Using his excellent knowledge of Greek, which was then rare in the West, to his advantage, he studied the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like Philo, Origen, Athanasius, and Basil of Caesarea, with whom he was also exchanging letters.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

A second tradition, including Basil, Ambrose and Augustine, but also Philoponus, accepted the idea of the round Earth and the radial gravity, but in a critical way.

While at Athens, he developed a close friendship with his fellow student Basil of Caesarea and also made the acquaintance of Flavius Claudius Julianus, who would later become the emperor known as Julian the Apostate.

Severn also painted such works as Cordelia Watching by the Bed of Lear, Shepherds in the Campagna, Shelley Composing Prometheus Unbound, Isabella and the Pot of Basil, Portia with the Casket, Ariel, Rienzi, The Infant of the Apocalypse Saved from the Dragon, a large altarpiece for the church of San Paolo fuori le Mura at Rome, and many portraits of statesman and aristocrats, including Baron Bunsen and William Gladstone.

While there, Julian became acquainted with two men who later became both bishops and saints: Gregory of Nazianzus and Basil the Great ; in the same period, Julian was also initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, which he would later try to restore.

He was visited once by Basil of Caesarea who took many of his ideas and implemented them in Caesarea, where Basil also made some adaptations that became the ascetic rule, or Ascetica, the rule still used today by the Eastern Orthodox Church, and comparable to that of the Rule of St. Benedict in the West.

Richard's career is also the subject of the 1939 film Tower of London, in which he is played by Basil Rathbone.

* Nikephoros Xiphias, Byzantine general, also aide to the emperor Basil II

Despite near-constant warfare, Basil also showed himself a capable administrator, reducing the power of the great land-owning families who dominated the Empire's administration and military, and filling the Empire's treasury.

Basil also wanted to restore to the Empire territories that it had long lost.

Penelope Delta's second novel, Ton Kairo tou Voulgaroktonou ( In the Years of the Bulgar-Slayer ), is also set during the reign of Basil II.

There are also vulnerable species like Lesser Snapdragon, Meadow Barley, Small-white Orchid, Opposite-leaved Pondweed, Betony, Red Hemp Nettle, Narrow-leaved Helleborine, Lanceolate Spleenwort, Annual Knawel and Basil Thyme.

During this period, he also starred with Basil Rathbone in Tower of London ( 1939 ).

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Consciously desiring to emulate Emperor Justinian I ( r. 527 – 565 ), Basil also initiated an extensive building program in Constantinople, crowned by the construction of the Nea Ekklesia cathedral.

Romanos also had an illegitimate son, the eunuch Basil, who remained influential at court, particularly during the period 976 – 985.

He also had a brother, Basil Argyros.

The play, based on the Henry James novel Washington Square, also featured Basil Rathbone as her emotionally abusive father.

Basil Bernstein also studied what he named the ' elaborated code ' explaining that in this type of speech pattern the middle and upper classes use this language style to gain access to education and career advancement.

Basil Bunting, another Objectivist poet, was a key figure in the early development of the British Poetry Revival, a loose movement that also absorbed the influence of the San Francisco Renaissance poets.

His editors, Al Feldstein and Harvey Kurtzman, who also drew covers and stories, gave assignments to such prominent and highly accomplished freelance artists as Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, Jack Davis, Will Elder, George Evans, Frank Frazetta, Graham Ingels, Jack Kamen, Bernard Krigstein, Joe Orlando, John Severin, Al Williamson, Basil Wolverton, and Wally Wood.

With the beginning of the Byzantine offensives in the East and the Balkans in the 10th century, especially under the warrior-emperors Nikephoros II ( r. 963 – 969 ), John I Tzimiskes ( r. 969 – 976 ) and Basil II ( r. 976 – 1025 ), newly gained territories were also incorporated into themes, although these were generally smaller than the original themes established in the 7th and 8th centuries.

The historian Psellus describes the defeated Bardas Skleros giving Basil the following advice: " Cut down the governors who become over-proud.

Additionally, in Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, the artist Basil Hallward describes the appearance of Dorian Gray as an event as important to his art as " the face of Antinous was to late Greek sculpture.

Doctor Who: The Television Companion ( by Howe and Walker, BBC Publishing, 1998 ) quotes a contemporary review ( from a fanzine ) that describes the dinosaur special effects thus: " After escaping they Doctor and Sarah came up against the first dinosaur and, oh dear, shades of Basil Brush!

He was particularly influenced by two books: A. J. Venter's Coloured: A Profile of 2 Million South Africans which describes the efforts of coloured political activists such as James April, Don Mattera, Jakes Gerwel, Basil February, and his uncle, Rev.

In one of his treatises, Saint Basil the Great writes against the Anomoeans led by Aëtius, whom he describes an instrument in the hands of " the enemy of truth ".

In the film The Great Mouse Detective, the villain Ratigan attempts to kill the film's heroes, Basil of Baker Street and David Q. Dawson, with a Rube Goldberg style device.

* The Great Mouse Detective: Basil of Baker Street, Dr. Dawson, Professor Ratigan, 17 Henchmens, and Fidget.

