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Charles Willeford


Charles Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 – March 27, 1988) was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Willeford is best known for his series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. Willeford published steadily from the 1940s, but vaulted to wider attention with first Hoke Moseley book, "Miami Blues" (1984), which is considered one of its era's most influential works of crime fiction. Film adaptations have been made of three of Willeford's novels
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Grimhaven


"Grimhaven" is the manuscript for an unpublished book by hard-boiled crime writer Charles Willeford. Originally intended as Willeford's sequel to "Miami Blues", the novel was deemed too dark for publication, and his agent refused to send it on to the publisher. The novel "New Hope for the Dead" was later written and published as the second book in the Hoke Moseley series. A photocopy of the hand-typed manuscript is maintained in the Charles Willeford Archive at the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book in
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the careful accretion of detail adding up to an incontrovertible truth of insight." Woody Haut suggests that Willeford's second novel, "Pick-Up" (1955), "combines David Goodis's romanticism, Horace McCoy's portrayal of alienated outcasts and Charles Jackson's depiction of life as a 'lost weekend.'" "The Woman Chaser" (1960), he writes, features a "structural self-consciousness [that] prefigures subsequent post-modernist texts." Lee Horsley describes how Willeford—along with
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: "Cockfighter", "Miami Blues", and "The Woman Chaser". Charles Ray Willeford III was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 2, 1919. Following the death of his father from tuberculosis in 1922, Willeford and his mother moved to the Los Angeles area. After his mother's death in 1927, also from TB, he lived with his grandmother Mattie Lowey on Figueroa Street near Exposition Park until 1932. At the age of thirteen, in the midst of the Great Depression, he
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author's life: a $225,000 advance for the fourth Hoke Moseley book, "The Way We Die Now". Released in early 1988, it would be his last novel. Charles Willeford died of a heart attack in Miami, Florida, on March 27, 1988, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Steve Erickson suggests that Willeford's crime novels are the "genre's equivalent of Philip K. Dick's best science fiction novels. They don't really fit into the genre." Marshall Jon Fisher describes the
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not noir. I don't do neo-noir. I see "Pulp Fiction" as closer to modern-day crime fiction, a little closer to Charles Willeford." Writing in 2004, Jonathan Yardley of "The Washington Post" called him "one of our most skilled, interesting, accomplished and productive writers of what the literary establishment insists on pigeonholing as 'genre' fiction." Three of Willeford's books have been adapted for the screen: "Cockfighter" (1974; starring Warren Oates and directed by
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fiction in Miami today." Fellow writer James Lee Burke has acknowledged a "great debt" to Willeford: "If someone wanted advice about writing, about how to pull it off, make it work, punch it up...Charles could tell you how to do it." Daniel Woodrell is among the other crime novelists he is identified as influencing. Willeford's characteristic juxtaposition of humor and violence was apparently one of director Quentin Tarantino's inspirations. Discussing "Pulp Fiction", Tarantino has said that the film "is
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owning and controlling human life." According to Willeford's wife, Betsy, he had a credo that also served as a caution for aspiring writers: "Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor." "Nobody writes a better crime novel," Elmore Leonard said of Willeford. Sean McCann credits Willeford—along with Jim Thompson and David Goodis—as one of the writers responsible for bringing the "hard-boiled crime story to a new stage in its development during the 'paperback
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"true earmark" of Willeford's writing, particularly his early paperbacks, as "humor—a distinctively crotchety, sometimes, raunchy, often genre-satirizing humor." ""Quirky" is the word that always comes to mind," according to crime novelist Lawrence Block. "Willeford wrote quirky books about quirky characters, and seems to have done so with a magnificent disregard for what anyone else thought." In Erickson's description, "The camera's not really focused on the middle of the scene. It
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he had neither an undergraduate degree nor a high school diploma. He lived in New York City for a month at the end of 1949 before re-enlisting in the Air Force. Willeford was stationed at Hamilton Air Force Base in California through April 1952. He married Mary Jo Norton in July of that year, and lived for a while in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1953, Willeford's first novel, "High Priest of California", was published. Bound as a double volume with another writer's novel, it
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", the first of the Hoke Moseley novels and their twisted take on the hardboiled tradition for which Willeford would become best known. The "series was almost nipped in the bud," notes Lawrence Block. In Willeford's first, unpublished sequel, "he had his unlikely hero commit an unforgivable crime, and ended the book with Hoke contentedly anticipating a life of solitary confinement." As it turned out, the popularity of "Miami Blues" and its first two published sequels led to the largest financial windfall of the
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told." Willeford sometimes addressed more serious topics in explicit fashion: "The Black Mass of Brother Springer" (1958) is one of the first novels to depict the civil rights revolution that followed the Supreme Court's ruling in "Brown v. Board of Education". But even without such overt topicality, there was an ideological edge to his work. Cochran writes of the author's 1950s and 1960s novels, Willeford created a world in which the predatory cannibalism of American capitalism provides the model for all human relations, in
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Monte Hellman), for which Willeford wrote the screenplay; "Miami Blues" (1990; starring Alec Baldwin and directed by George Armitage, also featuring Fred Ward as Hoke Mosley); and "The Woman Chaser" (1999; starring Patrick Warburton and directed by Robinson Devor). Willeford adapted his first novel, "High Priest of California", into a play. A 1988 production in New York City at The Vortex Theatre apparently represents its first full staging. A subsequent production was staged in 2003. The bibliography
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leaving the military, but after 1962's "Cockfighter", he would not have another novel published for nine years. Upon receiving his M.A., Willeford taught humanities classes at the University of Miami through 1967, then moved to Miami-Dade Community College where he became an associate professor, teaching English and philosophy through 1985. In 1971, "The Burnt Orange Heresy", often identified as Willeford's best noir novel, and "The Hombre from Sonora" appeared (the latter under a pseudonym). Though he would
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's a little bit off. They're not plot driven or language driven, which makes them really different from most major crime novels. They're character driven and cunning in a very eccentric way." Lou Stathis argues that it is Willeford's "complete lack of sentimentality and melodrama that sets him apart from the pack of so-called 'tough-guy' writers... Willeford's prose is as flat-toned and evenly cadenced—as emotionally "neutral"—as the blank visages of his feigned-human socio/psychopaths...
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which the American success ethic mercilessly casts aside all who are unable or unwilling to compete, and in which the innate human appreciation of artistic beauty is cruelly distorted by the exigencies of mass culture. In Haut's words, Willeford "creates characters who search for autonomy but settle for survival... [He] never abandons his class perspective." Describing the Hoke Moseley novels, Horsley similarly writes that Willeford "uses both his transgressors and his investigator...as commentators on the injustices of class and on a system that seems preoccupied with
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sold 55,000 copies, about a third of its print run. In January 1954, he re-enlisted once again; he was stationed this time at Palm Beach Air Force Base, while living in West Palm Beach. In 1955, he was reassigned to Harmon Air Force Base in Newfoundland. Willeford finally left active duty in November 1956. By that time, two more novels of his had been published. After retiring from the Air Force in 1956, Willeford held jobs as a professional boxer, actor, horse trainer,
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The Burnt Orange Heresy


