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.

Robert Graves in The Greek Myths ( 1955 ; 1960 ) asserts that the ægis in its Libyan sense had been a shamanic pouch containing various ritual objects, bearing the device of a monstrous serpent-haired visage with tusk-like teeth and a protruding tongue which was meant to frighten away the uninitiated.

In 1943 he married Ethelwyn Edith Graves ( born 1915 ), a nurse tutor at Middlesex Hospital, with whom he was to have two children.

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.

Flint was still used from sources such as Grimes Graves but from many other mines across Europe.

In some accounts, Hermes fathered Pan upon Dryope, daughter of Dryops, for whom he was tending kine, but according to 20th century author Robert Graves ( 1960 ), Pan was far older than Hermes.

The Graves ' disease was named after Irish doctor Robert James Graves, who described a case of goiter with exophthalmos in 1835.

John Graves Simcoe ( February 25, 1752 – October 26, 1806 ) was a British army officer and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791 – 1796.

John Graves Simcoe was the only surviving son of John and Katherine Simcoe ; although his parents had four children, he was the only one to live past childhood.

Simcoe's godfather was British admiral Samuel Graves.

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.

John Graves Simcoe was appointed Upper Canada's first Lieutenant-Governor in 1793.

From the 1960s onwards Milligan was a regular correspondent with Robert Graves.

The statistics tabulated by The Commonwealth War Graves Commission are representative of the number of names commemorated for all servicemen / women of the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth and former UK Dependencies, whose death was attributable to their war service.

" Another 1929 book reflecting on World War I was Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, as well as Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves.

The Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes or simply the Battle of the Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American War of Independence that took place near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on 5 September 1781, between a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral François Joseph Paul, comte de Grasse.

When Hood arrived at New York, he found that Graves was in port ( having failed to intercept the convoy ), but had only five ships of the line that were ready for battle.

Graves was also concerned about some ships in his own fleet ; Europe in particular had difficulty manoeuvring.

Graves hoisted two signals: one for " line ahead ", under which the ships would slowly close the gap and then straighten the line when parallel to the enemy, and one for " close action ", which normally indicated that ships should turn to directly approach the enemy line, turning when the appropriate distance was reached.

In 1966 he was nominated for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry in succession to Robert Graves ; with some misgivings he agreed to stand and was elected by a large majority over the other candidate, Robert Lowell.

Robert Graves, who lived in nearby Islip, mentioned his being recommended by Buchan for a lecturing position at the newly founded Cairo University and, in a 1927 by-election, Buchan was elected as the Unionist Party Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities.

In addition, Eugenio Duarte, from Cape Verde, was elected the 37th general superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene, thus becoming the first person elected to the Board of General Superintendents from Africa ; David W. Graves was elected as the 38th general superintendent ; and Stan Toler was elected the 39th general superintendent.

The President, Samuel H. Graves ( 1852 – 1911 ), was elected as chairman of the vigilante organization that was trying to expel Soapy and his gang of confidence men and rogues.

Graves was elected to the Alabama legislature and later served as the city attorney in Montgomery.

Graves lost his first campaign for governor in 1922, but four years later, with the secret endorsement of the Ku Klux Klan, he was elected to his first term as governor.

Graves was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1992.

Bill Graves was elected Secretary of State.

Fellow Yale Art and Architecture alumni of the 1960s include the painters, photographers, and sculptors Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Nancy Graves, Gary Hudson and Robert Mangold.

Fellow Yale Art and Architecture alumni of the 1960s include the painters, photographers, and sculptors Brice Marden, Richard Serra, Chuck Close, Nancy Graves, Gary Hudson and Robert Mangold.

His paternal grandfather, John Brinkley, was the last Bishop of Cloyne and the first Royal Astronomer of Ireland, while his maternal grandfather, Richard Graves, was also a Senior Fellow of Trinity College and the Dean of Ardagh.

* 1903 – Ruth Graves Wakefield, American cook and businesswoman, invented the Chocolate chip cookie ( d. 1977 )

* 1934 – Michael Graves, American architect, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building

* 1948 – Teresa Graves, American actress and singer ( d. 2002 )

* 1926 – Peter Graves, American actor ( d. 2010 )

* 1963 – Sam Graves, American politician

** Ralph Graves, American actor ( b. 1900 )

* March 18 – Peter Graves, American actor ( d. 2010 )

** Teresa Graves, American actress and comedienne ( d. 2002 )

Among the 50 contemporary American painters whose works shown were Josef Albers, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Georgia O ' Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Ben Shahn, and Frank Stella, as well as Northwest painters Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, Paul Horiuchi, and Mark Tobey.

Michael Graves ( born July 9, 1934 ) is an American architect.

Citing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Jack was arguing to bring his father's remains to the reservation in Oklahoma, where they would be buried near those of his father, sisters and brother, a mile from the place he was born.

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According to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, if human remains are found on federal lands and their cultural affiliation to a Native American tribe can be established, the affiliated tribe may claim them.

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.

American musicians like Don Cherry, John Coltrane, Milford Graves, and Pharoah Sanders integrated elements of the music of Africa, India, and the Middle East for a sort of World music-influenced free jazz.

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Specific charges included violating the Archaeological Resources Protection Act ( ARPA ), depredation and theft of government property, theft of Indian tribal property, violating the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act ( NAGPRA ), and transportation of stolen property.

The American commander, General William S. Graves, personally disliked the Kolchak government, which he saw as Monarchist and autocratic, a view that was shared by the American President, Woodrow Wilson.

As was mentioned above, the American commander, General Graves, disliked Kolchak and refused to lend him any military aid at all.