" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

" Falling to Pieces " was featured in Ridley Scott's 2001 war movie Black Hawk Down, as background music while soldiers prepare for their mission.

Little is known about Scott's background or his early life and he has been described as a " mysterious young man ".

They borrowed freely from each other-the game includes background from the 1980 book Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology, while the 1987 book Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise includes elements from the FASA background-and fans believed that if Paramount's name was on something, it must be valid Star Trek.

After three weeks of intense speculation throughout March 1949 as to whom the governor might choose for the Senate, attention focused on individuals ranging from the senator's widow, who expressed no interest ; Scott's former campaign manager, Capus Miller Waynick ; another Scott supporter, Major Lennox Polk McLendon, a lawyer from Greensboro, North Carolina ; former Senator Umstead ; and the governor himself.

Walter Scott's father as a lawyer had professional dealings with the old man, but on one occasion after his wife brought tea, he afterwards threw the cup out the window saying, " Neither lip of me nor of mine comes after Murray of Broughton's.

Xavier attempts to have Scott give him permission to scan Scott's mind for traces of Sinister's influences, but instead Scott turns the tables on Xavier by revealing that he has secretly invited Emma Frost into their entire meeting and also into Xavier's mind.

A further locomotive was supplied to Scott's Pit railroad at Llansamlet, near Swansea in 1819 but it too was soon withdrawn, apparently because it was under-boilered and also because of damage to the track.

He also took a substantial role in Tony Scott's 1998 political thriller, Enemy of the State, in which Voight played Will Smith's stalwart antagonist from the NSA.

* King Philip also appears in the Ridley Scott's 2010 movie Robin Hood.

Armitage also promoted the idea that the decision to send Shackleton home on the relief ship arose from Scott's animosity rather than Shackleton's physical breakdown.

At times, Sakamoto would also present varying interpretations of technology's intersection with music: He would present some pieces, such as " Replica ", with Kraftwerkian rigidity and order, while he would infuse humanity and humor into others – " Broadway Boogie Woogie ", for example, liberally lifts samples from Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner and pairs them with a raucous, sax-driven techno-pop backdrop.

Scott's positive portrayal of Judaism, which reflects his humanity and concern for religious toleration, also coincided with a contemporary movement for the Emancipation of the Jews in England.

Scott's advocacy of objectivity and moderation and his strong repudiation of political violence on either side also had a strong, though unspoken contemporary resonance in an era when many conservative English speakers lived in mortal fear of a revolution in the French style on British soil.

She also appeared in two Carry On films, Carry On Regardless ( playing Mata Hari ) and Carry On Camping ( playing Terry Scott's wife with a braying laugh and jolly bossiness ).

He also appeared in Martin Scorsese's 2010 film adaptation of Shutter Island and Ridley Scott's 2010 adaption of Robin Hood, playing Robin's blind stepfather, Sir Walter Loxley.

Cú Chulainn is also mentioned in Michael Scott's bestselling series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel.

Scott's stay with his master in Illinois, a free state, gave him the legal leverage to make a claim for freedom, as did his extended stay at Fort Snelling in the Wisconsin Territory ( now Minnesota ), where slavery was also prohibited.

A sculpture by Kathleen Scott, Peter Scott's mother, is also on display in the grounds.

Scott's novels set in Scotland also popularised several northern castles, including Tantallon which was featured in Marmion.

He also wrote introductions to new publications of such diverse works as Great Expectations, Walter Scott's Old Mortality, T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy and Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson.

It was directed by Sam Peckinpah and co-starred Joel McCrea, an actor who had a screen image similar to Scott's and who also from the mid-1940s on devoted his career almost exclusively to Westerns.

Scott's adopted son, Christopher, also challenged the rumors.

Scott's songwriting output at that time may also have been somewhat diminished because he had recently become a father.

Thierry was also inspired by Romantic literature, such as Chateaubriand's Les Martyrs, and Walter Scott's novels.

His life also inspired a range of " Lemurian " novels, starting with George Firth Scott's book The Last Lemurian ( 1898 ).

