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unusual facts about Ellison


George Ellison

George Edwin Ellison (1878–1918), the last British soldier to be killed in the First World War


A Boy and His Dog

Ellison later expanded the story cycle in the graphic novel collection Vic and Blood, illustrated by Richard Corben.

Baby Take a Bow

After serving time in Sing Sing, Eddie Ellison marries his fiancée Kay, and eventually the two have a daughter they name Shirley.

Brighter Than Sunlight

Brighter Than Sunlight is the fourth full-length album from the band, Ellison, released for digital download in 2012.

Chris Townson

Notwithstanding the Beatlemania that was sweeping the country at the time, Townson and Ellison were more interested in the rhythm and blues sound of The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds and The Who.

Daniel Ellison

Ellison was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1945), but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress.

Deep Shag Records

They are best known for the On The Road With Ellison series of releases by Harlan Ellison and for re-issuing rare 1980's modern rock, New Wave, comedy, and spoken word albums which were previously unavailable on CD.

Dreams with Sharp Teeth

It is composed of original and archive footage of Ellison and talking head segments from colleagues and fans including Robin Williams, Peter David and Neil Gaiman.

Edward Bryant

This led to collaborative efforts like the novel Phoenix Without Ashes, based on Ellison's pilot script for The Starlost.

Gabrielle Lord

It was an instant success and, with the money from the film rights, she was able to leave paid employment in 1983 and return to full-time writing.Ellison, Jennifer (1986) Rooms of their own, Ringwood, Penguin, p. 202Lord's other interests include animal welfare, and a type of spirituality that is manifested in appreciation of the music of the Taizé Community, a spiritual community in France.Gabrielle Lord likes cats She lives in a Sydney beach-side suburb.

Heart of the World

The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, a collection of short stories by Harlan Ellison

Hebburn Hall

Hebburn Hall also known as Ellison Hall is a 17th-century country mansion, which has been converted into residential apartments and houses, situated at Hebburn, South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear.

Holiday Inn Records

Phillips recorded songs by recording artists including Charlie Feathers, Dolly Holiday, Diane Hull, Lee Adkins, Greg Todd and The Jacks, Jerry Dyke, The Climates, Ironing Board Sam, Portrait of Fun, Robert and Randy, Larry Brinkley, Larry and The Accommodations, Gary Ellison, Charlie Freeman, Charlie's Children, Load of Mischief, and Bill Haley and his Comets.

Hour 25

Ellison opened each program by reading vignettes of his own composition while music from the opening credits of Dark of the Sun played in the background.

In Town Tonight

A series of outside broadcast spots were included in the 1940s: "Standing on the Corner" with Michael Standing, then "Man on the Street" with Stewart Macpherson and Harold Warrender, and "On the Job" with John Ellison, later Brian Johnston; Johnston continued in the segment "Let's Go Somewhere" from 1948 to 1952.

Infinity Science Fiction

"Glowworm" by Harlan Ellison (February 1956; Ellison's first magazine publication after his sale to EC Comics)

John Ellison

In the mid-1960s, Ellison traveled to Rochester, New York, where he met the original members of the Soul Brothers Five, becoming the sixth member and prompting the band to change its name to the Soul Brothers Six.

Keith P. Ellison

Keith P. Ellison (born 1950 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

On January 26, 1999, Ellison was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas vacated by Norman W. Black.

Lorraine Ellison

Ellison composed many of her own songs (solo and with manager Sam Bell) and had her own compositions recorded by several other artists, including Jerry Butler, Garnet Mimms, Howard Tate and Dee Dee Warwick.

Maryanne Ellison Simmons

Maryanne Ellison Simmons (born July 16, 1949 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an artist, writer, and the wife of baseball player Ted Simmons.

Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance

After winning two Rose Bowls and a national championship at USC, Ellison was selected in the 1983 NFL Draft by the 49ers, with whom he won three Super Bowl championships.

Price Ellison

He was born in Dunham, Cheshire, the son of James Ellison and Ellen Fearnaught, and was educated in Manchester.

