According to his uncle, Ernest Morphy, no one formally taught Morphy how to play chess ; rather, Morphy learned on his own as a young child simply from watching others play.

When she learned that she was named for the wine, Château Margaux, which her parents, Puck and Jack Hemingway ( eldest son of Ernest ), were drinking the night she was conceived, she changed the original spelling from " Margot " to " Margaux " to match.

While still in Antarctica, Bickerton had learned about and volunteered for Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic ( or " Endurance ") Expedition.

John Ernest ( Arnos Pathiri ) learned Sanskrit and Malayalam, and wrote Puthen Pana based on the New Testament, sitting by the well of Pazhuvil Forane church.

Born in Lorane, Oregon, Humphreys earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Oregon in 1935, a master's from Indiana University in 1936, where he first learned about factor analysis, then received his doctorate at Stanford in 1938, studying under Ernest Hilgard.

Ernest was supposed to receive infantry training, but the King, also impressed by his son's prowess, allowed him to remain with the cavalry.

Upon the announcement of his betrothal to Princess Victoria Louise in February 1913, Prince Ernest Augustus took an oath of loyalty to the German Emperor and accepted a commission as a cavalry captain and company commander in the Zieten – Hussars, a Prussian Army regiment in which his grandfather ( George V ) and great-grandfather ( Ernst August I ) had been colonels.

* In Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls the protagonist refers to Mosby as the best cavalry officer of the Civil War.

# Ernest ( b. Amberg, 19 May 1608-d. Naumburg, 3 December 1632 ), colonel of a cavalry regiment in Saxon service, fatally wounded at the Battle of Lützen ( 1632 ).

It was in Greystones Co. Wicklow that Father Ernest first went into action as founder and chaplain of a boy's organisation carrying out hiking, drill and other activities of a Scouting nature.

In 1909, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, under the direction of physicist Ernest Rutherford, bombarded a sheet of gold foil with alpha rays — by then known to be positively charged helium atoms — and discovered that a small percentage of these particles were deflected through much larger angles than was predicted using Thomson's proposal.

In 1908 Hans Geiger, under the supervision of Ernest Rutherford at the Victoria University of Manchester ( now the University of Manchester ), developed an experimental technique for detecting alpha particles that would later be used in the Geiger-muller tube.

Immediately after graduation from Oxford in 1910, Moseley became a demonstrator in physics at the University of Manchester under the supervision of Sir Ernest Rutherford.

The key experiment behind this announcement happened in 1910 at the University of Manchester, as Ernest Rutherford's team performed a remarkable experiment in which Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden under his supervision fired alpha particles ( helium nuclei ) at a thin film of gold foil.

The initial discovery was made by Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden in 1909 when they performed the gold foil experiment under the direction of Rutherford, in which they fired a beam of alpha particles ( helium nuclei ) at layers of gold leaf only a few atoms thick.

* RRS Discovery, a Royal Geographical Society research vessel which, under the command of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, was the main ship of the 1901 – 1904 " Discovery Expedition " to Antarctica which is still preserved as a museum in Dundee, Scotland.

Ernest Hemingway famously defined courage as " grace under pressure.

* British — Coward, Sir Noël: " Parisian Pierrot " ( 1922 ; voice and orchestra ); Scott, Cyril: " Pierrot amoureux " ( 1912 ; voice and piano ), " Pierrot and the Moon Maiden " ( 1912 ; voice and piano ; text by Ernest Dowson from Pierrot of the Minute above under # England 2 | England ); Shaw, Martin: " At Columbine's Grave " ( 1922 ; voice and piano ; lyrics by Bliss Carman above under # Poetry | Poetry ).

* British — Bantock, Sir Granville: Pierrot of the Minute: Overture to a Dramatic Fantasy of Ernest Dowson ( 1908 ; see under England above ); Holbrooke, Joseph Charles: Ballet Suite # 1, " Pierrot ", for String and Full Orchestra ( 1909 ).

This revolutionary car was powered by a straight-4 engine designed by Ernest Henry under the guidance of the technically knowledgeable racing drivers Paul Zuccarelli and Georges Boillot.

In 1951, Johnson was chosen as Senate Majority Whip under a new Majority Leader, Ernest McFarland of Arizona, and served from 1951 to 1953.

" The emotional impoverishment of psychoanalysis ," wrote Ernest Becker ( 1973 ) in The Denial of Death, which was strongly influenced by Rank's ideas, " must extend also to many analysts themselves and to psychiatrists who come under its ideology.

In the 1930s, major excavations were conducted at the site under the leadership of John Marshall, D. K. Dikshitar and Ernest Mackay.

