The initial investigation team consists of Cave Carson, Bruce Gordon, and Bruce's fiancé, Mona Bennet.

Their mothers are unknown, although there is the slight possibility that a Christian of Carrick, mentioned by Barbour as assisting Bruce's campaign, was the mother of the last two.

* A non-fiction study of the movement is provided by George Bruce's The Stranglers: The cult of Thuggee and its overthrow in British India ( 1968 ).

This is a later time period and practices a greater emphasis on elusiveness and simplified trapping unique to Bruce's later approach to combat.

After Bruce's funeral, it is revealed that his death was staged as an elaborate ruse ; Clark Kent ( Superman ) attends the funeral and gives Robin a knowing wink after hearing Bruce's heartbeat as he leaves the grave site, suggesting his silent approval of what will happen next.

Rumours that Bruce's middle name is " Anthony " have yet to be confirmed by DC Comics.

( Bruce's cross dressing is revealed to Hyacinth in series 2.

In a manuscript Pious Memorials of Portmoak, drawn up by Bruce's friend, David Pearson, Bruce's authorship of the " Ode to the Cuckoo " is emphatically asserted.

* Life of Michael Bruce, Poet of Loch Leven, by James Mackenzie. A restatement of the case for Bruce's authorship, coupled with a rather violent attack on Logan, is to be found in the with Vindication of his Authorship of the " Ode to the Cuckoo " and other Poems, also Copies of Letters written by John Logan, first published ( 1905 ),

After Bruce Wayne is declared legally dead, his will is amended so that John Blake inherits GPS coordinates that lead him to the Batcave, suggesting that he will take over as Gotham's protector after Bruce's retirement.

In certain episodes, the clock-entrance is opened by setting the hands of the clock the time Bruce's parents were killed ( similar to certain comic book stories ), while in The New Batman Adventures, Batman Beyond, and Justice League, the pendulum is pulled from behind the face of the clock to unlock the entrance.

During the party, an old friend of Bruce's falls overboard and is mauled to death by sharks.

It is later revealed he has no objections to becoming the new Batman, but was ordered not to in Bruce's prerecorded message for him, saying that Nightwing and Robin could carry the torch.

Once Selina is freed, Talia orders Zatanna to wipe Bruce's identity from her memory, reasoning that her kidnapping has proved that the knowledge is too dangerous for her to handle.

Bruce's forces prevailed and whilst the combined forces of both armies probably totalled no more than about 4, 000 men, the result is seen as an important step towards Bruce's eventual victory in the Wars of Independence.

Both later concede that Bruce is too devoted to his cause as Batman to give her the relationship she wishes for, but the pair reaffirm their bond as close friends. Catwoman, however, appears to consider Zatanna a more dangerous contender for Bruce's attentions than Jezebel Jet ( his fiancée at the time ).

In Leo Bruce's A Case for Three Detectives, Father Brown is parodied in the character of Monsignor Smith.

Gordon suspects early on that Bruce Wayne may be Batman, though he never follows up on his suspicions, although Sarah Essen is correct in her suspicions, even guessing Bruce's motivation.

He was named for New York Senator Roscoe Conkling, Bruce's mentor in the Senate.

* stage costumes and decoration to instruments used by Cream, including Eric Clapton's famed Gibson SG guitar named also The Fool, Jack Bruce's Fender Bass VI bass, and Ginger Baker's drum kit, created for the group's 1967 tour of the US.

The tomb has been open since antiquity, and has been known variously as Bruce's Tomb ( named after James Bruce who entered the tomb in 1768 ) and The Harper's Tomb ( due to paintings of two blind harpers in the tomb ).

The community was originally named Bruce's Crossing when its post office opened on March 5, 1888.

As a result he, along with outspoken young goaltender Glenn Hall, was promptly traded to Chicago ( which was owned by James D. Norris, Bruce's elder brother ) after his most productive year.

However, Edward's forces overran the country after defeating Bruce's small army at the Battle of Methven.

Dan Inosanto, however, fully certified Ted Wong to teach after Bruce's death.

Shortly after, Bruce's army secured victory at the Battle of Bannockburn.

Logan, a fellow-student of Bruce, obtained Bruce's manuscripts from his father, shortly after the poet's death.

King Edward was furious when David de Moravia, Bishop of Moray, joined Scotland's cause with Bruce, and Edward appealed to the Pope who excommunicated the bishop, thus removing papal protection, causing him to flee to Orkney, then to Norway, only to return after Robert Bruce's victories against the English.

Posing as Talia, he tries to take over Bruce's body after manipulating him into using the Lazarus Pit to regain his youth-intending to take over Bruce's body and pose as Bruce and Talia's son to take control of Wayne Enterprises.

Over the centuries, he finds himself opposing the members of the Wayne family throughout history, starting with medieval knight Sir Joshua of Wainwright, to contemporary Bruce Wayne ( Vandal saved Bruce's parents from the mugging that killed them in ' real ' history, but killed them when Bruce was an adult to ensure they did not stop him from reacquiring the meteor, only for him and Bruce to perish when they fell to Earth after a battle in space ), to futuristic Vice President Brenda Wayne, admiring their spirit and strength of character even as he refuses to allow them to stop his efforts.

Elliot held a grudge against the Wayne family since Batman's father, Dr. Thomas Wayne, had saved the life of Elliot's mother after a motor vehicle accident ; Elliot had sabotaged his parents ' vehicle in order to gain their inheritance, and considered Bruce's father as the one who did not allow his plan to be completed.

In 1868, four years after his death, Robert Bruce's claim to the peerage was recognised by the House of Lords, and so his son became sixth Lord Balfour of Burleigh on the reversal of the title's attainder by Act of Parliament in 1869.

He played a number of games in his first season in the Midlands and remained a key part of manager Steve Bruce's plans up until the 2005 – 06 season, but found himself out of the first team after the Blues ' promotion, and was released in May 2007.

The authorities then decided to promote the maintenance track as a walking trail ; it became known as Bruce's Walk, after the surveyor who planned it.

McLaren continued to succeed in Can-Am after Bruce's death with a number of other drivers, but the works Porsche effort with turbocharged flat-12 engines and a high development budget meant that they could not keep up with the 917.

Subsequently, as Mountain's producer, Pappalardi would fashion his new band's sound after that of Cream, in particular scoring a 1970 hit with a cover version of Bruce ’ s song " Theme for an Imaginary Western " ( from Bruce's 1969 album Songs for a Tailor, which Pappalardi produced ).

E. A. Wallis Budge, in his preface to the second edition of his translation of the Kebra Nagast, claims that Brancaleon was a monk who had come to Ethiopia to convert Emperor Zara Yaqob and debated Abba Giyorgis several times on religious matters ; ( Wallis Budge may have misremembered James Bruce's statement about Abba Giyorgis's opponent in that religious debate, " We are not informed of the name of Abba George's antagonist, but he is thought to have been a Venetian painter, who lived many years after in Abyssinia, and, it is believed, died there " -- explicitly identifying him as Brancaleon in a footnote.

This begins the Prodigal storyline, a reference to Dick Grayson essentially being Bruce's prodigal son ; Bruce had adopted Dick after his parents were murdered.

However, after Bruce's disappearance for many years, Earle has Wayne declared legally dead so he can carry on his plan of turning Wayne Enterprises into an open capital company.

However, after Bruce's apparent death, the company is dissolved in order to pay for his debts.

Most of Bruce's female relatives returned to Scotland when they were exchanged for English nobleman captured after the Battle of Bannockburn, but there is no mention of her in the records, so she had probably died by then.