" The Sound of His Wings " would have concerned a televangelist named Nehemiah Scudder who rides a populist, racist wave of support to the Presidency.

The character of Nehemiah Scudder, the " First Prophet " of the regime, appeared in Heinlein's first novel ( never published in his lifetime ), For Us, The Living.

These stories were key points in the Future History, so Heinlein gave a rough description of Nehemiah Scudder which made his reign easy to visualize — a combination of John Calvin, Girolamo Savonarola, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, and Huey Long.

Nehemiah Scudder already appears in Heinlein's earliest novel " For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs " ( written 1938 – 1939, though only published in 2003 ).

Also appearing already in this early stage of Heinlein's career is the fanatic and dictatorial religious leader Nehemiah Scudder.

The rest of their picks included UCLA fullback Manuel White, Jr., Louisville linebacker Robert McCune, Stanford linebacker Jared Newberry, and Citadel College fullback Nehemiah Broughton.

* May 29 – First Anglo-Dutch War: The opening battle is fought off Dover, between Lt .- Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into 2 squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.

* A television adaptation, directed by John Frankenheimer, was broadcast in two parts on CBS's Playhouse 90 in 1956, starring Jason Robards and Maria Schell as Robert Jordan and Maria, with Nehemiah Persoff as Pablo, Maureen Stapleton as Pilar, and Eli Wallach as the gypsy Rafael.

Smaller roles ( some only a few seconds ) were played by Michael Ansara, Ina Balin, Carroll Baker, Robert Blake, Pat Boone, Victor Buono, John Considine, Richard Conte, Jamie Farr, David Hedison, Van Heflin, Russell Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Mark Lenard, Robert Loggia, John Lupton, Sal Mineo, Nehemiah Persoff, Sidney Poitier, Gary Raymond, Marian Seldes, David Sheiner, Paul Stewart, John Wayne and Shelley Winters.

Charter members of the Academy are Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Bacon, James Bowdoin, Charles Chauncy, John Clark, David Cobb, Samuel Cooper, Thomas Cushing, Nathan Cushing, William Cushing, Tristram Dalton, Francis Dana, Samuel Deane, Perez Fobes, Caleb Gannett, Henry Gardner, Benjamin Guild, John Hancock, Joseph Hawley, Edward Augustus Holyoke, Ebenezer Hunt, Jonathan Jackson, Charles Jarvis, Samuel Langdon, Levi Lincoln, Daniel Little, Elijah Lothrup, John Lowell, Samuel Mather, Samuel Moody, Andrew Oliver, Joseph Orne, Theodore Parsons, George Partridge, Robert Treat Paine, Phillips Payson, Samuel Phillips, Jr., John Pickering, Oliver Prescott, Zedekiah Sanger, Nathaniel Peaslee Sargeant, Micajah Sawyer, Theodore Sedgwick, William Sever, Stephen Sewall, David Sewall, John Sprague, Ebenezer Storer, Caleb Strong, James Sullivan, John Bernard Sweat, Nathaniel Tracy, Cotton Tufts, James Warren, Samuel West, Edward Wigglesworth, Joseph Willard, Samuel Williams, Abraham Williams, Nehemiah Williams, and James Winthrop.

The film co-stars Nancy Kwan, Nehemiah Persoff, Robert Alda, Patricia Smith, David Brian, and noted jazz musician Buddy Greco as nightclub entertainer Albert " Lucky " Jones.

This story featured Robert Redford, Martin Balsam, Nehemiah Persoff and Nancy Malone as guest stars.

Robert R Livingston ( 1654-1728 ), probably painted by Nehemiah Partridge about 1718.

Her sons, Mar Ukba and Nehemiah, were considered types of the highest aristocracy.

In 1723 Bristol brass maker Nehemiah Champion patented the use of granulated copper, produced by pouring molten metal into cold water.

The works dealing with the Old Testament included Commentary on Samuel, Commentary on Genesis, Commentaries on Ezra and Nehemiah, On the Temple, On the Tabernacle, Commentaries on Tobit, Commentaries on Proverbs, Commentaries on the Song of Songs, Commentaries on the Canticle of Habakkuk, The works on Ezra, the Tabernacle and the Temple were especially influenced by Gregory the Great's writings.

