• William Griffith Wilson (November 26, 1895 – January 24, 1971), also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)...
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  • William Wilson, or variants, may refer to: Bill Wilson (activist) (born 1953), small government activist Bill Wilson (Montana politician) (born 1961),...
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  • and James Garner. William G. Borchert, who wrote the film script for television, based it on the true story of William Griffith Wilson and Robert Holbrook...
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    Alcohol Addictions in New York City in the 1930s, during which time William Griffith Wilson, a future co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), was admitted...
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    Washingtonians became so thoroughly extinct that by 1935, when William Griffith Wilson ("Bill") and Dr. Robert Smith ("Dr. Bob") joined together in forming...
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    as "a friend of Bill W.", which is a reference to AA's founder, William Griffith Wilson. To the uninitiated, this would seem like a casual – if off-topic...
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  • brother of Lois, became friends with a local boy named Bill Wilson (William Griffith Wilson). Lois and Bill met in the summer of 1914, when Lois was 23...
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  • Kevin Hanlon, about William Griffith Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, and the first feature length documentary on Wilson. The film includes...
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    Media George Randolph Barse Jr. (1861–1938), artist William Griffith Wilson (aka Bill W. or Bill Wilson) (1895–1971), cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous and...
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  • Baden-Powell. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-170670-X. Federer, William Joseph (1996), "William Holmes McGuffey", America's God and Country: Encyclopedia of...
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    poet and editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Bill W. (1895–1971 as William Griffith Wilson), co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous in a town house at 182 Clinton...
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    Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress. Born in Manhattan to actress Tippi Hedren, she was raised mainly in Los Angeles...
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  • catcher Bill Wilson (convict) (1880–?), convicted of murdering two individuals who were later found alive Bill W. (William Griffith Wilson, 1895–1971)...
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    experiences while stationed at Fort Adams during the First World War. William Griffith Wilson – Best known as "Bill W". Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Stationed...
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  • Secretary of the Navy Gregory T. Bedell – Episcopal Bishop of Ohio William Griffith Wilson 1917 – co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous who was in the top 20...
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  • documentary directed by Dan Carracino and Kevin Hanlon, about William Griffith Wilson. Addiction recovery groups Alcohol intoxication List of twelve-step...
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    announcement of his death, his name was finally revealed to the public as William Griffith Wilson, a retired Wall Street securities analyst who had had "a dramatic...
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    Louis Lecoin, Reinhold Niebuhr, Hiratsuka Raichō, Miriam Soljak, William Griffith Wilson and Waldo Williams died in 1971 without having been nominated for...
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    and won the passage of several progressive reforms. Wilson defeated incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and third-party nominee Theodore Roosevelt...
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    The Birth of a Nation (category Films directed by D. W. Griffith)
    directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.'s 1905 novel and play The Clansman. Griffith co-wrote the...
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  • continued until post World War II. In 1934 a man known as Bill W.(William Griffith Wilson, 1895–1971), admitted himself to a hospital for help with his drinking...
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    nephew of Samuel Wilson, the progenitor of America's national symbol Uncle Sam. He was the great-grandfather of cartoonist Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy...
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    Griffith Observatory is an observatory in Los Angeles, California, on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park. It commands a view of...
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  • Lois Wilson was a sales clerk and interior decorator at Loeser's Department Store. Lois Wilson was the long-suffering wife of William Griffith Wilson (Bill...
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    Sir Samuel Walker Griffith GCMG PC KC (21 June 1845 – 9 August 1920) was an Australian judge and politician who served as the inaugural Chief Justice of...
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    Clark Calvin Griffith (November 20, 1869 – October 27, 1955, ), nicknamed "the Old Fox", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, manager and...
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  • Frederick Griffith (1877–1941) was a British bacteriologist whose focus was the epidemiology and pathology of bacterial pneumonia. In January 1928 he reported...
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  • This is a list of episodes from the CBS television comedy The Andy Griffith Show. The first episode aired on October 3, 1960, and the final episode aired...
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    Nancy Lamoureux Wilson (born March 16, 1954) is an American musician. She rose to fame alongside her older sister Ann as guitarist and second vocalist...
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  • in 1972. William Howard Taft watching the Senators play the Chicago White Sox, August 13, 1912 Woodrow Wilson opens the season at Griffith Stadium, April...
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