Saturday-Night Theatre – Dick Francis – YouTube "Obituary: Dick Francis". BBC News. Wikiquote has quotations related to Dick Francis. Francis, Dick (2001). "Audio...
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Felix Francis (born 1953) is a British crime writer. He is Dick Francis’ younger son. Felix studied physics and electronics at London University, and...
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Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee (May 19, 1939 – January 28, 1986) was an American pilot, engineer, and astronaut. He was killed while commanding the Space...
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Francis (17 June 1924 – 30 September 2000) was a British author who has been credited with an extensive role helping her husband, crime writer Dick Francis...
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Dick Francis is an artist best known for his Galaxy Science Fiction illustrations during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1951–53, Francis was illustrating for...
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Richard Francis (c. 1827 – November 30, 1888) was an African-American bartender in Washington, D.C. He is believed to have been the second African-American...
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"Colonel Dick". The third of seven children of Jennifer and George Strawbridge, a worker in the oil industry in the Middle East and Far East, "Dick" Strawbridge...
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character in four Dick Francis novels, Odds Against, Whip Hand, Come to Grief, Under Orders and two follow-up books by Felix Francis, Refusal and Hands...
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Editions. Frequently featured authors in the original series include Dick Francis (17 titles), Henry Denker (16 titles), Victoria Holt (15 titles) and...
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Nat Gould (section Dick Francis influence)
was by far the most successful author of stories about racing before Dick Francis. (Other authors who wrote racing stories in this period included Leslie...
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Writers’ Association. Retrieved July 10, 2023. Berger, Roger A., "'The Black Dick': Race, Sexuality, and Discourse in the L.A. Novels of Walter Mosley", in...
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Grand National. Owned by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and ridden by Dick Francis, Devon Loch had won two races already that season and finished third...
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Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer and novelist. He...
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Comics), a fictional supervillain from DC Comics Bolt (1986), a book by Dick Francis B.O.L.T, a Japanese girl group The Bolt (Fragonard), a painting by Jean-Honoré...
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Sweet, which marked the screen debut of the Marlowe character, played by Dick Powell (whose depiction of Marlowe was applauded by Chandler). Literary success...
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Secretary of the Interior Dennis Francis (born 1956), Trinidad and Tobago diplomat David Francis (disambiguation) Dick Francis (1920–2010), British jockey-turned-novelist...
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June 1967. Retrieved 9 September 2008. In the 1965 novel For Kicks by Dick Francis, one character advises another that, to go undercover as a disreputable...
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the Lambourn Valley Railway in 1964. It is owned by Merrick Francis, the son of Dick Francis, and is the largest horse transport business in Europe. Sheepdrove...
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Richard F. Lyon (redirect from Dick Lyon (engineer))
Richard "Dick" Francis Lyon (born 1952) is an American inventor, scientist, and engineer. He is one of the two people who independently invented the first...
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Racecourse in 1948, and it was then moved to its present venue in 1949. Dick Francis, the famous jockey turned author, rode the first Chepstow winner of the...
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titles), Michael Connelly (13 titles), Mary Higgins Clark (12 titles) and Dick Francis (10 titles). "Reader's Digest Select Editions". Reader's Digest. Retrieved...
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Moulin Rouge, Beat the Devil, and Moby Dick. Francis was given a chance to lead the second unit of Moby Dick and shortly after became a full director...
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Oaksey and Richardson, adaptated from the 1962 novel of the same name by Dick Francis. Oaksey was also technical advisor and a riding double in the film. Alan...
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Look up Tom, Dick and Harry in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The phrase "Tom, Dick, and Harry" is a placeholder for unspecified people. The phrase most...
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(2011) as lead actor Ricochet (1993) as producer and lead actor Proof by Dick Francis (1987) as Tony Beach Reluctant Persuaders (2015) as Rupert Hardacre The...
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Dick; Reiner, Jonathan; et al. (with Liz Cheney) (2013). Heart: An American Medical Odyssey. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-1-4767-2539-0. Cheney, Dick;...
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Hendrikus Wilhelmus Maria "Dick" Schoof (Dutch: [ɦɛnˈdrikʏs ʋɪlˈɦɛlmʏs maˈrijaː dɪk sxoːf] ; born 8 March 1957) is a Dutch politician and the current prime...
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in 1979, when she played Madge in several episodes of the series The Dick Francis Thriller: The Racing Game. Throughout the '80s she mainly did comedy...
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Dick is a common English slang word for the human penis. It is also used by extension for a variety of slang purposes, generally considered vulgar, including...
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comparing Chesterton to "first-rate action-writer[s] like Ian Fleming or Dick Francis" for suspense, but also "persuading you that something wonderful is afoot...
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