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Lew Wallace's Judah Ben-Hur is sent to the galleys as a murderer but manages to survive a shipwreck and save the fleet leader, who frees and adopts him.
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With reinforcement troops from Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell and Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace's missing division, Grant succeeded in driving the Confederates back to the road from Corinth ; though he stopped short of capturing Beauregard's army, he was able to stabilize the Army of the Tennessee.
* Wallace's time-line at General Lew Wallace Museum
The book itself went on to inspire the plot for a wide array of novels, from Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur ( 1880 ), a Science Fiction retelling in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, to Stephen Fry's contemporary The Stars ' Tennis Balls,
In Lew Wallace's novel The Prince of India, the Wandering Jew is the protagonist.
By early April, all six of the divisions were encamped on the western side of the Tennessee River, Lew Wallace's at Crump's Landing and the rest farther south at Pittsburg Landing.
" Lew Wallace's division was 5 miles ( 8 km ) downstream ( north ) at Crump's Landing, a position intended to prevent the placement of Confederate river batteries and to strike out at the railroad line at Bethel Station.
He cited " historical ambiguity " surrounding the conditions of Lew Wallace's pardon.
The play, based on Lew Wallace's book Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, opened on Broadway in November, 1899 and proved to be a great success.
Ben Hur is a 15 minute long 1907 silent film, the first film version of Lew Wallace's novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, one of the best-selling books at that time.
In 1908, perhaps seeking to capitalize on the publicity of the case and the film, Harper & Brothers published a lavishly designed and illustrated book, The Chariot Race from Ben-Hur, which excerpted only the race from Lew Wallace's novel.
A remake of the 1925 silent film with the same name, Ben Hur was adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
Lew Wallace's novel ran to about 550 pages.
Out of respect for the divinity of Christ, and consistent with Lew Wallace's stated preference, Wyler decided before the production began that the face of Jesus would not be shown.
During the siege of Corinth he commanded the 1st Brigade in Lew Wallace's 3rd Division.
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* Judah Ben-Hur, main character of the 1880 Lew Wallace novel, " Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ".
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She hired lawyer Lew Wallace, the author of Ben-Hur, and filed a suit demanding that Marshall pay her $ 20, 000 for libel.
* Major General Lew Wallace, Civil War officer, Ben-Hur author, and statesman
During President Garfield's limited tenure, he appointed several ambassadors, notably James R. Lowell as U. S. minister to England ; and the famous author of Ben-Hur and former Union Civil War general, Lew Wallace, as U. S. minister to Turkey.
* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is an 1880 novel by American general and author Lew Wallace
** Ben-Hur Museum, now renamed General Lew Wallace Study & Museum
* Lew Wallace, 11th governor of New Mexico Territory, Union general in the American Civil War, author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
In 1880, prominent local citizen Lew Wallace produced Crawfordsville's most famous literary work, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, a historical novel dealing with the beginnings of the Christianity in the Mediterranean world.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
* Lew Wallace-Union general in the Civil War and author of Ben-Hur
His negotiations with governor Lew Wallace ( a famed Civil War general and author of the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ) for amnesty came to nothing.
* February 15-General Lew Wallace, author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( 1880 ) by Lew Wallace ; famously made into a film starring Charlton Heston ; set in the reign of Tiberius in Judaea, the Mediterranean, and Rome.
By 1898, he was a war correspondent for the Daily Mail in the Boer War, having now adopted the byline of " Edgar Wallace " ( taken from the author of Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace -- there was already a Richard Wallace working in the Press Corps ).
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12, 1880 by Harper & Brothers.
" Lew Wallace Got Ben-Hur Going — and He's Never Stopped.
Ben Hur is a 2003 animated film based on the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, by Lew Wallace.
* Gaspar one of the three Magi mentioned in the famous novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace.
They had four children together, one of whom was Lew Wallace, author of the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ and Governor of New Mexico Territory.
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His family home, Lew Trenchard Manor near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel.
* June – August 1929: the revue “ Lew Leslie's Black Birds ”, by a troop of a hundred black artists accompanied by the Jazz Plantation Orchestra, is put on at the Moulin Rouge.
The EOP is headed by the White House Chief of Staff, currently Jacob Lew.
Now called the General Lew Wallace Study, it has been designated a National Historic Landmark and is operated as a house museum, open to the public.
The South Bay city of San Jose has shown continuing, strong interest to be the team's new home, and is the preferred destination for current team owner Lew Wolff.
State Fair ( 1933 ) is a movie directed by Henry King and starring Janet Gaynor, Will Rogers, and Lew Ayres.
Billy Barry, the fictional hero in Horace Porter's Young Aeroplane Scouts novel series of 1916 – 19, is also from Bangor, as is Edward Wozny, the protagonist in Lew Grossman's 2004 novel Codex, and Sir Kevin Dean de Courtney MacNair in Hayford Peirce's time-travel novel Napoleon Disentimed.
Sarett Nature Center, a wildlife sanctuary which offers trails, an interpretative building, and classes, and named for Lew R. Sarett, father of Lewis Hastings Sarett, is located in the northern portion of the township.
The portion to the south, containing the headwaters of the famous Beaver Kill trout stream, is likewise oriented to the Sullivan County hamlet of Lew Beach to its south, although it contains a few of its own unique toponyms such as Turnwood, its only real road junction.
Lugoff ( pronounced Lew goff ) is a small census-designated place ( CDP ) in Kershaw County, South Carolina, United States.
Jane Lew is a town in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States.
Jane Lew is located at ( 39. 109203 ,-80. 407624 ), along Hackers Creek.
Subsequently, the no-dunking rule is sometimes referred to as the " Lew Alcindor rule.
The golf course is on historical land: the number two and number four greens lie along the road where General Lew Wallace marched his three brigades to the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1852.
When Lerner attacked seminaries for being " more interested in producing organizational men for Jewish life than spiritual leaders connected to the deepest spiritual and social-justice minds ", Rabbi Alan Lew said " That is arrogant nonsense ...
The phrase itself is often attributed to the poet Lew Welch, who worked for the agency at the time.
The current White House Chief of Staff is Jacob Lew, who assumed the position on January 27, 2012, after William M. Daley resigned.
In 2008, the Earthquakes returned under the ownership of Lew Wolff, who is a successful real estate developer and landowner.
There is also Francis Lewis Boulevard, which locals tend to refer to as " Franny Lew ," stretching almost the entire north / south length of the borough, as well as Francis Lewis Park, which is located underneath the Queens approach of the Bronx Whitestone Bridge.
Llewellyn Harrison " Lew " Rockwell, Jr. ( born July 1, 1944 ) is an American libertarian political commentator, activist, proponent of the Austrian School of economics, and chairman / CEO of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Linton High School's 74 – 68 victory over New York City's Power Memorial on December 29, 1961, is remembered mostly for its two stars: Power Memorial's Lew Alcindor ( who later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ); and his future coach with the Los Angeles Lakers, Linton's Riley.
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