"hands of his interrogators. The trial of eight of the plotters began on Monday 27 January 1606. Fawkes shared the barge from the Tower to Westminster Hall with seven of his co-conspirators. They were kept in the Star Chamber before being taken to Westminster Hall, where they were displayed on a purpose-built scaffold. The King and his close family, watching in secret, were among the spectators as the Lords Commissioners read out the list of charges. Fawkes was identified as Guido Fawkes, ""otherwise called Guido Johnson"". He pleaded not guilty, despite his apparent acceptance of guilt from the moment he"
"Monkeywrench (G.I. Joe) Monkeywrench is a fictional character from the toyline, comic books and cartoon series of the 1980s. He is affiliated with Cobra as one of the Dreadnoks and debuted in 1986. His real name is Bill Winkie. Monkeywrench was born in Rhyl, North Wales. Monkeywrench was born on Guy Fawkes Day, which in Britain commemorates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot. As a youth, he built explosive devices for terrorists, and had made himself a pariah in his hometown by age sixteen. He drifted to London's East End to take part in a ""new wave"" movement, developing rudeness"
"the subject. His grandfather, Harry Jackson, calls him ""Bud"" or ""Buddy"". Most of his friends and colleagues call him by his last name MacGyver or simply ""Mac"". In the final season his first name is canonically revealed to be Angus when, while knocked unconscious and hallucinating, he meets a 7th-century man named Angus M'Iver (""son of Ingmarr"") and admits that they share their first name. This revelation is repeated in the series finale, which introduces MacGyver's son as having the middle name Angus, as well as on the packaging of the ""MacGyver"" DVD season sets. MacGyver's birthdate is given as"
"orangey-rust of the rug. He had only recently come to Australia. His time in East End, London, being a cavalcade of debauchery and psychedelic music."" Monkeywrench (G.I. Joe) Monkeywrench is a fictional character from the toyline, comic books and cartoon series of the 1980s. He is affiliated with Cobra as one of the Dreadnoks and debuted in 1986. His real name is Bill Winkie. Monkeywrench was born in Rhyl, North Wales. Monkeywrench was born on Guy Fawkes Day, which in Britain commemorates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot. As a youth, he built explosive devices for terrorists, and had made"
"""eight of the hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos"", while yet another advertisement stated that ""[the show] exposes one of the tri-state area's most misunderstood species ... the GUIDO. Yes, they really do exist! Our Guidos and Guidettes will move into the ultimate beach house rental and indulge in everything the Seaside Heights, New Jersey scene has to offer."" Cast members Snooki and JWoww are not ethnically Italian. Snooki is Chilean, but was adopted as an infant by Italian American parents. Jwoww is of Irish and Spanish descent. Ronnie, Sammi, and Angelina are only of partial Italian descent: Ronnie is part Puerto"
"trading, junk bonds, and corporate takeovers. He and Stone spent three weeks visiting brokerage houses and interviewing investors. Weiser wrote the first draft, initially called ""Greed"", with Stone writing another draft. Originally, the lead character was a young Jewish broker named Freddie Goldsmith, but Stone changed it to Bud Fox to avoid the stereotype that Wall Street was controlled by Jews. Reportedly, Gordon Gekko is said to be a composite of several people: Wall Street broker Owen Morrisey, an old friend of Stone's who was involved in a $20 million insider trading scandal in 1985, Dennis Levine, Ivan Boesky, corporate"
"Kentucky called ""Auric Stud"". However, Goldfinger's real business is that of internationally smuggling gold, using the method of having a car built with gold body castings and transporting it via airplane before having the bodywork re-smelted once it arrives at its destination. After Goldfinger's business affairs come under suspicion from the Bank of England, Bond is sent to investigate. In the film, Felix Leiter says that Goldfinger is ""British, but he doesn't sound like it""; however, this may simply mean he possesses British citizenship, as by his accent and red-blond hair he is probably German by birth. Fröbe was chosen"
"Wally Fawkes Walter Ernest ""Wally"" Fawkes (born 21 June 1924) is a British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and a satirical cartoonist. As a cartoonist, he usually worked under the name ""Trog"" until failing eyesight forced him to retire in 2005 at the age of 81. Fawkes was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1924 and emigrated with his family to Britain in 1931. Enthused by comic books from a young age, Fawkes left school at fourteen to take up a scholarship to study at Sidcup Art School. After 18 months he left art school due to financial restraints. On the outbreak"
