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The John Lennon album Some Time in New York City features a song entitled " Sunday Bloody Sunday ", inspired by the incident, as well as the song " The Luck of the Irish ", which dealt more with the Irish conflict in general.
The incident inspired the 1977 Nick Lowe song " Marie Prevost ".
Sinatra purportedly used pressure from his underworld connections to get the part, an incident that inspired the Johnny Fontane character in the classic 1972 film The Godfather.
The Blue Lotus, for example, was inspired by the Mukden incident that resulted in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
She never married and is alleged to have refused a marriage proposal from a gentile on account of her faith – a widely-publicized incident at the time that may have inspired Scott to create the relationship in Ivanhoe between Rebecca and Wilfred.
This incident appears to have inspired his locked room story, " The Suicide of Kiaros ", first published in the literary journal, The White Elephant.
The incident caused an avalanche of negative media reaction, and inspired sportswriter Austen Lake's famous comment that when Williams name was announced the sound was like " autumn wind moaning through an apple orchard.
It is said that this incident inspired the coat of arms of the Hunyadis, and later also appeared in the coat of arms of Matthias " Corvinus ".
The " Lola Montes Polka " composed by Albert Denning was later rumoured to have been inspired by this event, but as the song was published in 1855 and the incident with Seekamp occurred months later in February 1856, this is scarcely probable.
The incident was an international news event that brought Reverend Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to the community and inspired the 1995 book Color Lines: The Troubled Dreams of Racial Harmony in an American Town, by Mike Kelly.
The incident inspired the creation of both the 1981 documentary Fire on the Water and the 1985 film Alamo Bay.
The incident inspired a song, " The Pretty Girl of Ronceverte " written by Thomas Thackston and set to music by Charles Pratt.
The incident immediately inspired a succession of kabuki and bunraku plays ; the first, The Night Attack at Dawn by the Soga appeared only two weeks after they died.
This incident inspired the court poet Callimachus of Cyrene to write a poem entitled Βερενίκης πλόκαμος ( Greek " Berenice's braid ").
This was inspired by an incident at the Origin building ; a metal bar, where the magnet on the door attached to it, fell on Garriott's head, warranting a visit to the hospital.
The film was inspired by a true incident during the Second World War, when the maternity ward of Ottawa Civic Hospital was temporarily declared extraterritorial by the Canadian government so that, when Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was born there, she would not lose her right to the throne.
According to Numan, the song's lyrics were inspired by an incident of road rage:
The incident inspired the pharmaceutical, food, and consumer product industries to develop tamper-resistant packaging, such as induction seals and improved quality control methods.
This incident inspired the account of the meeting of Beren and Lúthien, and Tolkien often referred to Edith as " my Lúthien.
According to one account the incident which inspired Edward III's foundation of the Order of the Garter took place here.
Although the Shogunate had no intention of enforcing the order, it nevertheless inspired attacks against the Shogunate itself and against foreigners in Japan: the most famous incident was that of the English trader Charles Lennox Richardson, for whose death ( which was the result of allegedly disrespecting a daimyo ) the Tokugawa government had to pay an indemnity of one hundred thousand pounds sterling.
Although the Shogunate had no intention of enforcing the order, it nevertheless inspired attacks against the Shogunate itself and against foreigners in Japan: the most famous incident was that of the English trader Charles Lennox Richardson, for whose death the Tokugawa government had to pay an indemnity of one hundred thousand British pounds.
The song is one of Guthrie's most prominent works, based on a true incident in his life that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965, and which inspired a 1969 movie of the same name.
John Greenleaf Whittier's poem The Branded Hand was inspired by this incident.

incident and Henry
This account was treated with general disbelief, although the American ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, a strong supporter of Huerta, reported to Washington that " I am disposed to accept the ( Huerta ) government's version of the affair and consider it a closed incident ".
Most notable among these, they say, are certain similar incidents found in Oxford's biography and Hamlet, and Henry IV, Part 1, which includes a well-known robbery scene with uncanny parallels to a real-life incident involving Oxford.
