More solid evidence is that Blish admired the work of Oswald Spengler.

As well as visiting mines, including Grimethorpe, and observing social conditions, he attended meetings of the Communist Party and of Oswald Mosley – " his speech the usual claptrap — The blame for everything was put upon mysterious international gangs of Jews " – where he saw the tactics of the Blackshirts – " one is liable to get both a hammering and a fine for asking a question which Mosley finds it difficult to answer.

Lovecraft was also influenced by authors such as Gertrude Barrows Bennett ( who, writing as Francis Stevens, impressed Lovecraft enough that he publicly praised her stories and eventually " emulated Bennett's earlier style and themes "), Oswald Spengler, Robert W. Chambers ( writer of The King in Yellow, of whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith: " Chambers is like Rupert Hughes and a few other fallen Titans — equipped with the right brains and education but wholly out of the habit of using them ").

* 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters.

Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is later captured and charged with the murder of both the President and police officer J. D. Tippit.

is: Oswald Spengler

* 1927 – The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon, Trolley Troubles, produced by Walt Disney, is released by Universal Pictures.

He was given a strongly positive assessment by the historian Bede, writing a little less than a century after Oswald's death, who regarded Oswald as a saintly king ; it is also Bede who is the main source for present-day historical knowledge of Oswald.

Oswald was apparently born in or around the year 604, since Bede says that he was killed at the age of 38 in 642 ; Æthelfrith's acquisition of Deira is also believed to have occurred around 604.

It has been considered that Oswald is one of the three Saxon princes mentioned in the Irish poem Togail Bruidne Dá Derga, being named as ' Osalt ' in that work.

It may have been to appease Oswald that Penda had Eadfrith, a captured son of Edwin ( and thus a dynastic rival of Oswald ), killed, although it is also possible that Penda had his own motives for the killing.

Irish annals record the siege of Edinburgh, thought to have been the royal stronghold of the Gododdin, in 638, and this seems to mark the end of the kingdom ; that this siege was undertaken by Oswald is suggested by the apparent control of the area by his brother Oswiu in the 650s.

Although Oswald had one known son, Æthelwald, it is uncertain whether this was a son from his marriage to Cynegils ' daughter or from an earlier relationship — since Æthelwald began ruling in Deira in 651, it has been argued that a son from this marriage would have been too young at the time to be trusted with this position, and therefore may have been older, the product of a relationship Oswald had during his exile.

In this respect, as a king regarded as saintly for his life while ruling — in contrast to a king who gives up the kingship in favour of religious life, or who is venerated because of the manner of his death — Bede's portrayal of Oswald stands out as unusual.

It has also been considered that, if the traditional identification of the site as Oswestry is correct, Oswald was on the offensive, in the territory of his enemies.

This could conflict with Bede's saintly portrayal of Oswald, since an aggressive war could hardly qualify as a just war, perhaps explaining why Bede is silent on the cause of the war — he says only that Oswald died " fighting for his fatherland "— as well as his failure to mention other offensive warfare Oswald is presumed to have engaged in between Heavenfield and Maserfield.

A former U. S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union between October 1959 and June 1962, Oswald was initially arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit, on a Dallas street approximately 40 minutes after Kennedy was shot.

Two days later, while being transferred from police headquarters to the county jail, Oswald was shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby in full view of television cameras broadcasting live.

** John F. Kennedy assassination: Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas on live national television.

* J. D. Tippit, a Dallas police officer who was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald a few hours after Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy.

* Private " Snowball " Brown in the Stanley Kubrick film Full Metal Jacket commits a malapropism in trying to explain details of President Kennedy's assassination and the distance of the shot taken by Lee Harvey Oswald.

Two days later, at 2: 33 pm EST on November 24, Cronkite broke into CBS's coverage of the memorial services in Washington to inform the viewers of the death of Oswald, who had been shot earlier that day ( the news that Reasoner had broken into the funeral coverage to report only seconds after the incident ):

The man accused of assassinating President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, is shot and killed as he is led to jail by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby.

extremely offensive and contrary to public policy " Other items such as the hat worn by Jack Ruby the day he shot Lee Harvey Oswald and the toe tag on Oswald's corpse are in the hands of private collectors and have sold for tens of thousands of dollars at auctions.

J. D. Tippit ( September 18, 1924 – November 22, 1963 ) was a police officer with the Dallas Police Department who, according to two government investigations including the Warren Commission, was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald after Tippit stopped Oswald following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The third shot Oswald fired successfully killed the President.

* If Oswald had not shot Kennedy, then someone else would have.

