The word " forest " comes from Middle English forest, from Old French forest ( also forès ) " forest, vast expanse covered by trees "; first introduced in English as the word for wild land set aside for hunting without the necessity in definition for the existence of trees ( James 1981 ; Muir 2000, 2008 ).

It was a Scot, John Muir, who had initiated one of the first national parks in the world, at Yosemite in the United States.

The first use of the expression ' Satanic Verses ' is attributed to Sir William Muir ( 1858 ).

The majority view, however, first advanced in a rebuttal of Honigmann's views by Kenneth Muir, holds that the Troublesome Reign antedates King John by a period of several years ; and that the skilful plotting of the Troublesome Reign is neither unparalleled in the period, nor proof of Shakespeare's involvement.

The original Broadway cast members were nearly all new to the stage ; Kennedy and Muir write that on the first day of rehearsal only one member had ever been on a stage before.

That same year was the first year of Suicidal ’ s four year recording hiatus and Mike Muir and bassist Louiche Mayorga formed the Label “ Suicidal Records ” as well as the band Los Cycos Jon Nelson left the group and Suicidal Tendencies were banned from playing L. A. shows from an Incident at Perkins Palace ( their fans tore out ten rows of seats and promoters couldn ’ t get the proper insurance to hire them ) Muir was also about to try his hand at producing as well as starting the new label.

Alexander Muir, in the Daily Mirror, considered that the first two volumes of Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, " would make wonderful Christmas presents for everybody's young ones ", declaring that they were " thrilling cliff-hanger adventures ".

The first community in the United States to be designed, constructed and occupied specifically for cohousing is Muir Commons in Davis, California.

Through TIFH Muir and Norden reinvented British post-war radio comedy — amongst other influences, it was one of the first shows with a significant segment consisting of parody of film and book styles, later used extensively in programmes such as Round the Horne and many television programmes.

Muir and Norden's first joint venture was the radio show Take it from Here, which they scripted from 1948 to 1959.

John Muir was a founding member and first president of the Sierra Club.

William Edward Colby, the first secretary of the Sierra Club, called the finished trail " a most appropriate memorial to John Muir, who spent many of the best years of his life exploring the region which it will make accessible.

There, under a towering black locust tree beside North Hall, Muir took his first botany lesson.

During his first summer in the Sierra as a shepherd, Muir wrote field notes that emphasized the role that the senses play in human perceptions of the environment.

Muir was the first person honored with a California commemorative day when legislation signed in 1988 created John Muir Day, effective from 1989 onward.

This road roughly follows part of the route Muir took on his first walk to Yosemite.

* Complete text of a selection of first edition John Muir books

Other notable early shows included We Have Ways of Making You Laugh ( a sketch show starring Frank Muir which was due to be the first programme scheduled to be aired on LWT, but industrial action blacked it out early in the first show ); the children's fantasy Catweazle ; and several sitcoms, including No, Honestly, On the Buses, Please Sir !, Me and My Girl and Mind Your Language.

The " Mountaineer's Route ", a gully on the north side of the east face first climbed by John Muir, is considered a scramble.

It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president.

Most certainly they did not exist in 1867, when Muir first began distributing his writing in the US.

Henry Erskine, who had not forgiven Muir for his attempts to undermine his authority with the burgh reformers, was now presented with the perfect opportunity for revenge.

Stornoway features heavily in the initial stages of the X-Men comics Dark Phoenix Saga due to its proximity to the ficitonal Muir Island and Proteus ' attempts to find a new host body.

Environmental history frequently promoted a moral and political agenda although it steadily became a more scholarly enterprise .” Early attempts to define the field were made in the United States by Roderick Nash in “ The State of Environmental History ” and in other works by frontier historians Frederick Jackson Turner, James Malin, John Muir and Walter Prescott Webb who analysed the process of settlement.

Monies were contributed to The Boys ' Club of New York that E. H. loved and supported, to the American Red Cross, to John Muir to help save the Yosemite Valley and to Yale University for an endowed chair of Forestry.

* In the ' 90s, screenwriting duo Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir submitted a Jungle Book 2 screenplay in which Baloo ventured to save his romantic interest from a poacher.

Preservationists led by Muir and the Sierra Club failed to save Hetch Hetchy Valley from becoming a reservoir in 1923.

Newest on the list are John Ciardi, W. D. Snodgrass, I. A. Richards, Oscar Williams, Robert Hillyer, John Hall Wheelock, Stephen Vincent Benet, Edwin Muir, John Peal Bishop and Maxwell Bodenheim.

In an attempt to quickly deal with the situation, CIA executives call in Nathan Muir ( Robert Redford ), an aging mid-level case officer on his last day before retirement and the man who recruited Bishop.

