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The Fat Controller is a fictional character in The Railway Series books written by Reverend W. Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry.In the first two books in the series (The Three Railway Engines and Thomas the Tank Engine) he is known as The Fat Director, and as of the third book (James the Red Engine) he becomes The Fat Controller, as the railway has been nationalised.
Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy on January 18, 1892, [1] in Harlem, Georgia. [2] His father, Oliver, was a Confederate States Army veteran of the American Civil War who had been wounded at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862, and was a recruiting officer for Company K, 16th Georgia Regiment.
1918: Chung Ling Soo, magician (real name: William Ellsworth Robinson), died as a result of a bullet catch illusion going wrong on stage. [8] 1920: Aviator and movie actor Ormer Locklear crashed in an airplane he was piloting while filming a nighttime movie scene. 1922: Eugenie Blair, actress, was performing in the original production of Anna ...
[4] [12] Vernon would repeat this journey fifteen years later for the television series Fat Man in France. Fat Man at Work and his first television series, Fat Man in the Kitchen, deviated from the travelogue style of the other series. The former featured Vernon talking to people working in factories, while the latter was a cookery programme ...
This photo was found on her camera, which was discovered on the mountain nearly 50 years after her death, in 2020. Image credits: Time-Training-9404 #48 The Crew Of Apollo 1 Relaxing During ...
A 19-year-old man died Monday at a lineman college campus in Northern California after he fell from a utility pole that “failed” during a training session, police said.
Nate Davenport, 45, of Jupiter died following an electrical incident on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023, at Harbourside Place. Davenport dived into the fountain at the retail-and-restaurant complex to pull ...
Raymond Robinson was eight years old when he was injured by an electrical line as he climbed a pole and reached for a bird's nest on the Morado Bridge, outside of Beaver Falls. The bridge carried a trolley and had electrical lines of both 1,200 and 22,000 volts , which were responsible for the death of another boy less than a year earlier.