Nathaniel Parker Willis, one of the Knickerbocker writers, enjoyed the time he spent here so much he bought property in Cornwall, establishing a country home he called Idlewild.

In 1740, Browne Willis bought a house in Aylesbury Street, Fenny Stratford and the rent from this was used to pay for the sermon and gunpowder.

", in the track " Sy Borg " when Ike Willis sings " little leather cap and trousers -- they look so gay ... Warren just bought some ," and once again by Zappa during " Little Green Rosetta " ' Then everybody moves to New York and goes to a party with Warren.

In 1740, Browne Willis bought a house in Aylesbury Street, Fenny Stratford and the rent from this was used to pay for the sermon and gunpowder.

Willis joined the British American Racing outfit in 2001, which was later bought by Honda in 2005.

In 1932, the company bought the billboards of the Ernest Willis Company in Calgary, Alberta and in 1936, the company bought the billboards of Ruddy Duker in Edmonton.

By 1921 Down House was too small for the school, so Willis bought The Cloisters, Cold Ash, Berkshire, to which the school moved in 1922, and where it remains.

The Independent lasted for two years before it was bought by Willis Roberts and Frank M. Grace, who again changed the name, this time to The Weekly Iron Age.

Whatever the reasons, Willis and Bryan started expanding Zenith.

Quarries such as Willis Granite Products extract native red granite for use in headstones, memorials, and signs throughout the United States.

* Willis Granite Products

Among his most notable works are his animation on Mighty Joe Young ( with pioneer Willis O ' Brien, which won the Academy Award for special effects ) ( 1949 ), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad ( his first color film ) and Jason and the Argonauts, featuring a famous sword fight against seven skeleton warriors.

Major construction projects, including the Sears Tower ( now known as the Willis Tower, which in 1974 became the world's tallest building ), University of Illinois at Chicago, McCormick Place, and O ' Hare International Airport, were undertaken during Richard J. Daley's tenure.

* Dontrelle Willis ( 2003 – 2007 ) — The " D-Train " was named the National League Rookie of the Year in 2003 and showcased his remarkable ( for a pitcher ) hitting ability by going 3-for-3 with a triple while scoring a run during Game 4 of the 2003 National League Division Series, which the Marlins won 7 – 6 over the San Francisco Giants to advance to the NL Championship Series.

Redstockings co-founder Ellen Willis wrote in 1984 that radical feminism " got sexual politics recognized as a public issue ", " created the vocabulary … with which the second wave of feminism entered popular culture ", " sparked the drive to legalize abortion ", " were the first to demand total equality in the so-called private sphere " (" housework and child care ,… emotional and sexual needs "), and " created the atmosphere of urgency " that almost led to the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Within groups such as New York Radical Women ( 1967 – 1969 ), no relation to Radical Women, a present-day socialist feminist organization ), which Ellen Willis characterized as " the first women's liberation group in New York City ", a radical feminist ideology began to emerge that declared that " the personal is political " and " sisterhood is powerful ", formulations that arose from these consciousness-raising sessions.

They held to a view — which Willis would later describe as " neo-Maoist "— that it would be possible to unite all or virtually all women, as a class, to confront this oppression by personally confronting men.

Critics of Echols and Willis hold that they conflate several tendencies within radical feminism, not all of which are properly called " cultural feminism ", and emphasize a greater continuity between early and contemporary radical feminism.

The first, as for example proposed by the Royalist Sir Richard Willis to King Charles, was that by abandoning the garrisoning of all but the most strategic locations in ones own territory, far more troops would be available for the field armies and it was the field armies which would decide the conflict.

In 1977, British cultural theorist Paul Willis published a study titled " Learning to Labor ", in which he investigated the connection between social class and education.

Jim takes along his native, volleyball-sized pet, Willis the Bouncer, who is about as intelligent as a human child and has a photographic memory for sounds, which he can also reproduce perfectly.

Pemberton relied on Atlanta druggist Willis Venable to test, and help him perfect, the recipe for the beverage, which recipe he formulated by trial and error.

Willis also played a lead role in the off-Broadway production Bullpen for four years which was written and directed by Dennis Watlington that was also presented at Joseph Papp's Public Theater.

In the late 1980s, Willis enjoyed moderate success as a recording artist, recording an album of pop-blues titled The Return of Bruno, which included the hit single " Respect Yourself ", promoted by a Spinal Tap – like rockumentary parody featuring scenes of him performing at famous events including Woodstock.

In 2000, Willis won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on Friends ( in which he played the father of Ross Geller's much-younger girlfriend ).

Willis Harold O ' Brien ( AKA: " Obie "; March 2, 1886 – November 8, 1962 ) was an Irish American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, who according to ASIFA-Hollywood " was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history ," and is best remembered for his work on The Lost World ( 1925 ), King Kong ( 1933 ) and Mighty Joe Young ( 1949 ), for which he won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

O ' Brien was married to Hazel Ruth Collette in 1925 and they had two sons together, William and Willis, Jr., but the marriage was an unhappy one, which O ' Brien was reportedly forced into and rebelled against with drinking, gambling, and extra-marital affairs.

