Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known simply as Don Rosa, ( born June 29, 1951 ) is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other Disney characters.

Don Rosa's grandfather, Gioachino Rosa, lived in Maniago, a town at the foot of the Alps in Northern Italy, in the province of Pordenone.

Don Rosa was born Keno Don Hugo Rosa on June 29, 1951 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Don's father was named Ugo Dante Rosa, but used the name " Hugo Don " Rosa in America.

Don Rosa was exposed to comics at a very young age, as his 11-years-older sister was a comics hoarder, and had thousands of comics for Don to look at and later read.

Years later, as his fame grew, his non-Disney work was published by the Norwegian publisher Gazette Bok in 2001, in the two hard-cover " Don Rosa Archives " volumes, The Pertwillaby Papers and The Adventures of Captain Kentucky.

Since early childhood Don Rosa had been fascinated by Carl Barks ' stories about Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck.

Byron agreed to let him send a story, and Don Rosa started drawing his first Duck story: Son of the Sun the very next day.

As Don Rosa explained it, he was just "(...) turning that old Pertwillaby Papers adventure back into the story it originally was in my head, starring Scrooge, Donald, the nephews, and Flintheart Glomgold.

This was unacceptable to Don Rosa, since a part of his income came from selling the originals, and the original art is the property of the freelance artists unless otherwise agreed upon.

It was titled Don Rosa e il Rinascimento Disneyano (" Don Rosa and the Disneyean Renaissance ") and written by famous Disney and Rosa scholars, Alberto Becattini, Leonardo Gori and Francesco Stajano.

In 2009, Danish director Sebastian S. Cordes shot a 75-minute documentary called The Life and Times of Don Rosa, consisting of exclusive interviews with Rosa himself on his farm near Louisville, Kentucky.

Don Daglow wrote an enhanced version of the program called Ecala on a PDP-10 mainframe computer at Pomona College in 1973 before writing what was possibly the second or third computer role-playing game, Dungeon ( 1975 ) ( The first was probably " dnd ", written on and for the PLATO system in 1974, and the second may have been Moria, written in 1975 ).

Best-selling Irish investigative author, Don Mullan, published a boyhood memoir in 2006 called GORDON BANKS: A Hero Who Could Fly in which he wrote about the influence of the England goalkeeper on his life.

" Similarly, Louie Kemp, in his article for Jewish Journal, wrote: " You might remember him as Don Vito Corleone, Stanley Kowalski or the eerie Col. Walter E. Kurtz in " Apocalypse Now ," but I remember Marlon Brando as a mensch and a personal friend of the Jewish people when they needed it most.

" In his review of Benaud's autobiography Anything But, Sri Lankan cricket writer Harold de Andrado wrote: " Richie Benaud possibly next to Sir Don Bradman has been one of the greatest cricketing personalities as player, researcher, writer, critic, author, organiser, adviser and student of the game.

In his forenote to the novel, King wrote, " Don Robertson was and is one of the three writers who influenced me as a young man who was trying to ' become ' a novelist ( the other two being Richard Matheson and John D.

A few years later Cervantes, who later wrote the famous book Don Quixote, was captured by corsairs and enslaved in Algiers, attempted to escape and was eventually ransomed ; he wrote about the plight of Christian slaves in his fiction.

Describing life in Vienna ( dated at either 1776 or 1786 ), Don Curzio wrote, " The people were dancing mad [...] The ladies of Vienna are particularly celebrated for their grace and movements of waltzing of which they never tire.

Don Quixote eventually becomes the only truly famous work its author ever wrote.

Here he continued the Don Juan and wrote the Ravenna Diary, My Dictionary and Recollections.

George Templeton Strong noted in his diary: " People say the plot's immoral, but I don't see that it's so much worse than many others, not to speak of Don Giovanni, which as put on the stage is little but rampant lechery ", while the Evening Post critic wrote: " Those who have quietly sat through the glaring improprieties of Don Giovanni will hardly blush or frown at anything in La traviata.

For this production, he wrote two new arias with corresponding recitatives: Don Ottavio's aria " Dalla sua pace " ( K. 540a, composed on April 24 for the tenor Francesco Morella ), Elvira's aria " In quali eccessi ... Mi tradì quell ' alma ingrata " ( K. 540c, composed on April 30 for the soprano Caterina Cavalieri ) and the duet between Leporello and Zerlina " Per queste tue manine " ( K. 540b, composed on April 28 ).

Don Woods wrote a solver for FreeCell and several similar games as early as 1997.

Don McLean wrote the song in Cold Spring, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

When Herodotus wrote his Histories in the 5th century BC, Greeks distinguished Scythia Minor in present-day Romania and Bulgaria from a Greater Scythia that extended eastwards for a 20-day ride from the Danube River, across the steppes of today's East Ukraine to the lower Don basin.

