He had also stood his ground in a protest against the trial of Anthony Burns.

The last of these also contained some oral material and by the end of the 18th century this was becoming increasingly common, with collections including John Ritson's, The Bishopric Garland ( 1784 ), which paralleled the work of figures like Robert Burns and Walter Scott in Scotland.

The suppers are normally held on or near the poet's birthday, 25 January, sometimes also known as Robert Burns Day or Burns Night ( Burns Nicht ), although they may in principle be held at any time of the year.

Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Joseph Priestley, Humphry Davy, Linus Pauling, Gilbert N. Lewis, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Robert Burns Woodward, and Fritz Haber also made notable contributions.

Deicide then released their self-titled debut album, also produced by Scott Burns at Morrisound, in 1990.

As well as making original compositions, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

Albert also appeared as a special guest on The Simpsons ' Season 20 episode The Burns and the Bees in 2008.

He also developed, with Robert Burns Woodward, rules for elucidating reaction mechanisms ( the Woodward-Hoffmann rules ).

The Giants honored Burns in a pre-game ceremony in which Barry Bonds was also in attendance.

More orgiastic witches ' meetings are also depicted in Robert Burns ' poem " Tam o ' Shanter " and in Goethe's play Faust.

Burns, also an expert in typeface design and in typography, was in charge of marketing until his death in 1992.

As well as his love for music, he was also a voracious reader, and his literary inspirations included Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Robert Burns and Dylan Thomas.

He also said that he " enjoys " to write for characters such as Grampa and Mr. Burns because of their " out-datedness ", and because he gets to use dictionaries for looking up " old time slang ".

He survived his car blowing up, catching on fire due to the powerful magnifying effect of his glasses, a hallucinating Montgomery Burns drilling into his brain, capital punishment ( in a local jail ) after Homer eats his last meal, left inside a fluoroscope for possibly an entire weekend, being buried alive, being left forgotten and alive in a purgatory and being engulfed by an " anti-escape bubble " that was attempting to catch Marge ( a parody of a similar device from the ' 60s show The Prisoner ), and he also was run over by Homer in The Parent Rap, after the whole family promised they would not commit any crimes for a whole year.

The Big Broadcast of 1936 starred Bing Crosby, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, Jack Oakie, and Bill " Bojangles " Robinson and also featured other performances by Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers, who would appear with Miller again in two movies for Twentieth Century Fox in 1941 and 1942.

Smithers is voiced by Harry Shearer, who is also the voice of Mr. Burns.

Comic Book Guy not only has a heart attack in Season 12, but encounters death three times ; once in a French missile strike on Springfield, in the Simpsons Comics mini series " Comic Book Guy: The Comic Book ", where he is killed in the explosion of Superguy's rocket, and also in " Treehouse of Horror XVI ", where Comic Book Guy is killed by Mr. Burns for refusing to run for five whole minutes.

Continuing the Terrible Certainty formula while showing the band still progressing musically and with better production by the well-regarded Randy Burns ( also Megadeth among others ), the album featured the band's first major singles and music videos, the title track and " Betrayer ", becoming major hits on MTVs Headbangers Ball.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show ( also known simply by the name of the show's star, Mary Tyler Moore ) is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977.

* Alan Smithee was also used as a director's name in The Simpsons episode " D ' oh-in in the Wind ", as the direction of a commercial goes awry and Mr. Burns refuses to take credit.

The UVF also killed republicans James Burns, Liam Ryan and Larry Marley.

In early 2000, Chris Hayes left the News to spend more time with his family, though he performed on their 2001 album Plan B. Stef Burns replaced Hayes, although guitarists Tal Morris and James Harrah have also filled in when Burns has had other commitments.

Respected literary figures like Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott in Scotland both collected and wrote their own ballads, using the form to create an artistic product.

Burns wrote the poem Address to a Haggis, which starts " Fair fa ' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o ' the puddin-race!

Poet Robert Burns in " Here's a Health to them that's awa '" wrote:

Burns wrote of himself in 1787, " The appellation of a Scotch Bard, is by far my highest pride ; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

Texas composer and singer Brian Burns wrote and recorded a song about the collision, The Crash at Crush, in 2001.

Burns wrote most of the material and played the straight man.

An admirer of Joyce and Pound, MacDiarmid wrote much of his early poetry in anglicised Lowland Scots, a literary dialect which had also been used by Robert Burns.

Robert Burns wrote two poems about Galashiels, " Sae Fair Her Hair " and " Braw Lads ".

" As a staff writer on those programs, Oppenheimer wrote sketch comedy for many Hollywood stars, including Fred Allen, Talullah Bankhead, Charles Boyer, Fanny Brice, George Burns and Gracie Allen, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, and Spencer Tracy.

Robert Burns wrote Scots Wha Hae on the day Muir's trial started.

But in February 2003, Burns wrote an article in The London Free Press newspaper endorsing the Canadian Alliance and promising that the Ontario party would live on, at least in spirit: " The Ontario Party of Canada will, for the time being, become an ardent advocate for the best interests of Ontarians and comment on national, provincial and municipal matters.

After they wrote episodes such as "$ pringfield ( Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling )", " Bart vs. Australia " and " Who Shot Mr. Burns?

In reference to this, Burns ' brother Gilbert wrote, " This was a delightful family scene for our poet, then lately introduced to the world.

He wrote in the Lowland Scots dialogue made popular by Robert Burns.

He wrote a number of other books, including one on Robert Burns and a seminal biography of the composer Francis George Scott and mid-twentieth century Scottish classical music, entitled Francis George Scott and the Scottish Renaissance ( 1980 ).

However, if Burns was present, he failed to mention it in a letter he wrote on that day or in any of his verse.

Burns wrote " You cannot imagine how much this business of composing for your publication had added to my enjoyments.

John Douglas wrote " Wild Mountainside ", which was recorded by Eddi Reader for her 2003 album Eddi Reader Sings the Songs of Robert Burns.

As well as collecting old songs, Burns wrote new words to old tunes, and many of the songs now attributed to Burns have older roots.

In the early 1970s, Burns wrote for the Canadian Globe and Mail, as a local and later parliamentary reporter.

Supposed financial payoffs to Scottish parliamentarians were later referred to by Robert Burns when he wrote " We're bought and sold for English gold, Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation!

Burnett's friend Robert Burns had a romantic interest in Eliza and wrote a poem, Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo, referencing her beauty and which ultimately became her elegy.

Tav Falco's Panther Burns and Alex Chilton helped create new interest in her career in the 1980s when they began covering some of her Moon label's old singles such as " Dateless Night ", a song she originally wrote in the 1950s for Florida artist Allen Page.

He also wrote a poem on Hallowe ' en in 1780 which influenced the bard of Scotland Robert Burns ' 1785 poem Halloween.