In modern times, Dorothy Dunnett's novel King Hereafter aims to portray a historical Macbeth, but proposes that Macbeth and his rival and sometime ally Thorfinn of Orkney are one and the same ( Thorfinn is his birth name and Macbeth his baptismal name ).

King Hereafter ( 1982 ), her long novel set in Orkney and Scotland in the years just before the invasion of England by William the Conqueror, was in Dorothy Dunnett's eyes her masterpiece.

The Stone contains Dorothy Dunnett's name, her coat of arms, and a brief quote from one of her books " Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past ".

The civil war between James II and Charlotte of Cyprus forms the historical background to the events of Dorothy Dunnett's novel Race of Scorpions.

The fictional Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles novels, is set here.

Dorothy Dunnett's novel The Disorderly Knights, the third volume of her Lymond Chronicles series, covers the events in Birgu in 1551 around the events of the Dragut Raid.

The first of these was held on October 15th 2011 to celebrate 50 years of publication of Dorothy Dunnett's first novel ' The Game of Kings ';

The unveiling ceremony was attended by Dorothy Dunnett's son, Mungo Dunnett and his family, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the Edinburgh Makar ( Valerie Gillies ), and the Ross Herald ( Charles Burnett ) as well as members of the Society and others.

* Richard Chancellor's 1555 voyage to Moscow, and the return to Scotland and London are portrayed in Dorothy Dunnett's book The Ringed Castle.

Chancellor appears as a major character in the novel The Ringed Castle ( 1971 ), fifth of the six novels in Dorothy Dunnett's historical fiction series, The Lymond Chronicles.

Both church and graveyard were smaller than she remembered them ( how many things had lessened while she was gone away ) but the headstones had grown so thick in thirty years that to find one named `` Dorothy Tredding '' seemed suddenly impossible.

The chemical structure of penicillin was determined by Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin in 1945.

The property was restored and opened to the public in 1974, by the non-profit Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation, Inc. Ruth's widow, Claire, his two daughters, Dorothy and Julia, and his sister, Mamie, helped select and install exhibits that depict the life and times of Babe Ruth.

Bush's daughter, Dorothy Bush Koch, was married there in 1992, the first ever to do so.

The first amateur railway detective, Thorpe Hazell, was created by Victor Whitechurch and his stories impressed Ellery Queen and Dorothy L. Sayers.

Although a majority of distributism's later supporters were not Catholics and many were in fact former radical socialists who had become disillusioned with socialism ; distributist thought was adopted by the Catholic Worker Movement, conjoining it with the thought of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin concerning localized and independent communities.

Distributists such as Dorothy Day did not favor social security when it was introduced by the United States government.

Donald Campbell was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, the son of Malcolm, later Sir Malcolm Campbell, holder of 13 world speed records in the 1920s and 30s in the famous Bluebird cars and boats, and his second wife, Dorothy Evelyn née Whittall.

While a graduate student, one of his teachers was Dorothy Arzner, whose encouragement Coppola later acknowledged as pivotal to his film career.

George Lucas was born in Modesto, California, the son of Dorothy Ellinore ( née Bomberger ) and George Walton Lucas, Sr. ( 1913 – 1991 ), who owned a stationery store.

Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to Senator Prescott Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush.

George Herbert Walker Bush was born at 173 Adams Street in Milton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1924 to Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush.

In 2006, a theatrical adaptation was created by Frances Limoncelli and directed by Dorothy Milne at Lifeline Theatre in Chicago.

Valiente's identification was based on references Gardner made to a woman he called " Old Dorothy " which Valiente remembered.

Dorothy might have believed that the company could not deliver CP / M-86 on IBM's proposed schedule, as the company was busy developing an implementation of the PL / I programming language for Data General.

One night in September 1939 they took him to a large house owned by " Old Dorothy " Clutterbuck, a wealthy local woman, where he was made to strip naked and taken through an initiation ceremony.

The film starred Louise Fazenda, Dorothy Phillips and Ethel Wales and was shot in early 1927.

Anti-treaty writer Dorothy Macardle has claimed that 70 to 80 percent of the IRA was against the Treaty.

However, in colonial America a delusional Dorothy Talbye was hanged in 1638 for murdering her daughter, as at the time Massachusetts's common law made no distinction between insanity ( or mental illness ) and criminal behavior.

Among those who were fascinated was Dorothy de Santillana, a senior editor at Houghton Mifflin, to whom Kosinski confided that he had a manuscript based on his experiences.

Hack notes that Hoover was romantically linked to actress Dorothy Lamour in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and that after Hoover's death, Lamour did not deny rumors that she had had an affair with Hoover in the years between her two marriages.

Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, on, to Dorothy ( née East ) Joplin ( 1913 – 1998 ), a registrar at a business college, and her husband, Seth Joplin ( 1910 – 1987 ), an engineer at Texaco.

