Some of the best history appears in the appropriate chapters of the multivolume history of California by Kevin Starr, including Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 ( 1973 ), focuses on novelists ; Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era ( 1986 ); Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s ( 1991 ); excerpt and text search ; Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California ( 1997 ); excerpt and text search ; The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s ( 1997 ); Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950 ( 2003 ); excerpt and text search ; Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 ( 2009 ) excerpt and text search ; and Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003.

Jonathan Wild ( baptised 6 May 1683 – 24 May 1725 ) was perhaps the most infamous criminal of London — and possibly Great Britain — during the 18th century, both because of his own actions and the uses novelists, playwrights, and political satirists made of them.

The first book in the trilogy, The Great Fortune, received mixed reviews, but subsequent volumes, The Spoilt City and Friends and Heroes were generally well-received ; Anthony Burgess announced that Manning was " among the most accomplished of our women novelists " and comparisons were made to Lawrence Durrell, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

* Droughts like the ' dust bowl ' of the Great Depression in the U. S. turned farmland into desert.

Hazred could come from the Persian or Arabic word " Hazrat " meaning Great Lord with a twist that makes it sound like " red " and " hazard " both indicative of danger.

The powerful Mariology of Ambrose of Milan influenced contemporary Popes like Pope Damasus and Siricius and later, Pope Leo the Great.

He is defined by Thomas Carlyle as " a failure of a Fritz ," with " features " of a Frederick the Great in him, " but who burnt away his splendid qualities as a mere temporary shine for the able editors, and never came to anything, full of fire, too much of it wildfire, not in the least like an Alcibiades except in the change of fortune he underwent ".

There is some doubt as to the origin of the name ; but most probably it is derived from a collection of Alexandrine romances, collected in the 12th century, of which Alexander the Great was the hero, and in which he was represented, somewhat like the British Arthur, as the pride and crown of chivalry.

However, Bede, like Gregory the Great whom Bede quotes on the subject in the Historia, felt that faith brought about by miracles was a stepping stone to a higher, truer faith, and that as a result miracles had their place in a work designed to instruct.

He published a number of books decrying the breakdown of the social order, such as The Great Law of Subordination Considered ( 1724 ) and Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business ( 1725 ) and works on the supernatural, like The Political History of the Devil ( 1726 ), A System of Magick ( 1726 ) and An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions ( 1727 ).

The Great Assembly is credited with establishing numerous features of contemporary traditional Judaism in something like their present form, including Torah reading, the Amidah, and establishing the feast of Purim.

Great expectations attended his coming of age ; Sir George Buc recalled predictions that ' he was much more like ... to acquire a new erldome then to wast & lose an old erldom ', a prophecy that was never fulfilled.

All of these films, and indeed others of like nature were shown in the United States, and some them were certainly seen by Edwin Porter, before he made The Great Train Robbery towards the end of the year.

David Lean was also rapidly becoming a force in world cinema with Brief Encounter and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger would experience the best of their creative partnership with films like Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes.

As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television programs, such as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, films such as The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and created advanced puppets for projects like Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth.

Companies which had specific fine products, like fine writing paper, earned their profits on high margin rather than volume and took no part in Great Merger Movement.

Stein, as well as other contemporary explorers like Sven Hedin, Sir Francis Younghusband and Nikolai Przhevalsky, were active players in the British-Russian struggle for influence in Central Asia, the so-called Great Game.

This is the only large-scale long-distance car / passenger shipping service left, with all others restricted to short ferry routes to islands like Stewart Island / Rakiura or Great Barrier Island.

In The Prince, the Discourses, and in the Life of Castruccio Castracani, he describes " prophets ," as he calls them, like Moses, Romulus, Cyrus the Great, and Theseus ( he treats pagan and Christian patriarchs in the same way ) as the greatest of new princes, the glorious and brutal founders of the most novel innovations in politics, and men whom Machiavelli assures us have always used a large amount of armed force and murder against their own people.

The stone used to build the pyramids was limestone quarried locally and was cut to fit, not into freestanding blocks like the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Surviving descriptions of Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land date from the 4th century, when pilgrimage was encouraged by church fathers like Saint Jerome and established by Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great.