Originally combined with the Book of Nehemiah in a single book of Ezra-Nehemiah, the two became separated in the early centuries of the Christian era.

Together with the Book of Nehemiah, it represents the final chapter in the historical narrative of the Hebrew Bible.

( This last mission, that of Nehemiah, is not part of the Book of Ezra.

The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible.

The book tells how Nehemiah, at the court of the king in Susa, is informed that Jerusalem is without walls and resolves to restore them.

In the 20th year of Artaxerxes ( the King of Persia ), Nehemiah, cup-bearer to the King in Susa ( the Persian capital ), learns that the wall of Jerusalem is destroyed.

Nehemiah returns to Jerusalem, carrying letters of authorisation from the king ; he inspects the walls.

Nehemiah and the Jews ( including the ' High Priest ' Eliashib ), begin rebuilding Jerusalem.

Nehemiah sees that the Jewish nobles are oppressing the poor, and forces the cancellation of all debt and mortgages ; while previous governors have been corrupt and oppressive, he has been righteous and just.

Sanballat accuses Nehemiah of planning rebellion against Artaxerxes, and he is opposed even by Jewish nobles and prophets, but the wall is completed.

Nehemiah appoints officials and sets guards on the wall and gates ; he plans to register the Jews, and finds the Census of those who had returned earlier.

Nehemiah assembles the people and has Ezra read to them the law-book of Moses ; Nehemiah, Ezra and the Levites institute the Feast of Booths, in accordance with the Law.

A list of priests and Levites who returned in the days of Cyrus ( the first returnees from Babylon ) is presented ; Nehemiah, aided by Ezra, oversees the dedication of the walls and the rebuilt city.

After 12 years Nehemiah returns to Susa ; he later comes back to Jerusalem, and finds that there has been backsliding in his absence.

Nehemiah is a cup-bearer to king Artaxerxes II of Persia-an important official position.

At his own request Nehemiah is sent to Jerusalem as governor of Yehud, the official Persian name for Judah.

Jerusalem had been conquered and destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC and Nehemiah finds it still in ruins.

The combined book Ezra-Nehemiah of the earliest Christian and Jewish period was known as Ezra and was probably attributed to him ; according to a rabbinic tradition, however, Nehemiah was the real author but was forbidden to claim authorship because of his bad habit of disparaging others.

The Nehemiah Memorial, chapters 1-7 and 11-13, may have circulated as an independent work before being combined with the Ezra material to form Ezra-Nehemiah.

The Nehemiah Memorial is interrupted by chapters 8-10, which concern Ezra.

Both the Nehemiah and Ezra material are combined with numerous lists, Censuses and other material.

If Christians ," he wrote, " had been content to take what Christ taught of the Father in heaven, they would never have saddled themselves with the jealous, angry, bloodthirsty Jehovah of Ezra, Nehemiah and the others-a god that needs propitiating and to whose ' mercy ' constant appeals must be made.

This early Biblical Hebrew name underwent a shortening into later Biblical, as found in the Hebrew text of verses Ezra 2: 2, 2: 6, 2: 36, 2: 40, 3: 2, 3: 8, 3: 9, 3: 10, 3: 18, 4: 3, 8: 33 ; Nehemiah 3: 19, 7: 7, 7: 11, 7: 39, 7: 43, 8: 7, 8: 17, 9: 4, 9: 5, 11: 26, 12: 1, 12: 7, 12: 8, 12: 10, 12: 24, 12: 26 ; 1 Chronicles 24: 11 ; and 2 Chronicles 31: 15 — as well as in Biblical Aramaic at verse Ezra 5: 2.

2 as the leaders of the people returning from the Exile — Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Mordecai, and Bilshan — are designated as " men of the Great Synagogue.

Matthew ( Matt ) Scudder is a fictional private investigator, the most famous and enduring creation of American crime writer Lawrence Block.