The Cox-Forbes theory is a long-debunked theory on the evolution of chess put forward by Captain Hiram Cox ( died 1799 ) and extended by Professor Duncan Forbes ( 1798 – 1868 ).

A television series, The Adventures of Hiram Holliday ( starring Wally Cox ) was adapted from a series of Gallico's stories about a newspaper proofreader who had many adventures dealing with Nazis and spies in Europe on the eve of World War II.

By the end of the skirmish at least seventeen Mormons were dead: Hiram Abbott, Elias Benner, John Byers, Alexander Campbell, Simon Cox, Josiah Fuller, Austin Hammer, John Lee, Benjamin Lewis, Thomas McBride ( 78 ), Charley Merrick ( 9 ), Levi Merrick, William Napier, George S. Richards, Sardius Smith ( 10 ), Warren Smith, and John York.

Hiram Cox, the British envoy to the Burmese Court, in 1796, observed the tradition by not visiting the pagoda rather than take off his shoes.

" The modern Cox's Bazar derives its name from Captain Hiram Cox ( died 1799 ), an officer serving in British India.

The name Cox's Bazar / Bazaar originated from the name of a British East India Company officer, Captain Hiram Cox who was appointed as the Superintendent of Palonki ( today's Cox's Bazar ) outpost after Warren Hastings became the Governor of Bengal following the British East India Company Act in 1773.

The following year, when Captain Hiram Cox, the East India Company Resident in Rangoon, visited Yenangyaung, he recorded there were " 520 wells registered by government ".

Later that year, Hiram Thorpe died from gangrene poisoning after being wounded in a hunting accident, and Jim again dropped out of school.

The bluff was named after Hiram Scott, a fur trapper who died nearby in 1828.

Hiram IV died in 1988, and a U. S. Postal Stamp was issued in his honor on May 30, 2006.

Hiram Revels, the first African-American United States Senator, died on January 16, 1901, while attending a church conference in Aberdeen.

In 1905, Hiram Cronk, the last veteran of the War of 1812, died in Ava.

* Hiram Halle, philanthropist, inventor and businessman who died here in 1944

Private Hiram T. Smith from Maine died of unknown causes while in service in 1828.

Hiram Percy Maxim died in 1936.

European Americans named the most prominent bluff after Hiram Scott, a fur trader who died in 1828 near the bluff.

Hiram Walker died in Detroit, Michigan, January 12, 1899.

Hiram Powers died on June 27, 1873, and is buried, as were three of his children, at the Cemitero Protestante di Porta a ' Pinti, Florence ( English Cemetery, Florence ).

He died in Hiram on July 18, 1829, and is buried in the family cemetery at Wadsworth Hall.

In July 1833, he succeeded Governor Abram L. Scott, who had died in office and remained so until the election of Hiram Runnels in November of that year.

Within a year, however, both Hiram and Caroline Perkins had died.

The movie opens with news that Phelps Department store owner Hiram Phelps has died, leaving half-ownership in the business to his protege, singer Tommy Rogers.

Member of Congress from the Nashville District, was elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress ( March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819 ); served as Mayor of Nashville in 1818 ; He represented Hiram Lodge No. 7 and Cumberland Lodge No. 8 ( F & AM ) at the formation of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee on December 27, 1813 ; resumed the practice of law in Nashville, where he died January 7, 1856 ; interment in Nashville City Cemetery.

Many famous people are buried in the graveyard: Elizabeth Barrett Browning ( in a tomb designed by Frederic, Lord Leighton ), Walter Savage Landor, Arthur Hugh Clough, Fanny Trollope and her daughter-in-law Theodosia Garrow Trollope and three other family members, Isa Blagden, Southwood Smith, Hiram Powers, Joel Tanner Hart, Theodore Parker, Fanny, the wife of William Holman Hunt in a tomb he himself sculpted, Mary, the daughter of John Roddam Spencer Stanhope in a tomb he himself sculpted, Louise, sister to Henry Adams, whose dying he describes in his ' Chaos ' chapter in The Education of Henry Adams, two children of the Greek painter George Mignaty, whom Robert had paint Casa Guidi as it was when Elizabeth Barrett Browning died there, and Nadezhda De Santis, a black Nubian slave brought to Florence at fourteen from Jean-François Champollion's 1827 expedition to Egypt and Nubia, while the French Royalist exile Félicie de Fauveau sculpted two tombs here.

The Kirklands ' granddaughter Frances Eliza Lothrop ( 1809-1893 ) married John Hiram Lathrop ( 1799 – 1866 ).

Serra appears in Matthew Barney's 2002 film Cremaster 3 as Hiram Abiff (" the architect "), and later as himself in the climactic The Order section – the only part of a Cremaster film commercially available on DVD .< ref >

The first self-powered machine gun was invented in 1885 by Sir Hiram Maxim.

Forgotten for centuries by the outside world, although not by locals, it was brought back to international attention by Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham III, who rediscovered it in 1911 and wrote a best-selling work about it.

Ulysses S. Grant ( born Hiram Ulysses Grant ; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885 ) was the 18th President of the United States ( 1869 – 1877 ) following his dominant role in the second half of the Civil War.

Hiram Ulysses Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822.

Hiram was chosen as the site of the institution because this area of the Western Reserve seemed to be " healthful and free of distractions.

Three years after the Institute attained collegiate rank and became known as Hiram College, Burke A. Hinsdale, who had been a student of Garfield's, was appointed president.

In September 2004, Thomas V. Chema was appointed as the 21st president of Hiram College.

The brothers ' father, Judge Hiram Bond, was a wealthy mining investor.

Hiram Bingham, Chairman of the Civil Service Commission Loyalty Review Board, referred to the new rules he was obliged to enforce as " just not the American way of doing things.

Sir Hiram Maxim built a craft that weighed 3. 5 tons, with a 110-foot ( 34-meter ) wingspan that was powered by two 360-horsepower ( 270-kW ) steam engines driving two propellers.

This type of rod was revolutionized in 1871 when Hiram L. Leonard came up with a way to manufacture the Calcutta cane rods and making it affordable to the general public.

The next person to enter Zaharoff's story was Hiram Maxim.

That discussion hook has made the story a staple in English classes in American schools, especially since Stockton was careful never to hint at what he thought the ending would be ( according to Hiram Collins Haydn in The Thesaurus of Book Digests, ISBN 0-517-00122-5 ).

He was strongly influenced by Hiram Johnson and other leaders of the Progressive Era to oppose corruption and promote democracy.

Hiram I ( Hebrew: ח ִ יר ָ ם, " high-born "; Standard Hebrew, Tiberian vocalization Ḥîrām, Modern Arabic: حيرام ), according to the Hebrew Bible, was the Phoenician king of Tyre.

Hiram was succeeded as king of Tyre by his son Baal-Eser I. Hiram is also mentioned in the writings of Menander of Ephesus, as preserved in Josephus ’ s Against Apion, where some additional information is given that is not found in the Bible.

Josephus, citing both Tyrian court records and the writings of Menander, says that it was in Hiram ’ s 12th year that he sent assistance to Solomon for building the Temple.

Hiram ’ s first year is therefore accepted as 980 BC instead of the 969 BC that was favored before publication of the Shalmaneser inscription.

The first Balazeros was a son of Hiram I, contemporary of David and Solomon, so this was too early, but the second name referred to the grandfather of Pygmalion and was therefore in the right date range.

The county seat, named Boonville for Mordecai Boon, was located on John Austin's league and was surveyed by Hiram Hanover in 1841.