Ted Wells had been replaced as Chief Engineer by Herbert Rawdon, who remained at the post until his retirement in the early 1960s ( he continued as a part-time consultant to Cessna President Dwane Wallace in Wichita until shortly before his death ).

late 20th and early 21st century critics, Jonathan Wells and Stephen Jay Gould, have objected to the continued use of Haeckel ’ s embryo drawings in textbooks.

In 1933 Wells predicted in The Shape of Things to Come that the world war he feared would begin January 1940, a prediction which ultimately came true just four months early, when the Second World War broke out in September 1939.

Studies of Charles Darwin's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memory from his time as a student in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas on the topic early in the 19th century.

When he was seventeen, Bradbury read stories published in Astounding Science Fiction, and said he read everything by Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and the early writings of Theodore Sturgeon and A. E. van Vogt, but cited H. G. Wells and Jules Verne as his big science fiction influences.

In 1912 Robert Goddard, inspired from an early age by H. G. Wells, began a serious analysis of rockets, concluding that conventional solid-fuel rockets needed to be improved in three ways.

In that sketch he acknowledged that Patrick Matthew had, unknown to Wallace or himself, anticipated the concept of natural selection in an appendix to a book published in 1831 ; in the fourth edition he mentioned that William Charles Wells had done so as early as 1813.

For example, in 1933 H. G. Wells postulated in The Shape of Things to Come a Second World War in which Nazi Germany and Poland are evenly matched militarily, fighting an indecisive war over ten years ; and Poul Anderson's early 1950s Psychotechnic League depicted a world undergoing a devastating nuclear war in 1958, yet by the early 21st century managing not only to rebuild the ruins on Earth but also engage in extensive space colonization of the Moon and several planets.

Charters for the holding of markets and fairs were granted in 1235 ( though this charter was swiftly revoked following objections by the Bishop of Wells to the competition it represented to the market in that city ), 1260 and 1318, and indicate that the town was developing and prospering in the 13th and early 14th centuries.

Shortly afterwards, in an early application of computer graphics, Ulam with collaborators Myron Stein and Mark Wells used MANIAC II at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to produce pictures of the spiral for numbers up to 65, 000.

Wells County was created by the 1872-73 territorial legislature and named after Edward Payson Wells, a Jamestown banker, early promoter of the James River Valley, and member of the legislature in 1881.

Some early development took place to accommodate the popularity of the nearby Sadler's Wells, which became a resort in the 16th century, but the 19th century saw the greatest expansion in housing, soon to cover the whole parish.

By 1816, an early settlement at the town site was called Wells Mills.

The site for the village of Easton was decided in the early 1870s when Colonel Thompson of Wells undertook the building of the Southern Minnesota Railroad from the Mississippi River west to Winnebago in Faribault County.

* John Warren Butterfield ( see also John Warren Butterfield ) ( Nov. 18, 1801-Nov. 14, 1869 ), born in Berne, went on to found the Butterfield Overland Mail, the stage that was an early operation of American Express and Wells Fargo.

Henry Wells of " Wells and Fargo " fame also lived here in the early 1830s.

The name comes from Wells Fowler, an early settler.

Wells Township was a thriving city of steel mills and coal mining in the early 20th century.

This is likely to also be a reference to the early SF writer H. G. Wells ' story, " The Country of the Blind " in which a sighted man finds himself in a literal country of the blind, plots to use his advantage to rule them, but fails because his ability is not appreciated by the population.

" However, Wells insists that this line of first-century traditions is separate from the sacrificial Christ myth of Paul's epistles and other early documents, and that these two traditions have different origins.

In his book The Jesus Myth ( 1999 ), Wells departed from his earlier insistence that there was no historical figure behind the Jesus of the gospels, acknowledging the Q document as early historical evidence.

After their 1980 release, the group added Dennis " Fly " Amero ( guitars, vocals ), keyboardist Lane Hoppen ( brother of Larry and Lance ) and drummer Charlie Shew ( at that time going under the pseudonym Eric Charles ) to play alongside Wells Kelly then replace him when he left by early 1981 to relocate to NYC.

