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Basil Harwood

During this time, he met and married Mabel Ada Jennings (the daughter of George Jennings) (who had become a pupil of his in 1896) at All Souls St. Marylebone, London (27 December 1899).

Bobbie Nelson

In 1961, after suffering a breakdown for the death of Bud Fletcher and the custody of her children was given to Fletcher's parents, she moved to Fort Worth, Texas where she worked for the Hammond Organ Company.

Condemned To Be Shot

The cast consisted of Reginald Brooke, Zoe Davies, Olga Edwardes, Wilfred Fletcher, Neil Porter, Hilary Pritchard, Henry Belling and Ben Soutten.

Connie Fletcher

On May 2, 2008, Fletcher became a regular on the online web series Imaginary Bitches starring All My Children alum Eden Riegel.

County roads in Hennepin County, Minnesota

County Road 116 begins at Hamel Road (County 115) in Medina, then passes through Corcoran to Territorial Road in the unincorporated town of Fletcher, then follows Territorial Road to the Wright County line at the Crow River, where it becomes Wright County Road 22.

Cristina Rémond

Prior to being accepted to Harvard Divinity School, she studied at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula

The Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula (or DFP; named after William C. Davidon, Roger Fletcher, and Michael J. D. Powell) finds the solution to the secant equation that is closest to the current estimate and satisfies the curvature condition (see below).

Demorest

Ellen Louise Demorest (née Curtis) (1825-1898) — US fashion arbiter and milliner, wife of William Jennings Demorest

Fletcher, Missouri

The community was founded in 1896 and is named for Missouri governor Thomas Clement Fletcher (1827–1899), who served 1865-1869.

Fletcher's Laxative

In 1871, The Centaur Company was formed by Charles Henry Fletcher to purchase the rights to and manufacture Pitcher's Castoria.

Francis Fletcher

Born in Allerston, Yorkshire, England, he immigrated with his parents, William and Mary Fletcher and four brothers, to Nassagaweya Township, Ontario, Canada in 1825.

Gavin Jennings

Jennings won preselection for the safe Labor Legislative Council seat of Melbourne Province in advance of the 1999 state election, and was thus easily elected.

Great Boys Colliery

Fletcher and Schofield were granted permission to construct a mineral railway to join the London and North Western Railway's Tyldesley Loopline in 1868 but there is no evidence that it was built.

Greyson Fletcher

Fletcher was originally brought in to consult on the skateboarding and surfing scenes, but Milch asked him to work with Ed O'Neill to see if he could act.

Gruey

Gruey was a 1988 BBC TV children's comedy about the misadventures and escapades of Stephen 'Gruey' Grucock, a mischievous schoolboy in the Jennings and Just William mould.

Hacker T. Dog

Phil Fletcher's performance as Hacker was highly acclaimed and he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Children’s Presenter with Iain Stirling.

Hardy Memorial Tower

The Fletcher Symphonic Carillon was presented as a gift to SDSU by Senator and Mrs. Ed Fletcher in 1946 to commemorate the fiftieth (50th) anniversary of the university and to serve as a memorial to students lost in war.

High Breeze Farm

Local artist Robert A. Fletcher plans to release a book in October 2013 featuring stories related to him by farmer Luther Barrett, accompanied by Fletcher's illustrations.

Humphrey Jennings

Jennings only feature length film, the 70-minute Fires Were Started (1943), also known as I Was A Fireman, details the work of the Auxiliary Fire Service in London.

I've Always Been Crazy

"Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand" is Jennings' personal statement on the state of the outlaw movement, written after having been detained by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1977 for possession of cocaine and conspiracy to distribute.

In the Hands of the Prophets

Fletcher, best known for playing the role of Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), received the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in recognition of her work.

James C. Fletcher

During his second administration at NASA, Fletcher was largely involved in efforts to recover from the Space Shuttle Challenger accident.

Jimenez Arms

It produced firearms variously branded as Jennings Firearms at its Irvine, California facility, as well as under the brand name of Bryco Arms at its former Carson City, Nevada facility, and at its Costa Mesa, California facility.

Kenneth Jennings

In addition to his music publications and recordings, Kenneth Jennings is the teacher and mentor of many prominent choral conductors, most notably René Clausen, composer, and conductor of The Concordia Choir; Anton Armstrong, his successor as conductor of the St. Olaf Choir; Craig Arnold, conductor of Luther College's Nordic Choir (fmr.); Bradley Ellingboe, Director of Choral Studies at University of New Mexico; John Helgen, composer; and Craig Hella Johnson, conductor.

Kentucky Central Insurance Company

Fletcher attempted to use the issue to show that a conflict of interest prevented Beshear from saving the company and drew a comparison between Beshear and Enron executives at the time of that company's collapse.

