The proposal was made by Dr. David S. Jenkins after he and Mrs. D. Ellwood Williams, Jr., a board member and long-time critic of the superintendent, argued for about fifteen minutes at this week's meeting.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

While the Super Bowl XX Champion Bears were a fixture of mainstream American pop culture in the 1980s, the Bears made a prior mark with the 1971 American TV movie Brian's Song starring Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers and James Caan as Brian Piccolo.

In 1813, John Williams, a missionary on the Endeavour ( not the same ship as Cook's ), made the first official sighting of the island Rarotonga.

1813 — English missionary John Williams made the first official sighting of Rarotonga.

As Williams gets weaker, Han reveals that one of his hands is made of iron.

Wallach made his Broadway debut in 1945 and won a Tony Award in 1951 for his performance in the Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo.

There is also a distinction in ethics and action theory, largely made popular by Bernard Williams ( 1979, reprinted in 1981 ), concerning internal and external reasons for action.

Unfortunately the para-Azoxyanisole that Williams and Heilmeier used exhibits the nematic liquid crystal state only above 116 ° C, which made it impractical to use in a commercial display product.

But injuries and inconsistent play from Schroeder made Gibbs promote Williams to starting quarterback.

After the season Ted Williams retired as manager ; he had made no secret of his displeasure with the franchise's new location.

In December 1937, during the winter meetings, the deal was made between Lane and Collins, sending Williams to the Boston Red Sox and giving Lane $ 35, 000 and two major leaguers, Dom D ' Allessandro and Al Niemiec, and two other minor leaguers.

Williams also made his first of sixteen All-Star Game appearances in 1940, going 0-for-2.

Despite his lower-than-usual production at bat, Williams made the All-Star team.

In The Boston Globe, the publishers ran a " What Globe Readers Say About Ted " section made out of letters about Williams, which were either the sportswriters or the " loud mouths " in the stands.

Insecure about his upbringing, and stubborn because of immense confidence in his own talent, Williams made up his mind that the " knights of the Press Box " were against him.

Throughout his career, Williams made countless bedside visits to children being treated for cancer, which Williams insisted on going unreported.

Some Williams tubes were made from radar-type cathode ray tubes with a phosphor coating that made the data visible, while other tubes were purpose-built without such a coating.

On 4 October 2007, Williams made a guest appearance at Mark Ronson's concert in Los Angeles, performing The Charlatans ' " The Only One I Know ", which features on Ronson's album Version.

That same evening, Williams made his " comeback " on The X Factor results show, performing his new single " Bodies " for the first time live.

In his Baseball Hall of Fame induction speech in 1966, Ted Williams made a strong plea for inclusion of Negro league stars in the Hall.

" Garfield earned a reputation as a skilled debater and was made President of the Philogian Society and Editor of the Williams Quarterly.

The final Big Dig plan, then, combined several projects — the depression and improvement of the Central Artery, the construction of a third Harbor tunnel ( now known as the Ted Williams Tunnel ), and massive interchange improvements to the Massachusetts Turnpike and several other major routes in the area.

American Larry Adler was one of the first harmonica players to perform major works written for the instrument by the composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin.

In his 1976 book Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Raymond Williams states in the entry for " Industry ": " The idea of a new social order based on major industrial change was clear in Southey and Owen, between 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as Blake in the early 1790s and Wordsworth at the turn of the century.

Williams was well known for representing Watergate figures as well as major Mafia figures including Frank Costello.

Williams remained in major league spring training for about a week.

The. 406 batting average was Williams ' first of six batting championships, is still the highest single-season batting average in Red Sox history and the highest batting average in the major leagues since 1924, and the last time any major league player has hit over. 400 for a season.

On May 15, 1951, Williams became the 11th player in major league history to hit 300 career home runs.

When Pumpsie Green became the first black player on the Boston Red Sox in 1959 — the last major league team to integrate its team — Williams openly welcomed Green.

Jennings ' music had a major influence on several neo-traditionalist and alternative country artists, including Hank Williams Jr., The Marshall Tucker Band, Travis Tritt, Steve Earle, John Anderson, his son, Shooter Jennings and Hank Williams III.

Other composers of major violin concertos include Jean Sibelius, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Walton, Benjamin Britten, Frank Martin, Carl Nielsen, Paul Hindemith, Alfred Schnittke, György Ligeti, Philip Glass, John Adams, and Kan-no.

Williams ' major collections are published by New Directions in New York City.

Williams ' major collections are Spring and All ( 1923 ), Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems ( 1962 ), and Paterson ( 1963, repr.

A trade with the Toronto Raptors brought Antonio Davis and Jerome Williams in exchange for Rose and Marshall in what was seen as a major shift in team strategy from winning with athleticism to winning with hard work and defense.

In the 2008 off-season, the team made a major change to its lineup, trading G Damon Jones and Smith ( who later in the season rejoined the Cavs after being released by Oklahoma City ) for point guard Mo Williams.

* Daimones, a term for computerized sub-personalities, are a major story element in the novel Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams

Writer Rob Williams has stated that Class War was a major inspiration for his superhero comic book series Cla $$ war.

Flagstaff in Coconino County is a major highway junction, with Interstate 40 extending to the east and the west ( connecting with Williams and Winslow, Arizona, for example ), and with Interstate 17 extending south from Flagstaff to Phoenix and Maricopa County.

He was recruited by former Confederate General Williams Carter Wickham to become a major investor and guiding light for a southern railroad.

He batted. 324 ( 3rd in the league ) with 35 home runs ( 4th ), 48 doubles ( 1st ), and 145 RBI ( 1st ), then the most RBIs in a season by a left-handed major league batter since Ted Williams drove in 159 in 1949.

California State Route 20 is the major east-west route, running to Nevada City to the east, and through Yuba City and Williams to the west, ending just south of Fort Bragg at California State Route 1.

There were three major grocery stores in Seymour — White's, which was connected with a general store, and owned by Charles White ; the MFA supermarket, which was part of the MFA complex ( feed and agriculture, hardware and groceries ); the MFA general manager was Sherman Eddings, and two of the ladies who worked in the office were Dorothy Herman and Lucille Brown ; and Williams ', which was owned by the Williams family, who also had a variety store.