This belief made its contributions to literature in Edgar Allan Poe's " The Gold-Bug ", Washington Irving's The Devil and Tom Walker, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Nelson DeMille's Plum Island.

Edinburgh is also home to a flourishing group of contemporary composers such as Nigel Osborne, Peter Nelson, Lyell Cresswell, Hafliði Hallgrímsson, Edward Harper, Robert Crawford, Robert Dow and John McLeod whose music is heard regularly on BBC Radio 3 and throughout the UK.

Backus ' historic FORTRAN team consisted of programmers Richard Goldberg, Sheldon F. Best, Harlan Herrick, Peter Sheridan, Roy Nutt, Robert Nelson, Irving Ziller, Lois Haibt, and David Sayre.

* 1838 – Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada ( today Quebec )

The current chief of the defence staff is Robert Yira Koroma, who was appointed by president Ernest Bai Koroma in August 2010 to replace Major General Alfred Nelson Williams, who was placed on terminal leave.

According to Robert Henry Nelson, " The medieval Roman Catholic Church operated a far-reaching and comprehensive welfare system for the poor ..."

* In 1996 for television, directed by Michael Anderson and starring Robert Urich, Kenny Vadas, Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Sandra Nelson and Colin Cunningham.

From the left: Dr. Thomas Heazle Parke, Robert H. Nelson, Henry M. Stanley, William G. Stairs, and Arthur J. M. Jephson

Frequent visitors and guests included Nelson Rockefeller, Robert Moses, Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier, and Fernand Léger, who waited out part of World War II by painting a mural at the bottom of Harrison's swimming pool.

* Nelson, Robert J. Corneille: His Heroes and Their Worlds.

Among the most notable corporate raiders of the 1980s were Carl Icahn, Victor Posner, Nelson Peltz, Robert M. Bass, T. Boone Pickens, Harold Clark Simmons, Kirk Kerkorian, Sir James Goldsmith, Saul Steinberg and Asher Edelman.

* Nelson, Robert A., as " Dr. Korda Ra Mayne ".

* Earth Penetrating Weapons, Lisbeth Gronlund, David Wright and Robert Nelson, Union of Concerned Scientists, May 2005

* Low-Yield Earth-Penetrating Nuclear Weapons, Robert W. Nelson, Federation of American Scientists, January / February 2001, Volume 54, Number 1

From the left: Dr. Thomas Heazle Parke, Robert H. Nelson, Henry M. Stanley, William G. Stairs, and Arthur J. M. Jephson

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

In this film, Robert Mitchum played the Dean Martin role, Arthur Hunnicutt the Walter Brennan character and James Caan the Ricky Nelson role.

It was discovered in 1897 by Robert A. Nelson, Melville Anderson, and Will Fitzgerald, who crawled into a small opening next to a large, well-known spring.

Other KC ministers Lewis interviewed included Burris Jenkins, Earl Blackman, I. M. Hargett, Bert Fiske, and Robert Nelson Horatio Spencer ( 1877-1961 ), who was Rector of a large Episcopal parish, Grace and Holy Trinity Church, which is now the Cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri.

William Thornton, Daniel Troutman and Daniel W. Wooliver were among the 1829 settlers, followed by William Blackwell, Elisha Nelson, Jerry Potts, Ephraim Bressie, Robert Leonard, Abner Wingfield, Lewis Dent, Wilson Craddock, Thomas Higginbotham, Jack Berry, Silas Hamby, Smith Wofford, Turkill McNeill, Dr. John Hyer, Samuel Hyer and David Lenox.

Raimondo withdrew his name from consideration following controversy over Behlen's operations in China ; and, according to Robert Novak, because of opposition from Senator Chuck Hagel arising from Raimondo's support of Democrat Ben Nelson over Republican Hagel in the 1996 senatorial election.

The area has been visited by actor Alan Alda, Sen. Jacob Javits, Sen. Robert Kennedy, singer Ethel Merman, actor Donald O ' Connor, and Governor Nelson Rockefeller.

