On Wednesday evening, November 23, 1859, in Warren, Rev. Mark Trafton of New Bedford, gave a `` Mission of Sympathy '' lecture in which he favorably viewed the Harper's Ferry insurrection.

On the way home from Riemann's lecture, Weber reported that Gauss was full of praise and excitement.

* On Stars, Their Evolution and Their Stability, Nobel Prize lecture, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, December 8, 1983.

Only a year later, at the age of 39, Doppler gave a lecture to the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences and subsequently published his most notable work, " Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels " ( On the coloured light of the binary stars and some other stars of the heavens ).

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien ( 1937 ) is seminal, predating the lecture On Fairy-Stories by the same author by a few years.

On the lecture circuit, he spoke at many colleges around the country during the Reconstruction era, including Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1873.

In the May 16, 2007 edition of TIME magazine, it was reported that " His ( Gore's ) Tennessee mansion consumes 20 times the electricity used by the average American home " On October 30, 2010, under the headline A VERY inconvenient truth, the UK Telegraph reported that " Al Gore ' left car engine running during hour-long environment lecture ".

On 4 March 1590, as a chaplain of Queen Elizabeth I, he preached before her an outspoken sermon and, in October that year, gave his introductory lecture at St Paul's, undertaking to comment on the first four chapters of the Book of Genesis.

In 1870, Rudolf Clausius delivered the lecture " On a Mechanical Theorem Applicable to Heat " to the Association for Natural and Medical Sciences of the Lower Rhine, following a 20 year study of thermodynamics.

* Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico delivers his inaugural lecture to the University of Naples, published as his first book, On the Study Methods of Our Time, in 1709.

Robert Hooke and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli both expounded gravitation in 1666 as an attractive force ( Hooke ’ s lecture “ On gravity ” at the Royal Society, London, on 21 March ; Borelli ’ s " Theory of the Planets ", published later in 1666 ).

On the evening of 19 April 1894 Ramsay attended a lecture given by Lord Rayleigh.

On his return to London in 1913 Jones set up in practice as a psychoanalyst, founded the London Psychoanalytic Society and continued to write and lecture on psychoanalytic theory.

He argued for an attracting principle of gravitation in Micrographia of 1665, in a 1666 Royal Society lecture " On gravity ", and again in 1674, when he published his ideas about the " System of the World " in somewhat developed form, as an addition to " An Attempt to Prove the Motion of the Earth from Observations ".

Hooke's 1666 Royal society lecture " On gravity " added two further principles – that all bodies move in straight lines till deflected by some force and that the attractive force is stronger for closer bodies.

In a lecture titled " On the duties of patients to their physicians ", he stated that patients should be strictly obedient to the physician's orders ; this was representative of much of his writings.

On March 14, 1987, Derrida presented at the CIPH conference titled " Heidegger: Open Questions " a lecture which was published in October 1987 as Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question.

On October 1, 2006, Spassky suffered a minor stroke during a chess lecture in San Francisco.

On February 27, 1888, a couple of days after photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge gave a lecture not far from the laboratory of Thomas Edison, the two inventors privately met.

He also wrote a short story entitled " On the Return of the Dead " in which Rabelais descended from heaven to earth in 1902 to give a lecture in praise of wine at the London School of Economics, but was instead arrested.

The lecture was published as Poetry and Drama and later included in Eliot's 1957 collection On Poetry and Poets.

The inaugural lecture On the origin and duty of literature, delivered by Foscolo in January 1809 when appointed to the chair of Italian eloquence at Pavia, was conceived in the same spirit.

On occasion, he even entered the legislative chambers, going so far as to sit on representatives ' and senators ' desks and sternly lecture them on his positions.

Clara Barton visited Dansville in 1866 to deliver a lecture and again in 1873, during which time she stayed at the Home On the Hillside to recuperate from the toil of nursing soldiers in the Franco-Prussian War.

On 17 January 1879 this lecture was successfully repeated with the lamp shown in actual operation ; Swan had solved the problem of incandescent electric lighting by means of a vacuum lamp.

On their tour that year ( 1882 ) the Australians played just one Test, at The Oval in London.

On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937 where he became commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier, but that year saw great tragedy when his wife was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea.

On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.

On the 1930 tour a delegation led by the Irish lock George Beamish expressed their displeasure at the fact that whilst the blue of Scotland, white of England and red of Wales were represented in the strip there was no green for Ireland.

On tour, games take place against local provinces, clubs or representative sides as well as the full tests against the host's national team.

On 11 January 1706, Marlborough finally reached London at the end of his diplomatic tour, but he had already been planning his strategy for the coming season.

On the 1932-33 English tour of Australia, Larwood and Voce bowled fast leg theory at the Australian batsmen.

On the fourth day of the first Test match at Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua during India's tour of West Indies, 2006, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's flick off Dave Mohammed to the midwicket region was caught by Daren Ganga.

On January 6, 2009, Deicide posted a blog on their official Myspace page saying they had signed a worldwide record deal with Century Media, with Ralph Santolla returning to the band for a European tour.

On the Grace Under Pressure tour, Lee removed his Ashly preamps and switched to Furman PQ-3 preamps, and changed cabs to custom made 215 cabs.

On the Test for Echo tour he used the same set up but added a Palmer PDI-03 speaker simulator, and a SansAmp PSA-1.

On November 19, 1928, Hoover embarked on a seven-week goodwill tour of several Latin American nations to outline his economic and trade policies to other nations in the Western Hemisphere.

On January 6, 2012, NBC president Robert Greenblatt announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour that Harry Connick, Jr. had been cast in a four-episode arc of NBC's long-running legal drama, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as new Executive ADA, David Haden, a dedicated, straight-shooting prosecutor who is assigned a case with Detective Benson ( Mariska Hargitay ).

On 7 September 2012, Captain Wales as he is known in the military, arrived at Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan as part of the 100-strong 662 Squadron, 3 Regiment, Army Air Corps, to begin a four-month combat tour as a co-pilot and gunner for an Apache helicopter.

On this tour he met Joseph Joachim at Hanover, and went on to the Court of Weimar where he met Franz Liszt, Peter Cornelius, and Joachim Raff.

On the 1973 Quadrophenia tour, at the Cow Palace arena in Daly City, California, Moon ingested a large mixture of tranquillisers and brandy.

* 1984: On your toes by Rogers and Hart, director George Abbott, US tour

On 14 October 1968, the band announced the new name and played their first show at the University of Surrey ( at its original Battersea Park location, not at Guildford ) on 25 October ; this was followed by a short British tour.

On a concert tour in Germany in 1819, he met his friend Antoine Meissonnier for the first time.

On March 28, 2007, the band announced a West Coast tour through their MySpace page.

On the eve of his tour of Pakistan later that year, doubts were cast on his ability to trouble subcontinental batsmen.

On October 4, 1952, nine cartoonists left on a USO-Camp Shows tour of U. S. Armed Forces installations in Europe, traveling via a Military Air Transport Service plane from Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts and landing at Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany.

On the tour, the cartoonists engaged models in each country to join in their Laff Time show of audience participation stunts and gags.

* On October 4, 1955, early in his career, Elvis Presley performed at the Boys Club Gymnasium at 1530 1st Street Northeast in Paris as a member of the Louisiana Hayride Jamboree tour.