Mr. Justice Taney's Dred Scott decision in 1857 was unpopular in the North, and soon became a dead letter.

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

The fourteenth name was ( Richard ) Buckenham, written Buckman, admitted to Christ's College under Scott 2 July 1625.

Of majestic build, rubicund and slash-mouthed, he resembled the late General Winfield Scott, who was said to be the most imposing general of his century, if not of all centuries.

In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was perhaps more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was but one of many young men who laid waste their talents in these Scott Fitzgerald days for the sake of earning space in the newspapers.

An internal police operation managed by Scott McLeod, a former F.B.I. man installed as security officer upon congressional insistence, was part of the vengeance.

His contention was denied by several bankers, including Scott Hudson of Sherman, Gaynor B. Jones of Houston, J. B. Brady of Harlingen and Howard Cox of Austin.

Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U. S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.

Most Republicans agreed with Lincoln that the North was the aggrieved party, as the Slave Power tightened its grasp on the national government with the Dred Scott decision and the presidency of James Buchanan.

This refusal to accept any renunciation of allegiance to the Crown led to conflict with the United States over impressment, and then led to further conflicts even during the War of 1812, when thirteen Irish American prisoners of war were executed as traitors after the Battle of Queenston Heights ; Winfield Scott urged American reprisal, but none was carried out.

It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Walter Scott.

The nucleus of the estate was a small farm of, called Cartleyhole, nicknamed Clarty ( i. e., muddy ) Hole, and was bought by Scott on the lapse of his lease ( 1811 ) of the neighbouring house of Ashestiel.

The money was secured by the act of his mother placing a $ 500 mortgage on the family's $ 700 home, but the opportunity was only available because of Carnegie's close relationship with Scott.

In spring 1861, Carnegie was appointed by Scott, who was now Assistant Secretary of War in charge of military transportation, as Superintendent of the Military Railways and the Union Government's telegraph lines in the East.

He also gave stock to Scott and Thomson in his businesses, and the Pennsylvania was his best customer.

In 1929 a new church in Bath was dedicated to Saint Ælfheah, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in homage to the ancient Roman church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.

Feeling against Catholics, and especially against James, Duke of York, was running strongly ; the Exclusion Bill had been passed by the House of Commons, and the popularity of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, was very great.

Regulatory Arbitrage was used for the first time in 2005 when it was applied by Scott V. Simpson, a partner at law firm Skadden, Arps, to refer to a new defence tactic in hostile mergers and acquisitions where differing takeover regimes in deals involving multi-jurisdictions are exploited to the advantage of a target company under threat.

These narratives of coarse action and crude language appeared first in local newspapers, as a rule, and later found their way between book covers, though rarely into the planters' libraries beside the morocco-bound volumes of Horace, Mr. Addison, Mr. Pope, and Sir Walter Scott.

Scott then built additions to the house and made it into a mansion, building into the walls many sculptured stones from ruined castles and abbeys of Scotland.

This view contrasted for example with that of Sir Lindsay Scott, who argued — following Childe ( 1935 ) for a wholesale migration into Atlantic Scotland of people from south-west England.

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.

Major attempted to draw some of the sting from the financial scandals by setting up public inquiries – the Nolan Report into standards expected in public life, and the Scott Report into the Arms to Iraq Scandal.

While Jean finds she is slowly able to tap into the powers of the Phoenix Force once again, her marriage to Scott begins to fail.

In the early 1930s, Rufus Scott died, and his home was purchased by Gene Roden, who converted the home into a funeral home.

In 2008, phonautograph recordings made by Scott were played back as sound by American audio historians, who used optical scanning and computer processing to convert the traced waveforms into digital audio files.

Janet, Brad, Dr. Scott, Rocky and Columbia all meet in Frank's lab, where Frank captures them with the Medusa Transducer, transforming them into statues.

* The Arrangement ( 1981, with Robin Scott ) ( originally released as an EP, later expended into a full album containing the complete sessions )

As the game was getting into deeper development, project leader Scott Miller was contacted by John Carmack informing Miller that the Wolfenstein expansion pack project had been canceled.

Although Scott had attained celebrity through his poetry, he soon tried his hand at documenting his researches into the oral tradition of the Scottish Borders in prose fiction – stories and novels – at the time still considered aesthetically inferior to poetry ( above all to such classical genres as the epic or poetic tragedy ) as a mimetic vehicle for portraying historical events.

In writing Old Mortality Scott drew upon the knowledge he had acquired from his researches into ballads on the subject for The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

Later, after George's accession to the throne, the city government of Edinburgh invited Scott, at the King's behest, to stage-manage the King's entry into Edinburgh.

He was also adapted into a character in Orson Scott Card's alternate history series The Tales of Alvin Maker ; he is presented as a crude but deeply witty and insightful man.

