At the time a relatively unknown architect, Robert Adam was designing some garden temples to enhance the landscape of the park ; Curzon was so impressed with Adam's designs, that Adam was quickly put in charge of the construction of the new mansion.

Robert Adam's work had influenced the direction of architecture across the western world.

* Syon House, west London: Robert Adam's greatest interiors in Thames-side mansion.

Sir William Chambers was at the forefront, designing in Palladianism style, while Chambers ' rival, Robert Adam's designs had Roman influence, in a style known as Adam style.

* Robert Adam's Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia published.

An English translation of the Theses, with brief life of Erastus ( based on Melchior Adam's account ), was issued in 1659, entitled The Nullity of Church Censures ; it was reprinted as A Treatise of Excommunication ( 1682 ), and, as revised by Robert Lee, D. D., in 1844.

* No. 20 / 21: Robert Adam's reconstruction of No. 20 for Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn from 1771-75 is one of the most praised of his smaller works.

Robert Adam's completed mansion was transformed by the architect Robert Smirke ( later Sir Robert, 1781 – 1867 ) circa 1830, following the occupation of the 3rd Earl's grandson, the 2nd Marquess of Bute.

It is praised as the finest example of Robert Adam's work in the north of England.

James Craig designed the observatory, which-under Robert Adam's influence-was to look like a fortification with a wall and Gothic towers at its corners.

Adam's first public building commissions were in Aberdeen, where he built the town house, or town hall, from 1729 – 30, since demolished, and Robert Gordon's Hospital from 1730 – 32, now an independent school.

After William Adam's death, John inherited the family business, and immediately took his brothers Robert and James into partnership, which would last until the late 1750s when Robert established himelf in London.

Robert Adam's brother James, in Rome in 1762, invented a " British Order " featuring the heraldic lion and unicorn.

Merit: Through Adam's Eyes, Robert Saget --- Temple University

Montage image of Robert Adam's north side of Charlotte Square.

It was designed by the architect Robert Reid in 1811, broadly to Adam's plan.

When Adam de Kilconquhar, one of his companions-in-arms, fell in 1270, at Acre, Robert was obliged to travel to tell the sad news to Adam's widow Marjorie of Carrick.

Robert Adam's houses in this style include Mellerstain and Wedderburn in Berwickshire and Seton House in East Lothian, but it is most clearly seen at Culzean Castle, Ayrshire, remodelled by Adam from 1777.

In the new republic, Robert Adam's neoclassical manner was adapted for the local late 18th and early 19th-century style, called " Federal architecture ".

To Africa, he sent his most trusted adviser, his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, on a good-will mission to the Ivory Coast.

In Robert de Boron's Merlin he is called simply Pendragon and his younger brother is named Uter, which he changes to Uterpendragon after the death of the elder sibling.

In reply to this the French sovereign dispatched Andrew as his ambassador to Güyük Khan ; with Longjumeau went his brother William ( also a Dominican ) and several others — John Goderiche, John of Carcassonne, Herbert " Le Sommelier ," Gerbert of Sens, Robert ( a clerk ), a certain William, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy.

* On March 7, 1998, Daniel Rudolph, the elder brother of the 1996 Olympics bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, videotaped himself cutting off one of his own hands with an electric saw to " send a message to the FBI and the media.

The film was written by Sam Raimi and his brother Ivan, produced by Robert Tapert, and stars Bruce Campbell and Embeth Davidtz.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

In October 1595 Oxford wrote to his brother in law, Sir Robert Cecil of friction between himself and the ill-fated Earl of Essex, partly over his claim to the property, terming him ' the only person that I dare rely upon in the court '.

Sir Robert Gordon, younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a diplomat and served as British Ambassador to Austria.

While at Reims, Callistus tried to effect a settlement with Henry I of England and his brother Robert.

The parade was led by " Northumbrian " driven by George Stephenson, and included " Phoenix " driven by his son Robert, " North Star " driven by his brother Robert and " Rocket " driven by assistant engineer Joseph Locke.

Fawkes's fellow students included John Wright and his brother Christopher ( both later involved with Fawkes in the Gunpowder plot ) and Oswald Tesimond, Edward Oldcorne and Robert Middleton, who became priests ( the latter executed in 1601 ).

During Robert III's reign ( 1390 – 1406 ), actual power rested largely in the hands of his brother, Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany.

In this struggle some important figures such as Count Odo of Paris and his brother King Robert rose to fame and became kings.

Henry I's biggest source of concerns was his brother — Robert I of Burgundy — who was pushed by his mother to the conflict.

He succeeded his elder brother William II as King of England in 1100 and defeated his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, to become Duke of Normandy in 1106.

His succession was hurriedly confirmed while his brother Robert was away on the First Crusade, and the beginning of his reign was occupied by wars with Robert for control of England and Normandy.