The sketch appeared under the title " From Work in Progress ", a term applied to works by Ernest Hemingway and Tristan Tzara published in the same issue, and the one by which Joyce would refer to his final work until its publication as Finnegans Wake in 1939.

In 1924, the Young People's Concerts were expanded into a substantial series of children's concerts under the direction of American pianist-composer-conductor Ernest Schelling.

The first U. S. patent for modern in-line skates, designed to behave like ice runners with individually sprung and cushioned wheels, was granted under patent number in July, 1953 to Ernest Kahlert of Santa Ana, CA.

There were already boy organizations in the US under the leadership of Daniel Carter Beard ( Sons of Daniel Boone ), Ernest Thompson Seton ( Woodcraft Indians ) and the YMCA.

In 1976, under the command of Brigadier General Ernest R. Reid, Jr., work began to add an expeditionary airfield to the base's growing infrastructure.

The crowns of Hanover and Great Britain, which had been in personal union since 1714, were separated in 1837 upon the death of King William IV: his niece Victoria inherited the British crown under male-preference primogeniture but, because of semi-Salic law, was ineligible to that of Hanover, which passed to William's eldest surviving brother, Ernest I.

During World War I the family settled in Harrogate, and Finzi began to study music at Christ Church, High Harrogate under Ernest Farrar from 1915.

Thereafter he sought a research position in chemistry and nuclear physics under Ernest Lawrence at the radiation laboratory in Berkeley, where he worked without pay for six months until being hired to oversee the preparation and distribution of the cyclotron's products.

In 1968 he joined the Liberal Party of Canada and ran in that year's Liberal leadership convention under the name Ernest Zundel as a self-described " nuisance candidate " running on an " immigrant rights " platform.

* 1970 – Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U. S. Military with My Lai war crimes.

In his new defense, Calley claimed he was following the orders of his immediate superior, Captain Ernest Medina.

* Captain Ernest Medina-Commanding officer of Charlie Company

The concept for the attack came from Navy Captain Francis Low, Assistant Chief of Staff for anti-submarine warfare, who reported to Admiral Ernest J.

* In Ernest Hemingway's short story A Way You'll Never Be, Captain Paravicini says to Nick, the protagonist who is suffering from psychological instability following a head wound, " I said it should have been trepanned.

US Captain A. S. McDill ( left rear ), aide-de-camp to Fleet Admiral Ernest J.

It was at his suggestion that the marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat determined to send a mission to explore the valley of the Mekong River, but as Garnier was not considered old enough to be put in command, the chief authority was entrusted to Captain Ernest Doudard de Lagrée.

The most celebrated British explorers include James Cook, Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Henry Hudson, George Vancouver, Sir John Franklin, David Livingstone, Captain John Smith, Robert Falcon Scott, Lawrence Oates and Ernest Shackleton.

Ernest Simpson as a Captain in the Coldstream Guards during World War 1.

Born in London, Dalzel-Job was the only son of Captain Ernest Dalzel-Job, who was killed in the Battle of the Somme in 1916.

" Poet Ernest Crosby ... also wrote a satirical, anti-imperialist novel, " Captain Jinks, Hero ", that parodied the career of General Frederick Funston ...",

Captain Ernest Atwood was in charge.

Flying ace Major ( later Group Captain ) Ernest Norton served in the squadron during World War I, as did Albert Gregory Waller.

** Captain Ernest Hoy makes the first aircraft crossing of the Rocky Mountains, from Vancouver to Calgary.

" In an episode entitled, " Reunion for PT-73 ", McHale ( Ernest Borgnine ) and the crew are trying to convince Captain Binghampton ( Joe Flynn ) that he is in New York City in 1950.

Captain George Ernest Shelley ( 15 May 1840 – 29 November 1910 ) was an English geologist and ornithologist.

On 13 June 1923, Captain Ernest J.

Thompson and his crew watched from a low hover as Captain Ernest Medina ( commanding officer of C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment ) came up to the woman, prodded her with his foot, and then shot and killed her.

The term " tornado alley " was first used in 1952 by U. S. Air Force meteorologists Major Ernest J. Fawbush ( 1915-1982 ) and Captain Robert C. Miller ( 1920-1998 ) as the title of a research project to study severe weather in parts of Texas and Oklahoma.

* Ernest Clark as Captain, HMS Suffolk

* Captain Lionel Ernest Queripel, 10th Battalion Parachute Regiment.

Captain Jinks, Hero, from the 1902 book of the same name by Ernest Howard Crosby | Ernest Crosby, illustrated by Beard