In contrast, Humorists William Edmonstoune Aytoun and Theodore Martin ( writing as " Bon Gaultier ") have proposed that the Norse themselves were the models for the mine kobold and similar creatures, such as dwarfs, goblins, and trolls ; Norse miners and smiths " were small in their physical proportions, and usually had their stithies near the mouths of the mines among the hills.

Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese, Volume 2, Taylor & Francis, 1996, ISBN 0-8240-5990-5, p. 1216.

Humorists Sanjeev Kohli who played Navid in Scottish sitcom Still Game and his brother Hardeep Singh Kohli, a contributor on BBC magazine shows moved at a very young age to Bishopbriggs and spent their childhood here.

In 2002 the Chicago Tribune, in a review of The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo, noted: " The wry, ornery, brilliantly perceptive satirist will go down as one of the Great American Humorists.

* Gale, Steven H. Encyclopedia of British Humorists, Routledge, London, 1996.

The American Humorists, ( from left to right: Josh Billings, Mark Twain, David Ross Locke | Petroleum V. Nasby )

*: Category: Writers by outlook: Comedy writers, Humorists, Satirists, etc.

The episcopate of this pop-reference movement were the post-Nabokovian Black Humorists, the Metafictionists and assorted franc-and latinophiles only later comprised by " postmodern.

" The erudite, sardonic fictions of the Black Humorists introduced a generation of new fiction writers who saw themselves as sort of avant-avant-garde, not only cosmopolitan and polyglot but also technologically literate, products of more than just one region, heritage, and theory, and citizens of a culture that said its most important stuff about itself via mass media.

See also: Category: Humorists.

* Die Humoristiker, waltz ( The Humorists ), Op.

Humorists from the United Kingdom.

Bracebridge Hall, or, The Humorists, A Medley is based on Aston Hall.

PopMatters published four books in a series with Counterpoint / Soft Skull in 2008-2009 including " China Underground " by Zachary Mexico, " Apocalypse Jukebox: The End of the World in American Popular Music " by Edward Whitelock and David Janssen, " Rebels Wit Attitude: Subversive Rock Humorists " by Iain Ellis, and " The Solitary Vice: Against Reading " by Mikita Brottman.

Fun and Philosophy from the American Newspaper Humorists.

Freestyle shortly thereafter gave way to mainstream pop artists such as MC Hammer, Paula Abdul, Bobby Brown, New Kids on the Block and Milli Vanilli, who used hip hop beats and electro samples, but in a mainstream form and with slicker production and MTV-friendly videos.

In Rome he was surrounded by a circle of well-born and well-educated women, including some from the noblest patrician families, such as the widows Lea, Marcella and Paula, with their daughters Blaesilla and Eustochium.

Additionally, his condemnation of Blaesilla's hedonistic lifestyle in Rome had led her to adopt aescetic practices, but it affected her health and worsened her physical weakness to the point that she died just four months after starting to follow his instructions ; much of the Roman populace were outraged at Jerome for causing the premature death of such a lively young woman, and his insistence to Paula that Blaesilla should not be mourned, and complaints that her grief was excessive, were seen as heartless, polarising Roman opinion against him.

Paula Block, then of CBS Consumer Products, was responsible for approving proposals and all completed manuscripts for the licensed media tie-ins, and granted many such uses of TAS material since Roddenberry's passing.

Unlike neighboring cities such as Oxnard and Ventura, Santa Paula suffers from very little traffic.

Paula then prays reaching out to a variety of people on Earth, such as their family and friends, who all pray for their safety, and eventually, she reaches out to the player, whose prayers defeat Giygas, due to his weakness to human emotions.

The University College of London's Slade School of Fine Art houses a collection of handmade Christmas Cards from alumni such as Paula Rego and Richard Hamilton and are displayed at events over the Christmas season, when members of the public can make their own Christmas cards in the Strang Print Room.

