Dr. Ray is a Fellow of the Foundation -- appointed thrice to assist his studies of William Makepeace Thackeray and of H. G. Wells -- and, before his appointment to the Foundation's executive staff, had been given our highest scholarly accolade, appointment to the Advisory Board.

Coaching had declined considerably by 1905, but the sign was still there, near the old Wells Fargo building in San Francisco, creaking in the fog as it had for thirty years.

In 2007, the Times printed another Editor ’ s Note after Hesser published a review of Vegetable Garden by Patricia Wells without disclosing that in 1999, Wells had contributed a jacket blurb for Hesser ’ s book The Cook and the Garden.

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 ).

Cheddar cheese traditionally had to be made within of Wells Cathedral.

At the end of August he had a dinner with H. G. Wells which degenerated into a row because Wells had taken offence at observations Orwell made about him in a Horizon article.

By this time, the U. S. Marines had been issued the modern tripod-mounted M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun in 6mm Lee Navy, which they employed to defeat Spanish infantry at the battle of Cuzco Wells.

From 1880 to 1883, Wells had an unhappy apprenticeship as a draper at the Southsea Drapery Emporium, Hyde's.

In 1883 Wells persuaded his parents to release him from the apprenticeship, taking an opportunity offered by Midhurst Grammar School again to become a pupil-teacher ; his proficiency in Latin and science during his previous, short stay had been remembered.

The years he spent in Southsea had been the most miserable of his life to that point, but his good fortune at securing a position at Midhurst Grammar School meant that Wells could continue his self-education in earnest.

This ought to have been a comfortable sum of money ( at the time many working-class families had " round about a pound a week " as their entire household income ) yet in his Experiment in Autobiography, Wells speaks of constantly being hungry, and indeed, photographs of him at the time show a youth very thin and malnourished.

With his wife's consent, Wells had affairs with a number of women, including the American birth control activist Margaret Sanger and novelist Elizabeth von Arnim.

In 1927, Florence Deeks sued Wells for plagiarism, claiming that he had stolen much of the content of The Outline of History from a work, The Web, she had submitted to the Canadian Macmillan Company, but who held onto the manuscript for eight months before rejecting it.

Near the end of the Second World War, Allied forces discovered that the SS had compiled lists of people slated for immediate arrest during the invasion of Britain in the abandoned Operation Sea Lion, and Wells was included in the alphabetical list on the same page of " The Black Book " as Rebecca West.

Wells, as president of the International PEN ( Poets, Essayists, Novelists ), had already angered the Nazis by overseeing the expulsion of the German PEN club from the international body in 1934 following the German PEN's refusal to admit non-Aryan writers to its membership.

No supporter of Jewish identity in general, Wells had in his utopian writings predicted the ultimate assimilation of the Jewish people.

On 28 October 1940 Wells was interviewed by Orson Welles, who two years previously had performed an infamous radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, on KTSA radio in San Antonio, Texas.

In his preface to the 1941 edition of The War in the Air, Wells had stated that his epitaph should be: " I told you so.

( However, George King had given MVP votes to two pitchers just the season before: Rick Helling and David Wells ; King was the only writer to cast a vote for Helling, who had gone 20 – 7 with a 4. 41 ERA and 164 strikeouts.

With seven metres to go Wells began an extreme lean which allowed his head and shoulder to cross the finish line before Leonard's chest in a photo finish ; both men were given a final time of 10. 25 s. Wells became the oldest Olympic 100 m champion at that time.

The Flowing Wells community was given an All-American City Award by the National Civic League in 2007.

Two years after its premiere, the opera was given in Prague, and also in Germany in 1929, but it did not become really popular until a production by the Sadler's Wells company in London in 1964.

According to Wells, the Gospel tradition was a later stage of the development of the Jesus myth, which was given a concrete historical setting and subsequently embellished with more and more details.

When the Wells and Fakenham Railway was opened on 1 December 1857, the terminus was given the name of " Wells-on-Sea ".

It was then given two years later to the Duke of Somerset who exchanged it with a property belonging to Wells Cathedral.

However, in the book's timeline the US stays out of the war, and it ends due to Germany's economic collapse rather than its military defeat ( similar to the scenario given in H. G. Wells ' The Shape of Things to Come, four years before ).

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.

Wells was also given a tribute by friends such as Stevie Wonder and Little Richard on The Joan Rivers Show.

After her funeral, which included a eulogy given by her old friend and former collaborator Smokey Robinson, Wells was laid to rest in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Wells was given one of the first Pioneer Awards by the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1989.

The church at Burnham and its lands were given to Gloucester Abbey in the 12th century, later transferred to the Wells Cathedral along with up to 50 houses surrounding the church.

Papa Elf reveals that Buddy was born to Walter Hobbs ( James Caan ) and Susan Wells and given up for adoption, and that Walter never knew of his existence.

