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Another famous penny dreadful of this era was the anonymously authored Varney the Vampire ( 1847 ).
While even folkloric vampires of the Balkans and Eastern Europe had a wide range of appearance ranging from nearly human to bloated rotting corpses, it was interpretation of the vampire by the Christian Church and the success of vampire literature, namely John Polidori's 1819 novella The Vampyre that established the archetype of charismatic and sophisticated vampire ; it is arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century, inspiring such works as Varney the Vampire and eventually Dracula.
Varney the Vampire ; or, the Feast of Blood was a Victorian era serialized gothic horror story by James Malcolm Rymer ( alternatively attributed to Thomas Preskett Prest ).
According to Varney, he was cursed with vampirism after he had betrayed a royalist to Oliver Cromwell and accidentally killed his own son afterwards in a fit of anger, although he " dies " and is revived several times in the course of his career.
This machine was the first in the UK and was used by English comedy actor Reg Varney, at the time so as to ensure maximum publicity for the machines that were to become mainstream in the UK.
The Barclays Bank branch in Enfield was the first place in the world to have an ATM or cash machine ; it was officially opened in June 1967 by Reg Varney, a television actor and personality most famous for his lead role in the comedy series On the Buses.
Originally named Varney after the city's first grain buyer, its name was changed in 1864 to Clio.
After leaving high school and playing the club circuit around the New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania areas with his brother Albert ( a singer ) for most of the 1980s, Greg Howe officially began his solo career after sending a demo tape to Shrapnel Records in 1987, upon which he was immediately signed by founder Mike Varney.
Varney was also the first example of the " sympathetic vampire ", who loathes his condition but is a slave to it.
Actor Jim Varney was cast as Jed Clampett.
It is reported that a local woman, Madam Varney, assembled the town's women and construction of a meeting house was carried out by them while the men looked on.
James Albert " Jim " Varney, Jr. ( June 15, 1949 – February 10, 2000 ) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, writer, voice artist, and comedian, best known for his role as Ernest P. Worrell, who was used in numerous television commercial campaigns and movies in the following years, giving Varney fame worldwide and playing Jed Clampett in the 1993 movie version of The Beverly Hillbillies.
Varney was born James Albert Varney, Jr., the fourth child and only son of Louise ( née Howard ; January 14, 1913 – August 22, 1994 ) and James Albert Varney, Sr. ( January 1, 1910 – January 11, 1985 ), on June 15, 1949 in Lexington, Kentucky, where he grew up.
When Varney was a boy, his mother would put the black and white TV on cartoons for him to watch.
His mother discovered that Varney quickly began to imitate the cartoon characters, so she started him in children's theater when he was 8 years old.
When he was 24, Varney was an actor at the Pioneer Playhouse in Danville, Kentucky.

Varney and major
Walter Thomas Varney ( December 26, 1888 in San Francisco, California – January 25, 1967 in Santa Barbara, California ) was an American aviation pioneer who founded forerunners of two major U. S. airlines United Airlines and Continental Airlines.

