This work was published simultaneously in the same series with Mortimer Adler's own first book Dialectic, and each book refers to the other.

* Tim Lacy, " Making a Democratic Culture: The Great Books Idea, Mortimer J. Adler, and Twentieth-Century America " ( Ph. D.

Max Weismann is an American philosopher and a long-time friend and colleague of Mortimer Adler, with whom he co-founded the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas in Chicago.

In 1950, Sir Mortimer Wheeler identified one large building in Mohenjo-daro as a " Great Granary ".

Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer ( 1231 – 1282 ) was a son of Gwladys Ddu, daughter of Llewelyn the Great of Gwynedd.

Indie rocker Stephen Malkmus mentions Stoke-on-Trent in " Pink India ", released on his self-titled solo album, singing that the song's protagonist, Mortimer, is a " rook " in The Great Game, who " came from Stoke-on-Trent.

It featured a W. C. Fields-like carpetbagging con artist and snake oil salesman named J. Mortimer Gusto, ( a. k. a. " the Great Gusto ").

He was born in Great Portland Street, London, on 31 December 1799, at the house of his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Fendall ; he was the eldest son of George Moultrie, rector of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, by his wife Harriet ( died 1867 ).

* Mortimer, Roger and Willett, Peter, Great Racehorses of the World, Michael Joseph 1969, p. 186-192.

* Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Angela Mortimer Barrett ( Great Britain ) defeats Christine Truman Janes ( Great Britain ) 4 – 6, 6 – 4, 7 – 5

* Australian Women's Singles Championship – Angela Mortimer Barrett ( Great Britain ) defeats Lorraine Coghlan Robinson ( Australia ) 6 – 3, 6 – 4

* Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Althea Gibson ( USA ) defeats Angela Mortimer ( Great Britain ) 8 – 6, 6 – 2

The title Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer was created in the Peerage of Great Britain for Robert Harley in 1711.

He also co-authored a well-received revision of How to Read a Book with its original author, philosopher Mortimer J. Adler, and co-edited with him a 1, 771-page anthology entitled Great Treasury of Western Thought ( 1977 ).

A BBC Radio 4 play, The Great Swim by Anita Sullivan based on the 2008 book of the same name by Gavin Mortimer was first broadcast on September 1, 2010 and repeated on January 23, 2012.

* Mortimer, Gavin, The Great Swim ( 2008 ) Walker and Co, ISBN 0-8027-1595-8.

The Great Books program ( often called simply " the Program " or " the New Program " at St. John's ) was developed at the University of Chicago by Stringfellow Barr, Scott Buchanan, Robert Hutchins, and Mortimer Adler in the mid-1930s as an alternative form of education to the then rapidly changing undergraduate curriculum.

In 1954 Mortimer Adler hosted a live weekly television series in San Francisco, comprising 52 half-hour programs entitled The Great Ideas.

University president Robert Hutchins collaborated with Mortimer Adler to develop a course, generally aimed at businessmen, for the purpose of filling in gaps in education, to make one more well-rounded and familiar with the " Great Books " and ideas of the past three millennia.

Upon the death of Henry III on 20 November 1272 the Great Seal was delivered to the Archbishop as first Lord of the Council — in order for him, Roger Mortimer and Robert Burnell to be appointed to govern the Kingdom until the new King's return to the country.

The sector ’ s activities were most pronounced where Great Portland Street intersects with Mortimer St and Margaret St.

Among others claiming rights of jurisdiction in their Shropshire estates in the same year were Edmund de Mortimer, the abbot of Cumbermere, the prior of Lanthony, the prior of Great Malvern, the bishop of Lichfield, Peter Corbett, Nicholas of Audley, the abbot of Lilleshall, John of Mortayn, Richard Fitz-Alan, the bishop of Hereford and the prior of Wenlock.

The Institute was largely the creation of Walter Paepcke, a Chicago businessman who had become inspired by the Great Books program of Mortimer Adler at the University of Chicago.

* 1923 – John Mortimer, English barrister and writer ( d. 2009 )

* 1287 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March ( d. 1330 )

Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

* 1661 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman ( d. 1724 )

* 1971 – Emily Mortimer, English actress

* 1390 – Anne de Mortimer, claimant to the English throne ( d. 1411 )

* 1327 – Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.

* 2009 – John Mortimer, British barrister, screenwriter and author.

Mortimer Jerome Adler ( December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001 ) was an American philosopher, educator, and popular author.

* 1959 – Bob Mortimer, English comedian

* 1391 – Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician ( d. 1425 )

Spaghetti Westerns also began featuring a pair of different heroes – In Leone's film Eastwood's character is an unshaven bounty hunter dressed similarly to his character in A Fistful of Dollars who enters an unstable partnership with Mortimer, an older bounty killer who uses more sophisticated weaponry and wears a suit ( Lee van Cleef ).

Mortimer later became the name of Mickey's rival for Minnie – taller than his renowned adversary and speaking with a Brooklyn accent.

* October 4 – Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer become the first Australians to summit Mount Everest.

* December 5 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman ( d. 1724 )

* Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March ( 1287 – 1330 ) an English nobleman, was for three years de facto ruler of England, after leading a successful rebellion against Edward II.

* May 21 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman ( b. 1661 )

* February 26 – Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader ( b. 1328 )

* July 20 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England ( b. 1374 )

* April 11 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England ( d. 1398 )

* November 9 – Edmund Mortimer, English rebel ( d. c. 1409 )

* December 27 – Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician

* November 6 – Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician ( d. 1425 )