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97 unusual facts about Ronald "Slim" Williams


100% Pure Love

The music video directed by Marcus Nispel and choreographed by Michael K. Williams (who later went on to star as Omar Little on The Wire) was nominated for Best Dance Video on The 1994 MTV Video Music Awards

1943 VFL season

In the spiteful round 1 match between Essendon and South Melbourne, a vicious brawl broke out in the last quarter when South Melbourne's Jack "Basher" Williams felled Ted Leehane (apparently in a square-off retribution for Leehane's similar action against Williams in the 1942 Preliminary Final) which involved a dozen players, team officials, trainers, fans, and police.

26th Regiment Infantry U.S. Colored Troops

The first episode of the second season of Who Do You Think You Are? featured Vannessa Williams' search for her ancestor David Carll, and visited several of the battle sites where the 26th Regiment fought.

28th Street YMCA

The building was designed by noted African American architect Paul R. Williams in the Spanish Colonial Revival style.

Adriel N. Williams

Following V-E Day, Williams returned to the United States with the 436th Troop Carrier Group, where the unit was to be reequipped with C-46s for duty in the Pacific theater.

Alan Morley

He won 7 England caps and was selected for the 1974 Lions tour but didn't make the Test side, having to compete with J.J. Williams, Billy Steele and Andy Irvine.

Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

Even though the CFL moved their late-season home games to Sundays so as not to compete directly against Alabama or Auburn, the team's September and October gates were so abysmal that Williams lost anywhere from $4-10 million on the team.

Ashley C. Williams

She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City in 2005, where she received the Charles Jehlenger Award for excellence in acting.

Ashley Williams

Ashley C. Williams (born 1984), American actress, singer, dancer and producer

Ben H. Williams

He attended Tabor College, where he played on the football team, edited a campus magazine, and was president of the Phi Delta Literary Society.

Bryan Williams

Bryan C. Williams, member of the Ohio Board of Education, and former member of the Ohio House of Representatives

C. K. Williams

Williams is also an acclaimed translator, notably of Sophocles’ Women of Trachis and Euripides’ The Bacchae, as well as of the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski and the French poet Francis Ponge.

Calvin's Case

Robert A. Williams, Jr. argues that Edward Coke used this occasion to quietly provide a legal sanction for the London Virginia Company to dispense with affording Native Americans any rights as they settled in New England.

Carl Williams

Carl S. Williams (1872–1960), American football player, coach, and ophthalmologist, head football coach at the University of Pennsylvania from 1902 to 1907

Claude Williams

Claude C. Williams (1895–1979), Presbyterian minister and civil rights/labor activist

Colin H. Williams

He is an Honorary Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Aberdeen, and at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, University of the Highlands and Islands.

He began his PhD research on 'Language Decline and Nationalist Resurgence' comparing the Welsh and Québécois situation.

Craig Williams

Craig E. Williams, Vietnam War veteran and co-founder of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation

David M. Williams

Carbine Williams, a 1952 American film starring James Stewart as Williams

David Marshall Williams (1900–1975), American designer of the short-stroke piston used in the M1 Carbine

Dennis Williams

Dennis P. Williams (born 1953), Delaware state representative from the 1st district, and candidate for the Wilmington mayoralty

Don S. Williams

In the following year (1958), Williams accepted a one-year contract at the CKRM radio station in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Additionally, he was involved in projects that saw him directing other notable people from the entertainment industry when they were at the early stages of their careers, such as Cameron Bancroft, Chief Dan George, Michael J. Fox, and Bruce Greenwood (in both The Beachcombers and in 21 episodes of a 1979 live-to-tape comedy mini-series called "Dr. Bundolo".

He grew up in the small community of Stony Plain, Alberta - just west of Edmonton where he graduated from Memorial High School in 1955.

Donald E. Williams

During the mission the crew successfully deployed the Galileo spacecraft, starting its journey to explore Jupiter, operated the Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Instrument (SSBUV) to map atmospheric ozone, and performed numerous secondary experiments involving radiation measurements, polymer morphology, lightning research, microgravity effects on plants, and a student experiment on ice crystal growth in space.

Donald E. Williams, Jr.

Senator Williams was the News and Public Affairs Director for WINY radio in Putnam, Connecticut, from 1980 to 1983.

Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People

In the late 19th century, the pills were marketed in the UK by the American businessman John Morgan Richards.

Earle E. Williams

He was active in a variety of social and civic organizations including the Rotary Club, the West Side Pioneers (now the West Side Pioneer Association), San Joaquin Historical Society and the Native Sons of the Golden West.

