Franks enlisted in the United States Army in 1965 and attended Basic Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and received his Advanced Individual Training as a cryptologic analyst at Fort Devens, Massachusetts.

While a commercial failure at the time of its release, Ed Wood was well received by critics.

Travesties was a Broadway hit which won two Tony Awards ( Best Performance by an Actor for John Wood and Best Comedy ), as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award ( Best Play ), and Curry's performance as the famous dadaist Tristan Tzara received good reviews.

In 1939, with the help of his agent, Audrey Wood, he was awarded a $ 1, 000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in recognition of his play Battle of Angels which was produced in Boston in 1940, but poorly received.

The film received accolades for its story and for the performance of James Dean and the young stars who appeared, among them teenagers Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo and Dennis Hopper, along with Nick Adams and Corey Allen.

The film, which starred Elijah Wood, received lukewarm-to-positive reviews, with Roger Ebert calling it " a film that grows in reflection.

She received many honors for her outstanding scientific achievements, among them the Harry Oscar Wood Award ( 1960 ), the Emil Wiechert Medal ( 1964 ), the Gold Medal of the Danish Royal Society of Science and Letters ( 1965 ), the

The Chippendale family had long been the wood working trades and so he probably received his basic training from his father, though it is believed that he also was trained by Richard Wood in York, before he moved to London.

The Harp in Chandos Place has received several awards, including London Pub of the Year in 2008 by the Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood, and National Pub of the Year by CAMRA in 2011.

As a result, Wahlberg, Wood and Jordan Knight received associate producer credit on the final product.

When the brigade commander, Samuel B. M. Young, became ill, Wood received a field promotion to brigadier general of volunteers and assumed command of the 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, V Corps ( which included the Rough Riders ) and led the brigade to a famous victory at Kettle Hill and San Juan Heights.

This award has been given only five times, to Ronald Reagan in 1981, to Linda Blair in 1983, to Irwin Allen in 1985, to " Bruce the Rubber Shark " from Jaws in 1987 and to director Uwe Boll in 2009 who received this for his achievement as " Germany's answer to Ed Wood ".

Along with his siblings Sidney and Lawrence, Harrison received his initial education at home before attending a day school in St John's Wood.

In 1984, Wood received a standing ovation on Old Timers Day at Fenway Park in Boston, some 72 years after his memorable season.

With the help of his manager from Killingworth colliery, Nicholas Wood, he persuaded Edward Pease, on the day that the Act received Royal Assent, to allow him to resurvey the route and work it, at least partly, by steam.

After voicing his displeasure to Apple Developer Relations, Wood received a phone call from Steve Jobs, during which Jobs indicated that he saw Karelia as the handcar in the way of the steam train that owns the tracks ( a very similar experience to that of Cabel Sasser of Panic Software ).

During Part II, it was revealed that Yamato received the ability to use Wood Release techniques after being injected with Hashirama's DNA by Orochimaru.

Terry gave the premières of music by Vaughan Williams ( whose Mass in G minor received its liturgical performance at a Mass in the Cathedral ), Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells and Charles Wood ; in 1959 Benjamin Britten wrote his Missa brevis for the choristers ; and since 1960 works by Lennox Berkeley, William Mathias, Colin Mawby and Francis Grier have been added to the repertoire.

Most notable of these was Marine legend Daniel Daly, who was twice decorated with the Medal of Honor, and who received the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism as First Sergeant of the 73rd Company, Sixth Marine Regiment, during the Battle of Belleau Wood in June 1918.

Marine Gunner Henry L. Hulbert, also a recipient of the Navy Medal of Honor in the Philippines, received the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery while serving with the Fifth Marine Regiment during the Battle of Belleau Wood.

Spanish-American War Medal of Honor recipient John H. Quick also received the Distinguished Service Cross at Belleau Wood as Sergeant Major of the Sixth Marine Regiment.

Gordon Muriel Flowerdew ( 2 January 1885 – 31 March 1918 ) was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, received for his actions at the Battle of Moreuil Wood.

