The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

* 1936 – Robert Barnard, British mystery writer

** Robert Barnard, British writer, critic and lecturer

In 1521 seven Lollard dissenters ( William Tylsworth, John Scrivener, Thomas Barnard, James Morden, Robert Rave, Thomas Holmes and Joan Norman ) were burned at the stake in Amersham A memorial to them was built in 1931 and is inscribed as follows: " In the shallow of depression at a spot 100 yards left of this monument seven Protestants, six men and one woman were burned to death at the stake.

Eight independent infantry brigades under Rowland Hill, Ronald Fergusson, Miles Nightingall, Barnard Bowes, Catlin Craufurd, Henry Fane, Robert Anstruther and Wroth Acland formed the core of Wellesley's forces.

Robert Barnard: " On the very top rung.

Robert Barnard: " Exceptionally lively specimen, with wider than usual class and type-range of suspects.

In his book, A Talent to Deceive — An Appreciation of Agatha Christie, the writer and critic Robert Barnard wrote:

Robert Barnard: " Slightly somniferous mystery, written in the ' forties but published after Christie's death.

Robert Barnard, in A Talent to Deceive: An appreciation of Agatha Christie, writes:

Robert Barnard: " A classic, still fresh story, beautifully worked out.

Robert Barnard: " The last of the true English village mysteries in Christie's output, and one of the best of her later books.

Robert inherited Saleby ; in the immediate vicinity of Barnard Castle.

Robert Barnard: " Bobbing for apples turns serious when ghastly child is extinguished in the bucket.

James Manley, Thomas Barnard, John South, Robert Sayer, Christopher Clifford, John Beechee, William Coomes, Christopher Boncher, Richard Taylor, Urian Worthington, Nathaniel Holcombe, Giles Childe ( senior ), John Webb, Thomas Yarwel, William Bonnington.

* Robert Barnard, Death of a Mystery Writer

* Robert Barnard, Death of a Literary Widow

Robert and Margaret's first son Jonathan Wood Firby was born in Barnard Castle, County Durham.

Robert Barnard: " A subject of perennial appeal – unhappy families: lots of scattered siblings, lots of Victorian money ( made from corn plasters ).

Robert Barnard: " The first and best ( no extravagant compliment this ) of the Tommy and Tuppence stories.

Robert Barnard: " The Beresfords contribute their intolerable high spirits to the war effort.

Robert Barnard: " Same characters and setting with Chimneys, but without the same verve and cheek.

* August 2 – 10 – The English aviatrix and ornithologist Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, her personal pilot C. D. Barnard, and mechanic Robert Little make a record-breaking flight in the Fokker F. VII Spider ( G-EBTS ) of 10, 000 miles ( 16, 103 km ) from Lympne Airport in Lympne, England, to Karachi, then in the British Indian Empire, and back to Croydon Airport in South London, England, in eight days.

Raine has commented on his education: " At Barnard Castle I was taught by an absolutely remarkable English teacher, Arnold Snodgrass, a friend of W. H. Auden at Oxford later Robert Graves.

Individuals in photo include ( starting at top ): Cleophas Cisney O ' Hara, Sir Archibald Geikie, Frederick Haynes Newell, Henry Barnard Kummel | Henry Barnard Kümmell, George Burbank Shattuck, Rollin D. Salisbury, Arthur Clifford Veatch, Louis Marcus Prindle, Harry Fielding Reid, Charles R. Van Hise | Charles Richard Van Hise, Cleveland Abbe, Jr., George Willis Stose, Thomas Leonard Watson, Edward Vincent D ' Invilliers, Clarence Wilbur Dorsey, Frederick James Hamilton Merrill, Louis Agricola Bauer, Arthur Coe Spencer, William John McGee, William Bullock Clark, Rufus Mather Bagg, Frank Hall Knowlton, Robert T. Hill | Robert Thomas Hill, Heinrich Ries, Frank Dawson Adams, Arthur Philemon Coleman, Timothy William Stanton, Oliver Lanard Fassig, Samuel Franklin Emmons, George Ferdinand Becker, Albert Berthold Hoen, George Otis Smith, James Furman Kemp, Bailey Willis, David White ( geologist ) | Charles David White, Edward Bennett Mathews, Charles Doolittle Walcott, John Wesley Powell, Joseph Stanley-Brown, Joseph Austin Holmes, Charles Willard Hayes, Leonidas Chalmers Glenn, Henry Shaler Williams.