The show also drew many well-known or then up-and-coming actors and actresses for single guest starring roles, such as Don Ameche, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Ken Berry, Sonny Bono, Eddie Bracken, Joseph Campanella, Virginia Capers, Rosalind Cash, George Clooney, Polly Holliday, Robert Culp, Ruby Dee, the Del Rubio triplets, Jeane Dixon, Anne Francis, Johnny Gilbert, Jack Gilford, Alice Ghostley, Peter Graves, Merv Griffin, George Grizzard, Gary Grubbs, Bob Hope, Julio Iglesias, Freddie Jackson, Tony Jay, Billy Jayne, Gordon Jump, Paula Kelly, Alan King, David Leisure, Jenny Lewis, Hal Linden, Mark Linn-Baker, Mario Lopez, Edie McClurg, Marian Mercer, Martin Mull, Leslie Nielsen, Jerry Orbach, Leland Orser, Tony Plana, Peggy Pope, Joe Regalbuto, Burt Reynolds, Debbie Reynolds, Donnelly Rhodes, Richard Riehle, Alex Rocco, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Harry Shearer, McLean Stevenson, Inga Swenson, Jeffrey Tambor, Meshach Taylor, Jay Thomas, Alex Trebek, Dick Van Dyke, Tom Villard, Lyle Waggoner, David Wayne and Fred Willard.

Prince's Paisley Park Studios was used both by Prince and for outside music production by artists such as Madonna, Boy George, the Fine Young Cannibals and Paula Abdul.

On Fast Forward, Gina Riley sent-up such singers as Paula Abdul, Bette Midler and Dannii Minogue as well as Australian personalities Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Jacki MacDonald.

The opening exhibition included a retrospective by Damien Hirst, as well as work by other YBAs, such as Jake and Dinos Chapman and Tracey Emin alongside some longer-established artists including John Bratby, Paula Rego and Patrick Caulfield.

The university ’ s campus make it the second largest in the California State University system, a figure which includes various facilities scattered throughout Southern California such as a ranch in Santa Paula, California, campus at the former Spadra Landfill ( now known as " Spadra Ranch "), and the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences in West Los Angeles.

The New Rolling Stone Album Guide ( 2004 ) documented that within two years of the release of Control, " a new crop of female singers ( such as Paula Abdul and Karyn White ) were charged with imitating Janet.

Some adopted New Left perspectives that he rejected, among them were Herbert Gutman, Eric Foner, Lawrence W. Levine, Linda Kerber, and Paula Fass, while others, such as Eric McKitrick and Stanley Elkins, were more conservative than he ; hence, Hofstadter had few disciples and founded no school of history writing.

The public transportation system in the city of San Juan and surrounding areas includes buses that connect downtown with other cities such as Villa Krause, Rivadavia, Santa Lucia, Villa Paula Sarmiento Albarracín and Aberastain.

He received bedside visits from such movie and theater friends as Marlon Brando, Lee Strasberg and Paula Strasberg, Jean Renoir and his wife, Dido, Elia Kazan, Harold Clurman, Shirley MacLaine, and Danny Kaye ,, among others.

Blogging has also been taken up by sportsmen and women such as Curt Schilling, Paula Radcliffe, Greg Oden, Donovan McNabb, and Chris Cooley.

Given the unstable political climate during these years, Bolívar and other patriot leaders, such as Santiago Mariño, Manuel Piar, José Francisco Bermúdez and Francisco de Paula Santander often had to go into exile in the Caribbean or nearby areas of Spanish America that at the moment were controlled by those favoring independence, and from there, carry on the struggle.

Guests such as Gov Davis, Laura Bush, Paula Abdul, Bill O ' Reilly, were just some of the names that dropped by the show.

Dedicated food related television channels have also become a medium for chefs to become household names, for example in the United States, the Food Network features shows from celebrity chefs such as Paula Deen and Bobby Flay.

Examples of such songs are the covers of Paula Toller's Oito Anos ( a song Toller wrote for her own son, Gabriel ) and Claudinho & Buchecha's Fico Assim Sem Você, which became a hit on adult radios.

This series, which starred Richard O ' Sullivan, Paula Wilcox and Sally Thomsett, as well as Brian Murphy, as George Roper, ran until 1976 and told the story of two young women and a young man sharing the Ropers ' upstairs flat, and the sexual tension and misunderstandings such living arrangements provide.

Some scholars, such as Daniel Boyarin and Paula Fredricksen, suggest that it was at this time, when Christians and Pharisees were competing for leadership of the Jewish people, that accounts of debates between Jesus and the apostles, debates with Pharisees, and anti-Pharisaic passages, were written and incorporated into the New Testament.

Sporting Woman has interviewed and featured some of the greatest athletes, such as Lindsay Davenport, Luke Jensen, Paula Creamer, and Maria Sharapova and has a new column in its winter issue hosted by Christie Brinkley which features outdoor sports make-up tips and as well as an interview from the U. S. Open with Andre Agassi.