In 1998, reporter Jerry Thomas was fired by the Tribune after he wrote a cover article on boxing promoter Don King for Emerge magazine at the same time that he was writing a cover article on King for the Chicago Tribune Sunday magazine.

Henry Fielding proved his mastery of the form in Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ), The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great ( 1743 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ), but, as Fielding himself wrote, these novels were written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, not in imitation of the picaresque novel ; Cervantes himself wrote a short picaresque novel, Rinconete y Cortadillo part of his Novelas Ejemplares ( Exemplary Novels ).

In Cuzco in 1589, Don Mancio Serra de Leguisamo — one of the last survivors of the original conquerors of Peru — wrote in the preamble of his will, the following, in parts:

Don Rosa wrote two comic book sequels in 2000 and 2005 titled The Three Caballeros Ride Again and The Magnificent Seven ( Minus 4 ) Caballeros respectively.

Bradman himself wrote four books: Don Bradman's Book – The Story of My Cricketing Life with Hints on Batting, Bowling and Fielding ( 1930 ), My Cricketing Life ( 1938 ), Farewell to Cricket ( 1950 ) and The Art of Cricket ( 1958 ).

* The Russian poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko wrote the poem " When they murdered Lorca " (" Когда убили Лорку ") in which he portrays Lorca as being akin to Don Quixote — an immortal symbol of one's devotion to his ideals and perpetual struggle for them.

Quimby's son, George, wrote, " Don ’ t confuse his method of healing with Mrs. Eddy ’ s Christian Science, so far as her religious teachings go ....

Jay Porter drew a base on balls to fill the bases but Don Wert's smash was knocked down by Rudolph for the putout.

Holt responded rashly, questioning the impartiality of the ABC and implying political bias on the part of journalist Mike Willesee ( whose father Don Willesee was an ALP Senator and future Whitlam government minister ) and his statement drew strong protests from both Willesee and the Australian Journalists ' Association.

The show also drew many well-known or then up-and-coming actors and actresses for single guest starring roles, such as Don Ameche, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Ken Berry, Sonny Bono, Eddie Bracken, Joseph Campanella, Virginia Capers, Rosalind Cash, George Clooney, Polly Holliday, Robert Culp, Ruby Dee, the Del Rubio triplets, Jeane Dixon, Anne Francis, Johnny Gilbert, Jack Gilford, Alice Ghostley, Peter Graves, Merv Griffin, George Grizzard, Gary Grubbs, Bob Hope, Julio Iglesias, Freddie Jackson, Tony Jay, Billy Jayne, Gordon Jump, Paula Kelly, Alan King, David Leisure, Jenny Lewis, Hal Linden, Mark Linn-Baker, Mario Lopez, Edie McClurg, Marian Mercer, Martin Mull, Leslie Nielsen, Jerry Orbach, Leland Orser, Tony Plana, Peggy Pope, Joe Regalbuto, Burt Reynolds, Debbie Reynolds, Donnelly Rhodes, Richard Riehle, Alex Rocco, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Harry Shearer, McLean Stevenson, Inga Swenson, Jeffrey Tambor, Meshach Taylor, Jay Thomas, Alex Trebek, Dick Van Dyke, Tom Villard, Lyle Waggoner, David Wayne and Fred Willard.

" As such, Wallace drew inspiration from another pod film: Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1956 ).

The championship continued with Chinook defending its title against Don Lafferty when it lost one game, won one and drew 18.

The material for this rhymed tragedy came from the novel of the same name, written in 1672 by the Abbé de Saint-Real, the source from which Friedrich Schiller also drew his tragedy of Don Carlos.

Janco also drew in pastel, and created humorous illustrations to Don Quixote.

They drew up the Treaty of Vienna, which gave the grand ducal throne to Don Carlos, Duke of Parma.

In collaboration with Roger Cook and Don Shanosky of Cook and Shanosky Associates, the designers conducted an exhaustive survey of pictograms already in use around the world, which drew from sources as diverse as Tokyo International Airport and the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

Don Lawrence left at the end of 1975 and Mario Capaldi drew the strip from January 1976 to May 1977.

The Cardinals drew first blood off Les Straker on a Tommy Herr home run in the first, and the Twins countered with two in their half of the first on RBI singles by Kirby Puckett and Don Baylor.

Don Ivan Punchatz ( September 8, 1936-October 22, 2009 ) was a science fiction and fantasy artist who drew illustrations for numerous publications, including magazines such as Heavy Metal, National Geographic, Playboy, and Time.

" Love at the Five and Dime " also drew attention because well-known country singer Don Williams sang harmony vocals on the track.

Earl Williams drew a base on balls and Don Baylor followed with a single.

They quickly drew the attention of the Academy's bandmaster Don Janse and began building their repertoire and fame.

The 1980s drew to a close with Don Janse's retirement in 1987.

Donald R. " Don " Husereau, a pharmacy student and friend of Cosh, drew the strip while Cosh assisted in the formation of the depiction of himself.