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.

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

Bruce's signature role was that of Dr. Watson in the 1939-1946 Sherlock Holmes film series with close friend Basil Rathbone as Holmes.

Hapkido master Hwang In-Shik was slated to play the guardian of the first floor, a master of a kick-oriented style, while Bruce's long time student and good friend Taky Kimura was asked to play the guardian of the second floor, a stylist of praying mantis kung fu.

Seeing a need for a manager, Bruce's brother Robert recommended his friend and record store owner Alex Abbiss, who established the Psychopathic Records record label with the group in 1991.

Bass-ment Cuts was sold first hand by Inner City Posse, their friend Rudy Hill and his cousins, and Bruce's then-girlfriend Karen.

Bruce's friend Rachel Dawes tells him she suspects Falcone bribed the judge to make the trial public, allowing his agents to get close and murder Chill.

* Rachel Dawes ( voiced by Katie Holmes ): Bruce's childhood friend, Rachel helps reveal Jonathan Crane as a demented psychopath.

Bruce, with a small following of his most faithful men, including Sir James Douglas and Gilbert Hay, Bruce's brothers Thomas, Alexander and Edward, as well as Sir Neil Campbell and the Earl of Lennox fled.

The most irreconcilable of Bruce's Scottish enemies also came: Ingram de Umfraville, a former Guardian of Scotland, and his kinsman the Earl of Angus, as well as others of the MacDougalls, MacCanns and Sir John Comyn of Badenoch, the only son of the Red Comyn, who was born and raised in England and was now returning to Scotland to avenge his father's killing by Bruce at Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries in 1306.

Sir Philip Mowbray, the commander of Stirling Castle, who had observed Bruce's preparations on the road, appeared in Edward's camp early in the morning, and warned of the dangers of approaching the Scots directly through the New Park.

Sir Christopher Seton ( Bruce's brother in law ) had been captured at Loch Doon and was hurried to Dumfries to be tried for treason in general and more specifically for being present at Comyn's killing.

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.

Bruce's brother-in-law, Sir Andrew Murray a Guardian of Scotland during the exile of King David II may also have given holdings in his Smailholm lands Added to these were gifts from lesser donors ; people like Patrick de Dunbar, earl of Marsh who gave a handful of possessions while Sir William Abernethy gave lands in Saltoun and various other minor nobles added further packets of land.

Following Bruce's death, Sir James Douglas, now known as either " the Black Douglas " to the English, or " Sir James the Good " to the Scots, took the King's heart on crusade, and died fighting the Moors in Spain.

On Sir Bruce's retirement Allan Beckett became senior partner.

The family firm continues today as marine consulting engineers Beckett Rankine where Sir Bruce's grandson Gordon Rankine and Allan Beckett's son Tim Beckett are directors.

During The Bruce's absence in Ireland the High Steward and Sir James Douglas managed government affairs and spent much time defending the Scottish Borders.

Recent scholarship in postcolonial studies and on colonial Balochistan has disputed this overtly laudatory account of Sandeman's life and career as explicated in books such as Tucker's " Sir Robert G. Sandeman: Peaceful Conqueror of Baluchistan " and Bruce's " The Forward Policy and its Results ".

Sir Kenneth de la More ( Kenneth Moir ) in the spring of 1330 rode out with Sir James Douglas carrying the Bruce's heart encased in a silver casket locket on a chain.

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.

When he was Leader of the Opposition, Bruce's successor James Scullin ( 1929 – 32 ) had objected to the cost of running The Lodge and, true to his word, he and his wife lived at the Hotel Canberra ( now the Hyatt Hotel ) during his Prime Ministership.

Logan tried to prevent by law the reprinting of Bruce's poems ( see James Mackenzie's Life of Michael Bruce, 1905, chap.

* 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 ),

His first appointment in this capacity was in 1794 when the Trustees asked him to take over on James Bruce's death.

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.

Although the later traveler James Bruce claims that he had never witnessed snow in the Semien Mountains, the 19th century explorer Henry Salt not only recorded that he saw snow there ( on 9 April 1814 ), but explained the reason for Bruce's failure to see snow in these mountains – Bruce had ventured no further than the foothills into the Semiens.

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 ).

But the fame of James Bruce's travels, and of the first discoveries made by the African Association, made him determined to become an explorer of Central Africa.

Bruce's preserved heart was placed in a silver casket, which Douglas then carried on a chain around his neck.

The poem opens with a description of the state of Scotland at the death of Alexander III ( 1286 ) and concludes ( more or less ) with the death of Douglas and the burial of the Bruce's heart ( 1332 ).

His mother was by all accounts a formidable woman who, legend would have it, kept Robert Bruce's father captive until he agreed to marry her.

" It can be assumed that neither the Natives nor the incoming settlers necessarily agreed with Bruce's negative assessment.

Taking the advice of Joseph Bruce's brother, Rob Bruce, the group and Abbiss agreed to create their own label.

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.

Bruce's despatch reported, " The dispute continued a quarter of an hour very hot ; the rebels, refusing either to fly or take quarter, fought like madmen ..." Cameron was killed on the spot and Hackston taken prisoner.

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.

: Clouse's film had a sequel in 1981 kung fu action mystery film, Game of Death II, which used cut footage from Bruce's Enter the Dragon film to have him make an appearance in the beginning of the film, only to be killed off midway, allowing his on-screen brother to take on the role of protagonist.

He seeks Bruce's assistance in bringing Powers down, but cannot convince the old man to take up the cowl once more ; Bruce is still shaken from an ordeal 20 years earlier of having relied on a gun for self-defense as well as the events portrayed in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.

Not much is known about Chill except that he is, in most versions of Batman, a petty mugger who kills Bruce's parents Thomas and Martha while trying to take their money and jewelry ; when he demands Martha's necklace, Thomas moves to protect his wife and Chill kills him ; he then kills Martha when she screams for help ( In most versions of the story, Chill declares " This'll shut you up!

Terry and an elderly Bruce Wayne later battle against the League of Shadows when Ra's al Ghul ( who had taken over Talia's body ) attempted to take Bruce's body.

And so he uses Bruce's stuff, training himself to take over for him.