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JJ Whicker is PhD student and has been working closely with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to share his story about how Medicaid has benefited his family.

Besides his daughter Alexandra, he is survived by his wife, Lyda (Whicker) Boyer, whom he married in 1939; another daughter, Gail Boyer Hayes; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Whicker was instrumental in launching Yorkshire Television (which made Whicker's World for some years), producing television programmes for them from 1969 until 1992. At the beginning of the ITV series, Whicker made Papa Doc – The Black Sheep (1969)Tise Vahimagi on Haiti and its dictator "Papa Doc" Duvalier who made himself available to Whicker and his team. While presenting Whicker's World, Whicker was known for his subtle brand of satire and social commentary. Whicker's World was parodied in a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch featuring a tropical island, "Whicker Island", where all the inhabitants dress and act like Alan Whicker.

Whicker also shot footage of the body of Benito Mussolini.

In the late 1960s, the series was spoofed by the British comedian Benny Hill who did a sketch on his show called "Knickers World". It was parodied again in 1972 by Monty Python's Flying Circus, who did a sketch set on a tropical island called "Whicker Island" where all of the inhabitants were Alan Whicker clones. In the 1980s, Whicker appeared in several television commercials for Barclaycard that were based on Whicker's World and featured Whicker in various foreign locations. In 1981, Whicker's World was spoofed by The Evasions, a British funk group whose novelty song "Wikka Wrap" featured songwriter Graham de Wilde impersonating Whicker.

One such series, Hollywood Lovers, was replaced with Alan Whicker repeats.

The township contains seven cemeteries: Center, Claycomb, Kinsey, Sager, Whaley, Whicker and Whiteman.

Whicker, Marcia Lynn. Toxic leaders: When organisations go bad. Westport, CT. Quorum Books. 1996.

Fred Whicker (1901–1966) was an Australian-born artist who moved to Britain in the 1930s.

Whicker had a relationship with Olga Deterding from 1966 to 1969.Christopher Howse "Alan Whicker interview: a journey of a lifetime", telegraph.co.uk, 16 March 2009 He was with his partner, Valerie Kleeman (who was 20 years his junior), from 1969. He neither married nor had children.

Boone also defeated Willie Monroe Jr. in 2011, who later challenged twice for a world title. Other world champions Boone has faced include Jean Pascal, Erislandy Lara, and Sergey Kovalev (twice).Whicker, Mark (August 31, 2016). "Whicker: Gennady Golovkin's sparring partner Darnell Boone more than just a journeyman".

In his will, Alan Whicker established cash awards to encourage the making of authored documentaries in the UK.

The British army officer who took him into custody was Captain Alan Whicker, later a prominent British broadcaster.

Whicker appeared in various adverts for American Express, Barclaycard, and was also the man behind the advertising slogan "Hello World", for travelocity.co.uk. He narrated the 2007 and 2008 BBC documentary series Comedy Map of Britain. In the 2005 New Year Honours, Whicker was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to broadcasting. In 2009, then in his 80s, Whicker returned to some of the locations and people who were originally featured in Whicker's World for the BBC series Alan Whicker's Journey of a Lifetime.

Whicker's World is a British television documentary series that ran from 1958 to 1994, presented by journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker. Originally a segment on the BBC's Tonight programme in 1958, Whicker's World became a fully-fledged television series in its own right in the 1960s.BFI ScreenOnline - Alan Whicker bio The series was first shown by the BBC until 1968, and then by ITV from 1968 to 1983, when it was produced by Yorkshire Television, in which Whicker himself was a shareholder. The series returned to the BBC in 1984, and to ITV again in 1992.

Though the song is a parody of UK broadcaster Alan Whicker, it samples "Thighs High", along with "Funkin' for Jamaica (N.Y.)" (also by Browne).

He and his men retreated to Greensboro, where they surrendered on April 26, 1865.Hess, p. 312.Foley & Whicker, pp. 25; 30; 104; 108.

Falmouth Art Gallery holds a number of works by Whicker. He is also represented in the collections of The Royal Society of Physicians and University of Oxford.

He made extensive use of multiple split screens. During the making of the film, both Frankenheimer and Garner were interviewed by television personality Alan Whicker for the BBC series Whicker's World.

Benny Hill, towards the end of his BBC series in 1968, impersonated Whicker in a parody called "Knicker's World". He was parodied again in 1981 by the Evasions, a British funk group whose song, "Wikka Wrap", featured songwriter Graham de Wilde impersonating Whicker; the song was later sampled in Coolio's 1995 song "1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)". De Wilde also composed the theme tune for the 1980s BBC episodes of Whicker's World.Graham de Wilde Retrieved 13 July 2013.

