In the books by W.E. Johns what is the full surname of the character known as Biggles?
"Baltic Sea and then to defy the Nazis and their allies in Norway. He then took up his post as Commanding Officer of 666 Squadron, RAF, a Special Duties squadron that fought in the Battle of Britain before being sent around the world on specific assignments. Biggles, Algy, Smyth and Hebblethwaite are joined by a new companion, the monocle-wearing Lord Bertram 'Bertie' Lissie. The changed venue forced Johns to update his material with references to new flying slang and aeroplanes, unsuccessfully at first but later with more realism. Biggles' new squadron includes a diverse cast, including the American 'Tex' O'Hara"
"Johns, author of many books including the Biggles series of novels, was born in February 1893 in Molewood Road, Bengeo. Sir Thomas Dimsdale (1712–1800) pioneer of smallpox inoculation lived at Port Hill House and established an inoculation house still known as ""The Pest House"" on the corner of Byde Street and Fanshawe Street. He was also MP for Hertford from 1780-89. Thomas Charles Byde Rooke (1806–1858) was an English physician who married into the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii was born in Bengeo. He built a mansion called the Rooke House in Honolulu that became popular with political"
"W. Watts Biggers William Watts ""Buck"" Biggers (June 2, 1927 – February 10, 2013) was an American novelist and co-creator of the long-running animated television series ""Underdog"". Born in Avondale Estates, Georgia, Biggers went to Avondale High where he was member of a debating team which won the state championship. Skipping his senior year of high school, he edited the school newspaper at North Georgia Military College and went on to Emory University Law School. At age 20, he headed for New York City where he struggled unsuccessfully as a pianist and vocalist, singing his own original songs. At the"
"in 1999 as a half-hour radio show, narrated by Tom Ellis. In it, Simon Bar Sinister develops a Switchpitch baseball to turn positive people negative. His attempt to become king of Boston is foiled by Underdog and Sweet Polly Purebred. Biggers died of a heart attack at his home in Manomet, Massachusetts on February 10, 2013. W. Watts Biggers William Watts ""Buck"" Biggers (June 2, 1927 – February 10, 2013) was an American novelist and co-creator of the long-running animated television series ""Underdog"". Born in Avondale Estates, Georgia, Biggers went to Avondale High where he was member of a debating"
"of RAAF planes led to his earning the nickname ""Biggles"", after Captain W. E. Johns's fictional aviation hero – a self-inflicted wound, following his remark to journalists at the time 'whatever you do, don't call me Biggles'. This incident also led to Evans coining the expression 'streaker's defence' (i.e. 'it seemed like a good idea at the time), which has entered the Australian vocabulary. More serious controversy surrounded the Government's handling of national security issues including the Combe-Ivanov affair and the attempted suppression of publication of leaked documents by journalist Brian Toohey, and the allegations of impropriety made against High"
"himself, without any reference to W.E.Johns, other than the names of the characters. After Buck Danny no.45, Bergèse returned to Biggles for two more albums: Squadron Biggles was a collection of short stories reaped from different books of W.E. Johns, for The Last Zeppelin he wrote his own scenario keeping the original characters. So when de Douhet departed as a writer for Buck Danny, Bergèse felt that he was ready to take over the writing part as well as the drawing and in 1996 he returned to Dupuis to draw and write Buck Danny no.46. As between 1989 and 1994,"
"Farman MF.11 The Maurice Farman MF.11 ""Shorthorn"" is a French aircraft developed before World War I by the Farman Aviation Works. It was used as a reconnaissance and light bomber during the early part of World War I, later being relegated to training duties. The Maurice Farman Shorthorn was the aircraft in which Biggles, Capt W.E. Johns' fictional character, first took to the air in ""Biggles Learns To Fly"". A pusher configuration unequal-span biplane like the earlier Farman MF.7, the MF.11 differed in lacking the forward-mounted elevator, the replacement of the biplane horizontal tail surfaces with a single surface with"
