Baker gave Leonard Wood credit for the initiation of the draft of soldiers ; ;

According to Fuller, the female lead in Bride of the Monster was written for her but Wood gave it to Loretta King instead.

Upon Powell's death, Wilfred Wood, then Bishop of Croydon, stated, " Enoch Powell gave a certificate of respectability to white racist views which otherwise decent people were ashamed to acknowledge ".

" The beginning of the song states: " Natalie Wood gave her heart to James Dean / High school rebel and a teenage queen / Standing together in an angry world / One boy fighting for one girl.

Alfred Beckley ( 1802 – 1888 ) said he gave Raleigh County its name in honor of Sir Walter Raleigh ( 1552 – 1618 ), the “ enterprising and far-seeing patron of the earliest attempts to colonize our old Mother State of Virginia ,” according to Raleigh County: West Virginia by Jim Wood.

His editors, Al Feldstein and Harvey Kurtzman, who also drew covers and stories, gave assignments to such prominent and highly accomplished freelance artists as Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, Jack Davis, Will Elder, George Evans, Frank Frazetta, Graham Ingels, Jack Kamen, Bernard Krigstein, Joe Orlando, John Severin, Al Williamson, Basil Wolverton, and Wally Wood.

When Bob Dylan broke a guitar string, Ronnie Wood took off his own guitar and gave it to Dylan.

A substantial number of the players performed at the 1930 Promenade Concerts under Sir Henry Wood, and the full BBC Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert on 22 October 1930, conducted by Boult at the Queen's Hall.

Beecham was temporarily absent from the concert hall and opera house between 1920 and 1923, but Coates gave the first performance of A Song of the High Hills in 1920, and Henry Wood and Hamilton Harty programmed Delius's music with the Queen's Hall and Hallé Orchestras.

Napoleon gave brief orders: Ney's corps would take the line between Postlienen and the Sortlack Wood, Lannes closing on his left, to form the centre, Mortier at Heinrichsdorf the left wing.

The tradition of the Last Night speech dates from 1941, when Sir Henry Wood gave the first such speech at the close of that Proms season, the first at the Royal Albert Hall, where he thanked colleagues and sponsors.

Wood gave another similar speech of thanks at the 1942 Last Night, and a pre-recorded version was aired to the audience at the 1943 Last Night.

The original MIRS System was renamed IDEN in 1994 by Roger Cameron Wood, a young engineering program manager leading the product development effort who also gave the handsets their distinctive industrial design, group software features, and " chirp " audio cue.

He gave the premiere of Delius's Idyll: Once I walked through a populous city at the Queen's Hall Promenade Concerts in October 1933 with Dora Labette, under Sir Henry Wood.

The development of the artificial nesting box in the 1930s gave an additional boost to Wood Duck production.

The church was built on the high ground overlooking the Viking settlement at Wood Quay and Sitric gave the " lands of Baldoyle, Raheny and Portrane for its maintenance.

Hutton gave the course as " onwards by Stirchley Street, crossing the Bromsgrove road at Selly Oak, leaving Harborne a mile to the west, by the observatory in Lady Wood Lane, crossing the Dudley Road at Sandpits, and along Worstone Lane, passing five furlongs north of the Navigation Bridge in Great Charles Street, Birmingham.

In the seventh inning, however, Lou Piniella opted to send Bob Howry to the mound, and most fans, eager to see Kerry back on the hill, mistakenly gave Howry a standing ovation, only to realize moments later it was actually not Wood.

The fans at Wrigley Field gave Wood a long standing ovation as his son, Justin, ran out to greet him as he exited the field.

Meanwhile, Wood gave up only two hits and no runs and the Red Sox prevailed, 1 – 0.

Cornell gave Wood a job constructing new lines and made Phoebe his telegraph operator, the first woman operator in the United States.

She garnered the greatest acclaim of her career for her role in the religious drama, The Rapture ( 1991 ), with critic Robin Wood applauding that she " gave one of the greatest performances in the history of the Hollywood cinema.

“ Where Wood gave Barnes a doll as a gift to represent their symbolic love child, the Baroness proposed an erotic marriage whose love-child would be their book .” From Paris, Barnes supported the Baroness in Berlin with money, clothing, and magazines.

Topps ' creative directors of Product Development, Woody Gelman and Len Brown, gave freelance assignments to leading comic book illustrators, such as Jack Davis, Wally Wood and Bob Powell.

Edward Wood MP, better known as the future Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax, rejected force and urged the British government to make an offer to the Irish " conceived on the most generous lines ".

Although his work was not initially taken seriously by British critics of the Sight and Sound circle, he was venerated by French critics associated with Cahiers du cinéma, who intellectualized his work in a way Hawks himself was moderately amused by, and he was also admired by more independent British writers such as Robin Wood.

* Robin Wood, Howard Hawks, British Film Institute, 1981, revised with addition of chapter " Retrospect ".

Wood notes that the governmental structure in both the Virginia Plan and the final constitution were not innovative, since they were copied from the British government, had been used in the states since 1776, and numerous authors had already argued for their adoption at the national level.

The recurring " Acorn Antiques " skit on the UK's Victoria Wood As Seen On TV ( 1985 – 87 ) was modeled on Crossroads and other British soap operas of the 1970s.

In 1916, under the British Board of Invention and Research, Canadian physicist Robert William Boyle took on the active sound detection project with A B Wood, producing a prototype for testing in mid 1917.

** Evelyn Wood, British field marshal and Victoria Cross recipient ( b. 1838 )

** Henry Wood, British conductor ( d. 1944 )

* May 19 – Victoria Wood, British actress

* February 9 – Evelyn Wood, British field marshal and Victoria Cross recipient ( d. 1919 )

The area was considered by the British to be drier than Loos, Givenchy and Plugstreet Wood further south.

The advance succeeded but German artillery fire and infantry counter-attacks isolated the British infantry of 18th Division, which had captured Glencorse Wood and about 7 p. m. German infantry behind a smokescreen recaptured all but the north-west corner of the Wood.

* Nickname of Henry Joseph Wood, British orchestral conductor

The British had a foothold in High Wood and would continue to fight over it as well as Delville Wood, neighbouring Longueval for many days.

The boundary between the British and French armies lay south-east of Delville Wood, beyond the villages of Guillemont and Ginchy.

And finally after two months of fighting, the British captured all of High Wood, though not without another costly struggle.

The German defenders were forced to abandon High Wood once British progress on the flanks threatened to encircle them.

* Grahame Wood as a friendly British Lieutenant at Martin's farm who interacts with both Benjamin Martin and Colonel Tavington.

The look of these characters was the responsibility of British animator Ivor Wood, who was working at Danot's studio at the time ( and who subsequently animated The Herbs, Paddington Bear and Postman Pat ).

His Prince Valiant pages were much admired by other artists, and he became a key influence on several generations of artists who were creating realistic comic strip and comic book illustrations, including Joe Kubert, Frank Frazetta, George Pratt, Mark Schultz, William Stout, Warren Tufts, the British illustrator Bill Ward, Al Williamson and Wally Wood.

It had been intended to build the line beyond Walthamstow Central to Wood Street ( Walthamstow ), where it would have surfaced to terminate next to the British Rail station.

The British World War II flier Douglas Bader was born in St. John's Wood.