* In the anime Kuroshitsuji ( Japanese for Black Butler ), Ciel Phantomhive as a child had a black borzoi named Sebastian.

Butler stated, "… the Sunday Bloody Sunday thing had just happened in Ireland, when the British troops opened fire on the Irish demonstrators ...

After completing his sentence, Trumbo could not get work in California, so he sold his ranch and his family moved to Mexico City with Hugo Butler and his wife Jean Rouverol, who had also been blacklisted.

This last aspect of Erewhon reveals the influence of Charles Darwin's evolution theory ; Butler had read On the Origin of Species soon after it was published in 1859.

Butler developed the three chapters of Erewhon that make up " The Book of the Machines " from a number of articles that he had contributed to The Press, which had just begun publication in Christchurch, New Zealand, beginning with " Darwin among the Machines " ( 1863 ).

Cleveland was among the leaders in early support, but Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware, Allen G. Thurman of Ohio, Samuel Freeman Miller of Iowa, and Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts also had considerable followings, along with various favorite sons.

Each of the other candidates had hindrances to his nomination: Bayard had spoken in favor of secession in 1861, making him unacceptable to Northerners ; Butler, conversely, was reviled throughout the South for his actions during the Civil War ; Thurman was generally well liked, but was growing old and infirm, and his views on the silver question were uncertain.

Given that Gable and Cukor had worked together before, in Manhattan Melodrama and Gable had no objection to working with him then, and given Selznick's desperation to get Gable for Rhett Butler, if Gable had any objections to Cukor, certainly they would have been expressed before he signed his contract for the film.

As Rhett Butler said, " She never had any strength.

Ladies of Llangollen | Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby had a relationship that was hailed as devoted and virtuous, after eloping and living 51 years together in Wales.

Butler and Ponsonby eloped in 1778, to the relief of Ponsonby's family ( concerned about their reputation had she run away with a man ) to live together in Wales for 51 years and be thought of as eccentrics.

Falk was an accomplished artist, and in October 2006 he had an exhibition of his artwork at the Butler Institute of American Art.

Though Butler was known as an upstanding citizen, he was hanged only on suspicion that he had known, and not divulged, the whereabouts of Henry Smith after he had fled.

Around that time, Robert Stillington, the bishop of Bath and Wells, informed Richard that Edward IV's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville had been invalid due to an earlier union by the King with Eleanor Butler, making Edward V and his siblings illegitimate.

Smith and Butler had worked together with the Bills playing key roles with Buffalo's Super Bowl teams.

F. R. Leavis had rubbished Scott, seeing him as a thoroughly bad novelist and a thoroughly bad influence ( The Great Tradition ); Marilyn Butler, however, offered a political reading of the fiction of the period that found a great deal of genuine interest in his work ( Romantics, Revolutionaries, and Reactionaries ).

The ACLU had originally intended to oppose the Butler Act on the grounds that it violated the teacher's individual rights and academic freedom, and was therefore unconstitutional.

Tennessee had repealed the Butler Act the previous year.

Though the ACLU had taken on the trial as a cause, in the wake of Scopes ’ conviction, they were unable to find any volunteers to take on the Butler law and by 1932, the ACLU gave up.

Chicago then drove to the 3-yard line, but had to settle for another field goal from Butler after rookie defensive lineman William " Refrigerator " Perry was tackled for a 1-yard loss while trying to throw his first NFL pass on a halfback option play.

Notable psephologists include Australians Antony Green and Malcolm Mackerras ( who devised the Mackerras Pendulum ); and Americans Michael Barone, who has published The Almanac of American Politics biennially since 1972, Nate Silver whose website FiveThirtyEight tracks US voting trends, and David Butler and Robert McKenzie, who co-developed the swingometer.

Butler devised a plan for a night march and operation against Confederate forces at nearby Little Bethel and Big Bethel.

He devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the heart of the Confederacy from multiple directions: Grant, Meade, and Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia near Richmond ; Sherman to invade Georgia and capture Atlanta ; and Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks to capture Mobile, Alabama.