Ironically, McNair's own quartet were also on the bill, resulting in two of his performances appearing on the album made to commemorate the gigs, Zoot Live at Ronnie Scott's.

He also appeared as Henry " Birdie " Bowers in the 1985 television serial about Scott's last Antarctic expedition, The Last Place on Earth.

They strove to strengthen the respiratory muscles of their pupils and equip them with such time-honoured vocal attributes as " purity of tone, perfection of legato, phrasing informed by eloquent portamento, and exquisitely turned ornaments ", to quote from the introduction to Volume 2 of Scott's The Record of Singing ( Duckworth, London, 1979 ).

Abbotsford gave its name to the " Abbotsford Club ", a successor of the Bannatyne and Maitland clubs, founded by William Barclay Turnbull in 1834 in Scott's honour, for printing and publishing historical works connected with his writings.

In Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian, for example, the heroine, Jeanie Deans, a Scottish Presbyterian, writes to her father about the church situation she has found in England ( bold added ):

Arbroath Abbey was the basis for the description of the ruined monastery of St Ruth in Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary.

Scott's " staging " of the royal Visit of King George IV to Scotland in 1822 and the king's wearing of tartan, resulted in a massive upsurge in demand for kilts and tartans that could not be met by the Scottish linen industry.

Ivanhoe is sometimes credited for increasing interest in Romanticism and Medievalism ; John Henry Newman claimed Scott " had first turned men's minds in the direction of the middle ages ," while Carlyle and Ruskin made similar claims to Scott's overwhelming influence over the revival based primarily on the publication of this novel.

Owing to Scott's decision to make use of the manuscript, Robin Hood from Locksley has been transformed for all time into " Robin of Locksley ", alias Robin Hood.

Scott's phonautograph was intended purely for the visual study and analysis of the tracings.

Road film Thelma & Louise ( 1991 ) starring Geena Davis as Thelma, and Susan Sarandon as Louise, proved to be one of Scott's biggest critical successes, helping revive the director's reputation and receiving his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director.

More recently during the filming of Scott's 2012 film, Prometheus, Charlize Theron praised the director's willingness to listen to suggestions from the cast for improvements in the way their characters are portrayed on script.

During the research for his dual biography of Scott and Roald Amundsen, polar historian Roland Huntford investigated a possible scandal in Scott's early naval career, related to the period 1889 – 90 when Scott was a lieutenant on.

" Daily Telegraph columnist Jasper Rees, likening the changes in explorers ' reputations to climatic variations, suggests that " in the current Antarctic weather report, Scott is enjoying his first spell in the sun for twenty-five years ". The New York Times Book Review was more critical, pointing out Crane's support for Scott's discredited claims regarding the circumstances of the freeing of the Discovery from the pack ice, and concluded " For all the many attractions of his book, David Crane offers no answers that convincingly exonerate Scott from a significant share of responsibility for his own demise.

Although he continued to be extremely popular and widely read, both at home and abroad, Scott's critical reputation declined in the last half of the nineteenth century as serious writers turned from romanticism to realism, and Scott began to be regarded as an author suitable for children.

In contrast, the novels of Scott's contemporary Jane Austen, once appreciated only by the discerning few ( including, as it happened, Sir Walter Scott himself ) rose steadily in critical esteem, though Austen, as a female writer, was still faulted for her narrow (" feminine ") choice of subject matter, which, unlike Scott, avoided the grand historical themes traditionally viewed as masculine.

It is a testament to Scott's contribution in creating a unified identity for Scotland that Edinburgh's central railway station, opened in 1854 by the North British Railway, is called Waverley.

Scott's novels were certainly influential in the making of the Victorian craze for all things Scottish among British royalty, who were anxious to claim legitimacy through their rather attenuated historical connection with the royal house of Stuart.

After being essentially unstudied for many decades, a small revival of critical interest in Scott's work began in the 1970s and 1980s.

Scott's Ivanhoe continued to be required reading for many American high school students until the end of the 1950s.