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2 unusual facts about Ayers


Ayers, Illinois

Ayers, Carroll County, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Illinois

Ayers, Bond County, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Bond County, Illinois


2003 UCLA Bruins football team

Maurice Drew's 83-yard touchdown run tied for ninth longest run from scrimmage in UCLA history, tied with Derek Ayers (1993 vs. BYU) and Jackie Robinson (1939 vs. Oregon).

Aaron Ayers

Aaron Ayers (1836 – 16 September 1900) came to Christchurch from England as a newly married man in his mid 20s.

Eli Ayers

Eli Ayers (May 9, 1778 – April 25, 1822) was a physician and the first colonial agent of the American Colonization Society in what would later become Liberia.

John Billee

Following his arrest by United States Marshals Will Ayers, James Wilkerson, and Perry DuVall (or DuVal) for robbery and murder, he was taken to Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy

The recording was made for £400 in the living room of Kevin Ayers' Maida Vale home.

Michael R. Ayers

In 1987 Bryan Magee invited Michael Ayers to talk about Locke and Berkeley in the BBC's series The Great Philosophers.

Nathaniel Ayers

Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez met Ayers at Pershing Square in 2005, and discovered his background at Juilliard.

Nick Ayers

In November 2010, Ayers was widely touted as a potential replacement for Michael Steele as Chairman of the Republican National Committee.

RAMP

The group were a vehicle for the songwriting talents of Roy Ayers and Edwin Birdsong.

Randy Ayers

Ayers's youngest brother, Tim Ayers, served as Mayor and City Commissioner of Springfield, Ohio from 1984 to 1990.

Richard Bullock Andrews

He was member for Sturt 1862 to 1870 and was again attorney-general in the Dutton and Ayers ministries in 1863, 1865, 1867 and 1868.

Ron Ayers

Through a combination of rocket sled testing at Pendine Sands and extensive computational fluid dynamics testing Ayers was able to develop and refine a shape which would eventually go on to break the sound barrier.

Rowan Ayers

Rowan Ayers was the father of Kevin Ayers, a founder member of Soft Machine and a very keen Merlin Rocket sailor in the 1960s.

Sterility

Sterile Records, a record label formed in London in 1979 by Nigel Ayers and Caroline K of the post-industrial music group Nocturnal Emissions

Still Life with Guitar

Recorded on a Sony Walkman by Vatch during a cab ride in Palma, Majorca, Ayers sounds simultaneously detached, witty and poignant as he comments on the crowds around him.

Ayers produced the album, with his then manager Dave Vatch in England and was accompanied by an impressive cast of musicians, including Mike Oldfield, Ollie Halsall, Danny Thompson, BJ Cole, Mark E. Nevin and other members of Fairground Attraction.

Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes

It would be re-released as a single in 1976 when Ayers re-signed to Harvest Records.

Stuart Ayres

Ayers graduated in 1999 with a degree in Sports Business from the Australian College of Physical Education and worked as a Development Officer for the Australian Football League before joining the staff of the member for Lindsay, Jackie Kelly, in her capacity as the then Minister for Sport and Tourism and the Minister assisting the Prime Minister for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

Sweet Deceiver

It was little wonder therefore, that critics like the NME’s Nick Kent (a long-time supporter), dismayed by Ayers’ new image, wrote virulent attacks on the LP.

That's What You Get Babe

Ayers had retired to Deià, Spain directly after 1978's Rainbow Takeaway and That's What You Get Babe was his first public appearance in two years.

The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories

The album was critically acclaimed on release with the NMEs Nick Kent describing it as "Ayers' most formidable recorded work to date".


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