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The detective novelist Ariadne Oliver is Agatha Christie's humorous self-caricature.
The character of Jessica Fletcher is thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie herself, and another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver, who often appears in the Hercule Poirot mysteries.
Oliver Brothers is believed to be the first and the oldest continuously operating art restoration company in the United States.
Penny Marshall's 1990 film Awakenings, which was nominated for several Oscars, is based on neurologist Oliver Sacks ' 1973 account of his psychiatric patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx who were paralyzed by a form of encephalitis but briefly responded to the drug L-dopa.
However, due to a misunderstanding between Oliver Cromwell ( guest-star Warren Clarke ) and Baldrick, the king is arrested and sent to the Tower of London.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in his famous article, " The Path of the Law ", commented, " It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV.
Geophysicist Jack Oliver is credited with providing seismologic evidence supporting plate tectonics which encompassed and superseded continental drift with “ Seismology and the New Global Tectonics ,” published in 1968, using data collected from seismologic stations, including those he set up in the South Pacific.
The government during 1653 to 1659 is properly called The Protectorate, and took the form of direct personal rule by Oliver Cromwell and, after his death, his son Richard, as Lord Protector.
This unification, which was observed by Michael Faraday, extended by James Clerk Maxwell, and partially reformulated by Oliver Heaviside and Heinrich Hertz, is one of the key accomplishments of 19th century mathematical physics.
His friend, the neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, said: " A favorite word of Freeman's about doing science and being creative is the word subversive.
Oliver Taplin believes that the conclusion of modern researchers is that Homer dates to between 750 to 650 BC.
* 1661 – Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed two years after his death, on the anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
* 1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U. S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $ 150, 000 in fines and 1, 200 hours community service.
Apem Apem is another such manufacturer for the global market incorporating such brands as CH Products, Oliver Control Systems and Apem own.
MacLachlan is best known for his roles in cult films Blue Velvet as Jeffrey Beaumont, Showgirls as Zack Carey, as Paul Atreides in Dune, and Ray Manzarek in the Oliver Stone film The Doors.
The Kennelly – Heaviside layer, named after Arthur Edwin Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside, also known as the E region or simply the Heaviside layer, is a layer of ionised gas occurring between roughly 90 – 150 km ( 56 – 93 mi ) above the ground — one of several layers in the Earth's ionosphere.
Occasionally, an image is deliberately windowboxed for stylistic effect ; for example, the documentary-style sequence of the film Rent suggest an older-format camera representing the 4: 3 aspect ratio, and the opening sequence of the Oliver Stone film JFK features pillar boxing to represent the 1960s era 4: 3 television footage.
One could bear a little with Oliver Cromwell, though, contrary to his oath of fidelity to Parliament, contrary to his duty to the public ,... But as for Richard Cromwell, his son, who is he?
There is still a piece of land called " Oliver Land " which is only accessible from Lamorna that he left after his death as a wildlife sanctuary.
Early in 1889, Oliver Heaviside had shown from Maxwell's equations that the electric field surrounding a spherical distribution of charge should cease to have spherical symmetry once the charge is in motion relative to the ether.
The first derivation of the Lorentz force is commonly attributed to Oliver Heaviside in 1889, although other historians suggest an earlier origin in an 1865 paper by James Clerk Maxwell.
* 1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges.
One example is the outing of Oliver Sipple ( who saved the life of U. S. President Gerald Ford during an assassination attempt ) by gay activists, most prominently Harvey Milk.

Oliver and mother
* 1953 – Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U. S. Congress.
She is the mother of actors Oliver and Kate Hudson.
Eliza ( beth ) Oliver ( Lola's mother ) was the daughter of Charles Silver Oliver, a former High Sheriff of Cork and member of Parliament for Kilmallock in County Limerick ; his residence was Castle Oliver.
The earl's father, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex by Isaac Oliver, c. 1597 Robert Devereux as a child with his mother Frances Walsingham, countess of Essexby Robert Peake the elder, 1594
The next morning Noah Claypole, another employee of Soweberry, insults Oliver's dead mother, whereupon Oliver begins pummeling him.