The Burnt Orange Heresy is an upcoming Italian-American drama thriller film directed by Giuseppe Capotondi and with a screenplay by Scott Smith. It is based on the book of same name by Charles Willeford. The film stars Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Mick Jagger, and Donald Sutherland. It was selected as the closing film at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. In February 2018, Elizabeth Debicki and Christopher Walken were cast in the film adaptation of Charles Willeford's book "The Burnt Orange Heresy", to play Berenice Hollis
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Audun Mortensen


Norway's largest newspaper, "Aftenposten". Flamme Forlag published Mortensen's novel "Samleren –" in English, "The Collector –" in October 2015. The book was later publicly announced to be a remake of the novel "The Burnt Orange Heresy" (1971) by American writer Charles Willeford. Willeford's novel was according to Mortensen, translated with Google Translate. Mortensen himself leaked the information about his method and intention, first during a lecture, then in an interview. Following a prolonged public debate about the
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sent to Europe as a tank commander. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and earned the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for outstanding bravery, the Purple Heart with one oak leaf cluster, and the Luxembourg War Cross. After V-E Day, he studied at Biarritz American University until he was shipped back to the United States. Willeford enlisted again in 1945 for a term of three years. As a member of the 24th Infantry Division, he was stationed in Kyūshū, Japan, from 1947 to 1949.
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and radio announcer. He studied painting in France for a time, returning to the United States to attend Palm Beach Junior College. After receiving an associate degree in 1960, he studied English literature at the University of Miami, attaining a bachelor's degree in 1962 and a master's in 1964. During this period he also worked as an associate editor with "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine" and began a long tenure as a book reviewer for the "Miami Herald". Willeford had been very productive as a novelist after
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revolution' of the 50s." Centered around criminal protagonists rather than private eyes and "focused on those features of the genre that seemed most grotesque or cruel or uncanny and, extending them to new extremes, [they] remade the hard-boiled story into a drama of psychopathology." According to bookseller Mitch Kaplan, an expert on the South Florida literary scene, ""Miami Blues" launched the modern era of Miami crime fiction. There's a direct line from [Willeford] through just about everyone writing crime
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, though he re-enlisted in March 1939, joining the U.S. Cavalry stationed at the Presidio of Monterey, California. In the Cavalry, he learned to ride and care for horses and spent several months learning the art of horseshoeing. He also served as a "horseholder" in a machine gun troop and earned a marksman qualification. In 1942, Willeford married Lara Bell Fridley before being stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, for infantry school. He was assigned to Company C, 11th Tank Battalion, 10th Armored Division and
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continue to write fiction, there would again be an extended hiatus—thirteen years—before another novel of his came out. He wrote the screenplay for the 1974 film adaptation of "Cockfighter", which he also acted in. In 1976, he and his second wife were divorced. The following year he appeared in a small role in the film "Thunder and Lightning", produced by Roger Corman. Willeford married his third wife, Betsy Poller, in 1981. Three years later came the publication of "Miami Blues
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serves as a damning indictment of the dominant culture." Willeford's wide-ranging interests were reflected in his work: "High Priest of California" references T. S. Eliot, James Joyce's "Ulysses", and composer Béla Bartók. "The Burnt Orange Heresy" cracks jokes about Samuel Beckett amidst contemplations of the sources of Dada and Surrealist painting. In Block's words, "it is at once a solid crime novel and a fierce send-up of modern art while constituting perhaps the longest shaggy dog story ever
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Noir fiction


written by Jonathan Latimer over the course of the 1930s, constitute one of the earliest literary series of hardboiled screwball comedy. The work of Charles Willeford has sometimes been referred to as hardboiled or, particularly, noir fiction. But it is perhaps more helpfully characterized as "neo-noir," as Willeford's crime writing rarely employs the conventions of hardboiled literature without critiquing them. Of latter-day hardboiled novelists who regularly feature detective protagonists, the most prominent to write in a noir mode is James Ellroy. In terms of
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The Hot Spot" (1990), from "Hell Hath No Fury", by Charles Williams; "Miami Blues" (1990), from the novel by Charles Willeford; and "Out of Sight" (1998), from the novel by Elmore Leonard. Several films by director-writer David Mamet involve noir elements: "House of Games" (1987), "Homicide" (1991), "The Spanish Prisoner" (1997), and "Heist" (2001). On television,
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Paraguay national rugby union team


