Around the middle of his career, Edison attributed the hearing impairment to being struck on the ears by a train conductor when his chemical laboratory in a boxcar caught fire and he was thrown off the train in Smiths Creek, Michigan, along with his apparatus and chemicals.

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With rounded windows in the Italianate style, it was similar to the Smiths Creek depot that is now in Greenfield Village.

* Smiths Creek is at the southwestern corner of Kimball Township and the northern portion of Saint Clair Township on the Smiths Creek tributary of the Pine River at.

Smiths Creek was the county seat of St. Clair County from 1869 until April 1871, when it was removed to Port Huron.

The St. Clair County Sanitary Landfill is located in Smiths Creek.

The Smiths Creek ZIP code, 48074, serves all of Kimball Township.

There are three approaches to Uki village ; from the North it is approximately 15 minutes by road south of the main township of Murwillumbah along the Kyogle Road and 4 km past the turnoff to the World Heritage listed Mount Warning National Park, from the South West along the Kyogle Road from Lismore, Kyogle and Nimbin and from the East along Smiths Creek Road linking Uki to the quaint village of Stokers Siding and the Tweed Valley Way to popular coastal towns including Brunswick Heads and Byron Bay.

Belle and Sebastian are often compared with acts such as The Smiths, The members of the band see this as a landmark event, with Stevie Jackson saying, " This is the biggest thrill of my entire life ".

This is Mrs. Smith, and here are all the little Smiths.

The Smiths members Morrissey and Johnny Marr shared an appreciation for Smith's Horses, and reveal that their song " The Hand That Rocks the Cradle " is a reworking of one of the album's tracks, " Kimberly ".

* June 25 – The Incorporated Guild of Smiths is founded in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.

The Smiths ' album, The Queen Is Dead is referenced in the Sleeper song, " Dress Like Your Mother ".

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However, the American Point System standardized finally in 1886 is different from Hawks ’ original idea in that 1 pica is not precisely equal to < sup > 1 </ sup >⁄< sub > 6 </ sub > inch ( neither the Imperial inch nor the U. S. inch ), as the United States Type Founders ’ Association defined the standard pica to be the Johnson Pica which had been adopted and used by Mackellar, Smiths and Jordan type foundry ( MS & J ), Philadelphia.

Esther finally gets to meet John properly when he is a guest at the Smiths ' house party, although her chances of romancing him don't go to plan when, after all the guests are gone and he is helping her turn off the gas lamps throughout the house, he tells her she uses the same perfume as his grandmother and that she has " a mighty strong grip for a girl ".

The Nutshell is a pub in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, claiming to be the smallest pub in Britain, although this claim is challenged by several others, including the Smiths Arms at Godmanstone and the Lakeside Inn in Southport.

The music used for the final version of the museum sequence is an instrumental cover version of The Smiths ' " Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want ", performed by The Dream Academy.

Although Alabama is legally in the Central Time Zone, Phenix City's proximity to the larger city of Columbus, Georgia causes Phenix City ( including its municipal government ) and areas within a 10-15 mile radius ( such as Smiths Station ) to observe Eastern Time on a de facto basis.

Smiths Station is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States.

The city is also known by locals as Smiths, although the official name is Smiths Station.

Smiths Station was officially incorporated in June 2001, and is Alabama's second newest city next to Center Point.

Smiths Station is a bedroom community of Columbus, Georgia and Phenix City, Alabama.

Smiths Station High School has an enrollment of 1, 800 + students and is the 11th largest high school in the state.

" During the same interview, Love said she was greatly influenced by guitarists Will Sergeant of Echo and the Bunnymen and Johnny Marr of The Smiths.

Having sold most of his father's tract, in 1957 the old house burned-the Smiths believed by arson, others said by accident.

In a 1984 interview Morrissey said that he chose The Smiths " because it was the most ordinary name " and because he thought that it was " time that the ordinary folk of the world showed their faces.