The incident successfully removed any military threat from the bishops, but it may have damaged Stephen's relationship with the senior clergy, and in particular with his brother Henry.
The morning after the incident, Detective Henry Carmichael and Henry C. Pack, a black patrolman, located Rowland on Greenwood Avenue and detained him.
Orderic Vitalis relates an incident that took place at L ' Aigle, in 1077 or 1078: William and Henry, having grown bored with casting dice, decided to make mischief by emptying a chamber pot onto their brother Robert from an upper gallery, thus infuriating and shaming him.
An English translation of part of Slavata's report of the incident is printed in Henry Frederick Schwarz, The Imperial Privy Council in the Seventeenth Century ( Cambridge, Mass.
The early scenes deal with the embarkation of Henry's fleet for France, and include a real-life incident in which the Earl of Cambridge and two others plotted to assassinate Henry at Southampton.
The annals were written after Otto's coronation by Pope John XII on 2 February 962 ; however, though both Otto and his father Henry the Fowler are named Imperatores, this incident is not mentioned.
An international incident was brought about by James H. Callahan and William R. Henry whose pursuit of Lipan, Apache raiders and runaway slaves into Mexico ended in the looting and torching of Piedras Negras, Mexico, after an encounter with Mexican forces at La Marama on the Río Escondido.
The incident successfully removed any military threat from the bishops, but it may have damaged Stephen's relationship with the senior clergy, and in particular with his brother Henry.
They also mentioned how SWAT team advisors for the film related a similar true incident in Toronto in which a man ( Henry Masuka ) took an ER hostage after it wouldn't provide immediate service to his infant son on New Year's Eve, 1999.
Brevet Major James Henry Carleton's report, the first federal investigation of the incident, records Jacob Hamblin's account that the train was alleged to have poisoned a spring near Corn Creek that killed 18 head of cattle and resulted in the deaths of two or three people who ate the dead cattle.
Henry Fairfield Osborn Jr. recounts one incident in which Beebe turned down a scientist who wished to work with him when the scientist described boredom with his current duties as one of his reasons for requesting this.
Faced with such relentless, incessant questions, which she had no choice but to answer, Jane would have searched her memory for every tiny incident that occurred to her ... Jane had not been quick to tell tales, but she had buckled under the pressure of relentless questioning ... And it was her weakness under interrogation that gave her future detractors-happy to find a scapegoat to exonerate the King from the heinous charge of callously killing his innocent wife-the ammunition to maintain that it was her evidence that had fooled Henry and destroyed Anne and George ...".
The 2007 play Yellow Face by Asian-American playwright David Henry Hwang places this incident in context to a greater number of cases dealing with racial profiling against Asians, particularly the Chinese during the 1980s.
William Henry Smyth, comparing his recollections of the Great Comet of 1811 to the spectacular Donati's Comet, stated that " as a mere sight-object, the branched tail was of greater interest, the nucleus with its ' head-veil ' was more distinct, and its circumpolarity was a fortunate incident for gazers ".
Together with Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, McCloy was a staunch supporter of General Patton after the infamous " slapping incident " of 3 August 1943.
Page 2 of a USAF report on the Tehran incident by Captain Henry S. Shields
One particular incident landed the young Henry his first knockout in the playground.
He says that he lived some years with the Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, possibly the young man in Shakespeare's Sonnets, and there is an account of an incident involving Florio at Titchfield Abbey, the Earl's Hampshire home.
* Richard Henry Stevens, British intelligence officer captured during the Venlo incident
The motor racing journalist Alan Henry describes him as one of his father's " right-hand men " at the time of a violent incident in 1962, in which Sir Oswald was knocked down by a mob in London and saved from serious injury by his son's intervention.
Though he enlisted the help of Maryland U. S. Representative Henry Winter Davis to get his official report of the incident published by the Navy, an ultimately inconclusive congressional investigation into the failure essentially turned into a trial of whether Du Pont had misused his ships and misled his superiors.

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