The Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn is the smuggler hero of a series of novels by Russell Thorndike.

Christopher Syn is portrayed as a brilliant scholar from Queen's College, Oxford, possessing swashbuckling skills such as riding, fencing, and seamanship.

When news came that the local vicar had drowned while trying to save victims of the shipwreck, Squire Cobtree offered the post to Christopher Syn.

At night riding Gehenna, the respectable Dr. Christopher Syn became the " Scarecrow ", the feared head of the smugglers.

In 1960 American author William Buchanan used the character in his novel Christopher Syn.

Christopher Syn became the basis for the 1962 Disney production ( see below ).

Doctor Christopher Syn

Lydd is the ' birthplace ' of the fictional character Doctor Christopher Syn, aka the scarecrow, aka Captain Clegg: created by author Russell Thorndyke

It tells the story of how the young clergyman, Christopher Syn, loses his wife to a seducer.

The novel inspired the William Buchanan novel Christopher Syn, upon which the Disney film The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh is based, hence the similarities between the plots.

In this story we are introduced to the complex Christopher Syn, the kindly vicar of the little town of Dymchurch.

Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins and its sequel The Dark Knight are set during the same timespan and adopt several elements directly from the graphic novel.

The Cahn – Ingold – Prelog priority rules, CIP system or CIP conventions ( after Robert Sidney Cahn, Christopher Kelk Ingold and Vladimir Prelog ) are a set of rules used in organic chemistry to name the stereoisomers of a molecule.

* 1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

The settlement of Yacanagua was burnt to the ground three times in its just over a century long existence as a Spanish settlement, first by French pirates in 1543, again on 27 May 1592 by a 110 strong landing party from a 4 ship English naval squadron led by Christopher Newport in his flagship Golden Dragon, who destroyed all 150 houses in the settlement, and finally by the Spanish themselves in 1605, for reasons set out below.

He is also set to portray Superman's biological father Jor-El in the Christopher Nolan-produced Superman reboot, Man of Steel, set to be released in the summer of 2013.

Given Cerion's extensive geographic diversity, Gould later lamented that if Christopher Columbus had only cataloged a single Cerion it would have ended the scholarly debate about which island Columbus had first set foot on in America.

* December 5 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first known European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola.

* Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963, set in 1963 during civil rights movement.

Over a century later, the English scientist and physician Christopher Merret documented the addition of sugar to a finished wine to create a second fermentation, which occurred six years before Dom Perignon set foot in the Abbey of Hautvillers and almost 40 years before it was claimed that the famed Benedictine monk invented Champagne.

* In a 1996 documentary, 100 Years of Horror, hosted by Christopher Lee, it was revealed that the studio hired two additional comedians to add laughs between takes on the set.

* Christopher Chataway, set a 5000 m world record of 13 minutes 51. 6 seconds in 1954, and was a pacesetter when Roger Bannister ran the first ever sub-4 minute mile that same year

The 1607 edition included for the first time a full set of English county maps, based on the surveys of Christopher Saxton and John Norden, and engraved by William Kip and William Hole ( who also engraved the fine title page ).

Thanks to local Boy Scout Troop 457 ( Zelienople, PA ), a set of steps were built leading up to the seat as part of an Eagle Scout project for Christopher Van Arsdale of Harmony.

Christopher F. Freiling is a set theorist responsible for Freiling's axiom of symmetry.

The US GAAP provisions differ somewhat from International Financial Reporting Standards ( IFRS ), though former SEC Chairman Christopher Cox set out a timetable for all U. S. companies to drop GAAP by 2016, with the largest companies switching to IFRS as early as 2009.

A more tranquil mood is set by Christopher Marlowe's well known lines from The Passionate Shepherd to His Love:

Prominent examples include Rossini's opera Otello's character " Jago ", Christopher Eccleston as " Ben Jago " ( a corrupt police detective ) in a 2001 adaptation set in a London police department, Josh Hartnett as " Hugo " ( a steroid-addicted teenager ) in 2001's O, which sets the play in a contemporary high school, Lal as Komali Paniyan in Jayaraaj's Malayalam movie Kaliyattam ( English: The Play of God ) and Saif Ali Khan as Ishwar " Langda " Tyagi in Vishal Bharadwaj's Omkara, set in Uttar Pradesh, India.