Born in Contra Costa County, California, Wittek grew up in Norwalk, Connecticut but later moved to Santa Ana, California where he attended Mater Dei High School. His immediate predecessor as starting quarterback for Mater Dei was future USC teammate Matt Barkley.Mark Whicker, Whicker: USC QB Wittek eager to get started, Orange County Register, November 20, 2012, accessed December 3, 2012. As a senior, he completed 153 of 282 passes for 2,252 yards with 24 touchdowns and 15 interceptions.

Around Whicker's World was a short-lived radio program that aired from March 1998-April 1998. There were six half-hour episodes and it was broadcast on BBC Radio 2. It starred Alan Whicker.

She undertook at least two espionage missions in English-speaking countries during the war: one in England and one in the United States. Three novels have been written about Lehmann by author Mike Whicker.

See leader. ;whicker :See nicker ;whinny or whinney :See neigh ;whorl :A circular arrangement of hairs, usually on a horse's neck. Their location is one means of horse identification.Delbridge, Arthur, The Macquarie Dictionary, 2nd ed.

Mucklewain: Southern American Rock Festival—A Celebration of Southern Music, Art, and Culture was a rock festival held in 2006 and 2007 in Tennessee, primarily featuring Southern rock music. First held on August 19, 2006, at Whicker Park in Harriman, Tennessee, the first year featured artists such as Steve Earle, Todd Snider, Will Hoge, and Allison Moorer.Craig Shelburne, "Mucklewain Festival Celebrates Southern American Rock", CMT News, August 21, 2006.Rick Cornell, "Mucklewain - Whicker Park (Harriman, TN), August 19, 2006" , No Depression, November–December 2006.

Whicker (right, with back to the camera) with alt=Dark-haired unshaven man Whicker was born to British parents in Cairo, Egypt, in 1921. When he was three years old, his father Charles became seriously ill and the family moved to Richmond in Surrey, where he and his mother remained after the death of his father. He attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys School where he excelled at cross-country running. During the Second World War he was commissioned as an officer in the Devonshire Regiment of the British Army.

Similar to "The Singer and the Song", except that one member of the team sings the song "straight", and the other responds to each line. Examples include "Underneath the Arches", sung by Flannagan and Alan Whicker (in which Willie Rushton as Whicker is unable to comprehend the existence of a poor person) and "Puff the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary Whitehouse (in which Sandi Toksvig as Whitehouse found double entendres in every line). One notable round had Brooke-Taylor singing "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey", with Bill Bailey responding as "himself".

He was named 1st Team All Conference QB, Occidental Team MVP, and Occidental Team Captain in the 2016–17 season. That season, he was also named SCIAC Player of the Year. Scott was deemed “Dominant” by La Daily News Writer Mark Whicker.

Retrieved 28 April 2017. At CDP, Salmon worked with Charles Saatchi and Alan Parker. He mentored Alan Waldie who developed the Benson & Hedges "Gold" cigarette campaign. He recruited Omar Sharif to appear in advertising for Olympus cameras and Alan Whicker to promote Barclaycard.

Jules Whicker The Plays of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón - 2003 Juan's brother [Hernando Ruíz de Alarcón y Mendoza , who was a priest in Taxco, is known for having written a treatise documenting the non-Christian religious practices of the Nahua Indians of central Mexico.

Two episodes were filmed on the Orient Express, the first on the Venice-Simplon Orient Express in 1982 and the second on the Eastern and Oriental Express in 1993. In 1998, Whicker made a six-part radio series, Around Whicker's World, for BBC Radio 2.

He was born in Arlington Heights, Illinois, the son of David and Nancy Borenstein."Zach Borenstein," Eastern Illinois University PanthersMark Whicker (November 27, 2013)."Cal League MVP Borenstein moving up Angels depth chart," Orange County Register. His grandparents are June and Joseph Borenstein, and William and Ruth Rosenberg.

The documentary had mixed reviews. The Times said "Theroux risks becoming the Alan Whicker de nos jours, a tourist with a typewriter, peering into these other lives but rarely getting dirty himself." The Guardian called the work "an extraordinary film, a sad portrait of a very different California".

