Pleasants, a mining engineer from Pennsylvania in civilian life, proposed digging a long mine shaft underneath the Confederate lines and planting explosive charges directly underneath a fort ( Elliott's Salient ) in the middle of the Confederate First Corps line.

When Pleasants found out what happened, he grabbed his carbine and started off on foot after the raiders.

Belmont was incorporated on April 19, 1946 by the Circuit Court of Pleasants County.

Indeed, Henry Pleasants, author of The Great Singers, goes so far as to say that the " searing despair " of Tamagno's version of Otello's death aria, Niun mi tema, " is possibly unmatched by anything else on wax " ( Macmillan Publishing, revised edition, London, 1983, pp. 252 – 254 ).

2008 sees the return of the band on tour with a one-month tour across Europe in April featuring Steve Brunner on bass, Eric Moore on drums, Dean Pleasants and Tim Stewart on guitars.

* Dean Pleasants – rhythm guitar on America's Least Wanted

Pleasants served as chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures ( Thirteenth Congress ), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy ( Fifteenth Congress ).

Eugene Pleasants Odum ( September 17, 1913-August 10, 2002 ) was an American scientist known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology.

She was the mother of James Pleasants, Jr., the 22nd Governor of Virginia, via her last marriage to James Pleasants, Sr.

Hall Pleasants, who believed that thirteen portraits were painted by one Joshua Johnson.

* Pleasants, Henry ( 1969 ) Serious Music and All That Jazz, Simon & Schuster.

In prison he met Eric Pleasants and the two became friends.

As Henry Pleasants has observed, she has a wider range than most opera singers, and many of the latter, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, are among her biggest fans.

Henry Pleasants, an American classical-music critic, wrote this about her: She has a lovely voice, one of the warmest and most radiant in its natural range that I have heard in a lifetime of listening to singers in every category.

Finally, Lt. Col. Henry Pleasants, commanding the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry of Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's IX Corps, offered a novel proposal to break the impasse.

Burnside, whose reputation had suffered from his 1862 defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg and his poor performance earlier that year at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, gave Pleasants the go-ahead.

Contemporary sketch of Col. Pleasants supervising the placement of powder in the mine.

They quickly lost interest and Pleasants soon found himself with few materials for his project, to the extent that his men had to forage for wood to support the structure.

Pleasants lit the fuse accordingly, but as with the rest of the mine's provisions, they had been given poor quality fuse, which his men had had to splice themselves.

Pleasants, who had no role in the battle itself, received praise for his idea and the execution thereof.

* In Harry Turtledove's alternate history novel The Guns of the South, Pleasants proposes and enacts his plan for a similar battle when the South engages in war with their time-traveling benefactors.

* Pleasants, Henry.

Pleasants County is a county located in the U. S. state of West Virginia.

It was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1851 and named for US Senator and Virginia Governor James Pleasants, Jr. Pleasants County is included in the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna, West Virginia-Ohio ( part ) Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Orders were given that if the Saint attempted to re-enter his episcopal see, he should be put to death.

In 1892, a short-lived rule was added crediting runners with stolen bases if a base runner advanced on a fly out, or if they advanced more than one base on any safe hit or attempted out, providing an attempt was made by the defense to put the runner out.

In September 2010, MIT students attempted to put a TARDIS, the time machine from the BBC's Doctor Who, onto a roof.

Within his books, Billings did not put as much emphasis on " common measure " which was the typical way hymns were sung, but he attempted " to have a Sufficiency in each measure ".

Other debilitating scandals included " Arms to Iraq " – the ongoing inquiry into how government ministers including Alan Clark ( also involved in an unrelated scandal involving the revelation of his affair with the wife and both daughters of a South African judge ) had encouraged businesses to supply arms to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, in breach of the official arms embargo, and how senior ministers had, on legal advice, attempted to withhold evidence of this official connivance when directors of Matrix Churchill were put trial for breaking the embargo.

* Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II ( START II )— signed 1993, never put into force: START II was a bilateral agreement between the US and Russia which attempted to commit each side to deploy no more than 3, 000 to 3, 500 warheads by December 2007 and also included a prohibition against deploying multiple independent reentry vehicles ( MIRVs ) on intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs )

Several composers of the period, including Niccolò Jommelli and Tommaso Traetta, attempted to put these ideals into practice.

Agapetus, a man of some force of character, attempted to put a stop to the so-called Pornocracy, which lasted from the accession of Pope Sergius III in 904 to the deposition of Pope John XII in 963.

He also put forward an epistemological system which attempted to deal with both the Gettier problem and those posed by skepticism.

He laid siege to Jerusalem, but soon returned to Nineveh, with Jerusalem not having been sacked, in order to put down an attempted coup.

The Kuomintang and Communists attempted to put away their differences after 1937 to fight the Japanese occupation of China, but intermittent clashes continued through the remainder of the 1930s.

The Royalists, or Cavaliers ,'all the King's men ' attempted to raise Humpty Dumpty on to another part of the wall, but because the cannon was so heavy ' All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again '.

Those plans have since been put on hold after Beaverton attempted to forcibly annex Nike, Inc .' s World Headquarters, which would have increased Nike's taxes substantially.

The program of reform that the Dutch revolutionaries attempted to put in place ( however constrained by the political realities of the French revolution as this was to progress ) was mostly driven by indigenous needs and aspirations.

As a result, the US put a $ 25, 000 bounty on his head and attempted to arrest and try him for war crimes.

Morel adds that in 1796, Guillot attempted to resell the Côte-de-Bretagne in France but was forced to relinquish it to a fellow thief, Lancry de la Loyelle, who put Guillot into debtors ' prison.

An early version of recapitulation theory, also called the biogenetic law or embryological parallelism, was put forward by Étienne Serres in 1824 – 26 as what became known as the " Meckel-Serres Law " which attempted to provide a link between comparative embryology and a " pattern of unification " in the organic world.

As police attempted to put out the fire, an officer was injured by a thrown piece of banister.

Nashville offered a $ 20 million relocation bonus to any team that would relocate, and the Devils attempted to terminate their lease with New Jersey before finally restructuring it to stay put.

In 1961, Sheila Michaels attempted to put the term into use when she saw what she thought was a typographical error on the address label of a copy of News & Letters sent to her roommate.

He then attempted several comebacks into boxing during the late 1980s and early 1990s and had some success, most notably a fourth round stoppage of former World Junior Welterweight Champion Billy Costello in a 1986 televised bout that put him in a position for another shot at the Junior Welterweight title.

In the opening hours of the Battle of Narvik, the old coastal defence ships (" panserskip ") and, both built before 1905 and hopelessly obsolete, attempted to put up a fight against the invading German warships ; both were torpedoed and sunk.

Early on 11 March 1976, Murphy attempted to kill a Catholic woman in a drive-by shooting ; arrested later that day, he was put on remand on an attempted murder charge.

He attempted to have the commander responsible, Felix Huston Robertson, arrested and put on trial, but was unable to achieve this before the Confederacy disintegrated.