- 13 Paraguay 19 AGO 1991 Chile 25 - 18 Paraguay 07 SEP 1991 Brasil 6 - 33 Paraguay 28 SEP 1991 Paraguay 10 - 37 Argentina 4th place Sudamericano 1993 5 Naciones 28 SEP 1993 Chile 24 - 25 Paraguay 02 OCT 1993 Paraguay 3 - 67 Uruguay 10 OCT 1993 Paraguay 49 - 21 Brasil 16 OCT 1993 Argentina 51 - 3 Paraguay 3rd place Sudamericano 1995 4 Naciones 22 SEP 1995 Paraguay 14 - 24 Chile 24 SEP 1995 Paraguay 9 - 103 Argentina 30 SEP 1995 Uruguay 48 - 12 Paraguay 4th place Sudamericano 1997 4
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September 1941 lunar eclipse


A partial lunar eclipse took place on Friday, September 5, 1941. It was a shallow partial lunar eclipse, with less than 10% of the Moon covered in Earth's shadow. Aug 31, 1941 = Sunday Sep 1, 1941 = Monday Sep 2, 1941 = Tuesday Sep 3, 1941 = Wednesday Sep 4, 1941 = Thursday Sep 5, 1941 = Friday Sep 6, 1941 = Saturday Sep 7, 1941 = Sunday Sep 8, 1941 = Monday Sep 9, 1941 = Tuesday Sep 10, 1941
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Thomas Willeford


Thomas Dean Willeford V (born October 29, 1964) is a steampunk writer, artist, and maker. He is particularly known for his work appearing on television, and for his book "Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos". He lives and works in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, doing business as Brute Force Studios. His steampunk subculture persona, aka "steamsona", is Lord Archibald "Feathers" Featherstone. Brought up in a Victorian house with a "mad scientist" grandfather who worked for DuPont, Willeford was
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Bedford Heights, Ohio


Bedford Heights is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is a suburb of Cleveland. The population was 10,751 at the 2010 census. Bedford Heights was founded on February 20, 1951. It was originally part of Bedford Township and the City of Bedford, Ohio. Robert E. Willeford and his wife, Georgina Willeford, worked diligently to help form the village of Bedford Heights. Robet E. Willeford went on to become the first mayor of Bedford Heights. Bedford Heights is located at . According to the 2010
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educated at University of Maryland, College Park, Shenandoah University, University of Delaware, and University of Oxford. In 1988 Willeford became interested in steampunk and began working on creating pieces combining his love of engineering and art. Willeford created the steampunk arm worn by Nathan Fillion in episode 3.4 of the television series Castle. His work has been displayed at the University of Oxford's Museum of the History of Science, at the Steampunk Bizarre Experiment, the Penn State Berks Freyberger Gallery, at Nemo's Steampunk Art & Invention Gallery and
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Pamela Willeford


Pamela Pitzer Willeford (born March 1950) was the United States Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein between 2003 and 2006. She is also notable as being the sole eyewitness of the 2006 hunting incident where then-United States Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot attorney Harry Whittington in the face and chest. Willeford grew up in Breckenridge, Texas and attended The Hockaday School in Dallas. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BA in English and Spanish. She became a public and private school teacher in Dallas, starting
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Dick Cheney hunting accident


the Sheriff's office released statements from Katherine Armstrong, Sarita Hixon, Pamela Pitzer Willeford, Oscar Medellin, Gerardo Medellin and Andrew Hubert. Cheney's statement and all six of the other hunting party members' statements specify that Cheney, Whittington and Willeford had first shot birds together in a covey. While Whittington was searching for a downed bird, Cheney, Willeford and a guide walked towards another covey about away. Whittington approached to within of the shooters, at which point a single bird flew up, around and behind Cheney in
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frightened citizens and is forced to kill them. Carl's dog follows him onto the train as Carl finds a Willeford logo underneath the torn skin on his arm, and realizes that Unit Two's story was true. Carl's dog offers to lead him to the Willeford building to get some answers from his creators. Later that night, Barbara hears loud noises from inside the Willeford building and goes to investigate, finding a trail of destruction and dead bodies leading deeper into the building. Realizing Carl has arrived, she rushes off
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Sutherland Springs church shooting


the upper left torso under his tactical gear. Kelley, who had dropped his rifle upon the initial fire with Willeford, fired back with a handgun before fleeing in his Ford Explorer. Willeford fired one more round as Kelley sped north on FM 539. He then noticed a pickup truck parked at the intersection of 4th St. and FM 539, driven by Johnnie Langendorff. Willeford approached and entered Langendorff's truck on the passenger side. They then pursued Kelley at high speed for about five to seven minutes. According to Langendorff,
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Vestre Cemetery (Copenhagen)


of burials. Hans Jørgen Holm, who was the resident architect for the Copenhagen Burial Services, in collaboration with landscape architect Edvard Glæsel (1858-1915) and city engineer Charles Ambt were responsible for the overall planning and landscaping of the new cemetery. First a burial place for the poor, Vestre Kirkegaard became the principal burial place of Copenhagen during the 1990s. The cemetery is noted for its scenery, offers a maze of dense groves, open lawns, winding paths, hedges, overgrown tombs, monuments, tree-lined
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his contemporaries Jim Thompson and Charles Williams—"structured entire narratives around the satiric presentation of the male point of view...subverting male stereotypes and creating a space within which the strong, independent woman could get and even sometimes keep the upper hand." David Cochran suggests that while his protagonists are not quite as psychotic as Thompson's, "they are in some ways even more disturbing because of their appearance of normality." Most, he points out, "have adjusted successfully to postwar American society, which given the[ir] psychotic nature...
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Charles Williams (U.S. author)


like fellow crime novelist Charles Willeford, wrote stories fueled by an "antipathy to state power, state crimes and the creation of social conditions leading to criminal activity. Relying on wit, humor and ingenious plotting, Williams's characters constantly attempt to outwit the system." Of Williams's twenty-two novels, sixteen were paperback originals-—eleven of them Gold Medals; he is described by Gorman as "the best of all the Gold Medal writers." Historian Woody Haut calls Williams the "foremost practitioner" of the style of suspense
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Black Lizard (publisher)


