Joseph Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.

The church rapidly gained a following, who viewed Smith as their prophet.

This later design has gained the nickname " Series 3-4 Sonic " ( relating to the fact that at the start of Series 3, in " Smith and Jones ", the first Sonic Screwdriver was supposedly destroyed ), even though strictly speaking it first appeared in Series 4.

Smith first gained popularity in Playboy, becoming the 1993 Playmate of the Year.

As the dark and dangerously seductive Greek god of war, Smith gained legions of fans.

Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, United States ( US ), raised primarily in Texas, US, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, US, the area in which he first gained popularity.

The CRC's bail fund gained national attention on November 4, 1949, when bail in the amount of "$ 260, 000 in negotiable government bonds " was posted " to free eleven men appealing their convictions under the Smith Act for criminal conspiracy to teach and advocate the overthrow of the United States government by force and violence.

In local elections, the only elections in which Duncan Smith led the party, the Conservatives gained over 500 extra seats on local councils, primarily in England.

Sandi Patti and Michael W. Smith also gained influence within Christian music, each playing significant roles in the development of the industry.

Bessie Smith also gained attention because she was not only a great singer but also an African American woman.

Many famous singers and actors gained their start in black minstrelsy, including W. C. Handy, Ida Cox, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Butterbeans and Susie.

Smith reports: " In the course of the administration of his province he gained a complete victory over the Numidian Tacfarinas ; but although he had formerly been a very great flatterer of Tiberius, yet he did not obtain the ornaments of a triumph, in order that his predecessor in the province of Africa, Junius Blaesius, an uncle of Sejanus, might not be thrown into the shade.

The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida gained some notoriety on February 8, 2007 when Anna Nicole Smith died while occupying a room in the hotel.

David Vandergriff, a conservative attorney from Fort Smith, said that the rightist faction gained full control of the Arkansas GOP in 1981: " The Reagan Republicans didn't run off the Rockefeller Republicans, but they left for whatever reasons ... A lot of the Rockefeller Republicans disappeared when he left office, and those that remained have continued to fall by the wayside.

Chris Smith was born in Barnet, England and educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class honours degree in English and a PhD with a thesis on Coleridge and Wordsworth.

His unit, beset by injuries and led by a rookie quarterback ( top draft pick Alex Smith ), finished the season ranked last in the NFL in points scored and yards gained.

This man was an unfortunate victim of the Smith Virus who, once infected, gained the ability to spread the code to others.

Though the idea was initially controversial ( John Maynard Smith being one notable early critic of Zahavi's ideas ) it has gained wider acceptance due to supporting game theoretic models, most notably Alan Grafen's signalling game model.

In Britain, Scottish-born Val McDermid created lesbian journalist-cum-sleuth Lindsay Gordon, and Joan Smith ( born 1953 ) has gained popularity as the author of a series of Loretta Lawson novels.

Smith caught 88 passes for 1, 110 yards and 7 touchdowns, rushed for 42 yards, gained 439 yards and another touchdown returning punts, and recorded 309 kickoff return yards.

Some fundamentalists have argued that the 1890 Manifesto was not a real revelation of the kind given by God to Joseph Smith, Jr., Brigham Young, John Taylor and others, but rather was a politically expedient document intended by Woodruff to be a temporary measure until Utah Territory gained statehood.

However, Smith gained national attention in 2004 in the controversy over the Medicare Modernization Act.

The production gained Tony Awards for Walter Matthau, Best Actor ( Play ), Best Author ( Play ), Best Direction of a Play, and Best Scenic Design ( Oliver Smith ), and was nominated for Best Play.

Smith was born in Rangiora and educated at the Canterbury University achieving 1st Class Honours in Civil Engineering, was an AFS Scholar to the U. S. and eventually gained a PhD with a thesis on New Zealand landslides.

The house was quickly found to be too small, and John and William Smith were commissioned in 1848 to design new offices, cottages and other ancillary buildings.

He spent most of his life in the small town of Auburn, California, living in a small cabin built by his parents, Fanny and Timeus Smith.

Smith professed to hate the provinciality of the small town of Auburn but rarely left it until he married late in life.

Lynne, with the 7-piece line-up that supported Time ( with the exception of bassist Groucutt being replaced by Martin Smith ), played a small number of live ELO performances in 1986, including shows in England and Germany along with US appearances on American Bandstand, Solid Gold, then at Disneyland that summer.

Caltech graduate students Frank Malina, Weld Arnold, Apollo M. O. Smith, and Tsien Hsue-shen, along with Jack Parsons and Edward S. Forman, tested a small, alcohol-fueled motor to gather data for Malina's graduate thesis.

Director Michael Mann tagged Voight for a small but crucial role in the 2001 biopic Ali, which starred Will Smith as the controversial former heavyweight champ, Muhammad Ali.

One upset occurred in 1961, when the small liberal arts colleges of Hobart and William Smith in Geneva, New York, defeated Baylor University to retire undefeated as the third college, along with Rutgers and Colgate, to do so.

The trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie, the guitarist Herb Ellis, and the pianists Tommy Flanagan, Oscar Peterson, Lou Levy, Paul Smith, Jimmy Rowles, and Ellis Larkins all worked with Ella mostly in live, small group settings.

* April 2010 – Chevron continued to allow independent jobbers to switch to the Texaco brand, such as the small chain of BP gas stations in Mississippi operated by Mississippi Oil / Smith Petroleum as Dandy Dan C-Stores.

Nearly broken by the news, Smith finds a small ray of hope in a friendly smile from the President of the Senate ( Harry Carey ).

The " Anthon Transcript " ( also known as the " Caractors " document ) is a small piece of paper on which Joseph Smith, Jr. is said to have transcribed reformed Egyptian characters from the golden plates ( the ancient record from which Smith claimed to have translated the Book of Mormon ).

Only a small marble fragment, a carved rose excavated by William Stukeley, survives which is currently preserved in Stamford Museum. See below for the modern monument erected by Smith of Derby Group.

At the age of nine, Smith began playing the piano, and at 10 began learning guitar on a small acoustic guitar bought for him by his father.

At the request of a visitor named Mr. Smith, archaeology professor and adventurer Indiana Jones tries to find a small statue in the archives of his workplace Barnett College.

By the spring of 1854, several members of the local Shiloh community ( Capt Thomas F. Wilson, Dr H. Mosely, and Mr Jesse Smith ) constructed a small log cabin to be used as the community's school house.

The city of Jackson has a small park in town called the Lester Smith Park and the other two parks in Jackson is the Kiwanis Park and Douthitt Park.

Even after being stonewalled when asking for payment, and after being persuaded to stay for a meal, and against his better judgment, Smith agrees to stay another day to help them with other small jobs, always with the faint hope that Mother Maria will pay him for his work.

The fatalities were small children from Ft. Smith.

In 1842 the voters raised three hundred dollars and the " red schoolhouse " was built on the top of James Street Hill, at the corner of Smith St. Seventy children attended, and the school was soon too small and the older boys and girls had their classes in the basement of the Universalist Church nearby.

Clitherall was founded in 1864 by members of the Church of Jesus Christ ( Cutlerite ), a small Latter Day Saint faction started in 1853 by Alpheus Cutler, a former associate of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the original Latter Day Saint church in 1830.

Smith Falls, the tallest waterfall in Nebraska, is located on a small stream tributary to the Niobrara River about east of Valentine in Smith Falls State Park.