According to Critias, the Hellenic gods of old divided the land so that each god might own a lot ; Poseidon was appropriately, and to his liking, bequeathed the island of Atlantis.

Nowadays the castle still belongs to the Academy of Science to which it was bequeathed in 1895 on condition of its producing within fifty years a catalogue of half-a-million stars.

They quickly realized that ethnic inclusiveness was needed if the new republic was to maintain control over the territories bequeathed by the Qing dynasty.

The ship master was so satisfied with the young Drake's conduct that, being unmarried and childless at his death, he bequeathed the barque to Drake.

William I's second son Richard was killed in a hunting accident in 1081, so William bequeathed his dominions to his three surviving sons in the following manner:

On his death in the following year, his property was bequeathed to various charitable causes, including St Bartholomew's Hospital and University College, Oxford, where the Radcliffe Quad is named after him.

Radcliffe, however, not only wrote little but also took a certain iconoclastic pride in having read little, remarking once of some vials of herbs and a skeleton in his study: “ This is Radcliffe ’ s library .” However, he bequeathed a substantial sum of money to Oxford for the founding of the Radcliffe Library, an endowment which, Samuel Garth quipped, was “ about as logical as if a eunuch should found a seraglio .”

Richard Marsh lived until 1727 when his Brewery was bequeathed to his widow, and then to his daughter, who sold the property on to Samuel Shepherd around 1741.

A significant portion of Jefferson's library was also bequeathed to him in the will of George Wythe, who had an extensive collection.

Most of the estate of John Henry Challis was bequeathed to the University, which received a sum of £ 200, 000 in 1889.

William Marsh Rice ( March 14, 1816 – September 23, 1900 ) was an American businessman who bequeathed his fortune to found Rice University in Houston, Texas.

He was carrying, the report said, the remains of his mother, the " powerful queen Tamar " ( regina potentissima Thamar ), who had been unable to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in her lifetime and had bequeathed her body to be buried near the Holy Sepulchre.

During the Christmas holidays of 1873, Evans cataloged a coin collection being bequeathed to Harrow by John Gardner Wilkinson, the father of British Egyptology, who was too ill to work on it himself.

During this time, due to his political activities, Louis received the nickname " Monsieur Veto " – and the name " Madame Veto " was likewise subsequently bequeathed on Marie Antoinette.

Matilda of Tuscany was said to have bequeathed all her allodial lands to the Church upon her death in 1115, but the donation was neither publicly acknowledged in Rome nor is any documentary record of the donation preserved.

Valentino left his estate to his brother, sister, and Rambova's aunt Teresa Werner, who was left the share originally bequeathed to Rambova.

In her will, which was signed October 28, 1976, Crawford bequeathed to her two youngest children, Cindy and Cathy, $ 77, 500 each from her $ 2, 000, 000 estate.

He also bequeathed money for supporting his daughter and in the case that his daughter did not marry within five years, Catherine was to take £ 30 per annum out of the income to support her step-daughter.

According to the abbey's records, in which he was called princeps Australium Saxonum, Eadwinus nomine ( Eadwine leader of the South Saxons ), he bequeathed estates to them in his will, although the document itself has not survived.

Jang's force, though nominally bequeathed by the Silla king, was effectively under his own control.

UCI and the Derrida family are currently involved in a legal dispute regarding exactly what materials constitute his archive, part of which was informally bequeathed to the university.

The cannon was eventually bequeathed to friend and science fiction writer Brad Linaweaver, after Virginia Heinlein died in 2003.

Of his fortune ( estimated at $ 7, 000, 000 ) approximately $ 4, 000, 000 was bequeathed for the establishment and maintenance of a free public library and reading-room in the City of New York ; but, as the will was successfully contested by relatives, only about $ 3, 000, 000 of the bequest was applied to its original purpose ; in 1895, the Tilden Trust was combined with the Astor and Lenox libraries to found the New York Public Library, whose building bears his name on its front.

Dr. James Brown Fisk, physicist, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, was elected to the Board of Trustees.

Nonetheless, he left after only a year, stating that " I was not inspired AT ALL in that place ", and instead deciding that he wanted to travel around Europe for three years with his friend Jack Fisk, who was similarly unhappy with his studies at Cooper Union.

Back in the United States, Lynch returned to Virginia, but since his parents had moved to Walnut Creek, California, he was forced to stay with his friend Tony Keeler for a while, before he decided to move to the city of Philadelphia, where, at the advice of Jack Fisk, who was already attending it, he decided to enroll at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, something he preferred far more than his previous art college in Boston, claiming that " In Philadelphia there were great and serious painters, and everybody was inspiring one another and it was a beautiful time there.

She was from Mississippi and had graduated from Fisk University, a historically black college.

Fisk was educated at Yardley Court preparatory school, Sutton Valence School and at Lancaster University His opposition to the war brought criticism from both Irish Sunday Independent columnist and senator, Eoghan Harris, and The Guardian columnist, Simon Hoggart.

* In 2006, Fisk was awarded Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize along with $ 350, 000.

* In 2011, Fisk was awarded the International Prize at the Amalfi Coast Media Awards in Italy.

* Fisk was made an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of St Andrews on 24 June 2004.

Fisk produced a three-part series titled From Beirut To Bosnia in 1993 which Fisk says was an attempt " to find out why an increasing number of Muslims had come to hate the West.

Unsung pioneers of the art include: WLW's Fred Smith ; Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll ( who popularized the dramatic serial ); The Eveready Hour creative team ( which began with one-act plays but was soon experimenting with hour-long combinations of drama and music on its weekly variety program ); the various acting troupes at stations like WLW, WGY, KGO and a number of others, frequently run by women like Helen Schuster Martin and Wilda Wilson Church ; early network continuity writers like Henry Fisk Carlton, William Ford Manley and Don Clark ; producers and directors like Clarence Menser and Gerald Stopp ; and a long list of others who were credited at the time with any number of innovations but who are largely forgotten or undiscussed today.

He was the final active player from the 1960s to retire from Major League Baseball, outlasting Carlton Fisk ( the final active position player ) by three months.

The prison chaplain, Revd Fisk, was in charge of the selection of this individual – a young man named | a! kunta.

The first silk mill in the United States was constructed in Mansfield and financed by pilgrim descendent, William Fisk.

The town is named for John Skirving Maitland who was a surveyor for the Nodaway Valley Railroad ( the construction company for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad ) that arrived in Maitland in 1880 when its superintendent John Fisk Barnard bought the land for the town from John S. and Delila Swope.

Celina was founded in the 19th century and named after the daughter of local pioneer entrepreneur and educator, Moses Fisk.

Vast claybeds were found and the first pottery was built by Fisk and Smith in 1829 south of Mogadore.

In 2004, O ' Leary was selected as President of her undergraduate alma mater, Fisk University, a historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee.

( DeFalco has since stated that he had intended to reveal Richard Fisk, The Kingpin of Crime's son, as the Hobgoblin, and Roderick Kingsley as the Rose ; the ultimate outcome was, in fact, the exact reverse.

Named after Robert Fisk, a British journalist and author who writes on the Middle East, the term was employed in 2001 by various American conservative and libertarian bloggers who reposted Fisk's dispatches on their own blogs, along with paragraph-by-paragraph commentary that challenged, countered, and / or mocked Fisk's viewpoints.