A teenage girl, Abigail Williams, is being sharply questioned by her minister uncle, the Reverend Samuel Parris, about a wild night affair in the woods in which she and some other girls had seemed to have had contact with these evil beings.

Vermont historian Samuel Williams called it " an act which for its savage barbarity is probably without parallel in the legislation of any civilized country ".

Theodore Samuel " Ted " Williams ( August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002 ) was an American professional baseball player and manager.

Ted Williams was born in San Diego as Teddy Samuel Williams, named after his father, Samuel Stuart Williams, and former President, Teddy Roosevelt, although Williams claimed that his middle name stemmed from one of his mother's brothers ( in truth, her dead brother was Daniel Venzor ) who had been killed in World War I.

Roger Williams and Samuel Gorton both opposed slavery, and the law passed in 1652 was the attempt to stop slavery from coming to Rhode Island.

In order to create a more favourable critical climate, a group of Joyce's supporters ( including Samuel Beckett, William Carlos Williams, Rebecca West and others ) put together a collection of critical essays on the new work.

* Samuel Beckett ; William Carlos Williams ; et al.

* In 1854, Jesse M Mercer and others organized a colony near the future settlement of Newburg in Comanche County on lands earlier granted by Mexico to Stephen F. Austin and Samuel May Williams.

The characters of Zack Morris, Samuel " Screech " Powers, Lisa Turtle, and Mr. Richard Belding all originated on the series ; other main characters, including other classmates Nikki Coleman ( Heather Hopper ), Mikey Gonzalez ( Max Battimo ), and maintenance supervisor Mylo Williams ( T. K. Carter ), were discontinued when the show changed direction.

Georg Kaiser ( 1878 ); Ernst Toller ( 1893-1939 ); Reinhard Sorge ( 1892-1916 ); Bertolt Brecht ( 1898-1956 ); Seán O ' Casey ( 1880-1964 ); Eugene O ' Neill ( 1885-1953 ); Elmer Rice ( 1892-1967 ); Tennessee Williams ( 1911-83 ); Arthur Miller ( 1915-2005 ); Samuel Beckett ( 1906-89 ).

Three of the earliest English men to settle in the area now known as Seekonk and Providence were William Blackstone, Roger Williams and Samuel Newman.

Williams returned to the land in the fall of 1833 with his son, Samuel, son-in-law, Gary Briggs and Briggs ' wife.

Members of the Township Council are Council President John A. Spiech ( R, 2014 ), Vice President Harry Williams ( R, 2014 ), Samuel A. Alderisio ( R, 2012 ), H. Lisa DiGiulio ( R, 2012 ), Charles J. Jandris ( R, 2012 ), Roy B. Larson ( R, 2014 ) and John Roth ( R, 2012 ).

Other notable nocturnes from the 20th century include those from Michael Glenn Williams, Samuel Barber and Robert Helps.

Located within the town are a number of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places including: Peter Bitley House, Thomas Bitley House, Samuel Botsford House, Esperanza, Hampstead, Uriah Hanford House, George Hays House, Ezikial Perry House, St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Sill Tenant House, Abraham Wagener House, H. Allen Wagener House, Jemima Wilkinson House, and Sherman Williams House and Fruit Barn.

Charter Members are Mr & Mrs Samuel Hall, Mr & Mrs Moses Williams, Sarah Crawfis, Louisa Guisinger, G. W. Montgomery, and Samuel McDonald.

The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.

England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

Samuel Gorton, founder of Warwick, was styled by the historian Samuel Greene Arnold `` one of the most remarkable men who ever lived ''.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

The country was now full of Gazettes and Samuel C. Atkinson and Charles Alexander, who had just taken over Franklin's old paper, desired a more distinctive name.

One such man was Samuel Darling.

Manchester's unusual interest in telegraphy has often been attributed to the fact that the Rev. J. D. Wickham, headmaster of Burr and Burton Seminary, was a personal friend and correspondent of the inventor, Samuel F. B. Morse.

The corporation was formed by the Reynolds Metal Co. and the Samuel A. and Henry A. Berger firm, a Philadelphia builder, for work in the project.

Thus `` America '', the most widely sung of the patriotic songs, was written by a New England Baptist clergyman, Samuel Francis Smith ( 1808-1895 ), while a student in Andover Theological Seminary.

Sashimi was In, Samuel Burns had suggested, because it was too far Out to stay Out, even if it was a little pretentious.

`` My God, it was cold today '', said Samuel Burns.

Some of the General Semantics tradition was continued by Samuel I. Hayakawa, who had a dispute with Korzybski.

The first Sheriff, Mr Samuel Smart, was wounded during the robbery, and on 2 May 1838 one of the offenders, Michael Magee, became the first person to be hanged in South Australia.

In the 18th century the " dominant trend " in Britain, particularly in Latitudinarianism, was towards Arianism, with which the names of Samuel Clarke, Benjamin Hoadly, William Whiston and Isaac Newton are associated.

" Est vir qui adest ", explained below, was cited as the example in Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.

The hymn was translated into other languages as well: while on the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee sang Christian hymns as a way of coping with the ongoing tragedy, and a version of the song by Samuel Worcester that had been translated into the Cherokee language became very popular.

* The single verse, 2 Samuel 18: 33, regarding David's grief at the loss of his son (" And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

Abner is only referred to incidentally in Saul's history ( 1 Samuel 17: 55, 26: 5 ), and is not mentioned in the account of the disastrous battle of Gilboa when Saul's power was crushed.