Ellis E. Williams

In 1991, he made his first television appearance (since SNL in 1980), on an episode of Law & Order, as Ray Bell, then he appeared in numerous films: Hangin' with the Homeboys and Strictly Business, opposite Halle Berry, Anne-Marie Johnson, Tommy Davidson, and Samuel L. Jackson.

Emancipation Day

On January 4, 2005, Mayor Anthony A. Williams signed legislation making Emancipation Day an official public holiday in the District.

Eric Posner

He clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the D.C. Circuit.

Evan Williams

Evan O. Williams (c. 1889–1946), American football and basketball coach

Frank Filipetti

Filipetti also recorded and mixed albums for Carly Simon, Barbra Streisand, Vanessa Williams, George Michael, 10,000 Maniacs, Lauren Kinhan, and James Taylor, whose Hourglass Filipetti produced, engineered and mixed, winning Grammy Awards in 1998 for Best Engineered Album and Best Pop Album.

Frank J. Williams

Williams is also an accomplished amateur chef, having appeared as a guest on the cooking show, Ciao Italia, with Mary Ann Esposito.

Frederick B. Williams

From 1971-2005, Williams led as Vicar and Rector at the Church of the Intercession, an Episcopal church in Harlem, New York at the border of Washington Heights.

George Henry Gordon

Gordon commanded a brigade in XII Corps, Army of the Potomac, at the Battle of Antietam, becoming acting division commander when Brig. Gen. Alpheus S. Williams became acting corps commander.

Harold P. Williams

Williams was a member of the Congregational church, the freemasons, the American Law Institute, the Massachusetts Bar Association, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the Harvard Club of Boston, the Union Club of Boston, the Brae Burn Country Club, and the Grange.

Harold S. Williams

Harold and Jean Williams maintained close links with the National Library of Australia from then on.

In June Williams wrote that he had decided to present "his library of books, photographs and associated items as a gift" to the National Library of Australia.

Harrison A. Williams

The lead juror confessed that had he been presented with evidence such as that developed by Dr. Roger W. Shuy of Georgetown University's Center for Applied Linguistics, he would not have found Williams to be guilty.

Henrietta Leaver

Years later, discussion of Leaver’s controversial nude statue would return to prominence when Vanessa Williams lost her Miss America title, by comparing Leaver not being invited back to crown her successor as she had “posed for a nude statue” – despite wearing a bathing suit while posing, with her grandmother present and with no knowledge that the artwork would display her naked.

Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women

Those listed as contributors to the study included Frank A. Beach, Irving Bieber, Wainright Churchill, Albert Ellis, Paul Gebhard, Evelyn Hooker, Laud Humphreys, Judd Marmor, Wardell Pomeroy, Edward Sagarin, Robert Stoller, Clarence Tripp, and Colin J. Williams.

Howard Shelanski

After graduating from law school he clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Judge Louis H. Pollak of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, and Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court.

Income shares

The income shares model for child support was developed by economist Dr. Robert G. Williams and was based on the work of Thomas Espenshade.

J. R. Williams

A newspaper promotion of 1930 compared him to poets Eugene Field and James Whitcomb Riley.

Jack Williams

Jack W. Williams (born 1902, date of death unknown), Australian rules footballer

James E. Williams

In Vietnam, the petty officer was assigned to the River Patrol Force whose mission was to intercept Viet Cong arms shipments on the waterways of South Vietnam's Mekong Delta.

James H. Williams, Jr.

He is regarded as one of the world's leading experts in the mechanics, design, fabrication, and nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of nonmetallic fiber reinforced composite materials and structures.

Jesse M. Williams

Sears, Stephen W., To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign, New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992.

Jimmy Darmody

He has Chalky White (Michael K. Williams), the leader of the black community in Atlantic City, to get all the black workers in the city to go on strike.

John A. Williams

The Man Who Cried I Am, a fictionalized account of the life and death of Richard Wright, introduced the King Alfred Plan - a fictional CIA-led scheme supporting an international effort to eliminate people of African descent.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Other books include Coming to Our Senses (Hyperion, 2005), The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness, co-authored with J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale and Zindel V. Segal (Guilford, 2007), and The Mind's Own Physician: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the Healing Power of Meditation, co-authored with Richard Davidson (New Harbinger, 2012) (based on the 13th Mind and Life Institute Dialogue in 2005).

Jon Lind

Vanessa Williams - "Save the Best for Last" (song composed with long-time collaborators Wendy Waldman and Phil Galdston)

Joseph G. Williams

In 1950 after 12 years in the Army Joe came back home to Warsaw and married his high school sweetheart Dolly Johnson on March 3, 1950.

In 1999 his father George Williams died at the age of 99 in Kansas City, Missouri and on December 31, 2006 his mother Jenny Williams died at the age of 105 in Warsaw, Missouri.

