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  Biggles the designer, maker of 3D illustration, graphics and design
An artist and designer, Biggles creates unusual odd objects, or one of a kinds, for 3D illustration, private commission, and advertising, as well as being a noted interactive designer and teacher.
Biggles started making odd objects 23 years ago, first as 3D illustrations, then later as art objects in their own right.
Beginning a freelance career as a graphic designer and art director after leaving the Royal College of Art, Biggles broad interests have been reflected in his professional life ever since.
www.biggles.uk.com   (220 words)

  
  Biggles - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Biggles, known as the Big White Fokker, was a popular British hero through the troubled times of the 20th century.
Biggles was recalled to active service during December 1939, and whilst he took a while to be pursuaded to upgrade his trusty Sopwith Pup for a Spitfire, his kill rate remained impressive.
In 1942 Biggles was awarded both the Victoria Cross and the HMRFRA for valour, when, despite losing a foot, he returned to active duty.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Biggles   (1155 words)

  
 Biggles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the war Biggles flew the FE2 "pusher", the Bristol F2B, the Sopwith Pup and the famed Sopwith Camel as a pilot of the fictional 266 Squadron RFC.
Biggles was parodied in a series of skits on the 1970s British comedy television show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, including one titled "Biggles dictates a letter"[1] and 'Cardinal Biggles', complete with flying helmet and goggles, assists in the interrogations in the Spanish Inquisition sketch.
Biggles and the Leopards of Zinn — (1960)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biggles   (1466 words)

  
 Biggles & Co
Biggles is initially reluctant but decides to accept after receiving a threatening phone call from Germany, warning him not to.
Biggles is telephoned and told that he must hand over his next shipment, diamonds due to be delivered to Amsterdam, if he wants Algy back.
Biggles is imprisoned in the turret of a German castle.
www.biggles.info /Details/10   (481 words)

  
 Jedi Council Forums - Biggles Gets a New Hat: (Comedy/OC Biggles!) Part 3 of 3 is up 10/22! Finished!
Biggles painfully pulled a few pieces of glass from his foot and wrapped it in a cloth he tore from his bed in the darkness.
Biggles turned away from her quickly, remembering the ceramic pitcher was still stuck to his hand.
Biggles was eyed suspiciously everywhere he went in the city on his way to the temple.
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 Mind 'Scapes: Dreamer's Plane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Biggles 2000 was, still is, and probably always will be the name of my current desktop PC.
A millisecond of thought later and I arrived at "Biggles 2000: The Gateway to the Next Generation," a combination of my nickname, a parody of my college's PC distributor, and what was once my favorite sci-fi show.
Finally, Biggles 2000 was not a set of pages that I wanted to show off to professionals who might be interested in hiring me. They simply didn't demonstrate my artistic and layout abilities as well as they could.
www.stat.purdue.edu /~hilborn/dreamer/biggles.html   (537 words)

  
 Biggles Page - Justin's Squat
Biggles is a fictional pilot from the pen of Captain W.E. Johns who wrote around 98 books which featured Biggles, full name: James Bigglesworth.
Biggles was an upstanding chap and stuck to rigid morals of fair play, even though I guess that was my personality anyway to do like to think that he inspired me to be a good all round chap!
The last Biggles I read before this was "Biggles and the Deep Blue Sea" (which was a PDF version!) and I realised then that I did not want to re-read any of the others.
www.greylizard.net /biggles.php   (843 words)

  
 Biggles mysteries
Biggles and Algy were growing old and Ginger, as the young person’s viewpoint in the books, was essential to the success of further stories.
Both Biggles and Algy are snatched from the relatively straightforward tussle for supremacy in the skies over the trenches in France and plunged into the murky world of espionage.
Biggles wins the approval of everyone when he undertakes to carry the supplies to the old man. The reader then marvels at the spirit and independence of the old prospector who chooses to stay with his remote claim rather than take the easy option of a flight back to civilisation.
www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com /bigglesm.html   (3584 words)

  
 Aerospace Technology - Biggles Labelling - Interior Aircraft Placards and External Decals
Biggles Labelling Limited is the industry's leading manufacturer and supplier of internal aircraft placards.
Biggles Labelling manufactures all placards on the aerospace approved range of GE Lexan and Makrofol Polycarbonate substrates.
Biggles Labelling provides a whole range of standard and customised internal placard kits for all the aircraft in their portfolio.
www.aerospace-technology.com /contractors/interiors/biggles   (724 words)

