He both performed comic characters ( Flash Bazbo — Space Explorer, Mr. Rogers, music critic Roger de Swans, and sleazy record company rep Ron Fields ) and also wrote, arranged and performed numerous musical parodies ( of Bob Dylan, James Taylor and others ).

Runyon frequently contributed sports poems to the American on boxing and baseball themes, and also wrote numerous short stories and essays.

Blyton also wrote numerous books on nature and Biblical themes.

Marx and Engels interchanged numerous letters on war and military science and Engels wrote about several military topics.

Howard Christie wrote that The Italians started numerous and diverse businesses in Tripolitania and Cirenaica.

Cesare Pugni wrote extensively for the harp as well — his ballet Éoline, ou La Dryade included music written for harp to accompany the ballerina's numerous variations and enhance the atmosphere of the ballet's many fantastical scenes.

He wrote, " There exist in the West numerous subdivisions of the schools which have different origins, but there are only four principal schools of continuous tradition.

Composers who wrote solo harpsichord music were numerous during the whole Baroque era in European countries including Italy, Germany, England and France.

In The Origin of Species, he wrote, " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.

While in Rome during the winter of 1820-21, Severn wrote numerous letters about Keats to their mutual friends in England, in particular William Haslam and Charles Armitage Brown, who then shared them with other members of the Keats circle, including the poet's fiancée, Fanny Brawne.

In 1844 Marx wrote The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, a work which covered numerous topics, and went into detail to explain Marx's concept of alienated labour.

He wrote numerous books, some of which, such as King Solomon's Ring, On Aggression and Man Meets Dog became popular reading.

In Burma, a royal library called the Pitaka Taik was legendarily founded by King Anawrahta ; in the 18th century, British envoy Michael Symes, upon visiting this library, wrote that " it is not improbable that his Birman majesty may possess a more numerous library than any potentate, from the banks of the Danube to the borders of China ".

He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works ( 55 novels in total, plus four " lost " novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings ), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.

Tertullian ( c. 160 – c. 225 ), who wrote in Latin, also understood (" I will ascend above the tops of the clouds ; I will make myself like the Most High ") as spoken by the Devil, but " Lucifer " is not among the numerous names and phrases he used to describe the Devil.

A prolific writer, Remey wrote numerous published and personal articles promoting the Bahá ' í Faith, including ` Abdu ' l-Bahá – The Center of the Covenant and the five volume A Comprehensive History of the Bahá ' í Movement ( 1927 ), The Bahá ' í Revelation and Reconstruction ( 1919 ), Constructive Principles of The Bahá ' í Movement ( 1917 ), and The Bahá ' í Movement: A Series of Nineteen Papers ( 1912 ) are a few of the titles of the many works Remey produced while ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was still alive.

While on Sado, he won many devoted converts and wrote two of his most important doctrinal treatises, the Kaimoku Shō ( 開目抄: " On the Opening of the Eyes " ) and the Kanjin no Honzon Shō ( 観心本尊抄: " The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind ") as well as numerous letters and minor treatises whose content containing critical components of his teaching.

In addition to these, he wrote numerous articles for journals and magazines:

In addition to her acting career, Gordon wrote numerous well-known plays, film scripts and books.

The poetess Elizabeth Jane Weston, a writer of neo-Latin poetry, was also part of his court and wrote numerous odes to him.

During this time he also collaborated in complete editions of the works of Arthur Schopenhauer and the writer Jean Paul and wrote numerous articles for various journals.

His The Naval War of 1812 ( 1882 ) established his professional reputation as a serious historian ; he wrote numerous books on hunting, the outdoors, and current political issues, as well as frontier history.

Known as The Laurence Olivier Archive, the collection includes many of Vivien Leigh's personal papers, including numerous letters she wrote to Olivier.

With her, Guthrie wrote numerous Jewish lyrics.

Fabius Rusticus and Cluvius Rufus both wrote condemning histories on Caligula that are now lost.

* Business historian Robert Sobel wrote For Want of a Nail, a fictional history of an alternate North America which included hundreds of fictional footnotes and a bibliography listing over a hundred fictional histories and biographies.

Macbeth's life, like that of King Duncan I, had progressed far towards legend by the end of the 14th century, when John of Fordun and Andrew of Wyntoun wrote their histories.

Hartknoch wrote histories of Prussia, including the cities of Royal Prussia.

He had an extensive civil service career, and wrote histories, fiction and other works which were widely known.

Fabius ' history provided a basis for the early books of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, which he wrote inLatin, and for several Greek-language histories of Rome, including Dionysius of Halicarnassus's Roman Antiquities, written during the late 1st century BC, and Plutarch's early 2nd century Life of Romulus.

Lucian wrote that " The people who suffered the greatest torment were those who had told lies when they were alive and written mendacious histories ; among them were Ctesias of Cnidus, Herodotus, and many others.

He later wrote another article, " Re-entering the Lists ", which asserted that the list of those arrested published in the official history was concocted from later case histories.

Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote works which he claimed were histories of Britain.

In the assessment of John Barr, a Social Credit staffer years after Aberhart's death who later wrote one of the first histories of the party's years in power, " Aberhart generally had the respect and admiration of a broad following of parents, teachers, and students.

He also wrote histories of public education and the prison system in the state.

About her work, the author said " I wrote Rats because I was angry with the way the recent coffee-table histories of punk seem to have no problem demonizing a dead, mentally ill, teenage girl.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Lavender wrote a series of highly acclaimed histories of the American West, including Red Mountain in 1963, Westward Vision: The Story of the Oregon Trail in 1963, The Rockies in 1968 ( Harper & Row ), and The American West in 1969.

He also wrote a series of so-called natural histories: The Gent ( 1847 ), The Ballet Girl ( 1847 ), Stuck-Up ' People ( 1847 ), The Idler upon Town ( 1848 ) and The Flirt ( 1848 ).

He also wrote histories of BBC Radio 3 ( on which he had regular stints as broadcaster ), the British satire boom of the 1960s, Angry Young Men: A Literary Comedy of the 1950s ( 2002 ), and a centennial history of the Oxford University Dramatic Society in 1985.

Another humanist was Dimitrie Cantemir, who wrote histories of Romania and Moldavia.

In the following years his rate of publication was staggering: aside from a continuing stream of articles and poems, he wrote a number of books, including two more histories of the world ( 1814 and 1817 ); the long historical poem Roskilde-Riim ( Rhyme of Roskilde ) ( 1813 ); and a book-sized commentary, Roskilde Saga.

He later wrote standard histories of the relations between Russia and the Western powers.

Ibn Qutaybah also wrote one of the earliest histories of the Arabs, drawing together biblical stories, Arabic folk tales and more historical events.

Drury also wrote two local histories, The story of Simcoe County ( 1955 ) and All for a beaver hat: a history of early Simcoe County ( 1959 ).

Boorstin also wrote the books The Discoverers, The Creators and The Seekers, a trilogy of books that attempt to survey the scientific, artistic and philosophic histories of humanity, respectively.

The two are still occasionally confused, although the British Churchill wrote only one novel, Savrola, being better known for his popular histories and journalism.

The reasons why Berossus wrote the History have not survived, though contemporaneous Greek historians generally did give reasons for the publication of their own histories.

Late in life, when Díaz del Castillo was eighty-four years old, and residing in his encomienda estates in Guatemala, he wrote The Truthful History of the Conquest of New Spain to defend the story of the common-soldier conquistador within the histories about the Spanish conquest of Mexico.