Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

* 1848 First settlers in the county are Samuel Eli Holland, Logan Vandeveer, Peter Kerr, William Harrison Magill, Noah Smithwick, Captain Jesse B. Burnham, R. H. Hall, Adam Rankin " Stovepipe " Johnson and Captain Christian Dorbandt.

Union supporters joined the 35th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, a regiment recruited locally by James M. Shackelford ; Adam Rankin Johnson recruited Confederate troops for his 10th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment.

When African American Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was elected to Congress in 1945, Rankin vowed to never sit next to him.

He is interred at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, beside his father and mother and near his great-grandfather, Brigadier General Adam Rankin Johnson of the Confederate States Army.

Notable narrative poets have included Ovid, Dante, Juan Ruiz, Chaucer, William Langland, Luís de Camões, Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Robert Burns, Fernando de Rojas, Adam Mickiewicz, Alexander Pushkin, Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Tennyson.

Erik Assadourian, Adam Dolezal, Robert Engelman, Gary Gardner, Mark Konold, Matt Lucky, Haibing Ma, Shakuntala Makhijani, Lisa Mastny, Evan Musolino, Danielle Nierenberg, Alexander Ochs, Sandra Postel, and Michael Renner.

Among the Scottish thinkers and scientists of the period were Francis Hutcheson, Alexander Campbell, David Hume, Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Reid, Robert Burns, Adam Ferguson, John Playfair, Joseph Black and James Hutton.

Sweeney rejected Rebay ’ s dismissal of " objective " painting and sculpture, and he soon acquired Constantin Brâncuşi's Adam and Eve ( 1921 ), followed by works of other modernist sculptors, including Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti and David Smith.

Students could choose three elective subjects, Adam attended classes in mathematics, taught by Colin Maclaurin, and anatomy, taught by Alexander Monro primus.

Other early settlers of Riverdale included Adam Fife, Alexander Patterson, Warren C. Child, Thomas Slater, Richard Woolsey, John Child, John C. Thompson, William Stimpson, Myron Barber Child, and George Ritter.

* Tchaikovsky's later orchestral work, the symphonic ballad The Voyevoda, Op. 78, was based on Alexander Pushkin's translation of Adam Mickiewicz's poem.

An advocate of supply-side economics traced the school of thought's intellectual descent from the philosophers Ibn Khaldun and David Hume, satirist Jonathan Swift, political economist Adam Smith, and even Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.

Governor Alexander Spotswood's legendary Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition of 1716 crossed the Blue Ridge at Swift Run Gap and reached the river at Elkton, VA. Settlers did not immediately follow, but someone who heard the reports and later became the first permanent settler in the Valley was Adam Miller ( Mueller ), who in 1727 staked out claims on the south fork of the Shenandoah River, near the line that now divides Rockingham County from Page County.

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Sir Henry Moncrieff Wellwood, the bust of Dr Wardrop of Torbane Hill, the two full-lengths of Adam Rolland of Gask, the remarkable paintings of Lord Newton and Dr Alexander Adam in the National Gallery of Scotland, and that of William Macdonald of St Martin's.

He was the sixth of eight children of Adam Leopold Alexander and Sarah Hillhouse Gilbert Alexander.

Other famous scientists, engineers, theorists and inventors from the UK include: Sir Francis Bacon, Richard Trevithick ( Train ), Thomas Henry Huxley, Francis Crick ( DNA ), Rosalind Franklin ( Photo 51 ), Robert Hooke, Humphry Davy, Robert Watson-Watt, J. J. Thomson ( discovered Electron ), James Chadwick ( discovered Neutron ), Frederick Soddy ( discovered Isotope ), John Cockcroft, Henry Bessemer, Edmond Halley, Sir William Herschel, Charles Parsons ( Steam turbine ), Alan Blumlein ( Stereo sound ), John Dalton ( Colour blindness ), James Dewar, Alexander Parkes ( celluloid ), Charles Macintosh, Ada Lovelace, Peter Durand, Alcock & Brown ( first non-stop transatlantic flight ), Henry Cavendish ( discovered Hydrogen ), Francis Galton, Sir Joseph Swan ( Incandescent light bulb ), Sir William Gull ( Anorexia nervosa ), Frank Pantridge, George Everest, Edward Whymper ( first ascent of Matterhorn ), Daniel Rutherford, Arthur Eddington ( luminosity of stars ), Lord Rayleigh ( why sky is blue ), Norman Lockyer ( discovered Helium ), Julian Huxley ( formed WWF ), Adam Smith ( pioneer of modern economics and capitalism ), John Herschel, Bertrand Russell ( analytic philosophy pioneer ), Jim Marshall ( guitar amplification pioneer ), Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Joseph Priestly and others.

Elizabeth Alexeievna, for her part, found solace in her relationship with Adam Czartoryski, who had returned to Russia at Alexander I's ascension to the throne.

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Alexander wrote that his kinsman Adam Alexander had issued the order for the meeting to be convened, but William Polk and other eyewitnesses insisted that Thomas Polk had called the meeting.