  
 Biggles friends and colleagues
The depth of Biggles’ affection for Algy is best seen in “Biggles Flies East” when Biggles fears that his comrade has been killed – “Something seemed to have died within him…” Their closeness is continued in the stories after the war when in “Biggles Flies Again” they fly around the world in their Vickers Vandal.
Biggles had served with Marcel’s father in the First World War and welcomes the man who is to be the sole representative of the French Air Police.
Like Biggles he is prepared to bend the rules and in “Biggles and the Black Mask” he even provides the Air Police with an efficient house-breaker so that a rescue attempt can be made for Ginger, trapped inside a lonely mansion.
www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com /bigfrend.html   (4049 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Biggles Learns to Fly: Books: W.E. Johns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Biggles is just 17 and while learning to fly discovers that he has a certain aptitude for flying in battle.
This is the realization of a dream for children of all ages, defying authority to fight for your King and Country and it has a wide appeal to both young and old alike.
Biggles is the embodiment of several key values, such as loyalty, duty, hard-work, and putting the needs of the team above his own.
www.amazon.ca /Biggles-Learns-Fly-W-E-Johns/dp/0099938200   (410 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - 'Biggles' - by Captain WE Johns
Biggles, the series of 98 books by Captain WE Johns, has had a bit of a bad press in recent years, the writer in particular being denounced for racism in his hatred of all things Teutonic.
The books, if read in chronological order from Biggles' perspective, start with the arrival of the young James Bigglesworth of the Royal Flying Corps in France, where he soon learns that his training has been woefully inadequate.
There is an International Biggles Society, although it is entirely possible that some of their members might think Biggles was real.
www.bbc.co.uk /h2g2/guide/A471485   (777 words)

  
 Biggles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
In 1918 Biggles' only romance ends tragically: his lovely Marie turns out to be a German spy.
In these years Biggles and Algy meet the young Ginger Hebblethwaite, who becomes a permanent member of the team.
From "Biggles on the spot" - Publishing Company I.B.A. After World War II the four friends live together in a London May Fair apartment and join the Scotland Yard Flying Police Squad, under command of air commodore Raymond and this brings them into many thrilling adventures both in and outside England.
www.biggles.nl /en/biggles.html   (299 words)

  
 the pragmatic chef™: Biggles' Survival Teriyaki Beef with Onion Gravy
Biggles, M.A.L. (Meaticologist At Large) over at Meathenge, sent this in recently.
He bought a really great looking beef roast that had been marinated in teriyaki sauce, added some onions, topped it off with Survival Spice™, and threw it in the oven.
Biggles at November 1, 2005 02:54 PM Good lookin' dish there, buddy.
www.thepragmaticchef.com /archives/2005/11/biggles_surviva.html   (357 words)

  
 biggles 1.6.4 : reference guide : overview
Biggles provides a set of objects useful in the creation of scientific plots.
If you're new to Biggles, I suggest taking a look at the examples first.
Biggles includes a simple TeX emulator which recognizes subscripts, superscripts, and many of the math symbol definitions from Appendix F of The TeXbook.
biggles.sourceforge.net /doc/current/ref   (187 words)

  
 James Bigglesworth (Biggles) - A Biography
Biggles was born in India in the year 1899.
Biggles was promoted to Major by the end of the war.
Eventually, von Stalhein was imprisoned by his employers, and rescued by Biggles from a Soviet prison, thus ending their long enmity.
www.angelfire.com /ca2/arnab1/bbio.html   (686 words)

  
 MeatHenge
Biggles' Ol' #46 Dry Rub - A nice Wednesday evening grill fest
This is what Biggles will be doing later on this afternoon.
No pictures or text may be reproduced or used in any form without permission.
www.meathenge.com   (1086 words)

  
 Biggles Home Page at IntCom,Internetional Communications
Biggles bidrog till att inlemma oss i en västlig gemenskap, politiskt och kulturellt.
Biggles Forum for discussion about Biggles, Steely, Worrals, Gimlet, Space, Popular Flying; the books, and the characters from the works of Captain W.E.Johns.
Biggles and Henty were not, as the shrewder reader will have deduced, politically correct.
www.internetional.se /Biggles.html   (1193 words)

  
 Biggles
Biggles died on 20th March 2006, a week after an operation to remove his left eye, which had painful glaucoma.
In his short life, he had so much to put up with: glaucoma, cataracts, infected toe, the loss of his partner Bessie, and watching two of his partners being attacked by foxes.
When he was younger, he saw two of his mates (the late Billy and Bessie) attacked by foxes, so he's always a rather nervous and cautious rabbit, and who could blame him.
www.geoffpenn.com /petbiggles.htm   (262 words)

  
 Movie Info for Biggles on MSN Movies
Johns, Biggles: Adventures in Time casts Neil Dickson in the title role.
Biggles is a World War I British flying ace with a gift for time travel.
The beauty part of Biggles: Adventures in Time is that the audience is just as disoriented and confused as Hyde-White; as a result, the film never lowers itself to the Pat and Predictable.
tv.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=21258   (117 words)

