Cadmium ( Latin cadmia, Greek καδμεία meaning " calamine ", a cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals, which was named after the Greek mythological character, Κάδμος Cadmus, the founder of Thebes ) was discovered simultaneously in 1817 by Friedrich Stromeyer and Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann, both in Germany, as an impurity in zinc carbonate.

At least since the days of Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson, analysis of the play has centred on the question of Macbeth's ambition, commonly seen as so dominant a trait that it defines the character.

The diarist Samuel Pepys observed a marionette show featuring an early version of the Punch character in Covent Garden in London.

Comparisons have also been drawn to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, for the presence of two central characters who almost appear to be two halves of a single character.

* The character of Samuel T. Anders suffers from a form of word salad in Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica after being hit in the head with a bullet during the mutiny aboard Galactica.

Samuel is also treated by the Classical Rabbis as a much more sympathetic character than he appears at face value in the Bible ; his annual circuit is explained as being due to his wish to spare people the task of having to journey to him ; Samuel is said to have been very rich, taking his entire household with him on the circuit so that he didn't need to impose himself on anyone's hospitality ; when Saul fell out of God's favour, Samuel is described as having grieved copiously and having prematurely aged.

Character: Samuel tends to be a very mistrustful character.

* Rat Korga, major character in Samuel R. Delany's science fiction novel Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, voluntarily opts for psychosurgery to make him content to be a slave.

The character was based on the real-life Charlestonian Samuel Smalls.

Writer Samuel A. Peeples told Roddenberry these attributes made Spock too alien, and suggested " he should at least be half-human and have the problems of both sides ", believing the human traits made the character more interesting and able to comment on the human condition more believably.

In 1972, Fafhrd and the Mouser began their comics career, appearing in Wonder Woman # 202 alongside the title character and Catwoman in a story scripted by award-winning SF writer Samuel R. Delany.

* In the 1993 film Amos & Andrew, Samuel L. Jackson's character has won the Pulitzer Prize for a play called Yo Brother, Where Art Thou?

The Royal Opera in London has only given one performance of the opera, a concert version in March 1998 at the Barbican Centre, with Samuel Ramey as the title character.

* Samuel Pickering, Professor at the University of Connecticut, inspiration for the character Mr. Keating in the Academy Award – winning film The Dead Poets Society

Near the town's center is the boyhood home of Samuel Wilson, the meat-supplier who is believed to have inspired the Uncle Sam character.

The character " Frank Bailey ", played by Michael Rooker, is based on Alton Wayne Roberts, Stephen Tobolowsky as " Clayton Townley " based on Samuel Bowers and Pruitt Taylor Vince as " Lester Cowens " based on Edgar Ray Killen.

One 18th-century historian of the county Samuel Robinson noted that ‘ the greatest number of houses were of a homely character, thatched and one storey high ’.

In Snyder v. Phelps ( 2011 ), dissenting Justice Samuel Alito likened the protests of the Westboro Baptist Church members to fighting words and of a personal character, and thus not protected speech.

He came under the lash of Samuel Butler, who, making allowance for some satiric exaggeration, has given in the character of Sidrophel a probably not very incorrect picture of the man ; and, having by this time amassed a tolerable fortune, he bought a small estate at Hersham in Surrey, to which he retired, and where he diverted the exercise of his peculiar talents to the practice of medicine.

* Samuel Norton, film character from The Shawshank Redemption

In Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, the character of Estragon tries to guess the names of two other characters.

In the early nineteenth century Religio Medici was " re-discovered " by the English Romantics, firstly by Charles Lamb who introduced it to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who after reading it exclaimed, " O to write a character of this man!

According to longtime NSA computer expert Samuel Simon Snyder, " We chose the name from Li ' l Abner Yokum, the comic strip character who was a big brute, but not very smart, because we believed that computers, which can be big and do brute-force operations, aren't very bright either.

In the 2010 film " Bounty Hunter ," Gerard Butler's character Milo Boyd tells Jennifer Aniston's character Nicole Houston of a " great pizza place on Yonkers.

The character also appears in the 1991 book Scarlett, a sequel to Gone with the Wind written by Alexandra Ripley, and in Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig.

