When Rousseau subsequently became celebrated as a theorist of education and child-rearing, his abandonment of his children was used by his critics, including Voltaire and Edmund Burke, as the basis for ad hominem attacks.

Three years after the Institute attained collegiate rank and became known as Hiram College, Burke A. Hinsdale, who had been a student of Garfield's, was appointed president.

During Washington's short second term, the Eddies fell from power: Vrdolyak became a Republican, Kelly was removed from his powerful parks post, and Burke lost his power as finance chair.

In a speech to the electorate at Bristol in 1774, Edmund Burke described the British Parliament as a " deliberative assembly ," and the expression became the basic term for a body of persons meeting to discuss and determine common action.

Burke became President and Chief Executive of ABC, running the daily operations of the network until his retirement in 1994.

Under the leadership of general manager Burke and coach Crawford, the Canucks once again became a playoff team.

In 1777 the western part of Rowan County became Burke County.

In 1833 parts of Burke County and Buncombe County were combined to form Yancey County, and in 1838 the southern part of what was left of Buncombe County became Henderson County.

When he became famous and would perform near Gillespie, Burke always received tickets to attend his performances.

Burke soon became a social hub and it became a summer getaway from the city's heat for people from all walks of life who came to the Copperthite track and to Burke to attend fairs, see horse races, foot races, motorcycle races, exhibition boxing and baseball games.

This song became popular again during the 1950s rock and roll era when it was sung by Solomon Burke.

Gokhale ’ s education tremendously influenced the course of his future career – in addition to learning English, he was exposed to western political thought and became a great admirer of theorists such as John Stuart Mill and Edmund Burke.

From age 12 Burke became a pastor of the congregation, and also appeared for 15 minutes each week ( later expanded to 30 minutes ) on WDAS ( then 1400 AM ) with Randy Dixon, the African-American host of " Ebony Hall of Fame.

In 1949 Vincent Burke ( born 1 December 1917 in Philadelphia ; died March 1978 in Philadelphia ), a 130 pound Hebrew-speaking black Jew, the son of an immigrant father from Kingston, Jamaica, who worked as a chicken plucker at Jake's Chicken Market, a kosher butcher shop at 40th and Girard, as well as a carpenter, who was a guitar player, became his stepfather.

From 2. 30pm on December 22, 1955 Burke made his first recordings for Apollo Records, six songs, in their studios at 457 West 45th Street, Manhattan, debuting with his own song " Christmas Presents " b / w " When I'm All Alone " ( Apollo 485 ), which debuted on DEcember 24, 1955 and became a minor hit.

After a performance on June 13, 1957 at the Wide Awake Ballroom in Newark, New Jersey, Burke became convinced that his manager Kae Williams was cheating him out of most of his performance fees.

During this period Burke met Brother Rashish, who became his mentor, taught him the Islamic faith, as well as Arabic.

Despite his initial reluctance, like several former gospel singers Aretha Franklin, and Wilson Pickett, Burke was " molded into a more secular direction when he signed with Atlantic in the ' 60s ," and became one of " the " backsliders ," artists who " preferred a secular acclaim to the gospel obscurity ", after deciding eventually that " secular music was not the anithesis of the church but, rather, ' a new avenue, a new dimension to spread the gospel.

After " Cry to Me ", Burke became one of the first performers to be called a soul artist.

Burke, whose shows were tours de force of riveting soul and unashamed hokum ", " ticked every box from low comedy through country pleading to the kind of magisterial rock ' n ' roll that brought the house down ", and he " became known as much for his showmanship as he did his voice.

Burke and black performers like James Brown, Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett, " would adopt the ' house-wrecking ' tactics of black preachers, and their shows functioned in much the same way as black religious events in that performer and audience became immersed in the music, arriving together at an ecstatic state that allowed them to feel a deep intensity of experience.

A special delivery letter was at the desk waiting for me in the hotel ... so all of these things came about very quickly and very drastically .” Burke completed the song on the train back to Chicago for Cooke's funeral, On 2 April 1965, it became his only # 1 hit, where it remained for three weeks.

Burke was also highly influential in decisions made by Dublin Corporation, at local government level in Dublin city.

" Despite his admiration for Burke, Wexler also described Burke as " a piece of work: wily, highly intelligent, a salesman of epic proportions, sly, sure-footed, a never-say-die entrepreneur ", while also branding him " a card-carrying fabulist.

In highly controversial circumstances, Ward's backers prevail upon the referee to disqualify Burke in the 17th round for an alleged foul.

The highly eulogistic epitaph on his monument at Bushley was written by Edmund Burke.

Thereafter Burke supported the JSTPS and assigned to it highly qualified naval officers.

Throughout the 1960s and 70's Burke remained highly productive, mostly playing and recording with fellow Preservation Hall Musicians.

* ABC News: Burke a ' highly successful premier '

It is a spin-off of Designing Women and stars Delta Burke, who had reconciled with producers after a bitter, highly publicized, off-screen battle.

Burke was a highly touted baseball star in the Los Angeles Dodgers minor league system being called up to the major league club.

His conduct after his retirement was distinguished by a moderation and disinterestedness which, as Burke has remarked, " set a seal upon his character.

