The filmmaker purchased the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge for one dollar from the government and then gave it back to them for a dollar, " so that they wouldn't have any liability ," Hill remembers.

Turning to the Roman aristocracy, in particular the Frangipani family, he gave them the fortress of the Circus Maximus on 31 January 1145, allowing them complete control of the southern portion of the Palatine Hill.

In order to ensure that he did not lose his patronage during the crisis, Hill lowered rail tariff shipping rates for farmers and gave credit to many of the businesses he owned so they could continue paying their workers.

Kent briefly attempted an international career with English versions of the albums Isola and Hagnesta Hill and an accompanying American tour for the former, but they gave up after failing to achieve the breakthrough they had hoped for.

Nevertheless the race still gave Hill his first podium finish.

Neither Hill nor Schumacher finished the season-closing Australian Grand Prix, after a controversial collision which gave the title to Schumacher.

Smith Bunker located on Bunker Hill about 1820 and gave it his name.

In 1805, Hezekiah Roberts, Sr. obtained a patent for of land, called Lot 49, on the west side of Coal Creek, which he sold to William Currie ( who gave the place the name Curry Hill ).

John of Fordun has a peculiar tale to tell, related to the supposed " Laws of Malcolm MacKenneth ", saying that Máel Coluim gave away all of Scotland, except for the Moot Hill at Scone, which is unlikely to have any basis in fact.

The Obelisk featured Robert Smith ( still playing piano at this point ), alongside Marc Ceccagno ( lead guitar ), Michael Dempsey ( guitar ), Alan Hill ( bass ) and Laurence Tolhurst ( percussion ) and, according to The Cure's official biography Ten Imaginary Years, gave their only performance at a school function in April 1972.

Lodge grew up on Boston's Beacon Hill and spent part of his childhood in Nahant, Massachusetts where he witnessed the 1860 kidnapping of a classmate and gave testimony leading to the arrest and conviction of the kidnappers.

When he was due to leave the set at the end of production, Jackson gave Hill two gifts, Théoden's helmet and sword Herugrim.

Hill gave Maclain a letter of protection and a letter to Sir Colin asking that he receive Maclain's oath since Maclain had come to him within the allotted time.

Citadel Hill and the associated harbour defence fortifications afforded the Royal Navy the most secure and strategic base in eastern North America from its Halifax Dockyard commanding the Great Circle Route to western Europe and gave Halifax the nickname " Warden of The North ".

This section of the park also contains the geological formation that gave the park / forest its name: Chapultepec Hill.

Hill held the Confederate right flank at Cold Harbor, where his corps defended against the main Union attack on June 3 ; when part of the troops to his right gave way, Hill used one brigade to launch a successful counterattack.

The Americal, in Vietnam, suffered an important defeat at the Battle of Kham Duc but gave a solid performance during TET, The Battle of LoGiang and the Battle of Nui Hoac Ridge ( Hill 352 ).

Hayes's lyrics were turned into a song in 1936 by Earl Robinson, who wrote in 1986, "' Joe Hill ' was written in Camp Unity in the summer of 1936 in New York State, for a campfire program celebrating him and his songs ..." Hayes gave a copy of his poem to fellow camp staffer Robinson, who wrote the tune in 40 minutes.

On May 21, 2005, she gave birth to their first son, Rodney Ramone Hill III.

The commander-in-chief, it is true, never reposed in him the confidence that he gave to Beresford, Hill and Robert Craufurd.

This was even noted in the interview by Margaret Cho and Amy Hill that they gave in the show's 2006 DVD release.

He gave orders to fortify the point, setting the stage for the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775.

The Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1911 ), who commissioned work on the imperial gardens on the hill in 1749, gave Longevity Hill its present-day name in 1752, in celebration of his mother's 60th birthday.

Favoured by filmstars and the rich, Pali Hill soon became a key destination for those that wanted solitude and calm.

; Haagen, J .; AT & T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, " A speech coder based on decomposition of characteristic waveforms ," IEEE 1995 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1995.

As Hill moved to the podium, a reporter friend passed Bryan a note urging him to make a patriotic speech without hint of sectionalism ; Bryan responded, " You will not be disappointed.

Arthur C. Clarke of 2001: A Space Odyssey fame was coincidentally visiting friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray Hill facility at the time of this remarkable speech synthesis demonstration and was so impressed that he used it in the climactic scene of his novel and screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the HAL 9000 computer sings the same song.

Hill in 1959In an account of his final meeting with Beebe, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr. describes how during Beebe's last few years he gradually succumbed to illness, eventually becoming nearly immobile and incapable of speech.

However, Beebe's personal physician A. E. Hill provides a differing account, stating that Beebe remained lucid and able to move about without assistance almost until his last day, apart from the periods of time during which his " mango mouth " temporarily slurred his speech.

His legacy is celebrated by the Labour Party each year with a function known as the Light on the Hill speech by a senior Labour figure.

The Light on the Hill speech was first delivered to the ALP Conference by Chifley in 1949.

Once, during March 1967, she stayed up all night at Kennedy's Hickory Hill home to type a major speech against the Vietnam War, while the senator and his aides such as Ted Sorenson and C. Richard Semple II made last-minute changes to it.

Author Arthur C. Clarke was coincidentally visiting friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray Hill facility at the time of this remarkable speech synthesis demonstration and was so impressed that he later told Stanley Kubrick to use it in 2001: A Space Odyssey, in the climactic scene where the HAL 9000 computer sings while his cognitive functions are disabled.

Church Hill is known as the site of Virginia's second revolutionary convention where Patrick Henry gave his " Give me liberty or give me death " speech in St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.

The NRB Government Relations office on Capitol Hill and NRB ’ s Office of the General Counsel pay particular attention to protecting and promoting the needs of religious broadcasters and their First Amendment rights – both freedom of speech and free religious expression.

U. S. Representative Steve Chabot giving a speech at a Memorial Day ceremony in North College Hill, Ohio, May 27, 2006.

When John Singer Sargent's portrait of her was presented by her fellow-workers in 1898, Hill made a speech in which she said, " When I am gone, I hope my friends will not try to carry out any special system, or to follow blindly in the track which I have trodden.

Citing the precedent set in Hill v. Colorado that law that incidentally restricts speech for reasons that are " justified without reference to the content of regulated speech ", are not unconstitutional, the appellate court found, like the district court had, that even though DeCSS was a form of speech, it was constitutional to limit it because the limitations were related to the functionality of DeCSS, and not the content of the speech.

She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning an undergraduate degree in speech in 1976 and a law degree in 1979.

She held a passion for storytelling and published several children ’ s books. Author Miranda Hill making a speech after winning the 2011 Journey Prize

" Jesuit Ivy " is the title of a commencement speech delivered at and, subsequently a nickname given to, Boston College, a Jesuit university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States.