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Billy and Blaze is a children's picture book that was written and illustrated in 1936 by Clarence William Anderson. [1] Published by MacMillian Books, it is the first of a series of eleven books and is Anderson's most well known work. The book is about a little boy, Billy, and his pony, Blaze, who he receives as a birthday gift in this book.
Blackford Oakes is a Central Intelligence Agency officer, spy and the protagonist of a series of novels written by William F. Buckley; Carl Hamilton, Swedish secret agent from the Books of Jan Guillou; Daniel Marchant, MI6 agent in Dead Spy Running and Games Traitors Play by Jon Stock; David Shirazi in Joel C. Rosenberg's The Twelfth Imam
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Clarence William Anderson (1891–1971), born in Wahoo, Nebraska, and known professionally as C.W. Anderson, was a writer and illustrator of children's books. Anderson had an interest in horses and drawing. When he wasn't out riding horses, he was drawing them, taking great interest in their bone structure and conformation.
Book Also known as "Tolkienites". [268] Miley Cyrus: Smilers Musician Named after Cyrus's childhood nickname "Smiley" [98] Minnesota United FC: Wonderwall Sports team Refers to the song "Wonderwall" by British rock band Oasis, as well as the name of the supporters' section and the main group for all supporters' groups. The song is sung at home ...
The convention was inspired, at least in part, by a Hollywood tradition, where character actors in particular were given colorful nicknames to aid in their name recognition. [1] Monikers like Stan "The Man" Lee and Jack "King" Kirby permeated into mass culture. This is a list of those nicknames.
Detective Captain John Book – Pamela Wallace, Earl W. Wallace and William Kelley (played by Harrison Ford in Witness) Detective Inspector Mike Bolt – Simon Kernick; Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte – Arthur Upfield (played by James Laurenson in Boney) Detective Stella Bonasera – CSI: NY (played by Melina Kanakaredes)
The Sawhorse, spelled "saw-horse" in some of the books, is a character from L. Frank Baum's Oz books series. [26] He first appears in The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904). The Sawhorse is a wooden carpenter's sawhorse brought to life with the Powder of Life by Tip to carry Jack Pumpkinhead (whose wooden joints were wearing out from walking). He is a ...