* Stephen King's The Dark Tower series mentions Discordia in several contexts ; one of the main characters, Mordred Deschain, is from Discordia, and the castle that is home to the main antagonist is called Castle Discordia.

This threat was backed up by the arrest of the bishops, with the exception of Nigel who had taken refuge in Devizes Castle ; the bishop only surrendered after Stephen besieged the castle and threatened to execute Roger le Poer.

Stephen started by attacking Wallingford Castle, held by the Empress's childhood friend Brien FitzCount, only to find it too well defended.

Ranulf had previously claimed that he had the rights to Lincoln Castle, held by Stephen, and under the guise of a social visit, Ranulf seized the fortification in a surprise attack.

Stephen returned to London but received news that Ranulf, his brother and their family were relaxing in Lincoln Castle with a minimal guard force, a ripe target for a surprise attack of his own.

While Stephen and his army besieged Lincoln Castle at the start of 1141, Robert of Gloucester and Ranulf of Chester advanced on the king's position with a somewhat larger force.

Robert took Stephen back to Gloucester, where the king met with the Empress Matilda, and was then moved to Bristol Castle, traditionally used for holding high-status prisoners.

St George's Tower at Oxford Castle, where Stephen almost captured the Empress Matilda

Oxford Castle, however, was a powerful fortress and, rather than storming it, Stephen had to settle down for a long siege, albeit secure in the knowledge that Matilda was now surrounded.

1143 started precariously for Stephen when he was besieged by Robert of Gloucester at Wilton Castle, an assembly point for royal forces in Herefordshire.

Stephen valued William's loyalty sufficiently to agree to exchange Sherborne Castle for his safe release — this was one of the few instances where Stephen was prepared to give up a castle to ransom one his men.

With all of his other problems and with Hugh Bigod still in open revolt in Norfolk, Stephen lacked the resources to track Geoffrey down in the Fens and made do with building a screen of castles between Ely and London, including Burwell Castle.

Over the summer, Stephen intensified the long-running siege of Wallingford Castle in a final attempt to take this major Angevin stronghold.

Stephen lost the towns of Oxford and Stamford to Henry while the king was diverted fighting Hugh Bigod in the east of England, but Nottingham Castle survived an Angevin attempt to capture it.

Stephen King got the name Castle Rock from the fictional mountain fort of the same name in Lord of the Flies, using the name to refer to a fictional town that has appeared in a number of King's novels.

He returned to Frankfurt as personal physician to the banished Archduke Stephen of Austria at Schaumburg Castle from 1861 to 1863.

* Castle Rock ( Stephen King ), the fictional Maine town in use in many Stephen King novels, stories, and novellas

* Castle Rock ( newsletter ), a monthly newsletter about Stephen King published from January 1985 through December 1989, edited by Christopher Spruce, King's brother-in-law

* Castle Rock Entertainment, a film production company founded by Rob Reiner and named after Stephen King's fictional town

When King Stephen besieged Newbury Castle in 1152, according to William's biographer, he used the young William as a hostage to ensure that John kept his promise to surrender the castle.

In 1139 Matilda landed in England with 140 knights, where she was besieged at Arundel Castle by King Stephen.

Stephen almost seized Matilda in 1142 during the siege of Oxford, but the Empress escaped from Oxford Castle across the frozen River Thames to safety.

This threat was backed up by the arrest of the bishops, with the exception of Nigel who had taken refuge in Devizes Castle ; the bishop only surrendered after Stephen besieged the castle and threatened to execute Roger le Poer.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

In a March 2000 issue of Natural History, Stephen Jay Gould argued that Haeckel “ exaggerated the similarities by idealizations and omissions .” As well, Gould argued that Haeckel ’ s drawings are simply inaccurate and falsified.

