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William Ware Theiss
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William Ware Theiss, also called Bill Theiss, was an American costume designer for television and film. His television credits include Star Trek and Star Trek, The Next Generation and he attended Lowell High School in San Francisco. He attended Art Center College of Design at Stanford University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, minoring in sciences, biology and he eventually moved to Los Angeles. His first Hollywood job was as a secretary to Cary Grant, whose ex-wife, actress Dyan Cannon. Theiss died of complications from AIDS on December 15,1992, following six months at Revue/Universal Studios as an apprentice artist in the Advertising Art Department, Theiss worked at CBS in the Wardrobe Department on two televised soap operas. The film The Pink Panther was his first as a designer and he returned to television as a wardrobe man for shows including Hollywood Palace, My Favorite Martian, and The Farmers Daughter. In autumn 1964 he was costume designer for “The World of Ray Bradbury on stage, in 1964, he was brought to the attention of Gene Roddenberry by Dorothy Fontana, his friend. Roddenberry then hired Theiss as costume designer for Star Trek, the Theiss Titillation Theory—which claims that the degree to which a costume is considered sexy is directly proportional to how accident-prone it appears to be—is named after him. A key example of this idea in practice is the female android costume in the Star Trek episode What Are Little Girls Made Of. A backless dress in which the front of the dress was held up by the weight of the train which fell over the shoulder to the floor. In the 1970s and early 1980s, he designed costumes for at least a dozen TV movies, including Genesis II and The B. R. A. T. His final credit was as costume designer for Star Trek, The Next Generation, William Ware Theiss at the Internet Movie Database William Ware Theiss at Memory Alpha A page with photographs of his designs
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Ware, Hertfordshire
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Ware is a town of around 18,800 people in Hertfordshire, England close to the county town of Hertford. It is also a parish in East Hertfordshire district. The Prime Meridian passes to the east of Ware, the town lies on the north-south A10 road which is partly shared with the east-west A414. There is a viaduct over the River Lea at Kings Meads. The £3. 6m two-mile bypass opened on 17 January 1979, at the north end of the bypass is the Wodson Park Sports and Leisure Centre and Hanbury Manor, a hotel and country club. The former route of the A10 through the town is now the A1170, the railway station is on the Hertford East Branch Line and operated by Abellio Greater Anglia and is on a short single track section of the otherwise double track line. A well-preserved Roman skeleton of a girl has also been found. Ware was on Ermine Street, the Roman road from London to Lincoln and it has been said that Ware is one of the oldest continuously occupied sites in Europe. It was also a coaching town, being on the Old North Road. In the 17th century Ware became the source of the New River, Mary I had Thomas Fust burnt at stake in Ware for refusing to convert to Catholicism. When some with Leveller sympathies refused to do this they were arrested,62 Children were sent to Ware after the Great Fire of London. In 1683, the Rye House Plot involved assassinating Charles II after he passed through Ware, englands first turnpike road ran from Wadesmill to Ware. The town was once a centre of malting. In 1756 during the Seven Years War, £350 was paid to the inns, the Ware Town Council coat of arms was issued in 1956 by the College of Arms to Ware Urban District Council, and transferred to Ware Town Council in 1975. The motto of the cave was suggested by the College of Heralds. With the River Lea flowing through the centre of Ware, transport by water was for years a significant industry. As an old brewing town, barley was transported in, a local legend says that dead bodies were brought out of London, but there is no evidence for this. Buryfield in Ware is thought by many to be where these bodies were buried
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Ware, Illinois
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Ware is an unincorporated community in Union County, Illinois, and is located near Jonesboro. The earliest inhabitants of the area around Ware were of Late Woodland, a village with four mounds was occupied between around 800 and 1300 A. D. One of the four mounds was destroyed in the construction of Illinois Route 3, the Ware Mounds and Village Site is situated just west of Ware. In January 1839, thousands of Cherokee Indians being forcibly relocated from their lands in Georgia to Indian Territory passed through Ware, because floating ice the Cherokee were unable to cross the Mississippi River and camped along Dutch Creek. Due to the intense cold many died, the Illinois Central Railroad and Illinois Route 3 pass through Ware, Illinois, connecting the community to the rest of the state. Two churches, Ware Baptist Church and Ware United Methodist Church, as of Census 2000, the population is 3,422 It is named for politician and farmer Jesse Ware
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Ware, Massachusetts
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Ware is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 9,872 at the 2010 census and it is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. Part of the town comprises the census-designated place of Ware, Ware was first settled on Equivalent Lands in 1717 and was officially incorporated in 1775. It is named after the English town of Ware, Hertfordshire, in 1716 a tract of land which was a little more than 11,000 acres in size was granted to John Read. He named it The Manour Of Peace and had it in mind to develop it in the style of an English manor anticipating that it would become a very valuable country estate. He leased out the land and did not sell 1-acre until after his death when he gave a gift of 200 acres to serve as a ministry lot. As time passed, the town of Ware grew up around the old Congregational meeting house and later became a center of local manufacturing. The actual origin of the name, Ware, is thought to be derived from a translation of the Native American word Nenameseck, the weirs were used to capture salmon that were once abundant in New England waterways. In 1729, the first grist and saw mills were built on the banks of the Weir River by Jabez Olmstead, during the American Revolution there were at least eight taverns and several inns in the area. Two of the most famous were Ebenezer Nye’s tavern and John Downing’s, after town meetings were held they would often adjourn to the latter establishment. By the 1830s it was not uncommon to see textile mills dotted along the local rivers. At this point Ware community was making the transition from an economy to an industrially based society. The post Civil War era brought a new prosperity to the now established textile mill town, Ware factory village, as it was known, sprung up overnight and formed the basis for new growth and development. For nearly 100 years the Otis company had been the largest single Ware employer, cotton had been the primary product and by 1937, denims, awnings and tickings were the principal output. It had been very prosperous until World War I when its employees numbered close to 2,500, by the 1920s however, the company began to decline due to southern competition and lack of modern machinery. By the mid thirties, the Directors decided to liquidate although no announcement was made. Instantly, the townspeople rallied to the cause, a public mass meeting was called that evening and plans to raise the necessary cash in order to forestall what appeared to be the imminent ruin of the town were formulated. The citizens of Ware were able to purchase the mills together with the backing of the Ware Trust Company, the mills became Ware Industries Inc. and Ware came to be known nationwide as The Town That Can’t Be Licked
