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.

In 1986, Smith altered his image by appearing on-stage and in press photos sporting short spiky hair and polo shirts ( this can be seen in The Cure in Orange, a concert in the south of France released on video in 1987 ).

Then in the 1850s come the numerous etchings of sporting scenes, contributed, together with woodcuts, to the Handley Cross novels by Robert Smith Surtees.

The following day, Smith showed up for another audition wearing the same bandanna and sporting the same long hair.

* Ian Smith ( New Zealand cricketer ) ( born 1957 ), former cricket player turned sporting commentator

Ian David Stockley Smith ( born 28 February 1957 ) is a former cricket player turned sporting commentator.

Smith grew up in Iselin, New Jersey, worked in his family's sporting goods business, and earned the Eagle Scout award.

In 1978, Smith, at 25 years old and working in a sporting goods store owned by his family, ran for Congress as a Republican.

Michelle Smith de Bruin ( born 16 December 1969 in Rathcoole, County Dublin ) is a retired Irish swimmer who achieved notable success in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, becoming Ireland's most successful Olympian to date, and whose career ended with a ban from the sporting authorities for tampering with a urine sample.

Robert Smith Surtees ( 17 May 1805 – 16 March 1864 ) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer.

In addition to sporting events, the Smith Spectrum is utilized for concerts, commencement ceremonies, the Festival of the American West, and other special events central to the Cache Valley community.

* Coil-Man ( voiced by Hal Smith )-Short, barrel-chested and sporting a mod haircut, blond " Coily " could transform his arms and legs into impossibly stretchable or coiled springs, allowing him to bounce to avoid attacks, deliver long-range punches, or drill through walls.

In 2011, Paul Smith redesigned the Lasonic i931 boombox, giving it a white look with Smith's trademark multicolor look.

According to The Independent, " rows, however innocuous some of them seemed at the time, have become a trademark under Bragg: among the most notable have been Ben Elton vs Brenda Maddox, Rosie Boycott and Bragg vs novelist Kathy Lette, Armistead Maupin vs Libby Purves, and Bragg himself vs ( separately ) Joan Smith, Michael Dobbs, William Cash, Tony Parsons and Jean Aitchison.

* Denatonium, the bitterest chemical compound known ( used as an aversive agent ), is discovered during research on local anesthetics by Macfarlan Smith of Edinburgh, Scotland, and registered under the trademark Bitrex.

Bitrex is a registered trademark of Johnson Matthey-Macfarlan Smith of Edinburgh Scotland for the product Denatonium Benzoate.

In 1987 Smith registered Ugg Holdings Inc. and in 1985 registered a US trademark on a ram's head logo with the words " Original UGG Boot UGG Australia.

Another trademark feature was that Smith often drew a prominent picture of Dredd ( normally just head and shoulders ) at the start of the week's story, quite separate from the narrative itself ; although not a technique exclusive to Smith, it was fairly uncommon in 2000AD at the time.

Breathalyzer is the brand name of a series of models made by one manufacturer of breath alcohol testing instruments ( originally Smith and Wesson, later sold to National Draeger ), and is a registered trademark for such instruments.

Smith was best known for his abilities against fast bowling, with what was regarded as a trademark square-cut that was hit ferociously.

Smith designed the original trademark and label for his surfboards which he sold out of his shop North County Ding Repair.