Furthermore, the show's ratings continued to fall dramatically, which may have well been attributed to Butler's reputation in the press, the longer-than-usual hiatus the series took between seasons four and five, and the fact that Grace's character no longer went through the kinds of struggles that had made the show successful earlier on.

Most of Butler's amenities are located at the western edge of the area, adjacent to Marmion Avenue, while eastern Butler remains strictly residential in character.

*"' A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ' plot summary & character descriptions " from StageAgent. com

The title Daodejing is an honorific given by posterity, other titles include the amalgam Lǎozǐ Dàodéjīng ( 老子道德經 ), the honorific Daode Zhen Jing ( 道德真經 " True Classic of the Way and the Power "), and the Wuqian wen ( " Five thousand character ").

* Elliot Reid, a character who becomes an expert in the field in the Scrubs episode " My Way Home "

The concept of the Illustrated Man would later be reused by Bradbury as an antagonistic character in Something Wicked This Way Comes, the tattoos coming to represent the souls of sinful victims of a mysterious carnival.

After a short time performing on the stage, Quinn launched his film career performing character roles in the 1936 films Parole ( his debut ) and The Milky Way.

The film, which was based on the character of the Cisco Kid in the story The Caballero's Way by O. Henry, was a major innovation in Hollywood: it was the first major Western to use the new technology of sound and the first talkie to be filmed outdoors.

" Compare this with the beginning of the Confucian classic " Great Learning " which begins with " The Way of learning to be great consists in manifesting the clear character, loving the people, and abiding in the highest good " one can clearly see the correlation with the Roman virtue prudence especially if one transliterates clear character as clear conscience.

John Bowles went on to a successul career in cabaret and in music theatre, playing leads in shows like " Cats ", " A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum ", " Hello Dolly " and the romantic lead character of Raoul in 1, 000 performances of " The Phantom Of The Opera " around the world.

In modern theater, the character Miles Gloriosus ( Latin: " Famous or Boastful Soldier ") from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is an obvious form of the character, though modeled from the earlier Roman plays.

The other exceptions include a boy's choir " Christmas Medley " played while the characters drive through Los Angeles, the Molto allegro from Mozart's Jupiter Symphony ( heard as Annie and Alvy drive through the countryside ), Tommy Dorsey's performance of " Sleepy Lagoon ", and the muzak version of the Savoy Brown song " A Hard Way to Go ", playing over a party in the mansion of Paul Simon's character.

* John Henry, character in All the Way Home ( film )

* Shuzen Fujimori, a character in the 2008 video game Way of the Samurai 3

In 1972, he appeared as old man Doubleday in the episode " The Other Way Out " of Rod Serling's Night Gallery, in which his character seeks a gruesome revenge for the murder of his granddaughter.

Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Holloway made short propaganda films on behalf of the British Film Institute and Pathé News and took character parts in a series of war films including Major Barbara, The Way Ahead, This Happy Breed and The Way to the Stars.

Milo also appears as a character in A Murder on the Appian Way, Last Seen in Massilia and A Mist of Prophecies, in the Roma Sub Rosa series of historical mystery novels by Steven Saylor.

In the video game Way of the Samurai the main character Kenji is a Ronin who wanders the village of Rokkotsu Pass, creating his own destiny.

The opening theme from Vertigo was used in the prologue to Lady Gaga's " Born This Way " video, and during a flashback sequence in the pilot episode of FX's American Horror Story, which also featured " Georgie's Theme " in later episodes as a recurring musical motif for the character of Tate.

" According to Mort Walker's Private Scrapbook, Walker based the chaplain on Irish actor Barry Fitzgerald's priest character, from Going My Way ( 1944 ).

" The album includes Earle's version of Tom Waits ' song " Way Down in the Hole " which was the theme song for the fifth season of The Wire in which Earle appeared as the character Walon.

The character portrayed by Carroll O ' Connor in the 1965 film, In Harm's Way, starring John Wayne, was modeled after Arleigh Burke.

One of the enduring images of Gish's silent film years is the climax of the melodramatic Way Down East, in which Gish's character floats unconscious on an ice floe towards a raging waterfall, her long hair trailing in the water.

The Middle Way or Middle Path (; ) is the term that Siddhartha Gautama used to describe the character of the path he discovered that leads to liberation.