  
 BBC News | UK POLITICS | EU law 'could ban' Biggles
People who distribute stories about fictional children's hero Biggles or the Old Testament could be criminalised under a European anti-racism law, a top Law Lord has suggested.
Dashing World War I flying ace James Bigglesworth, nicknamed Biggles was created by Captain WE Johns in the 1930s and spawned dozens of adventure novels, but its seemingly racist terms offended many.
Lord Scott was speaking during a debate on proposals for a Europe-wide arrest warrant.
www.prisonplanet.com /eu_law_could_ban_biggles.html   (449 words)

  
 Biggles - the Golden Era Stories quiz -- free game
Which "Biggles" story is largely set on an island on the Spanish Main and involves both an old pirate story, a horde of treasure and a jinxed coin?
In one book from the nineteen thirties Biggles gets a sudden dramatic promotion in rank when he goes to the Indian Ocean to solve a mystery about missing British ships.
In "Biggles in Africa" Biggles, Algy and Ginger are forced to set off on a long walk because something has happened to a plane they wanted to use.
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=128591   (516 words)

  
 biggles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
His first Biggles novel was The Camels are Coming, published in 1932 under the name William Earle.
Although Captain Johns died in 1968, a number of Biggles books were published posthumously.
This site is about Biggles, his friends and enemies, his adventures and the books that were written about him.
www.btinternet.com /~ajarvis/biggles.htm   (167 words)

  
 Biggles' Friend Magazine Issue #1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
In simplified terms, where no asterisk is present a 1st issue (thick) is signified, a single asterisk shows a 2nd issue (medium) and twin asterisks shows a third issue (thin).
Of the other titles, 2 are known to have the 1st and 3rd states but appear to lack the ‘medium’ state.
Circumstantial evidence does exist, such as the wrapper for the 1st edition of “Biggles Sees It Through”; it is only known (to this author) in a state that allows it to cover a thick volume.
www.biggles.org /issue1.html   (955 words)

  
 Biggles in World War II quiz -- free game
In "Biggles in the Baltic" with which country are all the names of the aeroplanes in "Z" squadron connected?
In "Biggles 'Fails to Return'" what is the name of the girl from Monaco for whom Ginger starts to develop a deep affection?
Which member of Biggles' squadron is hit on the head by the escaping Nazi pilot in "Biggles Sweeps the Desert"?
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=128592   (407 words)

  
 Biggles: dictates a letter
You must call me Mr Biggles, or Group Captain Biggles: or Mary Biggles if I'm dressed as my wife, but never senor.
Biggles: That's still not grounds for calling me senor, or Don Beeg-les for that matter.
Biggles: (into the intercom) Algy, I have to see you.
orangecow.org /pythonet/sketches/biggles.htm   (443 words)

  
 MonkeyFilter | Biggles Takes It Rough
Major James Bigglesworth, generally known as Biggles, was a fictional character created by Captain W.E. Johns in the 1930s.
While nearly every title catches my fancy, my favourites must be Biggles Gets His Men, Biggles Cuts It Fine, Biggles Flies North (with a visit to Camp Beaver), and of course the classic Biggles Takes It Rough.
I first came across Biggles from Monty Python (wasn't there another sketch where someone goes "I'm having trouble understanding your banter!") But funnily enough I didn't know it was based on a real fictional character until much later.
monkeyfilter.com /link.php/8619   (998 words)

  
 The Biggles Information Web Site
Biggles and Co Published by Oxford University Press
It should be noted that Biggles also makes an appearance in four GIMLET books and so those books could also technically be classed as "Biggles" books as well.
In addition there were seven other Biggles books published in Captain W. Johns' lifetime and two historical books related only by title
www.biggles.info   (208 words)

  
 biggles tutorial: basic operations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Now that we have the simplest graph drawn, we will use biggles to add features such as titles, axis labels and grids.
Colour is easily added to the graph by passing extra options to the biggles Points and Curve methods.
Currently the axes on our graph float at whatever value biggles decides is sensible - which is excellent if you don't know the range of the graphs you are plotting.
www.dur.ac.uk /secondary.flow/biggles/basic.html   (367 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Biggles: Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Biggles is a World War I British flying ace with a gift for time travel.
Sucked into Biggles' adventures is a 1980s fast-food entrepreneur, played by Alex Hyde-White.
The beauty part of Biggles: Adventures in Time is that the audience is just as disoriented and confused as Hyde-White; as a result, the film never lowers itself to the Pat and Predictable.
www.amazon.com /Biggles-John-Hough/dp/B0002ZQBC4   (391 words)

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