Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS ( 8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913 ) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.

Wallace was one of the leading evolutionary thinkers of the 19th century and made a number of other contributions to the development of evolutionary theory besides being co-discoverer of natural selection.

Wallace was strongly attracted to unconventional ideas.

Wallace was a prolific author who wrote on both scientific and social issues ; his account of his adventures and observations during his explorations in Indonesia and Malaysia, The Malay Archipelago, was one of the most popular and influential journals of scientific exploration published during the 19th century.

Alfred Wallace was born in the Welsh village of Llanbadoc, near Usk, Monmouthshire.

He was the seventh of nine children of Thomas Vere Wallace and Mary Anne Greenell.

Thomas Wallace was of Scottish ancestry.

The wife of Scoop Beal, the editor of the Humboldt Standard, which later combined with the Humboldt Times, in which Genzoli's story had appeared, has stated that her husband was in on the hoax with Wallace.

The crew was overseen by Wilbur L. Wallace, brother of Raymond L. Wallace.

The story was written for the screen and then as a novel by Randall Wallace.

The anniversary was also celebrated with a 40-page issue ( instead of 32 pages ; the 60th birthday issue also had extra pages, 48 instead of 24 ) guest edited by Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park, price £ 1. 50 ( not 99p ) and an issue of Classics from the Comics devoted to the Beano.

* In 1927, a feature-length silent film Casey at the Bat was released, starring Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, and ZaSu Pitts.

Writing in 1889, Alfred Russel Wallace remarks " It was formerly a very general belief, even amongst geologists, that the great features of the earth's surface, no less than the smaller ones, were subject to continual mutations, and that during the course of known geological time the continents and great oceans had again and again changed places with each other.

The building was designed by the famed architect Wallace Harrison, who would later design the similar-looking façade of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.

In May 2000, he later had surgery to repair a leaking heart valve, and was forced to take a three month break from Parliament, with Deputy First Minister, Jim Wallace taking over as Acting First Minister.

His later author discoveries included Tanith Lee, Jennifer Roberson, Michael Shea, Ian Wallace, Tad Williams, Celia S. Friedman, and C. J. Cherryh, whose Downbelow Station ( 1982 ) was the first DAW book to win the Hugo Award for best novel.

Dolores Fuller's autobiography, A Fuller Life: Hollywood, Ed Wood and Me, co-authored by Winnipeg writer Stone Wallace and her husband Philip Chamberlin, was published in 2008.

It was based on a novel by Edgar Wallace, starring Donald Calthrop, Benita Home and Fred Raines, made by British Lion at their Beaconsfield Studios.

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 ".

The following year William Wallace and Andrew de Moray raised forces to resist the occupation and under their joint leadership an English army was defeated at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

Yoakum left home when he was 9 years old, to join the Great Wallace Circus.

Bill Wallace was also a great user of this kick, as seen in his fight with Bill Briggs, where he KO'd his opponent with the clocked 60 mph kick.

In June 1996, Henry Wallace was appointed President, and he set about restructuring Mazda and setting it on a new strategic direction.

Andromeda has been the subject of numerous ancient and modern works of art, including, Andromeda Chained to the Rocks ( Rembrandt ), one of Titian's poesies ( Wallace Collection ), and compositions by Joachim Wtewael ( Louvre ), Veronese ( Rennes ), Rubens, Ingres, and Gustave Moreau.

Wallace is also the subject of literary works by Sir Walter Scott and Jane Porter and of the highly fictionalized Academy Award-winning epic film Braveheart.

The Scottsboro Boys had served long prison sentences when the arch segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace, in one of history's ironies, partially mitigated this widely construed injustice ( after the United States Supreme Court had failed to do so twice ) by issuing a pardon in 1976 for the one remaining Scottsboro defendant still subject to the Alabama penal system.

Wallace was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1985, after which she became an activist and lecturer on the subject.

Wallace was the subject of a documentary, George Wallace: Settin ' the Woods on Fire, shown by PBS on The American Experience in 2000.

* Two other completed operas from later that century were also written about the subject, Lurline by William Vincent Wallace and Loreley by Alfredo Catalani ( first performed in 1860 and 1880 respectively )

Wallace more speculatively argued that the bright colors and long tails of the peacock were not adaptive in any way, and that bright coloration could result from non-adaptive physiological development ( for example, the internal organs of animals, not being subject to a visual form of natural selection, come in a wide variety of bright colors ).

Although this image is subject to copyright, I, User: Sue Wallace believe its use is covered by the U. S. fair use laws because:

Susanna ( and not Peter Quince ) is the subject of the 1915 poem Peter Quince at the Clavier by Wallace Stevens, which has been set to music by the American composer Dominic Argento and by the Canadian Gerald Berg.

During these years of artistic exile Rousseau produced some of his best pictures: " The Chestnut Avenue ", " The Marsh in the Landes " ( now in the Louvre ), " Hoar-Frost " ( now in America ); and in 1851, after the reorganization of the Salon in 1848, he exhibited his masterpiece, " The Edge of the Forest " ( also in the Louvre ), a picture similar in treatment to, but slightly varied in subject from, the composition called " A Glade in the Forest of Fontainebleau ", in the Wallace Collection at Hertford House, London.

Of this step we highly approved, provided Mr. Darwin did not withhold from the public, as he was strongly inclined to do ( in favour of Mr. Wallace ), the memoir which he had himself written on the same subject, and which, as before stated, one of us had perused in 1844, and the contents of which we had both of us been privy to for many years.

The Wallace and Ladmo Show has been the subject of several museum exhibits over the years.

In August 2010, Wallace was the subject of a Today Tonight special feature on the Seven Network, where she was reportedly nearly broke and on the verge of becoming homeless.

* Colin Wallace, former British soldier and psychological warfare operative, subject of a wrongful imprisonment case

* Pubs-Birchgrove and Balmain are home to many famous drinking establishments, including the Sir William Wallace Hotel, named after the Scottish hero who was the subject of the film Braveheart.

In late 2010, he guest starred as Doctor Wallace in Season 5 of Sea Patrol, which aired in July 2011 on Channel 9.

On 17 February 2006, Wallace was the " guest host " of an edition of the Channel 4 programme The Friday Night Project.

After another 14 years at ABC, Wallace left in 2003 to join the Fox News Channel.

Herbert Wallace Le Patourel was born in Guernsey, Channel Islands on 20 June 1916.

and Wallace & Company, was a children's television show produced by and aired on KPHO-TV ( Channel 5 ) in Phoenix, Arizona.

According to NASCAR driver Kenny Wallace who also broadcasts NASCAR themed shows on SPEED Channel and St. Louis radio station KMOX-AM, Gold " is one of the most recognizable voices in NASCAR and in all of sports broadcasting.