One of the first modern major classifications was that of Dorothy Chaytor in 1937 at Kew.

" Eleven year-old Dorothy Talbot of San Francisco was reported to be ascendant to the throne on March 1, 1906, when the Palace of Oz was expected to be completed.

Gary had left negotiations to his wife, Dorothy, as he usually did, while he and colleague Tom Rolander used Gary's private airplane to deliver software to manufacturer Bill Godbout.

With the help of the patchwork girl Scraps, Bungle the Glass Cat ( another of Dr. Pipt's creations ), the Woozy, Dorothy, the Shaggy Man, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman, Ojo gathers all of these supplies but the left wing — the Tin Woodman will not allow any living thing to be killed, even to save another's life.

" Friedenthal claimed that " The book had been finished ", though not every chapter was complete ; he used a working copy of the manuscript Zweig left behind him to apply " the finishing touches ", and Friedenthal rewrote the final chapters ( Balzac, translated by William and Dorothy Rose York: Viking, 1946, pp. 399, 402 ).

The college was founded by Dorothy Wadham ( née Petre ) in 1610, using money left by her husband Nicholas Wadham for the purpose of endowing an Oxford college.

Main characters ( from left ): Sophia Petrillo | Sophia ( Estelle Getty | Getty ), Blanche Devereaux | Blanche ( Rue McClanahan | McClanahan ), Rose Nylund | Rose ( Betty White | White ), and Dorothy Zbornak | Dorothy ( Bea Arthur | Arthur )

Stan and Dorothy eventually moved to Miami, but divorced after 38 years when Stan left her for a young flight attendant.

William and Dorothy Bradford left their three year old son John with Dorothy's parents in Amsterdam, possibly because he was too frail to make the voyage.

He commands his army to recapture all of them by force, but Dorothy takes the magic belt, the Army's sole private takes the offensive, and Billina's eggs are left in the Nomes ' paths so they do not dare follow.

In this film, Aunt Em ( Mary Carr ) informs her on her eighteenth birthday that she was left on their doorstep and is really a princess of Oz destined to marry Prince Kynd ( Bryant Washburn ), who has currently lost the throne to Prime Minister Kruel ( Josef Swickard ), in a storyline similar to that of His Majesty the Scarecrow of Oz, only with Dorothy as the love interest.

The pair were said to complement each other well, as Dorothy limped on her left leg after being knocked over by a car on a crosswalk in Sydney in 1970, while Edwards limped with his right after his flying accident in 1938 .< ref name =" CCWA ">

In 1973 David Spangler and Dorothy MacLean with several other FF members left the Foundation to found the Lorian Association, settling near Seattle, USA.

Ewan Phillips left in 1951, and Dorothy Morland was asked to take over temporarily, but stayed there as director for eighteen years, until the move to the more spacious Nash House.

Peirce also used the same shots in the opening roller rink scene ( where Brandon pursues his first relationship with a young girl ) that were used in The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) when Dorothy first left her house and entered the land of Oz.

At the time of her death in November 1965, Dorothy Kilgallen and Richard Kollmar had been married for 25 years, and she left behind three children.

The documents contained little more than a notation that Dorothy Kilgallen's overall health was " excellent " and that she had fractured her left shoulder.

Dorothy Wellesley became the lover of Vita Sackville-West, for whom she left her husband and children in 1922, according to a memoir published in 2009 by her granddaughter, Lady Jane Wellesley.

Dorothy Hepworth ( far left ), Patricia Preece | Preece and Spencer ( wearing spectacles ) at his wedding with Preece

In addition to Anita and Babe, five other tropical cyclones – Clara, Dorothy, Evelyn, Frieda, and Tropical Depression Nine – left only minor impacts on land.

Sophia Spirelli then married Salvatore " Sal " Petrillo ( played by Sid Melton in flashback ), and had three children with him: Dorothy, a divorced substitute teacher ; Phil ( an unseen character ), a cross-dresser with a wife named Angela, a welder, and several children in a trailer park in Newark, New Jersey who later died during the series ; and Gloria ( played by Doris Belack and Dena Dietrich ), who lived in California and married into money and who later lost the fortune that her husband had left her in an investment scam.

Dorothy Carey had refused to leave England, being pregnant with their fourth son and having never been more than a few miles from home ; but before they left they asked her again to come with them and she gave consent, with the knowledge that her sister Kitty would help her give birth.

However, in 1906, when his mistress Dorothy Carleton ( later adopted as his niece ) moved into their home, Lady Anne, unable to tolerate what she termed an " oriental " lifestyle, left him.

His book about his childhood, The Goat Wife, tells the evocative story of his hard working and resourceful Aunt Dorothy, who left a comfortable existence in Edinburgh's Ann Street-reputed to be the most haunted street in Edinburgh-to begin life as a solo crofter in the Easter Ross village of Ardgay ( then known locally as " High Wind ").