Black Lizard was an American book publisher. A division of the Creative Arts Book Company of Berkeley, California, Black Lizard specialized in reprinting forgotten crime fiction and noir fiction writers and novels originally released between the 1930s and the 1960s, many of which are now acknowledged as classics of their genres. Founded and edited by writer Barry Gifford in 1984, Black Lizard released over ninety books between 1984 and 1990, including reprints of classic novels by Charles Willeford, David Goodis, Peter Rabe, Harry Whittington, Dan J. Marlowe, Charles
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Paraguay national rugby union team


22 - 3 Paraguay 5th Place Sudamericano 1975 Asunción, Paraguay 21 SEP 1975 Paraguay 6 - 19 Brasil 23 SEP 1975 Paraguay 3 - 44 Chile 25 SEP 1975 Argentina 93 - 0 Paraguay 28 SEP 1975 Paraguay 18 - 38 Uruguay 5th Place Sudamericano 1977 Tucumán, Argentina 23 OCT 1977 Chile 22 - 3 Paraguay 24 OCT 1977 Uruguay 16 - 7 Paraguay 27 OCT 1977 Paraguay 25 - 13 Brasil 29 OCT 1977 Argentina 77 - 3 Paraguay 4th Place Sudamericano 1979 Santiago,Viña del Mar, Chile 04 OCT 1979 Chile 27 - 13
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- 12 Paraguay 19 SEP 1985 Paraguay 9 - 9 Uruguay 21 SEP 1985 Argentina 102 - 3 Paraguay 4th Place Sudamericano 1987 Santiago, Chile 27 SEP 1987 Chile 28 - 16 Paraguay 30 SEP 1987 Argentina 62 - 4 Paraguay 03 OCT 1987 Paraguay 12 - 20 Uruguay 4th place Sudamericano 1989 Montevideo, Uruguay 07 OCT 1989 Chile 12 - 9 Paraguay 08 OCT 1989 Uruguay 32 - 7 Paraguay 12 OCT 1989 Brasil 40 - 11 Paraguay 14 OCT 1989 Argentina 75 - 7 Paraguay 5th place Sudamericano 1991 5 Naciones 17 AGO 1991 Uruguay 29
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Mammoth Studios


") from 1966-1968 mention "Mammoth Studio", but not "Mammoth Pictures Studios". Mammoth Pictures Studios has appeared in books such as The Woman Chaser (1960) by Charles Willeford, and comic books, such as "Blueribbon Comics" (in the 1930s and 1940s) and Marvel's Tower of Shadows in 1970 and the 70’s TV series “Emergency!” Episode 3, ‘Botulism’. But it is never the same studio; the signs and sets are different. In the episodes of
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William James Müller


his work was in great demand; leading to the production of a considerable number of fakes. A biography by Nathaniel Neal Solly was published in 1875. Muller is buried in the Unitarian burial ground, Brunswick Cemetery, off Brunswick Square, Bristol. His grave is marked by a simple polished black stone slab inscribed "Sacred to the memory of William James Muller who died Sep 8th 1845 Aged 35 years". His age, as given in the inscription is contrary to the burial records which record it as 33. The current
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Cockfight


Alex Haley novel "" and the miniseries based on it. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Nobel-Prize winning 1967 novel One Hundred Years Of Solitude, cockfighting is outlawed in the town of Macondo after the patriarch of the Buendia family murders his cockfighting rival and is haunted by the man's ghost. Charles Willeford wrote a novel called "Cockfighter", in 1972, which gives a detailed account of the protagonist's life as a 'cocker'. A description of a bordertown cockfight fiesta can be found in "On the
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Charles McKenny


Charles McKenny (Sep. 15, 1860-Sep. 23, 1933) was president of Central State Normal School (now Central Michigan University), Milwaukee State Normal School and Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University). McKenny was born in Dimondale, Michigan. He received his bachelor's degree from Michigan State Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) and masters from both Olivet College and the University of Wisconsin. McKenny married Minnie E. Alderman (1869–1942) in 1890. She was a native of Vermontville, Michigan. They
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Sir Charles Malet, 1st Baronet


. He continued to take an interest in India and influenced Thomas Daniell to publish Wales's paintings of the caves at Ellora apart from writing about them. He was created a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Arts. He had eight children by Susanna several of whom served in India.: Alexander Malet, 2nd Bt (23 Jul 1800 - 28 Nov 1886), Lt Col Charles St Lo Malet (10 Jan 1802 - 20 Sep 1889), William Wyndham Malet (29 Sep 1803 - 12 Jun
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Ascension Parish Burial Ground


Cambridge. The burial ground is a designated City Wildlife Site and is part of the Storey's Way Conservation area. In 2005 the plant species present were catalogued and the site is now managed so as to encourage wildlife and habitat diversity, as well as to care for the graves themselves. The Friends of the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground aim to protect and enhance the burial ground for the public benefit as a place of remembrance, spirituality, history and nature. Five members of the family of Charles Darwin are interred here
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Cockfight


the novel of the same name by Charles Willeford). The 1990 film "No Fear, No Die" centers around two men who are part of an illegal cockfighting ring. Cockfighting is depicted twice in the 2011 film "The Rum Diary". The Spike TV show "1000 Ways to Die" features a death involving a cockfight, where a man who bets on a rooster attaches razors to its claws to ensure its winning, but is slashed to death himself. In the "Seinfeld" episode "The Little Jerry
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One Way Passage


on the bar break with no one around. Mordaunt Hall wrote in "The New York Times", "In its uncouth, brusque and implausible fashion, 'One Way Passage' ... offers quite a satisfactory entertainment. ... Tay Garnett's direction is clever. He keeps the story on the move with its levity and dashes of far-fetched romance." In his autobiography "Looking for a Street," Charles Willeford describes seeing the movie as a thirteen-year-old: "One Way Passage" is still
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29th Street Rep


Bukowski's "South of No North (Tales of the Buried Life)" was a big hit, running over 100 performances. This was followed by ts revival of Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love" enjoyed a 19-week run of 122 total performances, ranking as the company's most successful production at the box office. In 2003, the Rep's production of Charles Willeford's "High Priest of California" was cited by "The New York Times" as one of the best Off-Broadway plays of the season
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Mitchell Smith