"of Bloomingdale, Illinois, a dentist and a brother of Sidney Smith, Wheat met the cartoonist, who saw in him an ideal comic character. Wheat subsequently had his surname legally changed to ""Gump"" to match the cartoon character. His wife's name is Min, and he has two children, Chester and Goliath, now living in San Francisco, and an Uncle Bim who lives in Georgia. Gump's home is in Tucson, Arizona, but he also has a farm near his birthplace in Mississippi."" The Gumps were utterly ordinary: chinless, bombastic blowhard Andy Gump (short for Andrew), who is henpecked by his wife, Min"
"then in Ealing, London, following their initial meeting in Fire Island, New York, USA. Bond died of AIDS on 12 October 1995 at the age of 55, exactly one month after Jeremy Brett's death. Gary Bond Gary James Bond (7 February 1940 – 12 October 1995) was an English actor and singer. He is known for his roles in several high profile West End plays and musicals, as well as his portrayal of protagonist John Grant in the 1971 cult Australian film ""Wake in Fright"". Bond was born in Liss, Hampshire, England. The son of a soldier, he trained at"
"Guy"" on Broadway, he had crowds of 300 fans waiting for a glimpse of him after every performance. This is the highest number of expectant fans post-show of any Broadway performance. Hanks is ranked as the fourth highest all-time box office star in North America, with a total gross of over $4.5 billion at the North American box office, an average of $100.8 million per film. Worldwide, his films have grossed over $9.0 billion. Asteroid is named after him. Tom Hanks Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Hanks is known for his comedic"
"are the actual high school photographs of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts. In the yearbook, Andy's middle name is listed as Jackson. Barney's middle name is listed as Milton. In a later episode, Andy's middle name is Samuel. Over the length of the series, Barney had three different middle names. Andy's first job was working in the movie theater. In the first-season episode number nine, ""A Feud is a Feud"", Andy mentions being in France during WWII. This statement is ambiguous, however. At the moment it is uttered, Andy is trying to outwit two mountain men intent on murdering each"
"George Goodman George Jerome Waldo Goodman (August 10, 1930 – January 3, 2014) was an American author and economics broadcast commentator, best known by his pseudonym Adam Smith (which was assigned by Clay Felker at ""New York"" magazine in order to keep his published articles about Wall Street anonymous). He also wrote fiction under the name ""George Goodman"". Goodman was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Alexander Mark Goodman and Viona Cremer Goodman. He attended Harvard College, graduating ""magna cum laude"", and served as an editor of ""The Harvard Crimson"". Goodman won a Rhodes Scholarship to Brasenose College,"
"educating and opening up his students. When writing GTO, Fujisawa was influenced by the writing style of Kouhei Tsuka. The series was originally intended to run for 10 volumes, however it was extended at the request of the publisher. Fujisawa began to run out of characters as a result. When faced with writing block he would write stories without Onizuka. Onizuka's first name, Eikichi, was taken from musician Eikichi Yazawa. When developing Onizuka's character for the series, Fujisawa sought to incorporate real character traits from Japanese gangs often referred to as ""Yankees"". Onizuka's look is modelled on such gang members"
"Leon Mandrake Leon Giglio (April 11, 1911 – January 27, 1993), better known by his stage name Leon Mandrake, was an Italian-Canadian magician, mentalist, illusionist, escapologist, ventriloquist and stunt performer known worldwide as ""Mandrake the Magician"", albeit simultaneously and unrelatedly to the comic strip character Mandrake the Magician. Born April 11, 1911 in Washington state, Mandrake was very young when his mother brought him to New Westminster, British Columbia on the West Coast of Canada to live with his aunt Mildred. As a child, he watched magicians at the local Edison Theatre and attended circus shows at the Pacific National"
"episode was notable for revealing the real name of the character Comic Book Guy to be Jeff Albertson. It was a long-running gag on the show was never to reveal the character's name, with other characters referring to him as ""Comic Book Guy"". The writers had intended to name the character as early as his first episode, but they could not think of a name for him, and they called him ""Comic Book Guy"", with the intention of naming the character the next time they used him. However, they kept putting it off. Showrunner Al Jean remarked: ""That was specifically"