"Earl Derr Biggers Earl Derr Biggers (August 26, 1884 – April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright. He is remembered primarily for his novels, especially those featuring the fictional Chinese American detective Charlie Chan, from which popular films were made in the United States and China. The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers, Earl Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University in 1907. He worked as a journalist for ""The Plain Dealer"" before turning to fiction. Many of his plays and novels were made into movies. He was posthumously inducted"
"worried about what his child will find around the next corner, the big cat who knows he has to let go just a little but can't find it in himself to do so"". Bagheera Bagheera (; ""Baghīrā""/""Bagīdah"") is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in the ""Jungle Book"" (coll. 1894) and the ""Second Jungle Book"" (coll. 1895). He is a black panther (melanistic Indian leopard) who serves as friend, protector and mentor to the ""man-cub"" Mowgli. The word ""bagheera"" is Hindi/Urdu for black panther-- although the root word bagh means tiger. Born in captivity in the menagerie of"
"Mowgli Mowgli is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"" stories. He is a naked feral child from the Pench area in Seoni, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story ""In the Rukh"" (collected in ""Many Inventions"", 1893) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his collections ""The Jungle Book"" and ""The Second Jungle Book"" (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters. In the stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean ""frog"", describing his lack of fur. Kipling made up the name, and it ""does not"
"in Britain's colonies and former colonies. In general the storylines of the books focus on actions behind enemy lines, or in foreign lands. During one of the books, Gimlet and his team go into occupied France to rescue British slave labourers from a Renault plant which is about to be bombed. In later stories, Gimlet seeks treasure, and must work as both predator and prey when Werwolf terrorists begin trying and executing British ""war criminals"". Although less popular than Biggles as a character, Gimlet remains an enduring legacy of W.E. Johns and British adventure fiction. The Gimlet Regulars also appear"
"Bunny Manders Harry Manders (almost exclusively known as Bunny Manders) is a character in the popular series of Raffles novels by E.W. Hornung. He is the faithful companion of Raffles, a cricketer and gentleman thief, who makes a living robbing the rich in late Victorian British High Society. Whereas Raffles is sharp-witted and cynical, the younger Bunny is more innocent and idealistic. Raffles often uses this naivete to his own benefit, and the two are commonly companions on the various burglaries they commit. Bunny is fair-haired, and short enough to pass himself off as a tall woman on one occasion."
"and brain power, however small, that each boy possesses, that was his real curriculum. He believed in men more than the system, and really rather enjoyed the cold looks of inspectors who expected conventional patterns and did not find them. During his time at Hertford, Kinman commanded the Officer Training Corps at the school and was very proud of the contingent. It has been remembered that after the First World War the Headmaster 'meticulously' annotated the Registers of his Old Boys killed, wounded and distinguished during the conflict in red ink. William Earl Johns, author of ""The Biggles stories"" was"
"Googie Withers Georgette Lizette Withers, CBE, AO (12 March 191715 July 2011), known professionally as Googie Withers, was a British entertainer who had a lengthy career in theatre, film, and television. She was a longtime resident of Australia with her husband, the actor John McCallum, with whom she often appeared. She was a well-known actress during the war and post-war years. Withers was born in Karachi, in British India (now in Pakistan) to Edgar Withers, a captain in the Royal Navy, and a Dutch-German mother, Zitette. She acquired the name ""Googie"" (Little Pigeon) at a young age from her ""ayah"""
"in The Great War. ""The Man Who Stayed at Home"", a 1914 play by J. E. Harold Terry and Lechmere Worrall, was renamed ""The White Feather"" when staged in North America. The title character is a British secret agent who is falsely perceived to be a coward for his refusal to enlist as a soldier. In ""The Camels are Coming"" (1932), the first-ever collection of Biggles stories, Biggles is handed a white feather by a young woman while on leave in civilian clothes, who is later taken aback to find that he is one of the Royal Flying Corps' leading"
