Henry VII briefly contemplated marrying his mother-in-law off to King James III of Scotland, when James ' wife, Margaret of Denmark, died in 1486.

Banister contemplated writing a natural history of Virginia ; perhaps it was as a preliminary gesture he sent some fine botanical drawings and herbarium specimens to the botanist James Petiver, a London apothecary and Fellow of the Royal Society.

He had already shown a strong inclination for natural science, and this had been fostered by his intimacy with a " self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician ," as Sir Walter Scott called him, of great local fame — James Veitch of Inchbonny — a man who was particularly skillful in making telescopes.

James Williamson concentrated on making films taking action from one place shown in one shot to the next shown in another shot in films like Stop Thief!

In a letter to James F. Morton in 1923, Lovecraft specifically points to Einstein's theory on relativity as throwing the world into chaos and making the cosmos a jest.

He proposed making an expedition to the North Pole hole, thanks to efforts of one of his followers, James McBride.

The film vaulted him from fourth place to first in the studio's roster, finally exceeding James Cagney, and more than doubling his salary to over $ 460, 000 per year by 1946, making him the highest paid actor in the world.

Coalbrookdale by Night, 1801, Philip James de Loutherbourg | Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg the Younger Blast furnaces light the iron making town of Coalbrookdale

These were developments that had begun before the Industrial Revolution, but the adoption of James Watt's more efficient steam engine from the 1770s reduced the fuel costs of engines, making mines more profitable.

Johann August Sutter ( February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880 ) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, the state's capital.

The language was developed beginning in 1955 by Dr James Cooke Brown with the goal of making a language so different from natural languages that people learning it would think in a different way if the hypothesis were true.

James ultimately made 19 Carry On films, receiving top-billing in 17, making him one of the most featured performers of the regular cast.

James B. McCreary, a Democrat from Kentucky, challenged Reed's authority to count him as present ; Reed replied, " The Chair is making a statement of fact that the gentleman from Kentucky is present.

In the 1950s James David Zellerbach, one time US Ambassador to Rome, started Hanzell Vineyards winery and dedicated it to making Burgundian style Chardonnay.

At this time, the United States had just entered World War I, and Mulliken took a position at American University in Washington, D. C., making poison gas under James B. Conant.

James Frost is reported to have erected a manufactory for making of an artificial cement in 1826.

Thus, with the support of convention chairman Elihu Root, Taft's supporters outvoted Roosevelt's men, and the convention renominated incumbents William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman, making Sherman the first sitting vice-president to be nominated for re-election since John C. Calhoun in 1828.

In 1955, he directed John Steinbeck's East of Eden, which introduced James Dean to movie audiences, making him an overnight star.

* Movieline interview with James Cameron on the making of The Abyss

Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Charles-François Daubigny, Max Liebermann, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Gustave Courbet, and in the Netherlands, Jacobus van Looy and Isaac Israëls are some of the Impressionists and realists who have delved deeply into the work of Hals by making study copies of his work and further building on his techniques and style.

According to the San Francisco Herald, in a series of articles run in 1853, they give this honor to Captain Joseph R. Walker, who in January 1851 with his nephew James T. Walker and six men, traveled up the Colorado River to a point where it joined the Virgin River and continued east into Arizona, traveling along the Grand Canyon and making short exploratory side trips along the way.

Cultural pilgrims may also travel on religious pilgrimage routes, such as the Way of St. James, with the perspective of making it a historic or architectural tour rather than a religious experience.

February – March 17-The St. James Conference ends without making any progress as the Arab delegation refuses to recognize or meet with its Jewish counterpart.

Soon, Basie met many of the Harlem musicians who were " making the scene ," including Willie " the Lion " Smith and James P. Johnson.

King James died six days later, making the infant Mary queen regnant of Scotland.

Since its beginning, Pinewood Studios has been the location for many well-known films, with the long-running James Bond and Carry On British film series making Pinewood their home.

I yearn over you, but I yearn in vain ; & your long silence really breaks my heart, mystifies, depresses, almost alarms me, to the point even of making me wonder if poor unconscious & doting old Célimare pet name for James has " done " anything, in some dark somnambulism of the spirit, which has ... given you a bad moment, or a wrong impression, or a " colourable pretext " ...

The first living camellias seen in England were a single red and a single white, grown and flowered in his garden at Thorndon Hall, Essex, by Robert James, Lord Petre, among the keenest gardeners of his generation, in 1739.

Another member of the Petre family was Father Sir Edward Petre, 3rd Baronet, the unpopular chaplain and advisor to James II.

* Robert James Petre, 8th Baron Petre ( 1713 – 1742 )

Baron Petre publicly acknowledged that he was a Roman Catholic and refused to follow the Church of England during the time of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I.

* John ( 1549 – 1613 ) was knighted in 1576, sat in Parliament for Essex in 1585 – 1586, and was created Baron Petre of Writtle, Essex, by James I on 21 July 1603.

The descendants of William Petre remained in England as Catholics well into the reign of James I.

Yearly, he distributed the New World seeds collected by Bartram to British gentry, nurserymen, and natural scientists including Dillenius, Philip Miller, Lord Petre, the Dukes of Richmond and Norfolk, James Gordon, John Busch, etc.

In this way Petre was referring in a modest way to the original Gothic revival period as conceived by such architects as James Wyatt, rather than the later Gothic, after it had fallen under the ecclesiastical Anglo-Catholic influences of such architects as Augustus Pugin in England, and Benjamin Mountfort in New Zealand.

Sir Edward Petre, 3rd baronet SJ ( 1631 – 15 May 1699 ) was an English Jesuit who became a close adviser to King James II and was appointed a privy councillor.

Petre served as a chaplain and adviser to James II of England and was an unpopular and galvanising presence at James's court.

James, as a Roman Catholic reigning over a nation of Protestants, aroused much ire, and much of it was directed at Petre, his close advisor on religious matters.

Later that year, James wrote to ask Pope Innocent XI to make Petre a bishop in partibus ( a bishop without a see, now called a titular bishop ), but Innocent refused.

James and Castlemaine continued to push for a bishop's position for Petre through 1687, and further requested that Petre be made a cardinal, but the pope steadfastly refused.

After his nomination to the Privy Council, the popular charges against Petre became more fervid than ever, reaching their height in insinuations made about the controversial birth of James Francis Edward Stuart, Prince of Wales, in 1688.

" Petre fled to France soon after William III's armies landed in England, and he remained with James in his exile.