The precursors of rhythm and blues came from jazz and blues, which overlapped in the Late-1920s, 1930s through the work of musicians such as The Harlem Hamfats, with their 1936 hit " Oh Red ", as well as Lonnie Johnson, Leroy Carr, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, and T-Bone Walker.

Wyatt Tee Walker, his executive director ; and other leaders came to Birmingham to help.

The nickname " the Walker ", " Ganger " in Norse, came from being so big that no horse could carry him.

The title of “ police riot ” came out of the Walker Report, which amassed a great deal of information and eyewitness accounts to determine what happened in Chicago.

James Mitchell ( 1795 – 1870 ) and his wife, the former Calpernia Franklin ( 1805 – 1865 ), came to the future Walker County under a Mexican land grant in 1833.

Others claimed that the land came from Mr. and Mrs. George J. Walker, who had acquired it by bartering for a hunting dog.

Walker had a band called The Pleasure Chorizos in his later New Mexico days but nothing came from it.

John Walker Ord casts doubt on the story, noting an account published a few decades afterwards stateed that the workmen came from France and does not mention Chaloner's travels in Italy.

The Forest Service investigated the name ' Cumberland ', and found it came to Kentucky in 1750 when Thomas Walker named the Cumberland River in honor of Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.

A major cup upset came on 30 January 1988, when Vale side defeated First Division Tottenham Hotspur 2 – 1, thanks to a superb strike from Ray Walker.

Several hundred of the prisoners, among them American John Walker Lindh, came to be held in Qala-i-Jangi, a fort near Mazar-i-Sharif, where they staged a bloody uprising which took several days to quell.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Jessie ( née Crane ) and Walker, Walker Evans came from an affluent family.

Eventually, investigators discovered that the very name " Steven Walker " came from a student whose identity Bianchi had previously attempted to steal for the purpose of fraudulently practicing psychology.

In 1913 the L & SWR, led by Sir Herbert Walker who came in 1912 from the London and North Western Railway whose suburban lines he had electrified on a 630 V DC fourth rail system, chose 630 V DC third rail electrification for its suburban routes.

Doctor Who: The Television Companion ( by Howe and Walker, BBC Publishing, 1998 ) quotes a contemporary review ( from a fanzine ) that describes the dinosaur special effects thus: " After escaping they Doctor and Sarah came up against the first dinosaur and, oh dear, shades of Basil Brush!

In August 1944 1st SSF came under the command of Colonel Edwin A. Walker when Brigadier General Frederick, who had commanded the force since its earliest days, left on promotion to major general to command the 1st Airborne Task Force.

The move came as a shock to the basketball community, with some speculating that with Shaquille O ' Neal returning from injury, Dwyane Wade having his best season yet, and a high-caliber roster including Gary Payton, Jason Williams and Antoine Walker, Riley wanted to try to regain his former glory by coaching Miami to its first NBA Championship.

While ratings were a factor, the final decision to end the show came from then-company CEO E. Cardon Walker, who felt that having both the show and the new channel active would cannibalize each other.

Elder statesmen James Buchanan, Thomas Ewing, Lewis Cass, and Robert J. Walker all publicly came out for the necessity of releasing them.

Walker came from a Maryland family of slave owners, something they attempted to keep secret.

The 24th came into international press focus in 1961 when its commanding general, Major General Edwin Walker, was removed from command for making " derogatory remarks of a serious nature about certain prominent Americans ... which linked the persons and institutions with Communism and Communist influence ".

The next Republican congressman from the state came eighty years later, Prentiss Walker of Mize in Smith County, who served a single term from 1965 to 1967.

In 1989, while piloting a NASA T-38 to Washington, D. C. for ceremonies honoring the crew of STS-30, Walker came within 100 ft ( 30 m ) of striking a Pan Am jetliner.

* Walker, Thomas James, The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross, Huntingdonshire, 1796 to 1816, London, Constable, 1913 E-book version ( very poorly proof-read )

Describing the cove in 1779, Adam Walker said, " This beautiful rock is like the age-tinted wall of a prodigious castle ; the stone is very white, and from the ledges hang various shrubs and vegetables, which with the tints given it by the bog water.

The trustees claimed that " the funds for this new project would not have been available for any other purpose " William Walker, the school's vice president of strategic communications and external relations noted " The board sees this very much as a long-term investment ... for President Jackson and her successors.

VHF had been recommended to the band by in-house sound engineer Graham Walker with whom they had worked with previously when recording their very first demo tape.

Walker immediately condemned what he labelled " an unspeakable atrocity " which was " a crime very much against humanity ".

On a hit and run, Walker hit a double to very short left-center field.

The very next year, Team Penske made its return to the Indianapolis 500 after a five year absence and was joined by Ganassi, Walker Racing and Michael Andretti, driving for Team Kool Green in a separate effort headed by Kim Green, known as Team Motorola.

This split was in part due to the preaching of John Walker who was known as a " very able preacher ".

This explains why a cheap vodka can be seen as very expensive at 300 SEK ( in 2011 prices ) whilst Johnny Walker Red Label whisky is of a similar price.

" These dramatic findings are very good news, particularly at a time when many people contend that ' nothing works ' in reaching teenagers ," said Gary Walker, then-President of Public / Private Ventures.

Without being solemn, it's deadly serious ... Walker is something very rare in American movies these days.

The late loan signing of Paul Walker from Stranraer also proved to be very shrewd as he scored two winning goals in the final run-in.

In the 1780s and 1790s, one of the best batsmen around was Tom Walker, who was also a very useful slow bowler.

In 1844 George Walker described Cochrane's approach to the game :" Mr. Cochrane is the most brilliant player I have ever had the honour to look over or confront ; not even excepting De la Bourdonnais ; and pity it is that his very brilliancy so often mars success.

Upon his retirement, Walker was awarded an original brick from " The Brickyard " by track president Tony George, an honour very rarely bestowed on anyone other than the winning driver of a major race at the venue, such is his standing in the motor racing community.

Due to a very heavy snowpack in the winter of 1996 / 1997 and a very warm spring the west fork of the Walker River flooded to unprecedented levels.

Attesting to its quiet popularity, Patsy Walker ( along with Millie the Model and Kid Colt, Outlaw ) was among the very few titles published continuously by Marvel from the 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books, through Marvel's 1950s iteration as Atlas Comics, and into the 1960s Silver Age of Comic Books.

Besides the casting of Walker, this episode contains direct references to the " very special " Good Times episode " The Big Move ".

Walker defines third wave feminism at the end of the article by saying “ To be a feminist is to integrate an ideology of equality and female empowerment into the very fiber of life.

As Walker carries on the search himself ( with input from a very sympathetic but wary desk clerk at the hotel ), he stumbles onto a murder scene and then encounters the streetwise young Michelle ( Emmanuelle Seigner ), who had mistakenly picked up his wife's suitcase at the airport.

Geoffrey Hindle, ( Jolley Geoff ); son of Bob Hindle, the driving force behind the very successful sales organisation ; also nephew of Desmond Rawson, has spent many hours recording both of their life's work, donated all the family's pieces of pottery and many photographs to help the collection's guardians Carol Harker and Museum founder Dr Stuart Walker tell the full story of the company's success and eventual demise.

Walker was very friendly with Gary Cohen, who went on to be operations manager at Yankee Stadium.