Varney and on
Many of today's standard vampire tropes originated in Varney: Varney has fangs, leaves two puncture wounds on the necks of his victims, has hypnotic powers, and has superhuman strength.
In 1998, Walter Murch, working from all available material, re-edited the film based on the Welles memo, with Bob O ' Neil, Universal's director of film restoration, and Bill Varney, Universal's Vice President of Sound Operations, participating in the restoration.
An important later work is Varney the Vampire ( 1845 ), where many standard vampire conventions originated: Varney has fangs, leaves two puncture wounds on the neck of his victims, and has hypnotic powers and superhuman strength.
Varney can be seen in Hank Williams, Jr .' s video for " All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight ", where he is briefly shown casually riding a bull being pulled on a rope by a young lady, and later in a swimming pool with two young ladies.
However, as the cough became worse, Varney began noticing blood on his handkerchief and after filming was complete, he went to the doctor.
The first commercial airmail flight in the United States passed through this airfield on April 26, 1926, carried by Varney Airlines.
Enfield Town had the world's first ever cash machine or ATM, which was installed at the branch of Barclays Bank on 27 June 1967 was opened by actor Reg Varney.
Reviewing the combined edition of 1991, Allen Varney stated: " and GEV: two simulation board games of armored combat on a future battlefield are among the best the field has ever seen: fast, elegant, and endlessly replayable.
The first recorded execution in the area that is now Nevada was the hanging of John Carr for murdering Bernhard Cherry of Carson City on November 30, 1860 and the first record execution in the Nevada Territory was the hanging of Allen Milstead outside Dayton for killing Lyon County Commissioner T. Varney at Ragtown.
On 15 June the club announced their first summer signing, who was David Norris from Ipswich on a free transfer, this was followed by the signings of Jason Pearce ( strangely the first transfer with available money since January 2010 ), Luke Varney, Stephen Henderson and Greg Halford.
* Stuart Varney interviewed Jackson on Fox News ' Your World with Neil Cavuto to discuss the RESPA ( Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act )
On July 15, 1934, Varney Speed Lines flew its first trip on a 530-mile route from Pueblo, Colorado to El Paso, Texas with stops in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and Santa Fe and Albuquerque New Mexico.
Because Mie and Kei were commuting back and forth to Japan to appear in sold-out concerts, their time on the set was spent memorizing lines and routines, so the brunt of the comedy skits were carried by Altman and ensemble players Jim Varney, Cheri Steinkellner and Anna Mathias.
The name for the new department and its first executive chairman, David Varney, were announced on 9 May 2004.
Varney joined the nascent department in September 2004, and staff started moving from Somerset House and New Kings Beam House into HMRC's new headquarters building at 100 Parliament Street in Whitehall on 21 November 2004.
He also performed on the Mark Varney Project's Centrifugal Funk album along with Brett Garsed and Frank Gambale.
Some of the most recognized artists that have been produced by Varney, or have featured on his labels, include Yngwie Malmsteen, David Lee Roth, Kansas, Shawn Lane, Victor Wooten, Frank Gambale, Eric Johnson, John Scofield, Dennis Chambers, Warren Haynes, Scott Henderson, Stuart Hamm, Tony MacAlpine, Eric Gales, Marty Friedman, Jason Becker, Steve Smith, Greg Howe, Liquid Tension Experiment, Doug Pinnick, Mike Portnoy, Great White, Paul Gilbert, Nicole Couch, Michelle Meldrum, Phantom Blue, Michael Landau, Mike Stern, Winger, W. A. S. P., Steeler and Racer X.

Varney and later
Though the earliest chapters give the standard motives of blood sustenance for Varney's actions toward the family, later ones suggest that Varney is motivated by monetary interests.
An important later example of 19th century Vampire fiction is the penny dreadful epic Varney the Vampire ( 1847 ) featuring Sir Francis Varney as the Vampire.
Varney Airlines began operating out of Boise in 1933, later merging with National Air Transport to become United Airlines.
It starred Reg Varney as bus driver Stan Butler, with Bob Grant as his bus conductor Jack Harper, Cicely Courtneidge and later Doris Hare as his Mum, Michael Robbins as his brother in law Arthur, Anna Karen as his plain sister Olive and the memorable lip-quivering Stephen Lewis as bus Inspector Cyril Blake, usually referred to as ' Blakey ' or ' Dracula '.
* July 15 – Varney Speed Lines ( later to be Continental Airlines ) makes its first passenger-carrying flight.
After the poorly rated series premiere, NBC moved Pink Lady to Friday nights and added Jim Varney, who achieved later fame as Ernest P. Worrell in the Ernest series of movies and television shows, as a character actor.
Four years later, in May 1934, Varney, Pacific Air Transport, Boeing Air Transport, and National Air Transport merged to form United Airlines.
Ernest P. Worrell is a fictional character most principally portrayed by the deceased American actor Jim Varney in a series of television commercials, and later in a television series ( Hey Vern, It's Ernest!
The Tri-Cities Airport ( then the Pasco Airport ) was site of the first air mail contract flight between Elko, Nevada and Pasco, Washington made by Varney Airlines, ( later United Airlines ) in 1926.
He also made six hour-long spectaculars called The Other Reg Varney, and later his cabaret act toured Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

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