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Ida B. Wells-Barnett House

The Ida B. Wells - Barnett House was the residence of civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells, (1862-1931) and her husband Ferdinand Lee Barnett from 1919 to 1930.


Albany Street Barracks

In H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, there is a mention of it: "the sound of drumming and trumpeting came from the Albany Street Barracks".

Arndt Pekurinen

In 1930, an international petition on his behalf was sent to the Finnish defense minister Juho Niukkanen, which included the signatures of sixty British MPs and notables such as Albert Einstein, Henri Barbusse and H. G. Wells.

Arnould Galopin

Galopin also wrote a number of science fiction novels in the Jules Verne and H.G. Wells style, including the remarkable Doctor Omega (1906), La Révolution de Demain (Tomorrow’s Revolution) (1909) and Le Bacille (1928), an uncannily prophetic tale of a mad scientist who uses biological warfare for revenge.

Basic English

In the novel The Shape of Things to Come, published in 1933, H. G. Wells depicted Basic English as the lingua franca of a new elite which after a prolonged struggle succeeds in uniting the world and establishing a totalitarian world government.

Briant H. Wells

Wells served in the Spanish American War, fighting at the Battle of San Juan Hill.

Brooke C. Wells

On March 3, 2003, SCO Group filed a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against IBM for allegedly devaluing its version of the Linux operating system and breaching its obligations under various UNIX licensing agreements.

Charles Albert Watts

He edited the regular journal for over 60 years until his death, writing editorial content himself and drawing on contributors from a wide range of disciplines, including Annie Besant, Walt Whitman, and H. G. Wells.

Church of St Cuthbert, Wells

Part of the feature film Hot Fuzz was filmed here, the Church Fete Scene where Adam Buxton's character is crushed by a falling part of the Church roof.

Daniel Dravot

In the comics adaptation H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds and Scarlet Traces Ian Edginton and D'Israeli, Dravot works for Dr. Davenport Spry, an official of the British government preparing for a counter-invasion of Mars following the events of The War of the Worlds.

Daniel Wells

Daniel H. Wells (1814–1891), apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah

Danièle Chatelain

H. G. Wells's Perennial Time Machine: Selected Essays from the Centenary Conference The Time Machine: Past, Present and Future, Imperial College, London, July 26–29, 1995, ed.

Dignity in Dying

Early supporters included Henry Havelock Ellis, Vera Brittain, Cicely Hamilton, Laurence Housman, H. G. Wells, Harold Laski, George Bernard Shaw, Eleanor Rathbone MP, G. M. Trevelyan, W. Arbuthnot Lane, and a variety of peers including Lord Woolton of Liverpool (Conservative) and Lord Moynihan who had been the President of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Edmund W. Wells

He was appointed to the newly created 4th district by President Benjamin Harrison and his nomination was supported by U.S. Senator William B. Allison of Iowa, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen J. Field, Arizona Territorial Governors Richard C. McCormick, Anson P. K. Safford, and Lewis Wolfley, Arizona Territorial Justices Charles G. W. French and William W. Porter, Arizona Territorial Secretary John J. Gosper, and Oakes Murphy.

Elizabeth Wallace

Her first nomination was shared with Agnes Nixon, Wisner Washam, Jack Wood, Mary K. Wells, Clarice Blackburn, Lorraine Broderick, Cynthia Benjamin, and John Saffron, while her first win was shared with the former minus Benjamin and Saffron, and including Victor Miller, Art Wallace, Susan Kirshenbaum, Elizabeth Page, and Carlina Della Pietra.

Food of the Gods II

Food of the Gods II, sometimes referred to as Gnaw: Food of the Gods II as well as Food of the Gods part 2, is a 1989 film that is a very loose sequel to the 1976 Bert I. Gordon film based on H.G. Wells' novel, The Food of the Gods.

G. P. Wells

Postgate had revised four previous editions following HG Wells' death in 1946, published in 1949, 1956, 1961 and 1969.

Good Faith Collaboration

Reagle explores the history of collaboration, touching on the methods of the Quakers, the World Brain envisaged by H. G. Wells and Paul Otlet's Universal Repository.

Great Army of the Ant-Men

Like many other characters in the series who are inspired by another fictional work, the Ant-Men are inspired by the monster enemies from the Locust Horde in the game Gears of War and also draw elements from the 1905 short story "Empire of the Ants" by H. G. Wells.

H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come

The colony leader, Senator Smedley (played by John Ireland), and science advisor Dr. John Caball (played by Barry Morse, formerly of Space: 1999), try to contact Nikki (Carol Lynley), the leader of Delta 3, but instead hear from Omus (Jack Palance), the "Robot Master," Caball's former apprentice, and the newly self-proclaimed Emperor of that world.

