The first of these, in Sydney at least, was one built by Alexander Macleay at Elizabeth Bay House, " a preserve or rabbit-warren, surrounded by a substantial stone wall, and well stocked with that choice game.

Variously known as Wright River, Trail River, New and McLeay rivers it was named the Macleay River in honour of Innes ’ s father-in-law, Alexander McLeay, Scottish-born scientist and colonial secretary of New South Wales.

The year 1826 saw the arrival of entomologist and Fellow of the Linnean Society of London Alexander Macleay, who, after being appointed New South Wales Colonial Secretary, began lobbying for a museum.

Much of the area that today comprises Potts Point and the adjacent suburb of Elizabeth Bay, originally constituted part of a land grant to Alexander Macleay, who was the New South Wales Colonial Secretary from 1826 to 1837, and for whom Macleay Street is named.

John Curtis ’ insect collection is divided between the Natural History Museum, Dublin ( via Trinity College, 7, 656 specimens purchased by Thomas Coulter ) and Victoria Museum in Melbourne, Australia, ( originally in the collection of Alexander Macleay ).

Verge is also credited with Elizabeth Bay House, built at adjacent Elizabeth Bay for Alexander Macleay, the Colonial Secretary.

Alexander Macleay ( 1767 – 1848 ), the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, was granted here in 1828.

Authorship is more contentious for this work ; although he started this work, he died before it could be finished, and most likely was more a product of people other than Alexander.

Whilst the Restoration Movement accepted Thomas's right to have his own beliefs, when he started preaching that they were essential to salvation, it led to a fierce series of debates with a notable leader of the movement, Alexander Campbell.

Alexander grew up in England and started his education in sciences.

By the close of 1868, Mussorgsky had already started and abandoned two important opera projects — the antique, exotic, romantic tragedy Salammbô, written under the influence of Alexander Serov's Judith, and the contemporary, Russian, anti-romantic farce Marriage, influenced by Alexander Dargomyzhsky's The Stone Guest.

Around the time of Alexander I of Macedon, the Argead Macedonians started to expand into Upper Macedonia, lands inhabited by independent Macedonian tribes like the Lyncestae and the Elmiotae and to the West, beyond Axius river, into Eordaia, Bottiaea, Mygdonia, and Almopia, regions settled by, among others, many Thracian tribes.

In the spring of 1790, Forster and the young Alexander von Humboldt started from Mainz on a long journey through the Southern Netherlands, the United Provinces, and England, which eventually finished in Paris.

* Tan Sri Professor Sir Alexander Oppenheim, British mathematician, started a POW university for his fellow workers

Around the time of Alexander I of Macedon, the Argead kings of Macedon started to expand into Upper Macedonia, lands inhabited by independent Macedonian tribes like the Lyncestae and the Elmiotae and to the West, beyond the Axius river, into Eordaia, Bottiaea, Mygdonia, and Almopia, regions settled by Thracian tribes.

Akhmatova started writing poetry at the age of 11, and published in her late teens, inspired by the poets Nikolay Nekrasov, Jean Racine, Alexander Pushkin, Evgeny Baratynsky and the Symbolists ; however, none of her juvenilia survives.

The area around present-day Walden was purchased in 1736 by Alexander Kidd, and settlers of Scots-Irish, English and German descent started arriving not long afterwards.

Decca started recording in stereo on 14 – 28 May 1954, in Victoria Hall in Geneva, the first European record company to do so, only three months after RCA Victor began recording in stereo in the U. S. Decca archives show that Ernest Ansermet and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande recorded Tamara by Mily Balakirev ; the overture to Benvenuto Cellini by Hector Berlioz ; Stenka Razin by Alexander Glazunov ; and Anatoly Liadov's Baba-Yaga, Eight Russian Folksongs, and Kikimora.

He had also started meeting other important figures who would abet him in this goal in 1856, including César Cui, Alexander Serov, the Stasov brothers and Alexander Dargomyzhsky.

