Among others he beat were Light Heavyweight Champion Battling Levinsky ( who had never been knocked out before Dempsey did so ), Bill Brennan, Fred Fulton, Carl E. Morris, Billy Miske (" newspaper decision "), heavyweight Lefty Jim McGettigan and Homer Smith.

But Homer, ignoring both Hud ’ s suggestion and the financial consequences to the ranch, does not alter his decision, and he calls in the state veterinarian ( Whit Bissell ).

Famous New Orleanians buried in St. Louis # 1 include Etienne de Boré, wealthy pioneer of the sugar industry and the first mayor of New Orleans ; Homer Plessy, the plaintiff from the landmark 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision on civil rights ; and Ernest N. " Dutch " Morial, the first African-American mayor of New Orleans.

Homer Plessy ( March 17, 1862 – March 1, 1925 ) was the American Creole plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.

With all of Chloe's success, Marge seems to begin to resent both her decision and her family, but receives supporting words from Homer.

After an agonized hesitation at the crux of the decision, she surprises Homer at the plant and kisses him warmly.

When the family makes the decision to go to the school, Homer, after cocking a shotgun and pointing it at the camera, exclaims, " To the book depository!

Both Aristotle and Homer may in spirit be contemplating `` bust '' of the old-fashioned American dollar.

One of the greatest Homerists of our time, Frederick M. Combellack, argues that when it is assumed The Iliad and The Odyssey are oral poems, the postulated single redactor called Homer cannot be either credited with or denied originality in choice of phrasing.

The focus can be as diverse as the analysis of Homer or Freud.

Aphrodite might then be an equivalent of Rhea, the Earth Mother, whom Homer relocated to Olympus.

In Homer, Aphrodite, venturing into battle to protect her son, Aeneas, is wounded by Diomedes and returns to her mother, to sink down at her knee and be comforted.

On occasion, the names of characters themselves actually seem to have been altered: the spelling of the name of Homer ’ s character Polydamas, Pouludamas, appears to be an alternative rendering of the metrically unviable Poludamas (“ subduer of many ”).

Homer is most frequently said to be born in the Ionian region of Asia Minor, at Smyrna, or on the island of Chios, dying on the Cycladic island of Ios.

The cardinal qualities of the style of Homer are well articulated by Matthew Arnold: he translator of Homer should above all be penetrated by a sense of four qualities of his author :— that he is eminently rapid ; that he is eminently plain and direct, both in the evolution of his thought and in the expression of it, that is, both in his syntax and in his words ; that he is eminently plain and direct in the substance of his thought, that is, in his matter and ideas ; and finally, that he is eminently noble.

Comparisons with Homer can be unflattering.

Greeks in the late fifth and early 4th centuries BC considered their oldest poets to be Orpheus, Musaeus, Hesiod and Homer — in that order.

Comparisons with Homer, a native Ionian, can be unflattering.

This anomaly can be explained by the fact that Hesiod made a conscious effort to compose like an Ionian epic poet at a time when digamma was not heard in Ionian speech, while Homer tried to compose like an older generation of Ionian bards, when it was heard in Ionian speech.

He believed that Hesiod and Pythagoras lacked understanding though learned and that Homer and Archilochus deserved to be beaten.

North of Chios Town lies the large suburb of Vrontados ( population 4, 500 ), which claims to be the birthplace of Homer.

During the course of the 5th century BC, Nereus was gradually replaced by Triton, who does not appear in Homer, in the imagery of the struggle between Heracles and the sea-god who had to be restrained in order to deliver his information that was employed by the vase-painters, independent of any literary testimony.

Symmetry requires that there be an uninhabitable Frigid Zone ( katepsugmenē, " frozen ") to the north and reports from there since the time of Homer seemed to confirm it.

These authors, in such works as The Republic and Laws by Plato, and The Politics and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, analyzed political systems philosophically, going beyond earlier Greek poetic and historical reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides.

Out of over 200 remaining remnants of Sappho ’ s poetry, Fragment 16 and Fragment 44 in particular are considered lyric retellings of Homer epics, as Sappho was known to be very familiar with Homer ’ s poems.

The glorious and rich city Homer describes was believed to be Troy VI by many twentieth century authors, destroyed in

As Alastair Norcross has said, “ suppose that Homer is faced with the painful choice between saving Barney from a burning building or saving both Moe and Apu from the building … it is clearly better for Homer to save the larger number, precisely because it is a larger number … Can anyone who really considers the matter seriously honestly claim to believe that it is worse that one person die than that the entire sentient population of the universe be severely mutilated?