Due North" (1992), concerning a woman who returns to Seattle from the Alaskan wilderness to care for her dying mother; "Karma" (1994), a thriller featuring Hindu mobsters; "Sacrifice" (1997), a thriller in the vein of Floridian crime writers (Charles Willeford, John D. MacDonald and Carl Hiaasen); and "Reprisal" (1999), a tale of familial revenge and psychological horror which is celebrated in an essay by Michael Shea in "Horror: Another 100 Best Books"
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Film noir


with splatter status even more brazenly, the Coens' "Blood Simple" is both an exacting pastiche and a gross exaggeration of classic noir. Adapted by director Robinson Devor from a novel by Charles Willeford, "The Woman Chaser" (1999) sends up not just the noir mode but the entire Hollywood filmmaking process, with seemingly each shot staged as the visual equivalent of an acerbic Marlowe wisecrack. In other media, the television series "Sledge Hammer!" (1986–88) lampoons noir, along with such topics as capital
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Charles Willeford


boarded a freight train in Los Angeles, assumed a false identity, and—passing as a seventeen-year-old—traveled by rail along the Mexican border for a year. In March 1935, he signed up with the California National Guard; a few months later, he enlisted in the regular United States Army. He spent two years stationed in the Philippines serving as a fire truck driver, a gas truck driver, and briefly as a cook. At the end of 1938, he was discharged from the Army
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Vilmos Kondor


narrative that is arguably a masked first-person narrative, since the reader always sees what the protagonist(s) see. The narrator is also an historical figure who knows only the time frame of the novel and never steps out of it. Kondor thus views events through the eyes of his protagonists, and rarely comments on the political situation. He follows in the steps of Charles Willeford in the sense that his characters never "think", they only "act": there are no inner monologues. Kondor mixes fictional characters with
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A Firing Offense


The novel is concerned with substance abuse both by the main characters and facilitated by the drug distributors. The novel was positively compared to Charles Willeford and Daniel Woodrell by a reviewer. The reviewer commented that the plot was perfunctory and that the novel was more concerned with examining the lives of the salesmen. He praised the book for drawing such interest from a seemingly mundane profession. The reviewer commented on Pelecanos frequent use of music references. The series as a whole has been described as tightly plotted with "intricacies to rival Hammett or
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Lake Seppings


built along the western side of the lake. A car park for access to the path is located along Golf Links Road. Lake Seppings is approximately in length (from north to south) and the north end is approximately in width. The lake narrows toward the southern end and the path crosses the lake approximately before the southern tip. The lake is situated in the Lake Seppings nature reserve that has a total area of . Lake Seppings is regarded as an excellent place for bird watching, particularly for water-birds. Over
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Upton, Slough


. It was the marriage place (7 May 1788) and burial place (1822) of Sir William Herschel (in whose memory there stands a newly erected stained-glass window depicting Uranus, which he discovered, and other planets), and the burial place of Charles Hatchett who discovered niobium. Upton Court is the name of the original manorial buildings for the parish of Upton. Parts of Upton Court were built in 1325. In the 19th century, it was a seat of the Burton family and was, up until
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SEP-IRA


. The deadline for establishing the plan and making contributions is the filing deadline for the employer's tax return, including extensions. The strictest conditions employers may place on employee eligibility are as follows. The employee must be included if they: Employers may use less restrictive criteria. SEP-IRA funds are taxed at ordinary income tax rates when qualified withdrawals are taken after age (as for traditional IRAs). Contributions to a SEP plan are deductible, lowering a taxpayer's income tax liability in the contribution year. SEP-IRA
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Somatosensory evoked potential


and early cortical SEPs, using scalp electrodes placed in the parietal and frontal regions for upper limb SEPs and at the vertex for lower limb SEPs. Median nerve SEP begins with the delivery of an electrical stimulus to that nerve at the wrist. A 100–300 microsecond square wave electrical pulse is delivered at intensities strong enough to cause a 1–2 cm thumb twitch. Upon delivery of such a stimulus, nerve action volleys travel up sensory fibers and motor fibers to the shoulder, producing a peak as they enter. This peak is formally known
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Charles Willeford


He ran the Army radio station WLKH and was promoted to master sergeant. His first book of poetry, "Proletarian Laughter", was published in 1948. In May 1949, he and his wife, Lara, divorced. In July of the same year, he left the Army, leaving a mailing address of General Delivery, Dallas, Texas. He enrolled in the Universitarias de Belles Artes in Lima, Peru, studying art and art history in the graduate program. He was dismissed from the university when officials learned that
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The Woman Chaser


The Woman Chaser is a 1999 film directed by Robinson Devor and starring Patrick Warburton, Ron Morgan, Emily Newman, Paul Malevich, and Marilyn Rising. The screenplay is based on the novel of the same name by Charles Willeford. Set in 1950s Los Angeles, Richard Hudson (Warburton) is a shrewd car dealer who moves from San Francisco and sets up a used-car dealership. Tiring of this job, he turns the lot over to an assistant Bill (Ron Morgan) and starts writing his first film, "
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Cockfighter


Cockfighter (also known as Born to Kill) is a 1974 film by director Monte Hellman, starring Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton and featuring Laurie Bird and Ed Begley Jr. The screenplay is based on the novel of the same name by Charles Willeford. The plot begins "in medias res" with a mute Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates) locked inside a trailer preparing his best cock for an upcoming fight. He slices the chicken's beak slightly so that it looks cracked in order to obtain higher betting odds in the upcoming
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Jerome Lanier


