At the end of the so-called ' War ', McGowan was convicted by judge Matthew Baillie Begbie of an assault against Fifer in British Columbia but McGowan's statement in defence, which described some of the activities of the San Francisco vigilantes and his own personal experience of their vigilantism, impressed and disturbed Begbie who, like colonial governor Douglas was determined to prevent conditions in the goldfields of British Columbia from deteriorating into mob rule.

The Our Gang series was at its most popular and successful under McGowan's direction ; when he became ill in the late-1920s and had to turn over the director's chair to nephew Robert A. McGowan ( billed as " Anthony Mack " to distinguish himself from his uncle ) for two years, the series faltered.

* John P. McGowan's AVI Overview

In Alistair McGowan's Big Impression show, during the sketch called " Louis Potter and the Philosopher's Scone ", Gary Lineker appears as the Voldemort figure.

* Ariadne is mentioned in a dream sequence in Kathleen McGowan's The Book of Love.

Although impressionists experienced a lull in popularity in the 1990s, the recent success of Dead Ringers ( another BBC Radio cross-over ) and Alistair McGowan's Big Impression has been notable.

* William G. McGowan's MCI, 1968 to 1991 ( Online exhibit produced by the Hagley Library on the life of MCI CEO William McGowan )

Alistair McGowan ( born 24 November 1964 ) is an English impressionist, stand-up comic, actor, singer and writer best known to British audiences for The Big Impression ( formerly Alistair McGowan's Big Impression ), which was, for four years, one of BBC1's top-rating comedy programmes-winning numerous awards, including a BAFTA in 2003.

He is best known for his work with Jan Ravens and Ronni Ancona on The Big Impression, formerly Alistair McGowan's Big Impression.

McGowan has a repertoire of well over one hundred impersonations many of which have been covered on Alistair McGowan's Big Impression.

Two releases of ' Alistair McGowan's Football Backchat ' were best sellers in both comedy and sports video charts.

The Big Impression, known as Alistair McGowan's Big Impression for the first three series, is a British comedy sketch show.

Alistair McGowan's Big Impression first aired on BBC One in 2000, with the couple splitting up just before filming began.

For the fourth series in 2003, McGowan's name was dropped from the show's title.

McGowan's Store and Olco Station, and L. D.

Also among the African-Americans who came with the gold rush was Isaac " Ikey " Dixon, whose brawl in his Yale barbershop and subsequent safe-custody arrest triggered off the events known as McGowan's War, and who soon after became a noted and popular columnist for the Barkerville newspaper The Cariboo Sentinel.

* McGowan's War, a juridicial and political crisis in the Fraser River goldfieldsinvolving a spillover of San Francisco politics into British territory, has the potential to escalate into an annexationist uprising but is settled peaceably.

Impressionists such as Ronni Ancona on Alistair McGowan's Big Impression took to satirising Bond's royal reports by posing as Bond and pretending to be the Queen herself, crown and all ; in one sketch it was announced that Bond was to imminently accede to the throne.

Then in 1999 came Alistair McGowan's Big Impression with Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona, and in 2002 came Dead Ringers.

Raymond McGinley joined Dave McGowan's folk group Snowgoose, whose debut album Harmony Springs was released in 2012.

After McGowan's death, the school was taken over by Al Somers.

* Kathleen McGowan's novel " The Expected One " incorporates the story of the Siege of Montsegur in the telling of Cathar history.

* Stillorgan's oldest pub is Bolands, latterly styled Bolands on the Hill, now McGowan's.

Kathleen McGowan's 2006 novel, The Expected One, involves the search for a complete copy of the Gospel of Mary Magdalene.

Every summer, a historical re-enactment group visits Yale to celebrate the Royal Engineers, who had served under Moody during McGowan's War and worked on the Cariboo Wagon Road and the Douglas-Lillooet Trail and were an integral part of Yale's life from the gold rush to the end of the 1870s.

He has no experience with this veteran's previous medical record.

Directions are written for those who have had previous experience in making pottery.

This, of course, depends on the character of the site itself, the previous experience of the investigator, and the number of factors needed to arrive at a good decision.

When a man recognizes a certain experience as the exact pattern of a previous dream, we have an instance of deja vue, except for the fact that he knows just why the experience seems familiar.

Barnett, who came into office with no previous experience in public administration, has surrounded himself with confusion which not only keeps his foes guessing but his friends as well.

* Accreditation of Prior Learning ( UK ) refers to a reduction in the amount of study required to pass a degree, due to previous experience or study.

This seems to pose a serious problem for the empirical account, though Hume brushes it aside as an exceptional case by stating that one may experience a novel idea that itself is derived from combinations of previous impressions.

Its pack-in game, Super Breakout, was particularly criticized for not doing enough to demonstrate the system's capabilities, and this gave the ColecoVision a significant advantage when its pack-in, Donkey Kong, delivered a more authentic arcade experience than any previous game cartridge.

The Ministry of Supply selected Avro out of the British manufacturers though it had no previous experience in working on guided weapons other than some private venture work ; Handley Page had suggested a missile but the Elliots gyro based guidance system was inaccurate beyond.

Indeed, based on their previous experience of the Greeks, the Persians might be excused for this ; Herodotus tells us that the Athenians at Marathon were " first to endure looking at Median dress and men wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic ".

First, it allows sensory information to be evaluated in the context of previous experience.

However, members were divided over key issues, only 25 had previous parliamentary experience, and although many had some legal training, there were no qualified lawyers.

In World War II rivals who had combat service in the first great war ( led by Gen. Bernard Montgomery ) sought to denigrate Eisenhower for his previous lack of combat duty, despite his stateside experience establishing a camp, completely equipped, for thousands of troops, and developing a full combat training schedule.

This explanation is supported by the fact that the sense of " recollection " at the time is strong in most cases, but that the circumstances of the " previous " experience ( when, where, and how the earlier experience occurred ) are uncertain or believed to be impossible.

One of several views of epistemology, the study of human knowledge, along with rationalism, idealism, and historicism, empiricism emphasizes the role of experience and evidence, especially sensory perception, in the formation of ideas, over the notion of innate ideas or traditions ; empiricists may argue however that traditions ( or customs ) arise due to relations of previous sense experiences.

In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected-office experience.

Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents ( along with William Howard Taft ) to have been elected without previous electoral experience or high military rank.

H. 263 was developed as an evolutionary improvement based on experience from H. 261, the previous ITU-T standard for video compression, and the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standards.

The lowest occurrence of sexual activity was among married women ; those with previous homosexual experience reported they got married to stop homosexual activity.

* Index cards with the answers to frequently asked questions, and / or drawers with folders of pamphlets and photocopies of pages that, from previous experience, were difficult to find.

He had no previous experience as a bass guitarist, but quickly developed a distinctive style that was strongly shaped by his early experience as a rhythm guitarist, often using double stops and chords rather than the single note lines preferred by most bassists.

Howard Ashman, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz had previous musical theatre experience and wrote songs for animated films during this time, supplanting Disney workhorses the Sherman Brothers.