Burton claimed that The Killing Joke was a major influence on his film adaptation of Batman:

Burton later claimed, by family telling, that " He looked very much like me ... That is, he was pockmarked, devious, and smiled a great deal when he was in trouble.

However, statements by contemporaries of Stanley like Sir Richard Francis Burton, who claimed " Stanley shoots negroes as if they were monkeys ", paint a very different picture.

Burton, who had been recovering from illness at the time and resting further south on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, was outraged that Speke claimed to have proved his discovery to have been the true source of the Nile, which Burton regarded as still unsettled.

Speke returned to England before Burton, on 8 May 1859, and made their trip famous in a speech to the Royal Geographical Society, in which he claimed to have discovered the source of the Nile.

Burton claimed that because Speke had not followed the Nile from the place it flowed out of Lake Victoria to Gondokoro, he could not be sure they were the same river.

They claimed such limited ( and according to Col. Burton, completely unrealistic ) testing would " improve the databases used to model vehicle survivability " as opposed to full tests with random shots that would provide a far more accurate picture of its performance under real battlefield conditions, but produce less useful statistical data.

For instance, a production at Oxford's Burton Taylor Theatre in March 2004, claimed to have been the first performance of the play in England since its putative recovery ( although a successful amateur production had premiered at Essex University's Lakeside Theatre on October 15, 1998 ).

Catherine O ' Hara quickly signed on, while Burton claimed it took a lot of time to convince other cast members to sign, as " they didn't know what to think of the weird script.

Burton was fired by Disney after the film was completed ; the studio claimed that he had wasted company resources and felt the film was too scary for young audiences.

In 1955, Robert Burton Willingham claimed an unidentified flying object ( UFO ) crashed along the south bank of the Rio Grande, just a few hundred feet into Mexico.

Amazingly, Geoff returned to the track that had nearly claimed his life to finish third behind Elliott Sadler and the race winner Ward Burton in the 2002 Daytona 500.

Matthews exacerbated speculation about his leadership during the Burton debacle when he claimed: " There's no blood on my hands ".

It was claimed by activists that the coroner, Doctor John Burton, dismissed reports that Peach was killed by an officer even before the inquest had finished.

Richard F. Burton, however, claimed it to be part of the original One Thousand and One Nights.

Although controversial, it has been claimed ( since at least by Robert Burton in 1621 ) that she brought the distinctive protruding lower lip ( prognathism ) into the family, a particular physical characteristic of most members of the family for many generations until the 18th century.

Richard Burton the explorer claimed that the second part could be found " in Mocha or Hudaydah "; but, despite later investigation, no one else has reported seeing a copy of this second part.

While working as a conceptual artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios, Tim Burton found himself two allies in the shape of Disney executive Julie Hickson, and Head of Creative Development Tom Wilhite.

Despite the work of Burton and a few others, it was not until the 1960s that hoplology took shape as an academic field of study under the leadership of Donn F. Draeger.

* 1966-( June 29 ) Pilot James P. Scott crash-lands his Piper Aztec twin-engine plane on front lawn of Burton Avenue home after losing an engine and skimming the top of a tree, which softened his landing.

Joseph's brother, Burton, a devout Christian, becomes increasingly concerned with Joseph's late night ' talks ' with the tree.

After he leaves, the remaining brothers discover that Burton had girdled the tree to kill it.

In a 1982 series of articles for New Scientist, Dr Maurice Burton proposed that sightings of Nessie and similar creatures could actually be fermenting logs of Scots pine rising to the surface of the loch's cold waters.

The important thing was that Burton had gone somewhere to meet a blackmailer with a gun in his pocket.

Lerner worked with Kurt Weill on the stage musical Love Life ( 1948 ) and Burton Lane on the movie musical Royal Wedding ( 1951 ).

Loewe retired to Palm Springs, California while Lerner went through a series of musicals, some successful, some not, with such composers as André Previn ( Coco ), John Barry ( Lolita, My Love ), Leonard Bernstein ( 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue ), Burton Lane ( Carmelina ) and Charles Strouse ( Dance a Little Closer, based on the film, Idiot's Delight, nicknamed Close A Little Faster by Broadway wags because it closed on opening night ).

In 1965 Lerner collaborated again with Burton Lane on the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, which was adapted for film in 1970.

* On a Clear Day You Can See Forever ( 1965 ), with Burton Lane

* Carmelina ( 1979 ), with Burton Lane and Joseph Stein

Chester Burton " Chet " Atkins ( June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001 ) was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.

Elfman immediately developed a rapport with Burton and has gone on to score all but two of Burton's major studio releases: Ed Wood which was under production while Elfman and Burton were having a fight, and Sweeney Todd.

Burton has said of his relationship with Elfman: " We don't even have to talk about the music.

Richard Francis Burton commented on the " masculine physique of the women, enabling them to compete with men in enduring toil, hardship and privations ," and Alfred Ellis concurred that the female soldiers, " endured all the toil and performed all the hard labour.

Dahomey was chosen for some of the filming locations in the movie, The Comedians ( 1967 film ), with an all-star cast that included Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Lillian Gish, James Earl Jones, Roscoe Lee Brown, Alec Guinness, Raymond St. Jacques, Gloria Foster, Zakes Mokae, Paul Ford, Georg Stanford Brown, Peter Ustinov, Douta Seck and Cicely Tyson.