After the Second World War, Whicker became a journalist and broadcaster, acting as a newspaper correspondent during the Korean War. After joining the BBC in 1957, he became an international reporter for their Tonight programme. In 1958, he began presenting Whicker's World, which began life as a segment on the Tonight programme before becoming a fully-fledged series itself in the 1960s. Whicker's World was filmed all over the globe and became a huge ratings success in the UK. Whicker continued to present the series up until the 1990s, and he won a BAFTA Award in 1964 for his presentation in the Factual category; he also won the Richard Dimbleby Award at the 1978 BAFTA ceremony.

Whicker's World was a huge ratings success in the UK, and one of the longest running series in the history of British television. The series was nominated for a variety of awards throughout its run including several BAFTA Awards. The 1977 episode "Palm Beach" garnered three BAFTA nominations for Best Documentary, Best Sound, and Best Editing, and Whicker himself won the Richard Dimbleby Award at the 1977 BAFTA ceremony,BAFTA Winners and Nominations: 1977 and had also won a BAFTA in 1964 for his presentation in the Factual category.BAFTA Winners 1964 In 1971, the series won the Dumont International Journalism Award at the University of California for the 1969 episode "Papa Doc - The Black Sheep" (in which Whicker interviewed Haitian dictator François "Papa Doc" Duvalier).

Whicker, p. 368 At some unknown time, Hannegan became a Freemason.See, The Political Graveyard On April 4, 1829, he married Margaret Chambers Duncan in Knox County, Indiana;County Court Records at Vincennes, Indiana they had one son, Sellman Key Hannegan, born January 20, 1832.U.S. Passport application of Sellman K. Hannegan, August 30, 1871.

Alan Donald Whicker (2 August 1921 – 12 July 2013) was a British journalist and television presenter and broadcaster. His career spanned almost 60 years, during which time he presented the documentary television programme Whicker's World for over 30 years. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005 for services to broadcasting.

In 1995, Bob Bishop and Rich Whicker, (both former Apple Computer Engineers) decided to create a new programming language that would be easy enough for everyone to understand and use. (They felt that other existing languages such as C++ and their environments were far too complicated for beginners.) The programming language that they created was called SiMPLE.

Former Arla Foods site, Kirkstall Road, occasionally YTV filming location. Yorkshire Television was a major producer within the ITV network and produced programming in all genres. The presenter Alan Whicker became a shareholder in the company at its inception and made many programmes for the station, most notably interviews with the Cat's Eye inventor Percy Shaw and the Haiti dictator Baby Doc Duvalier.

''New York Sun'' Obituaries: "Alfredo Stroessner, 93, Old-Style Military Dictator of Paraguay". Nysun.com. Retrieved on August 21, 2014. Stroessner gave a written television interview to Alan Whicker as part of a documentary called The Last Dictator (UK: April 7, 1970) for the television series Whicker's World. The programme was released in a Region 2 DVD box-set by the UK's Network imprint.

Erika Lehmann (1917-?) is a fictional spy for Nazi Germany during World War II. She can be found in a trilogy of books by Mike Whicker. In the fictional account, Lehmann was born in Oberschopfheim, Germany and learned English as a child from her British mother (her father was German). During the Second World War she served in the German Abwehr.

The show progressed through a loosely linked collection of sketches, one-liners, puns and ethnic jokes. Bluthal provided multiple voices, including impressions of an African chieftain, Alan Whicker, and a Jewish Londoner. Vilma Hollingbery came on when the script required a female voice but otherwise remained in the background. Alan Clare tended to portray stupid teenagers and adults, using a weak Cockney voice which may have been his natural one.

New Year Honours were granted in the United Kingdom and New Zealand at the start of 2005. Among these in the UK were knighthoods awarded to Mike Tomlinson, the educationalist; Derek Wanless, who led a review of the National Health Service; and Brian Harrison, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The former athlete Kelly Holmes was made a Dame. The television presenter Alan Whicker was awarded a CBE.

Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly (1881)"The Tichborne Trial" – The Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Rōrahi XXXII, Putanga 96, 21 Hereturikōkā 1873, Page 3 National Library of New Zealand Archive] The 1871 census records Whicher as an assistant superintendent of police, living in London.1871 England Census Record for Jonathan Whicher – Ancestry.co.uk In the 1881 census he is listed as a retired police officer.1881 England Census Record for Jonathan Whicker – Ancestry.co.

