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.

Kittrell's Depot was a railroad depot named for George Kittrell and his wife, Elizabeth Boswell Kittrell, who donated the land for a Raleigh and Gaston Railroad station.

Boswell was named for S. C. Boswell, a local merchant.

Many of the avenues in Boswell are named after coal company officials.

A 1993 alumnus gift evolved into the faculty committee-administered Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies, which developed a listing of courses relevant to lesbian and gay studies called the " Pink Book " and established a small lending library named for Boswell.

Colonel D ' Arcy and the two remaining uninjured men, Private Hodge and another Private named Boswell, reached the stockade and were able to hack a gap large enough for a man.

A number of buildings and schools have been named after Sigma men such as: George Washington Carver, Alain LeRoy Locke, Cornelius V. Troupe, Robert Russa Moton, Alger Boswell and James Weldon Johnson.

Boswell was named an All-Star, and he started and played the entire All-Star match in the 1-0 victory over Chelsea, the defending English Premiership champions.

At the conclusion of the 2008 MLS season, Boswell was named the team's defender of the year and the team's " iron man.

Boswell and his wife now have a son named Kingston.

The gypsy king, named Edward Boswell, had a beautiful daughter, Rose, the Princess.

The Boswell area was one of the Choctaw Nation's first and most important settlements.

The Boswell Sisters chalked up 20 hits during the 1930s including the number one record " The Object of My Affection " in 1935.

The team, consisting of electronics engineers Lane Sear, Wally Boswell and Ken Fraser developed a working design incorporating a fire and shockproof case, a reliable system for encoding and recording aircraft instrument readings and voice on one wire, and a ground-based decoding device.

He was fired after the season following an August fight in Detroit with one of his pitchers, Dave Boswell, in an alley outside the legendary Lindell A. C. bar.

" Politico described the forthcoming race between Boswell and Tom Latham, both incumbents will be facing off against each other as a result of redistricting, as one of ten bellwether races.

Measured by farmed acreage, Boswell Corporation is the largest farming operation in California and one of the largest worldwide.

The Silk Mill was one of the tourist attractions of Derby and was visited by Boswell in September 1777.

In particular, certain individuals that Posner claimed to have interviewed ( James Tague, a witness lightly wounded in the assassination, and J. Thorton Boswell, one of the autopsy pathologists ) said that they had never spoken to Posner, and both autopsy pathologists denied positions that Posner attributed to them.

Furthermore, Greene claims that the work " began with a well-organized press campaign, by Boswell and his friends, of puffing and of denigration of his rivals ; and was given a boost by one of Macaulay's most memorable pieces of journalistic claptrap ".

The London Journal was but one of various journals, written by Boswell, now gathered into a number of published volumes, but it is the only one whose material had not undergone extensive familial expurgation in the 19th century, and so it retained the racy material that made the London Journal a relative best seller on its publication.

Johnson later moves on to greater things and James Boswell writes of Johnson's life: " After nine years of work, Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755 ; it had a far-reaching effect on Modern English and has been described as " one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship.

This closeness led the historian John Boswell to suggest that their relationship was a romantic one ; though other historians have widely rejected this theory, it has led to popular veneration of Sergius and Bacchus in the gay Christian community.

The close friendship between the two is strongly emphasized in their hagiographies and traditions, making them one of the most famous examples of paired saints ; scholar John Boswell considers them to be the most influential set of such an archetype, more so than even Saints Peter and Paul.

He, Andrew Erskine, and James Boswell were joint authors and a " triumvirate of wit ", although he later regretted at least one of their attacks, the Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, as he believed the tragedy was better than anything he or his co-authors could have done.

He told James Boswell that cricket matches were played during the one year he was at Oxford and this was recorded by Boswell in his Life of Samuel Johnson.

By his wife, Christina Boswell, he had one son and two daughters ; the elder of these, Elizabeth, who married John Colville, de jure 3rd Baron Colville of Culross, has been identified with the authoress of a poem published in 1603, entitled Ane Godlie Dreame.

He has captured several wins against notable fighters, including Alfred Cole, Michael Grant, Lance Whitaker, Shannon Briggs, Charles Shufford, Cedric Boswell, and Terry Smith but has been unable to replicate these performances in title fight situations, although the loss to Chris Byrd was by only one point in a very controversial split decision.