Ruth was mentioned in the poem " Line-Up for Yesterday " by Ogden Nash:

In 1983, antihero Len Fairclough ( Peter Adamson ), one of the show's central male characters since 1961, was killed off, and in 1984, Stan Ogden ( Bernard Youens ) died.

Viewership peaked on Christmas Day 1987 when an average of 28. 5 million viewers tuned in to see Hilda Ogden leave the street to start a new life as a housekeeper for long term friend Dr Lowther ( although there is some confusion as to whether or not this was actually the highest rating episode due to a special omnibus repeat of that week's episodes being combined with the original airing ).

Many additional diagonal streets were recommended in the Plan of Chicago, but only the extension of Ogden Avenue was ever constructed.

" Allen was an ignorant and profane Deist, who died with a mind replete with horror and despair " was the opinion of Newark, New Jersey's Reverend Uzal Ogden.

This was contested in Gibbons v. Ogden ( 22 U. S. 1 ) ( 1824 ), which decided that the regulation of interstate commerce fell under the authority of the federal government, thus influencing competition in the newly developing steam ferry service in New York Harbor.

Frederic Ogden Nash ( August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971 ) was an American poet well known for his light verse.

A biography, Ogden Nash: the Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse, was written by Douglas M. Parker, published in 2005 and in paperback in 2007.

He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. ( 1804 – 96, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, Canada ) and Nancy Matthews Elliott ( 1810 – 1871, born in Chenango County, New York ).

Meanwhile, the book was translated into English by C. K. Ogden with help from the Cambridge mathematician and philosopher Frank P. Ramsey, then still in his teens.

Gibbons v. Ogden ( 1824 ) was another influential case involving the supremacy clause.

The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

When the eastern end of the CPRR was extended to Ogden, it ended the short period of a boom town for Promontory.

William Butler Ogden ( June 15, 1805 – August 3, 1877 ) was the first Mayor of Chicago.

Ogden was born in Walton, New York.

Ogden was a leading promoter and investor in the Illinois and Michigan Canal, then switched his loyalty to railroads.

Throughout his later life, Ogden was heavily involved in the building of several railroads.

" In 1847, Ogden announced a plan to build a railway out of Chicago, but no capital was forthcoming.

In 1853, the Chicago Land Company, of which Ogden was a trustee, purchased land at a bend in the Chicago River and began to cut a channel, formally known as North Branch Canal, but also referred to as Ogden's Canal.

After the 1862 Pacific Railroad Act, Ogden was named as the first president of the Union Pacific Railroad.

Moore was also the inspiration for comic poet Ogden Nash, as he acknowledged in his first book, and whose daughter reported that her work convinced Nash to become a " great bad poet " instead of a " bad good poet ".

The Union Pacific Railroad streamliner, City of San Francisco, stopped in Ogden, Utah, for a few minutes.

Basic English, also known as Simple English, is an English-based controlled language created ( in essence as a simplified subset of English ) by linguist and philosopher Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching English as a Second Language.

Ogden tried to simplify English while keeping it normal for native speakers, by specifying grammar restrictions and a controlled small vocabulary which makes an extensive use of paraphrasis.

However, Ogden prescribed that any student should learn an additional 150-word list for everyday work in some particular field, by adding a word list of 100 words particularly useful in a general field ( e. g., science, verse, business, etc.

Coronation Street became known for the portrayal of strong female characters, with characters like Sharples, Walker and Tanner, and Hilda Ogden, becoming household names during the 1960s.

* Her Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, David W. Ogden, led a lawsuit against the tobacco companies.

Ogden designed the first swing bridge over the Chicago River and donated the land for Rush Medical Center.

Ogden was a fierce supporter of the transcontinental railroad at a time of great unrest for the country and was quoted as saying

Several railroads later, Ogden Flats, Utah, where the Golden Spike was driven, was named for him.

In 71 games for Ogden, he had a batting average of. 309 and stole 44 bases.

* In 1837, Kinzie ’ s son John H. Kinzie ran for the position of the first mayor of Chicago, losing to William Butler Ogden.

* Mathewson is mentioned in the poem " Line-Up for Yesterday " by Ogden Nash:

Bushnell worked at Lagoon Amusement Park for many years in high school and college while living in his hometown of Ogden, Utah.

Charles Winchester ( David Ogden Stiers ) provides him with the sheet music for Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, tells him Wittgenstein's story, and encourages him not to abandon his musical gift.

In an interview recently Farrell discussed the byplay between his M * A * S * H co-stars, David Ogden Stiers and Harry Morgan: " David was like a rock, when he was concentrating, when he was being Charles Emerson Winchester III, you just couldn't get him, except for Harry Morgan.

Peter Skene Ogden was the first known European to explore this area in 1826 when he led a fur brigade for the Hudson's Bay Company.

Among writers in English noted for nonsense verse are Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Ogden Nash, Mervyn Peake, Colin West, Roald Dahl, Dr. Seuss and Spike Milligan.

Between 1835 and late 1839, Terre Haute served as the headquarters for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers under Major Cornelius A. Ogden during the construction of the National Road.

Stan and Hilda Ogden were often at the centre of overtly funny storylines, with other comic characters including Eddie Yeats ( Geoffrey Hughes ), Fred Gee ( Fred Feast ) and Jack Duckworth ( William Tarmey ) all making their first appearances during the decade.

Harrison wrote his autobiography, not once but twice ; his wife, Edith Ogden Harrison, was a well-known writer of children's books and fairy tales in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

The first bookmaker in the UK is considered to be Harry Ogden, who opened a business in the 1790s, although similar activities had existed in other forms earlier in the century.

Girl Scouting in Utah started in 1920 in Ogden, Utah and the first troops registered in Salt Lake City in 1921.

Ogdensburg is named after its first settler, Robert Ogden.

In 1856, New Albany was incorporated with a population of 50, and the first mayor ( S. Ogden ) was elected.

Originally named Fort Buenaventura, the city of Ogden was the first permanent settlement by people of European descent in the region that is now Utah.

Considered part of North Ogden for its first 30 years, Pleasant View was known during its early days by several names, including West District, Hot Springs District, Stringtown, or simply Out West.

The first church building, the Ogden LDS 14th Ward, was erected in 1925.

In 2001, South Ogden elected Utah's first African American mayor — Mayor George Garwood.

In 1851 a patron named Ogden Haggerty sponsored Inness ' first trip to Europe to paint and study.

The two lines were joined together at Promontory Summit, Utah, fifty-three miles west of Ogden on May 10, 1869, hence creating the first transcontinental railroad in North America.

The first article appeared in the Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel ( 24 April 1895 ), the Fort Wayne Weekly Gazette ( 25 April 1895 ) and the Ogden Standard, Utah.

LuPone was part of the first graduating class of Juilliard's Drama Division ( 1968-1972: Group 1 ), which also included actors Kevin Kline and David Ogden Stiers.

The first mayor was William Butler Ogden.

The Ogden Music Festival, 3-day outdoor festival featuring bluegrass, blues, folk & rockabilly is held the first weekend in June at Ogden's Fort Buenaventura with on-site camping.

In 1827 an HBC expedition led by Peter Skene Ogden made the first direct contact between whites and the inland Rogue River natives when he crossed the Siskiyou Mountains to look for beaver.

Born Millicent Vernon Hammond, she was the middle of three children born to renowned politician and later Ambassador to Spain, Ogden Haggerty Hammond ( October 13, 1869 – October 29, 1956 ) of Louisville, Kentucky and his first wife, Mary Picton Stevens ( May 16, 1885 – May 7, 1915 ) of Hoboken, New Jersey.