The migration of many former slaves and their descendants to major urban centers like Memphis and north to New York City, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and Buffalo ( See: Second Great Migration ( African American )) meant that black and white residents were living in close proximity in larger numbers than ever before, and as a result heard each other's music and even began to emulate each other's fashions.

Exceptions included The Platters, with songs including " The Great Pretender " ( 1955 ) and The Coasters with humorous songs like " Yakety Yak " ( 1958 ), both of which ranked among the most successful rock and roll acts of the era.

Hence, although the government of Egypt had been Greek-speaking ever since the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Memphis decree, like the two preceding decrees in the series, included texts in Egyptian to display its relevance to the general populace by way of the literate Egyptian priesthood.

In the 19th century these deposits prompted the building of a railroad from northwestern Sweden to the Norwegian seaport of Narvik so that the iron ore could be exported by ship to places like southern Sweden, Germany, Great Britain, and Belgium for smelting into iron and steel.

Great samba lyricists like Paulo César Pinheiro ( especially in the praised partnership with João Nogueira ) and Aldir Blanc started to appear around that time.

The Greek Revival façade facing Great Russell Street is a characteristic building of Sir Robert Smirke, with 44 columns in the Ionic order high, closely based on those of the temple of Athena Polias at Priene in Asia Minor.

Other notable figures in the movement include Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan ( who together initiated the Great Books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland ), Mark Van Doren, Alexander Meiklejohn, and Sir Richard Livingstone, an English classicist with an American following.

From the eighteenth century, Spanish sources reported that immediately after the takeover of the city, Sir George Rooke, the British admiral, on his own initiative caused the British flag to be hoisted, and took possession of the Rock in name of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, whose government ratified the occupation.

: The successful resistance in the Great Siege is attributed to several factors: the improvement in fortifications by Colonel ( later Mayor General Sir ) William Green in 1769 ; the British naval supremacy, which translated into support of the Navy ; the competent command by General George Augustus Elliot ; and an appropriately sized garrison.

* The Great Auk is the mascot of the Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware, Sir Sandford Fleming College in Ontario, and the Adelaide University Choral Society ( AUCS ) in Australia.

In 1825, Sir John Franklin wrote that " The game of hockey played on the ice was the morning sport " while on Great Bear Lake during one of his Arctic expeditions.

In the South East corner of Kew Gardens stands the Great Pagoda ( by Sir William Chambers ), erected in 1762, from a design in imitation of the Chinese Ta.

The first commercial electrical telegraph was co-developed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone, and entered use on the Great Western Railway in Britain.

The lasting connections were achieved by the ship SS Great Eastern, captained by Sir James Anderson.

They were designed by Sir Herbert Baker and the opening ceremony was performed by Sir Stanley Jackson, who had suggested the inclusion of the words The Great Cricketer in the dedication.

* Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland )

* November 17 – Sir Walter Ralegh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle.

* King James I of Great Britain sends Sir Thomas Roe as his ambassador to the Mughal court of Jahangir.

However, the church of St Mary-le-Bow was destroyed in 1666 by the Great Fire of London and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren.

The other members of the committees were: Colonel Evan Hunter, General Secretary of the British Olympic Association, and Chef de mission for Great Britain ; Lord Aberdare, the other British member of the IOC ; Sir Noel Curtis-Bennett ; Alderman H. E.

The dedicatee long remained unidentified, but John Harley's researches into the heraldic design on the fly-leaf have shown that she was Lady Elizabeth Neville, the third wife of Sir Henry Neville ( Gentleman of the Privy Chamber ) of Billingbear in Berkshire, who was a Justice of the Peace and a warden of Windsor Great Park.

This painting by George Hayter | Sir George Hayter ( now in the National Portrait Gallery ( London ) | National Portrait Gallery ) commemorates the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832.

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, KG, KB, PC ( 26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745 ), known before 1742 as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman who is generally regarded as the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.

The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole Pimlico, 2008.

The gardens contain two major monuments, one dedicated to Sir Alexander Ball and another in remembrance of the Great Siege of Malta.

The invention of the instrument is credited to Sir Charles Wheatstone ; his earliest patent of a like instrument was granted 19 December 1829, No 5803 in Great Britain.