* Lacey, Robert: Robert, Earl of Essex: An Elizabethan Icarus ( Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1971 ) ISBN 0-297-00320-8

His suggestion to make Port Nicholson the capital was rejected in favour of Hobson's plan for a new town on Waitemata Harbour, to be named Auckland after the Earl of Auckland.

Born in Oxford and a descendant of the family which founded London gin distillers J & W Nicholson & Co, Lady Nicholson is the third of four daughters of Sir Godfrey Nicholson, Bt and his wife, Lady Katharine ( the fifth daughter of the 27th Earl of Crawford ).

He left a legacy to his illegitimate son Thomas Nicholson, while his title passed to his brother Simon Craven, 8th Earl of Craven.

* Lacey, Robert ( 1971 ): Robert, Earl of Essex: An Elizabethan Icarus London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson ISBN 0-297-00320-8

One of the daughters, Mary Nicholson, never married, and left her portion to her nephew, John Lyon, who by 1759 became the ninth Earl of Strathmore.

Another SVR officer who defected to Britain in 1996 described details about several thousand Russian agents and intelligence officers, some of them " illegals " who live under deep cover abroad Recently caught Russian high-profile agents in US are Aldrich Hazen Ames, Harold James Nicholson, Earl Edwin Pitts, Robert Philip Hanssen and George Trofimoff.

The remainder of the Parsons-Chestertown line was now removed, and used to extend the main line from Parsons to Nicholson ( Earl Nicholson Road ).

e. g., from male name: Richardson, Jones ( Welsh for John ), Williams, Jackson, Wilson, Thompson, Johnson, Harris, Evans, Simpson, Willis, Fox, Davies, Reynolds, Adams, Dawson, Lewis, Rogers, Murphy, Nicholson, Robinson, Powell, Ferguson, Davis, Edwards, Hudson, Roberts, Harrison, Watson, or female names Molson ( from Moll for Mary ), Gilson ( from Gill ), Emmott ( from Emma ), Marriott ( from Mary ) or from a clan name ( for those of Scottish origin, e. g., MacDonald, Forbes, Henderson, Armstrong, Grant, Cameron, Stewart, Douglas, Crawford, Campbell, Hunter ) with " Mac " Scottish Gaelic for son.

Other friends included Daily Telegraph editor Colin Coote, MI5 head Roger Hollis, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Anthony Blunt, Conservative MP Geoffrey Nicholson, infamous slumlord Peter Rachman, and the actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

* Selected Poems ( Keith Douglas, J. C. Hall, Norman Nicholson ) ( 1943 )

Michael Douglas took on the role of Nick Curran after Peter Weller, Tom Berenger, Richard Dean Anderson, Don Johnson, Wesley Snipes, Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Harrison Ford, Eric Roberts, Kevin Costner, Mel Gibson, Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Liam Neeson, Anthony Edwards, John Heard, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Charlie Sheen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ray Liotta, Sylvester Stallone, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Willis, Al Pacino, Martin Sheen, Nicolas Cage, Dennis Quaid, Richard Gere, Jeff Bridges and John Travolta all turned down the role.

Other notable members of " the Libs " were: Brian Monteith, Lloyd Beat, Marc-Henri Glendening, Marc Gordon, Mark Allatt, Robbie Gibb, Adrian Lee, Steve Nicholson, Douglas Smith David Hoile, and Harry Phibbs.

The chief poets of this clique were William Johnson Cory, Lord Alfred Douglas, Montague Summers, John Francis Bloxam, Charles Kains Jackson, John Gambril Nicholson, Rev.

The collection includes work by Picasso, Braque, Mondrian, Ben Nicholson, Matisse, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, The Scottish Colourists, Peter Howson, Levannah Harris, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Boyle Family and Douglas Gordon.

Robert Douglas " Rob " Nicholson, PC, QC, MP ( born April 29, 1952 ), is the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.

that the amplitude of the variation was considerably less than the amplitude of the variation in the infrared emission as measured by Pettit and Nicholson ( 1930 ) and Pettit ( 1935 ) ; ;

That water could be decomposed by the current from a voltaic pile was discovered by Nicholson and Carlisle in 1800, a process now known as electrolysis.

Featuring lots of Clokey's puppet films, as well as variety, interviews and games, it was hosted by Robert " Nick " Nicholson from March to June, then by Pinky Lee until November.

The known Spanish manuscript was lost in the 18th or 19th centuries ; however, an 18th-century copy of it was discovered in the 1970s in the University of Sydney's Fisher Library among the books of Charles Nicholson, labelled in English " Transcribed from ms. in possession of the Revd Mr Edm.