"Bigfoot Breathmint, My Life as a Blundering Ballerina, My Life as a Screaming Skydiver, My Life as a Human Hairball, My Life as a Walrus Whoopee Cushion, My Life as a Computer Cockroach(Mixed Up Millennium Bug), My Life as a Beat Up Basketball Backboard, My Life as a Cowboy Cowpie, My Life as Invisible Intestines with Intense Indigestion, My Life as a Skysurfing Skateboarder, and My Life as a Tarantula Toe Tickler. Bill Myers is an award winning author, film writer, and film producer. He wrote the series McGee and Me. He was born in Seattle, Washington, on September 9,"
"the long-running series of 'Biggles' books by W.E. Johns, 666 Squadron, RAF, is the Special Duties squadron led by the eponymous hero James Bigglesworth during World War II. In the Charles Stross novel ""The Fuller Memorandum"" 666 Squadron is a secret RAF unit involved on occult activities. No. 666 Squadron RAF No. 666 Squadron was a Royal Air Force Air Observation Post (AOP) squadron associated with the Canadian 1st Army and later part of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force. Numbers 651 to 663 Squadron of the RAF were Air Observation Post units working closely with British Army units in artillery"
"tried to go straight and trained as a carpenter. In February 1960, he married 21-year-old Charmian (Brent) Powell in Swanage, the daughter of a primary school headmaster. They had three sons together. Biggs, who needed money to fund a deposit on the purchase of a house for his family, happened to be working on the house of a train driver who was about to retire. The driver has been variously identified as ""Stan Agate"", or because of his age, ""Old Pete"" or ""Pop"". His real name is unknown, since he was never caught. He was the one who introduced Biggs"
"and M.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. Biggle taught at the University of Michigan and at Eastern Michigan University in the 1950s. He began writing professionally in 1955 and became a full-time writer with the publication of his novel, ""All the Colors of Darkness"" in 1963; he continued in the writing profession until his death. Biggle was celebrated in science fiction circles as the author who introduced aesthetics into a literature known for its scientific and technological complications. His stories frequently used musical and artistic themes. Such notables as songwriter Jimmy Webb and novelist Orson Scott Card"
"the Territorial Officers' Decoration which was awarded to officers of the Territorial Force who have completed 20 years' commissioned service in that force, or in its predecessor, the Volunteer Force, and are recommended for the award. Kinman was also mentioned for his services with the Department to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1919. William Earl Johns, author of The Biggles Stories joined The Hertford School in January 1905 when Kinman was headmaster. The W.E. Johns website biography states: In January 1905, Johns went to Hertford Grammar School (now the Richard Hale School, Hertford) where the headmaster was"
"drove Biggles from many public and school libraries. Biggles was brought up in India, speaks fluent Hindi and has a number of Indian friends and colleagues. In ""Biggles Goes to School"", on one occasion when told to write lines in Latin, he remarks that he would rather do so in Hindi. On another occasion the adult Biggles asserts to Air Commodore Raymond that ""while men are decent to me I try to be decent to them, regardless of race, colour, politics, creed or anything else"". While individually developed non-white characters are rather infrequent, when they do occur, they are usually"
"adapted the story into the second half of the sixteenth episode of its Raffles radio drama, ""The Raffles Relics"", which first aired on 20 August 1992. The drama features Jeremy Clyde as Raffles and Michael Cochrane as Bunny. The episode faithfully follows the plot of the original story, with minor changes: The Wrong House ""The Wrong House"" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was first published in ""Scribner's Magazine"" in September 1901. The story was also included as the seventh story"
"Norfolk. When Biggles, now an adult, visits Dickpa, his father's brother, again, an adventure begins that takes both men to Brazil. Biggles then attended Malton Hall School in Hertbury, England. His first encounter with an aircraft was with a Blériot that landed on the school cricket ground. Biggles left school and initially joined the army as a subaltern in the Rifle Regiment in 1916. He transferred to the RFC and learned to fly in the summer of 1916, at No. 17 Flying Training School, which was at Settling, Norfolk, flying solo after two hours of instruction. He then attended No."