Butler and an aide, Major Theodore Winthrop, devised a plan for a coordinated dawn attack on June 10, 1861, after a night march by federal forces from their two main bases outside Fort Monroe, to drive the Confederates back from their threatening advanced positions at Little Bethel and Big Bethel.

Along with his aide, Major Theodore Winthrop, already an accomplished author, Butler devised a plan for a night march and surprise attack on the Confederate position at Little Bethel at dawn by columns converging from Newport News and Hampton.

On the night of June 9 – 10, 1861, according to the plan devised by General Butler and Major Winthrop, 3, 500 Union soldiers were sent in two columns from Camp Hamilton at Hampton and Camp Butler at Newport News with orders to converge near the Confederate positions at Little Bethel after a night march and launch a surprise attack on the Confederate positions at Little Bethel at dawn.

Butler devised a plan that historian John Horn called his " best performance of the war.

He devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the heart of the Confederacy from multiple directions: Grant, Meade, and Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia near Richmond ; Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel to invade the Shenandoah Valley and destroy Lee's supply lines ; Sherman to invade Georgia and capture Atlanta ; Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks to capture Mobile, Alabama.

Grant devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the heart of Confederacy from multiple directions: Grant, George G. Meade, and Butler against Robert E. Lee near Richmond ; Franz Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley ; Sherman to invade Georgia, defeat Joseph E. Johnston, and capture Atlanta ; George Crook and William W. Averell to operate against railroad supply lines in West Virginia ; Nathaniel Banks to capture Mobile, Alabama.

When Auerbach met Gerard Butler, she instinctively knew he was perfect for the role and immediately offered it to him without having him read for her.

* Butler scoring, a scoring system used in contract bridge

In the Nebraska license plate system, Butler County is represented by the prefix 25 ( when the license plate system was established in 1922, it had the twenty-fifth-largest number of vehicles registered in the county ).

One major problem with annexation into Kingman is the fact that Butler does not have a developed sanitary sewer system ; all residences and buildings in Butler have individual septic tanks.

The costs of developing and connecting a sewer system to all customers in Butler, if annexed into Kingman, is considerable.

It is also home to Center Township school, which is part of the Butler Area school district system.

Public schools, established under the system authorized by the legislature in 1834, included Cold Point School on Cold Point Hill, Plymouth Valley School on Butler Pike adjacent to the Friends meeting property, the Eight Square school on North Lane ( then known as Spring Mill Road ), the Sandy Hill school in Black Horse ( now the site of L. Frank Markel and Sons factory ) and the North Star school on Germantown Pike on property presently housing Plymouth Center Union Mission church.

As a United States Senator, Butler continued to advocate for workable reforms from the Populist Party Platform, including the regulation or outright ownership by the United States Government of railroads and telegraphs, as well as for a silver-based currency system.

The system was co-developed by WGBH and Rufus Butler Seder.

Butler in his book The Money Power versus Democracy ( 1940 ) stated " The Party system of Government can play little part, if any, in the struggle for real democracy.

The 1944 Butler Education Act created a system in which children were tested and streamed at the age of eleven.

Although the Butler Act planned a parity of esteem between this and the other sections of the tripartite system, in practice the secondary modern came to be seen as the school for failures.

Butler reads such a statement as romanticism on Foucault's part, claiming that Foucault's proclamation of a blissful identity " prior " to cultural inscription contradicts his work in The History of Sexuality, in which he posits that the idea of a " real " or " true " or " originary " sexual identity is an illusion, in other words that " sex " is not the solution to the repressive system of power but part of that system itself.

To Juliet Butler who has protected my brothers so faithfully I leave my sound system which is based on gel speaker technology and which should make even her collection of modern music sound reasonably nonoffensive.

CAL ( Conversational Algebraic Language ) was a programming language and system designed and developed by Butler Lampson at Berkeley in 1967.

However, like any server software on the " classic " Mac OS, Butler was seriously hampered by the Mac's single-user file system and limited multitasking and could never really deliver the sort of performance the same server would have on Windows NT or Unix.

He played in the Braves ' minor league system for five years, until being traded to the Cleveland Indians in 1983 along with Brett Butler and Rick Behenna for Cleveland pitcher Len Barker.

The 1944 Butler Education Act promised a secondary schooling system with three tiers.