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.

Many structures on Ulva are in ruins, such as the former water mill between Ormaig and Cragaig, and if not in ruins, they have been incorporated into other buildings, e. g. Bracadale Steadings, which includes bits of the old Ulva House which Boswell and Johnson stayed in.

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

Also famous as a prose stylist, Hume pioneered the essay as a literary genre and engaged with contemporary intellectual luminaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith ( who acknowledged Hume's influence on his economics and political philosophy ), James Boswell, Joseph Butler, and Thomas Reid.

* Mathew Kuefler ( editor ), The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, University Of Chicago Press, Nov. 2005 ISBN 0-226-45741-9

Bands such as The Boswell Sisters regularly employed scatting on their records, including the high complexity of scatting at the same time, in harmony.

* Connee Boswell recorded the song for Decca on July 8, 1941 with Victor Young's Orchestra.

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.

The town of Jerome appears to have been built as a satellite town, soon to be linked with Boswell, both underground in coal production and on the surface in social and cultural life ( the right-of-way for a street car line was acquired between Jerome and Boswell, for instance ).

The Boswell mine closed on March 29, 1939 due to the excessive cost of transporting coal to the surface ( the Jerome mine worked until 1954 ).

For example, to correct the first sentence, Boswell is located on Pennsylvania Route 601, not Route 161 as says the Living Spaces site ( accessed May 8, 2009 ).

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.

A major problem for Barry came with the appointment on 1 April 1840 of the ventilation expert Dr David Boswell Reid.

Each published several books on gay history ; Boswell held three biennial conferences on the subject at the university, and Duberman sought to establish a center for lesbian and gay studies there in 1985.

A staircase from the east of the Guard Room leads to the Gallery on the upper floor, to the south side of which is the Solar, containing a 16th-century four-poster bed known as the Boswell bed.

Samuel Johnson and his protege James Boswell visited The MacQuarrie on Ulva in 1773, the year after Banks ' visit.

Between 1969 and 1970, he appeared in a leading role as college president Tom Boswell on the NBC daytime soap opera Bright Promise.

An early modern recorded reference to the Pomeranian breed is from 2 November 1764, in a diary entry in James Boswell's Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland.

What was, on the face of it surprising, was that men such as Dr Johnson and Boswell and Sir Richard Steele would have visited Bedlam.

In 2001, The Boswell Sisters, a major musical based on their lives, was produced at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California.

In 1922 he published his first book, Masques and Poems. This was followed by many other volumes, particularly his Four Portraits of 1945 ( studies of Boswell, Gibbon, Sterne, and Wilkes ), books on London and works on Baudelaire ( 1929 ), Byron ( 1934 – 35 ), Pope ( 1949 ), Ruskin ( 1949 ), Hogarth ( 1955 ), Shakespeare ( 1963 ), Proust ( 1971 ) and Dr Johnson ( 1972 ).

* BBC News-Tim Boswell profile 15 February 2005

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.

On the 16 February 1765 Dance dined with the painter Angelica Kauffman and James Boswell who was visiting Rome.

“ In memory of Rose Boswell, daughter of Edward and Sarah Boswell, who died February 19th, 1794, aged 17 years.