* < cite id = Rogers2004 > Rogers, Alan R .; Iltis, David & Wooding, Stephen ( 2004 ), “ Genetic variation at the MC1R locus and the time since loss of human body hair ”, Current Anthropology 45 ( 1 ): 105 – 108 .</ cite >

According to Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, in his book " The Two Faces of Islam ", “ some say that during this vagabondage Ibn Abdul Wahhab came into contact with certain Englishmen who encouraged him to personal ambition as well as to a critical attitude about Islam .” Specifically, Mir ’ at al Harramin, a Turkish work by Ayyub Sabri Pasha, written in 1888, states that in Basra, Abdul Wahhab had come into contact with a British spy by the name of Hempher, who “ inspired in him the tricks and lies that he had learned from the British Ministry of the Commonwealth .”

After holding the traditional ordination of priests and bishops in December and confirming Farfa Abbey ’ s possessions on condition that every day the monks would recite one hundred “ Kyrie Eleisons ” as well as a yearly payment to the Roman Church of ten golden solidi, Stephen died on 24 January 817.

Pinker ’ s research on visual cognition, begun in collaboration with his thesis adviser Stephen Kosslyn, showed that mental images represent scenes and objects as they appear from a specific vantage point ( rather than capturing their intrinsic three-dimensional structure ), and thus correspond to the neuroscientist David Marr ’ s theory of a “ two-and-a-half-dimensional sketch .” He also showed that this level of representation is used in visual attention, and in object recognition ( at least for asymmetrical shapes ), contrary to Marr ’ s theory that recognition uses viewpoint-independent representations.

Stephen J. Joyce, grandson of James Joyce, at a 1986 academic conference of Joyceans in Copenhagen, said “ If my grandfather was here, he would have died laughing ... Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can be picked up, read, and enjoyed by virtually anybody without scholarly guides, theories, and intricate explanations, as can Ulysses, if you forget about all the hue and cry.

In 2007, Stephen Dalton of The Times stated: “ The band have just released their 14th album, Somewhere Else, which is really rather good.

Over its early history the bank was known as “ Girard ’ s Bank ,” or as “ Girard Bank ” or also as “ Stephen Girard ’ s Bank ” or even the “ Bank of Stephen Girard .” Girard was the sole proprietor of his bank, and thus avoided the Pennsylvania state law which prohibited an unincorporated association of persons from establishing a bank, and required a charter from the legislature for a banking corporation.

* Stephen Faris, “ Nigeria ’ s Vigilante Justice ,” Mother Jones ( April 25, 2002 )

Following several successful revivals ( including Stephen Daldry's 1992 production for the National Theatre ), the play was “ rediscovered ” and hailed as a damning social critique of capitalism and middle-class hypocrisy in the manner of the social realist dramas of Shaw and Ibsen.

* Stephen Turnbull, “ Samurai Warfare ” ( London, 1996 ), Cassell & Co ISBN 1-85409-280-4

In the nineteenth century, there had been a tension between the romantic advocates of the “ sacredness ” of the Alpine peaks ( such as John Ruskin ), and modern mountain climbers ( such as Leslie Stephen ), who promoted the notion of the Alps as the “ playground of Europe .” In the twentieth century, the mountains acquired a clearly positive, iconic, status as places unsullied by undesirable urban influences such as pollution, noise and so on.

Leslie Stephen, in a best-selling book first published in 1871, defined the Alps as “ the Playground of Europe .” The book highlights the incredible success of the mountains but it also reflects the tensions that emerged among their visitors.

Examples of this tendency include narratives of events in the “ Histories ”, that occurred in Braga or the fact that Orosius himself was charged with transporting the reliquaries of Saint Stephen.

* Krasner, Stephen D .: “ Westphalia and all that ” in Judith Goldstein & Robert Keohane ( eds ): Ideas and Foreign Policy ( Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1993 ), pp. 235-264

* Stephen Leacock Award-Sondra Gotlieb, True Confessions

* Chapple, Stephen ( 2001 ) Confessions of an Eco-Redneck: Or how I Learned to Gut-Shoot Trout and Save the Wilderness at the Same Time ISBN 0-641-54292-5 Perseus Publishing-September 2001

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, Permanent Connections by Sue Ellen Bridgers, Dancing on Dark Waters by Alden Carter, and Driver's Ed by Caroline Cooney / The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane and The Color Purple by Alice Walker.