The catalogue was compiled by Annie Jump Cannon and her co-workers at Harvard College Observatory under the supervision of Edward Charles Pickering, and was named in honour of Henry Draper, whose widow donated the money required to finance it.

Henry Ford donated much of the necessary land as did many local farmers.

His contacts included such diverse and well-known personages as Andrew Carnegie, William Howard Taft, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Huttleston Rogers, George Eastman, Julius Rosenwald, Robert Ogden, Collis Potter Huntington and William Henry Baldwin Jr., who donated large sums of money to agencies such as the Jeanes and Slater Funds.

In the Chronicle of Lanercost there was a legend saying that before her death, the remorseful Henry gave her a gold crown, which would be donated to his young son Edward three days later.

In 1268 Henry donated a manor in Melksham, a place that Eleanor had shown her interest in, to Amesbury for the souls of Eleanor and her younger brother Arthur, who was captured along with his sister and disappeared mysteriously the next year, it being widely believed that John had him murdered.

Bled Castle was first mentioned in a 22 May 1011 deed in which Henry II donated it to Albuin's successor, Bishop Adalberon of Brixen.

Henry Tate also donated his own collection to the gallery.

In Washington DC " the " Temperance Fountain was donated to the city in 1882 by Temperance crusader Henry D. Cogswell.

* A statue by John Henry Foley was shown at the 1851 Great Exhibition and later donated to the Bancroft Gardens, Stratford-upon-Avon where it now stands.

This collection continued to grow steadily, but when, between 1435 and 1437 Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester ( brother of Henry V of England ), donated a great collection of manuscripts, the space was deemed insufficient and a larger building was required.

Henry Poston, John Andrews, William Alexander and James Holbert were appointed commissioners to locate the county seat, and on September 22, 1822, D. Murphy donated of land for that purpose which the county court accepted on February 27, 1823.

In 1990, the Graham family donated this house, and all the component prototyping parts, to The Henry Ford Museum.

It was established in 1946 and named for Henry Catron who donated the land to the Girl Scouts.

Commissioners appointed by the Indiana General Assembly selected the location in May 1843 to be the site of the county seat on land donated by Henry W. Ellsworth and David Watkinson.

It was named for nearby Windsor Elementary School in Des Moines ; the school was named for early settler Henry Clay Windsor, whose family donated land for the school.

In 1906, Henry Hardin Cherry, the president and owner of Southern Normal School, donated the school to the state as the basis of the Western State Normal School.

The fort was decommissioned in 1876, and in 1926 the site was donated to the town by Cara Rogers Broughton ( a daughter of Henry Huttleston Rogers ).

It is named after William Henry Lauderdale, a prominent Twin Cities Business man who donated land to Rose Hill Township to serve as a location for a school and park.

Leopold Marks ' son Henry donated land to the town to be used as a cemetery.

The town was renamed in 1869 after Henry G. Marquand, a railroad administrator, who donated $ 1, 000 for the construction of a church.

It was donated by Henry T. Asselin, who transported the missile from the Redstone Arsenal near Huntsville, Alabama, in 1971, then placed in honor of long-time Senator Norris Cotton, a Warren native.

The Department is named to commemorate British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish for contributions to science and his relative William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, who served as Chancellor of the University and donated money for the construction of the laboratory.

Forest School was established in 1888 in the Forest Baptist Church, and later occupied a separate building on a lot donated by J. S. Derrough, Jeff Latham, and Hugh Henry.

It is curious that at its best, the work of this school of painting -- Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Willem De-Kooning, and the rest -- resembles nothing so much as the passage painting of quite unimpressive painters: the mother-of-pearl shimmer in the background of a Henry McFee, itself a formula derived from Renoir ; ;

In 1802 Henry referred to `` our new carts '' as being about four feet off the ground and carrying five times as much as a horse could pack.

Both ships were soon fighting enemies much more powerful than themselves and began to take severe damage: Captain Henry Darby on Bellerophon missed his intended anchor near Franklin and instead found his ship underneath the main battery of the French flagship, while Captain George Blagdon Westcott on Majestic also missed his station and almost collided with Heureux, coming under heavy fire from Tonnant.

Catherine refused to accept Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England and considered herself the King's rightful wife and Queen, attracting much popular sympathy.

Ostensibly, the marriage was delayed until Henry was old enough, but Henry VII procrastinated so much about Catherine's unpaid dowry that it was doubtful if the marriage would ever take place.

According to chemistry historian Henry Leicester, the influential 1923 textbook Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Reactions by Gilbert N. Lewis and Merle Randall led to the replacement of the term " affinity " by the term " free energy " in much of the English-speaking world.

Henry Sweet did much work on the systematic description of vowels, producing an elaborate system of vowel description involving a multitude of symbols.

Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor died leaving his kingdom in a much weakened condition.

In the end, Henry V died the monarch of a much diminished kingdom.

His uncle, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset tampered with Henry VIII's will and obtained letters patent giving him much of the power of a monarch by March 1547.

Elizabeth's government did much to consolidate the work begun under Thomas Cromwell in the reign of Henry VIII, that is, expanding the role of the government and effecting common law and administration throughout England.

Daniel Purcell ( d. 1717 ), the youngest of the brothers, was also a prolific composer who wrote the music for much of the final act of The Indian Queen after Henry Purcell's death.

This had been achieved much earlier for lead and copper as well as for producing pig iron in a blast furnace, but the second stage in the production of bar iron depended on the use of potting and stamping ( for which a patent expired in 1786 ) or puddling ( patented by Henry Cort in 1784 ).

To complicate matters, much of the Angevin empire was held by Henry only as a vassal of the King of France of the rival line of the House of Capet.

In part he was following in the tradition of Henry I and Henry II, but by the 13th century the volume of administrative work had greatly increased, which put much more pressure on a king who wished to rule in this style.

When Collis died in 1900, his nephew Henry E. Huntington inherited much of his uncle's fortune.

The Sprightly Companion, an instruction book published by Henry Playford in 1695, describes the oboe as " Majestical and Stately, and not much Inferior to the Trumpet.

Shakespeare omitted the character of the traitorous Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford in The Life and Death of King John, and the character of the 12th Earl of Oxford is given a much more prominent role in Henry V than his limited involvement in the actual history of the times would allow.

Humanism and its spirit of empirical enquiry, however, were making progress – but the papacy ( especially after Avignon ) and the empire ( Henry VII, the last hope of the white Guelphs, died near Siena in 1313 ) had lost much of their original prestige.

As archbishop, he was appointed papal legate to France by Pope Paschal II during the time that Paschal was induced under pressure from Holy Roman Emperor Henry V to issue the Privilegium of 1111, by which he yielded much of the papal prerogatives that had been so forcefully claimed by Pope Gregory VII in the Gregorian Reforms.

King Henry V did much the same in 1415.

John Lyne and Henry Howe, in a more positive evaluation, states that " re-analysis of existing fossil data has shown, to the increasing satisfaction of the paleontological community, that Eldredge and Gould were correct in identifying periods of evolutionary stasis which are interrupted by much shorter periods of evolutionary change.