Despite this, the two became friends during filming and continued the collaboration on several later films, including Zelig, which earned Willis his first Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography.

Allen talked to cinematographer Gordon Willis about how fun it would be to shoot the film in black and white, Panavision aspect ratio ( 2. 35: 1 ) because it would give " a great look at New York City, which is sort of one of the characters in the film ".

Early in 2002 Smith ( who was preparing for his first Hollywood role in the Bruce Willis action film Tears of the Sun ) went to China to shoot the US-Chinese martial arts film Warriors of Virtue 2, which would allow him to work with the stuntman from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

* The first Hampton High School became John M. Willis Elementary School, which closed in 1974.

Some sources say that the county was named for Archibald Cary's estate " Buckingham " which was located on Willis Creek.

The first Robeson County courthouse was erected on land which formed a part of the " Red Bluff Plantation ", owned by Lumberton founder John Willis.

* Character actor Michael Willis, whose credits include Men in Black and HBO's The Wire, and former Maryland state senator and Patuxent River advocate Bernie Fowler both reside in the nearby community of Dares Beach, which utilizes the Prince Frederick zip code.

" and Uncle Willis Spence, as he was familiarly called, suggested that it be called Fair Grove after the name of the Methodist church of which he had been a member, in Randolph County, NC All acquiesced and the name has ever since remained.

Films set in Bayonne include the 1991 film Mortal Thoughts, with Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, which was filmed near Horace Mann School and locations around Bayonne and Hoboken ; the 2000 drama Men of Honor, starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding Jr .; the 2002 drama Hysterical Blindness ; and the 2005 Tom Cruise science fiction film War of the Worlds, which opens at the Bayonne home of the lead character, and depicts the destruction of the Bayonne Bridge by aliens.

Mr. Willis made it evident that he had contributed his maximum.

Browne Willis built a mansion in 1711, but this was pulled down by Thomas Harrison, who had acquired the property in 1793.

In that period, Niels Bohr was on a lecture engagement at the Princeton University and I remember one afternoon Willis Lamb came back very excited and said that Bohr had leaked out great news.

On February 29, the Marlins were recognized on Sports Illustrated's magazine for the 5th time ( 11 / 3 / 1997, Edgar Renteria who had a walk-off hit in Game 7 of the World Series ; 5 / 25 / 1998, Mike Piazza after his trade from the Dodgers ; 11 / 3 / 2003 ; Josh Beckett, after winning World Series MVP and 3 / 12 / 07 Dontrelle Willis, chronicling global warming with Willis in a flooded Sun Life Stadium.

The film had its roots in an earlier concept for a new King Kong feature developed by Willis O ' Brien, animator of the original stop-motion Kong.

During pre-production, Ishirō Honda had toyed with the idea of using Willis O ' Brien's stop motion technique instead of the suitmation process used in the first two Godzilla films, but budgetary concerns prevented him from using the process, and the more cost efficient suitmation was used instead.

When Lemmy was 10, his mother married George Willis, who already had two older children from a previous marriage, Patricia and Tony, with whom Lemmy did not get along.

It was reported that Lewis had offered to upgrade Askin's knighthood from Knight Commander ( KCMG ) to Knight Grand Cross ( GCMG ) of the Order of St Michael and St George, while Willis was uncommitted.

During the filming of The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan had already approached Bruce Willis for the lead role of David Dunn.

Willis and Jackson had previously worked together on Die Hard with a Vengeance and Pulp Fiction.

All attempts by the main character James Cole ( played by Bruce Willis ) to change the past prove unsuccessful, and in the end his death is witnessed by his own childhood self in exactly the way he had remembered earlier in the movie.

Hawn had mixed success in the early 1990s, with the thriller Deceived ( 1991 ), the drama CrissCross and opposite Bruce Willis and Meryl Streep in Death Becomes Her ( both 1992 ).

The Martians had been content to allow humans to share their planet, but Beecher's threat to Willis has made them reconsider.

Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2000, following thirteen years of marriage.

Willis married Moore on November 21, 1987 and had three daughters: Rumer Willis ( b. 1988 ), Scout LaRue Willis ( b. 1991 ) and Tallulah Belle Willis ( b. 1994 ) before the couple divorced on October 18, 2000.

Regarding the divorce, Willis stated, " I felt I had failed as a father and a husband by not being able to make it work.

While making one of his daily visits to the set, O ' Brien, who had remained close to his two sons after his separation from his estranged wife, invited Willis, Jnr.

It was a widely unpopular decision, as the Miami community had grown to love Grant, Long and Seikaly when they were with the Heat, and the owners ' sudden decision to trade them away left a bitter taste in the mouths of the fans, especially since Willis and Owens were busts.

His tonalism had a profound effect on many American artists, including John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, and Willis Seaver Adams ( whom he befriended in Venice ).