Long Island's tallest point is Jayne's Hill near Melville, with an elevation of 400. 9 feet ( 122. 2 m ) above sea level.

The three most popular lagoons are Laguna Ojo de Liebre ( formerly known in English as Scammon's Lagoon after whaleman Charles Melville Scammon, who discovered the lagoons in the 1850s and hunted the grays ), San Ignacio, and Magdalena.

The two books generally considered most important to the Revival were Raymond Weaver's 1921 biography Herman Melville: Man, Mariner and Mystic and his 1924 edition of Melville's last great but never quite finished manuscript, Billy Budd, which Melville's granddaughter gave to Weaver when he visited her for research on the biography.

The most recent cases of impeachment dealt with Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India between 1773 and 1786 ( impeached in 1788 ; the Lords found him not guilty in 1795 ), and Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, First Lord of the Admiralty, in 1806 ( acquitted ).

As Hesmondhalgh and Melville wrote, " Tricky showed his debt to hip-hop aesthetics by reconstructualizing samples and slices of both the most respected black music ( Public Enemy ) and the tackiest pop ( quoting David Cassidy ’ s “ How Can I Be Sure ?”).

Lamb, his daughter Hebe, her boyfriend Melville Long, and Hebe's friend Sandra Rush ( a twentyish lingerie model who becomes Lamb's love interest ) pursue many adventures, most of which fall well outside the perimeter of law and order.

After Melville died unexpectedly in 1889, Anna took control of the company and became one of the most powerful businesswomen of the day.

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.

Important American inspirations for the Beats included Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville and especially Walt Whitman, who is addressed as the subject of one of Ginsberg's most famous poems (" A Supermarket in California ").

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

Melville and his supporters enjoyed some temporary successes — most notably in the Golden Act of 1592, which gave parliamentary approval to presbyterian courts.

The 1920s will force a reconsideration of many 19th-century writers, most importantly Melville and Dickinson.

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 ).

* Lieutenant General Sir Melville Merridew DSO MC Bart — retired general, the school's most distinguished alumnus, and frequent bestower of half-holidays.

Herman Melville considered Timon to be among the most profound of Shakespeare's plays, and in his 1850 review " Hawthorne and His Mosses " writes that Shakespeare is not " a mere man of Richard-the-Third humps, and Macbeth daggers ," but rather " it is those deep far-away things in him ; those occasional flashings-forth of the intuitive Truth in him ; those short, quick probings at the very axis of reality :– these are the things that make Shakespeare, Shakespeare.

An Encyclopaedia of Jazz " to Melville J. Herskovits, then the most prominent U. S. anthropologist specializing in African American studies.

Reilly's meeting with Melville is most significant, for within a matter of weeks Melville was to use Reilly's expertise in what would later become known as the D ' Arcy Affair.

* East-central Nunavut ( including part of Melville Peninsula and most of Ellesmere and Baffin Islands, including Iqaluit ; Southampton Island does not observe DST )

Quinn noted that there were enough similarities that Melville must have studied Poe's novel and, if not, it would be " one of the most extraordinary accidents in literature ".

Notable group shows included Midland Art Now featuring the work of 20 of the most prominent Midlands based artists including Roy Abell, Barrie Cook, John Farrington, Dick French, William Gear, Colin Hitchmough, John Melville, David Prentice and Peter Tarrant, and which was accompanied by a full colour printed broadsheet catalogue distributed free to the 40, 000 readers of the Birmingham Post.

Melville Koppies represents in microcosm most of the features of the Witwatersrand Supergroup.

Herman Melville alluded to the bridge in describing Moby-Dick: " But soon the fore part of him slowly rose from the water ; for an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch, like Virginia's Natural Bridge ..." William Cullen Bryant, another American literary figure, said that Natural Bridge and Niagara Falls were the two most remarkable features of North America.

West of Melville is Sophiatown, once one of the most vibrant black suburbs in the city.

Melville Bell's system was effective at helping deaf people improve their pronunciation, but his son, Graham Bell decided to improve upon his father's invention by creating a system of writing that was even more accurate and employed the most advanced technology of the time.

Most of Melville's novels were published first in the United Kingdom and then in the U. S. Sometimes the editions contain substantial differences with Melville acceding to his different publishers ' requirements for different audiences.

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.

The first Chief Justice commissioned using the new title was Melville Fuller in 1888.

In 1928, Melville Marks Robinson of Canada was asked to organise the first British Empire Games.

Elkridge has historic churches, including Melville Church on Furnace Ave. Its original building was the first Methodist church built ( 1772 ) and was visited on the circuit rides of Francis Asbury.

The town's first mayor was Melville B. Parker was chosen and as the borough's first mayor, after J. H.

* 1833-Baptist work in Thailand begins with John Taylor Jones ; the first American Methodist missionary, Melville Cox, goes to Liberia where he dies within four months.

* Herman Melville compares his character Ahab, at the captain's first appearance, to a sculpture by Cellini.

In a television adaptation of the Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick, Hawke played the role of Starbuck, the first officer to William Hurt's Captain Ahab.

In 1948 prominent anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits founded the Program of African Studies at Northwestern, the first center of its kind at an American academic institution.

* Gertrude Melville ( 1884 – 1959 ), first woman elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council.

Hawthorne's fiction had a profound impact on his friend Herman Melville ( 1819 – 1891 ), who first made a name for himself by turning material from his seafaring days into exotic and sensational sea narrative novels.

When the ship was struck by a whale on November 20, 1820, he joined the boat of the first mate, Owen Chase, who later wrote about the incident in the Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, the book that would inspire Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick.

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

This next passage, describing Dana's first sighting of an iceberg off Cape Horn, “ reminds us of Melville ” and “ other passages seem to anticipate him ”.

( Melville, born in 1819, was exactly four years Dana ’ s junior, and returned from his first tour as a seaman when Two Years Before the Mast was first published in 1840 ).

Numbers are given according to the original Russian and French titles of the first edition score ( 1892 ), the piano reduction score by Sergei Taneyev ( 1892 ), both published by P. Jurgenson in Moscow, and the Soviet collected edition of the composer's works, as reprinted Melville, New York: Belwin Mills

The first two parts, " Endecott the Red Cross " and " My Kinsman, Major Molineux " were stage adaptations of short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the third part, " Benito Cereno ," was a stage adaptation of a novella by Herman Melville.

A famous work of fiction featuring scriveners is the short story " Bartleby, the Scrivener " by Herman Melville, first published in 1853.

Born in Dalkeith: the American Architecht Robert Smith ( 1722 ), the politician Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville ( 1742 ), the artist John Kay ( 1742 ), Robert Aitken who published the first Bible in North America, David Mushet, who pioneered iron production, photographer Robert Macpherson ( 1814 ), and the mathematical physicist Peter Guthrie Tait ( 1831 ).

During the brief time that Reilly spent in the city, he renewed his close acquaintance with William Melville, sometimes incorrectly described as the first Director General of MI5, whom Reilly had last seen in 1899 just prior to his departure from London.

The work has been central to Melville scholarship since it was discovered in manuscript form among Melville's papers in 1919 by Raymond Weaver, his first biographer.

" The story may have been based on events onboard USS Somers, an American naval vessel ; one of the defendants in the later investigation was a first cousin of Melville, Lt. Guert Gansevoort.