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This was very important for Butler's future life, as it meant that, unlike almost all his relatives in the Butler dynasty, he was a Protestant.
Hornsby's great performance in spring training, a shoulder injury to Corhan, and poor hitting by Butler meant Hornsby was the starting shortstop on Opening Day.
On 1944, The Judd School became the first in the country to be awarded the status of a voluntarily aided grammar school in new legislation brought in by the Butler Education Act, which meant it received state funding, but could continue to select pupils by ability.
The Butler Medal was solid silver, suspended from a red, white, and blue ribbon meant to worn around the neck.
James E. Sargent, reviewing The Plot to Seize the White House by Jules Archer, wrote: " Thus, Butler ( and Archer ) assumed that the existence of a financially-backed plot meant that fascism was imminent, and that the planners represented a widespread and coherent group, having both the intent and the capacity to execute their ideas.

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Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).
* In 2011, Butler returned to the NCAA title game for a second straight year.
However, Butler lost 53-41 to Connecticut, shooting a historically low 18. 8 percent from the field — the worst in any NCAA title game and the worst in any NCAA tourney game since Harvard against Ohio State in 1946.
Anne was recalled to marry her Irish cousin, James Butler, a young man who was several years older than she was and who was living at the English court, in an attempt to settle a dispute over the title and estates of the Earldom of Ormond.
* Baron Butler, a title created twice, once in the Peerage of Ireland and once in the Peerage of England
Inspired by a book of the same name by Charles Gaines and George Butler, the film nominally focuses on the competition between Arnold Schwarzenegger and his primary competitor for the title of Mr. Olympia, Lou Ferrigno.
Mrs. Brown ( also released and advertised under the title Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown ) is a 1997 British drama film starring Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher and Gerard Butler.
In October 2006, it was confirmed that Dio would be joining Black Sabbath members Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and former Black Sabbath drummer Vinny Appice to tour under the moniker Heaven & Hell, the title of the first Dio era Black Sabbath album.
Butler contributed the title track as well as " Syrup & Honey " which was used in a worldwide Nivea advertisement campaign, produced " Please Stay " for " Telstar-The Movie " and co wrote " Smoke Without Fire ", to be used in the 2009 film, An Education.
Whilst studying at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association in Michaelmas 1960, in which term he entertained both the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Home Secretary ( and de facto Deputy Prime Minister, although he did not hold the title until 1962 ) Rab Butler.
Eventually being given the title Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture at the university and the holder of the Eugene Butler Endowed Chair in Agricultural Biotechnology, Borlaug remained at A & M until his death in September 2009.
" Computer God " was the title of an unreleased song by The Geezer Butler Band, in 1986 – only the title made it to Dehumanizer.
The title is an allusion to the last line of the poem He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats – " Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
The title of " Earl of Newcastle " was also created in the Jacobite Peerage in 1692 for Pierce Butler, 3rd Viscount of Galmoye.
The title of one such reel, What the Butler Saw, became a by-word, and Mutoscopes are commonly known in the UK as " What-the-Butler-Saw machines.
His father held the title " 5th Earl of Ossory " as one of his subsidiary titles, which made Thomas Butler the 6th Earl of Ossory by courtesy.
The title of the novel comes from William Butler Yeats ' poem " The Second Coming ".
The 1937 Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng, is not an adaptation of the Butler story, though it shares its title.
The de facto, if not indeed the de jure earl, Piers Butler, was induced to resign his rights to the title in 1528.
However, this title did not pass to James Butler.
His father held the title " 5th Earl of Ossory " as one of his subsidiary titles, which made Thomas Butler the 6th Earl by courtesy.
Butler helped lead the Braves to a 13 – 0 start and the National League West Division title in 1982, their first division title since 1969.

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Similar examples may be found in Irish poet William Butler Yeats ' poem The Wild Swans at Coole where the maturing season that the poet observes symbolically represents his own ageing self.
However, it is important to note that Butler wrote of machines developing consciousness by natural selection, not artificially, although machine algorithms are approaching a level of autonomy which could be considered natural, now.
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.
This holiday was proposed in 1973 to be commemorated on the anniversary of the 1937 Butler labour riots.
But the Butler Committee recommended that proof of severe mental disorder should be sufficient to negate responsibility, in effect creating an irrebuttable presumption of irresponsibility arising from proof of a severe mental disorder.
In Gender Trouble, Butler also relied on deconstructionist language theory and Freudian psychoanalysis to argue that heterosexuality is structured in an ongoing series of losses stemming from a repudiation of homosexuality ; as such homosexuality can be seen as constitutive of heterosexuality, necessitating its repeated repudiations.
Third, it was argued that the terms of the Butler Act violated the Tennessee State Constitution, which provided that " It shall be the duty of the General Assembly in all future periods of this government, to cherish literature and science.
Nevertheless, having found the statute to be constitutional, the court set aside the conviction on appeal because of a legal technicality: the jury should have decided the fine, not the judge, since under the state constitution, Tennessee judges could not at that time set fines above $ 50, and the Butler Act specified a minimum fine of $ 100.
Butler had declared these fugitives to be " contraband " – property seized by northern forces – and put them to work without pay in the fort.
Theorists including Calvin Thomas and Judith Butler have suggested that homophobia can be rooted in an individual's fear of being identified as gay.
This, like much of the utopian literature, can be seen as utopian satire which is most notable in the inversion of illness and crime which Butler portrays, with punishment for the former and treatment for the latter.
In the humanities and in the social sciences, the term discourse describes a formal way of thinking that can be expressed through language, a social boundary that defines what can be said about a specific topic ; as Judith Butler said,the limits of acceptable speech ”, the limits of possible truth.
This would be the first of two Oscar-nominated films where Wexler would be fired and replaced by Butler, the second being One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ( 1975 ), where Wexler had similar problems with Milos Forman.
Herbert may have coined the name from 19th-century author Samuel Butler, who has the citizens of Erewhon enact a prohibition on machines newer than 270 years fearing that " it was the race of the intelligent machines and not the race of men which would be the next step in evolution.
In what was to be the largest trade in NBA history, in a 5-team, 13-player transaction the Heat traded away Eddie Jones, Rasual Butler and Qyntel Woods and in exchange received former NBA All-Star Antoine Walker, Jason Williams, and James Posey.
In this office he insisted that Eden's de facto deputy Rab Butler not be treated as senior to him, and threatened resignation until he was allowed to cut bread and milk subsidies.
This surprised some observers who had expected that Rab Butler would be chosen.
To increase interest in the event, Butler arranged for Candice Bergen to be a celebrity commentator ; Schwarzenegger also agreed to appear as one of the " living sculptures ," having received modest attention for his Golden Globe-winning appearance in the film Stay Hungry.
The event proved to be a great success, generating more money than Butler had anticipated and allowing him to complete production on the film.
" At what is now known as Oil Creek, Butler County resident William Smith and Edwin Drake first proved that oil could be tapped from underground for consistent supply.
* 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.
Symbolism had a significant influence on modernism, and its traces can be detected in the work of many modernist artists, including T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Conrad Aiken, Hart Crane, and William Butler Yeats in the anglophone tradition and Rubén Darío in Hispanic literature.

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