Goddard's father further encouraged Robert's scientific interest by providing him with a telescope, a microscope, and a subscription to Scientific American.

He has at least a passing interest in women ; in one of the novel's main conflicts, he competes with his brother, Robert, for Madame Lysiane, Robert's mistress and the proprietess of a brothel they both frequent.

The city and nation's economy lay in the hands of Tuscan merchants, who erected superb buildings, monuments and statues that drastically changed King Robert's capital from a dirty seaport to a city of elegance and medieval splendor.

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Robert's grandfather Walter A. Haas, Sr. refused to lay off idled employees, risking bankruptcy.

The second phase probably followed Robert's acquisition of the Earldom of Orkney in 1581.

The Robert's Rules method for voting on motions and amendments is also a Condorcet method even though the voters do not vote by expressing their orders of preference.

He was present next day when the body was discovered, and so was able to certify a natural death, though Robert's intervention confused the time of death.

Both twins were literate, and Abingdon Abbey later claimed to have been Robert's school, but though this is possible, its account is not entirely trustworthy.

His family is unknown, though the second author of the Prose Tristan claimed to be Robert's nephew, calling himself " Helie de Boron ".

Robert's owner ( Catlin ) forbade the relationship ; he did not want his slave to have children with a slave he did not own, because he would not own the children.

William then ruled Normandy as regent in Robert's absence — Robert did not return until September 1100, one month after William's death.

Robert's accession did affect some others who held offices from David II.

Robert's career before and after he succeeded to the throne is described by Donaldson as " to say the least, undistinguished, and his reign did nothing to add lustre to it.

Except for a small reunion heard on the concept album Largo ( which featured appearances by all the members except for Lilley ) in 1998, The Hooters did not play together again until November 21, 2001, when they performed at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia for a one off show to celebrate disc jockey Pierre Robert's 20th anniversary at local rock radio station WMMR, the first major station to ever play The Hooters back in the early 1980s.

William became a frequent witness to King Robert's charters, but that did not prevent Bishop William, on 24 September 1332, being present at the coronation of Edward Balliol.

On Sir Robert's death in 1850, the manor was inherited by his son, Frederick, who did much to ' modernise ' Hampton, demolishing many half-timbered and thatched cottages.

Sinden played Robert, her English butler, who disapproved of practically everything Dorothy did and the series derived its comedy from the inevitable culture clash between Robert's very British stiff-upper-lip attitude and Dorothy's devil-may-care New York view of life.

Fifteen years before the events of the series, Cersei married King Robert Baratheon and became Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, but did not take on the Baratheon name after becoming Robert's queen.

Robert's uncle, John, did not wish to do him homage for the Principality of Achaea, so Robert received Achaea from John in exchange for 5, 000 ounces of gold and the rights to the diminished Kingdom of Albania.

Because of Robert's influential efforts at the St. Mark's School of Texas, a large donation was given in his name in order to build a new building.

However, the father was largely suspected by the Court to be her alleged lover, Sir Thomas Uvedale ( from the alleged prompting of William Seymour, 1st Marquess of Hertford, Robert's brother-in-law who leased part of Essex House in London, and expected to inherit if Robert had no issue ).

It was granted to Robert's younger son, Robert, who founded the House of Burgundy.

Robert's grandfather was Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland ( 1293 – 1326 ) and his father was the first monarch of the House of Stewart.

Nine of Arthur's ghost stories are included in David Stuart Davies ( ed ) The Temple of Death: The Ghost Stories of A. C. & R. H. Benson ( Wordsworth, 2007 ) together with seven by his brother Robert Hugh ( R. H .) Benson, while nine of Arthur's and ten of Robert's are included in Ghosts in the House ( Ash-Tree, 1996 ); the contents of the two joint collections are similar but not identical.

Robert's achievement with Belvedere House could be considered marred by his spitefulness however, as he had a 180 ft tall ' folly ' built, purely to obscure the view to the house for his brother George.

Sir Robert's son ( mentioned in his Will ), Sir William Drury, Knt., of Hawstead, M. P., P. C .,( c1500-1558 ), married Elizabeth Sothill ( 1505 – 1575 ) a granddaughter of another Speaker of the House of Commons, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Sir Richard Empson, Knt .,( d. 17 August 1510 ).

He remained loyal to House Targaryen during Robert Baratheon's rebellion, but he later accepted Robert's pardon and held his position as commander.

Robert's Rules of Poker state that the last player to take aggressive action by a bet or raise is the first to show the hand — unless everyone checks ( or is all-in ) on the last round of betting, then the first player to the left of the dealer button is the first to show the hand.

Robert's formerly infatuated cousin Alicia marries her once-spurned suitor, Sir Harry Towers, and Audley Court is left abandoned along with all of its unhappy memories.

There were three reasons given for Stigand's deposition: that he held the bishopric of Winchester in plurality with Canterbury ; that he not only occupied Canterbury after Robert of Jumièges fled but also seized Robert's pallium which was left behind ; and that he received his own pallium from Benedict X, an anti-pope.

Kopechne reportedly left the party at 11: 15 p. m. with Robert's brother Ted, after he — according to his own account — offered to drive her to catch the last ferry back to Edgartown, where she was staying.

Robert's shows a man on a horse with his hunting dog, and Peter's, a boar with an arrow in its left shoulder.

Robert's death, coupled with a lack of a clear successor from within the Lehman family left a void in the company.

Bobby McGee, who played one of Robert's childhood friends, also left the series at that time.

Faizon Love left the series at that time ; he was replaced by Kelly Perine, who played Robert's brother, Kelly.

Throughout Robert's reign, Jon was left with most of the responsibility of running the Seven Kingdoms.

Both had presumably left the Vale shortly before Robert's Rebellion, as Ned had attended a joust with his young sister Lyanna at the time.

Juliet d ' Orsey rarely left Robert's side until his death in 1922.

Fitzhugh wrote little of Robert's academic prowess, dwelling much on the prominence of his family, and erroneously stated the boy was 18.

A team of engineers including Henry Martyn Robert ( Robert's Rules of Order ) designed the plan to raise much of the existing city to a sufficient elevation behind a seawall so that confidence in the city could be maintained.

Backes, formerly the third highest-ranking officer of Clearstream and a primary source for Denis Robert's book on Clearstream's scandal, Revelation $, claims he " was fired because ( he ) knew too much about the Ambrosiano scandal.

They were soon joined by Robert's much younger adoptive brother Jude Davenport, openly despised by Ginny, Cameron and Lewis, after he had romantically pursued Jessica.

Their love affair intensifies as he introduces her to his life of bars and races and Robert's nihilistic attitude slowly begins to change as he realizes how much he needs Pat.

With important dictionaries published at the turn of 20th century, such as Émile Littré's, Pierre Larousse's and Arsène Darmesteter's, and later Paul Robert's, the Académie gradually lost much of its prestige.

In The King of Fighters 2000, Yuri returns to the Women Fighters Team along with Mai, Hinako Shijou and Kasumi Todoh, having asked King to replace her in the Art of Fighting Team wanting more independence, much to Robert's chagrin.

He was accompanied on the voyage from England by his brother, Lawrence Vance Dulhunty — a qualified surveyor with a sharp mind but a much less appealing manner than Robert's.

The latter was during the economic decline that Oxford experienced between 1066 and 1086 however it is noted that Robert's own properties suffered as much waste in this period.