The Cornish language writers Nicholas Boson, Thomas Boson and John Boson are all buried in Paul Churchyard, and a monument in the church by John Boson ( to Arthur Hutchens, d. 1709 ) is the only surviving lapidary inscription in traditional Cornish.

And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

" In a letter to Nicholas Kratzer in 1524, Dürer wrote " because of our Christian faith we have to stand in scorn and danger, for we are reviled and called heretics.

Nicholas Christopher wrote a literary novel called " The Bestiary " ( Dial, 2007 ) that describes a lonely young man's efforts to track down the world's most complete bestiary.

In 1833, an anonymous English-language writer wrote a poetic defence of Captain Nicholas Nicholls, who had been sentenced to death in London for sodomy:

Her letters to her son and his family have since almost all been lost ; but in one that survives, she wrote to Nicholas: " You know that my thoughts and prayers never leave you.

When Eadmer wrote a life of Dunstan some decades later, he included an account of Edward's parentage obtained from Nicholas of Worcester.

Charles Thomson's painting, Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision, as Charlotte Cripps of The Independent wrote is one of the best known paintings to come out of the Stuckist movement, and as Jane Morris wrote in The Guardian it's a likely " signature piece " for the movement, standing for its opposition to conceptual art.

In addition to his numerous letters to various notables and foreign rulers ( including Simeon of Bulgaria ), Nicholas Mystikos wrote a homily on the sack of Thessalonica by the Arabs in 904.

The magazine was founded by American journalist Louis Rossetto and his partner Jane Metcalfe and Ian Charles Stewart in 1993 with initial backing from software entrepreneur Charlie Jackson and eclectic academic Nicholas Negroponte of the MIT Media Lab, who was a regular columnist for six years, through 1998 and wrote the book Being Digital.

" Alexandra wrote Nicholas on 13 March 1916 that Tatiana was the only one of their four daughters who " grasped it " when she explained her way of looking at things.

" Our Friend is so contented with our girlies, says they have gone through heavy ' courses ' for their age and their souls have much developed ," Alexandra wrote to Nicholas on 6 December 1916.

" My little Malama came for an hour yesterday evening ," wrote Alexandra to Nicholas on 17 March 1916.

" Our Friend is so contented with our girlies, says they have gone through heavy ' courses ' for their age and their souls have much developed ," Alexandra wrote to Nicholas on December 6, 1916.

Irina's first cousin, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, whom she had been close to when they were girls, was disdainful of Felix: " Felix is a ' downright civilian ,' dressed all in brown, walked to and fro about the room, searching in some bookcases with magazines and virtually doing nothing ; an utterly unpleasant impression he makes – a man idling in such times ," Olga wrote to her father, Tsar Nicholas II, on 5 March 1915 after paying a visit to the Yusupovs.

The only extant relic of the saint is the arm and hand with which he wrote his Commentary on the Sentences, which is now conserved at Bagnoregio, in the parish church of St. Nicholas.

Her stepson Nicholas Mosley is a novelist who also wrote a critical memoir of his father for which Diana reportedly never forgave him, despite their previously close relationship.

During the later part of his life, Nicholas Barbon wrote extensively on economic theory.

Barham was a contributor to the Edinburgh Review and the Literary Gazette ; he wrote articles for John Gorton's Biographical Dictionary ; and a novel, My Cousin Nicholas ( 1834 ).

Michael rejected the notion, proposed by his friends, that he keep her as a mistress, and in July 1906 he wrote to Nicholas asking permission to marry her.

At the start of the war, Michael wrote to Nicholas asking him to legitimise his son so, he argued, that the boy would be provided for in the event of Michael's death at the front.

He wrote to his godmother, Baroness Alfhild Scalon de Coligny, who had connections at the Russian court, to help him enter the Nicholas Cavalry School.

A wide range of Elizabethan poets wrote songs, including Nicholas Grimald, Thomas Nashe and Robert Southwell.

Whittingham also wrote a preface to Nicholas Ridley's ‘ Brief Declaration of the Lord's Supper ’ ( Geneva?