Elizabeth Willeford in 1627. Jerome Lanier purchased several paintings acquired for the King (Charles I) by his nephew Nicholas Lanier, in order to save them-- Clement Lanier also bought several; John Evelyn, in his "Diary", noted seeing at "Old Jerome Laniere's, Greenwich, some pictures which surely had been the King's." Jerome Lanier died in 1659, mentioning in his will his "poor little estate," most of which had been lost in the Civil War. Evelyn, in his "Memoires
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Vilmos Kondor


wife, daughters and dog in a small village near Sopron. He leads a quiet life and, if he gives interviews at all, he does so only by email. Kondor worked for three years on his first published novel, "Budapest Noir". It was his fourth finished manuscript. Kondor finished the Budapest Noir series with the fifth novel, "Budapest novemberben" (Budapest in November), published in June 2012. As influences, Kondor has mentioned Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford and Dashiell Hammett, and he based
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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine


. A few writers, such as Henry Slesar, wrote for both. Other contributors during the magazine’s early years included Evan Hunter/Ed McBain, Ed Lacy, Bill Pronzini, Jim Thompson, Donald E. Westlake and Charles Willeford (who briefly worked for the magazine, as did Patricia Hitchcock. Alfred's daughter). In 1975 "AHMM" was acquired by Davis Publications, and since 1992 it has been published by Dell Magazines (which also produces its sister publication, "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine").
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Paraguay national rugby union team


place Sudamericano A 2010 Santiago de Chile, Chile 13 MAY 2010 Chile 42 - 6 Paraguay 16 MAY 2010 Paraguay 14 - 47 Uruguay 19 MAY 2010 Brazil 23 - 18 Paraguay 5th place Sudamericano A 2011 Misiones, Argentina 14 MAY 2011 Uruguay 102 - 6 Paraguay 17 MAY 2011 Chile 71 - 3 Paraguay 20 MAY 2011 Brasil 51 - 14 Paraguay 5th place Sudamericano B 2012 Valencia, Venezuela 09 SEP 2012 Paraguay 54 - 17 Colombia 12 SEP 2012 Paraguay 69 - 3 Peru 15 SEP 2012 Venezuela 8 - 73 Paraguay Champion Sudamericano B
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Eleanor of Castile


name, was built in 1865 to publicise the railway hotel at Charing station. The original Charing cross was at the top of Whitehall, on the south side of Trafalgar Square, but was destroyed in 1647 and later replaced by a statue of Charles I. In the thirteenth century, embalming involved evisceration and separate burial of heart and body was not unusual. Eleanor however was afforded the more unusual "triple" burial – separate burial of viscera, heart and body. Eleanor's viscera were buried in Lincoln Cathedral, where Edward placed
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Miami Blues


Miami Blues is a 1990 American neo-noir black comedy crime film based on the novel of the same name by Charles Willeford. This film stars Alec Baldwin, Fred Ward and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and was directed by George Armitage. Ward was also the executive producer. Frederick J. Frenger Jr. (who asks to be called "Junior"), a violent sociopath recently released from a California prison, starts a new life in Miami. Before leaving the airport, he steals luggage and kills a Hare Krishna after breaking his
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Oliver Cromwell


mutilated at Tyburn and the head seen on Westminster Hall were Cromwell's. These doubts arose because it was assumed that Cromwell's body was reburied in several places between his death in September 1658 and the exhumation of January 1661, in order to protect it from vengeful royalists. The stories suggest that his bodily remains are buried in London, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, or Yorkshire. The Cromwell vault was later used as a burial place for Charles II's illegitimate descendants. In Westminster Abbey, the site of Cromwell's burial was marked
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Norah Head Lightstation Precinct


. The place was used by the Darkinjung people as a camp site, burial place and all stages of the rites of passage from childhood to adulthood have occurred there since ancestral times. Sites include a burial, mythological site, middens, campsites, engravings and a scarred tree. The lighthouse is significant as the last major lighthouse constructed on the NSW coast within a period of lighthouse construction along the NSW coast from 1858 to 1904. The lightstation is significant for its association with the architect Charles Assinder Harding and the engineer Cecil W.
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Bienes Museum of the Modern Book


; Floridiana (including archives and papers of the Florida authors Charles Willeford, Michael Shaara, Connie May Fowler and Olivia Goldsmith); Florida Artists' Book Collection; J.D. MacDonald Collection; Siers Collection of Big Little Books; Deicke Collection of Books on Rare Tropical Fruits and Vegetables; Nyr Indictor Collection of ABC Books and Related Materials; and Vojtech Kubasta pop-up and other books. The Bienes Museum of the Modern Book features the following children's literature and artifacts in its collection: Nyr Indictor Collection of Alphabet and Related Materials
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Maltese Falcon Society


Hammett Tour in San Francisco, the longest running literary tour in the United States. The San Francisco chapter meetings heard presentations by mystery novelists Julie Smith, Charles Willeford, Stephen Greenleaf, and Joe Gores. Other speakers included Hammett biographers Diane Johnson and William F. Nolan, bounty hunter Tiny Boyles, people who knew Hammett including Jerome Weidman, and coroners, crime reporters, FBI agents, and bail bondsmen. The San Francisco chapter also staged special events, such as a "shootout" conducted at the 1981 Marin Designers Showcase in
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Pamela Willeford


around the early 1970s. During the 1980s, she was a trustee of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Austin; she worked prominently in the expansion of the school. On the Texas State Preservation Board, she has been Director of Development, and coordinated its Texas Capitol Rededication project. She began serving on the Board and the Executive Committee of the Texas Book Festival upon their creation in 1996, and as of 2003, had continued to without interruption. Willeford worked on developing education policy and promoting community service in Texas. She
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Pamela Willeford