Following a group of middle-class African Americans from youth to adulthood, The Wood, the debut effort from director-screenwriter Rick Famuyiwa, co-starred Richard T. Jones and Taye Diggs and received a push from co-producers MTV Films that ensured turnout of a sizable youth audience.

However, after distribution of preferences from other minor parties, the NDP's Robert Wood received more than the 7. 7 % quota, and hence was duly elected.

The leading figures of the second generation of historical dance research include Shirley Wynne and her Baroque Dance Ensemble which was founded at Ohio State University in the early 1970s and Wendy Hilton ( 1931 – 2002 ), a student of Belinda Quirey who supplemented the work of Melusine Wood with her own research into original sources.

Bernard Wood noted that " Paranthropus " co-existed with the early Homo species in the area of the " Oldowan Industrial Complex " over roughly the same span of time.

Founding a Wiccan group known as the Bricket Wood coven, he introduced a string of High Priestesses into the religion, including Doreen Valiente, Lois Bourne, Patricia Crowther and Eleanor Bone, through which the Gardnerian community spread throughout Britain and subsequently into Australia and the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Other prominent architects of the early Georgian period include James Paine, Robert Taylor, and John Wood, the Elder.

Three notable figures from the early days of engineering were selected as judges: John Urpeth Rastrick, a locomotive engineer of Stourbridge, Nicholas Wood, a mining engineer from Killingworth with considerable locomotive design experience and John Kennedy, a Manchester cotton spinner and a major proponent of the railway.

The most accurate early plan of Stonehenge was that made by Bath architect John Wood in 1740.

Wood does not preserve well, however, and Craig Stanford, a primatologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California, has suggested that the discovery of spear use by chimpanzees probably means that early humans used wooden spears as well, perhaps, five million years ago.

The quarrying of stone in Quorn began at a very early age at Buddon Wood, on the edge of the parish.

A rare foray into early psychedelic rock, it is credited by Jonathan Bellman as the first Western pop song to integrate Indian raga sounds — released six months before the Beatles ' " Norwegian Wood ".

Originating within the Gardnerian tradition of the Craft, the first Book of Shadows was created by the pioneering Wiccan Gerald Gardner sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and which he utilised first in his Bricket Wood coven and then in other covens which he founded in following decades.

There had been deputations made to Parliament, asking for an early extension of the line either towards Tottenham and Edmonton or towards Wood Green and Palmers Green.

Robin Wood was an early champion of Heaven's Gate and its reassessment, calling it " one of the few authentically innovative Hollywood films.

Most of Petts Wood was built in the early 20th Century by the developer Basil Scruby together with Master builder, Noel Rees, as a high quality estate in a rural setting only a short train journey from the city, with the east side being built first: it is often quoted in sociological textboooks as a classic piece of 1920s town planning, as the first building in place was the station, and the rest of the town developed from there.

St John's Wood was developed from the early 19th century onwards.

From the start Thamesmead was cut off from Abbey Wood the nearest town, with shopping facilities by a railway line over which a 4 lane bridge was built to overcome in the early 70s.

* Hubert Bland, early socialist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, born in Wood Street, now Woodhill in 1855.

Wood Badge adult leadership training courses are held here with courses held during the summer and early autumn.

Victoria Wood launched her stand-up career in the early 1980s, which saw observational conversation mixed with comedy songs.

It was named for early residents Richard and Annie Wood.

The spelling of the Yupik word " Aleknagik " has been disputed, but since Yupik was an unwritten language, the name, which was described by the early 1930 resident family called Yako was said to ' Wrong Way Home ", because Nushagak River residents returning to their homes upriver would sometimes become lost in the fog and find themselves swept up the Wood River with the tide, inadvertently arriving at Aleknagik Lake.

What is now called Woodson was known for much of the area's early history as " Wood Hollow " in recognition of Ed Wood Sr. and his 1890 purchase of the first Black-owned plantation in Arkansas.

Society and the Kentucky Department of Highways that says: " An early settler, Alvin Wood, named this community in 1871.

Among early industries in Plymouth Township was the Hickorytown Forge operated by the Wood family, and a forerunner of the present Alan Wood Steel Company.