In the heavyweight division, the color bar was adamantly defended by Old Chocolate Godfrey's contemporary, " The Boston Strong Boy ", John L. Sullivan.

Pritchard was a champion of contemporary music and introduced a series of concerts known as Musica Viva which included new compositions.

The league decided to have a similar setup to its contemporary North American sports leagues, by creating a postseason tournament to culminate the regular season, which would be the determining factor in crowning the league champion.

In the years following the expedition he continued to champion Scott's career, to the extent of disregarding or disparaging the achievements of other contemporary explorers.

Rostal played a wide variety of music, but was a particular champion of contemporary works such as Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2.

Graham Priest, of the University of Melbourne and the CUNY Graduate Center, is dialetheism's most prominent contemporary champion.

Making his debut with Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, he was a champion of 20th century composers such as Richard Strauss, Webern, Berg and Varèse, and actively promoted the work of younger contemporary composers including Xenakis and Nono.

He was an exact contemporary of another British-trained champion, the English-bred Brigadier Gerard who defeated him in their only racecourse meeting in the 2000 Guineas.

" Known for his lyrical performance style and as a champion of contemporary violin music by such composers as Darius Milhaud, Leonard Bernstein, and Karol Szymanowski.

In addition to introducing American audiences to the remarkable riches of recorded music in the years following the second World War, Hall played an especially important role as a champion of contemporary music.

In 2004 he directed performances, live and on CD, of the madrigals and part-songs of Robert Lucas Pearsall, and in 2005 The Passions by Handel ’ s contemporary and champion, William Hayes, which was revived for the Weimar Festival in 2006.

Having begun her singing life in the world of popular music and jazz, Holvik has been a champion of contemporary American song and opera, and has premiered works by Ricky Ian Gordon, Aaron Kernis, John Musto, James Sellars, Tom Cipullo, Stewart Wallace and Richard Wilson.

His artistic sensibilities have made him a champion of a broad array of compositions, from Baroque transcriptions to contemporary music.

He was an early champion of synchronic linguistics, the study of contemporary spoken languages, which he developed contemporaneously with the structuralist linguistic theory of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.

In the early years of the competition, each regional association found its own champion to represent that region in the Chatham Cup, leading to confusion in many of the early records with regional finals, island finals, and the national final all often simply being referred to in contemporary reports as " finals ".

Though primarily known for her interpretations of Bach and Beethoven, she was a keen champion of contemporary composers including works of her good friend Shostakovich.

There is a reference in a contemporary poem, Le champion des dames by Martin le Franc to Johannes Cesaris being a popular composer in Paris in the early part of the century ( this is the same manuscript that contains the famous portraits of Guillaume Dufay and Gilles Binchois ).

Following her performances of the Piano Concerto, she began meeting contemporary composers, and together with her sister, the violinist Anahid Ajemian, she became known as a champion of new music, presenting the premieres of many new works by American composers.

Martins is a champion of contemporary music, working often with composer John Luther Adams.

The ancient Indian medical knowledge and plastic surgery techniques of the Sushruta samhita were practiced throughout Asia until the late 18th century ; the October 1794 issue of the contemporary British Gentleman ’ s Magazine reported the practice of rhinoplasty, as described in the 5th-century medical book, the Sushruta samhita.

Apart from world premieres of contemporary plays such as Aunt Edwina ( 1958 ) with Henry Kendall directed by the author William Douglas Home ; The Right Honourable Gentleman ( 1963 ) with Anthony Quayle and Angela Huth's The Understanding ( 1982 ) with Celia Johnson and Ralph Richardson, many of her theatre credits in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s were revivals of Oscar Wilde's comedies including Lord Arthur Savile's Crime ( 1968 Tour ); A Woman of No Importance ( 1974 and 1978 ); The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1974 and The Old Vic Theatre 1980 ; also on television ); An Ideal Husband ( 1976 / 1977 Tour ) and Lady Windermere's Fan ( Canada 1979 ).

The series also featured a number of contemporary Irish actors and comedians, including Dervla Kirwan, Graham Norton, Tommy Tiernan, Patrick McDonnell, Don Wycherley, Joe Rooney, Jason Byrne, Jim Norton, Pat Shortt, Jon Kenny, Ed Byrne, Brendan Grace, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Gerard McSorley and Kevin McKidd.

Examples of contemporary food writers working in this mode include Ruth Reichl, Betty MacDonald, and Jim Harrison.

To this end, manager Jim Dickson instigated a loose session where the band recorded several honky tonk staples from their live act, contemporary pop covers in a countrified vein (" To Love Somebody ", " Lodi ", " I Shall Be Released ", " Honky Tonk Women "), and Larry Williams ' " Bony Moronie ".