Picked up by London publisher Harrap, he started with two commissions which were never completed: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( his work on which was destroyed during the 1916 Easter Rising ) and an illustrated edition of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock.

Written in FORTRAN Chaos started at RCA Systems Programming division in Cinnaminson, NJ with Fred Swartz and Victor Berman as first authors, Mike Alexander and others joined the team later and moved development to MTS at the UM Computing Center.

Negotiations were started by Alexander following Norwegian landings on the Scottish mainland, but were purposely prolonged by the Scots.

During this period he started his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into blank verse, and his versions ( published in 1791 ) were the most significant English renderings of these epic poems since those of Alexander Pope earlier in the century, although later critics have faulted Cowper's Homer for being too much in the mold of John Milton.

The first major competition was the tremendously popular 1908 All-Alaska Sweepstakes ( AAS ), which was started by Allan " Scotty " Alexander Allan, and ran from Nome to Candle and back.

Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of Treasury, started a movement advocating the creation of a central bank.

It all started with Descartes revolutionary methodic doubt, which transformed the concept of truth in the concept of certainty, whose only guarantor is no longer God or the Church, but Man's subjective judgement ( Alexander 1931, 484-5 ; Heidegger 1938 ).< ref group =" note "> Quotation from Heidegger 1938

Hephaestion's task was not an easy one, for this was not the Athenian fleet with which Alexander had started, and had earlier disbanded, but a motley collection of semi-reluctant allies of many nationalities, who would need holding together with patience and strength.

Alexander Pushkin addressed poems to his Decembrist friends, Nikolai Nekrasov wrote a long poem about the Decembrist wives, and Leo Tolstoy started writing a novel on that liberal movement, which would later evolve into War and Peace.

John Wanamaker opened his first New York store in New York City in 1896, continuing a mercantile business originally started by Alexander Turney Stewart, and continued to expand his business abroad with the European Houses of Wanamaker in London and Paris.

When the new Tsar started to undo some of the reforms that his father, Alexander II had promulgated, Count Loris-Melikov resigned several months later and lived in retirement until his death at Nice on 22 December 1888.

Due to his juvenile penchant for collecting and labelling plants, shells and insects, Alexander received the playful title of " the little apothecary ".

This cultural community resource " exhibiting the character and characters of Chapel Hill, North Carolina " includes among its permanent exhibits Alexander Julian, History of the Chapel Hill Fire Department, Chapel Hill's 1914 Fire Truck, The James Taylor Story, Farmer / James Pottery, and The Paul Green Legacy.

The Crawfish Festival has featured many art exhibits over the years, of the works of noted Texas artist Larry D. Alexander, who is a native of Dermott.

For some time it became a reference point for modern sculpture exhibits, and works of art left to the city by Alexander Calder and others are a testimony to this.

Held in Fairmount Park, exhibits included Alexander Graham Bell's telephone and the Corliss Steam Engine.

The animated version of Alexander also exhibits no romantic feelings towards Josie, tends to gravitate towards Valerie, and is very similar to Shaggy Rogers from Scooby Doo.

About the coup, Australia's Foreign Minister at the time, Alexander Downer, said that the military were " slowly trying to take control " and pressure the PM to resign.

Nevertheless, Push associates regularly assisted in organising and turning out for street demonstrations, e. g., against South African apartheid and in support of victims of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre ; against the initial refusal of immigration minister Alexander Downer, Sr. to grant political asylum to three Portuguese merchant seamen who jumped ship in Darwin ; and against Australia's participation in the Vietnam War.

Following the Panthers Grand Final win over Canberra, Alexander was selected for Australia's 5 game tour to Papua New Guinea but withdrew through injury.

The report was presented by Alexander Downer, Australia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the United Nations on 30 September 1996 and the Conference on Disarmament on 30 January 1997.

Alexander appointed the council's first social worker and oversaw Australia's first meals on wheels service in 1953.

Other famous Creswickians include John Curtin, Australia's Prime Minister during World War II, a Victorian Premier, Sir Alexander Peacock and Sir Hayden Starke, a Justice of the High Court.