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Graves would set a team record with 52 goals, breaking the old record of 50 held by Vic Hadfield.
The first writer, after Petrie's publication, to set verses to the tune was Alfred Perceval Graves, in the late 1870s.
While Sir Guy Carleton lieutenant governor of Lower Canada pointed out that the offices were intended to be separate, Lord Grenville set the wheels in motion with John Graves Simcoe lieutenant governor of Upper Canada by pointing out that there was no legal impediment to prevent cross-appointments.
Graves are usually located in special areas set aside for the purpose of burial, such as graveyards or cemeteries.
After the war, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission set up cemeteries in Imphal and Kohima to commemorate the memories of the British and the Indian soldiers who died during the Second World War.
Although the business plan was rejected numerous times by potential investors, Graves set out to earn the money he needed to start the restaurant, first by working in refineries in Los Angeles, then by fishing for sockeye salmon in Alaska.
Colonel Weldon and Colonel Graves, its commanders, set him at defiance even in the open country.
Nine years later, the Tyendinaga tract of land was officially set aside under Crown Treaty 3½, signed on on April 1, 1793, by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe and thereafter known as the ' Simcoe Deed '.
This plan is thwarted by John Graves, a State Department agent who has been tailing Wright, who deduced the neferious plan, and the stopped it just two minutes before the timers set to release the nerve gas hit zero.
Graves ' Quaker background conditioned him to the philosophy of the Inner light, whereby all clergy, creeds, and set liturgy in worship were irrelevant, and a hindrance to God's work.
Sculptor Nancy Graves designed the set for Lateral Pass, ( 1985 ), which began began Brown's Valiant cycle.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is responsible for commemorating all Commonwealth war dead individually and equally, and to this end, war graves with uniform headstones, set in well kept lawns, can be found in cemeteries throughout the British Commonwealth.

Graves and much
Graves also says that Rushton misrepresented the sources for the biological data he gathered in support of his hypothesis, and that much of his social science data was collected by dubious means.
During the 1920s his short subjects were in much demand, with stars like Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Harry Gribbon, Vernon Dent, Alice Day, Ralph Graves, Charlie Murray, and Harry Langdon.
The 20th-century English author Robert Graves accepted Iolo's version of Hu Gadarn ( and much of the rest of his work ), and further identified Hu as a Welsh horned god, a variant of Cernunnos.
Graves proposes the existence of a European deity, the " White Goddess of Birth, Love and Death ," much similar to the Mother Goddess, inspired and represented by the phases of the moon, who lies behind the faces of the diverse goddesses of various European and pagan mythologies.
The Golden Bough ( 1922, but begun in 1890 ), an early anthropological study by Sir James George Frazer, is the starting point for much of Graves's argument, and Graves thought in part that his book made explicit what Frazer only hinted at.
Graves concluded, in the second and expanded edition, that the male-dominant monotheistic god of Judaism and its successors were the cause of the White Goddess's downfall, and thus the source of much of the modern world's woe.
Tobacco was very much as part of the local economy over the years and Graves County has a rich history of the dark-fired and dark-air-cured leaf tobacco used in smokeless tobacco farming.
However, Graves acknowledges that there must be a delicate balance between Republican liberty and Imperial stability ; whereas too much of the former led to civil war, too much of the latter led to the corruption of Tiberius, Caligula, Valeria Messalina, Sejanus, Herod Agrippa, Nero, Agrippina the Younger, and countless others – as well as, to a lesser extent, Livia and Claudius himself.
Two explanatory paraphrases of the poem survive, and the collection of scholia by Isaac and John Tzetzes is very valuable ( much used by, among others, Robert Graves in his Greek Myths ).
' Graves later stated '..... that setting was, to my mind, too much in the style of church music, and was not, I believe, a success in consequence.
The Triple Goddess is the subject of much of the writing of Robert Graves, and has been adopted by many neopagans ( notably Wiccans ) as one of their primary deities.
During the peace Graves spent much of his time in France, and in the early years of the French Revolutionary Wars had no employment.
Lucy was much younger than Graves and uneducated but he sent her to a private school in London before the marriage so that she would acquire the accomplishments considered important for women in the nineteenth century.
At that time much of the Museum, including the new addition, was redesigned by Michael Graves.
However, Graves was disappointed that Mitchell did not contribute much to the story after the knight fight, and that Mitchell's " frantic " efforts to get the old SG-1 team back together hinted too much at the production team's efforts to turn around the season 8 finale.
The more explicit defence of republicanism in Graves ' work ( that is: much more explicit than in Tacitus ' work ) also made any further direct defense of black Tacitism quite impossible ( as far as Napoleon, by not advocating a black Tacitism line of thought hadn't already made such interpretation obsolete ).
By the end of 20th century, however, a sort of inverted red tacitism ( as the new variant of black tacitism could be called ) appeared, for example in publications like Woodman's Tacitus reviewed: the new theories described the emperors of the principate no longer as monarchs ruling as autocrats, but as " magistrates " in essence defending a " republican " form of government ( which might excuse some of their rash actions ), very much in line with Graves ' lenient posture regarding crimes committed under the rule of princeps Claudius ( for instance the putting aside of the elder L. Silanus, showing the emperor's lack of conscience according to Tacitus, Ann.
The shafts at Cissbury were excavated with antler picks, much like those at Grimes Graves and elsewhere.
He made much use of The naturalist's pocket-book by George Graves a text deployed by both Haliday and Templeton.
Graves killed him when he was alone, then ordered dinner for three and ate as much of the food as he could ; after consuming the three main courses, though, he could only eat a little of the side and no dessert.

