Nearly two centuries ago, Ngubengcuka ( d. 1832 ), who ruled as the Inkosi Enkhulu of the Thembu people, married and subsequently left a son named Mandela, who became Nelson's grandfather and the source of his surname.

This manoeuvre was so unusual and so widely admired in the Royal Navy that using one enemy ship to cross to another became known facetiously as " Nelson's patent bridge for boarding enemy vessels.

In the earliest episodes, Lisa became the target of Nelson's bullying, which prompted Bart to defend her.

The two moved to Missouri after selling the newspaper that became the Fort Wayne News Sentinel ( and earlier owned by Nelson's father ) in Nelson's Indiana hometown, where Nelson was campaign manager in the unsuccessful Presidential run of Samuel Tilden.

The area was fought over for the fur trade, though the Hayes River, whose mouth is near the Nelson's, became the main route inland.

Following their discovery of the then unknown Brian Nelson's fingerprints on security documents, the Inquiry team encountered a wall of silence as they tried to investigate further: Brian Fitzsimmons, Acting Head of the RUC's Special Branch, became evasive telling Stevens: We can't help you with this man ; and, at the Grosvenor Road station, Nelson's card in the intelligence card system was initially whipped away from the investigators.

Later on, the musical had developed a cult following based primarily on the score as heard on the original concept album ( Frank Rich noted in his book Hot Seat that " the score retains its devoted fans "), while Nelson's book became a frequent target of scorn from critics and fans alike, though it still has its supporters.

After Nelson's death Rose became Emma Hamilton's executor and Horatia's guardian ; but Pitt's death diminished Rose's influence and his fellow Ministers did not support her.

In February 1801, he transferred to the 90-gun and became Nelson's flag captain once more.

After a stint playing with Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band, Meisner later became a founding member of the Eagles.

Another captain's servant on Agamemnon was Josiah Nisbet, Nelson's stepson, but the letters suggest that Hoste quickly became a favourite and that Josiah compared badly with him in many respects.

However, once Nelson's off-the-ball fouling strategy became prevalent, the term Hack-a-Shaq was applied to this new tactic, and the original usage was largely forgotten.

He is remembered especially for Elephant which became, by chance, Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Copenhagen when Nelson transferred his flag from the 98 gun 1st rate St George as Elephant's shallower draught made it more suitable for the shallow waters around Copenhagen.

However, the stallion became most competitive when he became the mount of Nelson's son, Rodrigo, as a nine-year-old.

Three years later, in 1991, on the recommendation of Nelson's brother Laurance Rockefeller to the then CEO Steven Ross, Parsons was invited to join Time Warner's board ; he subsequently became president of the company in 1995, recruited by Gerald Levin.

The facial similarities between Moe and the Muntz are surprisingly quite apparent and Moe's childhood experiences and behaviors are somewhat relatable with Nelson's.

In one example in 2005, Walmart rejected the original cover of country singer Willie Nelson's reggae album, Countryman, which featured marijuana leaves, in an apparent pro-marijuana statement.

Bonaparte, aware of Nelson's pursuit, enforced absolute secrecy about his destination and was able to capture Malta and then land in Egypt without interception by the British force.

On 21 May, as Nelson's squadron approached Toulon, it was struck by a fierce gale and Nelson's flagship HMS Vanguard lost its topmasts and was almost wrecked on the Corsican coast.

Nelson's plan, shaped through discussion with his senior captains during the return voyage to Alexandria, was to advance on the French and pass down the seaward side of the van and centre of the French line, so that each French ship would face two British ships and the massive Orient would be fighting against three.

Nelson's head wound was recorded as being " three inches long ", with " the cranium exposed for one inch ".

Nelson's first set of dispatches were captured when Leander was intercepted and defeated by Généreux in a fierce engagement off the western shore of Crete on 18 August 1798.

* 1805 28 October – HMS Victory was towed into Gibraltar bringing Nelson's body aboard.

The extensive quarries at Foggintor provided granite for the construction of London's Nelson's Column in the early 1840s, and New Scotland Yard was faced with granite from the quarry at Merrivale.

Eventually Paul Gleason intervened on Nelson's behalf because he was trying to stay in character.

In the 1970s Ted Nelson's original " Xanadu " hypertext repository was envisioned as such a service.

Napoleon's plans to invade Britain failed due to the inferiority of his navy, and in 1805, Lord Nelson's fleet decisively defeated the French and Spanish at Trafalgar, which was the last significant naval action of the Napoleonic Wars.

The British victory spectacularly confirmed the naval supremacy that Britain had established during the previous century and was achieved in part through Nelson's departure from the prevailing naval tactical orthodoxy, which involved engaging an enemy fleet in a single line of battle parallel to the enemy to facilitate signalling in battle and disengagement, and to maximise fields of fire and target areas.

Atlantic Records was now attempting to sign Jennings, but Nelson's rise to popularity persuaded RCA to renegotiate with Jennings before losing another potential success.

The identity of the " fat man " has never been confirmed, although who it was has been suggested to be one of Nelson's associates, or, as suggested by Fatso Negri to the BOI, Pretty Boy Floyd.

Though Nelson's Xanadu Corporation was eventually funded by Autodesk in the 1980s, it never created this proprietary public-access network.

It was the " birthplace " of many British naval vessels, including many of Admiral Nelson's fleet, using the timber of the New Forest.

Nelson's decision to wear ship was significant.

Nelson's promotion to Rear-Admiral was not a reward for his services, but simply a happy coincidence: promotion to flag rank in the Navy of the time was based on seniority on the Captain's list and not on achievement.

The senior Rivers, also called William, was the master gunner aboard The Victory and it is thanks to his commonplace book ( now kept in the Royal Naval Museum library in Portsmouth ) that many of the thoughts of the sailors aboard Nelson's flagship are preserved.

It is shown in many episodes that Nelson's father abandoned him and his mother at an early age when he " went to pick up some Pop-Tarts " although, later on in the series, he was said to have gone to pick up a pack of cigarettes.

American voice actress Dana Hill was first supposed to provide Nelson's voice, and attended the read-through of the episode.

Coburn said that the earmarks would benefit Nelson's son Patrick's employer with millions in federal dollars and that the situation violated terms of the Transparency Act, which was passed by the Senate but had not yet been voted on in the House.

Nelson's use of a single welt along the perimeter of the padding gives the seating an approachable softness and yet, there is more going on that cannot be seen.

Considerably larger than a usual Ship in a bottle, yet much smaller than the real HMS Victory, in fact a 1: 30 scale model, Yinka Shonibare's Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, was " the first commission on the Fourth Plinth to reflect specifically on the historical symbolism of Trafalgar Square, which commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar, and will link directly with Nelson ’ s column.

Nelson's 10 under par 132 record score has yet to be equaled.