Levy County ’ s creation took some of the western portion of Marion in 1877.

The Marion County Sheriff ’ s Office came into being as a result of the State Charter in 1845.

Marion County ’ s first real courthouse was planned in 1850, and constructed on the town square in 1851.

Amy Crawford, in Smithsonian Magazine, stated that modern historians such as William Gilmore Simms and Hugh Rankin have written accurate biographies of Marion, including Simms ’ “ The Life of Francis Marion .” The introduction to the 2007 edition of Simms ' book was written by Sean Busick, a professor of American history at Athens State University in Alabama, who wrote,

Marion Petrie tested whether or not these displays signaled a male ’ s genetic quality by studying a feral population of peafowl in Whipsnade Wildlife Park in southern England.

Stations located near Hartford City include Marion ’ s WIWU-CD and WSOT-LD, and Muncie ’ s WIPB.

Marion County is the home of Maker ’ s Mark Distillery, a small batch bourbon whiskey that is distilled in Loretto, Marion County, Kentucky by Beam Inc.

Although Mountain Dew was first marketed under that name in Knoxville, the original soft drink ’ s formula changed drastically from Knoxville ’ s formula to the syrup mixture that constitutes today ’ s drink ; that mixture was formulated in Marion.

Other accolades include the Ernst Jung Prize in Medicine, Mayor ’ s Award for Excellence in Science & Technology, the Squibb Award, and the Hoechst Marion Roussel Award.

In 1997, which was the 75th anniversary of the team's founding, the Marion County Historical Society erected an Ohio Historic Marker on the site of the Oorang Indians ’ practice field in LaRue, Ohio.

The film opens with the following headline of Sunnyville Courier: “ Marion Dixon, Human Bombshell, is Center of Sensational Scandal ” with a large photo, captioned: “ Marion Dixon, perpetrator of the history ’ s sinister crime !”.

Music: Marion Montgomery ( The Exciting Mr Fitch, Wasn ’ t the Summer Short ?, Close Your Eyes ), Dudley Moore Trio ( Indiana )

Music: Marion Montgomery (“ I ’ ll be Tired of You ”, “ I ’ m Old Fashioned ”), Dudley Moore Trio

Marion moved into 100th place on the NBA ’ s all-time scoring list on March 3.

Following the President ’ s death, Dr. Sawyer resigned his commission, and focused his attention on the formation of the Harding Memorial Association, to which the task of designing and building the Harding Memorial in Marion.

Long ( who took his maternal grandfather ’ s name when he began his career as a radio announcer ) was the only child of John Francis Moynihan and Marion Long Moynihan, whose families immigrated to New England from County Kerry and County Mallow, Ireland in the 1800s.

It was Tarleton who gave Marion his nom de guerre when, after unsuccessfully pursuing Marion's troops for over 26 miles through a swamp, he gave up and swore " s for this damned old fox, the Devil himself could not catch him.

A clear understanding of Marion Mahony ’ s contribution to the architecture of the Oak Park Studio comes from Wright ’ s son, John Lloyd Wright, who says that William Drummond, Francis Barry Byrne, Walter Burley Griffin, Albert Chase McArthur, Marion Mahony, Isabel Roberts and George Willis were the draftsmen — the five men and two women who each made valuable contributions to Prairie style architecture for which Wright became famous.

The aircraft makes an emergency landing at Williamson County Regional Airport in Marion, Illinois, where authorities talk her into surrendering without further incident.

At this time, the pilot, Marion W. Heddin of Los Altos, had talked with the control tower of the Civil Aeronautics Administration at the airport preparing for his landing, and had mentioned no trouble.

Cheatham returned to the United States in 1930, and played with Marion Handy and McKinney's Cotton Pickers before landing a job with Cab Calloway.

his wife, Marion, is a portrait painter.

In Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, Aurelianus is depicted as the aging High King of Britain, a " too-ambitious " son of a Western Roman Emperor.

In most heraldic traditions, a woman does not display a crest, though this tradition is being relaxed in some heraldic jurisdictions, and the stall plate of Lady Marion Fraser in the Thistle Chapel in St Giles, Edinburgh, shows her coat on a lozenge but with helmet, crest, and motto.

* 1990 – Washington, D. C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.

However, it is uncontroversial that a Robin and Marion figured in 13th-century French " pastourelles " ( of which Jeu de Robin et Marion c. 1280 is a literary version ) and presided over the French May festivities, " this Robin and Marion tended to preside, in the intervals of the attempted seduction of the latter by a series of knights, over a variety of rustic pastimes.

It is from the association with the May Games that Robin's romantic attachment to Maid Marian ( or Marion ) apparently stems.

The naming of Marian may have come from the French pastoral play of c. 1280, the Jeu de Robin et Marion, although this play is distinct from the English legends.