Although they tell Muir they simply need him to act as a " stop gap " to fill in some holes in their background files, the officials are hoping he gives them the smoking gun they need to justify letting Bishop die.

The CIA higher-ups are not aware that Muir has already been tipped off by fellow CIA veteran Harry Duncan ( David Hemmings ), for whom Bishop had been working an operation in Hong Kong before going rogue, about Bishop's capture prior to Muir's arrival at Langley.

During the debriefing, Muir describes how he recruited Bishop for an operation when Bishop was a Marine Corps sniper in Vietnam.

Muir also discusses their tour of duty in Berlin in 1976 where Bishop was tasked with procurring East German assets with Muir commanding, as well as Bishop's spy work in Beirut in 1985 during the War of the Camps, which was the last time the two saw each other.

Chinese agents kidnap Hadley, and Bishop cuts all ties to Muir when he discovers his involvement.

Running out of time, Muir secretly creates a forged urgent operational directive from the CIA director to commence Operation Dinner Out, a rescue mission spearheaded by Commander Wiley's ( Dale Dye ) U. S. Navy SEAL team, which Bishop laid the groundwork for as a " Plan B " to his own rescue attempt.

Using US $ 282, 000 of his life savings and a misappropriated file on Chinese coastline satellite imagery, Muir enlists Duncan's help in bribing a Chinese energy official to cut power to the prison for 30 minutes, during which time the SEAL rescue team retrieves Bishop and Hadley.

Bishop, who is rescued at the end of the film 15 minutes before his scheduled execution, realizes Muir was behind his rescue since the name of the plan to rescue him, " Operation Dinner Out ", was a reference to a birthday gift that Bishop gave Muir while they were in Lebanon.

Bedrock Records is an English record label for trance, house and techno started by Nick Muir and John Digweed.

The volume was critically acclaimed and won a contest run by the Sunday Referee, netting him new admirers from the London poetry world, including Edith Sitwell and Edwin Muir.

In the modern wilderness preservation movement, important philosophical roles are played by the writings of John Muir who had been activist in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Indeed, as Edward Muir points out, “ by the sixteenth century virtually every word, gesture and act that the doge made in public was subject to legal and ceremonial regulation ”.

After Muir, Robinson attended Pasadena Junior College ( PJC ), where he continued his athletic career by participating in basketball, football, baseball, and track.

Responding to a question by The Times film critic Kate Muir about his German roots and his comments in a Danish film magazine about the Nazi aesthetic, von Trier claimed to have some sympathy for and understanding of Adolf Hitler, and then jokingly claimed to be a Nazi himself:

* Robert Bruce King Of Scots, by Agnes Muir Mackenzie

He referred to his Liverpudlian son-in-law as " Shirley Temple " or a " randy Scouse git " ( Randy Scouse Git as a phrase caught the ear of Micky Dolenz of The Monkees who heard it while on tour in the UK-and who co-opted it as the title of the group's next single-though their record label renamed it " Alternate Title " in the UK market to avoid controversy ) and to his wife as a " silly moo " ( a substitute for " cow " which was vetoed by the BBC's head of comedy Frank Muir ).

Environmentalism was the third position, led by John Muir ( 1838 – 1914 ).

Since William Muir the historicity of this episode has been largely accepted by orientalists.

" The Maple Leaf Forever " is a Canadian song written by Alexander Muir ( 1830 – 1906 ) in 1867, the year of Canada's Confederation.

Muir was said to have been inspired to write this song by a large maple tree which stood on his street in front the Maple Cottage, a house at Memory Lane and Laing Street in Toronto.

Several books offering insight and background information to Blake's 7 were produced, including Blake's 7: The Complete Guide by Adrian Rigelsford ( Boxtree, 1995 ), Blake's 7: The Inside Story by Joe Nazzaro and Sheelagh Wells ( Virgin, 1997 ), A History and Critical Analysis of Blake's 7 by John Kenneth Muir ( McFarland and Company, 1999 ), and Liberation.

Some leaves are in the shade because light is blocked by Muir Forest | trees.

Honigmann discerned in the play the influence of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Matthew Paris ' Historia Maior, and the Wakefield Chronicle, but Muir demonstrated that this apparent influence could be explained by the priority of the Troublesome Reign, which contains similar or identical matter.

# Muir Valley, is a nature preserve and rock climbing area owned and maintained by Rick and Liz Weber

A script for a Flashman film adaptation was written by Frank Muir in 1969, to star John Alderton, and is mentioned in his autobiography A Kentish Lad.

* Short radio episode The Water-Ouzel, from The Mountains of California, by John Muir 1894.

* 1946: Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir by Linnie Marsh Wolfe

These were followed by two Christmas specials: one 10-minute sketch as part of an anthology presented by Frank Muir, and then the hour-long " Party Games ", in 1984.