Nicholson, however, had also defended against an explanation that the word " Hoosier " was applied to Indiana because it referred to uncouth country folk.

* In 1980, the film The Shining was released, directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Jack Nicholson.

The Nicholson Garden was added to improve the aesthetics of this area.

In 1931, Nicholson and Mayall calculated its mass, based on its supposed effect on the gas giants, as roughly that of the Earth, while in 1949, measurements of Pluto's diameter led to the conclusion that it was midway in size between Mercury and Mars and that its mass was most probably about 0. 1 Earth mass.

When the film opened in June 1989, it was backed by the biggest marketing and merchandising campaign in film history at the time, and became one of the biggest box office hits of all time, grossing well over US $ 250 million in the US alone and $ 400 million worldwide ( numbers not adjusted for inflation ) and earning critical acclaim for the performances of both Keaton and Nicholson, as well as the film's production aspects, which won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

Soon after arrival in Australia, he was appointed Curator of the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney.

" It was presented to him by Jack Nicholson.

Boehm's work was inspired by an 1831 concert in London given by soloist Charles Nicholson who, with his father in the 1820s, had introduced a flute constructed with larger tone holes than were used in previous designs.

The first crystal-controlled oscillator, using a crystal of Rochelle salt, was built in 1917 and patented in 1918 by Alexander M. Nicholson at Bell Telephone Laboratories, although his priority was disputed by Walter Guyton Cady.

* Ken Kesey's famed fictional character, Randle Patrick McMurphy, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest who was, in the movie, played by Jack Nicholson.

In 1895 economist Joseph Shield Nicholson wrote that credit expansion and contraction was in fact the expansion and contractions of representative money.

It was used in Antonioni's film The Passenger as a backdrop for the first meeting between Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider.

Margaret Rutherford was born in 1892 in Balham, the only child of William Rutherford Benn and his second wife Florence, née Nicholson.

She was returned to Britain when she was three to live with an aunt, a professional governess Bessie Nicholson, in Wimbledon, London, after her pregnant mother, Florence, committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree.

In March the same year, Jenny Nicholson, a frequent contributor, wrote a piece on the Italian Socialist Party congress in Venice, which mentioned three Labour MPs " who puzzled the Italians by filling themselves like tanks with whisky and coffee …" All three sued for libel, the case went to trial and The Spectator was forced to make a large payment in damages and costs, a sum well over the equivalent of £ 150, 000 today.

O ' Neill was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the 1981 film Reds about the life of John Reed.

In the same interview, Nicholson also revealed that Towne had conceived Chinatown as a trilogy and that the third film was to be set in 1968 and deal in some way with Howard Hughes.

The laird, Arthur Nicholson, who had bought it had " cleared " parts of Fetlar, and it is possible that the islanders removed themselves in anticipation of a possible future forcible eviction by this landowner.

Roundhay was a hamlet until 1803 when the park estate was bought by Thomas Nicholson who started a programme of landscaping and built the Mansion House.

In 1978 he founded Nicholson Enterprises, Inc., a developer of planned residential communities, and in 1987 he bought Renaissance Homes, a custom-house builder.

** WWI: Action of 17 November 1917: United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson capture Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-58 off the south-west coast of Ireland, the first combat action in which U. S. ships take a submarine ( which is then scuttled ).

Ashby was coming off the disappointing commercial and critical failure of Harold and Maude and was in pre-production on Three Cornered Circle at MGM when Jack Nicholson told him about The Last Detail, his upcoming film at Columbia.

The Argonauts ' made significant off the field changes, Bob Nicholson re-joined the team in May as President and CEO.

But no matter what they try — deliberately flubbing their lines, pointing out to other characters that they're really just actors making a film, complaining to Nicholson and Rafelson who are on the set but not part of the film, smashing through the painted paper walls, walking off the set and into the street, physically attacking other actors for no reason, and making everyone they encounter mad at them — they discover that their every word and deed was predetermined to the finest detail by the script of the movie they're in and the director directing it.

When ships arrived in the harbor, they brought passengers and captains directly to the fort, cutting off outside communications to Nicholson and his council.

* 17 November-Action of 17 November 1917: Queenstown-based United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson capture Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-58 which is scuttled off Kinsale.

Nicholson returned from injury for the final game of the 2009 / 10 season only to limp off the field within 15 minutes suffering from an injury to the same leg.