Leslie Stephen, in a best-selling book first published in 1871, defined the Alps as “ the Playground of Europe .” The book highlights the incredible success of the mountains but it also reflects the tensions that emerged among their visitors.

This view reflects the influence of his Ph. D supervisor, Leslie White.

Leslie is dominant in their relationship, and Sarah is generally content to play a subservient role.

In March 2012 Leslie Becker was selected to fill the seat vacated when Jonathan DeJoseph resigned to accept the position of Administrator and CFO.

After this event the peace of Prague placed the Swedish army in a very precarious position, but the victories won by the united forces of Banér and Field Marshal Alexander Leslie, commander of the Army of the Weser, at the Battle of Wittstock ( October 4, 1636 ), restored the paramount influence of Sweden in central Germany.

Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, PC QC ( born 19 November 1951 ) is a British Labour politician and barrister, who became the Lord Chancellor and the first Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs ( a position created originally to replace the position of Lord Chancellor ) in 2003.

Regularly called a Blairite by multiple news services, including the BBC and Telegraph, Leslie never rebelled against a Government position.

After establishing a strong rearguard position manned by two light horse regiments commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Cecil Maygar, the bulk of Desert Column moved back towards Sheikh Zowaiid.

Leslie (" Les ") Merritt is a Republican politician from the U. S. state of North Carolina and a former North Carolina State Auditor, a position to which he was elected in 2004.

Leslie Frost, the province's Progressive Conservative Premier from 1949 to 1961, respected Salsberg's abilities as a parliamentarian ; it has even been reported that Frost was willing to offer Salsberg a cabinet position if he defected to the Progressive Conservative Party.

Premier Leslie Frost considered Lamport for the position of Chairman of the newly created Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto but he was not interested.

Leslie divided his force into two wings, one of which attacked the Royalist position directly, getting to within half a mile before the alarm was raised.

There are currently 11 NZRU Board Members, President, John Sturgeon, was elected in 2009, who received the position from Andy Leslie in 2009.

The editor died, and Mrs. Squier took on the position permanently ; shortly thereafter, about 1874, she and Leslie were married.

John Maitland, Earl of Lauderdale ( Secretary of State for Scotland ) had already consolidated his position in 1663 by securing the dismissal of his principal rival, John Middleton ( Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland ) and his replacement by the more pliable John Leslie, Earl of Rothes.

In 1669, Lauderdale went one step further, and got Leslie dismissed and the Lord High Commissioner position for himself, consolidating his hold and ruling Scotland as a virtual autocrat for the remainder of his career.

Leslie drew back at once, but managed to find a fresh strong position in front of Stirling, whence he defied Cromwell again.

Gordon Leslie assumed the position of head coach in 2005 after Rogers left to pursue other opportunities.

The battle resulted in a decisive English victory that gave Oliver Cromwell's forces control of the Firth of Forth and outflanked the defensive position of the main Scottish Army under David Leslie.

Leslie opened a law office in Lafayette the year he graduated and took a position at a local high school coaching football.

Faced with the necessity of turning an army of former civilians into a force of over eight million soldiers by 1942 ( a fortyfold increase within three years ), Marshall directed General Leslie McNair to focus efforts on rapidly producing large numbers of soldiers.

The City of Leslie is within the township, but is administratively autonomous.

Jenga was created by Leslie Scott, the co-founder of Oxford Games Ltd, based on a game that evolved within her family in the early 1970s using children's wood building blocks the family purchased from a sawmill in Takoradi, Ghana.

At the urging of British scientist — who had made crucial calculations indicating that a fission weapon could be completed within only a few years — by 1941 the project had been wrested into more capable bureaucratic hands, and in 1942 came under the auspices of a Military Policy Committee led by General Leslie Groves.

In it he questioned O ' Brien's previous threats to personally sue Sam Smyth and asked " ow plausible is it that the removal of Sam Smyth from a Sunday morning radio programme on Today FM, which Denis O ' Brien controls, and his ostracisation now within the Irish Independent to which he is contracted ( not one article by him has been published for some months ), isn't part of the same campaign which Denis O ' Brien and of his then representatives on the board of INM Leslie Buckley, conducted against Sam Smyth in 2010?

However, one of the radiocarbon dates obtained by the late Professor Leslie Alcock in his 1983 excavations within the castle was in the range 460-660 AD.

* Philip H. Jacobsen Pearl Harbor: Radio Officer Leslie Grogan of the SS Lurline and his Misidentified Signals ( Cryptologia April 2005 ) Details errors, and conflicting stories within the works of Villa, Wilford, Stinnett, Toland, and Farago.

Also covers the missing report of Leslie Grogan dated December 10, 1941 titled " Record for Posterity " and compares this with the 26 year old " remembrances " within Farago's " The Broken Seal ".

Emma Samms, Antonio Fargas, Ronald Pickup and Leslie Philips made appearances within the show's first few series, and Anita Dobson, Peter Bowles and Susannah York all appeared in the fiftieth episode.