This sought to bar Prince Henry from both thrones by stipulating that if either King William or Duke Robert died without an heir, the two dominions of their father would be reunited under the surviving brother.

In the following year, 1101, Robert Curthose, Henry's eldest brother, attempted to seize the crown by invading England.

In the Treaty of Alton, Robert agreed to recognise his brother Henry as King of England and return peacefully to Normandy, upon receipt of an annual sum of 3, 000 silver marks, which Henry proceeded to pay.

According to Robert E. Van Voorst the overwhelming majority of scholars consider both the reference to " the brother of Jesus called Christ " and the entire passage that includes it as authentic.

Mrs. Robert O. Spurdle is chairman of the committee, which includes Mrs. James A. Moody, Mrs. Frank C. Wilkinson, Mrs. Ethel Coles, Mrs. Harold G. Lacy, Mrs. Albert W. Terry, Mrs. Henry M. Chance, 2d, Mrs. Robert O. Spurdle, Jr., Mrs. Harcourt N. Trimble, Jr., Mrs. John A. Moller, Mrs. Robert Zeising, Mrs. William G. Kilhour, Mrs. Hughes Cauffman, Mrs. John L. Baringer and Mrs. Clyde Newman.

The circle symbol for aromaticity was introduced by Sir Robert Robinson and his student James Armit in 1925 and popularized starting in 1959 by the Morrison & Boyd textbook on organic chemistry.

In 2001, his triple concerto was used in the soundtrack of The Last Castle, featuring Robert Redford and James Gandolfini.

* 1882 – American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.

Robert James Lee " Bob " Hawke AC GCL ( born 9 December 1929 ) is a former Australian politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.

James Robert Wills ( March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975 ), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader.

CEO's of top Fortune 500 companies include James P. Gorman of Morgan Stanley, Robert J. Stevens of Lockheed Martin, Philippe Dauman of Viacom, Ursula Burns of Xerox, and Vikram Pandit of Citigroup.

Only nine years later, in 1664, the Dutch were conquered by a fleet of English ships by Sir Robert Carr under the direction of James, the Duke of York.

Cabinet members of American presidents include Attorney General Amos T. Akerman, Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, and the current Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner.

Compositions for four double basses exist by Gunther Schuller, Jacob Druckman, James Tenney, Robert Ceely, Jan Alm, Bernhard Alt, Norman Ludwin, Frank Proto, Joseph Lauber, Erich Hartmann, Colin Brumby, Miloslav Gajdos and Theodore Albin Findeisen.

At one time or another, the membership included Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Cyril Kornbluth, James Blish, John Michel, Judith Merril, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Richard Wilson, Damon Knight, Virginia Kidd, and Larry T. Shaw.

* People: Barry Boehm, Vint Cerf, Douglas Engelbart, Robert Fano, Anup K. Ghosh, James Hendler, Bob Kahn, JCR Licklider, John Poindexter, Larry Roberts, Robert Sproull, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, Gio Wiederhold.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

The Graves ' disease was named after Irish doctor Robert James Graves, who described a case of goiter with exophthalmos in 1835.

The trial, for which Allen hired Jared Ingersoll to represent the grantholder interest, began in July 1770, pitting Allen against politically powerful New York grant-holders, including New York's Lieutenant Governor Colden, James Duane ( who was prosecuting the case ), and Robert Livingston, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ( who was presiding over the case ).

Among his predecessors as editors-in-chief were Hugh Chisholm ( 1902 – 1924 ), James Louis Garvin ( 1926 – 1932 ), Franklin Henry Hooper ( 1932 – 1938 ), Walter Yust ( 1938 – 1960 ), Harry Ashmore ( 1960 – 1963 ), Warren E. Preece ( 1964 – 1968, 1969 – 1975 ), Sir William Haley ( 1968 – 1969 ), Philip W. Goetz ( 1979 – 1991 ), and Robert McHenry ( 1992 – 1997 ).

Writers such as James Boswell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Kenneth Grahame, Muriel Spark and Sir Walter Scott all lived and worked in Edinburgh.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

The third edition of 1522 was probably used by Tyndale for the first English New Testament ( Worms, 1526 ) and was the basis for the 1550 Robert Stephanus edition used by the translators of the Geneva Bible and King James Version of the English Bible.

The first fullerene to be discovered, and the family's namesake, buckminsterfullerene ( C < sub > 60 </ sub >), was prepared in 1985 by Richard Smalley, Robert Curl, James Heath, Sean O ' Brien, and Harold Kroto at Rice University.

In 1985, Harold Kroto ( then of the University of Sussex ), James R. Heath, Sean O ' Brien, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley, from Rice University, discovered C < sub > 60 </ sub >, and shortly thereafter came to discover the fullerenes .< ref >