" by the Junior League of Austin in 2002 and "Woman of Distinction" from the Girl Scouts Lone Star Council in 2003. She has also served as Advisory Committee Chairman for The Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries and is currently its chairperson. On July 30, 2003, President Bush nominated Willeford as U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein in anticipation of Mercer Reynolds III leaving that post. She was sworn in on October 27, 2003. She served until September 2006, when she was succeeded by Peter R. Coneway.
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Hard Boiled (comics)


corporation that created all the world's robots. Unit Two explains that she and the little girl, also a robot, have broken the programming that forces them to serve humans, and are part of a revolutionary group led by Barbara, a robot that works inside Willeford's headquarters, that intends to free all robots from their programmed slavery. She claims Carl is the revolution's only hope, being the only robot powerful enough to stand up to Willeford's paramilitary security forces. Carl, however, refuses to believe her,
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Hard Boiled (comics)


and knocks her head off in a fit of rage. The little girl robot appears and berates Carl for his behavior, until Carl's dog arrives and reveals itself to be a robot as well when it destroys her. At the Willeford building, it is revealed that both Barbara and Mr. Willeford, the morbidly obese founder of the company, have been tracking Carl's movements through the city. Meanwhile, Carl steals a new set of clothes and makes his way onto the subway, where he is attacked by a group of
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World Qualification Series (2009)


18 - Aug 23" 30th Anniversary of the Lacanau Pro and good conditions this year. Surf, concerts, events scheduled. Check out the video for a summary of the event http://vimeo.com/6994555 "Aug 25 - Aug 30" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 01 - Sep 06" "Sep 04 - Sep 06" "Sep 09 - Sep 12" "Sep 10 - Sep 13" "Sep 08 - Sep 13" "Sep 15 - Sep 20" "Sep 16 - Sep 22" "Sep
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Clan Buchanan


(21 Sep 1745), John Hay, quarter-master of Prince Charles’ Jacobite Army, arrived at Glasgow 25 Sep 1745 with a letter demanding a loan of £15,000. Buchanan and five others were chosen to negotiate with Hay, and succeeded in obtaining a reduction to £5,500. On account of Buchanan's zeal in raising new levies on behalf of the government, the Jacobites demanded in December 1745 a special levy of £500 from him. Despite threats of military execution, he replied "they might plunder his
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Charles-Augustin de Ferriol d'Argental


sixty-three years later, he was going through his mother's papers at the age of eighty-five. As was normal at the time for actors, Lecouvreur was denied a proper Christian burial when she died and her body was disposed of in unconsecrated ground. In 1786, fifty-six years after her death, d'Argental managed to located her burial place at what is new 115 rue de la Grenelle in Paris. He placed there a marble tablet with a poem to her that he had written. It is believed
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List of 1982–83 NBA season transactions


1982 Oct 2, 1982 Oct 1, 1982 Sep 30, 1982 Sep 29, 1982 Sep 28, 1982 Sep 27, 1982 Sep 24, 1982 Sep 22, 1982 Sep 20, 1982 Sep 19, 1982 Sep 18, 1982 Sep 17, 1982 Sep 15, 1982 Sep 14, 1982 Sep 13, 1982 Sep 10, 1982 Sep 9, 1982 Sep 7, 1982 Sep 2, 1982 Sep 1, 1982 Aug 31, 1982 Aug 27, 1982 Aug 26, 1982 Aug 16, 1982 Aug 8,
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Hard Boiled (comics)


to find him. When she finally reaches him, she sees that Carl has slaughtered most of the security forces, but has been all but destroyed in the process. When Barbara finds him, he is in the clutches of Willeford's mechanical aides and is slowly being pulled apart by his owner. Defeated, Carl makes a deal with Mr. Willeford to be put back together, have his memory reset, and be returned to his family. Her plans for revolution in shambles, Barbara commits suicide by hooking herself up to a
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Scalped (comics)


Karnow's incompetence, Karnow begins to crack down on Red Crow's criminal side activities. Wesley Willeford: An African American con man and card counter who used many aliases. He was taking down Red Crow's casino when he was spotted and thrown out. As he was leaving, he recognized Dashiell as an FBI agent—Dashiell once busted him—and blackmailed him into helping set up the casino for a robbery. The robbery went bad and Willeford died, along with the other members of the gang he put together for
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Scalped (comics)


the robbery. Before setting up the robbery, Willeford murdered an Indian stripper to conceal his identity. Falls Down is researching that murder, too. Willeford accidentally dies of an overdose after being stuck with a needle of poisoned drugs intended for Dash. Wade Rouleau: Dash's father, whom Gina kicked out during Dash's childhood but who returns when he hears of Gina's death. Wade is shown to have miraculously survived numerous deadly scrapes in Vietnam, and for that reason he was recruited by two of his war colleagues to
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Sutherland Springs church shooting


shooting. According to investigators, the shooting was captured on a camera set up at the back of the church to record regular services for uploading online. The footage shows Kelley methodically shooting the victims, pausing only to reload his rifle. Kelley was then confronted by and traded fire with Stephen Willeford, a local resident and former NRA firearms instructor who was armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. Willeford had taken cover behind a truck across the street from the church and shot Kelley twice, once in the leg and in
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Sutherland Springs church shooting


Willeford from shooting Kelley, and commented, "Instead of having 26 dead, he would've had hundreds more dead." After the shooting, Trump issued a presidential proclamation honoring the victims and ordered the United States flag at half-staff at the White House and all public and military sites until the sunset of November 9. Willeford was called a hero for what he did. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that the shooting "will be a long, suffering mourning for those in pain". Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
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Les Standiford


Les Standiford is a historian and author and has since 1985 been the Director of the Florida International University Creative Writing Program. Although his most recent works have been narrative non-fiction historical pieces in the style of David McCullough, his John Deal novels set him firmly in the Miami School of Crime Fiction whose progenitors are Charles Willeford and John D. MacDonald, and which include Elmore Leonard, Jeff Lindsay, Carl Hiaasen, James W. Hall, Paul Levine, Edna Buchanan, and Barbara Parker. Standiford's students have included successful novelists
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Sep Smith


