Alexander Leslie was married in 1637 to Agnes Renton ( died 29 June 1651, daughter of David Renton of Billie ), and in due course his eldest son, Gustav Leslie became a colonel in the Swedish Army.

The amalgamation was welcomed by David Renton, MP for Huntingdonshire, who felt that " The new county will have very good communications and a great community of interest.

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David Lockhart-Mure Renton, Baron Renton, KBE, QC, TD, DL, PC ( 12 August 1908 – 24 May 2007 ) was a British politician.

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David Renton of Labour History said the book " takes seriously the challenge of understanding the past ".

David Cortlandt was tired beyond almost the limits of his flesh.

David Cortlandt had certain psychic intuitions that this rebellion was not wholly what it appeared on the surface.

He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.

The gruesome humor of the Nazis was not forgotten -- the gas chamber with a sign on it with the name of a Jewish foundation and bearing a copper Star of David -- nor the gratuitous sadism of SS officers.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

The proposal was made by Dr. David S. Jenkins after he and Mrs. D. Ellwood Williams, Jr., a board member and long-time critic of the superintendent, argued for about fifteen minutes at this week's meeting.

A year after he was catapulted over nine officers senior to him and made commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup delivered a peppery annual report in the form of a `` happy, warless New Year '' greeting to his Pentagon staff.

Last week, in the German city of Dusseldorf, G. David Thompson was making headlines that could well give Pittsburgh pause.

This was the letter which would or would not enroll his son, David, in Hanford.

That you have refused to drive him into the family business or push him into a profession so you can say at the club, `` Of course David has known since he was twelve he wanted to be an engineer '' -- or a lawyer, or an editor??

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

Sherman's capture of Atlanta in September and David Farragut's capture of Mobile ended defeatist jitters ; the Democratic Party was deeply split, with some leaders and most soldiers openly for Lincoln.

The rediscovery of the Nepōhualtzintzin was due to the Mexican engineer David Esparza Hidalgo, who in his wanderings throughout Mexico found diverse engravings and paintings of this instrument and reconstructed several of them made in gold, jade, encrustations of shell, etc.

This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).

In the film, Thirteen at Dinner ( 1985 ), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.

In 1985 David Gower's England team was strengthened by the return of Gooch and Emburey as well as the emergence at international level of Tim Robinson and Mike Gatting.

Granatstein and Norman Hillmer found that Mackenzie was in the # 11 place just after John Sparrow David Thompson.

The justification for attributing life to objects was stated by David Hume in his Natural History of Religion ( Section III ): " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.

According to the Bible, Absalom or Avshalom () was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.

David, who was accepted as king by Judah alone, was meanwhile reigning at Hebron, and for some time war was carried on between the two parties.

This battle was part of a civil war between David and Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul.

This shift was best exemplified by the Liberal government of Herbert Henry Asquith and his Chancellor David Lloyd George, whose Liberal reforms in the early 1900s created a basic welfare state.

In 1960, David Berlo expanded on Shannon and Weaver's ( 1949 ) linear model of communication and created the SMCR Model of Communication.

Scholars such as Frederick W. Mote argue that the wide drop in numbers reflects an administrative failure to record rather than an actual decrease ; others such as Timothy Brook argue that the Mongols created a system of enserfment among a huge portion of the Chinese populace, causing many to disappear from the census altogether ; other historians like William McNeill and David Morgan argue that the Bubonic Plague was the main factor behind the demographic decline during this period.

According to David, the Romano-Germanic legal systems included those countries where legal science was formulated according to Roman Law, whereas common law countries are those where law was created from the judges.

Bowie's impact at that time, as described by biographer David Buckley, " challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day " and " created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture.

With his next venture, Bowie, in the words of biographer David Buckley, " challenged the core belief of the rock music of its day " and " created perhaps the biggest cult in popular culture ".

* King David ( musical ), 1997 musical created by Tim Rice and Alan Menken

For his next painting, David created The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons.

A political martyr was instantly created as David portrayed Marat with all the marks of the real murder, in a fashion which greatly resembles that of Christ or his disciples.

" Atheists though they were, David and Marat, like so many other fervent social reformers of the modern world, seem to have created a new kind of religion.

David created his last great work, Mars Being Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces, from 1822 to 1824.

Dimona was one of the development towns created in the 1950s under the leadership of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion.

In the 1970s, ML was created by Robin Milner at the University of Edinburgh, and David Turner developed initially the language SASL at the University of St. Andrews and later the language Miranda at the University of Kent.

Friends ( stylized as F • R • I • E • N • D • S ) is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004.

The immobility causes the labial tissue to bond, forming a wall of flesh and skin across the entire vulva, apart from a hole the size of a matchstick for the passage of urine and menstrual blood, which is created by inserting a twig or rock salt into the wound .< ref > Gollaher, David.

The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee ( as Grub Street Productions ) in association with Grammnet ( 2004 ) and Paramount Network Television.

David Hilbert defended it from its critics by famously declaring: " No one shall expel us from the Paradise that Cantor has created.

The show was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean.

Improv comedy techniques have also been used in television and stand-up comedy, in hit shows such as the recent HBO television show Curb Your Enthusiasm created by Larry David, the UK Channel 4 and ABC television series Whose Line Is It Anyway ( and its spinoffs Drew Carey's Green Screen Show and Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza ), Nick Cannon's improv comedy show Wild ' N Out, and Thank God You're Here.

He is the author of " That Movie In Your Head ", about these efforts. In the 1970s, David Shepherd and Howard Jerome created the Improvisational Olympics, a format for competition based improv.

Klein served as rabbi at Kadimoh Congregation in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1934 – 1953 ; Temple Emanu-El, Buffalo, New York, 1953 – 1968 ; Temple Shaarey Zedek, Buffalo, ( which was created from the merger of Emanu-El with Temple Beth David in 1968 ), 1968-1972.

The early works of David Hockney and the works of Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi ( who created the groundbreaking I was a Rich Man's Plaything, 1947 ) are considered seminal examples in the movement.

Avant-garde composer David Tudor created a piece, Reunion ( 1968 ), written jointly with Lowell Cross, that features a chess game in which each move triggers a lighting effect or projection.

Sensors built into a dance floor at the University of Texas convert dancers ' movements into MIDI messages, and David Rokeby's Very Nervous System art installation created music from the movements of passers-through.