As Henry Pleasants has observed, she has a wider range than most opera singers, and many of the latter, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, are among her biggest fans.

Henry Pleasants, an American classical-music critic, wrote this about her: She has a lovely voice, one of the warmest and most radiant in its natural range that I have heard in a lifetime of listening to singers in every category.

Finally, Lt. Col. Henry Pleasants, commanding the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry of Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's IX Corps, offered a novel proposal to break the impasse.

* Pleasants, Henry.

The community of Hopkinsville was established in 1872 by Henry Hopkins, freedman former slave of Judge Henry Clay Pleasants, the judge credited for ending the Sutton-Taylor Feud.

According to the American music critic Henry Pleasants, the author of The Great Singers from the Dawn of Opera to Our Own Time ( first published 1967 ), she gave between 25 and 35 performances each season at the Met alone.

Henry Pleasants, Music Criticism 1846-99, Harmondsworth 1963.

* Pleasants, Henry, The Great Singers ( Simon & Schuster, New York 1966 ).

Indeed, Henry Pleasants, author of The Great Singers, goes so far as to say that the " searing despair " of Tamagno's version of Otello's death aria, Niun mi tema, " is possibly unmatched by anything else on wax " ( Macmillan Publishing, revised edition, London, 1983, pp. 252 – 254 ).

* The Great Singers, by Henry Pleasants, Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1966 / 81.

* Pleasants, Henry, The Great Singers ( Simon & Schuster, New York 1966 ).

* Pleasants, Henry ( 1966 / 81 ).

* Henry Pleasants, The Great Singers, Second Edition, Macmillan, London, 1983

* Pleasants, Henry, The Great Singers from the Dawn of Opera to Our Own Time, Macmillan Publishers, London ( 1983 ) ISBN 0-333-34854-0

In prison he met Eric Pleasants and the two became friends.

Pleasants, a mining engineer from Pennsylvania in civilian life, proposed digging a long mine shaft underneath the Confederate lines and planting explosive charges directly underneath a fort ( Elliott's Salient ) in the middle of the Confederate First Corps line.

Burnside, whose reputation had suffered from his 1862 defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg and his poor performance earlier that year at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, gave Pleasants the go-ahead.

Contemporary sketch of Col. Pleasants supervising the placement of powder in the mine.

They quickly lost interest and Pleasants soon found himself with few materials for his project, to the extent that his men had to forage for wood to support the structure.

Pleasants lit the fuse accordingly, but as with the rest of the mine's provisions, they had been given poor quality fuse, which his men had had to splice themselves.

Pleasants, who had no role in the battle itself, received praise for his idea and the execution thereof.

* In Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel The Guns of the South, Pleasants proposes and enacts his plan for a similar battle when the South engages in war with their time-traveling benefactors.

Pleasants County is a county located in the U. S. state of West Virginia.

It was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1851 and named for US Senator and Virginia Governor James Pleasants, Jr. Pleasants County is included in the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna, West Virginia-Ohio ( part ) Metropolitan Statistical Area.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations.

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

* 1885 – Henry George Lamond, Australian novelist ( d. 1969 )

National Lampoon was started by Harvard graduates and Harvard Lampoon alumni Doug Kenney, Henry Beard and Robert Hoffman in 1969, when they first licensed the " Lampoon " name for a monthly national publication.

* Gilbert Osofsky, Puttin ' on Ole Massa: The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup ( New York: Harper and Row, 1969 )

* Henry Kravis, MBA 1969, Billionaire Founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Dorothy Stanley ) ( 1909, 1969 ) The Autobiography of Henry M. Stanley, New York.

The first freeway HOV lane in the United States was implemented in the Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway in Northern Virginia, between Washington DC and the Capital Beltway, and was opened in 1969 as a bus-only lane.

William Henry Pratt ( 23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969 ), better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor.

John Fisher was portrayed by veteran actor Joseph O ' Conor in the film Anne of the Thousand Days ( 1969 ), by Bosco Hogan in the miniseries The Tudors, and by Geoffrey Lewis in the 1971 miniseries The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

* William A. Luijpen and Henry J. Koren, " A First Introduction to Existential Phenomenology " ( Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press 1969 )

In 1969, he was appointed Military Assistant to the Presidential Assistant for National Security Affairs, Henry Kissinger, a position he retained until 1970 when President Richard Nixon promoted Haig to Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.

She continued to divide her appearances between stage, TV and film, appearing in the title role of a television production of Jean Anouilh's Antigone in 1969 and in the 1970 film Cromwell as Queen Henrietta Maria, before playing another Queen in 1970 – Anne Boleyn in the BBC's series The Six Wives of Henry VIII, which starred Keith Michell in the title role.

Oscar Henry Haynes, Sr. ( 1888 – 1969 ), held the position from 1933 – 1952 and was a deputy sheriff for the five years prior to his becoming sheriff.

* Season 2 ( 1968 – 1969 ): Judy Carne, Henry Gibson, Goldie Hawn, Arte Johnson, Jo Anne Worley, Alan Sues, Charlie Brill and Mitzi McCall (" The Fun Couple "), Chelsea Brown, Dave Madden, Pigmeat Markham, Dick " Sweet Brother " Whittington, Byron Gilliam ( uncredited ),

* Season 3 ( 1969 – 1970 ): Judy Carne, Henry Gibson, Goldie Hawn, Arte Johnson, Jo Anne Worley, Alan Sues, Lily Tomlin, Byron Gilliam, Teresa Graves, Jeremy Lloyd, Pamela Rodgers, Stu Gilliam, Johnny Brown.

* Idem in English: Bohn, Henry G., The Road to Knowledge of the Return of Kings, Chronicles of the Crusades, AMS Press, 1969.

* Henry Bellmon, first Republican Governor of Oklahoma ( 1963 – 1967, 1991 – 1995 ) and U. S. Senator ( 1969 – 1981 )

It was incorporated in July 1969 under the leadership of then Mayor Henry York, Sr.

Eddie lived to be 84 years old and until his death at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, May 5, 1969, he was a strawberry farmer on a 5½-acre farm near Farmington.

What a Lovely War ( 1969 ), co-starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier and directed by Richard Attenborough ; Justine ( 1969 ), directed by George Cukor ; Le Serpent ( 1973 ), co-starring Henry Fonda and Yul Brynner ; A Bridge Too Far ( 1977 ), in a controversial performance as Lieutenant General Frederick " Boy " Browning, also starring Sean Connery and an all-star cast and again directed by Richard Attenborough.

Frank Henry Loesser () ( June 29, 1910 – July 28, 1969 ) was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and music to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others.