The series features rotten boroughs ( or " robber buttons "), Dr. Samuel Johnson ( played by Robbie Coltrane ), William Pitt the Younger ( Simon Osborne ), the French Revolution ( featuring Chris Barrie, Nigel Planer and Tim McInnerny as the Scarlet Pimpernel ), over-the-top theatrical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington ( played by Stephen Fry ).

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

Just three players – Mark Johnson, Brent Stanton and Scott Lucas played all 22 matches that season, the latter winning Essendon's best and fairest award, as well as being Essendon's leading goalkicker that season.

As an itinerant performer who played mostly on street corners, in juke joints, and at Saturday night dances, Johnson enjoyed little commercial success or public recognition in his lifetime.

Richard Johnson played Posthumus, and Robert Harris Cymbeline.

Birch played as ' tomboy ' Billie Pike in the movie Paradise, which also starred Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith, and Elijah Wood.

They started doing separate ventures ; Louis Johnson played bass on Michael Jackson's Thriller and recorded a gospel music album in 1981 with his own group Passage, which included his then-wife Valerie Johnson and former Brothers Johnson percussionist / singer, Richard Heath.

Language considerations figure prominently in general semantics, and three language and communications specialists who embraced general semantics, university professors and authors Hayakawa, Wendell Johnson and Neil Postman, played major roles in framing general semantics, especially for non-readers of Science and Sanity.

The Johnson Mountain Boys were one of the decade's most popular touring groups, and played strictly traditional bluegrass.

In Game Six, rookie Magic Johnson played center for the Lakers in place of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ( who was out because of a sprained ankle sustained in Game Five ) and scored 42 points.

Indeed, scholars looking at the evolution of the NSC from its inception to the 1970s contend that the National Security Adviser and his White House centered staff increasingly assumed a more prominent role than the official National Security Council and that Johnson, like Kennedy before him, played a key role in this development.

The CIAA's legacy dates back to 1892 when Livingstone College and Biddle University ( now Johnson C. Smith University ) played in the first football game between two African-American colleges.

They also supported The Prefects and The Slits ( later Clarke's band ), and also played a gig with Holly Johnson.

Robert Strange McNamara ( June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009 ) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

In season five she got a puppy named Daisy and married Jimmy's archenemy Johnny Johnson ( played by Patrick Warburton ).

Lovitz played Mike Johnson, a disgruntled former employee that had been fired and was threatening to commit suicide by jumping from the ledge outside Dave's office.

He played a crucial role in all of the major foreign policy and defense decisions of the Kennedy and part of the Johnson administration.

Herschel Walker, a Johnson County native, played on the county's only state championship football team in 1979.

Anne-Marie Johnson, who played Virgil's wife Althea, summed up what it was like to film the show in the little town of Hammond: " My high school was bigger than this town.

Unlike the characters played by Rollins and Johnson, Thorne's character simply vanished with no explanation for why he was absent from the show.

However, none of the performers actually played musical instruments with the exception of Haylie Johnson who as of 1997 played guitar.

Johnson became the first coach to claim a national championship in college football and a Super Bowl victory in professional football.

Switzer joined Johnson as the only coaches to win a college football national championship and a Super Bowl.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

Finally, Jimmy Johnson was looking to become the first head coach to win a college football national championship ( University of Miami in 1987 ) and a Super Bowl.

Bobby Ross became the second coach, after Jimmy Johnson in Super Bowl XXVII, to lead a team to a college football national championship ( Georgia Tech in 1990 ) and a Super Bowl.

One year later, Barry Switzer would join Johnson as the only coaches to WIN titles in both college and the NFL.

As a result, Johnson eventually left the team after their XXVIII win and was replaced by former University of Oklahoma head coach Barry Switzer, who had one of the highest winning percentages of any college football coach in history with a mark of. 837.

Barry Switzer became the second head coach, after former Cowboys head coach Jimmy Johnson, to win a college football national championship ( University of Oklahoma 1974, 1975, 1985 ) and a Super Bowl title.

In that same election no candidate for Vice President secured a majority in the electoral college as Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Richard Mentor Johnson did not receive the electoral votes of Democratic electors from Virginia, because of his relationship with a former slave.

*** 1966 – After 1966 with the draft in place more than 500, 000 troops are sent to Vietnam by the Johnson administration and college attendance soars.

In the electoral college, the Democratic vice presidential votes were divided among Johnson, Littleton W. Tazewell, and James Knox Polk.

The Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963, which was signed into law by Johnson a month after becoming president, authorized several times more college aid within a five-year period than had been appropriated under the Land Grant College in a century, and provided better college libraries, ten to twenty new graduate centers, several new technical institutes, classrooms for several hundred thousand students, and twenty-five to thirty new community colleges a year.

Although Princeton is a " college town ", there are other important institutions in the area, including the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, Educational Testing Service ( ETS ), Opinion Research Corporation, Siemens Corporate Research, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sarnoff Corporation, FMC Corporation, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Amrep, Church and Dwight, Berlitz International, and Dow Jones & Company.

Virginia's delegation to the electoral college went against the popular vote and refused to endorse Johnson.

* Jimmy Johnson, former college and NFL coach.

As a competitor in college athletics, UCF has many notable student athletes, coaches and staff members, such as NFL players Matt Prater, Daunte Culpepper, Kevin Smith, Brandon Marshall, Asante Samuel, Atari Bigby, Mike Sims-Walker, and Josh Robinson, MLS goalkeeper Sean Johnson, NBA starting guard Jermaine Taylor, NASCAR driver Aric Almirola, Olympic beach volleyball player Phil Dalhausser and soccer star Michelle Akers.

Johnson was a college football player.

Franklin W. Johnson was appointed president of the college in June 1929.

Citing a recently released Maine Higher Education Survey Report, a cramped location between the river and the railroad tracks, an aging physical plant, and lack of dining facilities for men, amongst others, Johnson began a campaign to move the college to a more adequate location.

Humboldt State Normal School was established as a teacher's college on June 16, 1913, by then-California Governor Hiram Johnson.

Nine presidents have led the college including William James Johnson ; E. E. Wood ; John Newton Prestridge ; Gorman Jones, acting president ; A. R. Evans, acting president ; Charles William Elsey ; James Lloyd Creech ; J. M. Boswell ; and James H. Taylor.

A graduate of the University of Mississippi and Ole Miss Law, Johnson was a practicing attorney in Jackson and Hattiesburg, marrying his college sweetheart Dorothy Power in 1941.

After college, Johnson served in the South Pacific with the United States Marine Corps during World War II.

In 2004 he was awarded the inaugural " Phillip E. Johnson Award for Liberty and Truth " by Biola University, a private evangelical Christian college noted for its promotion of intelligent design.