According to F. S. Crafford, Wilson adopted " both the ideas and the style " of Smuts.

They pointed out that Wilson had personally adopted a number of liberal political stances and had attracted progressive sympathy for his outspoken environmentalism.

It was first recorded in January 1798 when John Price and James Wilson, a white man who had adopted Aboriginal ways, visited the area of what is now Bargo, New South Wales.

Modest multicultural policies were adopted by local administrations from the 1970s and 1980s onwards, initially during the Labour government of Harold Wilson.

Wilson accidentally agreed to be adopted as the candidate immediately rather than delay until the election was called, and was therefore compelled to resign from the Civil Service.

Wilson made periodic attempts to mitigate inflation through wage-price controls, better known in the UK as " prices and incomes policy " ( as with indicative planning, such controls — though now generally out of favour – were widely adopted at that time by governments of different ideological complexions, including the Nixon administration in the United States ).

The idea was taken up in the British Israelism of John Wilson, who adopted and promoted the " idea that the " European Race, in particular the Anglo-Saxons, were descended from certain Scythian tribes, and these Scythian tribes ( as many had previously stated from the Middle Ages onward ) were in turn descended from the ten Lost Tribes of Israel.

As a source of reference, in 1917, United States Senate adopted a cloture rule ( Rule 22 ), at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, that allowed the Senate to end a debate with a two-thirds majority vote.

Wilson adopted and promoted the idea that the " European race, in particular the Anglo-Saxons, were descended from certain Scythian tribes, and these Scythian tribes ( as many had previously stated from the Middle Ages onward ) were in turn descended from the ten Lost Tribes of Israel ".

From this play, Edmund Wilson adopted the title Axel's Castle for his influential study of the symbolist literary aftermath.

When awarded a life peerage in 1983, former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, a Yorkshireman, adopted the title Baron Wilson of Rievaulx.

In 1757 Wesley described Taylor's views as ‘ old deism in a new dress .’ Job Orton remarked ( 1778 ) that ‘ he had to the last a great deal of the puritan in him .’ Orton's earlier guess ( 1771 ), adopted by Walter Wilson, that Taylor had become a Socinian, is dismissed as groundless by Alexander Gordon in the Dictionary of National Biography.

However, on appealing to the more philanthropic members of London society, the plans were adopted and, with the help of two Members of Parliament ( Thomas Wilson and George Hibbert ), the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck was founded in 1824.

Though his government won support from the upper classes because it turned back the austerity measures adopted by President González, it failed to win the recognition of the United States, where President Woodrow Wilson supported the deposed government.

Before he was able to carry out his mission, Clarke was arrested and tried at the Old Bailey in London in May 1883 under the assumed name of Henry Hammond Wilson, a pseudonym he adopted during the course of the dynamiting campaign.

The 87th United States Congress adopted the following resolution on September 15, 1961: " Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives that the Congress salutes Uncle Sam Wilson of Troy, New York, as the progenitor of America's National symbol of Uncle Sam.

The League of Nations was vehemently opposed by Maxse: the League was a " front-bench affair hurriedly adopted and recklessly advocated simply and solely to please President Wilson ".

Wilson agreed, and the song, considerably jazzed up, was officially adopted that fall under its current title.

Others include Peter Koech, Bernard Kipchirchir Lagat who represents the USA and Wilson Kipketer who ran for his adopted home of Denmark.

During World War II it introduced the Wilson Duke football, featuring the best leather, ends that were hand-sewn, lock-stitch seams, and triple lining, which was adopted as the official ball of the National Football League.

In addition, Wilson ’ s draft modified the language of the Supremacy Clause adopted by the Convention, to ensure that national law would take precedence over inconsistent state laws.

Once elected, Wilson seemed to abandon his " New Freedom " and adopted policies that were more similar to those of Roosevelt's New Nationalism, such as the Federal Reserve System.

