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Wells and reprised
He had originated the character of Frankie Wells in the Broadway production of Blessed Event and reprised the role in its film adaptation, both in 1932.

Wells and Outline
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.
The book is comparable to The Outline of History by H. G. Wells.
Wells ( 1920 ), The Outline of History Volume One, New York, MacMillan.
Wells " Outline of History ", which he read in 1920 while at MIT.
The Outline of History, subtitled either " The Whole Story of Man " or " Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind ", is a book by H. G. Wells published in 1919.
* American historians James Harvey Robinson and Carl Becker lauded the Outline and hailed Wells as " a formidable ally ".
* In 1926 Hilaire Belloc wrote " A Companion to Mr. Wells ’ s " Outline of History ", a devout Roman Catholic, Belloc was deeply offended by Wells ’ treatment of Christianity in The Outline.
Wells wrote a short book as a rebuttal called Mr. Belloc Objects to “ The Outline of History .” In 1926, Belloc published his reply, Mr. Belloc Still Objects.
* After Wells ' death, The Outline was still the object of admiration from historians A. J. P. Taylor ( who called it " the best " general survey of history ) and Norman Stone, who praised Wells for largely avoiding the Eurocentric and racist attitudes of his time.
* In 1934 Arnold J. Toynbee dismissed the criticism of The Outline of History and praised Wells's work in his A Study of History: Mr. H. G. Wells ’ s The Outline of History was received with unmistakable hostility by a number of historical specialists.
Finding a copy of Wells's Outline of History, it turns out to be identical to the one he knows until 1903, at which point the alternate Wells records the invention of anti-gravity, a fast human expansion into space, a brutal war for the conquest of Mars which Wells strongly denounces, followed by a titanic conflict with Arcturus.
) After the death of H. G. Wells, Postgate edited some revisions of the two-volume Outline of History that Wells had first published in 1920.
Two years later, Wells called on Murray, and Murray's New College colleague Ernest Barker, to lend their names as advisers on his Outline of History.
*( 1924 ) Historia świata Wellsa / The Outline of History by H. G. Wells

Wells and 1922
* Gerbert Uells, 1922 Wells
* William Wells Hewitt 1922 – 26 ( afterwards organist of Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon )
* John Keith Wells ( born 1922 ), United States Marine who served in World War II
* Lady Olivia Montagu ( 18 July 1830 – Greystones, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 15 February 1922 and interred at Chillingham on 20 February 1922 ), married at Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire, 29 January 1850 Charles Bennet, 6th Earl of Tankerville, and had issue.

Wells and with
Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.
Declaring that he would exit the pop world " to study mime at Sadler's Wells ", Bowie nevertheless remained with the Lower Third.
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.
Together with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback, Wells has been referred to as " The Father of Science Fiction ".
Wells studied in his new school until 1887 with a weekly allowance of twenty-one shillings ( a guinea ) thanks to his scholarship.
In 1891, Wells married his cousin Isabel Mary Wells ; the couple agreed to separate in 1894 when he fell in love with one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins ( known as Jane ), whom he married in 1895.
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.
Nevertheless, Wells has this very same Time Traveller speak in terms unusual for socialist thought, referring as " perfect " and with no social problem unsolved, to an imagined world of stark class division between the rich assured of their wealth and comfort, and the rest of humanity assigned to lifelong toil: Once, life and property must have reached almost absolute safety.
Wells was a diabetic, and a co-founder in 1934 of what is now Diabetes UK, the leading charity for people living with diabetes in the UK.
A dialogue with my utopian self ( with apologies, and thanks, to H. G. Wells )", by Gregory Claeys in Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal, no 1, Spring 2006.
His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes popularly called " The Father of Science Fiction ".
Blues harmonica players who are primarily or mainly associated with the instrument include Norton Buffalo, Jerry Portnoy, Lazy Lester, Bob Dylan, Sugar Blue, Billy Branch, Charlie Musselwhite, Corky Siegel, Junior Wells, Ron " Pigpen " McKernan, Kim Wilson, Slim Harpo, Al " Blind Owl " Wilson of Canned Heat, Jack Bruce of Cream and John Sebastian of The Lovin ' Spoonful.
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.
Robb Wells, the actor who plays Ricky on the Showcase hit comedy Trailer Park Boys hails from Moncton, along with Julie Doiron, an indie rock musician and Holly Dignard the actress who plays Nicole Miller on the CTV series " Whistler ".
This act of interplanetary genocide in effect ties Niven's Mars with the older Wells / Stapledon tradition.
* In one of Robert A. Heinlein's last novels, The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ), the heroes flee Earth in a car capable of flight in six dimensions and find several alternate versions of Mars, one which had been colonised by the British and another which is an improbable combination of Burroughs ' fabulous Barsoom with the home planet of the vicious Martians whose invasion of Earth was described by Wells.
She had been involved in relationships with Havelock Ellis and H. G. Wells during this period of estrangement.
Wells or the Gothic romances of Mary Shelley, were set in a world that is recognizably that of the author and introduced only a single fantastic element — or at most a fantastic milieu within the author's world, as with Lovecraft or Howard.
In 1985, Singer wrote a book with the physician Deanne Wells arguing that surrogate motherhood should be allowed and regulated by the state by establishing non-profit ' State Surrogacy Boards ', which would ensure fairness between surrogate mothers and surrogacy-seeking parents.