In November 2007 Joe and his wife Dolly attended the funeral services for Porter Wagoner in Nashville, TN.

After 40 years in the country music business Joe retired to his family farm in Warsaw with his wife Dolly in 1990 where he is a hometown hero.

Once Joe moved to Nashville he started to work in the night clubs for tips and was writing songs for superstars such as Ernest Tubb, Kitty Wells and many others.

Well into his 80s Joe still did a few shows every year in his homestate of Missouri mostly at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia.

Josiah B. Williams

He married Mary Huggeford Hardy (1824–1911), and they had 12 children, among them geologist Henry Shaler Williams (1847–1918).

Justice Williams

Frank J. Williams, a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Keith P. Williams

A real estate broker and developer from Hubert, North Carolina, Williams is currently (2003-2004 session) serving in his first term in the state House.

Keith Williams

Keith P. Williams, American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Ken Williams

Kenneth P. Williams (1887–?), professor of mathematics at Indiana University

Kenneth P. Williams

Kenneth Powers Williams (August 25, 1887, Urbana, Ohio - September 25, 1958) was a professor of mathematics at Indiana University, where he was also a commander of the ROTC there.

Kim Wolfe

Mayor Kim Wolfe was defeated by then-City Councilman, and former WV Delegate and Huntington City Manager, Steve Williams on November 6, 2013.

Leonard Williams

Leonard E. H. Williams (1919–2007), former head of the Nationwide Building Society and Spitfire pilot

Lynn R. Williams

In 1973 Williams was elected District Director of USW District 6 (Ontario) at that time in Canada, where he became close friends with George Becker.

In 1956, Lynn joined the Steelworkers staff and worked in Regina, Saskatchewan, the Niagara Peninsula and Toronto.

Lynn Williams

Lynn R. Williams (born 1924), Canadian labor leader and President of United Steelworkers of America

Marilyn Slaby

In 2004, Rep. Bryan C. Williams resigned, forcing House Republicans to find a successor.

Mark Williams

J. Mark G. Williams, academic and author specialising in depression and suicide

Marz Lovejoy

In April 2011, Marz landed her first feature film role in director Sheldon Candis’ “L.U.V.” The film stars Common, Michael K. Williams, Meagan Good, and Danny Glover.

Michael F. Williams

He has received commissions from many of New Zealand's major musical institutions such as the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, NBR New Zealand Opera and Chamber Music New Zealand and his work is regularly broadcast on Radio New Zealand Concert.

Michael J. Williams

BGen Williams served in that capacity until July 16, 1993, when he assumed command of 2nd Force Service Support Group (2nd FSSG).

He was promoted to major on August 1, 1977 and in July 1978, he was selected to attend the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Quantico.

Patricia J. Williams

Williams is a member of the State Bar of California and the Bar of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Paul Williams

Paul O. Williams (1935–2009), American science-fiction author and poet

Ralph Williams

Ralph E. Williams (1917–2003), United States Navy officer and speechwriter for Dwight D. Eisenhower

Reform School Girls

They are immediately confronted with Charlie Chambliss (Wendy O. Williams) who is the de facto leader of the school and has an exceedingly close relationship with the head of the ward, Edna (Pat Ast).

Robert F. Williams

Williams helped gain gubernatorial pardons for two African-American boys convicted for molestation in the controversial Kissing Case of 1958.

Samuel Williams

Samuel L. Williams (1933–1994), president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners

Scott A. Williams

The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department played by Craig T. Nelson.

He co-wrote the story for the episode "Forget Me Not" with Kring and Steve Valentine and co-wrote the teleplay with Kring.

He became a co-producer and writer for the first season of The District later in 2000 following the cancellation of Cover Me.

The film follows a psychiatrist (played by Andy García) who is struggling to cope with his son's suicide and his attempts to rehabilitate a patient who reminds him of his son.

Seward H. Williams

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress.

South Carolina Law Review

Karen J. Williams, Former Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Spring Mountain Ranch State Park

Mountain Man Bill Williams, a member of the raiding party, brought his band of horses through Red Rock Canyon where he rested the horses from the hard trip across the desert.

Sudie L. Williams

She succeeded and was known as the person who saved the Dallas Symphony.

Thomas R. Williams

He became principal and vice-chancellor of Queen's on May 1, 2008, following the in-term resignation of Karen Hitchcock.

Trevor Williams

Trevor C. Williams (born 1965), Canadian basketball player and coach

Vanessa A. Williams

Heavy Gear: The Animated Series (5 episodes, 2001) as Sonja Briggs

Vanessa Williams

Vanessa A. Williams (born 1963), American actress, a star on Melrose Place and the 2000 television series version of Soul Food

Vanessa L. Williams (born 1963), American R&B/pop singer and actress, Miss America, actress on "666 Park Avenue", Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives

Vincent Lecavalier

Lecavalier was drafted first overall by Tampa Bay in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, during which new Lightning owner Art Williams proclaimed that Lecavalier would be "the Michael Jordan of hockey".

