Author Arthur Bloch has compiled a number of books full of corollaries to Murphy's law and variations thereof.

* American — Bloch, Albert: Many works, including Harlequinade ( 1911 ), Piping Pierrot ( 1911 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( 1913 ), Three Pierrots and Harlequin ( 1914 ); Bradley, Will: Various posters and illustrations ( see, e. g., " Banning " under Poetry below ); Heintzelman, Arthur William: Pierrot ( n. d .); Hopper, Edward: Soir Bleu ( 1914 ); Kuhn, Walt: The White Clown ( 1929 ); Parrish, Maxfield: Pierrot's Serenade ( 1908 ), The Lantern-Bearers ( 1908 ), Her Window ( 1922 ); Sloan, John: Clown Making Up ( 1909 ).

The 20th century saw a rise in the prominence of Swiss composers, amongst them Othmar Schoeck, Ernest Bloch, Frank Martin, Rolf Liebermann, and perhaps most famously Arthur Honegger, whose portrait of a steam train, Pacific 231, has entered the core repertoire.

* Arthur Bloch ( born 1948 ), American writer

He studied with Arthur Farwell, Ernest Bloch, Percy Goetschius, and Nadia Boulanger.

Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra recorded the work for RCA Victor, including one of the first stereo recordings of the music.

Here is how Captain Arthur Hastings first describes Poirot:

It was here, on 16 July 1916, that he again met his lifelong friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, and solved the first of his cases to be published: The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

Herbert Sutcliffe sweeps Arthur Mailey during the first Ashes Test in Sydney, 1924.

The term antimatter was first used by Arthur Schuster in two rather whimsical letters to Nature in 1898, in which he coined the term.

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

Admiral Arthur Phillip RN ( 11 October 173831 August 1814 ) was the first Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the settlement which became Sydney.

The memorial to the first governor of New South Wales, Arthur Phillip, is on the right hand wall

Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz first tried, and then Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II attempted, but gave up and Hammerstein told Lerner " Pygmalion had no subplot ".

The first was probably the cycle A Shropshire Lad set by Arthur Somervell in 1904, who had begun to develop the concept of the English song-cycle in his version of Tennyson's Maud a little previously.

He also wrote an orchestral tone poem on A Shropshire Lad ( first performed at Leeds Festival under Arthur Nikisch in 1912 ).

The Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man also after a line in " On Wenlock Edge " and Arthur C. Clarke's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman's More Poems.

In 1888, the promoter of the first expedition to Australia and New Zealand, Arthur Shrewsbury, demanded " something that would be good material and yet take them by storm out here ".

The Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after the British statesman Arthur Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, Lord President of the Council and a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The first of the three laws, previously termed Clarke's Law, was proposed by Arthur C. Clarke in the essay " Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination ", in Profiles of the Future ( 1962 ).

Coolidge's grandmother Sarah Almeda Brewer had two famous first cousins: Arthur Brown, a United States Senator, and Olympia Brown, a women's suffragist.

Catharine of Aragon ( Castilian: Catalina de Aragón ; ; 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536 ) was the Spanish Queen consort of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII of England and Princess of Wales as the wife to Arthur, Prince of Wales.

Little is known about their first impressions of each other, but Arthur did write to his parents-in-law that he would be " a true and loving husband " and told his parents that he was immensely happy to " behold the face of his lovely bride ".

The first experiment to disprove this theory was done by Arthur Schuster in 1876, who observed that there was a force on the glass bulb of the Crookes radiometer that was in the opposite direction to the rotation of the vanes.

Harvard mathematician Arthur Jaffe was the first president of CMI.

Martin Hewitt, created by British author Arthur Morrison in 1894, is perhaps the first example of the modern style of fictional private detective.

In the 1982 novel 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke's first sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000 is described by Dr. Chandra as being caught in a " Hofstadter – Möbius loop ".

The torpedo boat destroyer's first major use in combat came during the Japanese surprise attack on the Russian fleet anchored in Port Arthur at the opening of the Russo-Japanese War on 8 February 1904.

* 1913 – Arthur Wynne's " word-cross ", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.

They became strongly influenced by the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites, John Ruskin's essay " The Nature of Gothic " from the second volume of The Stones of Venice, Thomas Malory's Morte d ' Arthur and the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

They were away again for the winter, Margaret to winter with her sister in Bordighera, Arthur to Sicily to complete the last volume of the history he and Freeman had begun together.