WWII Comanche Code Talker Charles Chibitty, Academy Award winning actress Joan Crawford, WWII ace Robert S. Johnson, three time NBA champion Stacey King, former NBA All-Star Michael Ray Richardson, Miss America 2007 Lauren Nelson, infamous University of Oklahoma quarterback Charles Thompson, NFL Pro Bowlers Will Shields and Jammal Brown, and 2006 Contender champion boxer Grady Brewer.

Waxahachie was the birthplace of Tom Blasingame, considered the oldest cowboy in the history of the American West, R & B singer Tevin Campbell, Bill Ham ( manager for ZZ Top ), Byron Nelson, a professional golf legend and Academy Award winning director Robert Benton, who made his 1984 film " Places in the Heart " in his hometown.

Robert Arthur " Bob " Moog ( ; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005 ), founder of Moog Music, was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.

In 1968, Robert Moog developed one of the first solid-state musical vocoder for electronic music studio of University at Buffalo.

* Robert Moog ( 1934-2005 ), a pioneer of electronic music and inventor of the Moog synthesizer

* IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award ( for electronic circuits and systems )

is an influential German electropunk / NDW band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 featuring Gabriel " Gabi " Delgado-López ( vocals ), Robert Görl ( drums, percussion, electronic instruments ), Kurt " Pyrolator " Dahlke ( electronic instruments ), Michael Kemner ( bass-guitar ) and Wolfgang Spelmans ( guitar ).

Between 1961 and 1970, Robert Moog built electronic music equipment including Theremins and his famous synthesizers in a downtown storefront.

Founded by Steve Beckett and the late Rob Mitchell from their experiences working at the FON record shop, alongside record producer Robert Gordon, the label ( whose name was chosen because the original name, ' Warped Records ' was difficult to distinguish over the telephone ) soon became home to artists who would be influential in electronic music.

Robert T. Crowley ( born March 2, 1948 ) is a pioneer in the development and practice of Electronic Data Interchange ( EDI ), an early component of electronic commerce.

* May 26 – Werner Meyer-Eppler, Fritz Enkel, Herbert Eimert, and Robert Beyer open a pioneering electronic music studio at the Cologne studios of the NWDR ( Morawska-Büngeler 1988, 11 – 12 ).

Robert B. Sexton has noted that this score involved the use of treble and bass theremins ( played by Dr. Samuel Hoffmann and Paul Shure ), electric strings, bass, prepared piano, and guitar together with various pianos and harps, electronic organs, brass, and percussion, and that Herrmann treated the theremins as a truly orchestral section.

Though closed circuit feedback was a prominent feature in many early experimental electronic music compositions, it was contemporary American composer Robert Ashley who first used acoustic feedback as sound material in his work The Wolfman ( 1964 ).

In kwaito, synthesizers and other electronic instruments are common, and slow jams adopted from Chicago house musicians like The Fingers, Tony Humphries and Robert Owen are also standard.

* Jean Ven Robert Hal ( born 1970 ), Italian composer of electronic and new age music

After touring with Daniel Miller as Robert Rental & The Normal, Robert Rental released his only Mute Records single, " Double Heart ", a rare, remaining trace of this late electronic music pioneer.

Michael Robert Paradinas ( born September 26, 1971 ) who works primarily under the name μ-Ziq ( pronounced like the word " music ") in addition to a large number of aliases, is a British musician in the field of electronic music.

The earliest use of electronic digital computers for medicine was for dental projects in the 1950s at the United States National Bureau of Standards by Robert Ledley.

Electronic music pioneers Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause set up a booth at Monterey to demonstrate the new electronic music synthesizer developed by Robert Moog.

In the words of Robert Nesbet: " Slater founded the SSMTG with the idea of bringing together a younger generation of students and PostDocs with a common interest in the electronic structure and properties of atoms, molecules and solids.

Robert Moog designed its original electronic processing system and David Behrman designed a computer program to facilitate live performance.

ARP Instruments, Inc. was an American manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman in 1969.

Robert founded the Sprague Electric Company which became a leading manufacturer of capacitors and other electronic components.

Robert Adams is Technical Fellow and manager of audio development at Analog Devices Inc. Robert holds many patents related to the audio and electronic field.