While Winston Churchill was researching his biography of his father, Alan Whicker, who had been Randolph's dining companion for the evening, confirmed the account which Randolph had given to his son at the time.Churchill 1997, p. 307 He returned to Korea to report on the Inchon Landings, the liberation of Seoul and the UN forces' crossing of the 38th Parallel. He then returned to the UK for an operation (6 February 1951) on his wounded leg.

Michelle Whicker of PC Gameworld argued that the game could be used as a public relations marketing tool for Sydney due to its use of several scenic locations throughout the city. Meanwhile, Alex Tait of Just Adventure described the game as the equivalent of buying a CD based on hearing one song on the radio only to be disappointed, and thought its unintentional humour was stylistically to that found in The Curse of Monkey Island and The Feeble Files.

144 ;nicker, whicker :A soft noise made by horses, the horse makes a vibrating sound with its mouth closed using the vocal cords. Often used as a greeting to humans or other animals, the softest version used by a mare communicating to her foal. Louder versions may be heard when a stallion is communicating with a mare. ;night horse (AU) :A quiet horse with good night vision that is used to patrol cattle at night, when droving.

The island proved too remote to come under attack during the war and N Force left the island in February 1944. In the late 1960s a mini-invasion by British ex-pats followed after the island was featured on a BBC television documentary presented by Alan Whicker. Fifty families decided to emigrate from the United Kingdom to Norfolk Island as a result of the programme.Alan Whicker's Journey of a Lifetime, broadcast on BBC Two, 25 April 2009.

Kemp Caswell Wicker (born Kemp Caswell Whicker; August 13, 1906 – June 11, 1973) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees from 1936 to 1938 and the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1941. Wicker was born in Kernersville, North Carolina to Jasper Newton and Alice Crews Wicker. He played collegiately at North Carolina State University. He is most known for pitching one inning in the 1937 World Series for the Yankees.

Several books, written by Whicker, were published as tie-ins to the series, including Whicker's New World (1985) and Whicker's World Down Under (1988). Whicker's autobiography, Within Whicker's World, was published in 1982, which chronicled many of the journeys he had made in the series. A second volume, Whicker's World - Take 2, was published in 2002, and a third volume, Journey of a Lifetime, was published in 2009. The Whicker's World brand also spread into other merchandise tie-ins.

Five days before leaving for Wisconsin, Paul married Lyda Whicker in 1939, and they remained married for nearly eighty years until his death in 2018, making him the longest-married Nobel laureate. The Boyers had three children. Though the Boyers connected with the Mormon community in Wisconsin, they considered themselves "on the wayward fringe" and doubted the doctrinal claims of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). After experimenting with Unitarianism, Boyer eventually became an atheist.

In 1975, David Ogilvy of Ogilvy & Mather developed the highly successful "Don't Leave Home Without Them" ad campaign for American Express Traveler's Cheques, featuring Oscar-award-winning actor Karl Malden. Malden served as the public face of American Express Travelers Cheques for 25 years. In the UK, the spokesman was the television personality Alan Whicker. After Malden's departure, and as the card assumed importance over the traveler's cheques, American Express continued to use celebrities, such as Mel Blanc and ballerina Cynthia Gregory.

During the Second World War, Hooper was based in Gibraltar. He was encouraged by his wife to enter teaching in the post-war period, during which he ran the Mount Pleasant House School in Camborne, where he pioneered the teaching of the Cornish language and was featured on BBC's Tonight programme, interviewed by Alan Whicker. Two additional schools were opened - one at Wendron and another, Brandon College, in Truro. Hooper became the third Grand Bard of the Gorseth Kernow, serving from 1959 to 1964.

The trench warfare engaged in from 1914 to 1918 exposed men to flea and lice infestations, which prompted orders by the higher command to cut hair short, establishing a new military tradition. Beat poets during the 1950s wore longer hairstyles. By 1960, a small "beatnik" community in Newquay, Cornwall, England (including a young Wizz Jones) had attracted the attention of their neighbors for growing their hair to a length past the shoulders, resulting in a television interview with Alan Whicker on BBC television's Tonight series.Whicker, Alan.

Network have released three volumes of the series on DVD, compiling some of the more prominent ITV episodes from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. The first and second volumes were released as two-disc sets containing eight and ten episodes respectively. The third volume contains thirteen episodes over three discs, though a second version was also released containing only ten episodes over two discs. A seven-disc set containing all three volumes, The Best of Whicker, is set for release on 16 October 2017.