Arthur Waley published a six-volume translation of all but one chapter, with the first volume published in 1921 and the last in 1933.

The character Heiji Hattori also mentioned that he prefers Ellery Queen to Arthur Conan Doyle in volume 12.

Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments was a small volume of poetry published in 1916 by American writers Witter Bynner, who wrote under the pseudonym " Emanuel Morgan ", and Arthur Davison Ficke, who wrote as " Anne Knish.

* M. Dominica Legge, " William the Marshal and Arthur of Brittany ", Historical Research, volume 55 ( 1982 )

* F. M. Powicke, " King John and Arthur of Brittany ", The English Historical Review, volume 24 ( October 1909 ), pp. 659 – 674

Imperial Presidency is a term that became popular in the 1960s and that served as the title of a 1973 volume by historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. to describe the modern presidency of the United States.

In 1922, at age eleven, he bought his first book of poetry, Arthur Waley's A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, and at age seventeen one of his poems, " Spire Song ", was accepted for publication in the twelfth volume of Transition, a literary journal based in Paris that served as a forum for some of the greatest proponents of modernism — Djuna Barnes, James Joyce, Paul Éluard, Gertrude Stein and others.

Among his other works were The Passionate Pilgrim ( 1858 ), a volume of selections from Robert Herrick entitled Chrysomela ( 1877 ), a memoir of Arthur Hugh Clough ( 1862 ) and a critical essay on Sir Walter Scott ( 1866 ) prefixed to an edition of his poems.

* Cook, Arthur Bernard, Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion, ( 3 volume set ), ( 1914 – 1925 ).

The Library also publishes Wieland, Arthur Mervyn and Edgar Huntly as " Three Gothic Novels " in a separate volume, edited by Sydney J. Krause.

It is mentioned in Arthur Mee's 2 volume work 1000 Heroes: Immortal men & women of every age & every land.

The Philosophy of Brand Blanshard ( Open Court, 1980 ), edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp, is volume XV in the Library of Living Philosophers series.

In measure theory, a branch of mathematics, the ham sandwich theorem, also called the Stone – Tukey theorem after Arthur H. Stone and John Tukey, states that given measurable " objects " in-dimensional space, it is possible to divide all of them in half ( with respect to their measure, i. e. volume ) with a single-dimensional hyperplane.

* White, Arthur S., A third volume devoted to Kent County, Dayton, Ohio: National Historical Assoc., 1924, p. 667.

Richard Garnett provided a memoir for the collected volume of poetical works, compiled by Arthur Symons following her death, and contributed the biographical notice in the supplement to the Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 ,—

His non-fiction books include a volume of memoir, entitled An Immaculate Mistake: Scenes from Childhood and Beyond ( 1990 ), and Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Naomi Jacob, Fred Barnes and Arthur Marshall ( 2001 ), a biography of three gay popular entertainers from the twentieth century.

Critique by Arthur Llewellyn Basham: Author of the first volume, Prof A. H. Dani is not only an expert archaeologist and prehistorian, but also an able Sanskrit scholar with a very important study of Indian palaeography to his credit.

* Swift, Peter: Maunsell 4-6-0 King Arthur Class ( Ian Allan Publishing: Hinckley, 2006 ) ( Locomotives in Detail series volume 4 ) ( Hinckley: Ian Allan Publishing, 2006 ), ISBN 0-7110-3086-3

* Link, Arthur S. Wilson: The Road to the White House ( 1947 ), first volume of standard biography ( to 1917 ); Wilson: The New Freedom ( 1956 ); Wilson: The Struggle for Neutrality: 1914 – 1915 ( 1960 ); Wilson: Confusions and Crises: 1915 – 1916 ( 1964 ); Wilson: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace: 1916 – 1917 ( 1965 ), the last volume of standard biography.

She was torn for most of the early volumes between suitors, the wealthy Arthur Farringdon-Pett and the upstanding lawyer Peter Dobbs before finally choosing Peter in volume 10.

" His considerable influence on moral philosophy came from two works he edited, a very widely used introductory book he co-edited with Arthur Pap ( A modern introduction to philosophy, 1965 ), and the famous Encyclopedia of Philosophy, an eight volume " massive Enlightenment work with notable analytic sensibility.