"the butt of Minnie's pranks, although his services are occasionally engaged by Minnie for the furtherence of her schemes. His real name is Frederick James Fudge. He has a son named Frederick Fudge Jr. and he also appeared with him in The Beano comics, The Beano Video, The Beano Videostars and the TV series ""Curious George"". In the Beano Video and the Beano Videostars, three of his clones were Red, Yellow and Blue. However the red version of Fatty Fudge appeared without the blue and yellow Fatty Fudges in ""Pink Glove"" from the Beano Video and ""Jelly Babies"" from the"
"Guy Wallace Guy Wallace, originally ""Guy Charles Faulds"" (1913 – August 29, 1967) was a Chicago and New York radio personality. Faulds graduated in 1935 from Mount St. Joseph College in Baltimore. From 1940 to 1943 he and his first wife Bernadette Issak lived in Bloomington and Chicago, Illinois. He began using the professional alias ""Guy Wallace"" by 1942. He was employed by WNEW, WMGM, WCBS, WNBC and WOR between 1947 and 1957, and by that year was a freelance announcer in New York City. In 1951 he resigned as program director at WFDR and became an Executive Producer and"
"6, 2005 episode, ""Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass"", Comic Book Guy nonchalantly tells Ned Flanders: ""My name is Jeff Albertson, but everyone calls me 'Comic Book Guy'"". Showrunner Al Jean remarked: ""That was specifically done to make people really mad. We just tried to pick a generic name. It was also the Super Bowl show. We did it so the most people possible would see it."" Groening stated that he had originally intended him to be called Louis Lane and be ""obsessed and tormented by"" Lois Lane, but Groening was not present when the writers chose the name. His"
"Guy Williams (actor) Guy Williams (born Armando Joseph Catalano; January 14, 1924 – April 30, 1989) was an American actor and former fashion model. He usually played swashbuckling action heroes in the 1950s and 1960s, but never quite achieved movie-star status, despite his appearance (including hazel eyes, [1m 90 cm] height, and 190 lb [86 kg] weight) and charisma, which helped launch his early successful photographic modeling career. Among his most notable achievements were two TV series: ""Zorro"", in the title role and ""Lost in Space"", as the father of the Robinson family. The sci-fi TV program was popular. His"
"real name is Nick Fury, Jr.. Fury Jr. closely resembles the Ultimate version of Fury. When the original Nick Fury decided to retire as director of S.H.I.E.L.D., the mantle was handed onto Fury Jr., who had recently lost his left eye and took to wearing an eye patch. Nicholas Fury fought for the United States in World War II. During the invasion of Sicily, he, along with Private Fisk and Canadian paratrooper Corporal Howlett, attempted to loot a house. American military police arrived to arrest them, and all three were subdued. Fisk was grazed by a bullet, while Fury was"
"Todd Carty Todd Carty (born 31 August 1963) is an English actor and director, who has grown up on television screens in a variety of roles. His stage work has varied from pantomime to serious drama, as well as radio plays, voiceovers, commercials, narrations and films. He is best known for his roles as Tucker Jenkins in ""Grange Hill"", Mark Fowler in ""EastEnders"", and psychopathic policeman Gabriel Kent in ""The Bill"". Carty was born in London to Irish parents. He grew up in Kilburn, West Hampstead and Harrow on the Hill, London. He has two sisters named Billie Joe and"
"For Bob's voice, Grammer performed an impression of theatre actor and director Ellis Rabb. Grammer had once worked for Rabb, whose ""lamenting tones became [the] foundation for Sideshow Bob"". Sideshow Bob's full name is Robert Underdunk Terwilliger. His last name was first revealed in ""Black Widower"" while his middle name was first mentioned in ""Sideshow Bob Roberts"". Competing theories as to the origin of his name exist; some sources say he was named after the character Dr. Terwilliker, a megalomaniac outwitted by a boy named Bart in the film ""The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T"" by Dr. Seuss, but others"
"at the library and concluded that Frank was the illegitimate son of Harry Houdini. In fact, Houdini was only sixteen years old in 1890, the year of Frank Gilmore's birth, and did not begin his career as a magician until the following year. As such, whether Fay meant that Frank Sr.'s father was someone who would ""later become known"" as a famous magician may never be known. Mikal Gilmore, Gary's youngest brother, believes the story to be false, but has stated that both his father and mother believed it. During Gary's childhood, the family frequently relocated throughout the Western United"
"eyesight forced him to retire in 2005. In 2013 his work was celebrated with an exhibition at the Cartoon Museum of London. Fawkes married the journalist Sandy Fawkes in 1949 and they had four children, three of whom survived. In 1965 he married Susan Clifford and they had two children, one of whom was Lucy Brooker. She has two daughters, one of them being Ruby Brooker. Wally Fawkes Walter Ernest ""Wally"" Fawkes (born 21 June 1924) is a British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and a satirical cartoonist. As a cartoonist, he usually worked under the name ""Trog"" until failing eyesight forced him"
