The owner, Cliff, was a walking encyclopedia of home repairs.
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Michael Richardson, the bartender, is a walking encyclopedia of the movie.
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Charlie Munger, like his business partner Warren Buffett, is a walking encyclopedia of investment history.
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To say that Davis is a walking encyclopedia on American politics, past and present, is no exaggeration.
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Rex Tillerson, President Donald Trump's first secretary of state, referred to Shannon as a "walking encyclopedia" of the place.
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"He's a walking encyclopedia and can speak with authority on any subject," said his boss, Glen Bolofsky, president of parkingticket.com.
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"He's watched every movie that's ever been made," says Ree, who herself is a walking encyclopedia of pop culture knowledge.
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No. 63 remembered Carter loved sports, so much so that his father called him "a walking encyclopedia" of sports trivia.
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T. is a walking encyclopedia of relationship psychology knowledge, so I always learn something when I spend time with her.
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Several hundred dollars poorer, I had no regrets of the money I had just invested in the beautiful walking encyclopedia of a man.
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In 2008 he sold a movie idea to Sony Pictures about a guy who is struck by lighting and becomes a walking encyclopedia.
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He's a walking encyclopedia of institutional knowledge: Having worked on every season of a show that has become a comedy icon, he knows it inside and out.
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"There are laws of physics that limit how strong these storms can get," Philip Klotzbach, an atmospheric scientist and walking encyclopedia of hurricane records at Colorado State University, says.
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In meetings with the President, Trump often uses Mulvaney as a walking encyclopedia, asking him to weigh in with facts and information in discussions with lawmakers and allies on policy.
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He couldn't play an instrument but became a walking encyclopedia on jazz, helping to promote the genre and influence the likes of Professor Orlando -- an artist referred to as "a Mozambican hero" by the likes of Chonguica.
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That's why it was so painful to watch this walking encyclopedia of a man go from knowing every fact about everything … to not knowing what a spoon or a fork was, or even what my name was, let alone his own.
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"The thing I will miss the most is, he is a walking encyclopedia," Tillerson said of Shannon, praising his "deep well of knowledge, experience and perspective" which he said he found invaluable during his first few months in office as he acclimated to the top job.
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When it first came out around 1966, with a retail price of about $33 (about $5,500 today), the John Player Special was considered to be "too playful and too fanciful," according to Eric Wind, a high-end dealer in the United States and a walking encyclopedia of arcane vintage watch trivia.
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In the heyday of quiz shows in the 1950s, when scholarly housewives and walking encyclopedia nerds battled on "The $64,000 Question" and "Tic-Tac-Dough," Mr. Van Doren was a rare specimen: a handsome, personable young intellectual with solid academic credentials, a faculty post at a prestigious university and an impressive family pedigree.
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The participants sit in a semicircle in a stadium lounge, gazing through a picture window at the field — the view itself is an aide-mémoire, Liddell said — while John Homer, the head of West Brom's supporters' club and a walking encyclopedia of the Black Country, as this part of England is known, interviews a player.
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Hildegard von Bingen, who is frequently used as an example of a walking encyclopedia. To have encyclopedic knowledge is to have "vast and complete"Encyclopedic on vocabulary.com knowledge about a large number of diverse subjects. A person having such knowledge is called a human encyclopedia or a walking encyclopedia.
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A thorough and studious man, he took his job seriously. He became like a walking encyclopedia about all things naval.
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Film News Anandan (born Mani) was an Indian film historian and photographer based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He was popularly known as the "walking encyclopedia" of Tamil cinema.
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Maconie, Stuart. Cider With Roadies. p.142. Ebury Publishing. 2004. Rolling Stone observed "the infectious manic energy of [OMD] frontman Andy McCluskey, a walking encyclopedia of New Wave dance moves".
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Steve Lombard played football in high school, college, and briefly for the pros. He sees himself as a man's man, everything Clark Kent is not in fact. He is a walking encyclopedia of sports trivia and put-downs.