To date , of all the BBC episodes , only the 2009 Journey Of A Lifetime series has been released. In May 2016, Network also began releasing each full ITV series of Whicker's World in chronological order, beginning with the 1968 series, followed by Whicker's New World from 1969. This was followed in July 2017 by two more DVD sets, Whicker In Europe (1970) and Whicker's Walkabout: Seven Scenes Down Under (1970). Two further sets, comprising the 1971 series and 1972's Whicker's Orient, were released in November 2017.

The Whicker's World Foundation is an organisation that was created by Alan Whicker to encourage the making of quality documentary programmes. Now overseen by Whicker's partner Valerie Kleeman, each year the foundation awards £80,000 to a new director with the most promising pitch for an authored film or television documentary which fulfils the criteria of the foundation and can be completed for screening with the amount given. Whicker's World Foundation offers over £100,000 of prize money each year, including funding and recognition awards for audio documentaries.

A toxic leader is a person who has responsibility over a group of people or an organization, and who abuses the leader–follower relationship by leaving the group or organization in a worse condition than when they first found them. The phrase was coined by Marcia Lynn Whicker in 1996 and is linked with a number of dysfunctional leadership styles. Their leadership style is both self-destructive and ultimately corporately harmful as they subvert and destroy organizational structures. In his book, Petty Tyranny in Organizations, Blake Ashforth discussed potentially destructive sides of leadership and identified what he referred to as petty tyrants, i.e.

The cinema posters for the film stated "Sean Connery IS James Bond", to distance the Eon- produced picture from the independent Casino Royale, which had been released two months earlier. However, during the production, Connery announced that it would be his last film as Bond, leaving Broccoli to tell Alan Whicker, "it won't be the last Bond under any circumstances—with all due respect to Sean, who I think has been certainly the best man to play this part. We will, in our own way, try to continue the Bond series for the audience because it's too important".

Evansville is featured in a section of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita, as well as Walker Percy's 1962 novel The Moviegoer, and Robert Silverberg's 1969 science fiction novel To Live Again. Evansville is the primary location in the historical fiction novel, Invitation to Valhalla by Mike Whicker, published in 2004. The novel is based on the records of German spy Erika Lehmann's attempt to infiltrate the LST shipyards during WWII. An Evansville couple is the focus of "Hungarian Rhapsody: An Adoption Story" by James Derk, based on a series of stories in the Evansville Courier & Press.

Plutonium is known to bind to soil particles very strongly (see above for an X-ray spectroscopic study of plutonium in soil and concrete). While caesium has very different chemistry to the actinides, it is well known that both caesium and many of the actinides bind strongly to the minerals in soil. Hence it has been possible to use 134Cs labeled soil to study the migration of Pu and Cs in soils. It has been shown that colloidal transport processes control the migration of Cs (and will control the migration of Pu) in the soil at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant according to R.D. Whicker and S.A. Ibrahim.

Comedy Map of Britain is a BBC documentary series which visits the places that have inspired many of Britain's leading comedians. It first aired on BBC Two in 2007 and 2008. Narrated by veteran broadcaster Alan Whicker, comedians included in the two series include Angus Deayton, Anton Rodgers, Arthur Smith and Hale and Pace, Bill Bailey, Chris Moyles, the Chuckle Brothers, Dudley Moore, Eric Idle, Graham Fellows, Hugh Grant, Ian Hislop, Ian Lavender, Jim Davidson, Jon Culshaw, Mark Thomas, Maureen Lipman, Michael Palin, Paul Merton, Richard Whiteley, Ricky Gervais, Ronni Ancona, Rowan Atkinson, Roy Chubby Brown, Steve Coogan, Syd Little and Eddie Large, Terry Jones, Leigh Francis and many others.

By 1960, a small "beatnik" group in Newquay, Cornwall, England (including a young Wizz Jones) had attracted the attention and abhorrence of their neighbours for growing their hair beyond shoulder length, resulting in a television interview with Alan Whicker on BBC television's Tonight series. The Beat philosophy was generally countercultural and antimaterialistic, and stressed the importance of bettering one's inner self over material possessions. Some Beat writers, such as Alan Watts, began to delve into Eastern religions such as Buddhism and Taoism. Politics tended to be liberal, left-wing and anti-war, with support for causes such as desegregation (although many of the figures associated with the original Beat movement, particularly Kerouac, embraced libertarian and conservative ideas).

