Richard Hinckley Allen tells of an amusing reference made by Samuel Butler in his book Hudibras:

By 1814 Butler County's growing population and rising land prices made it difficult for the Society to expand, causing the group's leaders to look for more land elsewhere.

An earlier version of the same objection was made by Joseph Butler in 1726.

The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school.

At a meeting of the 1922 committee on 22 November, Rab Butler made a speech appealing for party unity in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis.

3 ) declared Edward's and Elizabeth's children illegitimate on the grounds that Edward had made a previous promise ( known as a precontract ) to marry Lady Eleanor Butler, which was considered a legally binding contract that rendered any other marriage contract invalid.

Two months later, on 22 June 1483, Edward IV's marriage was declared invalid ( Edward, it was claimed, had at the time of his marriage to Elizabeth Woodville already been betrothed to Lady Eleanor Butler ); this made the children of the marriage bastards and ineligible for the succession.

These uniforms continued until the 1950s when after the Butler reforms secondary education was made free and the school leaving age was raised to 15.

The story is set in Innisfree, a place in Lough Gill on the Sligo-Leitrim Border made famous by poet William Butler Yeats.

The exact date of the first settlement made by white people in the limits of Butler County is not exactly known.

The resultant film, Raw Iron, also served to document the making of Pumping Iron, exploring the difficulties that Butler had in producing the film and the narrative choices he made.

George Butler was now responsible for the label, but despite some good albums, the commercial viability of jazz was in question, and more borderline and outright commercial records were made ( often by artists who had previously recorded " straight " jazz for the label-Bobby Hutcherson, Lou Donaldson, Donald Byrd, Grant Green, Horace Silver ).

* William Mahone, 19th century railroad builder, Confederate General ( hero of the Battle of the Crater ), and politician was the mayor of Petersburg, where he and his wife Otelia Butler Mahone made their home for many years.

Some famous inventions and discoveries were made in Butler County.

* Section 1 — That all that part of the county of Butler lying and being within the first and second fractional townships in the fifth range, and adjoining the south line of Montgomery County, shall be and the same is hereby attached to and made part of the county of Warren.

Because locals became disenchanted with Butler Center ( partially because of its inaccessibility during the winter ), Allison was made the county seat on January 10, 1881.

Wampum is also noted for its legendary High School basketball program from the 1950s, where all sorts of state and national records were established and their coach L. Butler Hennon made the cover of Life magazine and his son Don Hennon went on to national prominence with the University of Pittsburgh Panthers basketball team, where he was a two-time Consensus All-American.

It tells the story of the aftermath of the robbery from Williams ' point of view, in particular describing the mistakes made in the early days by senior officers, and the autocratic nature of Tommy Butler.

This suggestion has been made by former ministers such as Clare Short and Chris Smith, in the media, and was made clear in the Butler Review, where Blair's style of " sofa government " was censured.

Although Ekéus has said that he resisted attempts at such espionage, many allegations have since been made against the agency commission under Butler, charges which Butler has denied.

Maudling, like Butler, made a speech that failed to impress the conference.

Home's cabinet colleagues Enoch Powell and Iain Macleod, who disapproved of his candidacy, made a last-minute effort to prevent him from taking office by trying to persuade Butler and the other candidates not to take posts in a Home cabinet.

Ormonde ’ s position as Captain-General made him a personage of much importance in the crisis brought about by the death of Queen Anne and, during the last years of Queen Anne, Ormonde almost certainly had Jacobite leanings and corresponded with the Jacobite Court including his cousin, Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoye, who kept barrels of gun powder at Kilkenny Castle.

Butler notes ' that identification always relies upon a difference that it seeks to overcome, and that its aim is accomplished only by reintroducing the difference it claims to have vanquished.

Scarlett knows only one man who has enough money to help her pay the taxes, Rhett Butler.

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.

Judith Butler, in works such as Gender Trouble and Undoing Gender, contends that being female is not " natural " and that it appears natural only through repeated performances of gender ; these performances in turn, reproduce and define the traditional categories of sex and / or gender.

Lady Eleanor Butler ( a young widow, daughter of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury ) and Edward were alleged to have been precontracted ; both parties were dead by this time, but a clergyman ( named only by Philippe de Commines as Robert Stillington, Bishop of Bath and Wells ), claimed to have carried out the ceremony.

( Ref Opus cit Butler ) A certain Proclus ( or Proculus ), who had confessed the faith before the prosecutors and underwent torments in defence of it, subsequently was seduced into heresy by Asclepiodotus and Theodotus the banker, both disciples of Theodotus the Tanner, whom Victor, Zephyrinus's predecessor in the Chair of Peter, had excommunicated for reviving the heresy of Ebion that affirmed that Christ was only a mere man, though a prophet.

In 1936, the Supreme Court decided in United States v. Butler that the act was unconstitutional for levying this tax on the processors only to have it paid back to the farmers.

Butler's only U. S. Senator, Walter Lowrie, built a home in 1828 that still stands behind the Butler County Courthouse.

Butler County has one of only two Civil War monuments in Kentucky that honor the soldiers of both sides.

* The Maridon Museum, located in downtown Butler, is the only museum in the Western Pennsylvania region with a specific focus on Chinese and Japanese art and culture.

He was one of only five players ( Morales, Dalmau, Georgie Torres and Mario Butler being the other four ) to reach 10, 000 or more points during his BSN career, and for a long time, was the second best scorer ever behind Dalmau.

The new band hired former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler, but he spent only a couple of days with the band.

Prior to his death, he was collaborating on a project with former Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Vinny Appice, under the moniker Heaven & Hell, whose only studio album, The Devil You Know, was released on April 28, 2009.

Stan Butler has been the only head coach and general manager in club history.

Stan Butler became only the 4th coach in OHL history to coach 1000 games on February 10, 2011 as his Battalion defeated the only other OHL team Butler has coached ( the Oshawa Generals ) by a 3-1 score.

On February 26, 2012 Butler became only the 7th coach in OHL history to win 500 games after the Battalion defeated the Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds by a score of 3-1.

A similar idealist notion was expressed in the writings of Joseph Butler who argued that conscience is God-given, should always be obeyed, is intuitive, and should be considered the " constitutional monarch " and the " universal moral faculty ": " conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should walk in, but it likewise carries its own authority with it.

She is the only child of Belinda Butler Rimes and Wilbur Rimes.

As of May 2012, Butler and Webb are the only remaining TechTV personalities working at G4.

In September, the Cardinals purchased Hornsby's contract from Denison and added him to their major league roster, although his only professional baseball experience had been in Class D. Hornsby's first game came on September 10, when he relieved Art Butler at shortstop in a 7 – 1 loss to the Cincinnati Reds.

" Computer God " was the title of an unreleased song by The Geezer Butler Band, in 1986 – only the title made it to Dehumanizer.

He is one of only three people to have served as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, the others being R. A. Butler and James Callaghan.