Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

Astoria ( 1835 ), written while Irving was Astor's guest, cemented the importance of the region in the American psyche .< ref > In his Introduction to the rambling work, Irving reports that Astor explicitly " expressed a regret that the true nature and extent of his enterprize

Washington Irving was instrumental in popularizing Columbus.

The result of his experience with adapting The Demolished Man was The Fury, a science fiction psychic thriller that starred Kirk Douglas, Carrie Snodgress, John Cassavetes and Amy Irving.

Consulting and design engineer Phil Irving ( of Vincent Motorcycle fame ) was the project engineer responsible for producing the initial version of the engine.

The term " covalence " in regard to bonding was first used in 1919 by Irving Langmuir in a Journal of the American Chemical Society article entitled " The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules ".

Just outside the city of Dallas, the stadium was located in Irving, Texas.

The roof's worn paint had become so unsightly in the early 2000s that it was repainted in the summer of 2006 by the City of Irving.

After Cowboys Stadium was opened in 2009, the Cowboys turned over the facility to the City of Irving.

In 1989, Exxon announced that it was moving its headquarters and around 300 employees from Manhattan, New York City to the Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas.

He and other members from his unit wrote a play called Is This the Army ?, which was inspired by Irving Berlin's This is the Army.

According to Irving Howe, Orwell was " the best English essayist since Hazlitt, perhaps since Dr Johnson.

In the mid-1970s some Greenpeace members started an independent campaign, Project Ahab, against commercial whaling, since Irving Stowe was against Greenpeace focusing on other issues than nuclear weapons.

The tale was composed by Irving while he was living in England, and was based on popular tales told by colonial Dutch settlers of New York's Hudson River valley.

George Bernard Shaw's praise for Johnston Forbes-Robertson's performance contains a sideswipe at Irving: " The story of the play was perfectly intelligible, and quite took the attention of the audience off the principal actor at moments.

During the Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt trial it became evident that the court need to identify what was an " objective historian " in the same vein as the reasonable person, and reminiscent of the standard traditionally used in English law of " the man on the Clapham omnibus ".

This was necessary so that there would be a legal bench mark with which to compare and contrast the scholarship of an objective historian against the methods employed by David Irving, as before the Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt trial there was no legal precedent for what constituted an objective historian.

Schneider proposed this, because, in her opinion, Irving could have passed the standard Daubert tests unless a court was given " a great deal of assistance from historians ".

The new Houston team was named the Colt. 45s after a " Name The Team " contest was won by William Irving Neder.

In the early 1990s, Irving was a frequent visitor to Germany, where he spoke at neo-Nazi rallies.

* The Knickerbocker Group, consisting of Irving and other frequent contributors to The Knickerbocker

In November 1992, Irving was to be a featured speaker at a world anti-Zionist congress in Stockholm that was cancelled by the Swedish government.

On April 10, 1946, Irving Fiske ( born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn, New York, on March 5, 1908 ), a playwright, inventor, freelance writer, and speaker, and his wife, Barbara Hall Fiske, ( born Isabelle Daniel Hall in Tucson, Arizona on September 9, 1919 ), an artist and one of the few female cartoonists of the World War II era, bought of mountain, meadow, and brook land in Rochester, Vermont.

Irving Fiske ( March 5, 1908 – April 25, 1990 ) born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn, New York, was a playwright, inventor, freelance writer, and speaker.

He discovered that the so-called Weil representation, previously introduced in quantum mechanics by Irving Segal and Shale, gave a contemporary framework for understanding the classical theory of quadratic forms.

In the late 19th century, elaborate productions of the play staged by Henry Irving employed a wide variety of approaches for this task.

Irving further stated that " tongues are a great instrument for personal edification, however mysterious it may seem to us.

This provides a possible explanation for existence of Irving Braxiatel, a Time Lord who claims to be the Doctor's brother yet is not one of the cousins from Lungbarrow and the implication in The Gallifrey Chronicles that the character Marnal is The Master's father ( whose existence is mentioned in The End of Time ).

When Selznick moved to MGM in 1933 Cukor followed and directed Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ) and David Copperfield ( 1935 ) for Selznick and Romeo and Juliet ( 1936 ) and Camille ( 1936 ) for Irving Thalberg.

" When asked by syndicated columnist Katherine Hillyer for the Washington Daily News ( or by a bystander, according to another account ) what it was called, Irving answered, " It's a jeep.

In 1919 Irving Babbitt, founder of a movement called the " New Humanism ", wrote a critique of what he called " sentimental humanitarianism ", for which he blamed Rousseau.

At the urging of Herman Klein, Irving engaged Arthur Sullivan to write a suite of incidental music for the piece.

As a result of this agreement the liquidator, Irving Picard, agreed to drop the charges that the Wilpons and Mr. Katz blindly went along with the scheme for their personal benefit.

However, the transition from Modernism to Postmodernism is often said to have happened at 3: 32pm on the 15th of July in 1972, when Pruitt Igoe ; a housing development for low-income people in St. Louis, which had been a prize winning version of le Corbusier's ' machine for modern living ' was deemed uninhabitable and was torn down ( Irving 1993, 480 ).

On 20 February 2006, Irving was found guilty, and sentenced to three years imprisonment for Holocaust denial, under Austria's 1947 law banning Nazi revivalism and criminalising the " public denial, belittling or justification of National Socialist crimes ".

Irving Bieber and his colleagues in 1962 published Homosexuality: A Psychoanalytic Study of Male Homosexuals, which concluded that " although this change may be more easily accomplished by some than by others, in our judgment a heterosexual shift is a possibility for all homosexuals who are strongly motivated to change.

Occasionally ragtime was scored for ensembles, ( particularly dance bands and brass bands ) similar to those of James Reese Europe, or as songs like those written by Irving Berlin.

On the other side of the field, multi-talented wide receiver Irving Fryar was equally effective, catching 39 passes for 670 yards, while also rushing for 27 yards, gaining another 559 yards returning punts and kickoffs, and scoring 10 touchdowns.

The United States sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz compared the attraction of Unification teachings for American young people at this time to the hippie and radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

The studio focused on making ' quota quickies ' for the domestic British market and Irving Asher was appointed as the studio's head producer.

Hearst had previously been signed with MGM, but ended the association after a dispute with the company's head producer Irving Thalberg over the treatment of Hearst's long standing mistress, actress Marion Davies, who was struggling for box office success.

After recording a handful of acoustic titles during 1924-1926, his signing with Irving Mills allowed him to record for nearly every label, often recording different versions of the same tune for numerous labels.