Fantasy is closely associated with science fiction, and many writers have worked in both genres, while writers such as Anne McCaffrey, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Marion Zimmer Bradley have written works that appear to blur the boundary between the two related genres.

The Marion E. Wade Center, located at Wheaton College, Illinois is devoted to the work of seven British authors including four Inklings and Dorothy L. Sayers.

He is romantically attracted to Marion, who at one point tries to kill him so that they can always be together.

Murphy Student Centre ( 2002 ), MacLauchlan Arena ( 2004 ), Bill and Denise Andrew Hall residence facility ( 2006 ), expansions to the Atlantic Veterinary College ( 2007 and 2009 ), Regis and Joan Duffy Research Centre ( 2007 ), a research and development laboratory which is home to the National Research Council of Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and other partners, and Don and Marion McDougall Hall ( 2008 ).

* October 19 – William Edward Hickman is executed at San Quentin prison for the 1927 murder of Marion Parker.

* December 15 – Marion Parker, 12, is kidnapped in Los Angeles.

It is now documented that the first area they became landlocked was in the Santee-Cooper river during the construction of the two dams that impounded Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion, and because of this the state game fish of South Carolina is the striped bass.

Marion Tinsley ( February 3, 1927 – April 3, 1995 ) is considered the greatest checkers player who ever lived.

He is sometimes listed as " Dr. Marion Tinsley " because he had a doctorate in mathematics and worked as a professor of mathematics at Florida State University and Florida A & M University.

Salem () is the capital of the U. S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County.

The river forms the boundary between Marion and Polk counties, and the city neighborhood of West Salem is in Polk County.

Salem is the principal city of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area, a metropolitan area that covers Marion and Polk counties and had a combined population of 347, 214 at the 2000 census.

Boron compounds were relatively rarely used chemicals until the late 1800s when Francis Marion Smith's Pacific Coast Borax Company first popularized these compounds and made them in volume and hence cheap.

He gave Marion the world's first portable radio as a wedding gift.

In 2008, Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of legendary French singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, the first French-language performance to be so honored.

On Nov. 30, 1996, Marion Ann Forbes, Lady Fraser was made Lady of the Thistle, the first non-Royal woman ( post-nominal: LT ).

Other veterans like Shawn Marion, Jason Kidd, and Jason Terry also won their first titles with Nowitzki.

Not only was it the first campaign to be heavily covered by the press and to receive widespread newsreel coverage, but it was also the first modern campaign to use the power of Hollywood and Broadway stars, who travelled to Marion for photo opportunities with Harding and his wife.

The Hardings visited their home community of Marion, Ohio once during the term, when the city celebrated its centennial during the first week of July.

* January 21 – The Cherry Sisters first perform in Marion, Iowa.

After a number of deaths of Chiricahua at the Fort Marion prison near St. Augustine, Florida, the survivors were moved, first to Alabama, and later to Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Frederick and Mary had two children together who survived infancy: a daughter, Marion ( born October 28, 1861 ) and a son Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. Their first child, John Theodore Olmsted, was born on June 13, 1860 and died in infancy.

Shortly after Marion County was formed the first known Sheriff, William Strifel, was appointed over the county, but the only known fact was that Sheriff Strifel only served for the remainder of that year.

Frances Marion was the first woman to win in this category, in 1930.

She was the only French cinema actress to receive an Oscar until Juliette Binoche in 1997 ( Supporting Actress ) and Marion Cotillard in 2008 ( Best Actress ), and the first woman to win the award appearing in a foreign film.

Their daughter Ellen Marion Kinzie, born in 1805, was believed to be the first child of European descent born in the settlement.

Their daughter Ellen Marion Kinzie, believed to be the first European child of European descent born in Chicago, was born in 1805 ; followed by Maria Indiana in 1807, and Robert Allen Kinzie in 1810.

His first marriage was to Marion Robertson in 1924 ; they had one child, William ( b. 1928 ).

* The Marion County Herald-( 1885 – 1890 ) The first newspaper available for The Marion Herald is April 5, 1887 due to the Court House Fire.

After the loss in Charleston, the defeats of General Isaac Huger at Moncks Corner and Lieutenant Colonel Abraham Buford at the Waxhaw massacre ( near the North Carolina border, in what is now Lancaster County ), Marion organized a small unit, which at first consisted of between 20 and 70 men and was the only force then opposing the British Army in the state.

The public memory of Francis Marion has been shaped in large part by the first biography about him, " The Life of General Francis Marion " written by M. L. Weems ( also known as Parson Weems, 1756 – 1825 ) based on the memoirs of South Carolina officer Peter Horry.

It was one of the original four districts created by Oregon's first Provisional Legislature, along with Twality ( later Washington ), Clackamas, and Champooick ( later Marion ) counties.