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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.
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.

Melville and less
" 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.
Melville Castle is a three-storey Gothic castellated mansion situated less than a mile ( 2 km ) west-south-west of Dalkeith, Midlothian, near the North Esk.

Melville and well
For three weeks he lived among the Typee natives, who were called cannibals by the two other tribal groups on the island — though they treated Melville very well.
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.
James Melville of Halhill reported that ‘ Her Majesty took well with him, and said that he was the lustiest and best proportioned long man that she had seen.
Near contemporaries Melville Davisson Post and Anna Katherine Green wrote the earliest known stories that might be described as historical whodunnits, although both also wrote mysteries with contemporary settings as well.
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.
In spite of the candid language and depictions of guerilla war and gory violence, the book feels more like a 19th-century classic along the lines of Melville and Conrad than a modern blood-and-guts thriller, although it serves quite well in the latter capacity.
He applied himself to Oriental languages, but also attended the last course of lectures delivered by Adrianus Turnebus, professor of Greek, as well as those of Petrus Ramus, whose philosophical method and plan of teaching Melville later introduced into the universities of Scotland.
A month later, believing all to be well, Stirling set sail for Melville island.
Classic Guitar, Lute and Vihuela Discography, Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp., Melville, NY, 1976, 116 p., LC: 75-42912 ( no ISBN ) (" There are more than 100 artists listed as well as approximately 400 composers and 400 individual records.
There are a number of islands off the Top End coast including the Tiwi Islands ( Bathurst Island and Melville Island ), and Groote Eylandt as well as many smaller ones.
The company was the publisher of such 19th century American literary figures as James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as of legal, religious, and other non-fiction titles.
William Whitney had a well known older brother, industrialist Henry Melville Whitney ( 1839 – 1923 ), president of the Metropolitan Steamship Company, founder of the West End Street Railway Company of Boston, and later founder of the Dominion Coal Company and Dominion Iron and Steel Company in Sydney, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island.
Cape Melville ( Mys Mel ' villya ), Henrietta's northernmost landhead, is the northernmost point of the De Long Islands, a well as the northernmost land thousands of miles east and west.
Mark Melville Williams ( born 21 August 1958 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who represented the in the South Australian National Football League ( SANFL ) as well as and in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Moreover, Melville includes the larger members of the Cetaceans, as well as the porpoises ( dolphins ).
Melville states that this species is known its loud blowing and is well known among whalemen.
Melville is also well known for the Melville Koppies ( an archeological site, with rolling hills of grassland with views over the city ), and is near the historic suburb of Sophiatown.
There are five public parks operated by the City of Melville located in Bicton: Bicton Quarantine Park, Fred Jones Reserve, Harry Grose Reserve, John Dickinson Reserve, and Rod Campbell Park, as well as reserves located at Bicton Baths ( including Bicton Pool ), Blackwall Reach and Point Walter.
In the summer of 1850, Melville and his wife Lizzie as well as their son Malcolm came to Pittsfield for a vacation of indefinite length.
It overlooks the city as well as Perth Water and Melville Water on the Swan River.
Pistol shooting was also well accommodated with Melville, Cheylesmore and Winans ranges.
In the United Kingdom main branch of Melville family is the Leslie-Melville family, Earls of Leven and ( since 1690 ) of Melville as well.

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