On November 2, the Iranian parliament finally set forth formal conditions for the hostages ' release and eight days later Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher arrived in Algiers with the first U. S. reply setting off a slow motion diplomatic shuffle between Washington, Algiers and Tehran.

In January 2009, Christopher M. Miliano was arrested and indicted on two counts of arson, one count of theft, one count of burglary, and one count of aggravated assault ; prosecutors claimed that Miliano set fire to a pub he had burgled, resulting in the blaze.

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

* 904 – Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.

In order to join the team, Cyclops walked out on his new wife Madelyne Pryor, an Alaskan pilot who bore a strange resemblance to Grey, and their infant son, Nathan Christopher.

Christopher Columbus is in Alhambra, and sees the Moorish king come out of the city gates and kiss the hands of the Spanish king, queen and prince.

* Marlowe ( MR ) ( 74 mixed pupils, day, 1936 ) is named after the poet and dramatist Christopher Marlowe ( King's Scholar, 1580 ) and looks out over the Green Court.

* Christopher Craig and his " gang " ( Vincent and Terry ) spend a great deal of their spare time hanging out in a Croyden Milk Bar in the movie Let Him Have It.

Milford's nephew R. Christopher Bradby went out in 1928.

The New York Timess Christopher Lehmann-Haupt said " Tired out by a long day in the country, I was awake way past bedtime.

Writer Christopher Hitchens, when asked for his favorite Bible story replied “ Casting the first stone ” is a lovely story, even though we ’ ve found out how much it wasn ’ t in the Bible to begin with.

It was this Christopher that supervised the topping out ceremony of St Paul's in 1710 and wrote the famous Parentalia, or, Memoirs of the family of the Wrens.

As pointed out by Christopher Clark, the actual Tannenberg is some to the west, and there was no intrinsic reason — other than the historical battle and its emotive resonance in the narrative of German and Slavic nationalism — to give its name to the 1914 battle.

In 2004, Harvard graduate student and fellow Navy veteran Christopher Mora promoted the idea that the academic establishment had failed to reach out to citizens experienced in public service, but who did not fit the traditional idea of a politician.

Christopher Knight points out that Annie Hall is framed through Alvy's experiences.

Creativist Christopher Thurlow claims to have discovered this technique when his urge to continue taking photographs was suddenly challenged by the fact that he had run out of un-exposed film.

Professor Christopher Rollston points out that there is no mention of any personal names or titles and no place names in the document.

Christopher Null believes, " the send-up of Mussolini-types doesn't quite pan out.

Dangerous Liaisons won three Academy Awards out of seven nominations, for Best Adapted Screenplay ( Christopher Hampton ), Best Costume Design ( James Acheson ), and Best Art Direction ( Stuart Craig and Gérard James ).

In the 2009 sequel Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, it is confirmed that Christopher Robin was at school, but with school being out for the summer, he returns to the forest for a visit with a lot of knowledge to share.

Christopher Robin has appeared on House of Mouse with his friends, but he is the only main Winnie-the-Pooh character not to appear in the Kingdom Hearts video game series ; in this continuity, the Winnie-the-Pooh book belongs to Merlin and Christopher Robin's role is played out mostly by Sora.

He is mortified when the voice turns out to be that of Christopher Robin.

While Bloomsbury was not the first area of London to have acquired a formal square, Bloomsbury Square, laid out in 1660 by Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton as Southampton Square, was the first square to be named as such .< ref name = LondonEncyc >< cite > The London Encyclopaedia, Edited by Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert.

Christopher Tyerman incorporates both arguments in his thesis ; namely, that the Crusade developed out of church reform and theories of holy war as much as it was a response to conflicts with the Islamic world throughout Europe and the Middle East.

This town was originally laid out by John Warner, Christopher M. Allen, Daniel A. Allen and William P. Records, January 18, 1837.