In addition, the city is home to a large number of independent, fee-paying schools including Edinburgh Academy, Fettes College, George Heriot's School, George Watson's College, Merchiston Castle School, Stewart's Melville College and The Mary Erskine School.

Herman Melville wrote a section on the narwhal in Moby Dick, in which he claims a narwhal tusk hung for " a long period " in Windsor Castle after Sir Martin Frobisher had given it to Queen Elizabeth.

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Lord Melville's first marriage was to Elizabeth, daughter of David Rannie, of Melville Castle, in 1765.

He died on 10 June 1851 at Melville Castle, and was buried at the Old Kirk, Lasswade, Edinburghshire, on 17 June.

The large private schools in Scotland include the High School of Glasgow, The Glasgow Academy, Kelvinside Academy, St. Aloysius ' College, Hutchesons ' Grammar School, George Heriot's School, Stewart's Melville College, Dollar Academy, Strathallan School, Glenalmond College, Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh Academy, Robert Gordon's College, George Watson's College, Loretto School, Gordonstoun, St Leonards, and Fettes College.

After four voyages to India he was nominated to the command of the Melville Castle in the summer of 1793 ; but having begun a careful study of the Bible during his voyages, and also come under the evangelical influence of David Bogue of Gosport, one of the founders of the London Missionary Society, he abruptly decided to leave the navy for a religious life, and returned to Scotland.

It flows north-east past Penicuik, Auchendinny, through Roslin Glen, past Hawthornden Castle, Polton, Lasswade and Melville Castle.

At Halhill, Melville wrote the Memoirs of my own Life, a valuable authority for the history of the period, first published by his grandson, George Scott of Pitlochie, in 1683, from a manuscript discovered at Edinburgh Castle in 1660.

Lesley, who was a prisoner in the Tower of London, said that Lethington had sent copies of the casket letters to Mary ( who was at Bolton Castle ), but Lethington's messenger, Robert Melville, denied it.

His maternal grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort, a hero of the Battle of Saratoga ; in his gold-laced uniform, the general sat for a portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart, which is described in Melville's 1852 novel, Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background.

From 1838 to 1847, he resided at what is now known as the Herman Melville House in Lansingburgh, New York.

A common story says that his New York Times obituary called him " Henry Melville ", implying that he was unknown and unappreciated at his time of death, but the story is not true.

Melville is less well known as a poet and did not publish poetry until later in life.

According to Melville scholar Elizabeth Renker " a sea change in the reception of the poems is incipient.

This is the street where Melville lived from 1863 to 1891 and where, among other works, he wrote Billy Budd.

The film is also considered to be an homage to Le Samourai, a 1967 French New Wave film by auteur Jean-Pierre Melville, which starred renowned French actor Alain Delon in a strikingly similar role and narrative.

The current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of National Geographic is Gilbert Melville Grosvenor, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 for the Society's leadership for Geography education.

Typee ( 1846 ; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life ) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva ( which Melville spelled as Nukuheva ) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842.

In a scene where the Dolly is boarded by young women from Nukuheva, Melville originally wrote:

Thus, Boas ' student Melville Herskovits summed up the principle of cultural relativism thus: " Judgements are based on experience, and experience is interpreted by each individual in terms of his own enculturation.

South of the western end of the island is the Fury and Hecla Strait which separates the island from the Melville Peninsula on the mainland.

Along with her equally larcenous father, " Colonel " Harrington ( Charles Coburn ) and his partner Gerald ( Melville Cooper ), she is out to fleece rich, naive Charles Pike ( Henry Fonda ), the heir to the Pike Ale fortune (" The Ale That Won for Yale ").

The most famous and critically acclaimed of all the résistancialisme movies is Army of Shadows ( L ' Armee des ombres ), which was made by the French film-maker Jean-Pierre Melville in 1969.

Tolland County is briefly referenced in the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville as the place that the ill-fated ship mate, Pip, comes from.

Terry Stephen Puhl ( born July 8, 1956 in Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada ) is a former professional baseball outfielder.

The current Mayor of Hawkins County is Melville Bailey ( R-Rogersville ).

Its invention is variously ascribed to Lieutenant General Robert Melville in 1759, or to Charles Gascoigne, manager of the Carron Company from 1769 to 1779.

Cape Melville is a national park in Queensland, Australia, located 1711 km northwest of Brisbane.

It is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park east of Cape Melville in Princess Charlotte Bay.

The town is named in honor of Melville E. Ingalls.

Melville is a town in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Melville is located at ( 30. 693351 ,-91. 745506 ).

Melville Township is a township in Renville County, Minnesota, United States.

He writes in the Southern Gothic aesthetic in his distinctly Faulknerian 1965 debut, The Orchard Keeper, and Suttree ( 1979 ); in the Epic Western tradition, with grotesquely drawn characters and symbolic narrative turns reminiscent of Melville, in Blood Meridian ( 1985 ), which Harold Bloom styled " the greatest single book since Faulkner ’ s As I Lay Dying ," calling the character of Judge Holden " short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in all of American literature "; in a much more pastoral tone in his celebrated Border Trilogy ( 1992 – 98 ) of bildungsromans, including All the Pretty Horses ( 1992 ), winner of the National Book Award ; and in the post-apocalyptic genre in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road ( 2007 ).

Richardson's introduction of the Stick Style of Architecture into the U. S. by his Sherman Watts House in Newport, with Cabot's splendid mansion for Elbridge Torrey at 1 Melville Avenue in Dorchester, MA.

The well-known independent schools, St. George's School for Girls and the Erskine Stewart's Melville Schools ( The Mary Erskine School for Girls and Stewart's Melville College ) are situated in the Murrayfield area.

Located off the Melville Peninsula, the island is situated in Committee Bay within western Gulf of Boothia.

Located sixty miles from Manhattan in the Three Village area, Ward Melville High School is situated in East Setauket, New York.

Stewart's Melville College is an all-boys ( with the exception of sixth form ) boarding and day private school situated in the heart of Edinburgh, Scotland.

" Études Celtiques 32 ( 1996 ), 87-90 .</ ref > Some have suggested that the name may derive from " Gwenhwy-fawr " or Gwenhwy the Great, contrasting the character to " Gwenhwy-fach " or Gwenhwy the less ; Gwenhwyfach appears in Welsh literature as a sister of Gwenhwyfar, but Welsh scholars Melville Richards and Rachel Bromwich, both dismiss this etymology ( with Richards suggesting that Gwenhwyfach was a back-formation derived from an incorrect interpretation of Gwenwhy-far as Gwenhwy-fawr ).

In the Islamic tradition, with which Melville was certainly much less familiar, Ishmael is an heir of Abraham.