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John and Galt
In March 1825, John Allan's uncle and business benefactor William Galt, said to be one of the wealthiest men in Richmond, died and left Allan several acres of real estate.
" The essence of Objectivist ethics is summarized by the oath her Atlas Shrugged character John Galt adhered to:
Heinlein made quick work of altruism as a false virtue in Stranger in a Strange Land and mentioned John Galt — the hero in Rand's " Atlas Shrugged "-- as a heroic archetype in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
* April 11 – John Galt, Scottish novelist ( b. 1779 )
When planning the revolution, Mike is described by Mannie as " our Scarlet Pimpernel, our John Galt, our Swamp Fox, our man of mystery ", referring to the works of the Baroness Orczy and Ayn Rand as well as to the history of the American Revolution.
Originally created by Rand MacIvor ( under Art Director John C. Galt ), who was inspired by Terry Gilliam's " gilliamations ", the opening animation sequence was a sequence of surreal images set to Rossini's William Tell Overture, performed in a Dixieland jazz arrangement by The National Press Club and Allied Workers Jazz Band.
In 1859, Alexander Tilloch Galt, George-Étienne Cartier and John Ross travelled to Great Britain to present the British Parliament with a project for confederation of the British colonies.
No minutes from the Charlottetown Conference survive, but we do know that George-Étienne Cartier and John A. Macdonald presented arguments in favour of a union of the four colonies ; Alexander Tilloch Galt presented the Province of Canada ’ s proposals on the financial arrangements of such a union ; and that George Brown presented a proposal for what form a united government might take.
Galt was named in 1869 after former city of Galt in Canada, now part of Cambridge, the hometown of John McFarland.
Settlers flocked from nearby Woodbridge, Liberty City, and Galt, including town founders John M. Burt and Dan Crist.
* In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged Dagney Taggart tracks John Galt to a small airstrip in Afton, WY.
From here she follows John Galt to " Atlantis ".
He chose Galt in honour of the Scottish novelist and Commissioner of the Canada Company, John Galt.
* John Galt
Soon after this he met the novelist John Galt.
Other major literary figures connected with Romanticism include the poets and novelists James Hogg, Allan Cunningham and John Galt.
Brown thought Canada should pursue a policy of free trade, while the conservative government of John A. Macdonald and Alexander Galt thought Canada should raise tariffs.
He was born in Chelsea, England, the son of Scottish novelist and colonizer, John Galt by his wife Elizabeth, only daughter of Alexander Tilloch.
The motion succeeded, and Alexander Galt, John Ross, and Sir George-Étienne Cartier went to London to begin the long process of convincing the British to make British North America into the first sovereign Dominion within the British Empire.
On February 9, 1848, Galt married Elliott Torrance, the daughter of John Torrance, of Saint-Antoine Hall, Montreal.
Music by Galt MacDermot, lyrics by John Guare.
* In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, the hero John Galt posits that " the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four ".
In 1971, Galt MacDermot, John Guare and Mel Shapiro adapted the show into a rock musical under the same name as the play.

John and Life
First The Life Of John Bright appeared and seven years later Lord Grey Of The Reform Bill.
In Inside Africa, John Gunther describes one of these, the Societe Generale, as `` the kind of colossus that might be envisaged if, let us say, the House of Morgan, Anaconda Copper, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and various companies producing agricultural products were lumped together, with the United States government as a heavy partner ''.
Presentation of `` The Life And Times Of John Sloan '' in the Delaware Art Center here suggests a current nostalgia for human values in art.
John Hick also raises some questions regarding personal identity in his book, Death and Eternal Life using an interesting example of a person ceasing to exist in one place while an exact replica appears in another.
Ealdred encouraged Folcard, a monk of Canterbury, to write the Life Saint John of Beverley.
Camelot was a hit nonetheless, with a poignant coda ; immediately following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, his widow told Life magazine that JFK's administration reminded her of the " one brief shining moment " of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot.
* Capp, Al, My Well-Balanced Life on a Wooden Leg ( 1991 ) John Daniel & Co. ISBN 0-936784-93-8
The most commonly used grading systems are the Fontainebleau system which ranges from 1 to 8c +, and the John Sherman V-grade system, beginning at V0 and increasing by integers to a current top grade of proposed V16 ( The Wheel of Life by Dai Koyamada in the Grampians, Australia ; The Game, by Daniel Woods, Boulder Canyon, CO ; Lucid Dreaming, by Paul Robinson.
* Homicide: Life on the Street ( 1997 ) – Gwen Munch, John Munch's ex-wife, in episode: " All is Bright "
* Stephen Hill, The Life of Brother John Thomas – 1805 to 1871 ( 2006 ).
* Baron, John, " The Life of Edward Jenner with illustrations of his doctrines and selections from his correspondence ".
In 1969 Earl Mountbatten participated in a 12-part autobiographical television series Lord Mountbatten: A Man for the Century, also known as The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten, produced by Associated-Rediffusion and scripted by historian John Terraine.
John C. Green, a senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, used polling data to separate evangelicals into three camps which he labels as traditionalist, centrist and modernist.
* John Davies, 1670, The Life and Philosophy of Epictetus, with the Emblem of Human Life by Cebes.
Other leading films included Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Meet John Doe ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and State of the Union ( 1948 ).
Banned movies included The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1970 by Finnish director Caspar Wrede and Born American by Finnish director Renny Harlin in 1986.
* Fiensy, David A., " Population, Architecture, and Economy in Lower Galilean Villages and Towns in the First Century AD: A Brief Survey ," in John D. Wineland, Mark Ziese, James Riley Estep Jr. ( eds ), My Father's World: Celebrating the Life of Reuben G. Bullard ( Eugene ( OR ), Wipf & Stock, 2011 ), 101-119.
Eliot spent the next two years editing Lewes's final work Life and Mind for publication, and she found solace with John Walter Cross, a Scottish commission agent whose mother had recently died.
* Conway's Game of Life, a cellular automaton devised by mathematician John Horton Conway
At age 22, Keller published her autobiography, The Story of My Life ( 1903 ), with help from Sullivan and Sullivan's husband, John Macy.
* Keller, Helen with Anne Sullivan and John A. Macy ( 1903 ) The Story of My Life.
* John Quincy Adams at C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits
* Booknotes interview with Paul Nagel on John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life, January 4, 1998.

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