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Ernesto J. "Ernie" Baron (August 15, 1940 – January 23, 2006) was a Filipino broadcaster and inventor. He spent more than 40 years in the field of broadcasting. He was best known as the weatherman in the ABS-CBN news program TV Patrol. He was also known as The Walking Encyclopedia.
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Im Auftrag der Österreichischen Bundesregierung veranstaltet vom Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Gistel, Wien 1980. Frederick, who was impressed with this walking encyclopedia, made him and his brother Bonomo Prussian counts in 1740. Algarotti accompanied Frederick to Bayreuth, Kehl, Strasbourg and Moyland Castle where they met with Voltaire, who was taking baths in Kleve for his health.MacDonogh, G. (1999) Frederick the Great, pp. 142–145.
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Billy Pinnell was a walking encyclopedia on the game. During his career he covered over 1,500 Bristol City and Rovers football matches. As over 600 of them were away from home, he lived up to his pen name of "The Traveller." He started with the Bristol Times and Mirror in 1919 later moving to the old Times and Echo, before the inception of the Evening Post.
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Bobbie Jo went from being book-smart (nicknamed "the walking encyclopedia") to more of a bubble-head used for comic relief. Kate Bradley's appearance also changed. In the first two seasons, Kate's wardrobe and hair style depicted her as a dowdy country farm woman. Beginning with the third year (in color), her clothing and coiffure were much more flattering and appealing, and she wore high heels.
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From 2000 to 2002, O'Brien was a panellist on the Channel 5 programme The Wright Stuff. In early 2001, he presented A Knight with O'Brien, a talk show on Anglia Television. With his wife, Lucy O'Brien (née McDonald), he fronted Channel 5's 2001 general election talk show 5 Talk, securing a review from Clive James, who wrote: "James, in particular, is a pink-shirted walking encyclopedia of political savvy".
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He was also a breeder of cattle, and, like many publishers of that time, the local postmaster. In 1925, he was elected state senator of Nebraska's Thirty-third District. He served as a Republican senator through 1930, and was known as an advocate of clean government and irrigation policy. Described as a "walking encyclopedia" of western Nebraska history, he served as president of the Nebraska Historical Society from 1936 to 1938.
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Richard Hinckley Allen (1838, Buffalo, New York – 1908, Northampton, Massachusetts) was a gifted polymath and amateur naturalist; his wide range of interests caused his friends to nickname him "the walking encyclopedia." His youthful ambition to pursue astronomy was thwarted by poor eyesight, and he became a moderately successful businessman instead. He continued in scientific pursuits as a hobby for the rest of his life. Richard Hinckley Allen: Star Names — Their Lore and Meaning.
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He also presented his ideas in recitals, recordings, books, and radio broadcasts. Stuart Isacoff called him "a walking encyclopedia of the piano" and credited him with help in writing A Natural History of the Piano. He also appeared in the documentary film Seymour: An Introduction. Smith taught "Introduction to Music" for over ten years at the John J. Cali School of Montclair State University, and was on the faculty at Montclair's Stokes Forest Music Camp.
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For over fifty years, Asa Wood was publisher and editor. A one-time president of the Nebraska Press Association, he was also a breeder of cattle, a state senator from 1924 to 1930, and, like many publishers of that time, the local postmaster. Described as a "walking encyclopedia" of western Nebraska history, he was one of the best known newspapermen in the state. He left the paper to his son, Warren Wood, on his death in 1945.
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Michael William Tenay (born March 1, 1955) is an American podcast presenter and retired professional wrestling play-by-play announcer known for his time as an announcer for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Impact Wrestling (formerly known as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling). Tenay, according to Impact, "is known as 'The Professor' for his extensive knowledge of the sport".Mikey Tenay profile on TNAwrestling.com Former Impact Executive Producer and WCW president Eric Bischoff has described Tenay as "a walking encyclopedia of knowledge".
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Guros was born in 1905 in the town of Goris to the famous family of Melik Ohanyans. Melik Ohan was his grandfather and Gevorg Paronyan was his father – a very intelligent person called «a walking encyclopedia» the Paronyan's family used to have a photo studio, a pharmacy, a bookbinder's shop, etc. Guros was one year old when his father died and at the age of two he lost his mother, thus remaining with his aunt (father's sister). His aunt was a famous carpet weaver.
