But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

Advisors for the `` national champion '' company were John K. Morgan, William H. Baker, Leonard Breuer and William F. Stephenson, all of Georgia-Pacific Corp..

" is attributed to his son William De Morgan, but a family friend John Thomas Graves was prolific, and a manuscript with over 2, 800 has been preserved.

Scholars such as Frederick W. Mote argue that the wide drop in numbers reflects an administrative failure to record rather than an actual decrease ; others such as Timothy Brook argue that the Mongols created a system of enserfment among a huge portion of the Chinese populace, causing many to disappear from the census altogether ; other historians like William McNeill and David Morgan argue that the Bubonic Plague was the main factor behind the demographic decline during this period.

The Survey sent him to Europe five times, first in 1871 as part of a group sent to observe a solar eclipse ; there, he sought out Augustus De Morgan, William Stanley Jevons, and William Kingdon Clifford, British mathematicians and logicians whose turn of mind resembled his own.

* 1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.

American Impressionist painters noted for this style during this era included, Guy Rose, Robert William Wood, Mary Denil Morgan, John Gamble, and Arthur Hill Gilbert.

Glen Morgan and James Wong's early influence on The X-Files mythology led to their introduction of popular secondary characters who would continue for years in episodes written by others, such as the Scully family: Dana's father, William ( Don S. Davis ); her mother, Margaret ( Sheila Larken ); and her sister, Melissa ( Melinda McGraw ).

After two years of experimental work with morphologist William Keith Brooks and writing several publications, Morgan was eligible to receive a master of science from the State College of Kentucky in 1888.

This key episode was the mysterious disappearance, in 1826, of William Morgan ( 1774-1826?

William G. Morgan

On February 9, 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts ( USA ), William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education director, created a new game called Mintonette as a pastime to be played preferably indoors and by any number of players.

The first rules, written down by William G Morgan, called for a net 6 ft 6 in ( 1. 98 m ) high, a 25 × 50 ft ( 7. 6 × 15. 2 m ) court, and any number of players.

* February 9 – Mintonette, later known as volleyball, is created by William G. Morgan at Holyoke, Massachusetts.

* September 10 – William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator ( b. 1545 )

Boole's initial involvement in logic was prompted by a current debate on quantification, between Sir William Hamilton who supported the theory of " quantification of the predicate ", and Boole's supporter Augustus De Morgan who advanced a version of De Morgan duality, as it is now called.

** William Morgan, Welsh Bible translator ( d. 1604 )

New York's financiers J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and William Waldorf Astor, among others, pledged $ 15 million to finance the fair if Congress awarded it to New York, while Chicagoans Charles T. Yerkes, Marshall Field, Philip Armour, Gustavus Swift, and Cyrus McCormick, offered to finance a Chicago fair.

Featured in the film are William Powell as Ziegfeld, Myrna Loy as Billie Burke, Luise Rainer, Nat Pendleton, and Frank Morgan.

* Margaret Ruth Morgan, The Chronicle of Ernoul and the Continuations of William of Tyre.

Whitehead credits William Rowan Hamilton and Augustus De Morgan as originators of the subject matter, and James Joseph Sylvester with coining the term itself.

The publication of the extremely significant first Welsh translation of the Bible by William Morgan in 1588 greatly advanced the position of Welsh as a literary language.

In its heyday, many celebrities belonged to the Golden Dawn, such as actress Florence Farr, Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, Irish writer William Butler Yeats, Welsh author Arthur Machen, English author Evelyn Underhill, and English author Aleister Crowley.

The Golden Dawn represented perhaps the peak of this wave of magic, attracting cultural celebrities like William Butler Yeats, Algernon Blackwood, and Arthur Machen.

Hermetic magic underwent a nineteenth century revival in Western Europe, where it was practiced by people and within groups such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Aurum Solis, Ragon, Kenneth M. Mackenzie, Eliphas Lévi, Frederick Hockley, William Butler Yeats, and Arthur Machen.

Sinclair and similar thinkers draw on a longstanding British literary tradition of the exploration of urban landscapes, predating the Situationists, found in the work of writers like William Blake, Arthur Machen, and Thomas de Quincey.