Adam was the second son of Alexander Duncan of Lundie, Angus, ( d. May 1777 ) Provost of Dundee, and his wife ( and first cousin once removed ) Helen, daughter of John Haldane of Gleneagles, was born at Dundee.

Tom and Eli are set up on a blind date by their best friends, Jackie ( Sasha Alexander ) and Brett ( Adam Goldberg ), who think they would be a perfect match.

The Gordon family descends from Sir Adam Gordon of Huntly, killed at the Battle of Humbleton Hill in 1402 and succeeded in his estates by his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Alexander Seton whose son Alexander assumed the surname of Gordon in lieu of Seton.

Poland disappeared as a state in a third partition in 1795 but the Polish gentry continued to maintain local control in both eastern and western Podolia over a peasant population which was primarily ethnically Ukrainian whose similarity to the other East Slavs already subject to the Habsburg Monarchy was showcased in a 1772 book by Adam F. Kollár and was used as an argument in favor of annexation by the Habsburgs.

The second time, he ruled as heir to Josef Johann Adam between 1732 – 1745 and the third time as representative of the House of Liechtenstein from 1748 – 1772.

Under Prince-Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim, from 1769 until 1772, Materno and Ludovico Bossi created the stucco-work decoration over the staircase and in the first and second guest rooms of the northern Imperial Apartments.

Woolton Hall, Woolton, England is a former country house built in 1704 and extensively remodelled in 1772 by the influential architect Robert Adam.

In 1772, Robert Adam was employed to design a new frontage and redesign the interior.

Other distinguished members of this family were the 2nd baron's son, Sir Henry Hotham ( 1777 – 1833 ), a vice-admiral, who saw a great deal of service during the Napoleonic Wars ; and Sir William Hotham ( 1772 – 1848 ), a nephew of the 1st baron, who served with Adam Duncan in 1797 at the Battle of Camperdown.

In the same period there were Jacob Israel of Kremnitz, author of " Shebet ' mi-Yisrael ," a commentary on the Psalms ( Zolkiev, 1772 ); Judah Löw Edel of Slonim, author of " Afiqe Yehudah ," sermons ( Lemberg, 1802 ); Chayyim Abraham Katz of Moghilef, author of " Milchama ve-Shalom " ( Shklov, 1797 ); Ezekiel Feiwel of Deretschin, author of " Toledot Adam " ( Dyhernfurth, 1809 ) and maggid in Wilna ( Levinsohn, " Bet Yehudah ," ii.

The Long Gallery contains Italian Old Masters, with a famous marquetry commode and matching pair of candlestands by John Cobb ( 1772 ) and four pier glasses designed by Robert Adam ( 1770 ).

Johann Adam Joseph Karl Georg Reutter ( the Younger ) ( 6 April 1708 – 11 March 1772 ) was an Austrian composer.

* 1968 – Adam Graves, Canadian hockey player

* 1962 – Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1909 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat ( d. 1944 )

* 1971 – Adam Housley, American journalist

The wicketkeeper-batsman position was held by Ian Healy for most of the 1990s and by Adam Gilchrist from 2001 to 2006 – 07.

* 1926 – Theo Adam, German opera singer

* 1964 – Adam Duritz, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( Counting Crows and The Himalayans )

* 1985 – Adam Jones, American baseball player

* 1947 – Terangi Adam, Nauruan politician

* 1973 – Adam Willard, American drummer ( The Offspring, Rocket from the Crypt, Danko Jones, and The Special Goodness )

* 1956 – Adam Arkin, American actor

* 1975 – Adam Rodriguez, American actor

* 1980 – Adam Fleming, Scottish reporter

* 1852 – At a general conference of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young explains the Adam – God doctrine, an important part of the theology of Mormon fundamentalism.

* 1973 – Adam Sessler, American television host

* 1981 – Adam Wainwright, American baseball player

* 1572 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician ( d. 1632 )

* 1714 – Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader ( d. 1788 )

* 1954 – Lester Square, Canadian musician ( The Monochrome Set and Adam and the Ants )

* 1981 – Murder of Adam Walsh: the head of John Walsh's son is found.

* 2010 – Adam Stansfield, English footballer ( b. 1978 )

* Jürgen Klötgen, Prieuré d ' Abergavenny – Tribulations mancelles en Pays de Galles au temps du Pape Jean XXII ( d ' après des documents français et anglais du XIV ° siècle collationnés avec une source d ' histoire retrouvée aux Archives Secrètes du Vatican ), in Revue Historique et Archéologique du Maine, Le Mans, 1989, p. 65 – 88 ( 1319: cf John of Hastings, Lord of Abergavenny ; Adam de Orleton, Bishop of Hereford, John of Monmouth, Bishop of Llandaff ).

After a poor season for Federko in 1988 – 89, he was traded to the Detroit Red Wings with Tony McKegney for future Blues star Adam Oates, and Paul MacLean.