The traditional view regards Wallace's birthplace as Elderslie in Renfrewshire, and this is still the view of most historians, but there have been recent claims that he came from Ellerslie in Ayrshire.

Wallace's most controversial command came at the Battle of Shiloh, where he continued as the 3rd Division commander under Grant.

Wallace's most notable service came in July 1864 at the Battle of Monocacy in Maryland, part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864.

When Carter ran for President in 1976, Maddox ran against him as the nominee of Wallace's former American Independent Party, saying that his former rival was " the most dishonest man I ever met.

Additionally, it led to Evans ' involvement in the East Coast-West Coast hip hop feud, dominating the rap music news at the time, which ended with Wallace's murder in a yet-to-be-solved drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, California in March 1997, and made Evans " Rap's most famous widow ".

As shown in the listing of Wallace's output featured below, the two ten year periods from 1908 – 1918 and 1922 – 1932 were the most prolific of his life, but for different reasons.

Posthumously, Wallace's most famous work would be one he never got the chance to see: Out of the many scripts he'd penned for RKO, Merian C. Cooper's " gorilla picture " would have the most lasting influence, becoming the classic 1933 King Kong.

Mrs. Wallace's most notable independent action as governor was her attempt to get her husband to increase appropriations for the Bryce Hospital and the Partlow State School, a residential institution for the developmentally disabled.

Despite Wallace's blood relationship with his father Mike, his stepfather, Bill Leonard, had far more of an impact, Wallace stating that Leonard was " the single most important person in my life.

One of the most vocal critics was Karoline Leach, who in a lecture about Wallace's theory gave three main arguments against it:

Darwin's reply of 25 June was a plea for advice, noting that the points in Wallace's sketch had been fully covered in his own Essay of 1844 which Hooker had read in 1847, and that he had also set out his ideas in a letter to Asa Gray in 1857, " so that I could most truly say and prove that I take nothing from Wallace.

This would be the only major honour that Leeds would win during the seven years that Wallace spent with them ( and indeed their most recent major honour to date ), as they never finished higher than fifth in the league during the remainder of Wallace's time at the club, and the closest they came to winning any cup competitions was a 3 – 0 defeat by Aston Villa in the Football League Cup final in March 1996.

Wallace's acquisition of executive authority had been unpopular with the rank and file in Congress, and most members supported Hull, a former senator, in his attacks on the BEW and its chairman.

Top-Flite Golf remained the primary sponsor during McMurray's 20 races, while the Jackson Roscoe Foundation was primary sponsor for most of Wallace's 17 races.

Before Wallace's most famous book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions was accepted for publication, he wrote five novels which were rejected by publishers.

It is believed that Wallace's loss resulted from the shift of most of the district's African-American voters, particularly in Montgomery, to 7th district, which had been reconfigured as a black-majority district after the 1990 census in accordance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Only four days after the publication of the famous 1858 paper, and one day after he read it, Newton started to apply Darwin and Wallace's idea to various problems in ornithology.

In the book, Bremer states that he was not particularly opposed to Wallace's political agenda, which many had branded as white supremacist, but that his primary motive was to become famous, and that he had also stalked President Richard M. Nixon.

He was one of two men credited with Wallace's famous slogan, " Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever ", part of his 1963 inaugural speech.

Despite the criticisms, Anatole Kaletsky has described Sargent and Wallace's proposition as a significant contributor to the displacement of Keynesianism from its role as the leading economic theory guiding the governments of advanced nations.

Wallace's sister, Elisabeth, appeared at Covent Garden in the title role in 1848.

He also played a supportive role as George Wallace's fictional African-American butler and caretaker in the 1997 TNT TV movie George Wallace.

After many years performing in the U. S. A. and Europe, Hall went to the United Kingdom in 1938 in order to take a starring role in a musical version of Edgar Wallace's The Sun Never Sets at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

Due to the South's conservative political leanings and political power, the South has seen the start of several political movements ( such as George C. Wallace's American Independent Party ) and the region has played a crucial role in Presidential politics as the South provided the winners in the presidential elections of 1976, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 ( and the loser in 1980 and 1992 ).

Darwin had his basic theory of natural selection " by which to work " by December 1838, yet almost twenty years later, when Wallace's letter arrived on 18 June 1858, Darwin was still not ready to publish his theory.

James T. Costa said that because the book was an abstract produced in haste in response to Wallace's essay, it was more approachable than the big book on natural selection Darwin had been working on, which would have been encumbered by scholarly footnotes and much more technical detail.

With reinforcement troops from Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell and Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace's missing division, Grant succeeded in driving the Confederates back to the road from Corinth ; though he stopped short of capturing Beauregard's army, he was able to stabilize the Army of the Tennessee.

While not overtly setting the series in any particular town, Nick Park had previously hinted that its milieu was inspired by thoughts of 1950s Wigan, reinforced by an A-Z Wigan being displayed on Wallace's Anti-Pesto van in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Although he was a minor member of the Scottish nobility, little is known for certain of William Wallace's family history.

Wallace's year of birth can only be guessed at, although he was probably a relatively young man at the time of his military exploits and death.

The film, a highly fictionalized account of Wallace's life, was a commercial success and won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, but has been widely criticized by historians for its inaccuracies.

Anderson's finish was still the best showing for a third party candidate since George Wallace's 14 % in 1968 and the sixth best for any such candidate in the 20th century ( trailing Theodore Roosevelt's 27 % in 1912, Robert LaFollette's 17 % in 1924, Wallace, and Ross Perot's 19 % and 8 % in 1992 and 1996, respectively ).

When Wallace's father was elected as lieutenant governor of Indiana, he moved his family to Covington, Indiana.

During the campaign Wallace's brigade was attached to Brig.

Wallace's division held the extreme right of the Union line and was the first to attack on April 7.

A two-handed claymore, purporting to be Wallace's, which may contain original metal from his sword blade, was kept by the Scottish kings and is displayed as a relic in the Wallace Monument.

Bruce's army, like William Wallace's before him, was chiefly composed of infantry armed with long spears.

The ecology of the Maluku Islands has fascinated naturalists for centuries ; Alfred Wallace's book, The Malay Archipelago was the first significant study of the area's natural history, and remains an important resource for studying Indonesian biodiversity.

LeMay was commonly assumed to share Wallace's widely unpopular racist views, even though LeMay had enthusiastically supported racial integration in the US military publicly and privately.

For example, the British had been fascinated by Edgar Wallace's ( 1875 – 1932 ) crime novels ever since the author set up a competition offering a reward to any reader who could figure out and describe just how the murder in his first book, The Four Just Men ( 1906 ), was committed.

Wallace was originally called Wallace's Siding after Wallace Sutherland, who was assigned to the railroad depot.

After Wallace's death the home was left to his nephew who lost the property to a sheriff sale.

Others claim that the city was named for Wallace's father, Benjamin F. Williamson.

The songs were recorded in Matt Wallace's parent's garage, where Wallace had set up and been running a recording studio while the band was still recording under the name Sharp Young Men, with M Morris, Billy Gould, Mike Bordin and Wade Worthington.

" Lew Wallace's division was 5 miles ( 8 km ) downstream ( north ) at Crump's Landing, a position intended to prevent the placement of Confederate river batteries and to strike out at the railroad line at Bethel Station.

After A Close Shave, Wallace and Gromit's next major outing was in a set of 10 2½-minute shorts called Cracking Contraptions, each showing one of Wallace's inventions, usually with disastrous results.

This was a lengthy poem recounting the life of William Wallace, the Scottish freedom fighter, written around 1477, 172 years after Wallace's death.