* Nightmares ( 1980 film ), an Australian horror film directed by John D. Lamond and featuring Gary Sweet

His mother Bess, who could not write herself, reminded her husband through Sturley to buy the apron he had promised her and `` a suite of hattes for 5 boies the yongst lined & trimmed with silke '' ( for John, only a year old ).

Ealdred encouraged Folcard, a monk of Canterbury, to write the Life Saint John of Beverley.

Former emphasis on presumed race, in which John A. Scott could write an article on Achaean blondness, compared to the dark locks of " Mediterranean " Poseidon, on the basis of hints in Homer, has been laid aside.

It became the expectation — rather than the exception — that those in the public eye should write about themselves — not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.

The author of the work identifies himself in the text as " John " and says that he was on Patmos, an island in the Aegean, when he " heard a great voice " instructing him to write the book.

Raphael Holinshed also included her story in his Chronicles ( 1577 ), based on Tacitus and Dio, and inspired Shakespeare's younger contemporaries Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher to write a play, Bonduca, in 1610.

The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to John Loud, a leather tanner, who was attempting to make a writing instrument that would be able to write on his leather products, which then-common fountain pens could not do.

Tsiang and John King Fairbank, who used newly opened archives in the 1930s to write from the Chinese point of view.

Fermat was not the first mathematician so moved to write in his own marginal notes to Diophantus ; the Byzantine scholar John Chortasmenos ( 14th / 15th C .) had written " Thy soul, Diophantus, be with Satan because of the difficulty of your theorems " next to the same problem.

He eventually got funding in 1983 to write a script about John and Jim Pardue, a pair of Missouri bank robbers who had killed their father and grandmother and robbed five banks.

In 1980 Jeff Lynne was asked to write for the soundtrack of the musical film Xanadu, with the other half written by John Farrar and performed by the film's star Olivia Newton-John.

So it was that Pope Innocent I contrived to have Honorius write to his brother, condemning the deposition of John Chrysostom in 407.

John Beck enlisted the help of two Hollywood writers, Paul Mason and Bruce Howard, to write a new screenplay.

According to the Church Fathers, the Bishops of Asia Minor requested John, in his old age, to write a gospel in response to Cerinthus, the Ebionites and other Hebrew groups which they deemed heretical.

He went on to write and publish six more novels under the name John Wyndham, all of which appeared in his lifetime.

Private Eye parodied Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, age 13¾ to write The Secret Diary of John Major, age 47¾, in which Major was portrayed as a naive nincompoop ( e. g. keeping lists of his enemies in a Rymans Notebook called his " Bastards Book ") and featuring " my wife Norman " and " Mr Dr Mawhinney " as recurring characters.

* 1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.

John Painter states that Origen expresses surprise that given that a Josephus who disbelieves in Jesus as Christ ( Commentary on Matthew Book X, Chapter 17 ) should write respectfully of James, his brother.

Coleridge did write to John Thelwall, 14 October 1797, to describe his feelings related to those expressed in the poem:

The success of original material like Urinetown, Avenue Q, Spelling Bee and In the Heights, as well as creative re-imaginings of film properties, including Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hairspray, Billy Elliot and The Color Purple, and plays-turned-musicals, such as Spring Awakening, prompts theatre historian John Kenrick to write: " Is the Musical dead?

After completing VQuake, John Carmack vowed never to write a proprietary port again, citing his frustration with Rendition's Speedy3D API.

Sutch's album Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends was named in a 1998 BBC poll as the worst album of all time, a status it also held in Colin Larkin's book The Top 1000 Albums of All Time, despite the fact that Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Jeff Beck, Noel Redding and Nicky Hopkins performed on it and helped write it.

Gilbert consented and offered to write the book ; but Sondheim declined, having already had collaborator John Weidman in mind.

In The Big Lebowski we did write for John and Steve, but we didn't know who was getting the Jeff Bridges role ".

There have been six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks and Jeffery Deaver ; a new novel, written by William Boyd, is planned for release in 2013.

King Henry IV ( despite being John of Gaunt's son ) passed the De heretico comburendo in 1401, which did not specifically ban the Lollards, but prohibited translating or owning the Bible and authorised burning heretics at the stake.

Carte travelled to New York in the summer of 1879 and made arrangements with theatre manager John T. Ford to present, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, the first authorised American production of Pinafore.

Sometime between 1203 and 1205, De Courcy was expelled from Ulster by Hugh de Lacy, as authorised by King John.

As John Carey has summed up with regard to John Coldstream's authorised biography however, " it is virtually impossible that he ( Bogarde ) saw Belsen or any other camp.

In 1880, Sir John Maule was appointed to be the first Director of Public Prosecutions, operating as a part of the Home Office ; the jurisdiction was only for the decision as to whether to prosecute, and just for a very small number of difficult or important cases ; once prosecution had been authorised, the matter was turned over to the Treasury Solicitor.

In 1762, in search of evidence of sedition, he authorised a raid on the home of John Entick, declared unlawful in the case of Entick v. Carrington.

John Rogers, born in Deritend in 1500, became the town's first notable literary figure when he compiled and partially translated the Matthew Bible, the first complete authorised edition of the Bible to appear in the English language.

The Limehouse Cut was authorised by the River Lee Act, an Act of Parliament obtained on 29 June 1767, after the engineer John Smeaton identified the need to make several cuts and to replace existing flash locks on the river with pound locks.

The government, with the lead of Minister of Food John Strachey, eventually authorised £ 25 million to cultivate 150, 000 acres ( 607 km² ) of scrubland in six years.

Childers, on temporary leave in London, was shocked by the harsh and summary punishments ( including the execution of sixteen of the leaders of the rising ) authorised by General John Maxwell, but as a serving officer he could do little.

John XXIII proclaimed a crusade against Ladislaus and authorised the sale of indulgences to finance it.

The authorised biography of the first forty years of the life of John Stott.

The second volume of the authorised biography of John Stott, covering 1960 onwards.

Although authorised to practice law after being called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1881, he joined the staff of the Pall Mall Gazette under John Morley, becoming assistant editor to William Thomas Stead.

The French deputes were authorised to discuss the withdrawal of their troops with the Archbishop of St Andrews, John Bellenden of Auchnoul, and William Maitland as representatives of the Congregation.

It had been authorised in March 1794, and John was to be assisted by his brother Thomas.

He instructed his authorised biographer, John Russell Taylor, not to touch on the case of Edith Thompson in case it caused her sister distress, even after all those years.

John Rogers ( Bible editor and martyr ) | John Rogers, editor of the first complete authorised version of the Bible to be printed in the English language

" Castrillón Hoyos justified his actions, saying the late Pope John Paul II authorised him to send the letter.

* Disher, Maurice Willson: The last romantic: the authorised biography of Sir John Martin-Harvey.