Wells and much
In his youth, he spent much time in the Carnegie library in Waukegan, reading such authors as H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan of the Apes.
Lacy began his career at sixteen playing Dixieland music with much older musicians such as Henry " Red " Allen, Pee Wee Russell, George " Pops " Foster and Zutty Singleton and then with Kansas City jazz players like Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells, and Jimmy Rushing.
Barker tapped into this tradition and the setting he had developed from his childhood fantasies ( much as H. G. Wells had done for his Floor Games leading into the better-known follow-up, Little Wars ) to further explore and develop Tékumel.
Wells wrote in his 1909 semi-autobiographical novel Tono-Bungay, " Three energetic young men of the hooligan type, in neck-wraps and caps, were packing wooden cases with papered-up bottles, amidst much straw and confusion ".
The cathedral and the associated religious and architectural history have made Wells a tourist destination, which provides much of the employment.
Wells pitched much better than his ERA may show, but had a few very poor outings, which caused his ERA to " balloon.
Flowing Wells Unified School District operates public schools in Flowing Wells and serves much of Flowing Wells.
) was taken from Wells in 1841, but much of that region was returned to Wells when Gilman was dissolved in 1860.
Although the Pacific Highway cuts through the centre of the city, much attention has recently been focused on obtaining state government commitment to determining the routes of proposed highway deviations at a number of places including Bonville, the North Boambee Valley to the west of Coffs Harbour and north of Arrawarra to Wells Crossing.
The reservoir created by the Wells Dam is named Lake Pateros and flooded much of the original city.
1286-1296 ) and the elongated octagon plan of Wells Cathedral's Lady Chapel ( ca. 1320-1340 ) imitated much heavier stone vaulting.
While on tour in England with Meat Loaf, Wells was found dead on the front stairs of a London flat he was staying at on the morning of October 29, 1984, after a night of too much partying.
In an " Order Granting in Part IBM's Motion to Limit SCO's Claims " dated June 28, 2006, Judge Brooke Wells ( the federal magistrate judge presiding over discovery aspects of the case ) barred SCO from asserting 187 of the 298 allegedly misused items that IBM had moved to exclude from the lawsuit for lack of specificity, stating “ many of SCO ’ s arguments and much of Mr. Rochkind ’ s declaration miss the mark ”, and comparing SCO's tactics with those of an officer who accuses a citizen of theft, but will not disclose what the citizen is accused of stealing.
In the same way, futuristic retro owes much of its flavor to early science fiction ( e. g. the works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells ), and in a quest for stylistic authenticity may continue to draw on writers and artists of the desired period.
Many critics ( such as Stanley Wells for example ) interpret this to mean that Valentine is indeed handing Silvia over to her would-be rapist, but another school of thought suggests that Valentine simply means " I will love you with as much love as I love Silvia ," thus reconciling the dichotomy of friendship and love as depicted elsewhere in the play.
Wells, meanwhile, is regretting the results that his magic has caused, and regrets them still more when the fearsome Lady Sangazure fixes on him as the object of her affections (" Oh, I have wrought much evil with my spells ").
" Oh, I have wrought much evil with my spells " ( Lady Sangazure and Mr. Wells )
The Mercury Theatre on the Air subsequently became famous for its notorious 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds, which had put much of the country in a panic.
* The novel suggests that the universe of the Time Traveller is not ours, but a slightly different one, coherent with Wells novels ( whereas Nebogipfel's original timeline created by the publication of the time traveller's first travel in The Time-Machine, according to what he relates of it to the time traveller, appears to be much more similar to ours ).
Wells received much support from other social activists and her fellow clubwomen.

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