Larry Atlas

He directed the second production in this play at NY Stage and Film with Jennings, David Strathairn, and Kyra Sedgwick.

Lie

In the film Liar Liar, the lawyer Fletcher Reede (Jim Carrey) cannot lie for 24 hours, due to a wish of his son that magically came true.

Mason Jennings

Jennings recorded his sixth album, Boneclouds, at Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, MN with producer Noah Georgeson.

Nat Temple

After World War II, he worked with Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly on Breakfast with Braden, along with the BBC announcer, Ronald Fletcher.

Paula Fletcher

As a councillor, Fletcher rallied Toronto City Council to oppose the Portlands Energy Centre, a 550 megawatt power plant in the Port Lands district beside the Hearn Generating Station.

Perth Cricket Club

In 1968 the club relocated to its current ground, Fletcher Park in Carlisle.

Pontiak

Pontiak is an American neo-psychedelic rock band of three brothers from the Blue Ridge Mountain area of Virginia: Jennings Carney (bass, organ, vocals—born 1978, Washington DC), Van Carney (lead vocals, guitar—born 1980, Washington DC) and Lain Carney (drums, vocals—born 1982, Washington DC).

Rafeeuddin Ahmed

Ahmed is married to Nighat Ahmed and is father to Zia Ahmed, also a Fletcher alumnus, and Kamaluddin Ahmed, a prominent lecturer at LUMS.

Ray Jennings

Late in 2008 Jennings took over as head coach of Royal Challengers Bangalore, a team in the Indian Premier League owned by the business tycoon Vijay Mallya.

Robert Daborne

(Cyrus Hoy, in his sweeping study of the canon of Fletcher and his collaborators, ruled Daborne out of any participation in the authorship of those works.)

Ross Fletcher

Beginning in 2012, Fletcher replaced Arlo White as the play-by-play voice of Seattle Sounders FC for local English radio and television broadcasts.

Samantha Crain

Crain has lent her voice to recordings for Murder By Death, Ali Harter, Matt Hopper, Penny Hill, Small Houses, Beau Jennings, Parker Millsap, and others.

Sargent Fletcher

The KC-130J was supposed to be equipped with Flight Refuelling Ltd's Mk32B-901E hose-and-drogue units, but operational problems meant that the aircraft went into production using equipment from Sargent Fletcher instead.

Steve Fletcher

Fletcher was released by Bournemouth, then managed by Kevin Bond, at the end of the 2006–07 season.

The Centaur Company

In 1871, The Centaur Company was formed by Charles Henry Fletcher at 80 Varick Street, New York City to purchase the rights to and manufacture the laxative Pitcher's Castoria, renamed Fletcher's Castoria after the founder.

The Floating Admiral

The twelve chapters of the story were each written by a different author, in the following sequence: Canon Victor Whitechurch, G. D. H. Cole and Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Agatha Christie, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane and Anthony Berkeley.

The Silent Village

Contemporary opinion places it among the products of Jennings' most fruitful period as a director alongside Listen to Britain, Fires Were Started and A Diary for Timothy.

The Waylors

After a show in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly chartered a plane for himself, Allsup and Jennings to avoid a long bus trip to Fargo, North Dakota.

Verse drama and dramatic verse

Greek tragedy and Racine's plays are written in verse, as is almost all of Shakespeare's drama, Ben Jonson, Fletcher and others like Goethe's Faust.

Waylon's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2

"Looking for Suzanne", "America" and "Waltz Me to Heaven" are all previously unreleased Jennings recordings; the first of these made a reappearance on Jennings' Sweet Mother Texas (1986).

What Goes Around Comes Around

Jennings would go on to have two more #1 albums after What Goes Around Comes Around – 1980's Music Man and 1986's Will the Wolf Survive – but the modest success of What Goes Around Comes Around was a sign which suggested that the outlaw movement was in fact on the wane.

Wild-goose chase

The Wild Goose Chase, a comedy stage play written by John Fletcher and first published in 1621

Willis Alan Ramsey

At the same time, he enjoyed a revival in the United States, due in part to numerous artists who cut versions of Ramsey's songs, including Widespread Panic ("Geraldine & The Honey Bee"), Jerry Jeff Walker ("Northeast Texas Women"), Waylon Jennings, Shawn Colvin ("Satin Sheets"), Jimmy Buffett ("The Ballad of Spider John," "Northeast Texas Women"), and Jimmie Dale Gilmore ("Goodbye to Old Missoula").

WOLX-FM

(Moore and Elliott were previously teamed with longtime WOLX station personality Fletcher Keyes Fletch, who left the station in August 2010.) National voices include midday personality Ken Merson (voicetracked from Baltimore, MD), afternoon drive host Willie B (voicetracked from Entercom's Memphis cluster), and nationally-syndicated host Tom Kent at night.


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