Charlotte and Branwell made copies of the prints Belshazzar's Feast, Déluge, and Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon ( 1816 ), which hung on the walls of the parsonage.

In 1816 Martin finally achieved public acclaim with Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, even though it broke many of the conventional rules of composition.

It was followed by the Expulsion ( 1813 ), Adam's First Sight of Eve ( 1813 ), Clytie ( 1814 ), Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon ( 1816 ) and The Fall of Babylon ( 1819 ).

* John Martin's paintings Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon and Belshazzar's Feast are purchased by his former employer William Collins and begin to tour.

To allow the Israelites to complete the route before nightfall, Joshua asked the Lord to lengthening the day by uttering the command: " Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon ; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon ".

However, the transition between these two theories met much resistance, not only from Christian theologians, who were reluctant to reject a theory that was in agreement with Bible passages ( e. g. " Sun, stand you still upon Gibeon ", Joshua 10: 12-King James 2000 Bible ), but also from those who saw geocentrism as an accepted consensus that could not be subverted by a new, unknown theory.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places at Rising Sun are: the Jeremiah Brown House and Mill Site, East Nottingham Friends Meetinghouse, Joshua Lowe House, Thomas Richards House, and West Nottingham Meetinghouse.

Velikovsky used this to explain the biblical plagues of Egypt, the biblical reference to the " Sun standing still " for a day ( Joshua 10: 12 & 13, explained by changes in Earth's rotation ), and the sinking of Atlantis.

It was produced by Jim Newman, directed by John Coney, written by Sun Ra, Joshua Smith and features Sun Ra and his Arkestra.

); at the beginning of the Well song ( 21: 17 and following, " ali be ' er "); in the daring request, " Sun, stand thou still " ( Joshua 10: 12 ); in Habakkuk's prayer (" tefillah "; Habakkuk 3: 1-19 ); or in psalms of request for help in time of war ( 44, 60, etc.

Provo based folk singer / songwriter Joshua James had moderate success in 2007 when his album The Sun is Always Brighter reached number one on the iTunes Folk Album chart.

Working with singer Vanessa St. James and producer Mr. Joshua, Bracegirdle was part of the Mr. Joshua Presents Espiritu project, known for the song " In Praise of the Sun ", released with both English and French vocals.

In 1972, San Francisco public TV station KQED producer John Coney, producer Jim Newman, and screen writer Joshua Smith worked with Sun Ra to produce a 30 minute documentary film, expanded into a feature film released in 1974, entitled Space is the Place, featuring Sun Ra's Arkestra and filmed in Golden Gate Park.

Joshua Dowling of The Sun Herald described the philosophy of the Ford F-250 as " The Canyonero comes to life ".

* Joshua M. Greene, Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison, John Wiley & Sons ( Hoboken, NJ, 2006 ; ISBN 978-0470-12780-3 ).

* Joshua Stopping the Sun ( 1737 ), Colleoni Chapel, Bergamo

The line " I see seven towers, but I only see one way out " from U2's 1987 song " Running to Stand Still " ( on The Joshua Tree album ) refers to these towers.

Following the death of the generation of Moses a new generation, led by Joshua, enters Canaan and takes possession of the land in accordance with the curse placed upon Canaan by Noah.

:" 14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “ Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven .” 15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord is my banner, 16 saying, “ A hand upon the throne of the Lord Jacob!

A Samaritan Book of Joshua partly based upon the Tanakh's Book of Joshua exists, but Samaritans regard it as a noncanonical secular historical chronicle.

From left to right are the three Christians, Charlemagne bearing an eagle upon his shield, King Arthur displaying three crowns and Godfrey of Bouillon with a dog lying before him, then the three pagans, Julius Caesar, Hector and Alexander the Great bearing a griffon upon the his shield, and lastly the three Jews, David holding a sceptre, Joshua and Judas Maccabeus.

The site near Nablus now identified as Shechem was stumbled upon in 1903 by a German party of archaeologists led by Dr. Hermann Thiersch, and is called Tell Balatah, beside the traditional site of Joseph's Tomb mentioned in ( Joshua 24: 32 ).

In Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler, the title character's father Reuben Shapiro has a unique understanding of the bible based upon his days as a prize-fighter, when the only thing to do in the hotel room was read Gideon's Bible.

For instance, Joshua Muravchik, on the basis of Karl Popper's definition of science as " the practice of experimentation, of hypothesis and test ," argued that " Owen and Fourier and their followers were the real ‘ scientific socialists .’ They hit upon the idea of socialism, and they tested it by attempting to form socialist communities.

During the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ), a Ming emperor conferred seven surnames upon the Jews, by which they are identifiable today: Ai ( 艾 ), Shi ( 石 ), Gao ( 高 ), Jin ( 金 ), Li ( 李 ), Zhang ( 張 ), and Zhao ( 趙 ); sinofications of the original seven Jewish clan's family names: Ezra, Shimon, Cohen, Gilbert, Levy, Joshua, and Jonathan, respectively.

A pupil of Richard Cosway, Kirk exhibited the first of 25 works at the Royal Academy in 1785, and created many famous engravings based either upon his own work or works by, amongst others, Angelica Kauffmann, Richard Westall or Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Joshua B. Bolten, upon becoming President Bush's chief of staff in April 2006, pressed for Miers ' resignation, but Bush rejected the idea.

