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father and Ulysses
* An overdose of aconite was the method in which Rudolph Bloom, father of Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses, committed suicide.
* Ulysses from the novel The Gallifrey Chronicles ( possibly the Doctor's father )
Brown's father had as an apprentice Jesse R. Grant, father of future general and U. S. President Ulysses S. Grant.
Joyce is often regarded as the father of the literary genre " stream of consciousness ", best exemplified in his famous work, Ulysses, considered to be one of the 20th century's greatest literary achievements.
Joyce ( 1882 – 1941 ) is often regarded as the father of the literary genre " stream of consciousness " which is best exemplified in his famous work, Ulysses.
Alien Bodies subtly suggests that it is just the Eighth Doctor who is half-human, while other books ( such as Unnatural History and The Gallifrey Chronicles ) suggest that the Doctor's human mother is a Victorian Lady called Penelope Gate, and his Time Lord father is called Ulysses.
He is the father of Stephen Dedalus, a principal character in both books, and a friend of Leopold Bloom, the hero of Ulysses.
Dedalus is a passionate Irish nationalist and follower of Parnell, and a fine drinking companion, but proves a poor pater familias, unable to care for his large family, and is seen as an inadequate father to Stephen, who, in Ulysses, must seek out Bloom as a surrogate father figure, despite Simon's frequent presence throughout the book.
Shortly before the end of the war, he commanded troops in the field and was captured at Sayler's Creek, three days before his father surrendered on Palm Sunday April 9, 1865 to Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the McLean House in the village of Appomattox Court House, Virgina ( see: Appomattox Court House National Historical Park ).
Every night his father would read him several passages from Joyce's Ulysses and other poetic works.
Though his lawyer father, Don Esteban, wants him to follow in his footsteps, Ulysses becomes a sailor.
In 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Cameron to his cabinet as Secretary of War, a post his father once served in during the Lincoln administration, to succeed Alphonso Taft, who became Attorney General, and served as so until the end of Grant's presidency.
Also, the narrator lives with his aunt and uncle, although his uncle appears to be a portrait of Joyce's father, and may be seen as a prototype for Stephen Dedalus of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses.
Ulysses is there and plays Edward an unedited version of the tape, revealing Edward Jr. repeating to his lover, a Soviet spy named Miriam, the classified information he overheard his father discussing.

father and F
In 1948, the year when the NP swept to power in whites-only elections on an apartheid platform, F. W. de Klerk's father, Johannes " Jan " de Klerk, became secretary of the NP in the Transvaal province and later rose to the positions of cabinet minister and President of the Senate, becoming interim State President in 1975.
His mother, of Irish and German descent, had been a reviewer of film and theatre for the Akron Beacon Journal before marrying his father, a businessman of Czech and German descent who worked for the B. F. Goodrich Company.
His parents ran a pub called the Red Lion in the town of Burslem, before his father became the licensee at the Port Vale F. C.
However, public reaction was largely sympathetic to Patton, and Herman F. Kuhl, Private Kuhl's father, even wrote his own congressman, stating that he forgave Patton for the incident and requesting that he not be disciplined.
', yet ' Dear father, why leave your bed ' demands steady beauty of tone throughout the octave F to F, and ' Ah, leave me not to pine ' goes a third lower still.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., father of President John F. Kennedy, to serve as the first Chairman of the SEC, along with James M. Landis ( one of the architects of the 1934 Act and other New Deal legislation ) and Ferdinand Pecora ( Chief Counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency during its investigation of Wall Street banking and stock brokerage practices ).
Susan McHugh, who teaches theories of animals, literature, and culture at the University of New England, wrote in her 2004 book Dog that, " remaining loyal to his unlikely saviours, the boy Bart and his father Homer, this greyhound has prompted satires of contemporary dog culture, from Barbara Woodhouse's authoritarian training methods " Bart's Dog Gets an F " to Lassie's flawless service to the status quo " The Canine Mutiny ".
Stephen F. Austin and father
In a column assessing Caroline Kennedy's candidacy for the US Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton in early 2009, Maureen Dowd likened the Kennedy family role in US politics, from grandfather Joe Kennedy to father John Kennedy and uncles Robert Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, to the House of Atreus, and Caroline and her brother John F. Kennedy, Jr .' s place in it as " heartbreaking.
Wythe County is also home to the Austinville community which was founded by Stephen and his brother Moses Austin, father of the famous Stephen F. Austin.
He was sent to Beaumont College on the recommendation of his father, not because of any educational significance but because Scott senior admired the buildings of its preparatory school, the work of J. F. Bentley.
Lavallette was named for Elie A. F. La Vallette, one of the first rear admirals appointed in the United States Navy when President Abraham Lincoln created the rank in July 1862, and the father of Albert T. Lavallette, co-founder of the borough.
* Benjamin F. Tracy, father of the modern Navy.
B. F. Skinner is the father of behavior modification and developed the concept of positive reinforcement.
The town was named for Perry LeFors, who traveled with his father to the Panhandle in 1878 and later became foreman of the Diamond F Ranch, part of the White Deer Lands ( Francklyn Land and Cattle Company ).
Others claim that the city was named for Wallace's father, Benjamin F. Williamson.
He wrote a 400 page biography of his father, The Life and Times of Sir Charles Barry, R. A., F. R. S., that was published in 1867.
He is also the father of Stephen Walt, a professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
" George F. Marion performed the role of Anna's father in the original Broadway production and in both the 1923 and 1930 film adaptations.
According to L. F. Rushbrook Williams, Shah began accompanying his father in his travels from a very young age, and although they both travelled widely and often, they always returned to England where the family made their home for many years.
However, the term did not appear until 1993 when it was coined by Edgar F. Codd, who has been described as " the father of the relational database ".
He was the brother of Virginia Governor and U. S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, a dominant figure in Virginia Democratic Party between the 1920s and 1960s ; their father served as Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates for a time.
His father, James F. Dukes, was originally from Tralee, County Kerry and was a senior civil servant, the founding Chairman and Chief Executive of the Higher Education Authority, while his mother was from near Ballina, County Mayo.

father and .
`` Yes, like a father and son ''.
My father ran him off here six years ago ''.
`` It wouldn't matter to my father, and not to me.
`` He works for my father '', the girl said, and then seemed to change her mind.
When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.
He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.
Certainly, she wouldn't dare ask her father afterward.
So far as he knew, only his father could be there.
Hardly had Mrs. Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck, father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty's '' Ford sedan, came screeching to a dust-swirling stop, and a brown face appeared, its nose threatened by shards of what had once been the side window.
some women with father fixations do.
`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.
He would feel ashamed each time and wonder whether his mother and father knew -- thinking they might see it in his eyes or smell it on him.
But surprisingly, Kitty's face came up and she said, `` My father.
The boys had beautiful dark eyes and unlike their father they brushed constantly at the flies and blinked their eyes.
His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
My father had none.
He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood.
In one of his summers at home he married, to the great disapproval of his father, who objected because of his extreme youth.
By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into possession of the family estate and had re-assumed its traditions.
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
He is born in secrecy after the death of his father and cast adrift soon after birth.
In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.
His father was a good friend of Rabbi Szold, and Joe lived with the Szolds for a while.
What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.

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