The second phase in the development of American Greek revival saw the pupils of Latrobe create a monumental national style under the patronage of banker and hellenophile Nicholas Biddle, including such works as the Second Bank of the United States by William Strickland ( 1824 ), Biddle's home " Andalusia " by Thomas U. Walter ( 1835 – 1836 ), and Girard College also by Walter ( 1833 – 47 ).

Girard chose to dedicate his immense fortune to help educate Americans for the future.

Girard ’ s will eventually became famous for his restriction that students must be “ poor, white, male, orphans .” The school remained for needy white boys for over a century.

After a long, bitter 14-year civil-rights struggle ( including Martin Luther King's speaking at Girard ’ s front gates in August 1965 ), the first four black boys entered the school in September 1968 and the first black girls in 1984.

In reality, Girard operated as a school for boys who were fatherless as a result of death of the father and were not children with no living parents or guardians, such as may become the wards of orphanages.

According to the much later Chronicles of Savoy, Amadeus married Joan, daughter of " Girard, Count of Burgundy ", who scholars have surmised to have been Count Gerold II of Geneva.

Probably he was the son of Girard, also castellan of Blaye, and who was titled " prince " in an 1106 charter.

Major Gen. Uzal Girard Ent, who had led the August, 1943, raid on the Romanian oil refineries in Ploesti, chose Col. Paul Tibbets to lead the 509th Composite Group, asking him to organize and lead a combat force to deliver a new type of explosive device that is so powerful, its full potential was unknown.

It was founded in 1832 and is named after Stephen Girard of Philadelphia who purchased large land holdings in and around the town.

In 1949 Vincent Burke ( born 1 December 1917 in Philadelphia ; died March 1978 in Philadelphia ), a 130 pound Hebrew-speaking black Jew, the son of an immigrant father from Kingston, Jamaica, who worked as a chicken plucker at Jake's Chicken Market, a kosher butcher shop at 40th and Girard, as well as a carpenter, who was a guitar player, became his stepfather.

To ensure that his brothers would not inherit his territories, in his will Girard II left all his lands to Alfonso II of Aragon, who took possession in 1172.

Simon married former Tonia Donnelly following the death of his first wife, Carol Girard Simon, who died in 1995.

René Girard has explored the role of envy and mimetic desire in such relationships, arguing that often the situation ' subordinates a desired something to the someone who enjoys a privileged relationship with it '.

Girard leaves for the Mediterranean to obtain a confession from Vice Admiral Farley C. Barnswell, the 6th Fleet commander stationed on the USS Kitty Hawk, who knows of the plot but decides not to actively support or oppose it ( responding through a code involving the Preakness Stakes horse race ).

Pierre-Simon Girard ( 4 November 1765 – 30 November 1836 ) was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on fluid mechanics.

Girard Desargues (; February 21, 1591 – October 1661 ) was a French mathematician and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of projective geometry.

It was the brainchild of André Girard, an artist who claimed to have at his command a secret army of hundreds of thousands of would-be résistants waiting to rise against the Germans once they were properly armed and led.

In late 1975, Quaker closed the plants in Erie and Girard, and in early 1976, Quaker sold its struggling Marx division to the British conglomerate Dunbee-Combex-Marx, who had bought the former Marx UK subsidiary in 1967.

Alison Pill, who was known for starring in the Judy Garland-biopic Me and My Shadows, was cast as Lola's best friend, Ella Girard.

Baird and Girard described Skilton's Skink in 1852 and named it in honor of one Dr. Avery J. Skilton, who had sent them specimen of the species.

Later thinkers who have acknowledged Burke's influence include Harold Bloom, Stanley Cavell, Susan Sontag ( his student at the University of Chicago ), Erving Goffman, Geoffrey Hartman, Edward Said, René Girard, Fredric Jameson, Michael Calvin McGee, Dell Hymes and Clifford Geertz.

Girard, who was employed as fontainier du roi, or the king ’ s water engineer, in Versailles from 1707 – 15, had started working as a garden inspector for the Bavarian elector Max Emanuel from 1715 onwards.

