Lake retold his story in a 1946 book that director John Ford developed into the movie My Darling Clementine.

The story of Donald Campbell's last attempt at the water speed record on Coniston Water was told in the BBC television film Across the Lake in 1988, with Anthony Hopkins as Donald.

During 1951 – 1952, Mies ' designed the steel, glass, and brick McCormick House, located in Elmhurst, Illinois ( 15 miles west of the Chicago Loop ), for real-estate developer Robert Hall McCormick, Jr. A one story adaptation of the exterior curtain wall of his famous 860 – 880 Lake Shore Drive towers, it served as a prototype for an unbuilt series of speculative houses to be constructed in Melrose Park, Illinois.

Reverend Eugene Thomas from Ohio, USA, told James Powell and Roy P. Mackal in 1979 a story that involved the purported killing of a Mokèlé-mbèmbé near Lake Tele in 1959.

* In one 6-episode story arc of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Bullwinkle finds the " Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam " in the town of Frostbite Falls ( on the shores of Veronica Lake, no less ).

Bradbury sold his first story, " The Lake ", for $ 13. 75 at the age of twenty-two.

The term Lake Guns originated in the short story " Lake Gun " by James Fenimore Cooper in 1851.

A story told by the thirteenth-century Icelandic mythographer Snorri Sturluson in his Prose Edda about the origin of Lake Mälaren was probably originally about Lake Vänern: the Swedish king Gylfi promised a woman, Gefjun, as much land as four oxen could plough in a day and a night, but she used oxen from the land of the giants, and moreover uprooted the land and dragged it into the sea, where it became the island of Zealand.

The format was the same, but Keillor appeared only as a guest actor and to recite his weekly " News from Lake Wobegon " story.

The crashed alien saucer was taken to a secret base called " Never Never Land " ( inspired by Groom Lake in Area 51, nicknamed in real-life as " Dreamland ") in the Nevada Desert where it was reverse-engineered ( similar to Bob Lazar's story about his job at the S-4 base ).

Glaaki first appeared in " The Inhabitant of the Lake " ( 1964 ), an early story by Ramsey Campbell.

" In the Big Sleep Chandler expands this description of the room and uses this new detail ( e. g., the contrast of white and " bled out ", the coming rain ) to foreshadow the fact that Mrs. Regan ( who was Mrs. O ' Mara in the original story ) is covering up the murder of her husband by her sister and that the coming rain storm will bring more deaths: " The room was too big, the ceiling was too high, the doors were too tall, and the white carpet that went from wall to wall looked like a fresh fall of snow at Lake Arrowhead.

In the spring of 2008, Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport Minister Christine Tell proclaimed in Duck Lake, that " the 125th commemoration, in 2010, of the 1885 Northwest Rebellion is an excellent opportunity to tell the story of the prairie Métis and First Nations peoples ' struggle with Government forces and how it has shaped Canada today.

General scholarly opinion is that the Exodus story combines a number of traditions, one of them at the " Reed Sea " ( Lake Timsah, with the Egyptians defeated when the wheels of their chariots become clogged ) and another at the far deeper Red Sea, allowing the more dramatic telling of events.

Byron also composed an enigmatic fragmentary story concerning the mysterious fate of an aristocrat named Augustus Darvell whilst journeying in the Orient — as his contribution to the famous ghost story competition at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816, between him, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and John William Polidori ( who was Byron's personal physician ).

" When Lake Lillian was dredged back in the ' 30s to make it more round, we picked up arrowheads by the buckets-full ," said Frank Pelot III, in a 1986 Star-Banner story by Elaine Hamaker.

The story has been covered in depth by the local newspaper, the Northwest Herald, published in nearby Crystal Lake, Illinois.

The story of Lake Arbor is emblematic of the socio-economic and demographic evolution of Prince George's County that occurred in the mid-1980s.

The story of the Lake Orion Dragon says that sometime in the 1800s a group of local kids played a prank by building a fake dragon and launching it out in the lake.

Another story states that Nuangola is the Indian word for " Three-Cornered Lake " or " Triangular Lake ," the latter of which was another name for the area prior to it being officially named Nuangola.

Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

Gygax spent his early childhood in Chicago, but in 1946 ( after he was involved in a brawl with a large group of boys ), his father decided to move the family to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where Gary's mother's family had settled in the early 19th century.

Training camps were previously held at Chestnut Hill Academy in 1935, St. Joseph's University in 1939 and 1943, Saranac Lake from 1946 – 1948, Hershey from 1951 – 1967, Albright College from 1968 – 1972, Widener University from 1973 – 1979, and West Chester University from 1980 – 1995.

* Homer's Texaco Service Station, located at the North East corner of the intersection of Louisiana Highway 86 and Lake Dauterive Road ( Louisiana Highway 3242 ) the family-owned business was in continuous operation from 1946 until the late 1990s.

Walter Mondale, Vice-President of the United States under Jimmy Carter ( 1977 – 1981 ) and the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 1984, attended Heron Lake Public High School and lived in the Methodist Episcopal Church parsonage ( still present in the town ) for three years prior to 1946.

The official national Thanksgiving turkey for President Harry S. Truman at the White House came from Forest Lake in 1946 and 1948.

* Bernard " Bud " Nygren, a 1936 graduate of Forest Lake High School, was, in 1946, the first person to ever score points for any Los Angeles pro sports franchise, when he scored a touchdown for the Los Angeles Dons of the All-America Football Conference.

Lake Success was the temporary home of the United Nations from 1946 to 1951, occupying the headquarters of the Sperry Gyroscope Company on Marcus Avenue.

The Geiger Lake Town Beach and picnic grove was opened to the public on July 21, 1946.

Yet the Gyroscope division remained headquartered on New York — in its massive Lake Success, Long Island, plant ( which also served as the temporary United Nations headquarters from 1946 to 1952 )— into the 1980s.

Salt Lake City was without a baseball team until 1946 when it received a franchise in the Pioneer League.

* Freddie Mercury ( 1946 – 1991 ), singer of Queen ( ashes reputedly scattered on the shores of Lake Geneva, near Montreux, Switzerland where a statue commemorates him )

Prior to the construction of the current complex, the UN was headquartered at a temporary location at the Sperry Gyroscope Corporation's offices in Lake Success, New York, an eastern suburb of the city in Nassau County on Long Island, from 1946 – 1952.

The conference was formed with nine charter members ( Augustana College, Carthage College, Elmhurst College, Illinois College, Illinois Wesleyan University, Lake Forest College, Millikin University, North Central College and Wheaton College ) on April 26, 1946, in Jacksonville, Ill., and opened competition in the 1946-47 academic year as the College Conference of Illinois.

Sharon Thesen ( born 28 October 1946 ) is a Canadian poet who lives in Lake Country, British Columbia.

Lake earned her pilot's license in 1946 and was able to fly solo between Los Angeles and New York.

* Kirsopp Lake ( 1872 – 1946 ), British New Testament scholar

A toll bridge until 1946, its common name is the I-90 bridge or Lake Washington Floating Bridge.

A Swedish Air Force officer searches for a " ghost rocket " in Lake Kölmjärv, Norrland, Sweden, in July 1946.

Congress authorized Thurmond Lake in 1944 and construction began in 1946.

The roadway was also called Field Boulevard ; it was renamed Lake Shore Drive in 1946.