The city was continually harassed with cavalry raids conducted by Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, while Johnson undertook as best he could the defense of the city.

Comedy-drama was featured with films like Forrest Gump ( 1994 ), Jerry Maguire ( 1996 ) and As Good as It Gets ( 1997 ).

In 1879, amid talks surrounding the closure of the university due to its dire financial situation, a wealthy New York publisher with Nova Scotia roots, George Munro, who was also the brother-in-law of Dalhousie's Board of Governors member John Forrest, began to donate to the university.

John Forrest was the longest serving president of Dalhousie, holding the office from 1885 to 1911.

Forrest J. Ackerman ( born Forrest James Ackerman ; November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008 ) was an American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia and a science fiction fan.

Ackerman was born Forrest James Ackerman ( though he would refer to himself from the early 1930s on as " Forrest J Ackerman " with no period after the middle initial ) on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, to Carroll Cridland ( née Wyman ; 1883 – 1977 ) and William Schilling Ackerman ( 1892 – 1951 ).

Forrest was susceptible to infection in his later life and, after one final trip to the hospital, informed his best friend and caregiver Joe Moe that he didn't want to go on.

After Macready " retired " to America, he continued to perform in the role ; in 1849, he was involved in a rivalry with American actor Edwin Forrest, whose partisans hissed Macready at Astor Place, leading to what is commonly called the Astor Place Riot.

John Forrest was the only premier of Western Australia as a self-governing colony.

Bradbury was invited by Forrest J. Ackerman to attend the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, which at the time met at Clifton's Cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles.

The origins of this was parodied in a famous scene from the movie Forrest Gump when Forrest is on his multiple jogs across America, and wipes his face on a T shirt given him by a struggling salesman, and on the shirt, as if transferred there by Forrest's face, is the image of the happy face, whereupon the man gets his idea.

And the Packers offensive line was also big reason for the team's success, led by All-Pro guards Jerry Kramer and Thurston, along with Forrest Gregg.

The offensive line, anchored by all-pro tackle Rayfield Wright, Pro Bowlers John Niland and Ralph Neely, and future hall of famer Forrest Gregg, was also a primary reason for their success on offense ( Neely had broken his leg in November in a dirt-bike accident, and was replaced first by Gregg and then by Tony Liscio, who came out of retirement.

John Forrest was the first Premier of Western Australia.

The wombat population in the Epping Forrest National Park has been increasing since a predator-proof fence was erected in the park.

* 1987: Con Onor Muore was played during a scene in the erotic thriller Fatal Attraction, in which Dan Gallagher ( Michael Douglas ) tells Alex Forrest ( Glenn Close ) the childhood memory of his father taking him to see the opera.

*, was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer commissioned in 1959 and sunk as a target in 1998

In 2008, Australian historian Peter Forrest claimed that the widespread belief that Paterson had penned the ballad as a socialist anthem, inspired by the Great Shearers ' Strike, was false and a " misappropriation " by political groups.

Nick Matzke, the NCSE's Public Information Project Director at the time, served as liaison to the legal team, and was responsible for uncovering the substitution of " intelligent design " for " creationism " within drafts of Of Pandas and People, which became a devastating part of the testimony of Barbara Forrest ( also an NCSE Director ), and was cited extensively in Judge John E. Jones III's decision.

Nathan Bedford Forrest ( July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877 ) was a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.

The then premier, Sir John Forrest, laid the foundation stone for the markets on Saturday 6 November 1897.

The foundation stone was laid by Mrs A. Forrest on 8 May 1895, and the Theatre Royal opened on 19 April 1897.

After the foundation stone was laid in 1896 by Sir John Forrest, the Mint opened on 20 June 1899 as a branch of the Royal Mint in London to refine gold and manufacture gold sovereigns and half sovereigns to be used as currency in the colony.

* 1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.

In January 1932, the New York City circle, which by then included future comic book editors Julius Schwartz and Mort Weisinger, brought out the first issue of their own publication, The Time Traveller, with Forrest J Ackerman of the embryonic Los Angeles group as a contributing editor.

Forrest returned to Tennessee after the war broke out, enlisted in the Confederate States Army ( CSA ) and trained at Fort Wright in Randolph, Tennessee.

Forrest grabbed an unsuspecting Union soldier, hauled him onto his horse to use as a shield, dumped the man once he had broken clear and was out of range, then galloped back to his incredulous troopers.

' Subsequently Forrest made a report in which he left out the part which shocks humanity to read.

He thanked Forrest for the offer and said that had war broken out he would have considered it an honor to have served side-by-side with him.

Forrest J Ackerman wrote in Astounding that Triffids " is extraordinarily well carried out, with the exception of a somewhat anticlimactic if perhaps inevitable conclusion.

* Steven Seagal as Forrest Taft, a specialist who puts out oil fires who ran a afoul with Ageis Oil

Forrest County was carved out of the western portion of Perry County in 1908.

It turns out that Dr. Forrest had been tricked into divulging a secret cheese mold by Nazis posing as a humanitarian organization.

Quoting Forrest ," At this point ( near the village of Sultanpet, Figure 5 ) there was a large tope, or grove, which gave shelter to Tipu's rocketmen and had obviously to be cleaned out before the siege could be pressed closer to Seringapatam island.

Despite the violence of the time, Forrest A. Johnson, Sr., a well-respected white attorney in Natchez, began to speak out and write against the Klan.

A search expedition was sent out under John Forrest, but nothing was found, and it was decided that the story might refer to the bones of horses left for dead at Poison Rock during Robert Austin's expedition of 1854.

In 1843-1844 he made a prosperous tour in the United States, but his last visit to that country, in 1849, was marred by a riot at the Astor Place Theatre, New York, arising from the jealousy of the actor Edwin Forrest, and resulting in the death of twenty-three persons and the further injuring of one hundred, who were shot by the militia called out to quell the disturbance ; Judge Charles Patrick Daly later presided at the trial.

Forrest therefore set out at once for the south and west.

The last command that I ever received came from General Bedford Forrest in person at the battle of Selma which was to have all the dry grass removed from the breast-works ; that it would catch on fire whenever the fire became hot, and smoke us out.

Her supply mission was eventually carried out by ARA Forrest, which towed her to Darwin.

Bob Zaller had already left MITS and Forrest Mims was out of the Air Force and wanted to become a full-time writer.

The plane exploded before Forrest could bail out.

After buying out Chaffin's interest, Forrest took over the scripting in 1933 ; he wrote and drew the strip solo for the next three years.

According to the Medford Mail Tribune, the division's Highway Engineer, Forrest Cooper, said 28 highway bridges were out and many highways looked doubtful whether they would continue to be opened.

At one point, Tommy is said to have chased Forrest out of the building telling him to never return.

General Nathan Bedford Forrest III, the head of the Confederate military, advises that the fighting in Pittsburgh has achieved its strategic aim of destroying the city's industrial capacity and recommends pulling the Confederate troops out.