Meanwhile, Irving's twin brother Herman ( also Jack E. Leonard, without a toupee ), Wellington's trusted employee, plots with his love interest, the scheming harridan Camille Salamander ( Phyllis Diller ) to find the fountain of youth first.

Irving's brother is writer / director David Irving ( not the British author of the same name ) and her sister is singer / teacher of deaf children Katie Irving.

In Washington Irving's story " The Devil and Tom Walker " set in 1727, Irving tells how Tom asks " the black man " who he is.

At the libel proceedings against Irving, Watt declined Irving's request to testify, appearing only after a subpoena was ordered.

Irving's intention in Hitler's War to clean away the " years of grime and discoloration from the facade of a silent and forbidding monument " to reveal the real Hitler, whose reputation Irving claimed had been slandered by historians.

Irving's performance at the Der Stern press conference where he violently harangued Trevor-Roper until ejected by security led him to be featured prominently on the news ; the next day, Irving appeared on Today television show as a featured guest.

Irving was proud of the " trail of chaos " he had created at the Hamburg press conference and the attendant publicity it had brought him, and in particular took a great deal of pride in his humiliation of Trevor-Roper, whom Irving strongly disliked for his criticism of Irving's methods and conclusions.

Irving was a frequent speaker for the DVU in the 1980s and the early 1990s, but the relationship ended in 1993 apparently because of concerns by the DVU that Irving's espousal of Holocaust denial might lead to the DVU being banned.

Irving's self-proclaimed mission was to guide " promising young men " in Germany in the " right direction " ( Irving has often stated his belief that women exist for a " certain task, which is producing us ", and should be " subservient to men "; leading, in Lipstadt's view, to a lack of interest on Irving's part in guiding young German women in the " right direction ").

Irving went on to assert that the " ship " was due for rough sailing because recently the Soviet government had allowed historians access to " the index cards of all the people who passed through the gates of Auschwitz ", and claimed that this would lead to " a lot of people are not claiming to be Auschwitz survivors anymore " ( Irving's statement about the index cards was incorrect ; what the Soviet government had made available in 1990 were the death books of Auschwitz, recording the weekly death tolls ).

Several of these statements were cited by the judge's decision in Irving's lawsuit against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, leading the judge to conclude that Irving " had on many occasions spoken in terms which are plainly racist.

Stevenson's Treasure Island was directly influenced by Irving's " Wolfert Webber ", Stevenson saying in his preface " It is my debt to Washington Irving that exercises my conscience, and justly so, for I believe plagiarism was rarely carried farther .. the whole inner spirit and a good deal of the material detail of my first chapters .. were the property of Washington Irving.

According to Michael Holroyd's book about Irving and Terry, A Strange Eventful History, after Irving's death, Terry stated that she and Irving had been lovers and that: " We were terribly in love for a while ".

") George Bernard Shaw, a theatre critic at the time who was jealous of Irving's connection to Ellen Terry ( whom Shaw himself wanted in his own plays ), conceded Irving's genius after Irving died.

The fortunes of the house were at a low ebb when the tide was turned by Irving's sudden success as Mathias in The Bells, a version of Erckmann-Chatrian's Le Juif polonais by Leopold Lewis, a property which Irving had found for himself.

The chief remaining novelties at the Lyceum, during Irving's term as sole manager ( the theatre passed, at the beginning of 1899, into the hands of a limited liability company ) were Arthur Conan Doyle's Waterloo ( 1894 );< ref > see King, Henry Irving's ' Waterloo < nowiki >'</ nowiki ></ ref > J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur in 1895 ; Cymbeline, in which Irving played Iachimo, in 1896 ; Sardou's Madame Sans-Gene in 1897 ; and Peter the Great, a play by Laurence Irving, the actor's second son, in 1898.

It is Irving's sixth published novel, and has been adapted into a film of the same name and a stage play by Peter Parnell.

More recently, Washington Irving's famous 1819 story " Rip Van Winkle " tells of a man named Rip Van Winkle who takes a nap on a mountain and wakes up 20 years in the future, when he has been forgotten, his wife dead, and his daughter grown up.

Van Pelt has argued that, with the failure of Irving's political career, he felt freer to associate with Holocaust deniers.