One of the first to discuss the possibility of an absolute minimal temperature was Robert Boyle.

One anarchist, Robert Thaxton, was arrested and convicted of throwing a rock at a police officer.

One was also awarded for the same action to Robert Jones ( VC ), born at Clytha between Abergavenny and Raglan.

One criticism of the Christadelphian movement has been over the claim of John Thomas and Robert Roberts to have " rediscovered " scriptural truth.

He won an Oscar for The Brave One ( 1956 ), written under the name Robert Rich.

* The Brave One, 1956 ( front Robert Rich )

Timmy T, Caleb-B, SF Spanish Fly, Angelina, One Voice, M: G, Stephanie Fastro & The S Factor are from the Bay Area, and San Diego artists Gustavo, Alex, Jose Santos, Robert Romo of the group Internal Affairs, and Frankie J were popular freestyle artists from southern California.

One day, while out riding, Robert attempted to escape from Cardiff but his horse bogged down in a swamp and he was recaptured.

One way of proving that a given disease is " infectious ", is to satisfy Koch's postulates ( first proposed by Robert Koch ), which demands that the infectious agent be identified only in patients and not in healthy controls, and that patients who contract the agent also develop the disease.

One of the earliest such reformers was Robert Owen, known for his pioneering efforts in improving conditions for workers at the New Lanark mills, and often regarded as one of the key thinkers of the early socialist movement.

One theory of the origins of Freemasonry claims direct descent from the historical Knights Templar through its final fourteenth-century members who took refuge in Scotland whose King, Robert the Bruce was excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church at the time, or other countries where the Templar suppression was not enforced.

One of the most important applications of MNT would be medical nanorobotics or nanomedicine, an area pioneered by Robert Freitas in numerous books and papers.

One of the earliest references is in Robert of Brunne's early 14th century Handlyng Synne ( Handling Sin ) where it occurs as a verb.

One of the most famous circuit riders was Robert Strawbridge who lived in the vicinity of Carroll County, Maryland soon after arriving in the Colonies around 1760.

* One of Hamlet ’ s chief opponents at court was Laertes, the son of Polonius, while Oxford continually sought the help of Robert Cecil, the son of Lord Burghley, to seek the queen's favour, with no results.

" He appeared in one episode of Robert Montgomery Presents in 1957, and also appeared in Studio One, Kraft Television Theater, New York Confidential, Naked City, Have Gun – Will Travel and Decoy.

One of his sisters, Cinzia Cervini, married Vinzenzo Bellarmino, and was the mother of Saint Robert Bellarmino.

" One notable contrast with the speeches recorded by Robert the Monk, Guibert of Nogent and Baldric of Dol is the lesser emphasis on Jerusalem itself, which Urban only once mentions as his own focus of concern: in the letter to the Flemish he writes, " they Turks have seized the Holy City of Christ, embellished by his passion and resurrection, and blasphemy to say — have sold her and her churches into abominable slavery.

One of the forerunners in this arena is C. Robert Cloninger with the Temperament and Character model.

One of the designers of the B5000, Robert S. Barton, later wrote that he developed RPN independently of Hamblin sometime in 1958 while reading a textbook by Kopi on symbolic logic and before he was aware of Hamblin's work.

One of these electronics enthusiasts, Robert Moog, began building theremins in the 1950s, while he was a high-school student.

One story, deriving from the Vita Edwardi, a biography of Edward, claims that Edward was attended by his wife Edith, Harold, Archbishop Stigand, and Robert FitzWimarc, and that the king named Harold as his successor.

* December 7 – Robert Kubica, Polish Formula One racing driver

One passenger, U. S. Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem, is killed.

Many large firms are based in the county, including Discovery Communications, Coventry Health Care, Lockheed Martin, Marriott International, Host Hotels & Resorts, Travel Channel, Ritz-Carlton, Robert Louis Johnson Companies ( RLJ Cos ), Choice Hotels, MedImmune, TV One, BAE Systems Inc, Hughes Network Systems and GEICO.