Kevin Norwood Bacon ( born July 8, 1958 ) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, The River Wild, Murder in the First, Apollo 13, Hollow Man, Stir of Echoes, Trapped, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Death Sentence, Frost / Nixon, X-Men: First Class and Tremors.

His life and the sacrifices he made to keep going despite pain and impending death were the subject of the 1942 British film, The First of the Few produced and directed by Leslie Howard, with Howard in the starring role of R. J. Mitchell, and David Niven as ' Geoffrey Crisp ', based on the Supermarine test pilot Jeffrey Quill who flew the aerobatic sequences for the film in a Spitfire MkII.

He acted in two films made during the war, The First of the Few ( 1942 ) and The Way Ahead ( 1944 ).

Among his best-known roles was Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) and roles in Berkeley Square ( 1933 ), Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ), The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1934 ), The Petrified Forest ( 1936 ), Pygmalion ( 1938 ), Intermezzo ( 1939 ), " Pimpernel " Smith ( 1941 ) and The First of the Few ( 1942 ).

He starred in a number of Second World War films including 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), " Pimpernel " Smith ( 1941 ), and The First of the Few ( 1942, known in the U. S. as Spitfire ), the latter two of which he also directed and co-produced.

His friend and The First of the Few co-star, David Niven said Howard was "... not what he seemed.

The actress who appeared under the stage name of Suzanne Clair, in " Pimpernel " Smith and First of the Few in minor roles, acted as his secretary, but died in 1942 of pneumonia in her early 30s, six months before Howard's death.

Later, Pike says that on joining the RAF he will be " the second of the few "; a reference to Howard's The First of the Few.

Few reminders of Murphy's early heyday remain ; one structure still in use is the First Baptist Church of Murphy, built in 1901.

Bruce Lewis was one of TWW's main news presenters ; he went on to write various books about his experience during the second world war, " Aircrew, a Few of the First ", plus other titles and how to be a TV presenter.

* The First of the Few ( 1942 )

* The First of the Few ( 1942 )

Seventeen individuals had already lived or worked in more than one state or colony: Baldwin, Bassett, Bedford, Dickinson, Few, Franklin, Ingersoll, Hamilton < includeonly > First lived and studied in New Jersey, then moved to New York to attend college </ includeonly >, Livingston, Alexander Martieno, Luther Martin, Mercer, Gouverneur Morris, Robert Morris, Read, Sherman, and Williamson.

* William Preston Few – First president of Duke University and the fifth and last president of its predecessor, Trinity College.

The First of the Few, known as Spitfire in the United States, is a 1942 British film directed by and starring Leslie Howard as R. J. Mitchell, the designer of the Supermarine Spitfire, alongside co-star David Niven.

The bonus disc was accompanied by a separate booklet titled " 22 Reasons Why A Band Shouldn't Put An Album Out In Its First Few Years.

* First Appearance: " A Few Bad Seeds "

Lost Israel And The First Overturn Located ; Jacob's Pillow-Pillar Stone ; The Other Overturns ; Dan -- The Serpent's Trail ; Israel In The Isles ; A Few More Identities ; A Study In " Scarlet "; Egypt-Israelitish And Anglo-Saxon Emblems ; The Two-Fold Aspect Of Prophetic Israel ; The Coming Exodus.

He also had an uncredited role in The First of the Few ( released in the US as Spitfire ).

* The First of the Few ( 1942 )

* A Few Things I Learned From My First Experience as a Production Assistant An editorialized synopsis of the production departments, from the perspective of a Production Assistant.

She is memorably shown in this role in The First of the Few, although there the rigging more diplomatically reads: " Down with the government.

This was quickly remedied by First Byte Computers who developed an interface and software which allowed a " switched " joystick to be used with the majority of software titles.

Dee's journals did not describe the language as " Enochian ", instead preferring " Angelical ", the " Celestial Speech ", the " Language of Angels ", the " First Language of God-Christ ", the " Holy Language ", or " Adamical " because, according to Dee's Angels, it was used by Adam in Paradise to name all things.

The earliest writings of the Apostolic Fathers, the Didache and the First Epistle of Clement for example, show the church used two terms for local church offices — presbyters ( seen by many as an interchangeable term with episcopos or overseer ) and deacon.

In the original Hebrew Bible ( the Bible used by Jews ) First and Second Kings were a single book, as were First and Second Samuel.

First, the Romans stood their ground and used volleys of pila ( heavy javelins ) to kill thousands of Britons who were rushing toward the Roman lines.

During the First World War the German army used horses for logistics, 1. 4 million of them, in the 1939 – 45 war it used 2. 7 million horses.

" Addressing the faster rate at which defenders could reinforce an area than attackers could penetrate it during the First World War, Guderian wrote that " since reserve forces will now be motorized, the building up of new defensive fronts is easier than it used to be ; the chances of an offensive based on the timetable of artillery and infantry co-operation are, as a result, even slighter today than they were in the last war.

The outrage aroused in Germany by Baralongs actions was used by the Kaiserliche Marine to justify attacking and sinking ships without warning at sea during the First World War, and was used again in the Second World War as a reason for the Kriegsmarine to do the same.

First used in 1637, it was never accepted, having been violently rejected by the Scots.

Though the King James Version ( KJV ) was always commonly used, it was officially adopted in the 1950s when J. Reuben Clark, of the First Presidency, argued extensively that newer translations, such as Revised Standard Version of 1952, were of lower quality and less compatible with LDS tradition.

The title was also used in other city states and also revived in modern states, notably in the First French Republic.

Branch churches of The Mother Church may take the title of First Church of Christ, Scientist ; Second ; but the article The must not be used, presumably to concede the primacy of the Boston Mother Church.

The cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of a First Cause ( or instead, an Uncaused cause ) to the universe, and by extension is often used as an argument for the existence of an " unconditioned " or " supreme " being, usually then identified as God.

First, because motorised vehicles were in short supply, the Poles used horses to pull anti-tank weapons into position.

First used in China, cannon were among the earliest forms of gunpowder artillery, and over time replaced siege engines — among other forms of aging weaponry — on the battlefield.

One of the most widely used creeds in Christianity is the Nicene Creed, first formulated in AD 325 at the First Council of Nicaea.

First was the Roller Controller, a trackball packaged with a port of the arcade game Slither, a Centipede clone and meant to be used with some dedicated games like Victory or to enhance the gameplay of previously published cartridges which benefitted from its trackball system ( like Wargames ).

The phrase Cogito ergo sum is not used in Descartes ' Meditations on First Philosophy but the term " the cogito " is ( often confusingly ) used to refer to an argument from it.

First used at the TSB England & Wales

First synthesized in 1874, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939, and it was used with great success in the second half of World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops.

* 1933: First European passenger cars with diesel engines ( Citroën Rosalie ); Citroën used an engine of the English diesel pioneer Sir Harry Ricardo.