One argument given for P ( b | N ) rising in N that doesn ’ t create Leslie ’ s “ immaterial souls ” is the possibility of being born into any of a large number of universes within a multiverse.

" Leslie McCall, a leading intersectionality theorist, argues that the introduction of the intersectionality theory was vital to sociology, claiming that before its development, there was little research in existence that addressed specifically the experiences of people who are subjected to multiple forms of subordination within society.

* Leslie Street within Metro Toronto

The couple became, for a short time, the resident gardening experts on ITV's This Morning, but the timing was not good: within a few weeks the show was struck by the sex scandal that engulfed presenter John Leslie, and suddenly the couple's ' Naked Gardeners ' label did not fit.

On 14 October 2005 the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Leslie could possibly be released within weeks as a report from a Sydney doctor had been provided to prosecutors stating that she was addicted to prescription medication.

Western Aberdeenshire was defined by the 1868 legislation as consisting of the parishes of Aboyne and Glentanner, Alford, Auchindoir and Kearn, Auchterless, Birse, Chapel of Garioch, Clatt, Cluny, Coull, Crathie and Braemar, Culsalmond, Drumblade, Dyce, Echt, Forgue, Glenbucket, Glenmuick, Tullich and Glengairn, Huntly, Insch, Inverurie, Keig, Kemnay, Kildrummy, Kincardine O ' Neil, Kinnellar, Kennethmont, Kintore, Leochel-Cushnie, Leslie, Logie-Coldstone, Lumphanan, Midmar, Monymusk, Newhills, Oyne, Peterculter, Premnay, Rayne, Rhynie, Skene, Strathdon, Tarland and Migvie, Tough, Towie, Tullynesle and Forbes, together with the part of the parish of Old Machar lying west of the River Don, and the parts of the parishes of Banchory-Devenick, Cabrach, Cairnie, Drumoak and Glass within the County of Aberdeen, and the parish of Gartly in Banffshire.

Bogart never forgot Howard's favor, and in 1952 he named his only daughter " Leslie Howard " after Howard, who had died in World War II under mysterious circumstances.

* Opera: A Concise History, by Leslie Orrey and Rodney Milnes, World of Art, Thames & Hudson

Their three sons, including actor Leslie Vincent, continued as the owners afterwards, except for the period of administration by the U. S. Navy during World War II ( 1940 – 1945 ).

Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. ( 17 August 1896 – 13 July 1970 ) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.

Mansfield's life and work were changed forever by the 1915 death of her brother, Leslie Heron " Chummie " Beauchamp, as a New Zealand soldier in France in World War I.

Leslie Hearnshaw, a close friend of Burt and his official biographer, concluded after examining the criticisms that most of Burt's data from after World War II were unreliable or fraudulent.

Gerald, his mother, his brother Leslie and their Greek maid Maria Kondos moved back to England in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II.

* City Entertainment Editor Committee, Leslie Cheung's Movie World 2 ( 1991 – 1995 ), City Entertainment, Hong Kong, 2006, ISBN 962-8114-98-0

Leslie Earl Robertson ( born February 12, 1928 ) was one of the structural engineers of the World Trade Center in New York, which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks and was responsible for the design of the buildings ' sway-reduction features.

** Stop the World – I Want to Get Off – Book, music, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley.

Ormer Leslie " Lock " Locklear ( October 28, 1891 – August 2, 1920 ) was an American daredevil stunt pilot and film actor during and immediately after World War I.

* Leslie E. Ballentine, " Quantum Mechanics: A Modern Development ", World Scientific, 1998

" If I Ruled the World " is a popular song, composed by Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel, which was originally from the 1963 West End musical Pickwick ( based on Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers ).

In 1965, Dame Leslie Whateley of the then-Girl Guides World Bureau was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.

In 1952 Bogart and Lauren Bacall named their daughter Leslie Howard Bogart in honor of Howard, who had been killed in a plane crash under controversial circumstances during World War II.

Leslie Woodhead, director of The Stones In The Park, the award winning A Cry From The Grave, many Disappearing World films and also regarded by many as a founder of the drama-documentary movement, worked on World in Action for many years as a producer-director and executive.

Leslie Robertson, one of the chief engineers working on the design of the World Trade Center, has since claimed to have personally considered the scenario of the impact of a jet airliner — a Boeing 707 — which might be lost in the fog and flying at relatively low speeds, seeking to land at JFK Airport or Newark Airport.

He is commemorated at the AJEX Jewish Military Museum in Hendon, London, one of three Jewish VC's of the Second World War-the others being Tommy Gould, RN and John Keneally, Irish Guards-real name John Leslie ).

Prior to her role on As the World Turns, Hays played the role of Leslie Bauer on Guiding Light.

* Darci ( performed by Leslie Carrara-Rudolph )-She was featured in " The Real World Muppets " segments.

* Leslie McRobert, on the list of World War I aces credited with 6 victories