* 1835 James Bowman Lindsay demonstrates a light bulb based electric lighting system to the citizens of Dundee.

To meet these challenges, the RCMP operates what is known as the Marine Division, with five Robert Allan Ltd .– designed high-speed catamaran patrol vessels ; Inkster and the Commissioner-class Nadon, Higgitt, Lindsay and Simmonds, based on all three coasts and manned by officers specially trained in maritime enforcement.

Lindsay had done little to dispel the myth that the story is based on truth, in many interviews either refusing to confirm it was entirely fiction, or hinting that parts of the book were fictitious, and others were not.

Appleyard College was to some extent based on Clyde Girls ' Grammar School at East St Kilda, Melbourne, which Joan Lindsay attended as a day-girl while in her teens.

The story is fiction, though Lindsay dropped hints that it was based on an actual event.

Dangerous Liaisons was the first English-language film adaptation of Laclos's novel, and was based on Christopher Hampton's Olivier Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated theatrical adaptation for the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Howard Davies and featuring Lindsay Duncan, Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson.

Persistent legends, based on the highly coloured and unreliable accounts of 16th-century chroniclers such as Adam Abell, Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, John Leslie and George Buchanan, claim that James III was assassinated at Milltown, near Bannockburn, soon after the battle.

* Ellery Queen, Master Detective ( 1940 ) Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen ( very loosely based on The Door Between )

* Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime ( 1941 ) Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen ( loosely based on The Devil To Pay )

* Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring ( 1941 ) Ralph Bellamy as Ellery Queen, Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter, Charley Grapewin as Inspector Queen ( loosely based on The Dutch Shoe Mystery )

It is based on a 1967 drama and mystery novel of the same name by Australian author Joan Lindsay.

Lindsay wrote the children's classic The Magic Pudding published in 1918 and created a scandal when his novel Redheap ( supposedly based on his hometown, Creswick ) was banned due to censorship laws.

According to the Department of Education, Stuyvesant accepts students solely based on their performance on the SHSAT, although former Mayor John Lindsay and community activist group ACORN have argued that the exam may be biased against African and Hispanic Americans.

* Berry and Co based on a story by Dornford Yates for director Lindsay Anderson

The claim was based on the extensive research of his son Lord Lindsay.

Then, in 1843, James Lindsay, 7th Earl of Balcarres put forward his claim, based on the research of his eldest son Alexander ; in 1848, the House of Lords allowed it.

A remake of the same-titled 1961 original based on Erich Kästner's novel Lottie and Lisa, it starred Lindsay Lohan in her motion picture debut in a dual role of estranged twin sisters who try to reunite their long-divorced parents, played by Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson.

In 1996, Kelly was elected twice to the seat of Lindsay, based around the suburb of Penrith on the western fringe of Sydney.

The attempt to organize the players was the subject of a 1995 TV movie by the CBC, entitled Net Worth, based on the Lindsay chapters in the book of the same name.

* The Australian composer Lindsay Vickery has written an opera based on the novel Djinn.

* Scruples, 1980 television miniseries based on the novel and starring Lindsay Wagner

In 1927, his final year at Magdalene College, Cambridge, he amazed colleagues by sprinting around the Great Court at Trinity College in the time it took the college clock to toll 12 o ' clock, inspiring the scene in the film Chariots of Fire ( whose character Lord Andrew Lindsay is based upon Burghley ) in which Harold Abrahams accomplishes the same feat.

The film stars Grant as Tony, an Anglican priest newly arrived from England, asked to visit a notorious artist, loosely based on the Australian artist Norman Lindsay and played here by Sam Neill, out of the church's concern about a blasphemous painting the artist plans to exhibit.

A character (" Lady Fitzhugh ") based on Mrs. Lindsay was played by actress Dame Sybil Thorndike in the 1959 film, Shake Hands with the Devil, which starred James Cagney, Don Murray and Michael Redgrave.

He was Head Boy at Ashville College, Harrogate and attended Wadham College, Oxford, where his contemporaries included Kenneth Tynan, Lindsay Anderson and Gavin Lambert.

In his final year Heath was President of Balliol College Junior Common Room, an office held in subsequent years by his near-contemporaries Denis Healey and Roy Jenkins, and as such was invited to support the Master of Balliol Alexander Lindsay, who stood as an anti-appeasement ' Independent Progressive ' candidate against the official Conservative candidate, Quintin Hogg, in the Oxford by-election, 1938.

This election took place shortly after the Munich Agreement and the Labour candidate Patrick Gordon-Walker was persuaded to step down to allow a unified challenge to the Conservatives ; A. D. Lindsay, the Master of Balliol College fought as an ' Independent Progressive ' candidate.

* D. Michael Lindsay — President of Gordon College, Massachusetts

In Peterborough, Ontario, Fleming College, a Community College of Applied Arts and Technology bearing his name, was opened in 1967, with additional campuses in Lindsay / Kawartha Lakes, Haliburton, and Cobourg.

Lindsay studied medicine at Hiram College in Ohio from 1897 to 1900, but he did not want to be a doctor.

* 1953 Succeeds Alexander Lindsay as Principal of the University College of North Staffordshire ( now Keele University ).

Keele University was established in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire, at the initiative of A D Lindsay, then Professor of Philosophy and Master of Balliol College, Oxford.

The Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies, at Trent University, the Leslie Frost Library at Glendon College, York University, the Frost Campus at Fleming College and a school in Lindsay, Ontario, Leslie Frost Public School are named after Frost.

The Proctors for 2009-10 are The Revd Jeremy Caddick ( Senior Proctor ) of Emmanuel College and the Revd Lindsay Yates ( Junior Proctor ) of St John's College.

With the outbreak of the Second World War, Guttmann and his family stayed in the home of Lord Lindsay, CARA Councillor and Master of Balliol College.

After leaving Gladstone Boys ' School, Lindsay enrolled in the drama department of Clarendon College in Nottingham, intending to become a drama teacher.

Born as Lindsay Russell Churney in Liverpool, Churney was educated at Merchant Taylors ' School in Great Crosby and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Lindsay obtained her Bachelor's Degree from Vassar College in English with a minor in French.

Lindsay served as chairman of Cumann Céimithe na Gaillimhe, the University College Galway Graduate Association, during the 1980s.

Their third daughter Lindsay played basketball at Wofford College before transferring to Elon University.

In 1973, John Lindsay, who had become a Democrat, withdrew from the New York Plan, setting a new objective to increase minority representation in the building trades to twenty five per cent.

Lindsay's choice of title ( and therefore the setting of Arcturus ) may have been influenced by the nonfictional A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora published in 1911 by his namesake, David Moore Lindsay.