His maternal grandparents were Benjamin Davis Wilson ( December 1, 1811 to March 11, 1878 ), mayor of Los Angeles in 1851 – 1852 and the namesake of Southern California's Mount Wilson, and his second wife, Margaret Hereford.

* Janisse Ray, author and setting of her memoir Ecology of a Cracker Childhood ( the maternal side of her family-tree — two pages before its title-page — begats also from Wilson Baxley " for whom the town was named ").

Ronald Reagan's maternal great-great grand-parents, Claude Wilson and Margaret Downey were married at Paisley

Two months after his grandfather died, Compton petitioned the Orphans Court of Charles County for guardianship to pass to his maternal uncle, Richard Barnes, rather than to his paternal uncle Wilson P. Compton.

After disputing the grandfather's will, Wilson Compton turned to Compton's inheritance from his mother.

To promote the fellowship, Wilson and other members wrote the initially-titled book, Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism, from which AA drew its name.

Nonetheless, Wilson believed that, in all cases, corporations “ should be erected with caution, and inspected with care .” The actions of corporations were clearly circumscribed: “ To every corporation a name must be assigned ; and by that name alone it can perform legal acts .” For non-binding external actions or transactions, corporations enjoyed the same latitude as private individuals ; but it was with an eye to internal affairs that many saw principal advantage in incorporation.

It was Wilson who gave the archipelago the name " Pelew Islands ".

Considering the historical background of the name Persian Gulf, Sir Arnold Wilson mentions in a book, published in 1928 that:

According to Dave Wilson, in his book Rock Formations, the name They Might Be Giants had been used and subsequently discarded by a friend of the band who had a ventriloquism act.

The American presence is remembered today by the Woodrow Wilson bridge over the Loire, which was officially opened in July 1918 and bears the name of the man who was President of the USA from 1912 to 1920.

Benjamin Wilson was also a well known Indian fighter who served as justice of the peace for the Mexican authorities and it was while hunting down renegade Indians that he discovered what is present day Big Bear, California which received that name because Wilson and his posse lassoed and killed over thirty grizzly bears while passing through.

Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts was to name Agassiz to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian.

Agassiz, Davis, Peirce, Benjamin Gould, and Senator Wilson met at Bache's house and " hurriedly wrote the bill incorporating the Academy, including in it the name of fifty incorporators ".

During Samuel Mason's 1797-1799 occupation of Cave-In-Rock and after his departure, the name of Bully Wilson became associated with cave ; a large sign was erected near the natural landmark's entrance, " Liquor Vault and House for Entertainment.

Wilson also coined the name of charity War on Want

Eric Morecambe's habit of appearing not to recognise the guest stars was repaid by Wilson, who referred to him throughout as ' Morry-camby ' ( the mis-pronunciation of Morecambe's name made by Ed Sullivan when the pair appeared on his famous American television show ).

An opinion poll in September 2011 found that Wilson came in third place when respondents were asked to name the best post-war Labour Party leader.

Factory Records owner Tony Wilson was influenced by Situationist urbanism and Factory Records band The Durutti Column took its name from Andre Bertrand's collage Le Retour de la Colonne Durutti.

The disease bears the name of the British physician Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson ( 1878 – 1937 ), a neurologist who described the condition, including the pathological changes in the brain and liver, in 1912.

The book covers several periods from the life of Lazarus Long ( birth name: Woodrow Wilson Smith ), the oldest living human, now more than two thousand years old.

There is also an implication ( given the pun on Rivers's name along with other factors ) that Rivers was more to Sassoon than just a friend, he called him " father confessor ", a point that Jean Moorcroft Wilson picks up on in her biography of Sassoon, however Rivers's tight morals would have probably prevented such a relationship from progressing:

* List of people with given name Wilson

Although the record was issued under the group's name, Pet Sounds is arguably seen as a Brian Wilson solo album — Wilson even toyed with the idea by releasing " Caroline, No " as a solo single in March 1966 — reaching no.

Directly afterward, SMiLE was abandoned, and Wilson would not return to complete it until 2004, when it was released as a Brian Wilson album of the same name.