* Philosopher John Searle suggests that the Western canon can be roughly defined as " a certain Western intellectual tradition that goes from, say, Socrates to Wittgenstein in philosophy, and from Homer to James Joyce in literature ..."

He became embittered against society because of his long prison sentence and befriended other criminals, such as seasoned bank robbers like Harry " Pete " Pierpont, Charles Makley, Russell Clark, and Homer Van Meter, who taught Dillinger how to be a successful criminal.

Some argue that " Homer " may have meant " he who puts the voice in tune " with dancing.

Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Kavner and fellow cast member Dan Castellaneta to voice Marge and Homer rather than hire more actors.

In 2004, Kavner and Dan Castellaneta ( the voice of Homer ) won a Young Artist Award for " Most Popular Mom & Dad in a TV Series ".

* October 29 – Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor ( Homer Simpson from ' The Simpsons ')

From his work on the vocoder, Homer Dudley developed a manually keyboard-operated voice synthesizer called The Voder ( Voice Demonstrator ), which he exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Castellaneta to voice Homer.

Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Castellaneta and fellow cast member Julie Kavner to voice Homer and Marge Simpson rather than hire more actors.

In the shorts and earlier episodes, Castellaneta voiced Homer with a loose impression of Walter Matthau ; however, during the second and third seasons of the half-hour show, Homer's voice evolved to become more robust, to allow the expression of a fuller range of emotions.

Grampa's voice is performed by Dan Castellaneta, who also voices numerous other characters, including Homer Simpson, Krusty the Clown, Barney Gumble, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby and Hans Moleman.

Although he is mentioned only briefly in Homer's Iliad, in which Hera takes Stentor's character to encourage the Greeks to fight, his name has been living in the term " stentorian " voice, meaning loud-voiced, for which he was famous: Homer said his " voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men ".

Among these are Pulitizer Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway, football hall-of-famer George Trafton, McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, city planner Walter Burley Griffin, comedian Kathy Griffin, and the voice of iconic cartoon character Homer Simpson, Dan Castellaneta.

Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Kavner and fellow cast member Dan Castellaneta to voice Marge and Homer rather than hire more actors.

" In a DVD review of the first season, David B. Grelck gave the episode a rating of 3½ / 5 and commented: " Surprisingly, this early episode has a lot of the zest of the later shows, despite fairly odd looking art and a very Walter Matthau voice for Homer, still has some laughs ".

Flanders had been meant to be just a neighbor that Homer was jealous of, but Harry Shearer used " such a sweet voice " and Flanders was broadened to become a Christian and a sweet guy that someone would prefer to live next to over Homer.

In " Bart of Darkness ", Flanders's high pitched scream was performed by Tress MacNeille and in " Homer to the Max ", Flanders comments about cartoons being easily able to change voice actors and on that occasion he was voiced by Karl Wiedergott.

On television, Fierstein was featured as the voice of Karl, Homer Simpson's assistant, in the " Simpson and Delilah " episode of The Simpsons and the voice of Elmer in the 1999 HBO special based on his children's book The Sissy Duckling, which won the Humanitas Prize for Children's Animation.

The characters act completely differently to how they do in later seasons ; Lisa, for example, is indisciplined and short-tempered, while Homer is the voice of reason ; these roles are reversed in later episodes.

Some scenes, such as Marge's video message to Homer, were recorded over one hundred times, leaving the voice cast exhausted.

Fans of The Simpsons may also recognize Keach's voice in the recurring role of Duff Brewery President, Howard K. Duff VIII, beginning with the 12th season episode, " Hungry, Hungry Homer ", wherein Homer attempts to stop Howard K. Duff from moving the Springfield Isotopes baseball team to Albuquerque by staging a hunger strike.

The title character, an " average worm " who stumbled upon a space suit which turned him into a superhero, became immensely popular, and spawned a variety of other types of merchandise: action figures, comic books, and a syndicated television cartoon series on the Warner Kids Network, with the title character voiced on the show by Dan Castellaneta ( also known as the voice behind Homer Simpson ).

Dan Castellaneta ( who does the voice of Homer Simpson ) appeared in a Homer costume and hired the attorneys in the seventh-season premiere.