As writers such as George Douglas Brown railed against the " Kailyard school " that had come to dominate Scottish letters, producing satiric, realist accounts of Scottish rural life in novels like The House with the Green Shutters ( 1901 ), Scots language poets such as Violet Jacob and Marion Angus undertook a quiet revival of regionally inflected poetry in the Lowland vernacular.

On October 31, 1859, John Brown was found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia, inciting slave rebellion, and murder.

In a 2006 interview, Walsh claimed that during his tenure with the Bengals, Brown " worked against my candidacy " to be a head coach anywhere in the league.

After trying it out in training camp, Brown used the helmet to call in plays during a September 15 pre-season game against the Lions with Ratterman behind center.

The second was by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has rallied the world community to support UN sanctions against Zimbabwe, denouncing the regime's leaders as a " criminal cabal ".

According to historian of Communism Archie Brown, the memory of the Cultural Revolution, where a form of mass political mobilization turned against the Party and resulted in chaotic destruction, may account for the reticence of educated Chinese to press for an end to one-party rule.

In 1997, Brown threw a one-hitter against the Los Angeles Dodgers in his first appearance and a no-hitter against the San Francisco Giants.

In 1952, while still in reform school, Brown met future R & B legend Bobby Byrd, who was there playing baseball against the reform school team.

Booth had been rehearsing at the Richmond Theatre when he abruptly decided to join the Richmond Grays, a volunteer militia of 1, 500 men travelling to Charles Town for Brown's hanging, to guard against an attempt by abolitionists to rescue Brown from the gallows by force.

Stephanie Coontz, a professor of family history and the author of several books and essays about the history of marriage, says that this brief remark by Quayle about Murphy Brown " kicked off more than a decade of outcries against the ' collapse of the family.

John Brown and his sons gained notoriety in the fight against slavery by murdering five pro-slavery farmers in the Pottawatomie Massacre with a broadsword.

In the second innings, Voce repeated the tactic late in the day, in fading light against Woodfull and Bill Brown.

In a Variety interview discussing Jackie Brown, Lee said: " I'm not against the word ... and I use it, but Quentin is infatuated with the word.

" Brown believes that the majority of scholars who advocate pseudonymity would place it towards the end of the first century, during a period where evil on a global scale was actively working against Christianity, the same time that Revelation was written.

Acting as commander-in-chief of the territory, Mason appointed Brigadier-General Joseph W. Brown of the Third U. S. Brigade to head the state militia, with the instructions to be ready to act against Ohio trespassers.

Brown met with a campaign of resistance from white Southerners, and for decades the federal courts attempted to enforce Brown's mandate against repeated attempts at circumvention.

** 96 U. S. Congressmen sign the Southern Manifesto, a protest against the 1954 Supreme Court ruling ( Brown v. Board of Education ) that desegregated public education.

Smith referred to Nixon's " last press conference " after his disastrous losing campaign against Democrat Edmund G. " Pat " Brown, Sr., for governor of California.

Originally cast as the daughter, Loren fought against type and was re-cast as the mother ( actress Eleonora Brown would portray the daughter ).

John Brown had already fought against pro-slavery forces in Kansas for several years when he decided to lead a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia ( West Virginia was not yet a state ).

Loyalist leader Thomas Brown raised a division of King's Rangers to contest Patriot control over the Georgia and Carolina interior and instigated Cherokee raids against the North Carolina back-country after the Battle of King's Mountain.

The website contained numerous death threats directed against Brown: Klebold somehow knew that if Brooks accessed the address, he would discover the content and inform his parents, with their subsequent actions leading to the authorities being notified.

Sandy Brown ( footballer born 1879 ) | Sandy Brown ( hidden ) scoring the third goal for Tottenham Hotspur in the 1901 FA Cup Final replay against Sheffield United

Following the murder of a friend, he attended the trial where he saw that the judge completely ignored evidence against the Brown Shirts Nazis.

The Electoral success of New Labour in 1997, which would be led by two Prime Ministers with Scottish connections, Tony Blair ( who was brought up in Scotland ) from 1997 to 2007 and Gordon Brown from 2007 – 10, opened the way for constitutional change.

Brown also performed buck dances for change to entertain troops from Camp Gordon at the start of World War II as their convoys traveled over a canal bridge near his aunt's home.

In the Peanuts comic strip from the 1960s and 1970s, Charlie Brown tries to write to a pen pal using a fountain pen but after several literally " botched " attempts, Charlie switches to using a pencil and referring to his penpal as his " pencil-pal ", with his first letter to his " pencil-pal " explaining the reason for the name change.

A group at Brown University ported version 9 to the IBM RT / PC, but problems with reading unaligned data on the RT forced an incompatible protocol change, leading to version 10 in late 1985.

In December 2007, after an October 2006 party leadership change in which Dr. Ewart F. Brown, Jr. became Premier, the PLP gained a third term by maintaining a 52 % margin of the popular vote and 22 out of 36 seats in the Assembly.

Brown was scheduled to be tried in Cambridge, but the trial was moved to Bel Air, Maryland on a change of venue.

The hotel was two stories and a popular stop over by those needing a rest from the Overland Stage trip that would stop at the livery stable, owned by Brown, to change horses.

In 1970, the notorious H. Rap Brown, a member of the Black Panthers, was charged with instigating a riot after a rally in Cambridge ; a change in venue brought his trial to Bel Air.

One interpretation, put forward for example by historian R. Allen Brown, is that they were relatively advanced for their time and represented a change in contemporary thinking about military defence.

After Gordon Brown succeeded Tony Blair as Prime Minister, Short said that the change offered " a new beginning ", and hinted that she might re-join the parliamentary Labour party if Brown changed the policies that had caused her to leave.

* Brown alumni magazine, Fall 05: " The man who would change everything "

Brown and Williamson, the makers of cigarettes, asked Skelton to change some aspects of the skit ; Skelton renamed the routine " Guzzler's Gin ", where the announcer became inebriated while sampling and touting the imaginary sponsor's wares.

At about the same time, a Scottish doctor, John Brown, became famous for prescribing what he called climato-therapy, a change in climate, to cure a variety of diseases including tuberculosis, known then as consumption.

Even though this was a great experience, Brown decided to return to ministry, until a change of heart in 1887.

Blair accused Brown of orchestrating the investigation into the cash-for-honours scandal and stated that the personal animosity was so strong that it led him to frequent drinking, a big change for Blair.

Bob Brown lays out the Green's climate change policies in the lead-up to the Australian federal election, 2007 | 2007 federal election

Bob Brown at a climate change rally in Melbourne on 5 July 2008

Despite Rand's own description of the changes, Susan Love Brown countered that " Mayhew becomes an apologist for Rand ’ s denials of change and smooths over the fact that Rand herself saw the error of her ways and corrected them.

Eventually, Garter King of Arms gave way on condition that Brown simultaneously change his surname to George-Brown, so finally his title ended as Baron George-Brown, of Jevington in the County of Sussex.

She returned to government when Gordon Brown appointed her Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Defra in June 2007 with responsibility for biodiversity, climate change adaptation, waste and domestic forestry.

This is quite a change from the time when Farwell Brown and his fellow Boy Scouts camped in the Ledges in the 1920s among the lush growth in the lower Ledges.

A decision was made to change their colours to Brown with a white V. This decision subsequently earned them the affectionate name of the " Chocolate Soldiers " thanks to radio commentator Frank Hyde who wrote in the Penrith Club journal " these chocolate soldiers from out west – they don't melt!

Following this school, Brown analyzed culture and religion as social phenomena and as part of a wider context of historical change and transformation.