The identity of the first American landfall by Columbus remains controversial, but many authors accept Samuel E. Morison's identification of what was then called Watling ( or Watling's ) Island as Columbus ' San Salvador.

The identity of the first American landfall by Columbus remains controversial, but many authors accept Samuel E. Morison's identification of what was later called Watling ( or Watling's ) Island as Columbus ' San Salvador.

( Although Morison was responsible for the textbook's controversial section on slavery and references to the slave as " Sambo ," and although Commager was the junior member of the writing team when the book was first published and always deferred to Morison's greater age and academic stature, Commager has not been spared from charges of racism in this matter.

Morison's Harvard dissertation was the basis for his first book, The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, Federalist, 1765 – 1848 ( 1913 ).

The first ever monograph of a plant taxon was Robert Morison's 1672 Plantarum Umbelliferarum Distributio Nova, a treatment of the Apiaceae.

One of them was Morisoniana, the collection of Morison's works that, in the first page, announced " the old medical science is completely wrong ".

One of Morison's research assistants in the project, Henry Salomon, was inspired to create an ambitious documentary TV series on U. S. Navy and Marine Corps warfare in World War II.

The government did not claim that Morison's actions had damaged U. S. interests, only that further disclosures of comparable information might eventually enhance Soviet capabilities.

Morison's revision became known as Times New Roman and made its debut in the 3 October 1932 issue of The Times newspaper.

" British intelligence sources thought his motives were patriotic, but American prosecutors emphasized Morison's personal economic gain and complaints about his government job.

The result of Morison's proposal was the History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, published in 15 volumes between 1947 – 1962, documenting everything from strategy and tactics to technology and the exploits of individuals — a work which British military historian Sir John Keegan has called the best to come out of that conflict.

Morison's legacy is also sustained by the United States Naval History and Heritage Command's Samuel Eliot Morison Naval History Scholarship.

* Doctor Morison's Farewell to the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

* Pfitzer, Gregory M. Samuel Eliot Morison's Historical World: In Quest of a New Parkman.

Morison's reputation as a knowledgeable sailor ( based on his analysis in the biography of Christopher Columbus ) preceded him, and he was welcomed on a number of ships, eleven of them in all by the end of the war.

At the time, classification focused on the habitat and medicinal properties of the plant and Morison's criticism of systems promoted by botanists such as Jean and Gaspard Bauhin caused some anger among his contemporaries.

** pp. 1 — 347: Hortus Regius Blesensis Auctus ( a new edition of Abel Brunier's Hortus Regius Blesensis with Morison's contributions ).

* At the time of his death, Morison's opus magnum the Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis, remained unfinished, with only one volume published in 1680 detailing fifteen classes of his classification system.

Morison ( though Morison's front entrance opens onto the lower quad, whether the dorm is upper or lower quad is a source of debate.

The list of Morison's agents worldwide in the Morisoaiana was six pages long and included people from " spirit doctors " to housewives.

The medical journal Lancet published reports of deaths due to Morison's pills, often due to excessive bowel movements.

His father, who had made a large fortune as the inventor and proprietor of " Morison's Pills ", settled in Paris till his death in 1840, and Cotter Morison thus acquired not only an acquaintance with the French language, but a profound sympathy with France and French institutions.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

Vipsania Agrippina was Agrippa ’ s first daughter and first child from his first marriage to Pomponia Caecilia Attica.

Vipsania Marcella was Agrippa ’ s second child from his second marriage to Augustus ’ first niece and the paternal cousin of Julia the Elder, Claudia Marcella Major.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

Augustus had forced his first stepson Tiberius to end his happy first marriage to Vipsania Agrippina to marry Julia the Elder.

Livia was the first Roman Empress and was Augustus ’ third wife ( from Livia ’ s first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, she had two sons: the emperor Tiberius and the general Nero Claudius Drusus.

Germanicus ’ father, Drusus the Elder, was the second son of the Empress Livia Drusilla by her first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, and was the Emperor Tiberius ’ s younger brother and Augustus ’ s stepson.

He was the only child of Agrippina the Younger through her first marriage to Domitius, and through her, he was great-great grandson of the Emperor Augustus, great-grandnephew and adoptive great-grandson of the Emperor Tiberius, nephew of the Emperor Caligula, as well as great-nephew and stepson of the Emperor Claudius.

Elena Lourie ( 1975 ) suggested instead that it was Alfonso's attempt to neutralize the papacy's interest in a disputed succession — Aragon had been a fief of the Papacy since 1068 — and to fend off Urraca's son from her first marriage, Alfonso VII of Castile, for the Papacy would be bound to press the terms of such a pious testament.

Because of some favoritism he showed towards his second wife, the last years of his life, he had to contend with the son of his first marriage, the future Peter IV.

Hugh Fleming had four surviving children from his first marriage.

Norman Spector called, in The Globe and Mail, for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to address the issue of the act's bar on Catholics, saying that Phillips ' marriage to Kelly would be the first time the provisions of the act would bear directly on Canada – Phillips would be barred from acceding to the Canadian throne because he married a Roman Catholic Canadian.

Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.

In Germany, the crushing of a revolt in 953 by Liudolf, Otto's son by his first marriage, cemented the position of Adelaide, who retained all her dower lands.

The marriage took place on 30 April or 16 October 1325 and was a purely political maneuver to strengthen the first Polish – Lithuanian coalition against the Teutonic Knights.

The play was controversial when first published, as it is sharply critical of 19th century marriage norms.