When asked by a reporter after getting struck by lightning why they were flying a kite in a thunderstorm, the duo explained that they were inspired by a documentary about Benjamin Franklin.

" When Words Fail: William Pitt, Benjamin Franklin and the Imperial Crisis of 1766 ," Parliamentary History, October 2009, Vol.

When, in 1770, Benjamin West proposed to paint " The Death of General Wolfe " in contemporary dress, he was firmly instructed to use classical costume by many people.

When Polk arrived in Washington, D. C. he roomed in a boarding house with some other Tennessee representatives, including Benjamin Burch.

When Reuben, the eldest, mentioned that they needed to bring Benjamin to Egypt to prove their word as honest men, their father became furious with them.

When this government was replaced by Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud government, the issue again became even more controversial, with Israel's demand for greater clarity and precision eventually expressed in the Wye River Memorandum.

When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he ( with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe ) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.

When President Andrew Johnson, who had no vice president, was impeached and tried in 1868, Senate President pro tempore Benjamin Franklin Wade was next in line to the presidency.

When Benjamin Disraeli, future British Prime Minister, visited the city in 1830, he described it as " a city of palaces built by gentlemen for gentlemen ," and remarked that " Valletta equals in its noble architecture, if it does not excel, any capital in Europe ," and in other letters called it " comparable to Venice and Cádiz " and " full of palaces worthy of Palladio.

When Gabriel is taken prisoner and Thomas is killed, he helps his father, Benjamin, rescue Gabriel by killing several British soldiers, even though he doesn't want to kill.

When this uprising failed, he emigrated to North America as a soldier of fortune, following the endorsement of Benjamin Franklin.

When the Derby and Nottingham Canals were completed by Jessop and Benjamin Outram in 1796, they provided direct routes to the important textile centres of Derby and Nottingham.

When Embree's untimely death in 1820 effectively ended publication of The Emancipator, several of Embree's supporters turned to Ohio abolitionist Benjamin Lundy, who had started publication of his own antislavery newspaper, The Genius of Universal Emancipation, in 1821.

When asked what Messiaen's main influence had been on composers, George Benjamin said, " I think the sheer [...] colour has been so influential, [...] rather than being a decorative element, showed that colour could be a structural, a fundamental element, [...] the fundamental material of the music itself.

When Benjamin Disraeli and others took several nights in the House of Commons to impeach Palmerston's foreign policy, the foreign minister responded to a five-hour speech by Anstey with a five-hour speech of his own, the first of two great speeches in which he laid out a comprehensive defence of his foreign policy and of liberal interventionism more generally.

* " When You're All Dressed Up And No Place To Go " w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. Silvio Hein

When the War ended with the treaty of 1783 signed in Paris, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont had a portrait medallion made of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Nini.

When the brothers return, Joseph tests whether them by demanding the enslavement of Benjamin.

When Benjamin finally decided to take up the patriot cause, he tried to convince William to join him, but the son stayed steadfastly loyal to the Crown.

Rush said, " When Benjamin came in, he wasn't physically what Josh had envisioned, but he inhabited the character unlike anyone we had seen.

When Prince Justin ( the King's younger brother ) goes missing while searching for Wizard Suliman ( Benjamin Sullivan, also from Wales ), the King orders Howl to find Suliman and Justin and kill the Witch of the Waste.

When General Benjamin McCulloch was killed and Colonel Louis Hébert was captured, McNair became the commander of the brigade.

When Felipe was killed, three of his brothers, Wilfrido, Benjamin, and Edesio, were killed with him, as well as eight of their friends.

When Benjamin Latrobe redesigned the Senate Vestibule in the United States Capitol in 1807, he introduced six columns that he " Americanized " with ears of corn ( maize ) substituting for the European acanthus leaves.

When it was proposed that the admirers and supporters of the paper should facilitate a reduction in its price by the payment of their subscription ten years in advance, not only did Edward Bulwer-Lytton volunteer his aid, but also Benjamin Disraeli, who was then flirting with radicalism.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

When the army investigates, they are greeted by Wilson ( Chuck Wilson ), Grenchko ( Richard Berger ), Emmy Kano ( Anna Nakagawa ) and an android named M-11 ( Robert Scott Field ).

When asked by columnist Earl Wilson what the purpose of the group was, Bacall responded " to drink a lot of bourbon and stay up late.

When Shula replaced Wilson at Miami the Colts charged the Dolphins with tampering in their hiring of Shula, costing the Dolphins their first round draft pick in 1971.

When, in 1974, Labour returned to office under Harold Wilson, Foot became Secretary of State for Employment.

When Wilson retired in 1976, Foot contested the party leadership and led in the first ballot, but was ultimately defeated by James Callaghan.

When Wilson re-entered government in 1974 Jenkins returned to the Home Office, but, increasingly disenchanted by the swing to the left of the Labour Party, he chose to leave British politics in 1976 and was appointed President of the European Commission in 1977, serving until 1981: he was the first and to date only British holder of this office.

When the U. S. entered the war in 1917, Roosevelt sought to raise a volunteer infantry division, but Wilson refused.

When Harding joined the U. S. Congress, both houses were controlled by the Democrats, and Woodrow Wilson, a progressive Democrat, was in the White House ; therefore, the legislative agenda was dominated by the opposition.

When William Jennings Bryan captured the Democratic nomination from Cleveland's supporters in 1896, Wilson refused to support the ticket.

In 2010, she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards, as the lead actress of When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story, and as part of the cast of Black Swan.

When Labour won the 1997 general election, Powell told his wife, Pamela Wilson, " They have voted to break up the United Kingdom.

When Lawrence of Arabia was first announced, Lawrence's biographer Lowell Thomas offered producer Spiegel and screenwriters Bolt and Wilson a large amount of research material he had produced on Lawrence during and after his time with him in the Arab Revolt.

When Wilson was eight, he visited London and a later-to-be-famous photograph was taken of him standing on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street.

When taking into account all benefits, taxes and Government expenditures on social services, the First Wilson government succeeded in bringing about a reduction in income inequality.

When Labour won more seats ( though fewer votes ) than the Conservative Party in February 1974 and Heath was unable to persuade the Liberals to form a coalition, Wilson returned to 10 Downing Street on 4 March 1974 as Prime Minister of a minority Labour Government.

When Harold Wilson resigned in 1976, Callaghan was elected the new Labour leader.

When Hugh Gaitskell died in January 1963, Callaghan ran to succeed him but came third and the leadership contest was won by Harold Wilson.

When Callaghan and Wilson threatened to call a new general election, the governor soon raised a £ 3 billion loan to stabilise the reserves and the deficit.

When Wilson won the next general election and returned as Prime Minister in March 1974, he appointed Callaghan as Foreign Secretary which gave him responsibility for renegotiating the terms of the United Kingdom's membership of the Common Market.

Much of Morrison's music is structured around the conventions of soul music and R & B, such as the popular singles " Brown Eyed Girl ", " Jackie Wilson Said ( I'm in Heaven When You Smile )", " Domino " and " Wild Night ".

Two songs, " Jackie Wilson Said ( I'm in Heaven When You Smile )" and " Redwood Tree ", reached the Hot 100 singles chart.

When Brian was two, the Wilson family moved from Inglewood to 3701 West 119th Street in nearby Hawthorne, California.

When Candix Records ran into money problems and sold the group's master recordings to another label, Murry Wilson terminated the contract.