Literary influences include Lautreamont's Les Chants de Maldoror, the Bible, The Poetic Eddas, Hildegard von Bingen, John Dee, Heptarchia Mystica, The Thunder, Perfect Mind, William Blake, Louis Wain, writer Thomas Ligotti, occult British author Arthur Machen ( originator of the title " The Inmost Light "), M. R.

The poems in this collection won praise from a great variety of writers, among them Arthur Machen, Clifford Gessler, Robinson Jeffers, William Ellery Leonard, John Drinkwater, John Masefield and George Sterling

Forthcoming works ( some of which are discussed on Joshi's blog at his official website-see below ) also include Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction ( to be published in two volumes, 2011 & 2012 by PS Publishing ); Encyclopedia of the Vampire ( Greenwood Press ); Horror Fiction Index ; a three-volume edition of the letters of Ambrose Bierce ; bibliographies of William Hope Hodgson ( with Sam Gafford and Mike Ashley ) and of Clark Ashton Smith ; The White People and Other Weird Tales by Arthur Machen ( for Penguin Classics ); Essential Writings by Ambrose Bierce ( Library of America, forthcoming 2011 ); a comprehensive bibliography of Ray Bradbury ( with Jon Eller ); a revised / updated edition of the Ramsey Campbell bibliography The Core of Ramsey Campbell ; and an edition of the correspondence between Ramsey Campbell and August Derleth.

William Henry Machen ( February 10, 1832-June 19, 1911 ), was a painter and teacher.

William Henry Machen was born in Arnhem, Holland.

In his lifetime William Machen completed more than 2700 oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sketches.

* Twenty-five articles in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, edited by Jack Sullivan ( Viking 1986 ): " Arkham House ", " Charles Birkin ", " William Peter Blatty ", " Anthony Boucher ", " Fredric Brown ", " Robert W. Chambers ", " John Collier ", " Basil Copper ", " W. F. Harvey ", " Robert S. Hichens ", " William Hope Hodgson ", " Jerome K. Jerome ", " Henry Kuttner ", " Jack London ", " Kirby McCauley ", " Arthur Machen ", " John Metcalfe ", " Saki ( H. H. Munro )", " Steven Spielberg ", " The Supernatural: Belief and the Writer ", " The Twilight Zone ", " Edward Lucas White ", " Henry S. Whitehead ", " Colin Wilson "

In 1872, the house was sold to John F. Antisdel, whose family owned or rented the home until 1943 ( save a five-year period when William H. Machen lived in the home ).

* Sir William Morgan ( of Tredegar, elder ) ( 1701 – 1731 ), Member of Parliament for Brecon, 1722 – 1723, and Monmouthshire, 1722 – 1731

* William Morgan ( of Tredegar, younger ) ( 1725 – 1763 ), Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire, 1747 – 1763

The Atlanta Rolling Mill ( later the Confederate Rolling Mill ) was constructed in 1858 by Lewis Schofield and James Blake and soon after, Schofield and William Markham took it over and transformed it into the South's second most productive rolling mill, after the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia.

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1864 – William Bate Hardy, British biochemist ( d. 1934 )

* 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist ( d. 1965 )

* 1705 – William Cookworthy, English chemist ( d. 1780 )

* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )

* 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist ( d. 1828 )

* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )

* 1722 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia ( d. 1758 )

* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* 1666 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )

* 1790 – William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician ( d. 1872 )

* 1877 – William Brennaugh, Canadian lacrosse player ( d. 1934 )

* 1911 – William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founder of DDB Worldwide ( d. 1982 )

* 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician ( d. 1838 )

* 1809 – William B. Travis, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1836 )

* 1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( d. 1840 )

* 1860 – William Kennedy Dickson, France-Scottish actor, director, and inventor ( d. 1935 )

* 1934 – William Calhoun, American wrestler ( d. 1989 )

* 1921 – William Asher, American director, screenwriter, and producer ( d. 2012 )

* 1586 – William Hutchinson, English-American judge ( d. 1642 )

* 1688 – Frederick William I of Prussia ( d. 1740 )

* 1908 – William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American novelist ( d. 2000 )

* 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting ( d. 1839 )

* 1765 – William IV of the United Kingdom ( d. 1837 )