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.

Barstow concluded that as Rhode Island's John Brown became a canonized hero, if not a saint, so would it be with John Brown of Harper's Ferry.

For the hero of this work by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton is a chap embittered by more than the lack of beer during a jam session.

Influenced by his " favorite living hero in public life ", the British liberal, John Bright, Carnegie started his efforts in pursuit of world peace at a young age.

* John the Conqueror also known as High John the Conqueror, and many other folk variants, is a folk hero from African-American folklore.

" John Chadwick, a decipherer of Linear B, remarks "" her name may be connected with hērōs, ἥρως, ' hero ', but that is no help, since it too is etymologically obscure.

In 1963, Olivier directed Peter O ' Toole as Hamlet in the inaugural performance of the newly formed National Theatre ; critics found resonance between O ' Toole's Hamlet and John Osborne's hero, Jimmy Porter, from Look Back in Anger.

His opponents included John C. Calhoun, William H. Crawford, Henry Clay, and the hero of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson.

* John Walker, alter ego of U. S. Agent, a comic book hero, who is an ultra-patriotic crime fighter, formerly Super-Patriot and Captain America VI

Revisionist histories written by John Foxe, William Tyndale and Robert Barnes portrayed John as an early Protestant hero, and John Foxe included the king in his Book of Martyrs.

Among prominent individuals from New Hampshire are founding father Nicholas Gilman, Senator Daniel Webster, Revolutionary War hero John Stark, editor Horace Greeley, founder of the Christian Science religion Mary Baker Eddy, poet Robert Frost, astronaut Alan Shepard, and author Dan Brown.

The 1787 dismissal of Governor Patterson and his recall to London in 1789 dampened his brother's efforts, leading John to focus on his interests in the United States ( one of John's sons, Commodore Daniel Patterson, became a noted United States Navy hero, and John's grandsons, Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson and Lt. Carlile Pollock Patterson USN, achieved success ).

In 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs published A Princess of Mars, the first of his three-decade-long series of Barsoom novels, situated on Mars and featuring John Carter as the hero.

Most succeeding Spaghetti Westerns tried to get a ragged, laconic hero with superhuman weapon skill, preferable one that looked like Clint Eastwood – Franco Nero, John Garko and Terence Hill started out that way ; Anthony Steffen and others stayed that way all their Spaghetti Western career.

In both cases Lee Van Cleef carries on as the older hero versus Giuliano Gemma and John Phillip Law, respectively.

** John Axon, British railwayman and hero ( b. 1900 )

Carmack and his Softdisk colleague Tom Hall kept the technology from Softdisk and used their own time to put together a clone of the first level of Super Mario Bros. 3, except for the hero, which they replaced with Dangerous Dave, a character from John Romero's games for Softdisk.

July 25, 1415 marked the beginning of the Portuguese Empire, when the Portuguese Armada departed to the rich trade Islamic centre of Ceuta in North Africa with King John I and his wife Phillipa of Lancaster and their sons Prince Duarte ( future king ), Prince Pedro, Prince Henry the Navigator ( born in Porto in 1394 ) and Prince Afonso, and legendary Portuguese hero Nuno Álvares Pereira.

He also appears as the hero of a history written by his secretary, John Kinnamos, in which every virtue is attributed to him.

* British — Gaiman, Neil ( has lived in U. S. A. since 1992 ): " Harlequin Valentine " ( 1999 ), Harlequin Valentine ( 2001 ; graphic novel, illustrated by John Bolton ); Greenland, Colin: " A Passion for Lord Pierrot " ( 1990 ); Moorcock, Michael: The English Assassin and The Condition of Muzak ( 1972, 1977 ; hero Jerry Cornelius morphs with increasing frequency into role of Pierrot ), " Feu Pierrot " ( 1978 ); Stevenson, Helen: Pierrot Lunaire ( 1995 ).

The name is in honor of Major General John Sullivan, who was a hero in the American Revolutionary War.