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

While authors such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Marc Ferro and Jacques Le Goff continue to carry the Annales banner, today the Annales approach has been less distinctive as more and more historians do work in cultural history, political history and economic history.

His uncle, George Lauder, whom he referred to as " Dod ", introduced him to the writings of Robert Burns and historical Scottish heroes such as Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, and Rob Roy.

Aberfoyle has connections to many historical figures such as Rob Roy and Mary, Queen of Scots.

From Roy Ayers in the 1970s to Randy Weston in the 1990s, there have been collaborations which have resulted in albums such as Africa: Centre of the World by Roy Ayers, released on the Polydore label in 1981.

In an attempt to compete with EastEnders, issue-led storylines were introduced such as Toyah Battersby's rape, Roy and Hayley Cropper abducting their foster child, Sarah Platt's Internet chat room abduction and Alma Halliwell's death of cervical cancer.

He landed his first solo exhibition in 1953 at the John Heller Gallery, who represented artists such as Roy Lichtenstein.

Although artists working with other media have expressed interest in the concept, such as Roy Ascott, " cyberspace " in digital art is mostly used as a synonym for immersive virtual reality and remains more discussed than enacted.

However, injuries mounted during the season with the team losing several starters for the year, such as Kyle Kosier, Felix Jones, safety Roy Williams and punter Mat McBriar, and several other starters playing with injuries.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Chapman also contributed sketches to the BBC radio series I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again and television programmes such as The Illustrated Weekly Hudd ( starring Roy Hudd ), Cilla Black, This is Petula Clark, and This Is Tom Jones.

In addition to hosts Buck Owens and Roy Clark, who would perform at least one song each week, other cast members — such as Gunilla Hutton and Misty Rowe — would occasionally perform a song on the show ; and the show would almost always open with a song performed by the entire cast.

Following the Arab Spring, scholar Oliver Roy has described Islamism, or political Islam, as " increasingly interdependent " with democracy in much of the Arab Muslim world, such that " neither can now survive without the other.

The hypothesis that Japanese might be related to Korean has had some supporters due to some apparent overlap in vocabulary and similar grammatical features that have been elaborated upon by such researchers as Samuel E. Martin and Roy Andrew Miller.

They began with serious, tight, economical drama films such as Seven Days to Noon ( 1950 ) and Graham Greene's Brighton Rock ( 1947 ), both with Roy producing and John directing.

Pioneering efforts came from such dedicated and learned people like Prof. Hemchandra Das Gupta, Prof. Hiralal Roy, Prof. Satish Chandra Bhattacharyya, and many others, who introduced new disciplines and domains of engineering and changed the dimensions of the colonial engineering education.

In response to these criticisms, proponents such as Tim Dinsdale, Peter Scott and Roy Mackal postulate a trapped marine creature that evolved either from a plesiosaur or to the shape of a plesiosaur by convergent evolution.

Some critics, such as philosophers Roy Childs, Norman P. Barry, and Chandran Kukathas, have argued that Objectivist ethics are consistent with anarcho-capitalism instead of minarchism.

* westerns ( also see Dime Western ); the Colorado artist Arthur Roy Mitchell is particularly known for his sketches of the covers of such western magazines.

Since this story was intended as a political polemic, credit for the first science fiction story is often given to later Bengali authors such as Jagadananda Roy, Hemlal Dutta and the polymath Jagadish Chandra Bose ( see Bengali science fiction ).

Willard M. McCullough, the newly elected sheriff of Tulsa County, was determined to avoid events such as the 1920 lynching of Roy Belton in Tulsa, which occurred during the term of his predecessor.

This focuses on Cubism, Futurism, Vorticism and Pop Art, containing work by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and the photographer Eugène Atget,

Many of the leading press barons of the era, such as Ogden Reid of the New York Herald Tribune, Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain and John and Gardner Cowles, publishers of the Minneapolis Star and the Minneapolis Tribune, as well as The Des Moines Register and Look magazine, supported Willkie in their newspapers and magazines.

Among the graduates from this campus are two former U. S. Vice Presidents, Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, former NAACP president Roy Wilkins, several Nobel prize winners, several athletes such as Ric Flair, Kevin McHale, Dave Winfield, Patty Berg, Brock Lesnar, Curt Hennig, Shelton Benjamin, Bobby Jackson of the NBA, and composer Yanni.