There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

Johnson defended the colored heavyweight title 17 times, which was second only to the 26 times Wills defended the title.

Of the other former and future coloured heavyweight champs that Battling Jim battled, he won only one fight, against Harry Wills, because he broke his wrist blocking a punch in a non-title match and Johnson won by a TKO.

The factory closed in 1926 after, only 14, 000 vehicles were ever made by the Wills factory.

Until the Statute of Wills was passed in 1540, a will could control only the inheritance of personal property.

At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Williams became only the second player to win Olympic gold medals in both singles and doubles at the same Olympic Games, after Helen Wills Moody in 1924.

Venus also became only the sixth woman in history to win the singles titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open in consecutive years, the others being Martina Navrátilová ( twice ), Steffi Graf ( twice ), Althea Gibson, Maureen Connolly Brinker, and Helen Wills Moody ( twice ).

" Author Tony Wills describes him as charitable and generous, and says his sympathy for the poor and oppressed was exceeded only by his hatred for the rich, the oppressors.

The plot is fictional and only loosely connected to the Burke and Wills expedition.

In 1860 this Society assembled Victoria's only attempt at inland exploration, the Burke and Wills expedition.

At the Wills by-election of 11 April 1992, caused by the resignation of former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, Phil Cleary was elected as an independent to the Australian House of Representatives from a field of 22 candidates, becoming the only non-Labor member to have ever held the seat.

It was later revealed by the media that up until 2000, there had only been one mention of Tony Mokbel in the media, a positive article in the Herald Sun about the contributions Mokbel's businesses made to the local economy in Moreland, in and near Thomson's electorate of Wills.

Of the other former and future Colored Heavyweight Champions that Battling Jim battled, he won only one fight, against Harry Wills, because he broke his wrist blocking a punch in a non-title match and Johnson won by a technical knockout.

Currently there's only one motel run in Baker, the Wills Fargo Motel.

From 1961 – 62, Wills starred in the short-run series Frontier Circus which aired for only one season on CBS.

Coleman, Henderson, Wills and Brock are the only players to steal 100 bases in a season.

The Supreme Court also has exclusive jurisdiction in probate ( Wills & Estates ), meaning that it is the only South Australian court which can hear such matters.

California-specific legal knowledge is required only for Evidence, Civil Procedure, Wills, Community Property, and Professional Responsibility ; for the other topics, either general common law (" bar exam law ") or the federal laws apply.

Just over one year later, on August 27, 1977, Harrah and teammate Bump Wills would hit back-to-back inside-the-park home runs, only the second time this feat has ever occurred in a Major League Baseball game.

This mainly occurred after World War Two where many wills had no possible recipients so the assets went to the government. Wills are often confused with trust funds, but wills are only present at death whereas trust funds can be accessed during the time that the creator of the fund is still alive.

Although he was back in the side for the next three seasons, his appearances were now less regular and he only played eight times in 1955-56, with Len Wills and Joe Wade competing for the same place.

He only played ten matches that season, but after Len Wills was moved to right back at the start of 1959-60, McCullough became the Gunners ' regular left back.

* North Fork Mountain, along the axis of the Wills Mountain Anticline, a long, high ridge crossed only by U. S. 33 ; Kile Knob, Panther Knob, and Pike Knob are among the mountain's high points

While in Fort Worth, Wills added the " rowdy city blues " of Bessie Smith and Emmett Miller to a repertoire of mainly waltzes and breakdowns he had learned from his father, and patterned his vocal style after that of Miller and other performers such as Al Bernard.

" Speaking of Milton Brown and himself — working with popular songs done by Jimmie Davis, the Skillet Lickers, Jimmie Rodgers, songs he'd learned from his father and others — Wills said that " We'd ... pull these tunes down an set ' em in a dance category.

As children, swamp pop musicians listened to ( and often performed ) traditional Cajun music and black Creole ( zydeco ) music, as well as popular country and western ( hillbilly ) songs by musicians like Bob Wills, Moon Mullican and Hank Williams, Sr.

High end replicas were designed by traditional architects, for example Boston architect Royal Barry Wills ( 1895 – 1962 ).

Rather than reproducing traditional Cape Cod – style homes, Wills refigured the design to include modern amenities that addressed demands for increased privacy and technology, including bathrooms, kitchens, and garages.

According to Berry, his favorite song to sing at integrated clubs (“ salt and pepper clubs ”, as he called them ) was the traditional country song " Ida Red ", an uptempo dance number made popular by Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys with their 1938 recording.

The Country Music Hall of Fame inducted Wills in 1968 and the Texas State Legislature honored him for his contribution to American music.

His father was a statewide champion fiddle player and the Wills family was either playing music, or someone was " always wanting us to play for them ," in addition to raising cotton on their farm.

The fact that Wills made his professional debut in blackface was commented on by Wills ' daughter, Rosetta: " He had a lot of respect for the musicians and music of his black friends ," Rosetta is quoted as saying on the Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Web site.

Wills recalled the early days of what became known as Western swing music in a 1949 interview.

With its jazz sophistication, pop music and blues influence, plus improvised scats and wisecrack commentary by Wills, the band became the first superstars of the genre.

A New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an "... Oklahoma version of shag done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.

Filmed on location in the Mexican state of Durango, the film starred James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson in the title roles, with a huge supporting cast including Bob Dylan ( who composed the film's music ), Jason Robards, R. G. Armstrong, Richard Jaeckel, Jack Elam, Chill Wills, Katy Jurado, L. Q. Jones, Slim Pickens and Harry Dean Stanton.

And, a New York writer sent to Tulsa, Oklahoma in late 1940 / early 1941 noted an " Oklahoma version of shag " done to the Western Swing music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys at the Cain's Dancing Academy in Tulsa.

* March 6-Bob Wills, country music singer ( d. 1975 )

In country music, artists such as Jimmie Rodgers, Moon Mullican and Bob Wills introduced many elements of swing along with blues to create a genre called western swing.

Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were the leading proponents of Western Swing, which combined country singing and steel guitar with big band jazz influences and horn sections ; Wills's music found massive popularity.

McEntire's sound has been influenced by the country music of Bob Wills, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Barbara Mandrell, and Patsy Cline.

In college, McEntire would sneak into local dances at the Oklahoma-Texas border so she could dance to Wills's music, commenting that, " it didn't get any better than dancing to Bob Wills music ".

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

This music has more of a " swing " style popularized by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.

This is where Bob Wills, Leon McAuliffe, and Tommy Duncan first started playing music together.

( See the sound file above with Duncan singing Rodger's " Blue Yodel No. 1 " in 1937 ) Bob Wills is considered by music authorities to be the co-founder of Western Swing.

Much Ado about Nothing ( 1882 ) was followed by Twelfth Night ( 1884 ); an adaptation of Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield by W. G. Wills ( 1885 ); Faust ( 1886 ); Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ); The Dead Heart, by Watts Phillips ( 1889 ); Ravenswood by Herman, and Merivales ' dramatic version of Scott's Bride of Lammermoor ( 1890 ).

Other successful country music acts from Georgia include Billy Currington, Cyndi Thomson, Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland, Daryle Singletary, Doug Stone, John Berry, Rhett Akins, Mark Wills, And up and coming stars Jason Aldean, Brantley Gilbert, Luke Bryan, Thomas Rhett, Kip Moore and Lauren Alaina.

Bob Wills and others believed the term Western swing was used for his music while he and his band were still in Tulsa, Oklahoma between 1939 and 1942.