Gaye was one of many who shaped the sound and success of Motown Records in the 1960s, becoming that label's top-selling solo artist of that decade with a string of hits including " How Sweet It Is ( To Be Loved By You )", " Ain't That Peculiar ", " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell.

Between 1962 and 1966, Robinson would also be one of the in-demand songwriters and producers for Motown, penning several hit singles such as " The One Who Really Loves You ", " You Beat Me to the Punch " and " My Guy " for Mary Wells, " The Way You Do The Things You Do ", " My Girl ", " Since I Lost My Baby " and " Get Ready " for The Temptations, " When I'm Gone " and " Operator " for Brenda Holloway, " Don't Mess With Bill ", " The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game " and " My Baby Must Be a Magician " for The Marvelettes and " I'll Be Doggone " and " Ain't That Peculiar " for Marvin Gaye.

That year, the quartet began applying background vocals for emerging Motown star Marvin Gaye, singing on Gaye's first hit single, " Stubborn Kind of Fellow " After Mary Wells failed to make a scheduled recording session feigning a short illness, the Vels recorded what was initially a demo recording of " I'll Have to Let Him Go ".

Early Tamla / Motown artists included Mable John, Eddie Holland and Mary Wells.

The label's numbering system was combined with those of Tamla and Gordy in 1982, and the label ( and company ) was purchased by MCA in 1988. Notable Motown artists have included Mary Wells, The Supremes, Four Tops, The Jackson 5, Boyz II Men, Commodores, Lionel Richie, Dazz Band, Brian McKnight, 98 Degrees, and Erykah Badu.

After recording what was initially a demo for Mary Wells, Motown offered the group a recording contract.

Musicians included Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, Martha & the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson, Mary Wells, The Supremes and The Jackson 5. Led by Berry Gordy, Motown revolutionized soul and made Detroit one of the American centers of musical innovation.

Mary Esther Wells ( May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992 ) was an American singer who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s.

After a reported 22 takes, Gordy signed Wells to the Motown subsidiary of his expanding record label and released the song as a single in September 1960 ; it eventually peaked at No 8 on the R & B chart in 1961, later crossed over to the pop singles chart, where it peaked at number 45.

Wells became the first Motown female artist to have a Top 40 pop single after the Mickey Stevenson-penned doo-wop song, " I Don't Want to Take a Chance ", hit No. 33 in June, 1961.

Though she was hailed as " the first lady of Motown ", Wells was technically Motown's third female signed act: Claudette Rogers of Motown's first star group The Miracles, has been referred to by Berry Gordy as " the first lady of Motown Records " due to her being signed as a member of the group, and in late 1959 Detroit blues-gospel singer Mable John signed to the then-fledging label a year prior to Wells ' arrival.

The success of " You Beat Me to the Punch " helped to make Wells the first Motown star to be nominated for a Grammy Award when the song received a nod in the Best Rhythm & Blues Recording category.

Wells ' second album, also titled The One Who Really Loves You, was released in 1962 and peaked at No. 8 on the pop albums chart, making the teenage singer a breakthrough star and giving her clout at Motown.

" You Lost the Sweetest Boy " was one of the first hit singles composed by the successful Motown songwriting and producing trio of Holland-Dozier-Holland, though Robinson remained Wells ' primary producer.

" My Guy " was one of the first Motown songs to break on the other side of the Atlantic, eventually peaking at No. 5 on the UK chart and making Wells an international star.

Around this time, The Beatles stated that Wells was their favorite American singer, and soon she was given an invitation to open for the group during their tour of the United Kingdom, thus making her the first Motown star to perform in the UK.

When describing Wells ' landmark success in 1964, former Motown sales chief Barney Ales:

Ironically during her most successful year, Wells was having problems with Motown over her original recording contract, which she had signed at the age of 17.

Though Gordy reportedly tried to renegotiate with Wells, the singer still asked to be let go of her contract with Motown.

A pending lawsuit would keep Wells away from the studio for several months, as she and Gordy went back and forth over the contract details, Wells fighting to gain larger royalties from earnings she had made during her tenure with Motown.