"Margaret Biggs Margaret Biggs (born 9 July 1929, Orpington, Kent) is a popular and collectible exponent of the girls' School story. She is best known for her Melling School series of books, first published by Blackie in the 1950s. The series is set at a weekly boarding school and is unusual in that it shows boarding school life and home life side by side. The interaction between girls and boys is also atypical of the genre at that time. The Melling series was republished by Girls Gone By Publishers in the 2000s and the reprints, whilst retaining the original text"
"son Chris and his second wife Barbara; chefs Mr. Lovejoy, Mr. Booth and Shughie McFee; hairdresser Vera Downend; the Harvey family, consisting of father Wilf and his grown children Stan and Sheila; accountant and later motel manager Adam Chance; and cleaner Doris Luke. Perhaps the most memorable character proved to be the ""village idiot"" Benny Hawkins, whose trademark was a woolly hat worn all year round. His fans included British troops serving in the Falklands War in 1982, who nicknamed the Falkland Islanders ""Bennies"" after the character. Instructed to stop using the name, the troops came up with ""Stills"" for"
"4 'School of Fighting' in Frensham, Lincolnshire. Posted to France with under 15 hours, dual and solo, he first flew in combat in September 1916 with 169 Squadron, RFC, (commanded by Major Paynter). His observer was another youth named Mark Way, a New Zealander. Biggles began flying the F.E.2b ""pusher"" and later the Bristol F2B. In late summer 1917, he was transferred to 266 Squadron RFC, commanded by a Dubliner, Major Mullen. With 266 Squadron, Biggles flew the Sopwith Pup and the famed Sopwith Camel, developing a friendly rivalry with 'Wilks' (Captain Wilkinson) and the S.E.5s of 287 squadron and"
"Pride of the Bimbos Pride of the Bimbos is the first novel by American author and filmmaker John Sayles, published in 1975. The book is about a midget who is a traveling baseball player who dresses in drag and plays local teams. The baseball is always played without comedy and the traveling team (the Bimbos) almost always wins. As the book unfolds the reader learns about the midget named Pogo in flashbacks. At one time he was a gang leader and another he was a detective. Throughout the book a man who is as tall as Pogo is short tries"
"assistant who began his association with Holmes as a ""Baker Street Irregular""; several stories, including ""The Quallsford Inheritance"" and ""The Glendower Conspiracy"", feature Jones and Holmes. These were followed by a series of stories featured in ""Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine"" starring Biggle's Victorian sleuth, Lady Sara Varnley. Both Biggle's science fiction and mystery stories have received international acclaim being nominated for the 1962 Hugo for short fiction, and also nominated for the Locus Readers awards in 1972, 1973, and 1974. He published two-dozen books as well as magazine stories and numerous articles. His last novel was ""The Chronocide Mission"". He"
"Bagheera Bagheera (; ""Baghīrā""/""Bagīdah"") is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in the ""Jungle Book"" (coll. 1894) and the ""Second Jungle Book"" (coll. 1895). He is a black panther (melanistic Indian leopard) who serves as friend, protector and mentor to the ""man-cub"" Mowgli. The word ""bagheera"" is Hindi/Urdu for black panther-- although the root word bagh means tiger. Born in captivity in the menagerie of the Raja of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, Bagheera begins to plan for his freedom after his mother dies. Once he is mature and strong enough, he breaks the lock on his cage and escapes"
"Woggle-Bug The Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug is a character in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum. He first appears in the book ""The Marvelous Land of Oz"" in 1904. He goes by the name H. M. Woggle-Bug, T.E. (""Highly Magnified and Thoroughly Educated""). In later books the hyphen was sometimes dropped: ""Wogglebug"". In illustrations he is often depicted wearing bright colors and several pairs of glasses on his elongated proboscis. According to ""The Marvelous Land of Oz"", the Woggle-Bug was once a regular tiny woggle-bug, about the size of a pea. He lived the life of a normal insect until"
"The Wrong House ""The Wrong House"" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was first published in ""Scribner's Magazine"" in September 1901. The story was also included as the seventh story in the collection ""The Black Mask"", published by Grant Richards in London, and Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, both in 1901. Raffles is now living with Bunny in Ham Common as Bunny's colonial brother, Ralph. Raffles and Bunny occasionally commit burglaries at night, using their bicycles. Raffles becomes a favorite"
"""The Nation"", called the book ""[a] novel by turns hilarious and poignant"" showing Sayles's ""highly individual vision."" Pride of the Bimbos Pride of the Bimbos is the first novel by American author and filmmaker John Sayles, published in 1975. The book is about a midget who is a traveling baseball player who dresses in drag and plays local teams. The baseball is always played without comedy and the traveling team (the Bimbos) almost always wins. As the book unfolds the reader learns about the midget named Pogo in flashbacks. At one time he was a gang leader and another he"
"John Biggins John Biggins (born 31 October 1949) is a British writer of historical fiction. He is best known for his Prohaska series of novels set in the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the early years of the 20th Century. Biggins was born in Bromley, Greater London, England. He attended Chepstow Secondary and Lydney Grammar Schools, and studied history at the University of Wales from 1968 to 1971. He continued his graduate studies in Poland. As a young man Biggins worked as a civil servant for the UK Ministry of Agriculture. He also worked as a journalist and did technical writing before"