Herbert Wells

H. G. Wells (Herbert George Wells, 1866–1946), British author

I'd Rather Be Right

H. G. Wells wrote enthusiastically about the musical, and Cohan's performance as Roosevelt, in an article "The Fall in America 1937", published in Collier's on 28 January 1938 and reprinted in his World Brain (1938).

Ida B. Robinson

African-American Holiness Pentecostal Movement: An Annotated Bibliography By Sherry Sherrod DuPree Published by Taylor & Francis, 1996 ISBN 0-8240-1449-9, ISBN 978-0-8240-1449-0, 650 pages

Irish Dominion League

The Irish Statesman, a weekly journal promoting the views of the Irish Dominion League, ran from 27 June 1919 to June 1920, edited by Warre B. Wells and with contributions from W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and George William Russell.

James E.C. Perry

He was appointed by Governor Charlie Crist in March 2009 to replace retiring Justice Charles T. Wells and was Crist's fourth appointment to the supreme court.

Jesus Christ in comparative mythology

Christ myth theory proponent G. A. Wells still sees an analogy with the Resurrection of Jesus in the Pauline epistles and Osiris, in that Osiris dies and is mourned on the first day and that his resurrection is celebrated on the third day with the joyful cry "Osiris has been found".

John W. Wells

The Independent called Wells "the leading authority on modern and fossil corals, a noteworthy contributor on coral reefs and atolls".

Junius F. Wells

Wells was also the author of eleven biographies, including those of John C. Frémont, Thomas L. Kane, Charles C. Rich, James A. Garfield, and Orson Pratt.

Lemuel H. Wells

A week after his graduation from Berkeley, Wells married Elizabeth Folger, ward of Charles J. Folger, Secretary of the Treasury.

Lisa Daniely

The 1955 film Tiger by the Tail she played opposite Larry Parks ("The Jolson Story"), but she was more prolific on television,with her best remembered role perhaps being Diane Brady, the sister of Peter Brady, in the 1958 series version of H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man.

Lord Arthur Hervey

In the 1870s one of Hervey's daughters trained the Mute Swans in the five sided moat at the Bishops Palace to ring bells, by pulling strings, to beg for food.

Melissa F. Wells

Wells is the daughter of opera singer and film actress Miliza Korjus (1909–1980).

Michael O. Varhola

Varhola published and wrote introductions to editions of H.G. Wells' Little Wars (2004) and Floor Games (2006) and Robert Louis Stevenson's Stevenson at Play.

Old Higher Lighthouse

The doctor, pioneer of birth control and Portland Museum founder Marie Stopes owned the lighthouse from 1923 until her death in 1958 where over time some of her visitors included George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells and Thomas Hardy.

Puente Hills

In the 1953 film adaptation of H. G. Wells' science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds, the Puente Hills were the landing site of the first spacecraft in the Martian invasion.

Ring of Gyges

H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man has as its basis a retelling of the tale of the Ring of Gyges.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Judging from his works, major influences on his style were Robert Louis Stevenson, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and H. G. Wells.

Smash Our Stuff

The background song used in each of the videos is titled "The Fallen" by Franz Ferdinand.

Susan Goforth

Later in 2005, the two released H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds which she also starred in and produced on a low budget.

The Old Rectory, Croscombe

In 2014 it was announced by the Church Commissioners that the house would be purchased, for £900,000 as a residence for Peter Hancock the incoming Bishop of Bath and Wells as an alternative to living at the traditional Bishop's Palace in Wells, to provide him with more privacy.

Theodore B. Wells

During World War I, Wells served with the 307th Engineers, attached to the 82nd Division, serving 22 months, with 13 in France.

Torpedo ram

The heroic HMS Thunder Child in H. G. Wells's science-fiction classic The War of the Worlds was a torpedo ram, and she destroyed two Martian Tripods.

Twistor space

Ward, R.S. and Wells, Raymond O. Jr., Twistor Geometry and Field Theory, Cambridge University Press (1991).

Wells–Bennett–Grant family

He married seven wives: Eliza Rebecca Robison; Louisa Free, former wife of John D. Lee; Martha Givens Harris; Lydia Ann Alley; Susan Hannah Alley, sister of Lydia; Hannah Corrilla Free, sister of Louisa; and Emmeline Blanche Woodward

Wookey

From October to December 1880, H. G. Wells joined the school as a pupil-teacher aged 12, following a relative who was headteacher at that time.


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