Admiral Arleigh Albert ' 31-knot ' Burke ( October 19, 1901 – January 1, 1996 ) was an admiral of the United States Navy who distinguished himself during World War II and the Korean War, and who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations.

In 1991 Admiral Burke was awarded the Lone Sailor Award by the U. S. Navy Memorial Foundation for his distinguished career during World War II and the Korean War.

It placed the author in the front rank of European publicists, and won him the friendship of some of the most distinguished men of the time, including Burke himself.

Rogers himself kept a notebook in which he entered impressions of the conversation of many of his distinguished friends — Fox, Edmund Burke, Henry Grattan, Richard Porson, John Horne Tooke, Talleyrand, Lord Erskine, Scott, Lord Grenville and the Duke of Wellington.

He met with Edmund Burke, the Earl of Chatham, and many other distinguished members of Parliament who were friendly to the American Colonies.

The two men are not always clearly distinguished in historical records ; both were in the 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain, one as a major leading the Burke County militia, and the other in a subordinate role as a captain.

The two men are not always clearly distinguished in historical records: both were at the 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain, one as a major leading the Burke County militia, and the other in a subordinate role as a captain.

Burke is also distinguished from Kant in his emphasis on the subject's realization of his physical limitations rather than any supposed sense of moral or spiritual transcendence.

* 1936 – James Lee Burke, American writer

* 1936 – James Burke, British writer

* December 5 – James Lee Burke, American writer

It was also home to California Supreme Court Chief Justice Malcolm M. Lucas while he served on the Court, and to award-winning mystery writer Jan Burke.

* James Lee Burke, mystery writer

Burke " distrusted the young producer ", and often spoke of him disparagingly, but later acknowledged Berns as " a genius ", and " a great writer, a great man.

Burke claims he was the sole writer on the song but was talked into sharing credit by Wexler and Berns.

New York Times writer Ben Sisario wrote of Burke: " Wide-shaped in his youth, he grew into Henry VIII-like corpulence, and in his later years had to be wheeled to his throne.

He was famous as a writer of epitaphs and wrote inscriptions for the tombs of Burke, Charles Burney, Johnson, Fox and Gibbon.

There are passages in his writings which can be best described in the words which Burke applied to another writer: A mere mixture of vinegar and water, at once vapid and sour.

She shared an apartment on Greenwich Avenue with several others, including the writer Djuna Barnes, philosopher Kenneth Burke, and literary critic Malcolm Cowley

* Tom Burke ( environmentalist ) ( born 1938 ), British academic and writer on environmental policy issues

* John Burke ( author ) ( 1922 – 2011 ), English writer of novels and short stories

Burke attended Ohio State University for only a semester, then studied at Columbia University in 1916-1917 before dropping out to be a writer.

In 1919, he married Lily Mary Batterham, with whom he had three daughters: the late feminist, Marxist anthropologist Eleanor Leacock ( 1922 – 1987 ); musician ( Jeanne ) Elspeth Chapin Hart ( b. 1920 ); and writer and poet France Burke ( b. ~ 1925 ).

Speakers at the foundation's events included Roger Scruton, the Burke scholar Peter Stanlis, Dutch writer Leon de Winter, Islam-expert Reuel Marc Gerecht, Frits Bolkestein and Onno Ruding, former finance minister of The Netherlands.

* TCM Remembers 2009: Edmund Purdom, Natasha Richardson, Jody McCrea, Ricardo Montalbán, Al Martino, director Robert Mulligan, director Howard Zieff, Pamela Blake, Farrah Fawcett, producer Larry Gelbart, producer Charles H. Schneer, Edward Woodward, Jennifer Jones, Sam Bottoms, Patrick Swayze, Olga San Juan, Paul Burke, screenwriter Horton Foote, Sydney Chaplin, Susanna Foster, director Ken Annakin, cinematographer Jack Cardiff, Beverly Roberts, Kathleen Byron, Dorothy Coonan, producer Daniel Melnick, Jane Bryan, Ron Silver, David Carradine, Richard Todd, Gale Storm, Pat Hingle, Eartha Kitt, Lou Jacobi, Bea Arthur, composer Maurice Jarre, Dom DeLuise, Henry Gibson, screenwriter Budd Schulberg, Claude Berri, writer Dominick Dunne, Betsy Blair, James Whitmore, Joseph Wiseman, Patrick McGoohan, director John Hughes and Karl Malden.

They have four children, including their daughter Alafair Burke, who is also a prominent crime writer.

Burke is the cousin of short story writer Andre Dubus II.

The original Executive Producer of the show, Geoffrey Perkins, saw writer Susan Nickson's work on Channel 4's Lloyd's Bank Film Challenge, entitled " Life's A Bitch ", which starred Sean Hughes and Kathy Burke.

Daughter of the world-famous literary critic, philosopher, and writer Kenneth Burke, she had studied at Radcliffe College, but graduated from Barnard in New York City.

His first cousin, once removed, is the acclaimed writer James Lee Burke, author of over thirty novels and short story collections and two-time winner of the Edgar Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year.

Theresa Frances Veronica Burke ( born Amy Lauren Gardner on May 11, 1956 ) is a Canadian writer, journalist and producer for the CBC's television newsmagazine, The Fifth Estate.

Burke has a child with writer Rick Salutin.