Whether Irving's relationship with Terry was romantic as well as professional has been the subject of much speculation.

Whether Irving's long, spectacularly successful relationship with his leading lady Ellen Terry was romantic as well as professional has been the subject of much historical speculation.

It has made significant appearances in at least five novels, including John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, and it continues to be pored over by historians, social scientists, and graduate students.

Henry Irving's portrayal of an aristocratic, proud Shylock ( first seen at the Lyceum in 1879, with Portia played by Ellen Terry ) has been called " the summit of his career ".

The rumour has been promoted by David Irving to support his unflattering view of Churchill ; it is difficult to prove or disprove Irving's claims.

He has about 35 known canvases, most of which are based on Washington Irving's stories about Dutch New York, drawing inspiration from the Hudson Valley and from such English painters as William Hogarth, Isaac Cruikshank, James Gillray, Joseph Wright of Derby, and George Morland.

The story, from Irving's collection of short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, has worked itself into known American folklore / legend through literature and film.

" Although originally regarded as an approach to domestic policy ( the founding instrument of the movement, Kristol's The Public Interest periodical, did not even cover foreign affairs ), through the influence of figures like Dick Cheney, Robert Kagan, Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman and ( Irving's son ) Bill Kristol, it has become most famous for its association with the foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration.

Largely owing to Irving's book, the name Knickerbacker / Knickerbocker has passed into current use as a designation of the early Dutch settlers in New York and their descendants.

* Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving's 1819 story, is about a man named Rip Van Winkle who takes a nap on a mountain and wakes up twenty years in the future, where he has been forgotten, his wife has died, and his daughter has grown up.

He had been interrupted while giving an invited speech at David Irving's instigation ; his talk followed immediately one by Robert Faurisson.

A life of Fergusson is included in David Irving's Lives of the Scottish Poets, and in Robert Chambers's Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Scotsmen.

The Leuchter Report: The First Forensic Examination of Auschwitz by Focal Point Publications, David Irving's publishing house.

His campaign manager Gary Cartwright, a National Democrats candidate and organiser prior to joining UKIP, was a regular contributor to holocaust denier David Irving's historical revisionist Focal Point website

The League supported David Irving and assisted his visits to Australia ; Veritas published Irving's work in Australia.

* The Writings of Joseph Sobran hosted on David Irving's Focal Point Publications website.

Martin took part in Holocaust denier David Irving's " Real History Conference 2001 " in Cincinnati, giving a lecture entitled " The Judaic Role in the Black Slave Trade "

Some of his reviews attracted controversy, most notably in April 1996, when he praised Daniel Goldhagen's book Hitler's Willing Executioners and later in September of the same year when he argued that David Irving's work was valuable because of what Craig saw as Irving's devil's advocate role.

In an article first published in the Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte journal in 1977, later translated into English as " Hitler and the Genesis of the ‘ Final Solution ’: An Assessment of David Irving ’ s Theses ", Broszat criticized David Irving's argument in his book Hitler's War that Hitler was unaware of the Holocaust but did accept Irving's argument that there was no written order from Hitler for the " Final Solution to the Jewish Question ".

Jäckel in his turn wrote a series of newspaper articles later turned into the book David Irving's Hitler: A Faulty History Dissected attacking Irving and maintained that Hitler was very much aware of and approved of the Holocaust.

* David Irving's Hitler: a faulty history dissected: two essays translation and comments by H. David Kirk ; with a foreword by Robert Fulford ; Port Angeles, Wash. ; Brentwood Bay, B. C.

It is also frequently used as an auditory symbol of rural America, as in Washington Irving's story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, or as a plot device.

* It was used as the theme song for the movie version of John Irving's novel The World According to Garp

Washington Irving's 1837 book describing the Bonneville expedition called it " Ogden's River ", the name used by many early travelers.

Irving's operations were entrusted to his children, one of which, Kenneth Colin Irving, assumed majority ownership and used JDI as a springboard for expanding into pulp and paper and other forestry-related businesses between the 1920s-1940s.

In 1889 he married Angelita Helena Maria de Silva Ferro, daughter of a Chilean consul and a fellow actor in Irving's company who used the stage name Miss N. de Silva.

Irving's first edition figures became widely accepted and were used in many standard reference works.