Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

Down in Concord, New Hampshire, was a flier in the right place at the right time: Robert S. Fogg, a native New Englander, had been a World War 1, flying instructor, barnstormer, and one of the original planners of the Concord Airport.

By and large, Robert McEnroe's adaptation of Maurice Walsh's film, `` The Quiet Man '', provides the entertainment it set out to, and we have a lively musical show if not a superlative one.

John Jay Parry, the editor of De Amore, quotes critic Robert Bossuat as describing " De Amore " as " one of those capital works which reflect the thought of a great epoch, which explains the secret of a civilization ".

* On March 7, 1998, Daniel Rudolph, the elder brother of the 1996 Olympics bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, videotaped himself cutting off one of his own hands with an electric saw to " send a message to the FBI and the media.

Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

Robin Williams played the physician ; Robert De Niro was one of the patients who emerged from a catatonic ( frozen ) state.

The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.

As he charges toward the departing Longshanks on horseback, Wallace is intercepted by one of the king's lancers, who turns out to be Robert the Bruce.

A 1824 landmark U. S. Supreme Court ruling overturned a New York State-granted monopoly (" a veritable model of state munificence " facilitated by one of the Founding Fathers, Robert R. Livingston ) for the then-revolutionary technology of steamboats.

Smith was one of " the big three of Weird Tales, along with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft, where some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions.

Cover of Weird Tales ( May 1934 ) depicting Conan and Bêlit ( Fiction ) | Bêlit in Queen of the Black Coast, one of Robert E. Howard's original Conan stories.

After attending one such lecture, UFO investigator Robert Sheaffer wrote " Some of his “ rods ” were obviously insects zipping across the field at a high angular rate.

Trumbo won two Academy Awards while blacklisted ; one was originally given to a front writer, and one was awarded to " Robert Rich ," Trumbo's pseudonym.

The administration had discovered through its own investigations that one of the leading scientists on the AEC, J. Robert Oppenheimer, had urged that the H-bomb work be delayed ; Eisenhower removed him from the agency and revoked his security clearance, though he knew this would create fertile ground for the extremist McCarthy.

Early critics, such as Robert Louis Stevenson admired it saying that the footprint scene in Crusoe was one of the four greatest in English literature and most unforgettable ; more prosaically, Dr. Wesley Vernon has seen the origins of forensic podiatry in this episode.

* 1927 – The Brookings Institution, one of the United States ' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.

At one time or another, the membership included Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Cyril Kornbluth, James Blish, John Michel, Judith Merril, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Richard Wilson, Damon Knight, Virginia Kidd, and Larry T. Shaw.

Robert Silverberg said that Donald Wollheim was " one of the most significant figures in 20th century American science fiction publishing ", adding, " A plausible case could be made that he was the most significant figure — responsible in large measure for the development of the science fiction paperback, the science fiction anthology, and the whole post-Tolkien boom in fantasy fiction.

Marion Zimmer Bradley refers to him as " a second father ," Frederik Pohl calls him " a founder ," and Robert Silverberg says he was " seriously underrated " and " one of the great shapers of science-fiction publishing in the United States.

In 1662, the noted Irish physicist and chemist Robert Boyle performed a series of experiments employing a J-shaped glass tube, which was sealed on one end.

During his minority as her ward, one third of his estate had already reverted to the Crown, much of which Elizabeth had long since settled on Robert Dudley.

* Eusebius, one of the personae of Robert Schumann

Thorndike ’ s research with Robert Woodworth on the theory of transfer found that learning one subject will only influence your ability to learn another subject if the subjects are similar.

No one walked in this country, least of all Ed Dow or Dutch Renfro or any of the rest of the Bar B crew.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.

He picked her up, sliding one hand under her shoulders, the other under her knees, and carried her into the house.

`` There's only one more ranch three miles north of here.

The old man beckoned with one finger and Clayton went forward to him.

There was no one but me.

There's only one way they can get out now and that's through the Gap -- if we ride hard we can take them ''.

He fled through the door and down the steps, running, and the men grunted and followed, pushing Lester to one side where he backed against the wall with the sleeve of his jacket raised before his eyes to shut out the light.

With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.

`` I'm going to walk up to the horses, bold as brass, pretending I'm one of the guerrillas.

You're the one that's taking the big chance ''.

One struck the muzzle of one of the rifles that projected from the shoulder pack.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

Reverend Jason got one, the Canadians the others.

The Aricaras made one last desperate charge.

Some gracefully soared from the backs of their wounded, screaming mounts to make one last defiant charge before the lead split their hearts or tore their guts.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

He had known women like that, one woman in particular.

And one had been too many.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.