During the Middle Ages, because of its proximity to the Kingdom of Scotland, Carlisle became an important military stronghold ; Carlisle Castle, still relatively intact, was built in 1092 by William Rufus, and having once served as a prison for Mary, Queen of Scots.

The ranch, and the small adobe house he built there, were sold to Rufus King Porter and later to historian Hubert Howe Bancroft.

Rufus Limpp, an oil jobber who built the station, is from King City ( the Limpp Community Lake by King City is also named for him ).

In the mid-19th century, their brother Rufus built them a house with reduced dimensions ; it still stands on Village Lane.

Map of medieval Rochester showing the tower that William built, from E. A. Freeman's The Reign of William Rufus 1882

In 1130 a castle was built on the west side of the town adjacent to North Beck by Bishop Rufus and was expanded in 1142 after William Cumin seized the Bishopric of Durham in 1141.

The Howdy Doody show's various marionettes were created and built by puppeteers Velma Wayne Dawson, Scott Brinker ( the show's prop man ) and Rufus Rose throughout the show's run.

In 1826 Rufus Page built the first large ice house near Gardiner to supply Tudor.

When William Rufus blockaded the town and built two counter-castles, the garrison began negotiating for surrender under honorable terms, being allowed to keep their lands and serve the king.

William's Hill is the remaining earthworks of the Motte-and-Bailey Castle Alan Rufus built.

Rufus also built the well known castle at Richmond.

The bishop, who attended the Conqueror's funeral, joined in the great rising against William Rufus next year ( 1088 ), making Bristol, with which ( as Domesday shows ) he was closely connected and where he had built a strong castle, his base of operations.

The Steamboat House was built in 1858 by Rufus W. Bailey.

In 1094 Rufus sent Roger to hold the castle at Argentan in Normandy, but Roger surrendered it to Philip I of France on the first day of the siege ; Roger and his men were held for ransom and purchased their freedom.

In 1136, a peace treaty between King David and King Stephen was signed at Durham, but in 1138 Rufus ' castle of Norham surrendered to King David, an act that brought condemnation to the bishop for failing to defend the castle adequately.

In 1095, the Earl of Northumbria, Robert de Mowbray, rose up against William Rufus and Rufus sent an army north to crush the revolt and to capture the castle.

When his castle was sacked by an army of Good led by Tenser, Otis, Rufus, and Burne, many of his high-level cohorts were slain.

In 1095 the Earl of Northumbria, Robert de Mowbray, rose up against the king, William Rufus and Rufus sent an army north to recapture the castle.

* Rufus Castle, 15th century castle in Portland, England

* Rufus Sewell as Count Adhemar, William's rival who values victory above all else.

It is fed by Frenchmans Creek, an anabranch of the Murray above Lock 9, downstream of the junction with the Darling River, and feeds back to the Murray below Lock 7 via Rufus River.

The town traces its roots to 1788, when a group of American pioneers to the Northwest Territory led by Gen. Rufus Putnam traveled overland from Massachusetts and stopped at this location to build boats.

As " Ra " ( see below ), the town was noted in the 4th century AD by the geographer Rufus Festus Avienus.

Flitwick Town Council own and operate from The Rufus Centre on the outskirts of the town on Steppingley Road.

Shortly after his accession William Rufus gave the town, with the lands adjacent, to the see of Durham, and, under the patronage of the bishops of that diocese, it grew in importance, and became an episcopal residence.

Other businesses based in or around the town include ; Evans Accountants ( Chartered Accountants & Business Advisors ), Core Business Management Ltd ( Outsourced Business Services ), Clitheroe Light Engineering ( engineering ), Spiroflow ( material handling ), Shackletons Garden & Lifestyle Centre, Farmhouse Fayre, Townson Bros. ( fuel suppliers ), Clarity Sign & Design ( sign design and installation ) and Rufus Carr Ltd ( Independent Ford dealer ) est. 1928.

The town has a well-established local hospital, donated to the community prior to the establishment of the National Health Service by local industrialist and benefactor, ( William ) Rufus Lewis.

The closest town on the Oregon side is Rufus, Oregon.

* Rufus, Oregon, a small town in the Columbia River Gorge

Virgil seems to have made connections with many of the other leading literary figures of the time, including Horace, in whose poetry he is often mentioned, and Varius Rufus, who later helped finish the Aeneid.

In this unsavory episode of low politics, he was helped by the unscrupulous actions of Publius Sulpicius Rufus, whose debts Marius had promised to erase.

Parliament is a funk / R & B band whose influences are the funky side of Hendrix and Sly Stone, Motown soul groups turned funk groups like the Temptations, the political songs of the Impressions, Rufus Thomas ' southern funk, doo-wop groups like the Coasters for the humour and Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers.

Another Roman, concerning whose relations with Akiva legend has much to tell, was Tinnius Rufus, called in the Talmud " Tyrannus " Rufus.

One such criticism was Stubbs tirade against William Rufus whose character was much-maligned by the chroniclers perhaps due to his opposition to Gregorian reforms during his reign which led to Archbishop Anselm going into exile.

Most curiously of all, Margaret Murray, the principal theorist of witchcraft as a " pagan survival ," used Frazer's work to propose the thesis that many Kings of England who died as kings, most notably William Rufus, were secret pagans and witches, and whose deaths were the re-enactment of the human sacrifice that stood at the centre of Frazer's myth, a speculation taken up by Katherine Kurtz ' in her novel Lammas Night.

Lucullus was elected Quaestor in winter 89-88 at the same elections in which Sulla was returned as Consul with his friend Quintus Pompeius Rufus, whose son was married to Sulla's eldest daughter, Cornelia.

He received the honour of Huntingdon ( whose lands stretched across much of eastern England ) probably in right of his wife from William Rufus before the end of the year 1090.

Just before dying, he tells Rufus about a river whose waters bestow immortality on whoever drinks from it.

Mack Rice ( born Bonnie Rice, November 10, 1933, Clarksdale, Mississippi ), is an American songwriter, whose compositions have been performed by many well-known artists, including The Staple Singers, Ike and Tina Turner, Albert King, Johnnie Taylor, Shirley Brown, Rufus Thomas, Etta James, Billy Eckstine, Eddie Floyd, Buddy Guy, The Rascals, Wilson Pickett, Albert Collins, Busta Rhymes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Otis Clay and The Blues Brothers ( in Blues Brothers 2000 ).

She then argues with her husband, whose name is revealed to be Rufus, over his own infidelity and they argue over whose cheating was worse.

This brought him the whole weight of the extensive Metellan influence at the elections, while he was already close to his colleague Pompeius Rufus whose son was already married, with at least one child, to his daughter Cornelia.

" Muirchertach Ó Briain was an ambitious, modernizing and outward-looking king whose goal was to make himself king of Ireland as much as William Rufus and Henry I were kings of England ; in reality his position was, perhaps, more analogous to that of Philip I in France ... but his actualy authority in Ireland, especially at the height of his power in the first years of the twelfth century, greatly exceeded that of Phillip in France.