Originally referred to as Frant Wells, they were later renamed Queen Mary ’ s Wells, in honour of Queen Mary II and were only later given the present name of Tunbridge Wells.

After the merger, he was given the positions of CEO and president of Wells Fargo.

In 1870 a contract was signed with a French company, Forges et Chantiers de la Mediteranée for construction of a third bridge, but the outbreak of war between France and Germany delayed the project, which was given instead to a British firm G. Wells in 1872.

When the twenty rounds were up, Wells was given the decision and the championship title.

The Wymondham to Wells branch was opened in stages between 15 February 1847 and 1857, after Parliamentary consent was given in 1845.

The centennial was celebrated in 1947 with the Silliman lectures given by Ernest O. Lawrence, Linus Pauling, W. M. Stanley and George Wells Beadle.

Other productions within Europe waited until the end of the Second World War, some notable ones being in January 1963 in London at Sadler's Wells Opera conducted by Colin Davis and in Berlin in September 1977 by the Komische Oper.

After teaching for some time, Wells found it necessary to supplement his knowledge relating to educational principles and methodology and entered the College of Preceptors ( College of Teachers ).

For example, the economist Irving Fisher said in a 1912 address to the Eugenics Research Association: " The Nordic race will ... vanish or lose its dominance if, in fact, the whole human race does not sink so low as to become the prey, as H. G. Wells images, of some less degenerate animal!

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.

Wells has stated that the fact that Origen seems to have read something different about the death of James in Josephus than what there is now, suggests some tampering with the James passage seen by Origen.

" He had thought of using some of this material in a series of articles in the Pall Mall Gazette, until the publisher asked him if he could instead write a serial novel on the same theme ; Wells readily agreed, and was paid £ 100 ( equal to about £ today ) on its publication by Heinemann in 1895.

They were very simple games, and in some ways just provide a context for shooting spring-loaded toy cannons at toy soldiers, but " in his Appendix to Little Wars, Wells speaks of the changes required to convert his admittedly simplistic rules into a more rigorous Kriegspiel.

After the expiration of the copyright on Gilbert and Sullivan works in 1961, and especially since the Sadler's Wells production and recording, various directors have experimented with restoring some or all of the cut material in place of the 1920s D ' Oyly Carte version.

It is the second smallest English city in terms of area and population after the City of London although, unlike the latter, Wells is not part of a larger metropolitan conurbation, and is consequently described in some sources as being England's smallest city.

Wells became a borough some time before 1160 when Bishop Robert granted its first charter.

He formed a group called The Socratics and brought to it some of his most influential friends, including H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Bertrand Russell and Sassoon.

The A361 from Frome skirts the eastern edge of Shepton Mallet on its way to Glastonbury, and the A371 from Castle Cary passes through the town on its way west to Wells ; for some distance, both routes follow the line of the A37.

Though arson was suspected, no arrest was made until January 1878, when Henry Wells, an African American with some criminal history was arrested and locked in the garett of the new building, which had been erected in 1877.

In fiction, some of the best-known names are J. M. Barrie, Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, Kenneth Grahame, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit, Beatrix Potter, Saki, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and P. G. Wodehouse.

Wells was the subject of some controversy prior to the 2003 season, when his autobiography Perfect I'm Not: Boomer on Beer, Brawls, Backaches and Baseball, was published.

After high levels of chemical contamination were found in City of Woburn ’ s Wells G and H in 1979, some members of the community suspected that the unusually high incidence of leukemia, cancer, and a wide variety of other health problems were linked to the possible exposure to volatile organic chemicals in the groundwater pumped from wells G and H.

In 2000 the board of Wells College endorsed a master plan that proposed two new buildings, demolition of some existing modern buildings and moving some historic brick buildings.

According to The History of Ontario County New York, some of the earliest pioneers included " Daniel Gates, Daniel Warner, Ezra Platt, Samuel Day, George Chapin, Israel Chapin, Jr., Frederick Follett, Thomas Sawyer, Benjamin Wells and Mr. Sweet, all of whom were from Massachusetts, while William Wyckoff who was another pioneer, was from Pennsylvania.

Many wells were built along its banks, and some on springs ( Bagnigge Well, Clerkenwell ) and St Bride's Well, were reputed to have healing qualities ; in the 13th century the river was called River of Wells.

Other residents have included Charles Wells the " man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo " casino, who bought a house in Fort Road with some of the proceeds ; and Charles Webb, the author of The Graduate.

Most are styled " District of Mission " or " District of Wells ", though some are styled " Corporation of Delta " or " Township of Langley ".

Wells suggested that the earliest extant Christian documents from the first century, most notably the New Testament epistles by Paul and some other writers, show no familiarity with the Gospel tradition of Jesus as a preacher and miracle-worker who lived and died in the recent decades.

However, Wells still argues that Paul's Jesus was " a heavenly, pre-existent figure who had come to earth at some uncertain point in the past and lived an obscure life, perhaps one or two centuries before his own time.