A brisk, amusing man, apparently constructed on an ingenious system of spring-joints attuned to the same peppery rhythm as his mind, Smith began his academic career teaching speech to Barnard girls -- a project considerably enlivened by his devotion to a recording about `` a young rat named Arthur, who never could make up his mind ''.

The Atlanta Falcons franchise began on June 30, 1965 when NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle granted ownership to 41 year-old Rankin Smith Sr .. Smith an Executive Vice President of Life Insurance Company of Georgia at the time, paid $ 8. 5 million the highest price in NFL history at the time 1965 for an NFL franchise.

In the mid-1980s, Grant began touring and recording with young up-and-coming songwriter Michael W. Smith.

In 1933 Smith began corresponding with Robert E. Howard, the Texan creator of Conan the Barbarian.

The Scoville Memorial Libraries collection began in 1771, when Richard Smith, owner of a local blast furnace, used community contributions to buy 200 books in London.

This committee of Presiding Elders, consisting of Joseph Smith, Jr., Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, and Frederick G. Williams, began to review and revise numerous revelations for inclusion in the new work.

The project began when diver Bill Smith was inspired to look for the wreck after hearing the Marillion song " Out of This World " ( from the album Afraid of Sunlight ), which was written about Campbell and Bluebird.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

William Smith ( 1769 – 1839 ) drew some of the first geological maps and began the process of ordering rock strata ( layers ) by examining the fossils contained in them.

However he began to break into being a regular starter in 1981 and forging a prolific strike-force alongside Alan Smith, Lineker hit 19 goals in all competitions in the 1981 – 82 season.

Commercial whaling by Europeans of the species in the North Pacific began in the winter of 1845-46, when two United States ships, the Hibernia and the United States, under Captains Smith and Stevens, caught 32 in Magdalena Bay.

However, by the 1950s, jazz musicians such as Jimmy Smith began to use the organ's distinctive sound.

His television career began in the early 1980s when he portrayed Stephen Smith in the NBC miniseries Kennedy.

Mormons () are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement, which began with the visions of Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s.

In 1831, the church moved to Kirtland, Ohio where missionaries had made a large number of converts and Smith began establishing an outpost in Jackson County, Missouri, where he planned to eventually build the city of Zion ( or the New Jerusalem ).

After Smith led a mission, known as Zion's Camp, to recover the land, he began building Kirtland Temple in Lake County, Ohio, where the church flourished.

In Europe, academic belief in mercantilism began to fade in the late 18th century, especially in England, in light of the arguments of Adam Smith and the classical economists.

Margaret began using the name " Peggy " at Washington Seminary, and the abbreviated form " Peg " at Smith College when she found an icon for herself in the mythological winged horse, " Pegasus ", that inspires poets.

During production of this work in mid-1829, Smith, his close associate Oliver Cowdery, and other early followers began baptizing new converts into a Christian primitivist church, formally organized in 1830 as the Church of Christ.

The church began the open practice of plural marriage, a form of polygyny which Smith had instituted in Nauvoo.

However, on May 2, 1838, a few months before Smith's statement in Elders ' Journal, Smith began dictating a church history that included a detailed account of his visits from the angel.

Smith began 1978 as a non-roster invitee to the San Diego Padres ' spring training camp in Yuma, Arizona.

More recently, Smith has devoted her time to what she terms ' pure photography ' ( a method of capturing still objects without using a flash ), which she began to pursue following the death of her husband in 1994.

Van C. Smith, a businessman from Omaha, Nebraska, and his partner, Aaron Wilburn, constructed two adobe buildings in 1869 that began what is now Roswell.

Girl in a Red Dress is thought to may be Bessie Smith, for whom he drew many times when she was recording and performing.

Gary Smith, who produced the Pixies ' first recording, Come On Pilgrim, commented on the band's influence on alternative rock and their legacy in 1997:

Smith was also a reliable receiver out of the backfield, recording a career high 62 receptions for 375 yards.

Magnetic recording was proposed as early as 1888 by Oberlin Smith, who published 1888-09-08 in The Electrical World as " Some possible forms of phonograph ".

The soundtrack is notable for Wenders asking various recording artists — Depeche Mode, U2, R. E. M., Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Can, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Jane Siberry, etc .— for music to be used in the film ; specifically for the music that they thought they would be making in 1999.

( season 11, 2000 ) Smith spends two days a week recording the show.

Due to the band's lack of creative control on the first album, Smith exerted a greater influence on the recording of The Cure's second album Seventeen Seconds, which he co-produced with Mike Hedges.

Smith has said that during the recording of Pornography he was " undergoing a lot of mental stress.

Smith said that the band were currently without a recording contract and that he had " absolutely no idea " when they would next record or release new material.

The archive includes the first ever commercial blues recording, a song called " Crazy Blues " recorded by Mamie Smith in 1920.

On December 11, 1969, the Flyers introduced what would become one of the team's best-known traditions: playing a recording of Kate Smith singing God Bless America instead of the The Star-Spangled Banner before important games.

To this day, the team plays the song before major playoff games, currently with Lauren Hart ( daughter of Hall of Fame Flyers broadcast announcer Gene Hart ) performing the first part of the song, a recording of Smith singing the second part, and Lauren Hart joining the recording for the finale.

Throughout the 1973 – 74 season, the Flyers often used a recording of Kate Smith singing " God Bless America " instead of the national anthem.

When he learns that she is pregnant, and his friend Elton gets arrested for having robbed a gas station a year earlier, he quits his job and leaves for Los Angeles where his sister, Partita ( Smith ), also a pianist, is making a recording.

It was around this time that Smith first began using drugs, including alcohol, with friends as well as experimenting with recording for the first time, borrowing a four-track recorder.

In addition to the Millicent Martin studio recording of " In the Summer of His Years " issued in the US by ABC-Paramount, other versions were recorded and released by Connie Francis ( MGM ), Mahalia Jackson ( Columbia ), Kate Smith ( RCA Victor ), Sarah Vaughan ( Vernon ) and The Chad Mitchell Trio ( Mercury ); the Francis recording became a Top 40 hit on the Cash Box pop singles chart in January 1964.

After recording Drowning With Land In Sight in 1994, Smith left The 77s to join Rich Mullins's A Ragamuffin Band.

In 1925, Ory moved to Chicago, where he was very active, working and recording with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Joe " King " Oliver, Johnny Dodds, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and many others.

The most notable of these was the Ferracute Machine Works, founded and operated by Oberlin Smith, an inventive genius and philanthropist credited with inventing the first device for magnetic recording, and now in the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame.

On his second day of work at EMI, Richard Langham was assigned to be the assistant engineer of Norman Smith who would be doing the first recording session of the Beatles in the evening.

Smith intros " Tearin ' Down the Wall " with an Amy Grant recording of " Emmanuel " played backwards via the CD search button.