A Historical Overview Committee of eleven sportswriters appointed by the BBWAA's Board of Directors met to develop a ballot of 10 managers and umpires; the committee members were: Dave Van Dyck (Chicago Tribune), Bob Elliott (Toronto Sun), Rick Hummel (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), Steve Hirdt (Elias Sports Bureau), Moss Klein (Newark Star-Ledger), Bill Madden (New York Daily News), Ken Nigro (formerly Baltimore Sun), Jack O'Connell (MLB.com), Nick Peters (The Sacramento Bee), Tracy Ringolsby (Rocky Mountain News) and Mark Whicker (The Orange County Register). The managers/umpires list was submitted to a 16-member panel composed of 10 Hall of Famers (8 players and 2 managers), 3 executives and 3 veteran media members for a final vote.

In 2009, he returned to television with Alan Whicker's Journey Of A Lifetime, a four-part series for the BBC in which he revisited some of the locations and people shown in Whicker's World decades earlier to see how their lives had progressed since his original interviews with them. Included in this was a third visit to American plastic surgeon Dr. Kurt Wagner and his wife Kathy, whom Whicker had already made two programmes about in 1973 and 1980 and had considered them among his favourite interviewees. The series had several theme tunes over the course of its run. The original theme music for the programme was "West End" composed by Laurie Johnson.

The upper of the two plaques reads (all in upper case): Erected by Sheffield R.A.F. Association in memory of the ten crew of U.S.A.A.F. bomber which crashed in this park 22-2-1944 The lower plaque lists the names of the ten crew members. Lt Kriegshauser (whose name is spelled wrong on the plaque) was pilot; Lt Lyle Curtis (co-pilot); Lt John Whicker Humphrey (navigator); Lt Melchor Hernandez (bomb-aimer); Sgt Robert Mayfield (radio operator/log-keeper/photographer); Sgt Harry Estabrooks (flight engineer/top-turret gunner); Sgt Charles Tuttle (lower turret gunner); Sgt Maurice Robbins (rear-gunner); Sgt Vito Ambrosio (waist-gunner and assistant radio operator) and Sgt George Malcolm Williams (waist-gunner and assistant flight engineer).

Whicker, p. 371. The cane remained in the family of the Covington sheriff who arrested Hannegan until 1947, when it was donated to the Indiana State Museum. The cane is presently on display there in an exhibit titled "Odd Indiana", September 4, 2010 – February 12, 2012. Duncan died the following day, declaring that no blame should be placed on Hannegan.Whicker, p. 371 Hannegan was arrested and charged with manslaughter. At the time, Lew Wallace was the prosecuting attorney for Covington; he was also a close friend of Hannegan. Because Wallace's prosecution was so weak and Hannegan was permitted to present his case (an unusual practice), the grand jury refused to indict Hannegan.

Following his days as a stand-up poet and fringe actor, Shepherd started out performing bizarre experimental monologues at the early Cluub Zarathustra, touring with spoof techno band and Edinburgh sell-out The Pod with fellow comedian/musicians Tim Hope and Julian Barratt. He hosted the underground cabaret Gritty Fingers and smashed up Cornish pasties in the guise of ranting Northern madman William Whicker. He graduated from Oxford University in 1993, with a degree in Philosophy and Psychology. He went on to co-write and narrate award-winning animation The Wolfman (screened on Channel 4 and subsequently worked into an advertisement for the Sony PlayStation), before writing, directing and starring in his own animation Origen's Wake for Channel 4's Comedy Lab series.

He then joined the British Army's Film and Photo Unit in Italy in 1943, filming at Anzio and meeting such influential figures as Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. He was also responsible for taking into custody British traitor John Amery. He revealed in his television series Whicker's War (2004) that he was one of the first in the Allied forces to enter Milan and that he took into custody an SS general and troopers who were guarding the SS's paymaster's payroll money that was used to pay the SS troops, along with large amounts of cash in foreign currency, all contained within a large trunk. Whicker later handed over the SS men and the trunk of cash to the commander of an advancing US armoured column.

Alan Whicker featured Duvalier in a 1969 episode of Whicker's World, which includes an interview with the president. Made by Yorkshire Television, part of Britain's ITV commercial network, the documentary is deeply revealing of Duvalier's character as well as being deeply revealing of the state of Haiti in 1969. The first authoritative book on the subject was Papa Doc: Haiti and its Dictator by Al Burt and Bernard Diederich, published in 1969, though several others by Haitian scholars and historians have appeared since Duvalier's death in 1971. One of the most informative, Patrick Lemoine's Fort‑Dimanche: Dungeon of Death, dealt specifically with victims of Fort Dimanche, the prison which Duvalier used for the torture and murder of his political opponents.

