I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

Furthermore, the primary testimony to the commission that connected baseball to Doubleday was that of Abner Graves, whose credibility is questionable ; a few years later, he shot his wife to death and was committed to an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his life.

" is attributed to his son William De Morgan, but a family friend John Thomas Graves was prolific, and a manuscript with over 2, 800 has been preserved.

Sauternes is a subregion of Graves known for its intensely sweet, white, dessert wines such as Château d ' Yquem.

This is the diagnosis used in Robert Graves ' Claudius novels, first published in the 1930s.

Claudius has been portrayed in film on several other occasions, including in the 1979 motion picture Caligula, the role being performed by Giancarlo Badessi in which the character was depicted as an idiot, in contrast to Robert Graves ' portrait of Claudius as a cunning and deeply intelligent man who is perceived by others to be an idiot.

In the novel I, Claudius by English writer Robert Graves, Caligula is presented as being a murderous sociopath from his childhood, who became clinically insane early in his reign.

* Robert Graves ' novel I, Claudius is written as a recently-discovered autobiography penned by the late Emperor.

In Graves ' version, Plancina begins to place curses on Germanicus, who is extremely superstitious.

The Goddess is often portrayed with strong lunar symbolism, drawing on various cultures and deities such as Diana, Hecate, and Isis, and is often depicted as the Maiden, Mother and Crone triad popularised by Robert Graves ( see Triple Goddess below ).

Graves disease is the most common form of hyperthyroidism.

In Graves disease, which is the most common form or cause of hyperthyroidism, the eyes may look enlarged because the eye muscles swell and push the eye forward.

Neither of these ocular signs should be confused with exophthalmos ( protrusion of the eyeball ), which occurs specifically and uniquely in hyperthyroidism caused by Graves ' disease ( note that not all exopthalmos is caused by Graves ' disease, but when present with hyperthyroidism is diagnostic of Graves ' disease ).

A major expected side-effect of radioiodine in patients with Graves ' disease is the development of lifelong hypothyroidism, requiring daily treatment with thyroid hormone.

A common outcome following radioiodine is a swing from hyperthyroidism to the easily treatable hypothyroidism, which occurs in 78 % of those treated for Graves ' thyrotoxicosis and in 40 % of those with toxic multinodular goiter or solitary toxic adenoma.

One of his many critics is the evolutionary biologist Joseph L. Graves, who has done extensive testing of the r / K selection theory with species of drosophila flies.

Graves argues that not only is r / K selection theory considered to be virtually useless when applied to human life history evolution, but Rushton does not apply the theory correctly, and displays a lack of understanding of evolutionary theory in general.

Lemon balm is mentioned in the scientific journal Endocrinology, where it is explained that Melissa officinalis exhibits antithyrotropic activity, inhibiting TSH from attaching to TSH receptors, hence making it of possible use in the treatment of Graves ' disease or hyperthyroidism.

The mines at Grimes Graves are especially famous, and like most other flint mines, are Neolithic in origin ( ca 4000 BC-ca 3000 BC ).

De Grasse hastily prepared most of his fleet, 24 ships of the line, for battle and sailed out to meet Graves.

The surface remains at Cissbury are one such example, but perhaps the most famous is the extensive complex at Grimes Graves in Norfolk.

Graves ' disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism ( 60-90 % of all cases ), and usually presents itself during midlife, but also appears in children, adolescents, and the elderly.

Graves ’ disease is also the most common cause of severe hyperthyroidism, which is accompanied by more clinical signs and symptoms and laboratory abnormalities as compared with milder forms of hyperthyroidism.

Further signs that may be seen on physical examination are most commonly a diffusely enlarged ( usually symmetric ), nontender thyroid, lid lag, excessive lacrimation due to Graves ' ophthalmopathy, arrhythmias of the heart, such as sinus tachycardia, atrial fibrillation and premature ventricular contractions, and hypertension.

( Not only Graves ' disease, but most endocrinological diseases also have insidious, subclinical onsets.

Though it also occurs with other causes of hyperthyroidism, Graves ' disease is the most common cause of diffuse goitre.

Though Jerome and Eusebius ( both citing Castor of Rhodes ), and as even late as 1812 John Lemprière euhemeristically asserted that he was the first king of Argos, and Robert Graves that he was a descendant of Iapetus, most modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river gods, all sons of Oceanus and Tethys and thus to the Greeks part of the pre-Olympian or " Pelasgian " mythic landscape ; in Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face.

Since 1990, in the United States, physical anthropology and archaeological investigations based on the study of human remains are complicated by the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, ( NAGPRA ), which provides for the bodies of Native Americans and associated grave goods to be turned over to the recognized tribal body most legally affiliated with the remains.

The Bibb Graves Bridge crosses the river here, and is the city's most recognizable landmark.

Rear Admiral Graves, repeated the signal, but in a place invisible to most other ships while keeping Nelson's ' close action ' signal at his masthead.

Graves from the early and late Stone Age exist, but most of the gravesites date from the Iron Age, mostly the Viking Age.

This is how he was defined by scholars for most of history, and Graves uses these peculiarities to develop a sympathetic character whose survival in a murderous dynasty depends upon his family's incorrect assumption that he is a harmless idiot.

Republican interest in the site began to develop from the late 1930s, most notably with the proposal by the National Graves Association, a republican organisation, to preserve the site as both a museum and memorial to the 1916 Easter Rising.

The most important figures, in literary terms, would now be considered D. H. Lawrence and Robert Graves: neither of them ' typical '.

Reaction to the Menin Gate, the first and most important of the Imperial War Graves Commission's Memorials to the Missing, ranged from its condemnation by the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, to praise by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.

The story was important in literature, and was referred to in various ways by important poets and novelists, including T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and most influentially, Robert Graves.

The distinctive look of Michael Graves ' Portland Building, with its use of a variety of surface materials and colors, small windows, and inclusion of prominent decorative flourishes, was in stark contrast to the architectural style most commonly used for large office buildings at the time, and made the building an icon of postmodern architecture.

In the west, and in response to the victory there obtained, most of the cities in the countries involved in the conflict erected memorials, with the memorials in smaller villages and towns often listing the names of each local soldier who had been killed in addition ( so far as the decision by the French and British in 1916 to construct governmentally designed cemeteries was concerned ) to their names being recorded on military headstones, often against the will of those directly involved, and without any opportunity of choice in the British Empire ( Imperial War Graves Commission ).

* Ronda Graves and colleagues in the most recent review of the problems involved conclude that he would " have grown an additional five to 14 cm before reaching adulthood " and that " if, at death, he was eight to ten years of age, would have been 154 cm tall, and growing faster than a modern human but slower than a chimpanzee.

Flint was probably the most widely used, simply because it was available from numerous flint mines in the downlands, such as Grimes Graves.

For most modern viewers the score, script, and narration by Leonard Graves retain their appeal, but some knowledgeable viewers criticize the editing for anachronistic sequences — for example, ships and aircraft of 1943 – 45 vintage in 1941 – 42 segments.