* In the Disney animated film The Great Mouse Detective, the character Professor Ratigan ( the archnemesis of Basil of Baker Street, the film's Holmes-trained hero ) is an obvious parallel and tribute to the character of Moriarty.

" After his plan to replace the Queen fails, Ratigan is killed when he falls off Big Ben after a clash with Basil.

At first, Basil is reluctant, but when Olivia mentions Fidget, Basil realizes his chance to capture Ratigan.

Basil seizes control of the mechanical queen, making it denounce Ratigan as a fraud and tyrant while breaking into pieces.

Basil jumps on to the dirigible to confront Ratigan, causing him to crash straight into the Big Ben.

Ratigan fights Basil until the clock bell tolls and Ratigan plunges, taking Basil with him.

* Disney's The Great Mouse Detective: Ratigan ties up Basil and Dawson in an intricate mousetrap and tells them about his plot to kill the queen.

* Basil Liddell Hart ; Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon: ; Greenhil Books, 1992, ISBN 1-85367-132-0

* Basil Gounaris, " From Peasants into Urbanites, from Village into Nation: Ottoman Monastir in the Early Twentieth Century ", European History Quarterly 31: 1 ( 2001 ), pp. 43 – 63.

The Eastern Orthodox Church commemorates him as a " Great Ecumenical Teacher ", together with Basil the Great and Gregory the Theologian.

* In the Fawlty Towers episode " The Germans ", Basil blames his fire extinguisher exploding in his face on "... bloody Wilson "

Harlow new town and the rebuilding of Coventry city centre are said to show the influence of the Festival Style " in their light structures, picturesque layout and incorporation of works of art ", and Coventry Cathedral ( 1962 ), designed by Basil Spence, one of the Festival architects, was dubbed " The Festival of Britain at Prayer ".

However, both the Greek letter " β " ( v ) and the Cyrillic " в " ( v ) have been historically Romanized as " b " ( other examples include " Βυζάντιον ", Vizantion → Byzantium ; the Greek name " Βασίλειος ", Vassilios and the Russian " Василий ", Vassily → Basil, the Byzantine title " σεβαστοκράτωρ "/" севастократор " sevastokrator → sebastokrator, etc .).

The original building, known as " Trinity Church " and later " Trinity Cathedral ", contained eight side churches arranged around the ninth, central church of Intercession ; the tenth church was erected in 1588 over the grave of venerated local saint Vasily ( Basil ).

The victories in the second war gave a further boost to Constantine's popularity, with him being widely acclaimed as " Bulgar-slayer ", in imitation of the Byzantine emperor Basil II.

Scholars note that Basil was " the man of action ", Gregory of Nazianzus " the orator " and Gregory of Nyssa " the thinker ".

:* Major Basil Binyon, " Hawtthorndene ", Hayes, Kent.

* Ashton, Basil, Kenneth Hill, Alan Piazza, Robin Zeitz, " Famine in China, 1958-61 ", Population and Development Review, Vol.

Three years later he met Basil Bunting and was instrumental in the older poet's return to writing in the early 1960s, leading to the latter's most acclaimed poem, the long, autobiographical " Brigflatts ", published in 1965.

One track, titled " VF-Zero ", borrows a section of " Klendathu Drop " by Basil Poledouris, from the Starship Troopers soundtrack.

Basil Lewis D ' Oliveira CBE ( 4 October 1931 – 19 November 2011 ), known affectionately around the world as " Dolly ", was a South African-born English cricketer.

However he does not understand it, since two German guests want to hire a car, " Wir wollen ein Auto mieten ", but Basil thinks that they are volunteering to get some meat.

* In the first episode of the second series of the BBC series The Office, David Brent performs an impression of a paper industry figure as Basil Fawlty, quoting the phrase " Don't mention the war ", and impersonating the Adolf Hitler style walk used by Basil.

The Ojibwe scholar, linguist and author Basil Johnston, who explains the name in a creationist context, states that its literal translation is " Beings Made Out of Nothing ", or " Spontaneous Beings ", since they had been created by divine breath and were made up of flesh and blood and a soul or spirit-instead of rock, or fire, or water, or wind.

In the same film, he voiced a Santa Claus on the street appealing for charity donations at the start of the movie, Moley ( who appears with Basil ) " collecting for the poor ", and one of the two weasel undertakers in the Christmas future scene.

In 1967 he recorded for EMI a standout performance of Basil Lam's " baroque " version of Handel's " Messiah ", with Elizabeth Harwood ( soprano ), Janet Baker ( mezzo soprano ), Paul Esswood ( counter tenor ), and Raimund Herincx ( bass ), with the English Chamber Orchestra, leader Emanuel Hurwitz, and the Ambrosian Singers and Maurits Sillem, harpsichord continuo, with Sir Charles Mackerras conducting.

The Parliament Buildings consist of the Parliamentary Library Building ( 1899-Victorian Gothic ), Parliament House ( 1921-Neo-classical ), the executive offices in Basil Spence's modernistic " Beehive ", and the nearby office complex of Bowen House.

* " The shocking affair of the Dutch steamship Friesland ", which loosely inspired the 1945 film Pursuit to Algiers starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes.