Canadian scholar Richard Toporoski theorised in 1998 that " if, let us say, an alteration were to be made in the United Kingdom to the Act of Settlement 1701, providing for the succession of the Crown ... t is my opinion that the domestic constitutional law of Australia or Papua New Guinea, for example, would provide for the succession in those countries of the same person who became Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

The latter title is especially suggestive of his role in forming several Franciscans who later became influential thinkers in the faculty, among them Saint Bonaventure, John of La Rochelle, Odo Rigaldus, William of Middleton and Richard Rufus of Cornwall.

John became a painter and illustrator ; Richard was an actor in films such as Yankee Doodle Dandy and later an Emmy-nominated television director of such shows as The Beverly Hillbillies.

Richard Schwartz, CEO of Ansa, became Borland's CTO and Ben Rosen joined the Borland board.

However, several of his students became influential mathematicians, among them Richard Dedekind, Bernhard Riemann, and Friedrich Bessel.

They also adopted two sons, John and Richard, the latter of whom became a notable filmmaker, author, and psychologist.

Major construction projects, including the Sears Tower ( now known as the Willis Tower, which in 1974 became the world's tallest building ), University of Illinois at Chicago, McCormick Place, and O ' Hare International Airport, were undertaken during Richard J. Daley's tenure.

" The two men continued their dialogue when Ross moved to the University of Wisconsin, where he became a colleague of Richard Ely.

In defeating Taft for the nomination, it became necessary for Eisenhower to appease the right wing Old Guard of the Republican Party ; his selection of Richard M. Nixon as the Vice-President on the ticket was designed in part for that purpose.

Among his 69 Ph. D. students in Göttingen were many who later became famous mathematicians, including ( with date of thesis ): Otto Blumenthal ( 1898 ), Felix Bernstein ( 1901 ), Hermann Weyl ( 1908 ), Richard Courant ( 1910 ), Erich Hecke ( 1910 ), Hugo Steinhaus ( 1911 ), and Wilhelm Ackermann ( 1925 ).

Richard Hovey's " Men of Dartmouth " was elected as the best of Dartmouth's songs in 1896, and became the school's official song in 1926.

Most modern researchers including Richard Roberts and Tim Flannery argue that diprotodonts, along with a wide range of other Australian megafauna, became extinct shortly after humans arrived in Australia about 50, 000 years ago.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

After 1906 the composer Richard Wetz lived in Erfurt and became the leading person in the town's musical life.

Several of Bulwer-Lytton's novels were made into operas, one of which, Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen ( 1842 ) by Richard Wagner, eventually became more famous than the novel.

He then became tutor to three young brothers, one of whom, Richard Peters, later became a distinguished academic.

The archipelago became a French possession in 1892 when captain Richard of the Primauget made a formal claim.

However, Guy's mother's family were recusant Catholics, and his cousin, Richard Cowling, became a Jesuit priest.

He defeated and killed Richard in battle at Bosworth Field on 22 August of that year and became king as Henry VII.

In March 1970 he became the first of the scientist-astronauts to be assigned to space flight, joining Richard F. Gordon, Jr. ( Commander ) and Vance Brand ( Command Module Pilot ) on the Apollo 15 backup crew.

The pro-treaty IRA soon became the nucleus of the new ( regular ) Irish National Army created by Collins and Richard Mulcahy.

The respected composer Richard Strauss, for example, became head of the Reich Music Chamber.

Through his friend Richard Lower, whom he knew from the Westminster School, Locke was introduced to medicine and the experimental philosophy being pursued at other universities and in the Royal Society, of which he eventually became a member.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

* 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office.

* 1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.

The brew, first described academically in the early 1950s by Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, who found it employed for divinatory and healing purposes by the native peoples of Amazonian Colombia, is known by a number of different names ( see below ).

Between June and August 2007, the first east-west crossing of the full new Asian Highway was achieved by Britons Richard Meredith and Phil Colley driving a V8 Vantage.

Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz first tried, and then Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II attempted, but gave up and Hammerstein told Lerner " Pygmalion had no subplot ".

In 2008, he provided a foreword for the first book collection of Richard Thompson's Cul De Sac comic strip.

The first series titled The Black Adder was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, while subsequent episodes were written by Curtis and Ben Elton.

The first series, made in 1983, was called The Black Adder ( set in the fictional reign of " Richard IV ").

The Black Adder was the first series of Blackadder and was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, and produced by John Lloyd.

The first building society to be established was Ketley's Building Society, founded by Richard Ketley, the landlord of the Golden Cross inn, in 1775.

* The Devil's Triangle, ( 1974 ), Richard Winer ( ISBN 0553106880 ); this particular book sold well over a million copies by the end of its first year ; to date there have been at least 17 printings.

The novel, " Chicano " by Richard Vasquez, was the first novel about Mexican-Americans to be released by a major publisher ( Doubleday, 1970 ).

Richard Meyer was the first fighting game character to use Capoeira.

The first person to be seen on Channel 4 was Richard Whiteley with Ted Moult being the second.

The term Left Bank was first coined by film critic Richard Roud, who has described them as having " fondness for a kind of Bohemian life and an impatience with the conformity of the Right Bank, a high degree of involvement in literature and the plastic arts, and a consequent interest in experimental filmmaking ", as well as an identification with the political left.

The US first obtained U-2 photographic evidence of the missiles on October 14, when a U-2 flight piloted by Major Richard Heyser took 928 pictures, capturing images of what turned out to be an SS-4 construction site at San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río Province, in western Cuba.

Richard Donner, director of the first Reeve movie, stated that he believes Clark Kent to be the disguise.

The first application of a staged maturity model to IT was not by CMM / SEI, but rather by Richard L. Nolan, who, in 1973 published the stages of growth model for IT organizations.

* 1944 – Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score 8 points in one game of NHL ice hockey.

The first recorded Diprotodon remains were discovered in a cave near Wellington in New South Wales in the early 1830s by Major Thomas Mitchell who sent them to England for study by Sir Richard Owen.

Richard Burton starred in the first broadcast in 1954, and was joined by Elizabeth Taylor in a subsequent film.

Ecological concepts such as food chains, population regulation, and productivity were first developed in the 1700s, through the published works of microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ( 1632 – 1723 ) and botanist Richard Bradley ( 1688 ?– 1732 ).

Both the Duchess and her husband Richard Bertie first opposed the marriage, and the Queen initially withheld her consent.

The first debates about the nature of human evolution arose between Thomas Huxley and Richard Owen.