There had been reading at table, especially from two books, Pope Gregory The Great's account of St. Scholastica in his Dialogues and my own The World Of Washington Irving.

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* Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey by Washington Irving, from Project Gutenberg

Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

Washington Irving was instrumental in popularizing Columbus.

Other instances include the 2005 Monday Night game against the Washington Redskins when the team inducted Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irving into the Cowboys Ring of Honor, and the 2006 Christmas Day game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

The short story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " by Washington Irving is cited as " the first great comedy-horror story ".

Scott's attention had been drawn to Gratz's character by novelist Washington Irving, who was a close friend of the Gratz family.

was given by Washington Irving in his travelogue Astoria.

" When asked by syndicated columnist Katherine Hillyer for the Washington Daily News ( or by a bystander, according to another account ) what it was called, Irving answered, " It's a jeep.

In Washington Irving's story " The Devil and Tom Walker " set in 1727, Irving tells how Tom asks " the black man " who he is.

Washington Irving wrote mysterious tales including " Rip van Winkle " ( 1819 ) and " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " ( 1820 ).

One recounts that Washington Irving, who was traveling in Spain at the time, suggested the name to his brother, a local resident ; this explanation ignores the fact that Irving returned to the United States in 1832.

Washington Irving, then editor of The Analectic Magazine in Philadelphia, reprinted the song in November 1814.

One such specimen, IGM 100 / 980, was nicknamed " Ichabodcraniosaurus " by Norell's team because the fairly complete specimen was found without its skull ( an allusion to the Washington Irving character Ichabod Crane ).

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* The George Washington Carver Museum relates the story of the African-American genius who invented over 500 different products from peanuts and other plants native to the South.

In 1951, he moved to Washington, D. C. where he worked as the Director of Information for the International Federation of Agricultural Producers, reporting on international politics as relates to agriculture.

Washington Irving relates that the song had crossed the Atlantic and was being sung in Kentucky before 1832, and spread through North America in the nineteenth century as well.

* The Hold Steady's song " Stuck Between Stations " from the 2006 album Boys and Girls in America relates a loose rendition of Berryman's death, describing the isolation he felt, despite his critical acclaim, and depicting him walking with " the devil " on the Washington Avenue Bridge where he committed suicide.

The FBI had no leads until Dasch gave his exaggerated and romanticized version in Washington, D. C.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

The United States ' only Federalist president was John Adams ; although George Washington was broadly sympathetic to the Federalist program, he remained an independent his entire presidency.

President John Quincy Adams was sympathetic, and eventually the treaty was nullified in a new agreement, the Treaty of Washington ( 1826 ).

In the first part, the events which led to the downfall of Granada are related with uncommon brilliancy, and Pérez de Hita's sympathetic transcription of life at the Emir's court has clearly suggested the conventional presentation of the picturesque, chivalrous Moor in the pages of Mlle de Scudéry, Mme de Lafayette, Châteaubriand and Washington Irving.

Wiley brought with him to Washington a practical knowledge of agriculture, a sympathetic approach to the problems of agricultural industry and an untapped talent for public relations.

" The New York Times later wrote that she " soon made enemies at Washington by her often unmeasured attacks, and while on general lines she did some good, her case was weakened by her inability, in some cases, to substantiate the charges she had made ; hence many who were at first sympathetic fell away.

With the outbreak of the American Revolution in April 1775, the Wataugans, most of whom were sympathetic to the Patriot cause, organized the Washington District, and formed a 13-member Committee of Safety.

Nevertheless, Rick Marin from The Washington Times praised Kirstie Alley for bringing life into Rebecca Howe, making Rebecca a sympathetic " loser " who has full of ideals but lacks success, and her bringing more physical comedy than Shelley Long did.

Washington instructed his agents in the use of the " sympathetic stain ," noting in connection with " Culper Junior " that the ink " will not only render his communications less exposed to detection, but relieve the fears of such persons as may be entrusted in its conveyance.

In 1936 he was summarily dismissed from his second teaching position, at the State College of Washington at Pullman, as the result of his sympathetic portrayal of a prostitute in his well-reviewed comic novel Angels on the Bough.

Shortly after the radio address, on March 29, the Supreme Court published its opinion upholding a Washington state minimum wage law in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish by a 5 – 4 ruling, after Associate Justice Owen Roberts had joined with the wing of the bench more sympathetic to the New Deal.

In West Coast Hotel, Justice Owen Roberts, who had previously voted to strike down similar legislation, joined the wing more sympathetic to the New Deal and upheld a Washington state law setting a minimum wage for women.

Throughout his tenure in China, Hurley felt that his efforts were being undermined by State Department officials, principally John Stewart Service and John Paton Davies in China, and John Carter Vincent in Washington, who he felt were unduly sympathetic to the Communist forces led by Mao Zedong.

: knowing that the some branches of the Shriners were anti-Catholic and in that sense sympathetic to the Ku Klax Klan and that the Klan itself was holding a demonstration less than a half mile from Washington, Harding censured hate groups in his Shriners speech.

* George Washington ( sympathetic to the Federalists, predecessors to the Whigs, and in turn the Republicans )