The only engagement between the rival factions which is told at length is noteworthy, inasmuch as it was preceded by an encounter at Gibeon between twelve chosen men from each side, in which the whole twenty-four seem to have perished ( 2 Samuel 2: 12 ).

He was closely pursued by Asahel, brother of Joab, who is said to have been " light of foot as a wild roe " ( 2 Samuel 2: 18 ).

The conduct of David after the event was such as to show that he had no complicity in the act, though he could not venture to punish its perpetrators ( 2 Samuel 3: 31-39 ; cf.

Soon after Abner's death, Ish-bosheth was assassinated as he slept ( 2 Samuel 4 ), and David became king of the reunited kingdoms ( 2 Samuel 5 ).

In another attack, Samuel Verstandig, 41, proprietor of a food store in the 2100 block Aiken Street, told police two Negroes assaulted him in his store and stole $150 from the cash register after choking and beating him.

There is a fine second act, as an example, one in which Samuel Groom, as Dillon, has an opportunity to blaze away in one impassioned passage after another.

Carnegie is buried only a few yards away from union organizer Samuel Gompers, another important figure of industry in the Gilded Age.

Samuel, another disciple of Judah I, at the same time brought to the academy at Nehardea a high degree of prosperity ; in fact, it was at the school of Rav that Jewish learning in Babylonia found its permanent home and center.

She subsequently gave birth to three daughters and another son, Samuel ( who would eventually succeed their father as rector of Stenbrohult and write a manual on beekeeping ).

That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky, opened his Lasky Feature show Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, later known as Samuel Goldwyn.

A Goliath makes another appearance in 2 Samuel 21: 19, which tells how Goliath the Gittite was killed by “ Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite .” The fourth-century B. C.

One version that he sold was called " Euperion " ( sometimes " Empyrion ") which was popular for kitchen use and nicknamed as " Hugh Perry " while another meant for outdoor use was called a " Vesuvian " ( a similar version of which was patented by Samuel Jones in 1828 as a " Promethean ").

Their son, another Samuel, was born in 1739 and died in 1740.

Ahijah ( also spelled Ahiah ), who is listed as his son in 1 Samuel 14: 2-3, 18-19, may have been the same person as Ahimelech ( 1 Samuel 22: 9-20 ), or he may have been another son of Ahitub ( probably an elder son if this was the case ).

Anathoth is mentioned as the native place of Abiezer the Anetothite, one of David's " thirty " ( 2 Samuel 23: 27 ), and of Jehu, another of his mighty men ( 1 Chr.

Yet another Sheba is mentioned in 2 Samuel 20: 1 – 22 who rebelled against King David, was beheaded and his head thrown over the wall by the people in the city of Abel in order to save their lives.

According to local legend, a horse belonging to settler Joseph Russell went lame, stranding Russell, who was offered a replacement horse by another settler, Samuel Simmons.

Cornelia Gilman was perhaps the person of that name who was the wife of Samuel Gilman, another director of the firm, and the man who gave his name to the nearby town of Gilman, Illinois The town of Chatsworth is perhaps named for Chatsworth House, the home of the Duke of Devonshire.

At one time or another during the period leading up to the Civil War, Brown, Clark, Benjamin Waterhouse, and Captain Samuel Barry were arrested for violating the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

According to The History of Ontario County New York, some of the earliest pioneers included " Daniel Gates, Daniel Warner, Ezra Platt, Samuel Day, George Chapin, Israel Chapin, Jr., Frederick Follett, Thomas Sawyer, Benjamin Wells and Mr. Sweet, all of whom were from Massachusetts, while William Wyckoff who was another pioneer, was from Pennsylvania.

" Frank's father died in 1889 but by then another Wilkeson was investing financially in the Puget Sound: Samuel Gansevoort Wilkeson, Frank's older brother.

An early reference to a tollbooth in Wigtown occurs in 1591, and it is possible that this structure was blown up by gunpowder in the 18th century to make way for the Market ( or Court ) house mentioned by Bishop Pococke in 1760 and another 18th-century writer, Samuel Robinson.

Samuel Colt neither invented nor perfected interchangeable parts, but his insistence ( and other industrialists at this time ) that his firearms be manufactured with this property, was another step towards the obsolescence of metal-working artisans and blacksmiths.

Susanna's father, Samuel Kittridge, another professor at Walter's college, becomes suspicious of Walter because he doesn't appear to have aged in the 12 years they have known each other and seems to have unrealistically detailed knowledge of some pieces of history that don't appear in texts.

Three days later, after a protracted count which saw presidential results in Kibaki's Central Kenya come in last, allegedly inflated, in a cloud of suspicion and rising tensions, amid vehement protests by Raila's ODM, overnight re-tallying of results and chaotic scenes, all beamed live on TV, at the national tallying center at the Kenyatta International Conference Center in Nairobi, riot police eventually sealed off the tallying Center ahead of the result announcement, evicted party agents, observers and the media, and moved the Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Samuel Kivuitu, to another room where Kivuitu went on to declare Kibaki the winner by 4, 584, 721 votes to Odinga's 4, 352, 993, placing Kibaki ahead of Odinga by about 232, 000 votes in the hotly contested election with Kalonzo Musyoka a distant third.

In recent years, films such as Dancing at Lughnasa ( 1998 ), Plunkett & Macleane ( 1998 ), and Sleepy Hollow ( 1999 ), as well as television appearances in series such as Wives and Daughters ( 1999 ) ( for which he won another BAFTA ), a made-for-TV adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Endgame ( 2001 ) and Perfect Strangers ( 2001 ) have revealed a talent for comedy.