In 1994, Yale University Church historian John Boswell argued that adelphopoiesis, a rite bonding two men, was akin to a religiously sanctioned same-sex union.

James Boswell saw Hume a few weeks before his death ( which was from some form of abdominal cancer ).

He enjoyed intelligent conversation and cultivated a large number of intellectual associates, among them John Home, David Hume and James Boswell .. Lord Monboddo was also a frequent debater of Kames, although these two usually had a fiercely competitive and adversarial relationship.

Slight, he was about 5 ' 6 " with dark brown curls, a florid complexion and features which James Boswell thought were " rather too largely and strongly limned.

The plan was opposed by key Queensland Senators Ron Boswell and Barnaby Joyce, and was scuttled in 2006.

The law may also have been used to prosecute adult male citizens who willingly took a pathic role in same-sex acts, but prosecutions are rarely recorded and the provisions of the law are vague ; as John Boswell has noted, " if there was a law against homosexual relations, no one in Cicero's day knew anything about it.

Timeslip was devised by ATV script editor Ruth Boswell, who developed the format and the outline of the first story with her husband James.

Boswell was determined to come up with a show that was rooted more firmly in everyday life than Doctor Who, which at the time she felt had become progressively more outlandish.

Although Boswell originally conceived Timeslip as a single-story six-part serial, the concept was soon expanded into a much longer series of twenty-six episodes.

A son of John Murdoch, a former Hanoverian artillery gunner and a Millwright and tenant of Bello Mill on the estate of James Boswell in Auchinleck, he was educated until the age of ten at the Old Cumnock Kirk School before attending Auchinleck school under William Halbert, author of a highly regarded arithmetic textbook.

Alexander Boswell, Lord Auchinleck, 8th Laird of Auchinleck ( 1706 – 1782 ) was a judge of the supreme courts of Scotland.

He was the father of the author and biographer James Boswell, and grandfather of songwriter Sir Alexander Boswell.

Boswell was son of James Boswell ( ca.

Among his own compositions was " Shout, Sister, Shout " ( 1929 ), which was recorded by him, and also covered by the Boswell Sisters, in 1931.

It was not until 1943 that Lillian de la Torre, an American mystery writer, did something similar with Dr Johnson and Boswell, casting the two famous literary figures into roles similar to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.

* The Talladega Municipal Airport was renamed Boswell field in honor of Eastaboga resident Lewis Archer Boswell.

The J. G. Boswell Company was established in Corcoran in 1921 and remains a major employer in the city.

The town of Boswell was first laid out by a man named Charles Moore, but Moore sold the land it occupied to Tippecanoe County-native Elizabeth H. Scott who, with her husband Charles, replatted it in its present form on July 18, 1872.

The town was named for Parnaham Boswell and was platted with streets bearing the names of the founders, Charles and Elizabeth, and their five children, Grace, Emma, Clinton, Harold and Jennie.

* Darien Boswell ( born 1938 ), New Zealand rower

* May 19-James Boswell, friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson ( born 1740 )

Leonard L. Boswell ( born January 10, 1934 ) is the U. S. Representative for, serving since 1997.

Timothy Eric " Tim " Boswell, Baron Boswell of Aynho ( born 2 December 1942 ) is an English Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Daventry from 1987 until he retired at the 2010 general election.

Ward was born in Meridian, Mississippi, the oldest of four children of Annie Kate ( née Boswell ), a housewife who died of ovarian cancer on February 12, 2002, and Granberry Holland " G. H.

Ronald Leslie Doyle " Ron " Boswell ( born 9 December 1940 ), Australian politician, has been a National Party member of the Australian Senate since 5 March 1983, representing Queensland.

Boswell was born in Perth, Western Australia.

Mark Boswell ( born July 28, 1977 in Mandeville, Jamaica ) and grew up in Brampton, Ontario is a Canadian high jumper, who won a total number of six national titles in the men's high jump event.

Eric Boswell Wynalda ( born June 9, 1969 in Fullerton, California ) is a retired American soccer player, and sports broadcaster.

Kellen Boswell Winslow, Jr. ( born July 21, 1983 ) is an American football tight end who is currently a free agent.

Kellen Boswell Winslow Sr. ( born November 5, 1957 ) is a former American professional football player in the National Football League ( NFL ).

Of Romany lineage, she was born in Ireland and later married Ephraim Boswell, known as the ' King of the Gypsies '.

He was damning of Croker's editing: " This edition is ill compiled, ill arranged, ill written, and ill printed ", and held a mixed opinion of Boswell: " Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pride, and eternally blustering about the dignity of a born gentleman, yet stooping to be a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London ...; such was this man, and such he was content and proud to be ".

Robert Allen " Bobby " Boswell ( born March 15, 1983 in Austin, Texas ) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Houston Dynamo in Major League Soccer.

1740: There are four printing firms in Edinburgh ; the biographer James Boswell is born

Until recently she lived with composer Simon Boswell, and with him has a son, Jimi, born in 2004.

Scott Anthony John Boswell ( born September 11, 1974 in Fulford, York, North Yorkshire, England ) is an English cricketer, who until his retirement specialised as a medium-fast bowler.

Jonathan Rigby, Robin Sebastian and Nigel Harrison were back as Horne, Williams and Paddick, with Sally Grace as Betty Marsden, Stephen Boswell as Smith and Michael Shaw as Bill Pertwee.

Boswell is a town in Grant Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.

Boswell is a town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States.

The town is located approximately 12 miles west of Hugo, Oklahoma, the county seat of Choctaw County, and approximately 10 miles east of Boswell, OK. Soper also is used to describe various communities in the area which includes Buckhorn, Bluff, Gay, Nelson, and Sugar Creek, most of which were small school districts, many of which still stand today, before they were closed and the students began using the Soper public school system.

Boswell is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.

A prolonged struggle for unionization, which began at Jerome and Windber in northern Somerset County in early April, 1922, extended to Boswell on April 17.

However, the first Albany County sheriff, rancher N. K. Boswell, organized a " Vigilance Committee ", and on October 28, 1868, Boswell led the committee into the Bucket of Blood, overwhelmed the three brothers, and lynched them at an unfinished cabin down the street.

On the Democratic side, State Senator David Boswell of Daviess County and the Daviess County Judge-Executive Reid Haire both filed.

The J. G. Boswell Company's farming operation in Kings County is the largest single cotton farm in the world, occupying over.

A local rancher and the first sheriff of Albany County, N. K. Boswell, organized several other ranchers to conspire against the three brothers.