According to the historian Herodotus, the poet threw away his shield to make good his escape from the victorious Athenians then celebrated the occasion in a poem that he later sent to his friend, Melanippus.

Hay was a close friend of Henry Brooks Adams, American historian and author.

Almost all that we know of Severus's life comes from a few allusions in his own writings, some passages in the letters of his friend Paulinus, bishop of Nola, and a short biography by the historian Gennadius of Massilia.

Dewey alienated former president and fellow Republican Herbert Hoover during the campaign by ignoring him at the funeral of Wendell Willkie ; according to historian William Leuchtenburg, Hoover confided to a friend that " Dewey has no inner reservoir of knowledge on which to draw for his thinking ," elaborating that " A man couldn't wear a mustache like that without having it affect his mind.

He was a friend of the historian Tacitus and employed the biographer Suetonius in his staff.

While Carl Bernstein has ascribed Felt's motives to truth telling and protecting the justice system against Presidential abuse, historian Max Holland in his 2012 book Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat claimed Felt planted the leaks to obtain the FBI director's job ( the leaks hurt L. Patrick Gray, Nixon's friend who had recently been chosen for the director's position over Felt ).. John Dean remarked that " Max has got it right — he nailed it ”.

" Gilbert ( p. 217 ) points out that Machiavelli's friend the historian and diplomat Francesco Guicciardini expressed similar ideas about fortune.

Taylor himself was recruited into the Communist Party of Great Britain by a friend of the family, military historian Tom Wintringham, while at Oriel ; a member from 1924 to 1926, he broke with the Party over what he considered to be its ineffective stand during the 1926 General Strike.

Another person Taylor admired was the historian E. H. Carr, who was his favourite historian and a good friend.

William Forbes Skene ( 7 June 1809 – 29 August 1892 ), Scottish historian and antiquary, was the second son of Sir Walter Scott's friend, James Skene ( 1775 – 1864 ), of Rubislaw, near Aberdeen.

One distinguished friend of his latter years was the music historian, Giovanni Battista ( known as " Padre ") Martini.

Among his other colleagues was future philosopher Constantin Noica and Noica's friend, future art historian Barbu Brezianu.

Music historian Charles Burney, a close friend of the Arne family, indicates that he was Thomas Arne's natural son but there is some speculation among modern scholars that he may have been adopted.

Animation historian Milton Gray details a long rivalry between fellow animator and former friend Chuck Jones and Clampett in an essay titled " Bob Clampett Remembered.

In the year 608 we find him in Baghdad with his friend Majduddīn Isḥāq and there he met the famous historian Ibn al-Dubaythī and his disciple Ibn al-Najjār.

She had actually met him almost thirty years earlier, in 1963, when she was 20 and he was 67 at the Hotel St. Moritz with her father, film critic and historian Herman G. Weinberg and their mutual friend, Fritz Lang.

Pirenne was a close friend of German historian Karl Lamprecht ( 1856 – 1915 ), until they broke during the war when Lamprecht headed a mission to invite Belgians to collaborate with Germany's long-term goals.

For advice, he looked to his friend Stuart Cary Welch, a noted historian of Islamic art at Harvard University.

The DVD was produced by Beatles historian and producer Martin Lewis, a longtime friend of Walter Shenson.

His best-remembered gag was his long-running mock feud with friend and fellow comedian Jack Benny, but it was only part of his appeal ; radio historian John Dunning ( in On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio ) wrote that Allen was radio's most admired comedian and most frequently censored.

Brough was a personal friend of the Woodward family and was an early influence on prominent southern historian C. Vann Woodward.

He enjoyed a bohemian lifestyle there, visiting the Louvre three times a week, where he met his lifelong friend, 20th century art historian Meyer Schapiro.

His academic activity also resulted in a lengthy conflict with art historian Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaş, his godfather and former friend, sparked when Iorga, defending his own academic postings, objected to making Art History a separate subject at University.

He said he contacted a friend, Henry Hall Wilson, on the President's staff and asked whether his orchestra could play, in the series.

He then followed the fortunes of his friend Elector Maurice of Saxony, deserted Charles, and joined the league which proposed to overthrow the Emperor by an alliance with King Henry II of France.

At the suggestion of his friend Benjamin Ruff, Carnegie's partner Henry Clay Frick had formed the exclusive South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club high above Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

One of the club's directors Henry Norris, and his friend William Hill, took over Arsenal in the early 1910s, the plan being to merge Fulham with Arsenal, to form a " London superclub " at Craven Cottage.

In 1860, Edward Watson, a friend of Henry David Thoreau wrote a poem called " The Cranberry Tart.

He was a close friend of the landscape artist Henry Mark Anthony.

Over the next two years, Harley and his childhood friend Arthur Davidson worked on their motor-bicycle using the northside Milwaukee machine shop at the home of their friend, Henry Melk.

Lorenz was also a friend and student of renowned biologist Sir Julian Huxley ( grandson of " Darwin's bulldog ", Thomas Henry Huxley ).

By 1857 he was so well-loved that his friend Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote " The fiftieth birthday of Agassiz " in his honor.

Sir John Oldcastle, a close friend of King Henry V ( and the basis for Falstaff in the Shakespearean history Henry IV ) was brought to trial in 1413 after evidence of his Lollard beliefs was uncovered.

Henry Bacon, a friend of the Cassatts, thought that the Impressionists were so radical that they were " afflicted with some hitherto unknown disease of the eye ".

The cross-dressing actress Charlotte Charke ran the successful but short-lived Punch's Theatre in the Old Tennis Court at St. James's, Westminster, presenting adaptations of Shakespeare as well as plays by herself, her father Colley Cibber, and her friend Henry Fielding.

He spent his childhood mostly in Poole, Dorset, where his aunt, Susan Bell, taught him to draw and introduced him to zoology as she had her own son, Thomas Bell, twenty years older and later to be a great friend to Henry.

His breakthrough came from the insights of Professor Leonard Gale, who taught chemistry at New York University ( a personal friend of Joseph Henry ).

After receiving the letter, Anne Northup appealed again for help from their friend Henry B. Northup.

Brad Pitt will play the role of Henry B. Northup, the attorney and family friend.

Edison's true success, like that of his friend Henry Ford, was in his ability to maximize profits through establishment of mass-production systems and intellectual property rights.

This last manuscript, saved from the confiscation decreed by Henry VIII, passed by the will of his daughter Margaret to Spanish hands and through Fray Pedro de Soto, confessor of Emperor Charles V, went to Valencia, home of Luis Vives, a close friend of More.

Refusing to join other Mugwumps in supporting Grover Cleveland, the Democratic nominee, he debated with his friend Henry Cabot Lodge the pros and cons of staying loyal.

Urged by Roosevelt's close friend, Congressman Henry Cabot Lodge, President William McKinley appointed Roosevelt to the post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897.

Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view.