These narratives of coarse action and crude language appeared first in local newspapers, as a rule, and later found their way between book covers, though rarely into the planters' libraries beside the morocco-bound volumes of Horace, Mr. Addison, Mr. Pope, and Sir Walter Scott.

* Walter Scott Houston ( 1912 – 1993 ) who wrote the " Deep-Sky Wonders " column in Sky & Telescope magazine for almost 50 years.

It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Walter Scott.

Sir Walter Scott rescued the " jougs " from Threave Castle in Dumfries and Galloway and attached them to the castellated gateway he built at Abbotsford.

In keeping with its many Walter Scott references, Rose Street in Edinburgh has a bar called the " Kenilworth ", along with one named the " Abbotsford ".

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* 1771 – Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet ( d. 1832 )

Visitors were first attracted to Aberfoyle and the surrounding area after the publication of The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott in 1810.

As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

The last of these also contained some oral material and by the end of the 18th century this was becoming increasingly common, with collections including John Ritson's, The Bishopric Garland ( 1784 ), which paralleled the work of figures like Robert Burns and Walter Scott in Scotland.

Respected literary figures like Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott in Scotland both collected and wrote their own ballads, using the form to create an artistic product.

Added to the work of Sir Walter Scott, this was a major factor in promoting the adoption of Highland culture by Lowland Scotlanders.

It shows the influence of Walter Scott, and Brontë's modifications to her earlier gothic style have led Christine Alexander to comment that, in the work, " it is clear that Brontë was becoming tired of the gothic mode per se ".

Medieval sources referred to armour of this type simply as “ mail ”, however “ chain-mail ” has become a commonly-used, if incorrect neologism first attested in Sir Walter Scott ’ s 1822 novel The Fortunes of Nigel.

He had already shown a strong inclination for natural science, and this had been fostered by his intimacy with a " self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician ," as Sir Walter Scott called him, of great local fame — James Veitch of Inchbonny — a man who was particularly skillful in making telescopes.

" In addition to the various works of Brewster already mentioned, the following may be added: Notes and Introduction to Carlyle's translation of Legendre's Elements of Geometry ( 1824 ); Treatise on Optics ( 1831 ); Letters on Natural Magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott ( 1832 ); The Martyrs of Science, or the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler ( 1841 ); More Worlds than One ( 1854 ).

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In 1827, the Mahoning Association appointed reformer Walter Scott as an Evangelist.

Walter Scott and Thomas Campbell sided with Stone, but the younger Campbell had strong reasons and would not yield.

** The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Walter Scott ( 1805 )

** Marmion ( poem ) by Walter Scott ( 1808 )

** The Lady of the Lake ( poem ) by Walter Scott ( 1810 )

** The Vision of Don Roderick by Walter Scott ( 1811 )

** Rokeby and The Bridal of Triermain by Walter Scott ( 1813 )

** The Lord of the Isles by Walter Scott ( 1813 )

Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s novel A Canticle for Leibowitz centers on a monastic order called the Albertian Order of Leibowitz, named by its founder after Albertus Magnus and dedicated to preserving scientific knowledge lost after a nuclear war.

The original handwritten proclamation signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison, that informed the American public of the landmark deal of the Louisiana Purchase, was acquired in 1996 by Walter Scott Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska, who holds it in his private collection.

He gave some prints away to his colleagues Walter Gropius and Alfred H. Barr, Jr ..

* Walter Marty " Wally " Schirra, Jr., USN ( 1923 – 2007 ), flew 3 October 1962

Apocalyptic fiction generally concerns the disaster itself and the direct aftermath, while post-apocalyptic can deal with anything from the near aftermath ( as in Cormac McCarthy's The Road ) to 375 years in the future ( as in By The Waters of Babylon ) to hundreds or thousands of years in the future, as in Russell Hoban's novel Riddley Walker and Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s A Canticle for Leibowitz.

McVeigh later said he considered " a campaign of individual assassination ," with " eligible " targets including Attorney-General Janet Reno, Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. of Federal District Court, who handled the Branch Davidian trial, and Lon Horiuchi, a member of the FBI hostage-rescue team who shot and killed Vicki Weaver in a standoff at a remote cabin at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992.

** NASA announces the crew for the Apollo 7 space mission ( first manned Apollo flight ): Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham.

For example, Walter M. Miller Jr .' s A Canticle for Leibowitz is not generally considered a future history.

Out of circulation for years due to licensing issues, Bogdanovich and TCM released it in 2006, featuring newer, pristine film clips, and additional interviews with Clint Eastwood, Walter Hill, Harry Carey, Jr., Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and others.

Benson and Harriet Adams ( Stratemeyer's daughter ) are often credited as the primary writers of Nancy Drew books under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene ; other ghostwriters who used this name to write Nancy Drew mysteries included James Duncan Lawrence, Walter Karig, Nancy Axelrad, Priscilla Doll, Charles Strong, Alma Sasse, Wilhelmina Rankin, George Waller Jr., Margaret Scherf, and Susan Wittig Albert.

Members of the expedition included Helena residents: Truman C. Everts-former U. S. Assessor for the Montana Territory, Judge Cornelius Hedges-U. S. Attorney, Montana Territory, Samuel T. Hauser-President of the First National Bank, Helena, Montana ; later a Governor of the Montana Territory, Warren C. Gillette-Helena merchant, Benjamin C. Stickney Jr .-Helena merchant, Walter Trumbull-son of U. S. Senator Lyman Trumbull ( Illinois ) and Nathaniel P. Langford, then former U. S. Collector of Internal Revenue for Montana Territory.

A seminal work in this subgenre was Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s A Canticle for Leibowitz ( 1959 ), in which a recrudescent Catholic Church, pseudo-medieval society, and rediscovery of the knowledge of the pre-holocaust world are central themes.

The film also starred Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray, Harry Carey, John Ireland, Hank Worden, Noah Beery Jr. and Harry Carey, Jr. Borden Chase wrote the script with Charles Schnee, based on Chase's original story ( which was first serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in 1946 as " Blazing Guns on the Chisholm Trail ").

* Dub Taylor ( 1907 – 1994 ), Walter Taylor, Jr., American actor

On the estate he inherited, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. established North Wales Stud for the purpose of breeding Thoroughbred horses.

In the post-apocalyptic science fiction book A Canticle for Leibowitz, written by Walter M. Miller, Jr. and published in 1959, a character that can be interpreted as being the Wandering Jew is the only one to appear in all three novellas.

* Controller, Walter L. Griffith, Jr., Republican

These included Lt. General Ben Lear, Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lt. General Walter Krueger, General George S. Patton, Jr., and Major J. L. Benedict.

Notable Scout Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. ( March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007 ) earned the rank of First Class in Troop 36 in Oradell, New Jersey.

Palmer's son-in-law, Walter E. Hussman, Sr. ( 1906 – 1988 ), and Palmer's grandson, Walter E. Hussman, Jr. ( born 1947 ), were successive publishers of the Camden News and chief executive officers of the Palmer properties.

* Walter Wangerin, Jr., noted author and professor at Valparaiso University

The three stones were found by Walter J. Elliot, Jr., a carpenter from Bath, Maine.