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Known as one of the two walking encyclopedia of Heaven, Si Ming loves to gossip. In the story, he was the only one who knew about Feng Jiu's time as Dong Hua's pet fox, and was also the only one who knew of her suffering during that time. Is it hinted within the story, as well as the drama, Eternal Love, that he is in love with her. Tian Jun: The current emperor of the Heavenly Clan, he is Lian Song's father and Ye Hua's grandfather.
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A resident of Manhattan, Thayer David collected walking sticks, 18th- century European landscape paintings and Victorian furniture.Pace, Eric, "Thayer David Dead: A Character Actor"; The New York Times, July 20, 1978 "He was the most widely educated and best-read actor I've ever encountered," said Frank D. Gilroy, who wrote and directed the 1977 TV movie Nero Wolfe.Gilroy, Frank D., I Wake Up Screening. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993, page 147 His fellow cast members on Dark Shadows remembered him as a "walking encyclopedia" around the studio.
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Sydow had been interested in political journalism from an early age, often carrying around issues of his later employee's magazine and impressing classmates by acting as a "walking encyclopedia". While working on his degree in Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin, he co-founded the blog in 2005, a platform for students to publish own articles about the Middle East. In 2013, this blog was nominated for the Grimme Online Award. In 2009, he began working for zenith, an independent German magazine specialized on events in the Arab world.
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'Mohammad Baba as-Samasi' (Urdu محمد بابا السماسی ) was a Sufi of the Naqshbandi order. He was born in Sammas, a village on the outskirts of Ramitan, three miles from Bukhara Uzbekistan. He made progress in his journey by understanding the knowledge of the Qur'an, memorizing the Qur'an and the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah, and become an expert in Jurisprudence. Then he began to study Speculative Theology, Logic, Philosophy (‘ilm al-Kalam) and History, until he was named walking encyclopedia of all fields of science and art.
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In the anime, she has a catchphrase where she calls someone or something "the ~~ of the year", for example, "Miss Miyamoto, you're the teacher of the year", or "Miss Miyamoto, you're the walking encyclopedia of the year". ; : :Mesousa is a parody of the "cute mascot" type characters often seen in anime, with one huge difference: Mesousa has a severe case of depression. His lack of thumbs makes everyday tasks almost impossible, further deepening his depression. Practically useless in every way, Mesousa serves as the slapstick of the series, being blown up in one episode and having his legs broken in another, all without complaint.
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Gift of Gab is often praised by critics for his rapping skills – Allmusic says he is “one of the very finest MCs to ever pick up a microphone”, “one of the best underground rappers in the business”, “his raps are jam-packed with internal rhymes, allusions, metaphors, ten-cent words, and amazing tongue-twisting feats of skill”, and he has been able to “redefine the art of lyrical technique”. Peter Shapiro describes him as “a walking encyclopedia of MCing styles”,Shapiro, Peter, 2005, The Rough Guide To Hip-Hop, 2nd Edition, Penguin, p. 308 Pitchfork Media refers to his “astonishing verbal dexterity and enunciation”, Popmatters says he has a “nearly impenetrable reputation for style and innovation”, and Stylus Magazine calls him “one of the top MCs in the game”.
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" Despite its epic saga of fell running, Smith is mentioned only six times in the tome. Smith was held in high regard both for his running and for his encyclopaedic knowledge of the sport.Sources in The Economist characterized him "a walking encyclopedia of amateur fell-running. He knew all the history, the records, the meetings, and had set them down with exacting care in a book ..." The president of the Fell Runners Association, Graham Breeze, published a posthumous encomium and long-belated book review: "Considering the masterpiece that bears his name Bill Smith was a staggeringly modest and unassuming man ... I am privileged to have known him slightly and corresponded with him occasionally ... A few years ago I wrote a short piece about Stud marks on the summits and sent it to Bill for his approval.
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