Graves and novel
* Robert Graves, author of I, Claudius, also wrote Count Belisarius, a historical novel about Belisarius.
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.
Robert Graves, in his historical novel I, Claudius, blames the death of Germanicus on Plancina, the wife of Piso, who engaged a witch named Martina to haunt Germanicus ' household.
In the BBC television production of Graves ' novel, Piso and his wife, Plancina, were indeed at the root of the plot to poison Germanicus, with tacit consent from Tiberius ' mother, Livia, working through a local poisoner named Martina.
" Samuel Butler argues, based on literary observations, that a young Sicilian woman wrote the Odyssey ( but not the Iliad ), an idea further pursued by Robert Graves in his novel Homer's Daughter and Andrew Dalby in Rediscovering Homer.
* Caractacus briefly appears as a minor character in the Robert Graves novel, Claudius the God.
Playwright Shaun Duggan's stage drama William, Alex Broun's one-man show Half a Person: My Life as Told by The Smiths, Douglas Coupland's 1998 novel Girlfriend in a Coma, Andrew Collins ' autobiography Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Mark Spitz's novel How Soon is Never ?, the pop band Shakespear's Sister, the defunct art-punk group Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the Polish filmmaker Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's short fictional film about two Polish fans of The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs, are all inspired by or named after songs or albums by The Smiths.
Pliny does not name the prostitute ; however, the Restoration playwright Nathaniel Richards calls her Scylla in The Tragedy of Messalina, Empress of Rome, published in 1640, and Robert Graves in his novel Claudius the God also identified the prostitute as Scylla.
In 1937, also for Korda, he starred in an ill-fated film version of the classic novel, I, Claudius, by Robert Graves, which was abandoned during filming owing to the injuries suffered by co-star Merle Oberon in a car crash.
* Herod Agrippa is a major figure in Robert Graves ' novel Claudius the God, as well as the BBC television adaptation I, Claudius, ( wherein he was portrayed by James Faulkner ).
Robert Graves ' 1955 novel Homer's Daughter presents Nausicaa as the author of the Odyssey, which draws on experiences and influences of her own life.
* I, Claudius ( 1934 ), novel by Robert Graves, as well as the subsequent 1976 television adaptation, where he is played by Patrick Stewart.
I, Claudius ( 1934 ) is a novel by English writer Robert Graves, written in the form of an autobiography of the Roman Emperor Claudius.
* Grandson of Herod ( 2012 ) by Joseph Raymond, novel of historical fiction utilizing the Robert Graves premise that Jesus was the Grandson of Herod the Great.
Robert Graves also employs the " grandfather's axe " version in his historical novel, The Golden Fleece, first published in 1945.
The novel was made into a film Maurice ( 1987 ), directed by James Ivory and starring James Wilby as Maurice, Hugh Grant as Clive and Rupert Graves as Alec.
Count Belisarius is a historical novel by Robert Graves, first published in 1938, recounting the life of the Byzantine general Belisarius ( AD 500-AD 565 ).
In the 1949 novel Seven Days in New Crete, Graves extrapolated this theory into an imagined future society where the worship of the Triple Goddess under the three aspects of the maiden archer Nimuë, the goddess of motherhood and sexuality Mari, and the hag-goddess of wisdom Ana is the main form of religion.
Seven Days in New Crete, also known as Watch the North Wind Rise, is a seminal future-utopian speculative fiction novel by Robert Graves, first published in 1949.
Poul Anderson's novel The Corridors of Time shares many themes with Graves ' book, being also a depiction of a future matriarchal world dominated by a Great Goddess religion seen through the eyes of a traveller from our time.
Richard Graves wrote some of his novel The Spiritual Quixote whilst staying in Tissington.
* Peter Graves ( novel ), a fictional work by William Pène du Bois

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