Furthermore, the primary testimony to the commission that connected baseball to Doubleday was that of Abner Graves, whose credibility is questionable ; a few years later, he shot his wife to death and was committed to an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his life.

Doubleday Field is a minor league baseball stadium named for Abner Doubleday, located in Cooperstown, New York, near the Baseball Hall of Fame.

In the Book of Samuel, Abner ( Hebrew אבנר " Avner " meaning " father of is a light "), is first cousin to Saul and commander-in-chief of his army ( 1 Samuel 14: 50, 20: 25 ).

In the 1960 film David and Goliath, Abner ( Massimo Serato ) tries to murder David ( Ivica Pajer ) when he returns in triumph after killing Goliath ; however, Abner is slain by King Saul ( Orson Welles ).

Featuring vividly outlandish characters, bizarre situations, and equal parts suspense, slapstick, irony, satire, black humor and biting social commentary, Li ' l Abner is considered a classic of the genre.

Li ' l Abner has one odd design quirk that has puzzled readers for decades: the part in his hair always faces the viewer, no matter which direction Abner is facing.

Li ' l Abner also features a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick is a parody of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy.

" Just about anything could be a target for Capp's satire — in one storyline Li ' l Abner is revealed to be the missing link between ape and man.

" One of the few strips ever taken seriously by students of American culture ," wrote Professor Berger, " Li ' l Abner is worth studying ... because of Capp's imagination and artistry, and because of the strip's very obvious social relevance.

No matter how much help he had, Capp insisted on drawing and inking the characters ' faces and hands — especially of Abner and Daisy Mae — himself, and his distinctive touch is often discernible.

As Li ' l Abner reached its peak years, and following the success of the Shmoos and other high moments in his work, Al Capp achieved a public profile that is still unparalleled in his profession, and arguably exceeded the fame of his strip.

* August 13 – The comic strip Li ' l Abner is first published in US newspapers.

They inform him that the Nazis, in their quest for occult power, are searching for his old mentor, Abner Ravenwood, who is the leading expert on the ancient Egyptian city of Tanis and possesses the headpiece of an artifact called the Staff of Ra.

She is the daughter of Abner Ravenwood, Indiana Jones ' mentor, and owns a bar in Nepal.

The primary complaint is that touting Cartwright as the " true " inventor of the modern game was an effort to find an alternative single individual to counter the " invention " of baseball by Abner Doubleday.

Doeg is an instance of the evil consequences of calumny, because by calumniating the priests of Nob he lost his own life, and caused the death of Saul, Abimelech, and Abner ( Yer.

Gertrude Gadwall is the wife of Clinton Coot, mother of Elvira Coot ( also known as Grandma Duck ) and Casey Coot, grandmother of Quackmore Duck, Daphne Duck, Eider Duck, Cuthbert Coot and Fanny Coot, great-grandmother of Donald Duck, Della Duck, Gladstone Gander, Abner Duck, Fethry Duck, Gus Goose and possibly Kildare Coot, and finally great-great-grandmother of Huey, Dewey and Louie and possibly Dugan Duck.

Jarvess's partner, Abner Spudler ( Jerome Courtland ), is killed while trying to put on his wet boots.

The county is named for Judge Abner Smith Lipscomb, a secretary of state of the Republic of Texas.

The exact year of their settlement is unknown, however, a gravestone found in a cemetery on Upper Buffalo Creek reads, " Milly, wife of John Abner, died March 1846.

Seizing the youngest but only surviving of Saul's sons, Ish-bosheth, Abner set him up as king over Israel at Mahanaim, east of the Jordan.

At its peak, Li ' l Abner was read daily by 70 million Americans ( the U. S. population at the time was only 180 million ), with adult readers far outnumbering children.

* Lena the Hyena: A hideous Lower Slobbovian gal, referred to but initially unseen or only glimpsed from the neck down in Li ' l Abner.

" In the fourth type, according to MacLean, there were only two: Pogo and Li ' l Abner.

* In the 2006 film Lucky Number Slevin, the character known only as " The Boss " ( played by Morgan Freeman ) refers to the Shmoo, recounting its original features as a source of plenty ( in a monologue taken from an old Li ' l Abner comic ).