Septimus Charles "Sep" Smith (15 March 1912 – 28 July 2006) was an English footballer who played as a creative wing half and originally as an inside forward. Born in Whitburn, County Durham, in 1912, he was the seventh son born in his family, hence the name Septimus. He is often considered the best all round player in Leicester City's history and is also the club's longest serving player of all-time having been a player at the club for 19 years and 246 days, as
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List of burial places of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States


most recent was that of John Paul Stevens on July 16, 2019. William Howard Taft, who was chief justice from 1921 to 1930 after serving as President of the United States from 1909 to 1913, is the only justice for whom a state funeral has been held. The sortable table below lists each deceased justice's place of burial, along with date of death, and the order of their membership on the Court. Five people served first as associate justices, and later as chief justices, separately: Charles Evans Hughes
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9th Infantry Division (Philippines)


22nd IB and 42nd IB were reassigned from 2ID to the 9th Brigade (Sep) to constitute as the initial organic Battalions of the Bde (Sep) while 31st IB and two (2) Batteries of 4FAB and two (2) Companies of LABde were also placed under OPCON of the Brigade (Sep). On January 12, 2004, the 9th Infantry Division (Provisional) was activated pursuant to GO Nr 56, HPA dated January 26, 2004. It was then under the Command of MAJ GENERAL JOHN D BOLHAYON
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Somatosensory evoked potential


. Conversely, source modeling suggests that the evoked field distribution at a given moment may result from activities of multiple distributed sources that overlap in time. This model fits better with the parallel activation and the feedback controls that characterize the processing of somatosensory inputs at the cortical level. When recording SEPs, one usually seeks to study peripheral, spinal, brainstem, and early cortical SEPs during the same run. Electrodes placed on the scalp pick up both SEPs generated in the cortex and thalamocortical fibers (which are picked up as near-
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Sep Smith


maker of all-time behind Graham Cross. Smith mentored former Leeds United and England manager Don Revie during his time at Leicester. Revie, who dedicated an entire chapter in his autobiography entitled "What I Owe to Sep Smith" claimed "I'm proud now to think of how much time Sep spent passing on his Soccer knowledge to me. He played a big part in my shaping my career." He also referred to Smith as "an extraordinary footballer," saying "he could place the ball within an inch
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Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1853–1856


by Charles Pasley (Colonial Engineer) in the Council on 16 October 1854 Rutledge resigned Mar. 1854; replaced by Claud Farie, by-election Apr. 1854, resigned Oct. 1885; replaced by James M. Knight, by-election, Dec. 1855 Splatt resigned Apr. 1854; replaced by William Taylor, by-election Sep. 1854 Stevens resigned Feb. 1854; replaced by Francis Beaver, by-election Mar. 1854 Alexander Thomson resigned Aug. 1955; replaced by Alexander Fyfe, by-election Sep. 1854 James Thomson resigned Feb. 1854; replaced by
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Postman's Park


the nearby Cluniac priory and hospital during the 16th-century Dissolution of the Monasteries. The parish was historically a significant place of worship, possibly best known as the site of the evangelical conversions of John Wesley and Charles Wesley. To the immediate south-west of the church building, St Botolph's Aldersgate owned an irregularly shaped churchyard enclosed by Aldersgate Street to the east, the Christ Church Greyfriars burial ground to the west, housing and the burial ground of St Leonard, Foster Lane, to the south and housing along Little
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St Paul's Church, Witherslack


. It resulted from a bequest made by John Barwick, dean of St Paul's Cathedral, who died in 1664, to provide a burial place in the village of his birth, rather than the dead having to be carried across the tidal estuary of the river Kent for burial at St Michael's Church in Beetham. There had previously been a church in the village dedicated to Saint Mary, but this was ruined in the Civil War. John Barwick's brother, Peter, who was physician to Charles II, successfully petitioned
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Charles I of England


common practice for the severed head of a traitor to be held up and exhibited to the crowd with the words "Behold the head of a traitor!" Although Charles's head was exhibited, the words were not used, possibly because the executioner did not want his voice recognised. On the day after the execution, the king's head was sewn back onto his body, which was then embalmed and placed in a lead coffin. The commission refused to allow Charles's burial at Westminster Abbey, so his body was conveyed
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Union Shield – 2011


Union Shield – 2011 () is a joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise, which took place from Sep 16 until Sep 22, 2011. Russian Defence Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov officially announced that the joint military exercise "Union Shield" is to take place in September 2011 after the meeting with his counterparts - Mykhailo Yezhel (the Ukrainian Defence Minister) and Yuri Zhadobin (the Defence Minister of the Republic of Belarus), which was held in Minsk, April, 2011. The concept for the exercise was being developed jointly by the
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Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1853–1856


1854 Haines resigned Dec. 1854; replaced by Horatio Wills, January 1855 Langlands was unseated; replaced by successful appealer Frederick James Sargood, Oct. 1853 Mitchell resigned November 1853, replaced by Charles MacMahon James Murphy resigned Sep. 1855; replaced by Thomas Rae by-election Nov. 1855 Nicholson resigned May 1854; replaced by George Horne, by-election Sep. 1854 Parker resigned August 1854; replaced by Alfred Ross 12 August 1854 Pohlman resigned as nominee October 1854, elected for Ripon and Hampden, Grenville and Polwarth, January 1855.   Pohlman replaced
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Unity Burial Ground


original stones face east. This is unusual, as it runs contrary to the common practice of placing stones so that they face the road. The latest known burial was for Charles E Booth Jr. on August 17, 1935. In February 1694, Thomas Lake purchased land on the east side of the natural grassy flood plains of the Pequonnock River near an area called "The Falls". By 1705 Route 110, White Plains Road, was laid out northerly past Lake's house to a natural rock outcropping called "Pulpit Rock
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Burials and memorials in Westminster Abbey


Anne's Church, Kew. The majority of interments at the Abbey are of cremated remains, but some burials still take place – Frances Challen, wife of the Rev Sebastian Charles, Canon of Westminster, was buried alongside her husband in the south choir aisle in 2014. Members of the Percy family have a family vault, "The Northumberland Vault", in St Nicholas's chapel, within the Abbey. The ashes of physicist Stephen Hawking were interred in the Abbey on 15 June 2018, near the grave of Sir Isaac
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