Marr's guitar playing " was a huge building block for more Manchester legends that followed The Smiths ", including The Stone Roses, whose guitarist John Squire has said Marr was an influence.

Gallagher has said that " When The Jam split, The Smiths started, and I totally went for them.

Admission was said to be free to anyone wearing a The Smiths T shirt.

Thirty-five years later ( in 2006 ) fellow Mancunian Johnny Marr of English alternative rock band The Smiths said:

They are said to have reunited on a forthcoming album, Angels and Fools, by Gabriel's unsigned band, The Believers, on the track " Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want ", a cover version of the song by The Smiths.

Morrissey has said that this is his favourite Smiths song.

Steven Page has said that the song was partly inspired by " Back to the Old House " by The Smiths.

Shelley himself appeared on the programme in 2000, where host Mark Lamarr introduced Shelley by saying that without Buzzcocks " there'd be no Smiths or Radiohead, and this show would be called Never Mind Joan Armatrading!

But Morrissey and Marr acted throughout on the basis that they would be getting 40 percent each of the net profits from The Smiths earnings.

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" Regardless of what she chooses, she loses all precedence she attained from marriage and because of the former option, there can be multiple Lady John Smiths.

* The Smiths song " Half A Person " is thought to be titled after the quote, " Caliban is half a person at the best of times.

Smiths can be seen holding the debris together as it takes on a thirty-story tall humanoid form which is then struck by lightning, powering it up.

It should be noted that $ 5 is the maximum price the Smiths are willing to pay for an additional, fourth, pear tree, which implies their marginal benefit to plant a fifth pear tree is 0.

After the Smiths broke up, Street was contacted by lead singer Morrissey, who offered him the position of producer and co-songwriter for his forthcoming album, which came to be titled Viva Hate.

His biography of the Smiths will be published in September 2012.

Neo is shown to be the only person able to withstand such assimilations, Morpheus only being spared because Neo threw off the Smiths that were trying to copy over him ; even the Oracle fell victim to the attack, although it apparently required greater effort on Smith's part than usual.

Once there, the Smiths were charged with treason, and Ford abandoned them to be guarded by the Carthage Greys, an anti-Mormon militia that helped murder them on June 27, 1844.

In late 1988, he joined Piccadilly Radio's Key 103 FM, presenting from 6-9pm on weekday evenings, and 2pm-5pm on Sunday afternoon where he was given a free hand and created a show which would broadcast and promote what would later be dubbed ' The madchester Scene ' to a mainstream young audience in The Greater Manchester Area, playing ( The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, and 808 State ), as well as a mixture of classics by everyone from The Beatles, Love, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, classic soul and funk, plus Manchester favourites like the Buzzcocks, The Smiths, The Fall, New Order, and Joy Division, A Guy Called Garald, The Chameleons.

Clarissa is sheltered by the kind but poor Smiths and during her sickness she gains another worshipper — John Belford, another libertine who happens to be Lovelace's best friend.

An invention of Michael Hunter, a former Smiths executive, Twisties are claimed to be the " number one extruded snack brand " by Smith's.

The group evolved from " The Smiths " ( not to be confused with later English band " The Smiths "), which featured two of the same members, and had attempted a hit single with " Now I Taste The Tears ", produced and arranged by Ron Budnik.

* While Josie and Sam are dancing, the song " Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want " from the 1984 album " Hatful Of Hollow " by The Smiths can be heard in the background.

During breakfast Steve Smith announces that he plans to ask out Lisa Silver, the head cheerleader at his school, and his mother Francine puts Roger, the alien who is living with the Smiths, on a diet, fearing that he may be getting fat.

When Andy is having a bad time at the Ivy restaurant and leaves Maggie on her own, the Smiths song " Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want " can be heard.

Clocks, watches, and automotive instruments eventually ceased to be significant markets for Smiths, and by the 1980s, the automotive instrument division had been sold, first to Lucas, and eventually to the factory employees.