"Gladstone Gander Gladstone Gander is a Walt Disney fictional character created in 1948 by comic artist and writer Carl Barks. He is an anthropomorphic male goose (or gander) who possesses exceptional good luck that grants him anything he desires as well as protecting him from any harm. This is in contrast to his cousin Donald Duck who is often characterized for having bad luck. Gladstone is also a rival of Donald for the affection of Daisy Duck. Gladstone dresses in a very debonair way, often in a suit; wearing a bow-tie, fedora and spats. He has a wavy hairstyle which"
"fad of nicknames ending in O, which prompted a vaudeville monologist named Art Fisher, while playing poker with four brothers who performed together, to give them all such names. One of the brothers got a name that belonged to one of the characters in the strip: Groucho, one of the monks. Fisher named the other brothers Harpo, Chicko (later re-spelled ""Chico"") and Gummo. At various times, however, the different Marx Brothers provided different reasons for the names, so ""Knocko the Monk"" may not, in fact, have been the inspiration. Hawkshaw the Detective, played originally by Horace Wigan, debuted in the"
"Gyro Gearloose Gyro Gearloose is a fictional character, an anthropomorphic chicken, created by Carl Barks for The Walt Disney Company. He is part of the Donald Duck universe, appearing in comic book stories as a friend of Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck and anyone who is associated with them. He was also a frequent star of the animated ""DuckTales"". He first appeared in the Carl Barks comic ""Gladstone's Terrible Secret"" (""Walt Disney's Comics and Stories"" #140). Gyro is Duckburg's most famous inventor, even though his inventions don't always work the way he wants them to. His outrageous productivity is presented as"
"influence and pursue the office of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. According to series producer Beau Willimon, the change in last name stemmed from the ""Dickensian"" feeling and ""more legitimately American"" sounding resonance of the name 'Underwood'. Whereas Urquhart is an aristocrat by birth, Underwood is a self-made man, having been born into a poor Southern family with an alcoholic father. Urquhart was one of television's first antiheroes, whereas Underwood follows the more recent rash of antiheroes that includes Tony Soprano of ""The Sopranos"", Walter White of ""Breaking Bad"", and Dexter Morgan of ""Dexter"". However, unlike most other antiheroes,"
"the Castellammarese War. Sources Frankie Yale Francesco Ioele (January 22, 1893 – July 1, 1928), better known as Frankie Uale or Frankie Yale, was a Brooklyn gangster and original employer of Al Capone before the later moved to Chicago. Born in Longobucco, Francesco Ioele (""yo-ay-leh"") and his family arrived in the United States c. 1900. As a teenager, Ioele was befriended by John Torrio, who ushered him into the Five Points Gang and groomed him for a life of crime. Shortly after Torrio left for Chicago, in 1909, Ioele ""Americanized"" his last name to Yale. Despite his medium height and"
"""Worst [blank] ever!"" Comic Book Guy (who states Jeff Albertson to be his real name in the episode ""Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass"") is a nerdy, snobby and quarrelsome man best known for his eloquence and crabby, sarcastic quips. He is obsessed with collecting comic books and is an avid science fiction buff. He holds a master's degree in folklore and mythology (having translated ""The Lord of the Rings"" into Klingon as part of his thesis), as well as a degree in chemical engineering, has an IQ of 170, and is a member of the Springfield branch of Mensa."
"Mandrake, a real-life stage magician who had been performing for well over ten years before Lee Falk introduced the comic strip character, and who was likewise known for his top hat, pencil line mustache and scarlet-lined cape, is sometimes thought to have been the basis for the origin of the strip. In actuality, he had changed his stage name to Mandrake to match the popular strip, and then legally changed his surname from Giglio to Mandrake later. The resemblance between the comic strip hero and the real life magician was close enough to allow Leon to at least passively allow"
"Sol Badguy Sol Badguy, whose real name is Frederick, was named after Freddie Mercury's nickname, ""Mr. Bad Guy"", by Daisuke Ishiwatari, the series' creator, who also provided his voice in the video games. Despite being criticized as a generic fictional character, video game reviewers compared his relationship with his main rival, Ky Kiske, to that of other notable video game characters. Sol's fighting abilities and the choice of his name were also the subject of reviewers, receiving both praise and criticism. Creator Daisuke Ishiwatari designed Sol in many ways as his alter ego, and also recorded Sol's in-game voice (the"