Historian Jim Bradbury has summarised the contemporary historical opinion of John's positive qualities, observing that John is today usually considered a " hard-working administrator, an able man, an able general ".

Jim Bradbury notes the consensus of contemporary historians that John was a " hard-working administrator, an able man, an able general ", albeit, as Turner suggests, with " distasteful, even dangerous personality traits ", including pettiness, spitefulness and cruelty.

In the United States, contemporary radio drama can be found on ACB radio, produced by the American Council of the Blind ; on the Sirius XM Book Radio channel from Sirius XM Satellite Radio ( previously Sonic Theater on XM ); and occasionally in syndication, as with Jim French's production Imagination Theater.

Within Our Gates ( 1920 ) is a silent film by the director Oscar Micheaux that portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, the years of Jim Crow, the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration of blacks to cities of the North and Midwest, and the emergence of the " New Negro ".

Plant enjoyed great success with Led Zeppelin throughout the 1970s and developed a compelling image as the charismatic rock-and-roll front man, similar to his contemporary in The Who, singer Roger Daltrey ( who adopted the look in the late 1960s ), Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, and his other fellow contemporary, Jim Morrison of The Doors.

Though his act drew on aspects of African American culture and popularized them with a national, and later international, audience, Rice ’ s “ Jim Crow ” persona was a racial caricature contrived to flatter contemporary belief in white superiority.

Jim Winder performs a live telling of Pilgrim's Progress ( the first part ) with contemporary Christian songs based on the story line and Biblical content at www. pilgrimsprogresslive. com

She collaborated with talented craftsman such as Jim Steinman and David Foster who helped her devise more adult contemporary songs.

The film is set within the contemporary Jim Crow era.

* Jim Andrews, On Lionel Kearns: A binary meditation on or contemporary wreading of the work of Lionel Kearns ( 2004 ).

The plot of the short story – Holmes and Watson attempting to recover incriminating photos from Adler – is covered briefly in the first half of the episode updated for the contemporary period ( Adler's photos are stored digitally on her mobile phone ) and adjusted ( the royal they incriminate is British and female ); the episode then moves on to an original storyline that includes Adler, Mycroft Holmes ( Mark Gatiss ) and Jim Moriarty.

Jim Butcher refers to the list a number of times in his contemporary fantasy series, The Dresden Files.

The author Jim Webb suggests that the true number of people with some Scotch-Irish heritage in the United States is more in the region of 27 million, possibly because contemporary Americans with some Scotch-Irish heritage may regard themselves as either Irish or Scottish.

Other exhibitions have showcased the works of various contemporary artists including Patrick Kelly, Chuck Close, Denis Peterson, Ron Mueck, Takashi Murakami, Mat Benote, Kiki Smith, Jim Dine, Robert Rauschenberg, Sylvia Sleigh, Arvo Györköny and William Wegman, and a 2004 survey show of work by Brooklyn artists, Open House: Working in Brooklyn.

The Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble performs Sokolow's repertory plus contemporary choreographies under the direction of Jim May.

Including Scott Webb, Jim Levi, Dave Potorti, Jay Newell, Will McRobb, and Tom Hill, the group was guided towards created a series of internal campaigns to emphasize the seeming paradox of a contemporary network setting that programmed reruns from the 1960s.

Jungle Jim was " set in contemporary times and the exotic Malay peninsula of islands, was intended to hark back to the original tales of Kipling, Haggard and Burroughs ".

Other milestones of contemporary literature, now widely anthologized, also made their first appearance in The Paris Review: Italo Calvino's Last Comes the Raven, Philip Roth's Goodbye Columbus, Donald Barthelme's Alice, Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries, Matthiessen's Far Tortuga, Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides, and Jonathan Franzen ’ s The Corrections.

A device called the Geometry Engine developed by Jim Clark and Marc Hannah at Stanford University in about 1981 was the watershed for what has since become an increasingly commoditized function in contemporary image-synthetic raster display systems.

* A sampling of Jim Ivey's contemporary editorial cartoons about Claude Kirk

Other notable contemporary endorsers include Rick Buckler of The Jam / From The Jam, Myles Heskett of Wolfmother, J. J. Johnson with John Mayer, Billy Kiely of Floor Thirteen, Luis Cardenas of Renegade, Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse, Jason McGerr of Death Cab for Cutie, Fab Moretti of The Strokes, Jim Riley of Rascal Flatts, Meg White of The White Stripes, Jack White of The Dead Weather, Brian St. Clair of Local H, Rodrigo Oliveira of Korzus, Brad Morgan of Drive-By Truckers and John Fred Young of Black Stone Cherry, Alexis Ignition Rous of Salvaloyds, Jess Margera of Cky, Daniel Stricker of Midnight Juggernauts, and Brian Young of Fountains of Wayne.