In 1996, it was made into a film of the same name by Anthony Minghella, starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth and Naveen Andrews.

Its most famous editor, Charles Prestwich Scott, made the Manchester Guardian into a world-famous newspaper in the 1890s.

The short story was adapted by director Ridley Scott into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival's Best First Work award winning film The Duellists.

Two years later President Martin Van Buren ordered 7, 000 Federal troops and state militia under General Winfield Scott into Cherokee lands to evict the tribe.

In the Quantum Leap episode " The Great Spontini ", Scott Bakula's character, Dr. Sam Beckett, leaps into an amateur magician in 1974 who aspires to appear on Bill Bixby's The Magician ; however, owing to his partial amnesia, Dr. Beckett, at first, can only recall Bixby's connection with The Incredible Hulk, which had not been made at that time.

In a related use, from 1975, British naturalist Sir Peter Scott coined the scientific term " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " ( Greek for " The monster ( or wonder ) of Ness with the diamond shaped fin ") for the apocryphal Loch Ness Monster.

In 1924 in the UK the chemist Harold Plenderleith began to work at the British Museum with Dr. Alexander Scott in the newly created Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, thus giving birth to the conservation profession in the UK.

The British directors Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean are among the most critically acclaimed of all-time, with other important directors including Charlie Chaplin, Michael Powell, Carol Reed and Ridley Scott.

The five most commercially successful British directors in recent years are Paul Greengrass, Mike Newell, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott and David Yates.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Fort McHenry looking towards the position of the British ships ( with the Francis Scott Key Bridge ( Baltimore ) | Francis Scott Key Bridge in the distance on the upper left )

The British firearms firm Webley & Scott also made an " automatic revolver " around the turn of the 20th century.

On the basis of these photographs, British naturalist Peter Scott announced in 1975 that the scientific name of the monster would henceforth be Nessiteras rhombopteryx ( Greek for " The Ness monster with diamond-shaped fin ").

Scott intended that this would enable Nessie to be added to a British register of officially protected wildlife.

Scott received a knighthood, in honor of his substantial contribution to the British film industry, from Queen Elizabeth II on 8 July 2003.

Following the news of his death, Scott became an iconic British hero, a status maintained for more than 50 years and reflected by the many permanent memorials erected across the nation.

In his expedition prospectus, Scott stated that its main objective was " to reach the South Pole, and to secure for the British Empire the honour of this achievement ".

* British Services Antarctic Expedition 2012 – In the Spirit of Scott

Oblique reference to the origin of Habeas corpus underlies Scott's next novel, Ivanhoe, set during the era of the creation of the Magna Carta, which conservatives like Walter Scott and Edmund Burke regarded as rooted in immemorial British custom and precedent.

The lyrics come from " Defence of Fort McHenry ", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

* January 17 – British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four become the second expeditionary group to reach the South Pole.

The British failure at the Battle of Baltimore is a turning point in the war, and the American defense of the fort inspires Francis Scott Key to compose the poem later set to music as The Star-Spangled Banner.

The three leading candidates were William Henry Harrison, a war hero and the most successful of Van Buren's opponents in the 1836 election ; Winfield Scott, another general, a hero of the War of 1812 and active in skirmishes with the British in 1837 and 1838 ; and Henry Clay, the Whigs ' congressional leader and former Speaker of the House.

In 2008, Seymour replaced Selina Scott as the new face of the British fashion label CC ( formerly known as Country Casuals ).

* August 19 – Tony Scott, British film director ( b. 1944 )

* British — Coward, Sir Noël: " Parisian Pierrot " ( 1922 ; voice and orchestra ); Scott, Cyril: " Pierrot amoureux " ( 1912 ; voice and piano ), " Pierrot and the Moon Maiden " ( 1912 ; voice and piano ; text by Ernest Dowson from Pierrot of the Minute above under # England 2 | England ); Shaw, Martin: " At Columbine's Grave " ( 1922 ; voice and piano ; lyrics by Bliss Carman above under # Poetry | Poetry ).

* British — Scott, Cyril: " Two Pierrot Pieces " ( 1904 ; piano ), " Pierrette " ( 1912 ; piano ).

The success of the historical novels of Walter Scott had helped to make British themes much en vogue on the continent.

" Certain displays of their selfishness were commented upon by George Murray Levick, a Royal Navy Surgeon-Lieutenant and scientist who also accompanied Scott on his ill-fated British Antarctic Expedition 1910, during his surveying of penguins in the Antarctic: " At the place where they most often went in water, a long terrace of ice about six feet in height ran for some hundreds of yards along the edge of the water, and here, just as on the sea-ice, crowds would stand near the brink.