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Collie Breed History - Chekia  for graciously supplying the photo from the making of the movie, "Lad; A Dog". Note: In ... the U.S. after being bred extensively in Britain. ... in 1943 (World War II) and never saw the motion picture based ... It is interesting that the dog in Eric Knight's short story and. book was a tri colour Collie, while the movie featured a sable.
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Lassie Web: "She Was Our Dog, Eric's and Mine"  For just one second, the great brown eyes of the collie turned to the girl, deep ... being who, in different incarnations, has haunted our airwaves for 17 years: Lassie. ... of her gifted husband, whom she describes as "a proletarian writer of the '30s, ... During World War II, Eric Knight died in a January 1943 plane crash over...
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Lassie Come Home: The Book That Became a Great Dog Movie ...  Jul 12, 2011 ... The story was by author Eric Knight who soon expanded the story to be a ... The director wanted a rough collie (also known as a long-haired collie, a breed of dog raised for ... By 1954 Lassie made the transition to television, and while the ... After World War I, Eric Knight became a critic and a film writer.
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Eric Knight - Wikipedia  Eric Oswald Mowbray Knight was an English novelist and screenwriter, who is mainly notable for creating the fictional collie Lassie. He took American citizenship in 1942 shortly before his death. Contents. [hide]. 1 Biography; 2 Writing career; 3 Death; 4 References; 5 External links ... merchant who, when Eric was two years old, was killed during the Boer War.
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Eric Mowbray Knight, Author of Lassie Come Home - Chelsea Collies  The fact that she is still going strong after 60 years, is testament to both her popularity ... When Eric Knight created this character in 1938, he couldn't have known that it ... He started as a copy boy and worked his way up to writing feature articles for the ... In 1943, during World War II, he was killed in action while on board a...
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Pal (dog) - Wikipedia  Pal (June 4, 1940  June 1958) was a Rough Collie performer and the first in a line of such dogs to portray the fictional female collie Lassie in film and television. ... Weatherwax was on the site with Pal and offered to have his dog perform in a ... of the film in the summer, resulting in Weatherwax substituting the male collie,...
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68 years later, D-Day medic still haunted by 'the boy on the beach'...  Jun 6, 2012 ... ... took part in the storied invasion of Normandy, hitting Omaha Beach with ... He still gets nightmares, and he thinks back to the men he couldn't save, ... Sixty-eight years ago today, Broadaway leaped from his "hit" plane from...
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behind the - University of Virginia  Mar 28, 2008 ... The only vacations we took before the move to Paris ... Although we usually lived an easy day's drive from Dad's brother, .... Mother was deeply affected by the loss of her husband and life-long companion. ..... the 4th Cavalry at Fort Brown, Texas; the 5th Cavalry at Marfa, ...... too busy we chatted at length.
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Bouvier Des Flandres | Dogs 101 | Animal Planet  Dec 15, 2014 - 3 minThis breed bit the hand of Hitler and lived to tell the tale.
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ExecutedToday.com  1945: Private Eddie Slovik, the last American ...  Jan 31, 2009 ... On January 31, 1945, Private Edward Donald Eddie Slovik became ... War II: he was executed by firing squad by the U.S. Army for desertion.
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Goin' to the Dogs: Stories (and Films) about Man's Best Friend | The ...  Jan 25, 2012 ... After all, it's impossible for a dog to find her way back home alone over that many miles. However, Lassie somehow manages to do exactly that in order to be with ... The full text of the short story from the 1938 Saturday Evening Post ... first movie of the series of seven MGM films based on Eric Knight's novel.
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Bullet, the Wonder Dog, from The Roy Rogers Show  Jul 9, 2012 ... When not performing, Bullet lived a fine life as the pet of Roy and Dale. ... Roy Rogers was born Leonard Slye (1911-1998); he and his parents...
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Uncommon valor was a common virtue.  Chester Nimitz, March ...  Mar 16, 2010 ... The Battle of Iwo Jima has become etched in the historical memory of Americans ... one third of the entire Marine death toll during World War II.
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Page Fifteen - Shared stories  May 2, 2001 ... This was one of the most highly decorated divisions in World War II. ... in the July 1943 invasion of Sicily, Near Licata, on the island's southern coast. ... Chips was awarded the Silver Star for valor and a Purple Heart for his wounds. ... 19, 1946, he was sent to Europe, and returned to the U.S.A. Nov.24,1946.
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Saki Biography - eNotes.com  Examine the life, times, and work of Saki through detailed author biographies on eNotes. ... As Saki, he steadily wrote his short stories for publication in British ... for his short fiction and while he was working on a play, World War I broke out. ... was killed in action during the Beaumont-Hamel offensive on November 14, 1916.
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Jeopary Questions page 1336 - THE STARS - TriviaBistro.com  IT'S A DOG'S LIFE: The origins of this retriever go back to 2 puppies rescued from an 1807 shipwreck off the ... AUTHORS: In 1961 John F. Kennedy helped this man's widow get permission to go to Cuba to pick up her late husband's papers.
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Jeopary Questions page 2252 - NEW NAME - TriviaBistro.com  THE PREAMBLE: Boldly packing a lot into one very long sentence, the preamble wishes to "secure the ... THE FOUR-LEGGED ZOO: One of these long-lived animals that died in 1966 was reportedly given to the King of Tonga by Captain Cook.
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Death photo of war reporter Ernie Pyle found | Okinawa, Snipers and ...  Winning War, Prize Winning, Wwii Killed, Pyle 1900, Wwii Including, ... Ernie Pyle (1900-1945): Compassionate, Pulitzer Prize-winning war ... In 1947, he was awarded the PDSA Dicken Medal, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. ...... Cross Silver Star Legion of Merit Bronze Star Purple Heart French Legion of Honor...
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Lassie - Wikipedia  Lassie is a fictional female Rough Collie dog character created by Eric Knight in a short story ... the crisis, the local pub in Lyme Regis, called the Pilot Boat, offered its cellar as a mortuary. ... first published as a short story in The Saturday Evening Post in 1938 and later as a ... Title, Year, Worldwide Gross, Rotten Tomatoes.
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Pal (dog) - Wikipedia  Pal (June 4, 1940  June 1958) was a Rough Collie performer and the first in a line of such ... In 1943, the dog was chosen to play Lassie in MGM's feature film, Lassie Come Home. Following his ... Pal in his first screen appearance as Lassie in MGM's Lassie Come Home (1943), with Roddy McDowall as Joe Carraclough.
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J! Archive - Show #2122, aired 1993-11-23  Published posthumously in 1485, this author's "Le Morte d' Arthur" was written ... The American edition of her "Dog Training My Way" was published in 1972...