Ruth M. J. Byrne proposed in The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality that people construct mental representations that encompass two possibilities when they understand, and reason from, a counterfactual conditional, e. g., ' if Oswald had not shot Kennedy, then someone else would have '.

Wade lost the opportunity to try Lee Harvey Oswald for Kennedy's murder when Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby shot the suspect just two days later, but became nationally recognized for prosecuting Ruby himself for Oswald's murder.

* November 24, 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald ( the alleged assassin of U. S. President John F. Kennedy ) was shot in Dallas, Texas by nightclub owner Jack Ruby while being transferred to a county jail.

Oswald was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the same hospital in which President Kennedy and Governor Connally had been treated two days before, but died within approximately two hours after being shot.

According to four United States government investigations, an employee in the building, Lee Harvey Oswald, fatally shot the president from a sixth floor window on the southeast corner.

Reasoner's next appearance came two days later, Sunday, and as he was at the anchor desk, Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby while being moved in the Dallas City Jail.

KRLD's reporter on the scene, Bob Huffaker, was heard to say " Oswald has been shot, Oswald has been shot ".

Two days after the assassination, Oswald was rushed to Parkland after being shot in the abdomen by Ruby, and died in operating room # 5 after over 90 minutes of surgery.

Before that, in two separate experiments, Frederick Griffith and Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty had shown that DNA led to the transformation of one strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae to another that was more virulent.

* Anthology, 4 CD containing numerous poems and texts read by the author, Anna la bonne, La Dame de Monte-Carlo and Mes sœurs, n ' aimez pas les marins by Marianne Oswald, Le Bel Indifférent by Edith Piaf, La Voix humaine by Berthe Bovy, Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel with Jean Le Poulain, Jacques Charon and Jean Cocteau, discourse on the reception at the Académie française, with extracts from Les Parents terribles, La Machine infernale, pieces from Parade on piano with two hands by Georges Auric and Francis Poulenc, Frémeaux & Associés FA 064, 1997

Oswald had two older siblings – brother Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Jr. and half-brother John Edward Pic.

The " backyard photos ", taken by Marina Oswald probably around March 31, 1963 using a camera belonging to Oswald, show Oswald holding two Marxist newspapers — The Militant and The Worker — and a rifle, and wearing a pistol in a holster.

After two original photos, one negative and one first-generation copy had been found, the Senate Intelligence Committee located ( in 1976 ) a third backyard photo ( CE 133-C ) showing Oswald with newspapers held away from his body in his right hand ).

Oswald was the son of Æthelfrith of Bernicia and came to rule after spending a period in exile ; after defeating the British ruler Cadwallon ap Cadfan, Oswald brought the two Northumbrian kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira once again under a single ruler, and promoted the spread of Christianity in Northumbria.

Oswald's head was interred in Durham Cathedral together with the remains of Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( a saint with whom Oswald became posthumously associated, although the two were not associated in life ; Cuthbert became bishop of Lindisfarne more than forty years after Oswald's death ) and other valuables in a quickly made coffin, where it is generally believed to remain, although there are at least four other claimed heads of Oswald in continental Europe.

In 1919, Richard Oswald directed and released two films, that met with press controversy and action from police vice investigators and government censors.

Offa also confirmed two charters of Æðelberht, and in 772 he grants land himself in Sussex, with Oswald, dux Suðsax, as a witness.

The documentary, created by Iwerks ' granddaughter Leslie Iwerks, was released as part of The Walt Disney Treasures, Wave VII series ( disc two of The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit collection ).

Later, her sister and elder by two years, Dorothy Oswald Barker, continued the care.

Lantz consulted Disney about Oswald and he gave Lantz his blessing to continue the Oswald series as the Mickey Mouse shorts had become more successful, so the two became close friends.

This new Oswald model was adapted directly from a non-Oswald character in another Lantz cartoon: the Cinecolor " Fox and the Rabbit " ( 1935 ), released some two months earlier as the last of the early Cartune Classics series.

The other two thirds of the castle belong to a knight named Martin Jäger, but Oswald did not respect the property situation, occupying the entire castle and appropriating Jägers share of the tithe.

In Nuremberg, Oswald became a member of the first rank of the Order of the Dragon-a rank King Sigismund awarded only to two dozen nobles.

* On disc two of The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, as part of a tribute to animator Ub Iwerks

Mosley and Diana had two sons: ( Oswald ) Alexander Mosley ( born 26 November 1938 ) and Max Rufus Mosley ( born 13 April 1940 ), president of the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ) for 16 years.

Osthryth was buried at Bardney in Lindsey, the monastery where, at her urging, the relics of her uncle, Oswald of Northumbria, were kept and revered, though evidence of resistance at Bardney to the cult of Oswald is also indicative of the poor relations between the two kingdoms.