Convinced it's the only way out, Queen takes Abner and runs for her life, planning to move north and open a flower shop.

After only a few shows in Hot Springs, they were picked up nationally by NBC, and Lum and Abner, sponsored by Quaker Oats, ran until 1932.

That same year in a game against the Chicago White Sox ' Clark Griffith, Lajoie became the second Major Leaguer to be intentionally walked with the bases loaded in a 11 – 7 game after Abner Dalrymple in 1881 .< Ref name =" Kalb " /> ( Through the 2008 season, only four other players have done it since: Del Bissonette, Bill Nicholson, Barry Bonds, and Josh Hamilton ).

* Sylvia Daisy Pouncer dishonourably leaves her role as Kay ’ s governess at the end of The Midnight Folk, only to return as Abner Brown ’ s wife in The Box of Delights.

Abner Brown also discovered the Box's location but only after Cole had taken it.

" Stannard's own corps commander, Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday, wrote, " I can only say that they performed perhaps the most brilliant feat during the war.

Doeg not only disregarded the sanctity of marriage, but he also slew with his own hands the priests of Nob, after Abner and Amasa, Saul's lieutenants, had refused to do so.

After the death of Saul, Abner took her as wife, resulting in a quarrel between him and Saul's son and successor, Ishbosheth.

In the Biblical story, Ish-bosheth was proclaimed king over Israel in 1007 BCE by Abner, the captain of Saul's army, at Mahanaim in Transjordan (), after his father and brothers were slain in the battle of Gilboa ().

:"... Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim ; and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

The comprehensive series, a reprinting of the entire 43-year history of Li ' l Abner spanning a projected 20 volumes, began on April 7, 2010.

The comprehensive series, a reprinting of the complete 43-year history of Li ' l Abner spanning a projected 20 volumes, began on April 7, 2010.

Howard started circulating the story that his corps ' failure had actually been triggered by the collapse of Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday's I Corps to the west, but this excuse was never accepted at the time or by history — the reverse was actually true — and the reputation of the XI Corps was ruined.

However, according to Josephus, in Antiquities, Book 7, Chapter 1, Joab had forgiven Abner for the death of his brother, Asahel, the reason being that Abner had slain Asahel honorably in combat after he had first warned Asahel and had no other choice but to kill him out of self defense.

* Capp, Al, Li ' l Abner: Reuben Award Winner Series Book 1 ( 1985 ) Blackthorne

David's general Joab was killed, in accord with David's deathbed request to Solomon, because he had killed generals Abner and Amasa during a peace ( 2 Samuel 20: 8-13 ; 1 Kings 2: 5 ).

The earliest manuscripts, such as the fourth-century AD Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 do not contain the verses describing David coming each day with food for his brothers, nor 1 Samuel 17: 55 – 58 in which Saul seems unaware of David ’ s identity, referring to him as " this youth " and asking Abner to find out the name of his father.

Abner McGehee, son of Benjamin and Sarah McGehee, purchased of land on July 1, 1876, on which the town of McGehee was later to be located.

* Shawn Abner, former professional baseball player and # 1 1984 Draft Selection

* Capp, Al, Li ' l Abner: Reuben Award Winner Series Book 1 ( 1985 ) Blackthorne

* Capp, Al, Li ' l Abner: Reuben Award Winner Series Book 1 ( 1985 ) Blackthorne

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At approximately 1: 37 pm, the planned playing of the original cast album to the 1956 musical Li ' l Abner was interrupted by the host:

David Abner Morse ( 31 May 1907 – 1 December 1990 ) was an American bureaucrat who worked for the International Labor Organization.

Each victim of tzaraas mentioned by the Bible is stated to have received the condition due to some transgression of biblical laws, including Joab being cursed for the murder of Abner ( whose blood was shed deceitfully in time of peace ), Gehazi ( for 1. rebelling against Elisha's decision to not take payment for a miracle God had worked 2. working deceitfully to take the payment 3. lying to Elisha, saying he hadn't done the thing ); and Uzziah for presuming to burn incense in the Holy Temple — violating a clear and direct Commandment of G-d ( which prohibited anyone besides the priests to burn incense ).

* The Mentalist ( 2009 )-Drew Abner ( 1 episode )