The first directors of the Manchester Light and Power Company were John Marsden, M. L. Manley, William F. Orvis, George Smith, and John Blackmer.

Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to the River Torrens in the area originally inhabited by the Kaurna people.

The site of the colony's capital was surveyed and laid out by Colonel William Light, the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, through the design made by the architect George Strickland Kingston.

The fourth verse of William Cowper's hymn " Sometimes a Light Surprises ", written in 1779, quotes.

William Gibson ( who wrote an early script for Alien 3 ) seems particularly fascinated: a minor character in Virtual Light, Lowell, is described as having New York XXIV tattooed across his back, and in Idoru a secondary character, Yamazaki, describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque.

* Thompson, William Irwin, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality, and the Origins of Culture ( New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981 ).

* October – William Light, British Army colonel and the first Surveyor-General of South Australia ( b. 1786 )

Light Is A Messenger, the life and science of William Lawrence Bragg.

* Polarized Light, Production and Use, William A. Shurcliff, Harvard University, 1962.

Combe's wealth also extended to becoming the first patron of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and he and his wife Martha bought most of the group's early work, including The Light of the World by William Holman Hunt.

At the Winter Soldier Investigation in Detroit organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War January 31-February 2, 1971, veterans including First Lieutenant William Crandell of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Division expressed their outrage:

Around the mid-1990s, with the success of the big beat-sound exemplified by The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy in the UK, and spurred by the attention from mainstream artists, including Madonna in her collaboration with William Orbit on her album Ray of Light and Australian singer Dannii Minogue with her 1997 album Girl, music of this period began to be produced with a higher budget, increased technical quality, and with more layers than most other forms of dance music, since it was backed by major record labels and MTV as the " next big thing ".

Keble owns the original of William Holman Hunt's famous painting The Light of the World, which is hung in the side chapel ( accessed through the chapel ).

Light in August is a 1932 novel by the American author William Faulkner.

Brent Spencer commanded the 1st Division, Thomas Picton the 3rd, William Houston the 7th and Robert Craufurd the Light Division.

In addition to a few small roles with Croydon rep, he had his radio debut on the BBC Light Programme in a November 1946 adaptation of Just William, where he played Uncle Noel.

The Barossa Valley derives its name from the Barossa Ranges, which were named by Colonel William Light in 1837.

* William Susman-Zydeco Madness, Angels of Light

* August 27 — Sir Arthur Sullivan's oratorio The Light of the World ( inspired by William Holman Hunt's painting of the same name ) is premièred at the Birmingham Festival.

* William Gibson-Virtual Light

They then pursued the Continentals into the wood and were repulsed by Lt. Col. William Washington's Light Dragoons, and the 1st Maryland Regiment, abandoning the two guns they had just captured.

** Pat McCarthy ( mixer ), William Orbit ( producer ) & Madonna ( producer & artist ) for " Ray of Light "

** David Reitzas, Jon Ingoldsby & Pat McCarthy ( engineers / mixers ), William Orbit ( producer ) & Madonna ( producer & artist ) for Ray Of Light

His division under Maj. Gen. Richard H. Anderson fought in the unsuccessful second day assaults against Cemetery Ridge, while his favorite division commander, Maj. Gen. William Dorsey Pender, commanding the Light Division, was severely wounded, which prevented that division from cooperating with the assault.

William Orbit ( born William Mark Wainwright, 15 December 1956 ) is an English musician, composer and record producer, perhaps best known to most for his work on Madonna's album Ray of Light.

* " Animal ", by Black Light Burns from Cruel Melody

A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

" ( 1979 ), Electric Light Orchestra ’ s " Shine a Little Love ", " Don't Bring Me Down ", and " Last Train to London " ( all 1979 ), George Benson's " Give Me the Night " ( 1980 ), Elton John and Kiki Dee's " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " ( 1976 ), and Diana Ross ' " Upside Down " ( 1980 ).

Although many of his works appeared in print while a teenager, it was the publication of " Light breaks where no sun shines ", published in 1934, that caught the attention of the literary world.

*" Zodiacal Light and the Gegenschein ", an essay by J. E. Littleton

At first, they called themselves " Children of the Light " or " Friends of the Truth ", and later simply " Friends ".

He resented the suggestion ( from a man in North Carolina ) that " the Light and Spirit of God ... was not in the Indians ", a proposition which Fox refuted.

" Colonists ", sent to the island to establish possession claims by the United States, built the Earhart Light — named after Amelia Earhart — as a day beacon or navigational landmark.

The song " Jill ", on the album Blue Light, Red Light ( 1991 ) is about her.

George Harrison's interest in Indian music, popularized the genre in the mid-1960s with songs such as " Love You To ", " Tomorrow Never Knows " ( credited to Lennon-McCartney ), " Within You Without You " and " The Inner Light ".

*" Jewish Light on the Risen Lord ", New Oxford Review, by Frederick W. Marks

, or " unmoving mind ", is a conceptual attribute of the deity Fudo Myo-O, one of the five " Kings of Light " of Shingon Buddhism.

He wrote, " I do not know what this Aether is ", but that if it consists of particles then they must be " exceedingly smaller than those of Air, or even than those of Light: The exceeding smallness of its Particles may contribute to the greatness of the force by which those Particles may recede from one another, and thereby make that Medium exceedingly more rare and elastic than Air, and by consequence exceedingly less able to resist the motions of Projectiles, and exceedingly more able to press upon gross Bodies, by endeavoring to expand itself.

Thus (" The Father of Greatness ", the highest Manichaean deity of Light ), in Middle Persian texts might either be translated literally as pīd ī wuzurgīh, or substituted with the name of the deity Zurwān.

This process continued in Manichaeism's meeting with Chinese Buddhism, where, for example, the original Aramaic karia ( the " call " from the world of Light to those seeking rescue from the world of Darkness ), becomes identified in the Chinese scriptures with Guan Yin ( or Avalokitesvara in Sanskrit, literally, " watching / perceiving sounds the world ", the Chinese Bodhisattva of Compassion ).

Dick Hebdige, in his text " Hiding in the Light ", writes:

In 1907, he wrote an essay on " Education in the Light of Spiritual Science ", in which he described the major phases of child development that were later to form the foundation of his approach to education.

* " Rogues ", a song on the Light Grenades album by the band Incubus

In the episode " By Inferno's Light ", Martok escapes and returns to the Alpha Quadrant with Elim Garak, Worf, and Julian Bashir, and is made commander of the Klingon forces on Deep Space Nine.

It features the breakthrough single " Light My Fire ", extended with an instrumental section mostly omitted on the single release, and the lengthy song " The End " with its Oedipal spoken-word section.

In " Ghost Light " and " Survival ", a different design, featuring the Seal of Rassilon, was used.

The Remain in Light album's lead single, " Once in a Lifetime ", became a Top 20 hit in the UK but initially failed to make an impression upon its release in the band's own country.