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unusual facts about Wilder


Gary Berntson

"Origins of baseline variance and the Law of Initial Values".


Abel Carter Wilder

Wilder was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-Eighth Congress (March 4, 1863-March 3, 1865).

Abigail MacBride Allen

Wilder's daughter Rose Wilder Lane, who had no children, befriended a young Roger Lea MacBride and later made him her heir.

Ackerl Hut

From St. Johann in Tirol along the Adlerweg trail, (here known as the Wilder Kaiser Trail (Steig)) in 3 hours.

Alex Hitz

Hitz then went from Broadway production to television movie production, developing screenplays for Everybody Was So Young by Amanda Vaill, The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, and Henry James’ The Aspern Papers.

Another You

Wilder has not acted in any theatrically released films since, although he has starred in two murder mysteries and appeared as the Mock Turtle in an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, all television films.

Ball of Fire

Although Ball of Fire was directed by the by now well-established Howard Hawks, Wilder had already decided that he needed to direct his screenplays to protect them from studio and other director's interference.

Bell's Hill Burial Ground

Wildflowers include common knapweed and lady's bedstraw, while brambles and roses climb the tombs in wilder areas.

Brokenstraw Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania

Artifacts from Buckaloons are housed at the Wilder Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.

Charlotte Wilder

Charlotte Wilder (1898–1980) was an American poet and the eldest sister of author Thornton Wilder, Isabel Wilder, Janet Wilder Dakin, and Amos Wilder.

Cliff Osmond

He played the songwriter Barney Millsap in Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid (1964), which used new comedic song lyrics by Ira Gershwin set to unused tunes composed by his brother George.

DNA Publications

Only the following survived: Weird Tales, having been bought in 2005 by Wildside Press; Mythic Delirium, which parted with DNA Publications around the same time; and Wilder Publications, assuming it is now part of Tir Na Nog Press.

Doric Wilson

Wilson moved to NYC in 1959 where he had a brief acting career playing such roles as Valère to the Mariane of Dawn Wells (later Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island) in Molière's Tartuffe and Older Patrick to Nancy Wilder's Auntie Mame in various stock productions.

Effie Wilder

South Carolina Governor Jim Hodges proclaimed August 28, 2001 as Effie Wilder Day.

Harvey Schmidt

Schmidt and Jones wrote a musical of Thornton Wilder's Our Town and it took them thirteen years to write, only to have the rights pulled by Wilder's nephew.

Jerry W. Cooper

In the case, James B. Passons was indicted for allegedly writing an appraisal that overestimated the value of Cooper's lumber mill, though neither Wilder, Baxter, nor Cooper were charged at that time.

John Oxenford

His 1835 one-act A Day Well Spent, after expansion, translation, and rewriting, formed the basis of Thornton Wilder's play The Matchmaker, which itself was the basis of the stage musical and movie Hello, Dolly!.

Ken Schwartz

In 2008 he directed two productions at Ross Creek: Our Town by Thortnon Wilder and Jerome: The Historical Spectacle, which he commissioned from Ami McKay, author of The Birth House.

Laura Ingalls Wilder House

Wilder, the author of the Little House on the Prairie series, began writing on her farm at the age of 65.

Lee Marvin vs. Derek Jeter

Jenna tells Liz that she wants to accompany her to her singles activities as her wingman since she is up for a role in National Lampoon's Van Wilder's Wingman, Incorporated, a reference to the National Lampoon's Van Wilder film series.

Lightning Point

Zoey (Lucy Fry) - Zoey is smarter, wilder, and more impulsive than most Earth people, so she doesn't exactly blend into the crowd.

Loonis McGlohon

In 1980, Frank Sinatra recorded two of his songs with Alec Wilder - "South To A Warmer Place" and "A Long Night" - on the album She Shot Me Down.

Loring Smith

He also appeared on the West End stage in London, starring opposite Mary Martin in the original London production of Hello, Dolly! (itself based on Wilder's The Matchmaker), which opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 2 December 1965.

Lost in Oz

The unreleased pilot for "Lost in Oz" featured the adventures of Alexandra Wilder (Melissa George), a young woman preparing for her upcoming wedding, which shes having second thoughts about, after a cyclone hurls her into the Land of Oz.

Mansfield, Missouri

Today, their unique 10-room farmhouse is a National Historic Landmark, and the home of the Laura Ingalls Wilder-Rose Wilder Lane Home and Museum, which attracts thousands of visitors to Mansfield each year.

