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The Butler Lordship of Burrishoole continued into the late 14th century when Thomas le Botiller was recorded as being in possession of Akkyll & Owyll.
Butler's investigation was tainted by the rumor that Butler paid Wendell $ 100, 000 to testify during the investigation, in order to expose the Astor House acquittal committee.
His mother was Osburga daughter of Oslac of the Isle of Wight, Chief Butler of England.
In Ireland, Shane Butler said that AA “ looks like it couldn ’ t survive as there ’ s no leadership or top-level telling local cumanns what to do, but it has worked and proved itself extremely robust .” Butler attributed this to " AA ’ s ' inverted pyramid ' style of governance has helped it to avoid many of the pitfalls that political and religious institutions have encountered since it was established here in 1946.
This was known as Butskellism, after the almost identical Keynesian policies of Rab Butler on behalf of the Conservatives, and Hugh Gaitskell for Labour.
William Butler Yeats was occasionally critical of Poe and once called him " vulgar ".
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 was the first to write about the possibility that machines might develop consciousness by Darwinian Selection.
* Rangitata River-The location of the Erewhon sheep station, named by Butler who was the first white settler in the area and lived at the Mesopotamia Sheep Station.
Scottish actor Gerard Butler was close to signing a deal where he would play Snake Plissken in a remake of Carpenter's movie.
" Russell has commented on the remake and on the casting of Butler as Plissken, saying, " I will say that when I was told who was going to play Snake Plissken, my initial reaction was ' Oh, man!
Three siblings died before becoming adults: his full sister Mildred died when she was about one, his half-brother Butler died while an infant, and his half-sister Jane died at the age of 12, when George was about 2.
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.
On the second ballot, Tammany threw its support behind Butler, but the rest of the delegates shifted to Cleveland, and he was nominated.
The term gimlet-eyed can mean sharp-eyed or squint-eyed ( one example of this use is Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, who was known as " Old Gimlet Eye ").
When the newly elected National Assembly refused to pass this document and drafted one of their own preserving this prohibition, it was forcibly dissolved by Gendarmerie commandant Smedley Butler.
He was supported by Vatican II theologians such as Karl Rahner, Hans Küng, and several bishops, including Christopher Butler, who called it one of the most important contributions to contemporary discussion in the Church.
In the 20th century a loose ballad-like six-foot line with a strong medial pause was used by William Butler Yeats.

Butler and wounded
While on his way from Fort Bibb to Fort Dale with four other men, Captain Butler was wounded and thrown from his horse, but attempted to make his escape.
Despite his leg wound, Butler assisted the wounded officer to the rear.
Butler's commanding officer, Major Littleton W. T. Waller, personally commended him and wrote that " for such reward as you may deem proper the following officers: Lieutenant Smedley D. Butler, for the admirable control of his men in all the fights of the week, for saving a wounded man at the risk of his own life, and under a very severe fire.
In 1735 Butler was ordained a priest and promptly received the favor of the Duke of Cumberland for his devotion to the wounded English soldiers during the Battle of Fontenoy.
In the battle of Newtown Butler on 31 July 1689, serving under Macarty, Hamilton was wounded in the leg at the beginning of the action, and his raw levies were routed with great slaughter.

Butler and chest
Butler is shot in the chest, and Holly Short heals him but he becomes several years older in the process.
On April 24, 2006, Butler was hospitalized with chest pains after a Lancaster JetHawks game he managed.

Butler and at
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.
On the day before the Organic Chemistry exam — which is often on the first day of finals — at precisely the stroke of midnight, the Columbia University Marching Band occupies Butler Library to distract diligent students from studying.
Scarlett encounters Rhett Butler again at a dance for the Confederacy.
* Katie Scarlett ( O ' Hara ) Hamilton Kennedy Butler: The protagonist of the novel, Scarlett's forthright Irish blood is always at variance with the French teachings of style from her mother, Ellen O ' Hara.
The institute was started in December 1959 in a room in the canteen building of the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute at Agricultural Gardens in Kanpur.
* The Fourth John Butler Yeats Seminar, at the Swift Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin 10 – 12 September 2010 details
In November 1974, he received orders to report to the 3rd Marine Division at MCB Camp Butler, Okinawa, Japan, where he served as the commander of Company H, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, until December 1975.
File: Irwin Library Butler Univ. jpg | Irwin Library at Butler University ( Indianapolis, Indiana )
Falk was an accomplished artist, and in October 2006 he had an exhibition of his artwork at the Butler Institute of American Art.
The popularity of Hudibras notwithstanding, Butler was not offered a place at Court.
Butler was buried at St. Paul's, Covent Garden.
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.
Scenes were filmed near Evans City, Pennsylvania, north of Pittsburgh in rural Butler County ; the opening sequence was shot at the Evans City Cemetery on Franklin Road, south of the borough.
Bravo, a document preparation program for the Alto produced at Xerox PARC by Butler Lampson, Charles Simonyi and colleagues in 1974, is generally considered the first program to incorporate WYSIWYG technology, displaying text with formatting ( e. g. with justification, fonts, and proportional spacing of characters ).
Football at Wabash dates back to 1884, when student-coach Edwin R. Taber assembled a team and defeated Butler University by a score of 4 – 0 in the first intercollegiate football game in the history of the state of Indiana.
The family lived at four different addresses close to the practice over the next twenty years and their fourth and last child Charles Butler ( 1882 – 1938 ) was born.
The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha Chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
She returned to England in early 1522, in order to marry her Irish cousin James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond ; however, the marriage plans ended in failure and she secured a post at court as maid of honour to Henry VIII's queen consort, Catherine of Aragon.
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.
In 1864 she was appointed by Union General Benjamin Butler as the " lady in charge " of the hospitals at the front of the Army of the James.
In April – July of that year he attended a summer term at the University of Göttingen at the suggestion of Henry Montagu Butler, then headmaster at Harrow.

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