Although Rhode Islanders were preparing for the state elections, they watched John Brown's trial with extreme interest.

Concerning the sentence, Foss wrote, `` If it be possible that mercy shall override vengeance and that John Brown's sentence shall be commuted to imprisonment, it would be well -- well for the country and for Virginia ''.

Stephen Vincent Benet's John Brown's Body comes immediately to mind in this connection, as does John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath and Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes.

But political debate was cut short throughout the South with Northern abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry Armory in an attempt to incite slave insurrections.

Douglass was acquainted with the radical abolitionist John Brown but disapproved of Brown's plan to start an armed slave rebellion in the South.

** John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry ( 1859 )

** Harpers Ferry Armory, second federal armory ( construction begun 1799 ) and site of John Brown's slave revolt of 1859

Other members of Brown's band included stalwart singer and sideman Bobby Byrd, drummers John " Jabo " Starks, Clyde Stubblefield and Melvin Parker ( Maceo's brother ), saxophonist St. Clair Pinckney, trombonist Fred Wesley, guitarist Alphonso " Country " Kellum and bassist Bernard Odum.

The riff was provided to " Fame " co-writers John Lennon and Bowie by guitarist Carlos Alomar, who had briefly been a member of Brown's band in the late 1960s.

* " John Brown's Body ", Union marching song of the American Civil War

* John Brown's Body ( band ), an American Reggae band

While in Washington, D. C., to discuss government contracts, and in conjunction with his application for an appointment into the quartermaster department, Stuart heard about John Brown's raid on the U. S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

Also located at the SFU Library is the Electronic Document Centre, which provides internet access to digitized documents from a number of archival collections, such as Harrison Brown's Xi ' an Incident collection, and the history of British Columbia and Western Canada in general, including documents from the Doukhobor migration from the Russian Empire to Saskatchewan and then to British Columbia assembled for donation to the university by John Keenlyside

It was used in John Brown's merchant ships and warships, including liners and Royal Navy warships.

Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831 and John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 showed deep social discontent about slavery and its role in the plantation economy.

The connection between the Friday the 13th superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code and in John J. Robinson's 1989 work Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry.

After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, many prominent voices in the abolitionist movement distanced themselves from Brown, or damned him with faint praise.

* 1929: John Brown's Body by Stephen Vincent Benét

National Park Service map of Harper Ferry showing the Appalachian Trail, with ( 1 ) being the scene of John Brown's raid.

" Attendees of the 1906 meeting walked from Storer College to the nearby farm of the Murphy family, then the site of the historic fort where John Brown's quest to free four million enslaved African Americans reached its bloody climax.

During a Union Army occupation of Harpers Ferry, a contingent of soldiers from Marlborough, Massachusetts, removed a bell hanging in the Harpers Ferry arsenal firehouse., which had served as John Brown's Fort.

* John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry ( 1859 )

Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, The V. I. P.

In 1861, the Tribune published new lyrics for the song " John Brown's Body " by William W. Patton, rivaling the ones published two months later by Julia Ward Howe.

Other key traditional pop and jazz ballads include: " Body and Soul " by Johnny Green ; " Misty " by Erroll Garner ; " The Man I Love " by George Gershwin ; " My Funny Valentine " by Rodgers and Hart, " God Bless the Child " by Billie Holiday, " Ev ' ry Time We Say Goodbye " by Cole Porter, the instrumental ballad " Naima " by John Coltrane, " In a Sentimental Mood " by Duke Ellington and " Always " by Irving Berlin.

After he became pope in 1978, John Paul II continued on the Catholic Theology of the Body of his predecessors with a series of lectures, entitled Theology of the Body, in which he talked about an original unity between man and women, purity of heart ( on the Sermon on the Mount ), marriage and celibacy and reflections on Humane Vitae, focusing largely on responsible parenthood and marital chastity.

Ice-T also speculated that his past affiliation with Body Count could hurt Barack Obama's chances if he endorsed him, so he'd choose instead to ruin John McCain's campaign by saying he supported him.

Stout revealed the reason for the change in a letter obtained by his authorized biographer, John McAleer: " In the original draft of Over My Dead Body Nero was a Montenegrin by birth, and it all fitted previous hints as to his background ; but violent protests from The American Magazine, supported by Farrar & Rinehart, caused his cradle to be transported five thousand miles.

Pope John Paul II in his five-year catechesis on the Theology of the Body dedicates a major portion of the section on marriage to a study of Song of Songs.

He has also worked in front of the camera in The Stand as a dimwitted hitman, John Carpenter's Body Bags as a gas station attendant, and Indian Summer in what is perhaps his biggest role as a bumbling assistant to Alan Arkin.

Laughton also directed a staged reading in 1953 of Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body, a full-length poem about the American Civil War and its aftermath.

Laughton did not appear himself in either production, but John Brown's Body was recorded complete by Columbia Masterworks.

:* 1953: John Brown's Body, adapted by Laughton from Stephen Vincent Benét

Like Body and Soul, the film starred John Garfield.

" The song " John Brown's Body " made him a heroic martyr and was a popular Union marching song during the Civil War.

The classic examples of this would be Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Arrival, the gradual evolution of humans to ‘ hybrid ’ aliens in TV's Invasion, Threshold, the Animorphs series, Invader Zim, Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters and the John W. Campbell, Jr. short story " Who Goes There?

* John Freese, The Philosophy of the Immortality of the Soul and the Resurrection of the Human Body.

* John J. Donahue III, Stanford Law School, ' The Final Bullet in the Body of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis ', Criminology and Public Policy, 2003.

Bangor is the home of the protagonist in John Guare's famous play Landscape of the Body.

On stage in the 1953 dramatic reading of Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body, Massey, in addition to narrating along with Tyrone Power and Judith Anderson, took on both the roles of John Brown and Abe Lincoln in the same work.

* Body and Soul ( 1947 film ), film noir which tells the story of a boxer ( John Garfield ) who becomes involved with a corrupt promoter