Maurice Wilder-Neligan

Lieutenant Colonel Maurice Wilder-Neligan CMG, DSO & Bar, DCM (20 April 1886–10 January 1923), born Maurice Neligan, was a British-born Australian soldier.

Mauvaise Graine

Among those living there were actor Peter Lorre, composers Franz Waxman and Friedrich Hollaender, and screenwriters H.G. Lustig and Max Kolpé, who agreed to help Wilder develop a plot he had conceived in Berlin.

Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame

These requirements have not always been in place, as players such as Monte Irvin Roy Campanella and Youman Wilder did not meet the 15-year requirement.Wilder did make the All-Dacade Teams of the 80'and 90's

Minnesota State Highway 86

Minnesota State Highway 86 is a highway in southwest Minnesota, which runs from Iowa Highway 86 at the Iowa state line, near Spirit Lake, IA, and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with State Highway 60 near Windom and Wilder.

Music for the Masses

All songs are written by Martin Gore except "Route 66", which is a cover of the rock classic "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66" written by Robert W. Troup Jr in 1946, and "Moonlight Sonata", a Beethoven piano piece performed here by Alan Wilder.

Peter L. Corsell

Corsell has been featured in several books including Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman, Perfect Power by Robert Galvin and Kurt Yeager and Earth: The Sequel by Fred Krupp and The Clean Tech Revolution by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder.

Philip van Wilder

Like Peter van Wilder, who also worked in the Tudor court and was presumably related to him, Philip was probably born in Millam, near Wormhout, or in the nearby village of Wylder ("Wilder" in Dutch).

Philip Wilder

After leaving Chanticleer, Wilder took a position as Associate Director of the Capital Campaign for the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C. He was awarded a fellowship at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Vilar Institute for Arts Management, where he managed the first American tour of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra.

Randolph Evans

Torsney's attorney maintained this illness was the automatism of Penfield, named for neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield.

Shark Swarm

Lifelong fisherman Daniel Wilder (John Schneider) and wife Brooke (Daryl Hannah) owns property exactly where Lux wants to build high-priced condos, and isn't planning to sell.

Skate or Die!

Two characters were featured in Skate or Die!: Rodney Recloose, a wild man with a purple mohawk and a Marine Corps tattoo (and a facial resemblance to comedian Rodney Dangerfield) who runs a skateshop in the game, and his son Bionic Lester, an even wilder kid with a green flattop, who you were able to take on in the joust and the downhill jam.

Something Wilder

Smith continued in her role as D.A. Nora Gannon on One Life to Live sporadically during the run of this series (despite the fact that OLTL was on a competing network, ABC), and resumed it full-time when Something Wilder was canceled.

The Animal

While watching the television, they see Dr. Wilder win the Nobel Prize.

The Long Christmas Dinner

The Long Christmas Dinner for the opera by Paul Hindemith to the text by Thornton Wilder.

The Panderers

Wilder had been nominated as a songwriter for co-writing I Try with Macy Gray and others.

The Plane Makers

Wilder's nemesis in the boardroom was David Corbett (Alan Dobie), though he was supported by his long-suffering wife Pamela (Barbara Murray, with Ann Firbank standing in for a few episodes when Murray was unavailable), his Sales Director and confidant Don Henderson (Jack Watling) and ever-reliable secretary Miss Lingard (Norma Ronald).

Wilder's private life came more to the fore in The Power Game; he has a long-running affair with a civil servant, Susan Weldon (Rosemary Leach), but is aghast when his wife Pamela also plays the field, with engineering expert Frank Hagadan (George Sewell).

W. Lee Wilder

William Lee Wilder (August 22, 1904, Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary – February 14, 1982, Los Angeles, California) was an Austrian-born American screenwriter, film producer and director.

West from Home

The book consists of Wilder's letters to her husband Almanzo Wilder during her visit to their daughter Rose Wilder Lane in San Francisco in 1915, when she was 49 and Rose 29.

Wilder Street Historic District

Wilder Street Historic District is a historic district at 284-360 Wilder Street in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down

As with all of their wilder comedies, such as those mentioned above and later shows like Uncle Croc's Block and The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, Filmation stuffed the episodes with slapstick jokes, and the rubbery, gangly animated version of Lewis was well realised.

You're Never Too Young

This film is a remake of another Paramount film, The Major and the Minor (1942), directed by Billy Wilder — his first film as director—and co-written by Wilder and Charles Brackett.


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