Freeman co-wrote with Benny Hill from 1955 to 1968 for The Benny Hill Show on BBC. The early series were notable for spoofs of popular television personalities of the time, such as the quiz and talent-show host Hughie Green, the globe-trotting journalist Alan Whicker, and the undersea explorers Hans and Lotte Hass. Freeman was teamed with Hill from the second series, in 1956, and also appeared on screen when the star made one-off shows for ITV (1957–60) under a special contract with Bernard Delfont. He was later responsible for most of the scripts when Hill starred in three series of a BBC sitcom titled simply Benny Hill (1962–63), featuring the comedian in a different role each week in self-contained playlets.

In an interview with Alan Whicker, however, he told a different story of being inspired on a foggy night to think of a way of moving the reflective studs on a road sign to the road surface. Further, local school children who were taken on visits to the factory in the late 1970s were told that the idea came from Shaw seeing light reflected from his car headlamps by tram tracks in the road on a foggy night. The tram tracks were polished by the passing of trams and by following the advancing reflection, it was possible to maintain the correct position in the road. In 1934, he patented his invention (patents Nos. 436,290 and 457,536), based on the 1927 reflecting lens patent of Richard Hollins Murray.

Such a success was the invention of the "cat's eye" that he was rewarded with an OBE for services to exports in the birthday honours list in 1965. He became eccentric in later life, removing the carpets, curtains and much of the furniture from his isolated home, and keeping four televisions running constantly (respectively tuned to BBC1, BBC2 and ITV, all with the sound turned down) with a fourth showing BBC2 in colour. On each Friday a few friends would come to the house and Percy would supply crates of bottled ale and boxes of potato crisps. He told Alan Whicker that the reason for keeping the TVs on simultaneously was so that his friends could watch whichever of the then existing channels they chose to, and there would be no arguments.

In December 2003, a Historical Overview Committee of nine sportswriters appointed by the BBWAA's Board of Directors met at the Hall of Fame's library and nominated 200 players who were active in the major leagues no later than 1983. They were provided with statistical information by the Elias Sports Bureau, official statistician for Major League Baseball since the 1920s, which also identified the 1,400 players with 10 or more years of play who were eligible. The Historical Overview Committee comprised Bob Elliott (Toronto Sun), Steve Hirdt (Elias Sports Bureau), Rick Hummel (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), Moss Klein (Newark Star-Ledger), Bill Madden (New York Daily News), Ken Nigro (former Baltimore Sun writer), Jack O'Connell (The Hartford Courant), Tracy Ringolsby (Rocky Mountain News), and Mark Whicker (Orange Country Register).

In December 2005, a Historical Overview Committee of ten sportswriters appointed by the BBWAA's Board of Directors met at the Hall of Fame's library to develop a list of 200 former players who merited consideration for election but played no later than 1985, and a second list of 60 former managers, umpires and executives. They were provided with statistical information by the Elias Sports Bureau, official statistician for Major League Baseball since the 1920s, which also identified the 1,400 players with 10 or more years of play who were eligible. The Historical Overview Committee comprised Dave Van Dyck (Chicago Tribune), Bob Elliott (Toronto Sun), Steve Hirdt (Elias Sports Bureau), Rick Hummel (St. Louis Post- Dispatch), Moss Klein (Newark Star-Ledger), Bill Madden (New York Daily News), Ken Nigro (former Baltimore Sun writer), Jack O'Connell (BBWAA officer and writer for The Hartford Courant), Nick Peters (The Sacramento Bee), and Mark Whicker (Orange County Register).

From 2013 to 2017, Scott attended Occidental College, in California, majoring in urban environmental policy.Los Angeles Daily News: Whicker: Occidental College has a dominant QB in Bryan Scott In his true-freshman season at Occidental, Scott was selected for the SCIAC All-Conference Second Team, and named Newcomer of the Year.Tigers Football: Seven Oxy Football Players Earn All-SCIAC Honors In the last game of his freshman year Scott passed for 473 yards and 6 touchdowns, setting single game records at Occidental in each category.La Verne at Occidental College - Los Angeles, CA In 2014 Scott was selected to play for the U-19 USA National Football Team.Oxy QB Scott to Play on Team USA Under-19 Squad Scott led Team USA to a Gold Medal finish at the IFAF World Championship in Kuwait.NCAA: Occcidental QB Scott leads Team USA to gold Scott brought his team back from a 14–12 deficit at halftime, with 4 consecutive passing touchdowns, to capture the Gold Medal.

