countless hours and leads a miserable life after having Squee as a child ) and his only shown friend other than Johnny is a small teddy bear that he carries around named Shmee.
The sequence ends with Johnny warning the remaining patrons to ' think quickly, for a long life is never a guarantee ' seconds before Café le Prick is destroyed by an explosion.
Johnny also kills a cockroach named Mr. Samsa after Gregor Samsa, the main character of Franz Kafka's short story, The Metamorphosis, with the belief that he had come back to life after Johnny had killed him some time ago ( despite Tess ' insistance that there " could be more than one cockroach " in his house ).

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