Starting from the 19th century Taormina became a popular tourist resort in the whole of Europe: people who visited Taormina include Oscar Wilde, Nicholas I of Russia, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nietzsche ( who here wrote his Also sprach Zarathustra ), Richard Wagner and many others.

According to an article by Nicholas Wade published in the New York Times, genetic evidence published in July 2012 in the journal Nature by David Reich of the Harvard Medical School " vindicates " Greenberg's hypothesis of three waves of migration into the Americas.

Emperor Nicholas I abolished the punishment by knout in 1845, and replaced it with the pleti, lashes with three thongs which could end in lead balls.

He had a child from his first marriage, Elaine, from whom he has a granddaughter, Marie Laurence, and three great-grandsons, William, Arthur and Nicholas.

The symbol has also been attributed to the story of Nicholas giving a poor man's three daughters each a bag of gold so they could get married.

In 1991, the bodies of Nicholas II and his wife, along with three of their five children and four of their servants, were exhumed ( although some questioned the authenticity of these bones despite DNA testing ).

This of course has since been completely disproved with the discovery of the final Romanov children remains and extensive DNA testing that connected these remains with those of Nicholas II, his wife and three children.

On November 12, 1734, Nicholas Mahudel, physician, antiquarian and numismatist, read a paper at a public sitting of the Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in which he defined three " usages " of stone, bronze and iron in a chronological sequence.

* Nick Cook ( cricketer ) ( born Nicholas Grant Billson Cook, 17 June 1956, Leicester ) is a former English cricketer, who played in fifteen Tests and three ODIs from 1983 to 1989.

Two of the three BUS presidents, William Jones and Nicholas Biddle, were chosen from among these government directors.

The bodies of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, and three of their daughters were finally interred at St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg on 17 July 1998, eighty years to the day after they were murdered.

* In the book series by the Irish author Michael Scott, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, from book three, The Sorceress, and onward, Gilgamesh the King, the oldest immortal in the world, is sometimes referred to as the " Ancient of Days.

Michael presided over a synod in 867 in which Photios and the three other eastern patriarchs excommunicated Pope Nicholas and condemned the Latin filioque clause concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit.

DNA and skeletal analysis matched these remains to Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, and three of the four Grand Duchesses ( Olga, Tatiana and Maria ).

But following a fast-paced start, the SIG entered a period of quiescence that saw it meet only three times from late July 1966 to mid-July 1967, reflecting in part Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach's initial hesitancy to exploit its possibilities upon taking office in October 1966.

Bennett's critically acclaimed The History Boys won three Laurence Olivier Awards in 2005, for Best New Play, Best Actor ( Richard Griffiths ), and Best Direction ( Nicholas Hytner ), having previously won Critics ' Circle Theatre Awards and Evening Standard Awards for Best Actor and Best Play.

Marlowe had spent all day in a house owned by the widow Eleanor Bull, along with three men, Ingram Frizer, Nicholas Skeres and Robert Poley.

Other questions included the right for a weekly market in Plumstead on a Wednesday and a fair yearly for three days " on the Eve day, and morrow of St. Nicholas ".

Deputy Ambrose had been in charge of protecting mobster-turned-informant Nicholas Calabrese, who was instrumental in sending three mob bosses to prison for life.

The first three letters in Nicholas ' name were added to his middle initial, which is A, hence the city name: Nixa.

For three hundred years, there were no formal religious orders in Anglicanism, although some informal communities – such as that founded by Nicholas Ferrar at Little Gidding – occasionally sprang into being.

The result was disastrous on three grounds: firstly, it associated the monarchy with the unpopular war ; secondly, Nicholas proved a poor leader of men on the front line, often irritating his own commanders with his interference ; and thirdly, whilst at the front, he was unavailable to govern.

They had three sons, Michael David Kelly ( who had three children: Elizabeth, Alexander and Ruby ); Brent Robert Kelly ( who had three children: Lori, Nicholas and Elissa ); and Raymond Joseph Kelly ( who had three children Heather ( now married to Michael Weathers ), Carissa ( now married to Frank Jenkins.