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.

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

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

Melville is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Huntington in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, in the United States.

Melville is a village in the town of Portsmouth in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States.

The town of Dundas was named by John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, for his friend Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, a Scottish lawyer and politician who never visited North America.

The Shire of Melville was declared a town on 28 September 1962, and a city on 3 May 1968.

After construction on the GTP began in 1905, Hays started the Grand Trunk Pacific Development Company in order to purchase thousands of acres of land on which he established town sites along the route of the railway, including Melville, Saskatchewan, which was named after him.

There is a statue of him in Prince Rupert and the town of Hays, Alberta, is named after him, as is Melville, Saskatchewan.

Beerescourt ; Crawshaw ; Deanwell ; Dinsdale ; Fitzroy ; Forest Lake ; Frankton ; Glenview ; Grandview Heights ; Hamilton Central ; Hamilton North ; Hamilton West ; Livingstone ; Maeroa ; Melville ; Nawton ; Peacocke ; Pukete ; Rotokauri ; St Andrews ; Stonebridge ; Te Rapa ; Temple View ; Thornton ; Western Heights ; Whitiora.

Among other works of art and literature to which Paglia applies her analysis of the Western canon are: the Venus of Willendorf, the Bust of Nefertiti, Ancient Greek sculpture, Donatello's David, Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and The Virgin and Child with St. Anne, Michelangelo, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare's As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marquis de Sade, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lord Byron's Don Juan, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Honoré de Balzac, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Henry James, The Pre-Raphaelites, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Emily Dickinson.

Melville Monument in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh.

The principal are the statues of George Washington in the State-house at Boston, Massachusetts ; of George III in The Guildhall, London ; of George IV at Brighton ; of William Pitt the Younger in Hanover Square, London ; of James Watt in Westminster Abbey and in Glasgow ( also a bust, plus one of William Murdoch, at St. Mary's Church, Handsworth ); of William Roscoe and George Canning in Liverpool ; of John Dalton in Manchester Town Hall ; of Lord President Blair and Lord Melville in Edinburgh, etc.

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.

On completing his course, Melville left St Andrews with the reputation of " the best poet, philosopher, and Grecian of any young master in the land.

* 1964 St Andrews University: Andrew Melville Hall of Residence

The latter was succeeded by his nephew, the ninth Viscount, the eldest son of the Honourable Robert Maldred St John Melville Dundas, second son of the seventh Viscount.

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.

* Blushing Our Way Past Historical Fact And Fiction: A Response to Professor Geoffrey R. Stone's Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture and Essay, 114 Penn St. L. Rev.

The Reverend Canon Melville Cooper Newth OBE, the eleventh and longest-serving Headmaster of St Andrew ’ s Cathedral School, died peacefully on 21 October 2004, aged 90.

It also includes Calton Hill, the shops and offices on the northern side of Princes Street, Bute House, the official residence of the First Minister of Scotland, St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, the Edinburgh Playhouse, the Edinburgh Waterfront, the stretch of the Water of Leith from Dean Village to Leith Harbour, the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Western General Hospital and the private schools of Fettes College, the Edinburgh Academy, The Mary Erskine School and Stewart's Melville College and Telford College.

There are five high schools ; Kempsey High School ( government ) located in West Kempsey largely servicing students living north of the Macleay, Melville High School ( government ) in South Kempsey servicing those south of the river and the beachside communities, St Paul's College ( Catholic ), Kempsey Adventist School and the Macleay Vocational College

Born at Mount Melville, near St. Andrews.

Melville later portrayed himself at this time as being forced to write " with duns all around him, & looking over the back of his chair —& perching on his pen & diving in his inkstand — like the devils about St.

When Andrew Melville Goodall expanded the farm in 1853 he named the property Para Hills Farm, building a farmhouse near what is now the corner of St Clair Avenue and Goodall Road.

Adamson was born in St Andrews, one of ten children, and grew up in Burnside, the son of John Adamson, Sr., a Fifeshire farmer and his wife, Rachael Melville.

Famous alumni of St Leonard's College include Alexander Ales ( Alesius ), John Knox, George Buchanan, Patrick Adamson and James Melville.

Creedon has served on the Boards of Directors of various business corporations over the years including ArvinMeritor, Melville, Nynex and New York Telephone Company, Praxair, Rockwell International, Sonat, St. Regis Paper and Union Carbide and on the Advisory Board of the Firemark Global Insurance Fund.

In the second half the Newtown forward pack gave the Saints a taste of their own medicine which helped gain tries for Melville and Robertson, both converted by Ken Wilson which reduced the St George lead to 15-12.

In 1612 Sir Robert Melville of Burntisland, the former Vice-Chancellor and Treasurer Depute of Scotland and an Extraordinary Lord of Session acquired the Palace of Monimail-formerly an official residence of the Archbishops of St Andrews.

Serving on the French side at the Battle of St. Quentin in 1557 Melville was wounded and taken prisoner.