Biography, Ralph G. Wright, Vermont State Archives, State Representative/Speaker of the House Ralph G. Wright Collection, undated, page 1 In 1985 Wright was elected Speaker of the House, a victory remarkable for the fact that Republicans were in the majority.Kunin's New Team Takes Over in Vt., Michael Kranish and Globe Staff, Boston Globe, January 13, 1985Democrats Will Nominate Candidate to Powerful Speaker Post, Bob Kinzel, Vermont Public Radio, December 3, 2008 Serving as Speaker for 10 years, Wright's candidate recruiting and campaign support work, carried out in conjunction with other Democrats including Representative Paul N. Poirier, who became the House majority leader, saw Democrats become the majority party in the House during Wright's final term.Legislative Leadership in the American States, Malcolm Edwin Jewell and Marcia Lynn Whicker, 1994, page 137 Wright was defeated for reelection to the House in the Republican sweep of 1994.Vermont Reelects Governor, Associated Press, published in Lewiston Sun Journal, November 9, 1994 At 10 years, Ralph Wright's term remains the longest of any Vermont Speaker of the House.

The Australian, 3 December 2009 Announcing an agreement negotiated with SACA, SANFL and the AFL, the Rann Labor government committed $450 million to the project.Michael Owen, The Australian, 3 December 2009 The three original western stands were demolished (George Giffen stand (1882), Sir Edwin Smith stand (1922), Mostyn Evan stand (1920s)) were torn down in June 2009Adelaide Oval history lies in ruins (Sunday Mail) and a single Western stand was developed in its place ahead of the 2010–11 Ashes series.New Western stand mostly grand The Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority (AOSMA), a joint venture of SACA and the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), was registered as a company on 23 December 2009 following the re-announcement of the plan. The AOSMA has eight directors, four associated with SACA (Ian McLachlan-Chair, John Harnden, Creagh O’Connor & John Bannon) and four with SANFL (Leigh Whicker-CEO, Rod Payze, Philip Gallagher & Jamie Coppins). In 2010 the new Western stand was completed incorporating 14,000 individual seats and features improved shading conditions and amenities for SACA members.

In May 2009, Parkinson bemoaned the state of TV generally, saying he was "fed up of the rise of celebrities hosting shows, ridiculously-titled documentaries and property shows", saying "In my television paradise there would be no more property programmes, no more police-chasing-yobbos-in-cars programmes and, most of all and please God, no more so-called documentary shows with titles like My 20-Ton Tumour, My Big Fat Head, Wolf Girl, Embarrassing Illnesses and The Fastest Man on No Legs." On 11 October 2010, Parkinson appeared on Richard Bacon's Radio 5 Live show where he was particularly critical of comedian and actor Russell Brand, saying: "I don't see the point of him." In 2013, Parkinson again criticised the course British television had taken, comparing series such as The One Show unfavourably with the broadcasting of the recently deceased Alan Whicker and David Frost, as well as claiming the "cult of youth" had "distorted the standards". Parkinson spoke fondly of the time when "producers were unencumbered by such irksome obstacles as compliance, health and safety and frustrating commissioning procedures".Michael Parkinson: programmes like The One Show don’t live up to David Frost’s legacy.

For example, in a murder mystery farce entitled "Murder on the Oregon Express" from 1976 (a parody of Murder on the Orient Express), Hill used editing, camera angles and impersonations to depict a Quinn Martin–like TV "mystery" featuring Hill in the roles of 1970s American television detectives Ironside, McCloud, Kojak and Cannon, plus Hercule Poirot. During his television career, Hill performed impersonations or parodies of such American celebrities as W. C. Fields, Orson Welles (renamed "Orson Buggy"), Kenny Rogers, Marlon Brando, Raymond Burr, and fictional characters that range from The Six Million Dollar Man and Starsky and Hutch to The A-Team (parodied as "The B-Team", in which he played the roles of both 'Hannibal' and 'B.A.') and Cagney & Lacey. He also impersonated such international celebrities as Nana Mouskouri and Miriam Makeba as well as British stars such as Shirley Bassey, Michael Caine (in his Alfie role), newscasters Reginald Bosanquet, Alan Whicker and Cliff Michelmore, pop-music show hosts Jimmy Savile and Tony Blackburn, musician Roger Whittaker, his former 1960s record producer Tony Hatch, political figures Lord Boothby and Denis Healey and Irish comedian Dave Allen.