Ralph Ellison

In 1967, Ellison experienced a major house fire at his home in Plainfield, Massachusetts, in which he claimed more than 300 pages of his second novel manuscript were lost.

Richard Burgi

He's known for the roles of Det. Jim Ellison on The Sentinel and as Karl Mayer on Desperate Housewives.

Robert L. Lieff

Lieff founded the firm in 1972, after seven years as a name partner with Melvin Belli in San Francisco (Belli, Ashe, Ellison, Choulos & Lieff).

Royal Tourist

Ellison sent Royal Tourist to race in California where in November he set a new World Record of 1:44 1/5 for 11/16 miles on dirt in the Winters Handicap at Emeryville Race Track in Oakland, California.

Sarah Ellison

Sarah Ellison, War at the Wall Street Journal, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2010, ISBN 978-0-547-15243-1

Say Goodnight, Sleep Alone

Say Goodnight, Sleep Alone is the first full-length album from Ellison, released in 2006.

Shadow and Act

The writings encompass the two decades which began with Ellison's involvement with African American political activism and print media in Harlem, Ellison's emergence as a highly acclaimed writer with the publication of Invisible Man, and culminating with his 1964 challenge of Irving Howe's characterization of African American life, "Black Boys and Native Sons," with his now famous essay, "The World and the Jug."

Shahin Novrasli

Shahin performed with Kenny Wheeler, Uday Mazumdar, Ellison Miller, Nathan Peck, Alex Peck, Matt Zebroski, Jeff Lederer, John Wilcan, Alim Qasimov, Alexander Mashin and other famous musicians.

Sheldon Datz

He did early work inventing the molecular beam technique with Dr. Ellison Taylor which later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee and John Charles Polanyi.

Sir Thomas McClure, 1st Baronet

Married Dreghorn Castle, Colinton, Scotland 18 October 1877 Ellison Thorburn Macfie 1842-1906.

Terry Kiely

He has also appeared in Mike Bassett: England Manager playing the character Harpsey, a womaniser constantly on his mobile phone to the annoyance of his manager and Family Affairs where he briefly played the character PC Dan Ellison.

The Butterfly Clues

The Butterfly Clues is a young adult mystery novel written by Kate Ellison and published in February 2012 by Egmont USA.

The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord

U.S. Attorney Asa Hutchinson charged Ellison and most of his leadership with illegal weapon possession, Ellison faced the maximum 20 years prison sentence having been convicted on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act charges.

The military leader, who used the name Randall Rader during his stay at CSA, left the group in a rift with Ellison and joined the newly forming group The Order in Idaho.

He appeared several times at the Padanaram Settlement, in southern Indiana, but contrary to reports, members of the Padanaram Settlement did not concur with the radical calling of either Millar or Ellison who made two appearances there.

The Deadly Streets

The stories explore the violent themes Ellison experienced as part of the street gang The Barons when he was researching Web of the City.

The Edge of Forever

"The City on the Edge of Forever", a Star Trek episode written by Harlan Ellison

The Harlan Ellison Hornbook

Many of the essays are of an autobiographical nature as Ellison writes about particularly colorful moments from his past, including a love affair gone bad with a woman who he identifies only as "Valerie," an infamous diatribe about his hatred of Christmas entitled, "No Offense Intended, But Fuck Xmas!", a touching tribute to his departed dog Ahbhu and a chilling account of his journey to San Quentin State Prison to visit a man on death row.

The Whimper of Whipped Dogs

The first use of the title The Whimper of Whipped Dogs was a teleplay for a 1970 episode of the TV series The Young Lawyers, which was serialized in Ellison's Los Angeles Free Press television critique column at the time, The Glass Teat.

As Ellison was particularly proud of creating the title "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs," but the title was not used onscreen in the Young Lawyers episode, the author decided to use the title again for this short story over three years later.

Three Days Before the Shooting...

According to John F. Callahan, a professor who had become close friends with Ellison after writing an article about Invisible Man, Ellison was so discouraged by the thought of his own death that he never discussed his literary executorship.

Web of the City

After leaving the street gang, Ellison went to the Ranger Basic Training camp in Fort Benning, Georgia to begin his military service.


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