William R. Williams

He was elected as a Republican to the 82nd, 83rd, 84th and 85th United States Congresses, holding office from January 3, 1951, to January 3, 1959.


2009 Jarama Superleague Formula round

(Craig Dolby) to pass 3 cars to keep his slim title bid alive.

Accounting Research Bulletins

With the permission of the AICPA, the full text of Accounting Research Bulletins has been posted on the website of the J.D. Williams Library of the University of Mississippi.

Douglas B. Green

Green provides commentary with fellow Rider in the Sky Fred LaBour (stand-up bassist stage-named Too Slim) in the role of Ranger Doug's sidekick, the crusty old trail cook called Sidemeat.

Dulcinea

In cinema and on stage, she has been played by (among others) Sophia Loren, Joan Diener, Rosemary Leach, Hollis Resnik, and Vanessa Williams.

Dwight B. LaDu

He was Division Engineer of the Eastern Division of the State Canals under John A. Bensel, and in 1914 was appointed Special Deputy State Engineer, a post he retained under Frank M. Williams.

Ella May Saison

In addition to working with Humberto Gatica (producer of Celine Dion), she has worked with Gerry Brown (producer of Vanessa Williams) and artists such as The Eagles and IV Xample.

Franklin Rosemont

He edited and wrote an introduction for What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings of André Breton, and edited Rebel Worker, Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion, The Rise & Fall of the DIL Pickle: Jazz-Age Chicago's Wildest & Most Outrageously Creative Hobohemian Nightspot and Juice Is Stranger Than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim.

George B. Lyle

Roy LeCraw had fought a tough campaign against incumbent William Hartsfield and won on a slim margin but just a few months after taking office, he joined the army leaving mayor pro-tem Lyle until new elections could be held.

Henry Plummer

Jess Harper (Robert Fuller) and Pete Dixon (Warren Oates), and Pete's younger brother, soon come to Slim's aid.

Joseph Edward Lake

Joseph Edward Lake (born October 18, 1941) is an American career diplomat who, in 1990, became the first resident U.S. Ambassador to the Mongolian People's Republic (the first U.S. ambassador to Mongolia, Richard L. Williams, was not a resident there).

King Bee

"I'm a King Bee", a song composed by Slim Harpo, and covered by Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd

Lewis Martineé

He worked with many other artists, producing, writing and or remixing tracks for Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias, Celine Dion, Company B, Arika Kane, Jermaine Jackson, Sequal, the Cover Girls, Debbie Gibson, Vanessa Williams, Pet Shop Boys, Son by Four, and Elvis Crespo, among others.

Obesity in France

Mireille Guiliano wrote the book French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure which explains why French women eating in the traditional way are less inclined to be obese than their American counterparts and shares French women’s secrets to staying slim while eating well.

Office for Civil Rights

Former Assistant Secretaries were Cynthia G. Brown (1980), Clarence Thomas (1981–1982), Harry M. Singleton (1982–1985), LeGree S. Daniels (1987–1989), Michael L. Williams (1990–1993), Norma V. Cantu (1993–2001), Gerald A. Reynolds (2002–2003), Stephanie J. Monroe (2005–2008), and Russlynn Ali (2009-2012).

Philippe Clay

He was known for his tall and slim silhouette (he was 1.90 m tall) and for his interpretations of songs by Charles Aznavour, Claude Nougaro, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Boris Vian, Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Yanne, Léo Ferré, Jacques Datin, Jean-Claude Massoulier or Bernard Dimey.

Ruby Allmond

In the 1940s Ruby was playing in these shows with two very renowned fiddle players, Georgia “Slim” Rutland and Howard “Howdy” Forrester.

Slim Dusty

The funeral featured tributes from Slim's children as well as words from other national music stars (Peter Garrett and John Williamson) and music from Graeme Connors, Kasey Chambers, and Troy Cassar-Daley.

Sunnyland Slim

In turn, members of Canned Heat - lead guitarist Henry Vestine, slide guitarist Alan Wilson and bassist Larry Taylor - guested on Sunnyland Slim's Liberty Records album Slim's Got His Thing Goin' On (1968), which also featured Mick Taylor.

The Case of the Raging Rottweiler

During their stay, an old buddy of Slim drives by for a visit, bringing a Rottweiler named Bruiser.

Winnipeg's Most

This record, titled Goodfellaz, featured artists Krizz Kaliko, The Rupness Monster, Ed E Buk, Zeek Illa, Bubblz, Big Slim, and Inez.