He, along with his brother Joshua Hett Smith, escaped prosecution and probable execution by the Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York in 1778 for the crime of treason due to the memory of their father's influence upon the Justice system: the elder William Smith had, despite the efforts of friends and relatives, refused his own appointment to the Office of Chief Justice of the Province of New York in 1760, which his son William had accepted.

* 1995 — Joshua Neustein, Uri Tzaig ( Curator: Gideon Ofrat )

He led the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire ( 167 – 160 BCE ) and is acclaimed as one of the greatest warriors in Jewish history alongside Joshua, Gideon and David.

North Sanctuary The two lights show Joshua, Gideon, Caleb and David, with, above: ( a ) Gideon receiving his commission to destroy the Midianites ; ( b ) David slaying Goliath ; and below: ( a ) Joshua ’ s vision of the captain of the Lord ’ s host before Jericho ; ( b ) Caleb smiting the sons of Anak.

Weld contributed to the anti-slavery convictions of such men as Joshua R. Giddings and Edwin M. Stanton, enlisted John Quincy Adams, and helped provide ideas which underlay Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

A Socio-Philo ( sopho ) logical Perspective ", Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion, edited by Tope Omoniyi and Joshua A. Fishman, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 237 – 258.

* 1974 – Joshua John Miller, American actor

John Byron, by Joshua Reynolds, 1759.

Taylor, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds ( London: John Murray, 1865, 2 volumes ).

* Carey, Brian Todd ; Allfree, Joshua B ; Cairns, John.

John George ( Thomas's son ) is assisted by his cousin Jennifer George ( George's daughter ) and John's son Joshua George to keep the family name alive.

* April – Royal Colony of North Carolina Commissioners John Watson, Joshua Grainger, Michael Higgins and James Wimble plan the town of New Carthage ( which would eventually become Wilmington, North Carolina on the east side of the Cape Fear River ).

White settlement of the area probably dates from 1824, when a homestead or station was built on what is now the Acton peninsula by stockmen employed by Joshua John Moore.

Standing with Roosevelt are United States House of Representatives | Rep. Robert L. Doughton | Robert Doughton ( Democratic Party ( United States ) | D-North Carolina | NC ); unknown person in shadow ; United States Senate | Sen. Robert F. Wagner | Robert Wagner ( D-New York | NY ); Rep. John D. Dingell, Sr. | John Dingell ( D-Michigan | MI ); Rep. Joshua Twing Brooks ( D-Pennsylvania ); the United States Secretary of Labor | Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins ; Sen. Pat Harrison ( D-Mississippi | MS ); and Rep. David L. Lewis | David Lewis ( D-Maryland | MD ).

The act authorized Joshua R. Stone and Green Baker from White County, William Davis and Isaiah Warton from Overton County, John Brown and Austin Morgan from Jackson County, William B. Stokes and Bird S. Rhea from DeKalb County, and Benjamin A. Vaden and Nathan Ward from Smith County to study the Conner survey and select a spot, not more than two and one-half miles from the center of the county, for the courthouse.

" The New York based Even Dozen Jug Band was the Elektra label's answer to the Kweskin band and featured ( among others ) Maria D ' Amato, Joshua Rifkin, David Grisman, Stefan Grossman, John Sebastian, and Steve Katz.

On July 19, 1879, Holliday and his business partner, former deputy marshal John Joshua Webb, were seated in their saloon in Las Vegas, New Mexico when former U. S. Army scout Mike Gordon got into a loud argument with one of the saloon girls whom he wanted to take with him.

Over the years, Wireds writers have included Jorn Barger, John Perry Barlow, John Battelle, Paul Boutin, Stewart Brand, Gareth Branwyn, Po Bronson, Scott Carney, Michael Chorost, Douglas Coupland, James Daly, Joshua Davis, J. Bradford DeLong, Mark Dery, David Diamond, Patrick Di Justo, Cory Doctorow, Esther Dyson, Mark Frauenfelder, Simson Garfinkel, William Gibson, Dan Gillmor Mike Godwin, George Gilder, Lou Ann Hammond, Danny Hillis, Steven Johnson, Bill Joy, Jon Katz, Leander Kahney, Richard Kadrey, Jaron Lanier, Lawrence Lessig, Paul Levinson, Steven Levy, John Markoff, Wil McCarthy, Glyn Moody, Charles Platt, Josh Quittner, Spencer Reiss, Howard Rheingold, Rudy Rucker, Paul Saffo, Evan Schwartz, Peter Schwartz, Alex Steffen, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, Kevin Warwick, Dave Winer, Belinda Parmar and Gary Wolf.

File: Sir Joshua Reynolds 008. jpg | Colonel John Hayes St. Leger ( detail ) by Sir Joshua Reynolds

The four corner gates of the park have one bust each, depicting Sir Isaac Newton, the scientist ; Sir Joshua Reynolds, the first President of the Royal Academy ; John Hunter, a pioneer of surgery ; and William Hogarth, the painter.

* William Smith ( judge ) ( 1697 – 1769 ), father of John Smith, Doctor Thomas Smith, Joshua Hett Smith, and Chief Justice William Smith

Men in the Hanson family are usually called by their middle names-most notably band members Isaac and Taylor, along with brother Joshua (" Mac " Mackenzie ), father Clarke (" Walker "), Isaac's sons Clarke (" Everett ") and James (" Monroe "), Taylor's son Jordan (" Ezra "), and Zac's son John (" Shepherd ").