* Noah Claypole, The Sowerberrys ' apprentice, he bullies Oliver about his mother and enjoys a flirtatious relationship with Charlotte.
In 1910 eighteen-year-old Oliver Hardy, of Laurel and Hardy fame, moved to Milledgeville, where his mother managed the stately old Baldwin Hotel, and stayed for three years.
At one of the parties that her mother hosted for British émigré performers in their Laurel Canyon home, Lansbury met the casting director for the upcoming film Gaslight ( 1944 ), and he offered her the part of Nancy Oliver, Ingrid Bergman's conniving maid.
According to Marriott's mother Kay, he is said to have written the song about his breakup with his ex-fiancée Susan Oliver.
The Navigation Act 1660 ( passed on 13 September ) added a twist to Oliver Cromwell's act: ships ' crews had to be three-quarters English, and " enumerated " products not produced by the mother country, such as tobacco, cotton, and sugar were to be shipped from the colonies only to England or other English colonies.
Born in Butcher Hollow, near Paintsville, Kentucky, USA, to a coal miner father, she married at the age of 15, was a mother soon after, and moved to Washington with her husband, Oliver Vanetta Lynn, Jr. ( 1926 – 1996 ), nicknamed " Doo ".
") This comedy had an immense influence, as regards manipulation of dialogue, upon all subsequent English comedies of repartee, and he who wants to trace the ancestry of Tony Lumpkin and Mrs Hardcastle ( in She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith ) has only to turn to Jerry Blackacre and his mother, while Manly ( for whom Wycherley's early patron, the Duke of Montausier, sat ), though he is perhaps overdone, has dominated this kind of stage character ever since.
Her parents divorced eighteen months after her birth ; she and her brother, actor Oliver Hudson, were raised in Colorado by her mother and her mother's long-time boyfriend, actor Kurt Russell.
Both of Plimpton's maternal grandparents were born with the surname Ames ; his mother was the granddaughter of Medal of Honor recipient Adelbert Ames, an American sailor, soldier, and politician, and Oliver Ames, a U. S. political figure and the 35th Governor of Massachusetts ( 1887 – 1890 ).
The family, headed by father Oliver ( 1903 – 1979 ) and mother Elzire ( Legros ) Dionne ( 1909 – 1986 ), married on September 15, 1926.
But they included a letter from Joseph Smith's mother, Lucy Mack Smith, describing the origin of the Book of Mormon ; a letter each from Martin Harris and David Whitmer, two of the Three Witnesses, each giving a personal account of their visions ; a contract between Smith and Egbert Bratt Grandin for the printing of the first edition of the Book of Mormon ; and two pages of the original Book of Mormon manuscript taken in dictation from Joseph Smith by Oliver Cowdery.
Wright appears in the first film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, only in a small scene set at London King's Cross railway station, where her character meets Harry Potter ( played by Daniel Radcliffe ) with her mother Molly ( played by Julie Walters ) while watching four of her older brothers Percy ( played by Chris Rankin ), Fred and George ( played by James and Oliver Phelps ) and Ron ( played by Rupert Grint ) enter the magical platform barrier Platform 9¾ to board the Hogwarts express.
Oliver Gogarty in George Moore's 1905 novel The Lake, an occurrence which upset Gogarty's devout mother.
The latter encompasses the Hootervillians, his wife Lisa's bizarre opinions and behaviour ( e. g. brewing coffee without water in the pot ) and his affluent mother ( Eleanor Audley ), who lampoons Oliver for his agricultural pipe-dreams.
* Eb occasionally calling Lisa and Oliver " Mom and Dad " and ( in one episode ) Lisa's mother " Grandma ," and Oliver becoming exasperated when he does so.
*" Mother " ( Eunice Douglas, played by Eleanor Audley ), completely adores Lisa and seems indifferent or antagonistic to Oliver, despite the fact that she is his mother, and not hers.

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