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The crossing is described in Wallace Breem's historical novel " Eagle in the Snow.
* 1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield in London.
* 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.
Wallace is poorly regarded by many Bigfoot proponents.
Gromit of Wallace and Gromit is also a beagle.
Young William Wallace witnesses the treachery of Longshanks, survives the death of his father and brother, and is taken abroad by his uncle where he is educated.
Despite his growing admiration for Wallace and his cause, Robert is dominated by his father, who wishes to secure the throne for his son by submitting to the English.
Warned of the coming invasion by Isabella, Wallace implores the Scottish nobility, who are more concerned with their own welfare, that immediate action is needed to counter the threat and to take back the country.
The Scots lose the battle, Wallace is wounded, and Hamish's father is fatally wounded and dies after the battle.
As he charges toward the departing Longshanks on horseback, Wallace is intercepted by one of the king's lancers, who turns out to be Robert the Bruce.
Following a tryst with Wallace, Isabella exacts revenge on the now terminally ill Longshanks by telling him she is pregnant with Wallace's child, intent on ending Longshank's line and ruling in his son's place.
In London, Wallace is brought before an English magistrate, tried for high treason, and condemned to public torture and beheading.
Rainforests are widely believed by laymen to contribute a significant amount of world's oxygen, although it is now accepted by scientists that rainforests contribute little net oxygen to the atmosphere and deforestation has only a minor effect on atmospheric oxygen levels .< ref > Broeker, Wallace S. ( 2006 ).
A modern revelation that resulted in some " disaffection " and " led to intense conflict in scattered areas of the RLDS Church " is contained in the Community of Christ version's Section 156, presented by Prophet-President Wallace B. Smith and added in 1984, which called for construction of the Independence Temple and the ordination of women to the priesthood, among other changes.
In a 1996 interview with Michael Silverblatt, David Foster Wallace admitted that the structure of the first draft of Infinite Jest he gave to his editor Michael Pietsch was inspired by fractals, specifically the Sierpinski triangle ( aka Sierpinski gasket ) but that the edited novel is " more like a lopsided Sierpinsky Gasket ".
Wallace continued in praise: " Only Kafka's fragments get anywhere close to where Kosiński goes in this book, which is better than everything else he ever did combined.
Kemp is also remembered alongside George Wallace and William Jennings Bryan for influencing history by changing the direction of presidential elections despite their defeats.
As an example, the Wallace tartan has a thread count given as " K4 R32 K32 Y4 " ( K is black, R is red, and Y is yellow ).
* 1972 – In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become President.
* The Kingdom of Lovely is an attempt by King Danny I ( Danny Wallace ) to create an internet nation based in his flat in London.

Wallace and trustee
Harcourt acted as a trustee for the British Museum, Wallace Collection, the London Museum, and the National Portrait Gallery, which now contains his portrait.
* Christopher Wallace ( British Army officer ) ( born 1943 ), retired British Army general and trustee of the Imperial War Museum
He opened his ancestral home, Althorp, to the public and was a well-known art connoisseur, being a trustee of the Wallace Collection and chairman of the Royal School of Needlework.
He was a trustee of the Wallace Collection, 1976 — 1997.
In 1948 Buchanan worked actively in the Progressive Party presidential campaign of Henry Wallace, and for several years afterwards was consultant, trustee, and secretary of the Foundation for World Government.

Wallace and National
American Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner wrote: National parks are the best idea we ever had.
In Edinburgh also, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery has statues of Bruce and Wallace in niches flanking the main entrance.
Wallace statue by D. W. Stevenson on the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Now called the General Lew Wallace Study, it has been designated a National Historic Landmark and is operated as a house museum, open to the public.
The Ochils meet the flat carse ( floodplain ) of the River Forth to the east of the distinctive geographical feature of Abbey Craig, a crag and tail hill upon which stands the 220 ft ( 67m ) high Wallace National Monument.
In terms of tourism, the presence of such historical monuments as Stirling Castle, the National Wallace Monument and other nearby attractions like Blair Drummond Safari Park, the key role which Stirling has played in Scottish history, as well as the scenery of the area, has bolstered Stirling's position as an important tourist destination in Scotland.
A coalition of PLP dissidents and former UBP members formed the Free National Movement ( FNM ) in 1971 under the leadership of Cecil Wallace Whitfield.
In addition, Wallace is a member of Delta Zeta sorority and was named the Delta Zeta 2010 Woman of the Year at the 2010 Biennial National Convention in Tucson, Arizona.
National Register sites in Somerville include the white marble 1909 Somerville Court House and the wooden and stone colonial Wallace House ( today a museum ) where George Washington spent a winter during the American Revolutionary War.
Amongst its attractions are Stirling Castle, the Wallace National Monument and the Thieves Pot / Thistles Centre.
Part of a memorial listed in the Canadian Forces ' National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials-№ 13002-004-the memorial also included the original set of brass plaques which are now located in the Wallace McCain Student Centre.
* Robert B. Keiter, Sarah B. George and Joro Walker ( editors ), Visions of the Grand Staircase-Escalante: Examining Utah's Newest National Monument ( Utah Museum of Natural History and Wallace Stegner Center, 1998 ) ISBN 0-940378-12-4
The original set of brass plaques that were located in the building have been moved to the Wallace McCain Student Centre and registered with the Canadian Forces ' National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials (# 13002-004 ).
As a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention, he did not join the Dixiecrat walkout at the convention, despite his opposition to U. S. President Harry S. Truman's proposed civil rights program, which Wallace considered an infringement on states ' rights.
After being confronted by federal marshals, Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, and the Alabama Army National Guard, Wallace stepped aside.
Prior to the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, Wallace and his aides Bill Jones and Seymore Trammell met in the Jefferson Davis Hotel in Montgomery with Alabama Republican leader James D. Martin, who had narrowly lost the U. S. Senate election in 1962 to J. Lister Hill.
From his wheelchair, Wallace spoke on July 11, 1972, at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida.
Broadbent's early stagework included a number of productions for The National Theatre of Brent, as the downtrodden assistant Wallace to Patrick Barlow's self-important actor / manager character Desmond Olivier Dingle.
The National Alliance was reorganized from an earlier group: the National Youth Alliance ( NYA ) which in turn was formed out of the remains of an organization called Youth for Wallace which supported Governor George Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign.
Roosevelt refused to endorse anybody other than Wallace, but preferred Byrnes as the best alternative to Wallace and sought to push him as the party's nominee for president if the party's delegates refused to renominate Wallace at the 1944 Democratic National Convention.
Her work includes articles for magazines and newspapers around the world ( e. g., Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, The Independent ( UK ), The Irish Times, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The LA Times, La Jornada ( Mexico ), The Review of the International Red Cross, Columbia University ’ s Journal of Politics and Society ) and chapters to numerous books ( e. g., This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman book is the result of the “ This I Believe ” series on National Public Radio ; The Satanic Bible By Caesar 999 ; A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer, edited by Eve Ensler ; Lessons from our Fathers, by Keith McDermott ; Girls Like Us: 40 Extraordinary Women Celebrate Girlhood in Story, Poetry and Song, by Gina Misiroglu ; The Way We Will be 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World ’ s Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half-Century, edited by Mike Wallace ).
* Charles M. Russell, Cowboy Artist, by Wallace D. Coburn, National Magazine, June, 1905 ( with photos )

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