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.

* 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.

* 1305 – Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield in London.

In London, Wallace is brought before an English magistrate, tried for high treason, and condemned to public torture and beheading.

She returned to the London stage in May 2009 to play the lead role in Wallace Shawn's new play, Grasses of a Thousand Colours at the Royal Court Theatre.

* The Kingdom of Lovely is an attempt by King Danny I ( Danny Wallace ) to create an internet nation based in his flat in London.

While all this took place, William Wallace was finally captured near Glasgow and was hanged, drawn and quartered in London on 23 August 1305.

On March 28, 2009, The Science Museum in London, opened an exhibition called " Wallace & Gromit present a World of Cracking Ideas.

Following the trial, on 23 August 1305, Wallace was taken from the hall to the Tower of London, then stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the Elms at Smithfield.

Laughing Cavalier, 1624, canvas, relined, ( H ) 83cm x ( W ) 67cm, Wallace Collection, London.

A great propaganda victory was achieved in 1305 when Wallace was betrayed by Sir John de Menteith and turned over to the English, who had him taken to London where he was publicly executed.

File: Maguerite, Countess of Blessington. jpg | Portrait of Marguerite, Countess of Blessington, 1822, Wallace Collection, London

* Ian Wallace – in London

* Anthony F. C. Wallace: St. Clair: A Nineteenth-Century Coal Town's Experience with a Disaster-Prone Industry, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, Paperback and with corrections 1988 ISBN 0-8014-9900-3 LCCN n / 88 / 37772

Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith was born in Cliftonville, Kent, on 29 September 1913, the only son and elder child of Arthur John Howard-Smith, who worked as the Ceylon representative for Lloyd's of London, and his Canadian wife, Mabel Grey Wallace, a nurse.

In 1847 Wallace and Bates discussed the idea of an expedition to the Amazon Rainforest, the plan being to cover expenses by sending specimens back to London.

Some parts of it are at variance with contemporary sources e. g. the work describes Wallace leading an army to the outskirts of London, and it includes some episodes of doubtful accuracy before Wallace enters history with the Action at Lanark.

* c. 1654: Portrait of a Young Woman-The Wallace Collection, London ;

* 1655: The Unmerciful Servant-The Wallace Collection, London, England ;

A centenary exhibition in commemoration of Powell's life and work was held at the Wallace Collection, London, from November 2005 to February 2006.

William Wallace was executed in London in 1305, and it was in Sheen that the Commissioners from Scotland went down on their knees before Edward.

* The Broken Mirror, Greuze, Wallace Collection, London, who have another Greuze, a Anthony van Dyck Virgin and Child, a Philippe de Champaigne Annunciation, and a Hobbema.

Set to the tune of " London Bridge is Falling Down ," the commercial in the film counts down the number of days until Halloween beginning with day eight followed by an announcer's voice ( Tommy Lee Wallace ) encouraging children to purchase a Silver Shamrock mask to wear on Halloween night: