Defoe's next novel was Captain Singleton ( 1720 ), a bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy.

His father was a friend of John Singleton Mosby, the noted cavalry leader of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War who served first under J. E. B.

Dillinger was unable to find a job and began planning a robbery with his friend Ed Singleton.

En route to Mooresville to testify against Singleton Dillinger briefly escaped his captors but was apprehended within a few minutes.

It is credited to " Ike & Tina Turner ", but it is now well known that Ike Turner was paid $ 20, 000 to stay away from the sessions ; the backing track was in fact performed by the Wrecking Crew, and the backing vocals were provided by a chorus of 21 singers — Ikettes Janice Singleton and Diane Rutherford and most of the female singers on Spector's roster, including Ronnie Spector, Darlene Love and Cher.

* Henry Singleton ( 1682 – 1759 ) the eminent judge and friend of Jonathan Swift, was a lifelong resident of Drogheda.

The youngest nominee is John Singleton who was 24 years old when he was nominated in 1992 for Boyz N the Hood.

It was platted and surveyed by Thomas Singleton, county surveyor, December 18, 1840, the first home being built in 1849.

For more than a decade before Bishopville got its name in the honor of Jacques Bishop, it was known as Singleton ’ s Crossroads.

Daniel Carter later purchased the property and it was once again sold to William Singleton in 1790.

This was where the name Singleton ’ s Crossroads originated.

The tavern owned by Singleton and his wife sat at the intersection of what was once known as Mecklenburg Road, now named Church Street, and McCallum Ferry Road, now known as Main Street.

The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and also featured Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia, Jessie Ralph, Alan Marshall, and Penny Singleton.

* Doris Singleton as Caroline Appleby ( she was originally named Lillian Appleby ; but after Singleton's first appearance on the show, the producers felt that the names Lillian and Lucy sounded too similar, so her name was changed to Caroline )

Singleton was born in Los Angeles, the son of Sheila Ward-Johnson, a pharmaceutical company sales executive, and Danny Singleton, a real estate agent, mortgage broker, and financial planner.

Singleton was enrolled in the University of Southern California's Filmic Writing program under Margaret Mehring and her now famous curriculum.

It was nominated for both Best Director and Original Screenplay during the 1991 Academy Awards, making Singleton the youngest person ever nominated for Best Director and the first African – American to be nominated for the award.

* John Singleton was 23 when he directed the movie.

John Bigham also left the band to pursue his own career, later founding the band The Soul of John Black ; Bigham was replaced by former Sound Barrier and Mother's Finest guitarist Tracey " Spacey T " Singleton.

Gore was given first shot at recording " A Groovy Kind of Love ", but Shelby Singleton, a producer for Smash Records, a Mercury subsidiary, recommended that she not record a song with the word " groovy " in it.

The site of San Gorgonio Rancheria, the location of the present Highland Springs Resort, Whitewater, and a house at the east end of present day Singleton Road in Calimesa became stage stops along this path.

* Singleton variable, a variable in computer programming that is referred to only once

* Online games: The longest-running game on the system was StarNet, a Play-by-mail game, whereby the players would send in moves which would be executed once a day ( a sort of very slow game of chess, where the aim was to become the emperor of the galaxy ) run by Liverpudlian Mike Singleton by inputting the moves he was forwarded by email from Micronet into a Commodore PET computer.

As early as 1939, he was working with Bobby Hackett, George Brunies, and Zutty Singleton, as well as writing arrangements for Earl Hines.

On August 11, 2007, the four original members of the band-Palmer, Moates, Singleton, and Fukai-announced they were reuniting and planned two reunion shows in Montgomery, Alabama and that they will be writing and recording a new album for release sometime in 2008.

Frances Montresor by John Singleton Copley Montresor's romantic life has been the subject of much writing.

In 1997, three decades after the last Judy Bolton title was issued by Grosset & Dunlap, author Linda Joy Singleton completed a book that series creator Margaret Sutton had begun writing several years before.

The Berkshire Eagle editor David E. Scribner, two years after MediaNews bought his newspaper, said the staff respected Singleton despite layoffs because of his hands-on leadership and " traditional emphasis on good writing.

In 1973, she returned to working with her former record producer, Shelby Singleton.

No African-American has ever won best director, and only two have ever been nominated: John Singleton for 1991's Boyz n the Hood and Lee Daniels for 2009's Precious: Based on the Novel " Push " by Sapphire.

It sits on four strata of sedimentary rock ; the Narrabeen and Hawkesbury sandstone and shale, the Illawarra and Singleton Permian coal measures and the Wianamatta shales.

* On July 12, 2011, on The Mo ' Nique Show, Mo ' Nique celebrated the 20th anniversary of the release of Boyz n the Hood with director John Singleton, Cuba Gooding Jr., Yo-Yo, and Regina King.

Walter Kibby recorded vocals and appeared in the video of " How Time Fly's " and Singleton laid down the melodic guitar riffs on " Angels Cry ".

Painters such as Gilbert Stuart made portraits of the newly elected government officials, which became iconic after being reproduced on various U. S. Postage stamps of the 19th century and early 20th century, while John Singleton Copley painted emblematic portraits for the increasingly prosperous merchant class, including a portrait of Paul Revere ( ca.

My True Confession, a Top-10 on the R & B chart in 1963 for Brook Benton, was written by Stevens and Margie Singleton.

His Three Letters to Archdeacon Singleton on the Ecclesiastical Commission ( 1837-38-39 ) and his Petition and Letters on the repudiation of debts by the state of Pennsylvania ( 1843 ) are as bright and trenchant as his best contributions to the Edinburgh Review.

Sitting alongside other superior court judges as part of a Court of Conference ( forerunner to the North Carolina Supreme Court ), Williams heard the landmark case, Bayard v. Singleton, which announced the principle of judicial review on the state level before Marbury v. Madison did so on the federal level.

In addition, he is also remembered for his roles as Luther Billis in South Pacific ( 1949 / 1958 ), Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees ( 1955 / 1958 ), J. J. Singleton in The Sting ( 1973 ), high school teacher Mr. Hand in Fast Times at Ridgemont High ( 1982 ), and Judge Henry Bone on the drama series Picket Fences ( 1992-1996 ).

During her time on Blue Peter, Singleton accompanied HRH Princess Anne ( now The Princess Royal ) on her first solo trip overseas in a Kenyan Royal Safari in 1971.

The documentary on the Royal Safari led to a spin-off series, Blue Peter Special Assignment in which Singleton was solo presenter.

After making the last of her ' in studio ' appearances on Blue Peter in the spring of 1975, Singleton returned in January 1976 for the last time to mark the death of the original Blue Peter cat, Jason.

However, the programme continued to repeat items featuring Singleton for many years and she returned for a final series of the Special Assignment spin off in 1981 reporting on the Yukon and Niagara Rivers.

During her time on Blue Peter, Singleton also presented another BBC children's show, Val Meets ...

Singleton was seen on BBC Television for much of 2009 fronting a campaign of Infomercials to promote the BBC's iPlayer.

* John Singleton Copley – George, Prince of Wales, on horseback

Captain Alistoun and the old sailor Singleton, on the other hand, remain concerned primarily with their duties as sailors and are indifferent to Wait's condition.

The John Wesley School for primary education, built on the junction of Chart Road / Cuckoo Lane, Singleton, opened in September 2007.

The single, however, no longer sounded like a mellow Europop track, instead it was a typical up-tempo Eurodance number, featuring rapper Eric Singleton on the rap vocals.