* 1962: Dylan Thomas, a short, Oscar-winning, documentary film with Richard Burton as narrator, directed by Jack Howells.

Indeed, at the end of the 19th century scholar Ernest DeWitt Burton wrote that there could be " no reasonable doubt " that 1 John and the gospel were written by the same author, and Amos Wilder has said that, " Early Christian tradition and the great majority of modern scholars have agreed on the common authorship of these writings, even where the author has not been identified with the apostle John.

Tim Burton created a storybook atmosphere filled with darkness and shadow in some of his films like Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, and Batman.

The performance was set on a bare stage, conceived to appear like a dress rehearsal, with Burton in a black v-neck sweater, and Gielgud himself tape-recorded the voice for the Ghost ( which appeared as a looming shadow ).

According to Burton Stein's History of India, " Kashmir was neither as large nor as old an independent state as Hyderabad ; it had been created rather off-handedly by the British after the first defeat of the Sikhs in 1846, as a reward to a former official who had sided with the British.

His 1970s films included Monte Walsh ( 1970 ) with Jeanne Moreau, the violent Prime Cut ( 1972 ) with Gene Hackman, Pocket Money ( 1972 ) with Paul Newman, Emperor of the North Pole ( 1973 ) opposite Ernest Borgnine, as Hickey in The Iceman Cometh ( 1973 ) with Fredric March and Robert Ryan, The Spikes Gang ( 1974 ) with Noah Beery, Jr., The Klansman ( 1974 ) with Richard Burton, Shout at the Devil ( 1976 ) with Roger Moore, The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 ) with Oliver Reed, and Avalanche Express ( 1978 ) with Robert Shaw.

In 1985, Tim Burton and Paul Reubens invited Elfman to write the score for their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

Contemporary filmmakers such as Woody Allen, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pedro Almodovar, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Emir Kusturica, David Lynch, Girish Kasaravalli, David Cronenberg, Martin Scorsese, and Juraj Jakubisko have cited Fellini's influence on their work.

Burton is known for using recurring collaborators on his works ; among them are Johnny Depp, who has become a close friend of Burton since their first film together ; musician Danny Elfman, who has composed scores for all but five of the films Burton has directed and / or produced ; and domestic partner Helena Bonham Carter.

The success of his short film Stalk of the Celery Monster attracted the attention of Walt Disney Productions ' animation studio, who offered young Burton an animator's apprenticeship at their studio.

After directing episodes for the revitalized version of ' 50s /' 60s anthology horror series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, Burton received his next big project: Beetlejuice ( 1988 ), a supernatural comedy horror about a young couple forced to cope with life after death, and the family of pretentious yuppies who invade their treasured New England home.

For the title role, Burton chose to cast Michael Keaton as Batman following their previous collaboration in Beetlejuice, despite Keaton's average physique, inexperience with action films, and reputation as a comic actor.

Taylor and Burton helped fund production and took a percentage of the profits rather than their normal salaries.

Philip could not legally adopt Burton because their age difference was one year short of the minimum twenty years required.

Philip Burton arrived at Stratford to help coach his former charge, and he noted in his memoir that Quayle and Richard Burton had their differences about the interpretation of the Prince Hal role.

Since Burton disliked wearing period clothing, Gielgud conceived a production in a " rehearsal " setting with a half-finished set and actors wearing their street clothes ( carefully selected while the production really was in rehearsal ).

On their first meeting on the set, Burton said " Has anyone ever told you that you're a very pretty girl?

From 1949 until their divorce in 1963, he was married to producer Sybil Williams, by whom he had two daughters, Katherine " Kate " Burton ( born 10 September 1957 ) and Jessica Burton ( born 1961 ).

When English Football League Two side Burton Albion Football Club built their new stadium in 2005, Pirelli became the title sponsor the new ground.

After they had finished university he had accompanied his friends in a well-received revue at the Edinburgh Fringe ( Richard Burton even appeared one night in their parody of Luther ).

In Farmer's books a number of historical figures-including Sir Richard Burton, Alice Hargreaves, Samuel Clemens, King John of England, Cyrano de Bergerac, Tom Mix, Mozart, Jack London, Lothar von Richthofen and Hermann Göring-interact with fictional characters in a quest to discover the purpose behind the creation of Riverworld and their reincarnation.

Professor Burton is of opinion that the origin of the term Nicolaitans is uncertain ; and that, " though Nicolas the deacon has been mentioned as their founder, the evidence is extremely slight which would convict that person himself of any immoralities.

The new club took Burton Swifts ' place in the Second Division of the Football League and took over residence at their Peel Croft home.

The public image of diplomats has been described as " a caricature of pinstriped men gliding their way around a never-ending global cocktail party " J. W. Burton has noted that " despite the absence of any specific professional training, diplomacy has a high professional status, due perhaps to a degree of secrecy and mystery that its practitioners self-consciously promote.

This comprised: the refoundation of eight out of nine former monastic cathedrals ( Coventry being the exception ), together with six wholly new bishoprics ( Bristol, Chester, Gloucester, Oxford, Peterborough, Westminster ) with their associated cathedrals, chapters, choirs and grammar schools ; the refoundation as secular colleges of monastic houses in Brecon, Thornton and Burton on Trent, the endowment of five Regius Professorships in each of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the endowment of the colleges of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Christ Church, Oxford and the maritime charity of Trinity House.