The garden had a scenery enclosed by clipped hedging, even as the Belvedere was building, in the formal French manner with gravelled walks and jeux d ' eau by Dominique Girard, who had trained in the gardens of Versailles as a pupil of André Le Nôtre.

Brière's training regimen became newsworthy in 2001 when it became known that, in order to overcome his diminutive size ( at 5 ft. 10 in., he is comparably small by NHL standards ), he had begun off-season strength training with Canadian World's Strongest Man competitor Hugo Girard, who shares Gatineau as a hometown.

René Girard, in his literary theory of mimetic desire, proposes what he calls a “ model-obstacle ”, a role model who demonstrates an object of desire and yet, in possessing that object, becomes a rival who obstructs fulfillment of the desire.

Tabarin was the street name assumed by the most famous of the Parisian street charlatans, Anthoine Girard ( c. 1584 – August 16, 1633 ), who amused his audiences in the Place Dauphine by farcical dialogue with his brother Philippe ( as Mondor ), with whom he reaped a golden harvest by the sale of quack medicines for several years after 1618.

Albert Girard, in his book L ' invention nouvelle en l ' Algèbre ( published in 1629 ), asserted that a polynomial equation of degree n has n solutions, but he did not state that they had to be real numbers.

The Little Blue Books continued to be reprinted after Haldeman-Julius ' death and were sold by mail order by his son until the Girard printing plant and warehouse was destroyed by fire in 1978.

It also forms the basis for René Girard ’ s " mimetic desire " theory ( not to be confused with meme theory ).

The difference in this case, Girard believes, is that he was resurrected from the dead and shown to be innocent ; humanity is thus made aware of its violent tendencies and the cycle is broken.

René Girard wrote: " Neither does Jesus propose an ascetic rule of life in the sense of Thomas a Kempis and his celebrated Imitation of Christ, as admirable as that work may be.

The works continued to be reprinted after Haldeman-Julius ' drowning in 1951 and were sold by mail order by his son until the Girard printing plant and warehouse was destroyed by fire in 1978.

In addition, people are less likely to forgive when they believe the transgressor's actions to be intentional, and when there are more dire consequences ( Boon & Sulsky, 1997 ; Girard & Mullet, 1997 ; Takaku, Weiner, & Ohbuchi, 2001 ).

In 1874, however, Girard led Manitoba's first ministry to be constituted on principles of " responsible government ".

Dominique Girard changed the plans for the garden significantly between January and May 1717, so that it could be completed by the following summer.

By the year 1715, the rapier had been largely replaced by the lighter smallsword throughout most of Europe, although treatments of the former continued to be included by authors such as Donald McBane ( 1728 ), P. J. F. Girard ( 1736 ) and Domenico Angelo ( 1763 ).

It has to be noted, that the intent of these features is to enforce the point of view of Jean-Yves Girard at the time of its writing.

Motorists were stuck for hours between the Blue Route and Girard until the Schuylkill Expressway could be cleaned up.

The first mass transit crossing the line encounters is the Broad Street Line's Girard Station, and two blocks from there crosses the SEPTA Route 23 bus line which was originally a trolley line that may be restored between 2014 and 2021.

The loop will be the temporary eastern terminus of Route 15 when SEPTA finishes replacing track on Richmond between Girard Ave and Ann Street between Spring and late 2012, due to Interstate 95-related reconstruction along Richmond Street ( see section below ).

However, the French were in no condition to press home their numerical advantage ; British volley fire had taken its toll and Girard lost 2, 000 men during the confrontation.

While in Paris he also studied painting briefly with Pierre Girard and started to portray his long lost motherland in countless sketches.

When the First Bank lost its charter in 1811, he bought the bank's building, left his money there, and reopened as the Bank of Stephen Girard.

When Road Dogg ( Brian Girard James ) and " Bad Ass " Billy Gunn lost the WWF Tag Team Championship to The Corporation, they tried their hand at singles wrestling for some time with Gunn failing in his attempts to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship, but Road Dogg becoming Hardcore Champion until an injury prevented him from honouring a championship match with Al Snow who ended up fighting himself, and then Bob Holly for the vacant belt at St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House with the latter winning the title at the banks of the Mississippi River.

In the 1969 election, he lost to Girard by 463 votes as Liberal support plummeted in the province.