Severin concludes his investigations by stating that the real Robinson Crusoe figure was Henry Pitman, a castaway who had been surgeon to the Duke of Monmouth.

Severin argues that since Pitman appears to have lived in the lodgings above the father's publishing house and since Defoe was a mercer in the area at the time, Defoe may have met Pitman and learned of his experiences as a castaway.

Hans Egede's Hope Colony was organized under the auspices of the Bergen Greenland Company prior to its bankruptcy in 1727 ; it was succeeded by the merchant Jacob Severin ( 1733 – 1749 ), the General Trade Company ( Det almindelige Handelskompagni ; 1749 – 1774 ), and finally the Royal Greenland Trading Department ( KGH ; 1776 – 1908 ).

The Danish merchant Jacob Severin was granted authority over the colony from 1734 to 1740, which was extended until 1749, assisted by royal patronage and Moravian sponsorship of some of Egede's missionary activities.

When the Banate of Severin was retaken, Basarab offered to pay yearly tribute and 7, 000 silver marks in compensation, and to recognize the king ’ s sovereignty ; but his offers were rejected, and the king advanced into Wallachia as far as Curtea de Argeş.

Severin argues that since Pitman appears to have lived in the lodgings above the father's publishing house and that Defoe himself was a mercer in the area at the time, Defoe may have met Pitman in person and learned of his experiences first-hand, or possibly through submission of a draft.

Tim Severin noted that the island of Sesola off the coast of Levkas looked very similar to the rocks from the Argo story, and also that the area is near a geological fault ; he hypothesises that, due to both its similarity with the legends of the Symplegades and the stories of the Argo sailing home via the Adriatic and Ionian Seas, the original legend was copied to the area.

Siouxsie And The Banshees ' bassist Steven Severin was born and brought up there.

The prince's gratitude to the builder who shaped the appearance of Doberan so much, was thin ; Severin died in poverty and oblivion in Bad Doberan, where he is buried at an unknown location.

Alfred Corning Clark, builder of the Dakota, had financed Barnard's early career ; when Clark died in 1896, the Clark family presented Barnard's Two Natures to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in his memory, and the giant bronze Pan was presented to Columbia University, by Clark's son, Edward Severin Clark, 1907.

The first medieval seat of Oltenia was Turnu Severin of Banat of Severin, the ancient Drobeta, near the former Roman bridge, built by Apollodorus of Damascus for Emperor Trajan conquest purposes.

In addition, by the time he submitted his dissertation in 1804 ( September ), he was in regular contact at Jena with Jakob Friedrich Fries and Karl David Ilgen, who perhaps led him to his contact with Johann Severin Vater, a scholar whose work he both admired and, in some respects, duplicated independently.

It won the IAC Gold Seal Award and was eventually made available on the Severin DVD release of Hardware.

The Severin region of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary situated in south-eastern Banat was named after Severians.

According to some claims, the town was at first in the possession of the Hungarian kings, and later became property of a Hungarian aristocrat, Miklós Perényi, ban of Severin.

His star was soon in the ascendant and in 1438 King Albert found Hunyadi promoted to Ban of Severin that lay south of the defensible southern frontiers of Hungary ; the Carpathians and the Drava / Sava / Danube complex, a province subject to constant Ottoman harassment.

In 1233 Oltenia was organized into a military frontier zone of the Kingdom of Hungary, called the Banate of Severin.

" Horton was influenced by observing rural adult education schools in Denmark started in the 19th century by Danish Lutheran Bishop Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig.

Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig ( September 8, 1783 – September 2, 1872 ) (), most often referred to as simply N. F. S. Grundtvig, was a Danish pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher, and politician.

The city, which was called Drobeta by the Romans, took its name of Turnu Severin ( meaning the Tower of Severus ) from a tower on the north bank of the Danube built by the Byzantines.

The fortress of Severin was built by the Kingdom of Hungary under Ladislaus I ( 1077 – 1095 ) as strategical point against the Second Bulgarian Empire.

Along with the forming of the Vallachian Voivodeships ( Voievodatele Valahe ), the Severin fortress was a reason for a war over a period of several generations between Oltenian Voievodes ( Litovoi, Bărbat, then Basarab I ) and Hungarians.

In February 1977, she stopped attending Pistols concerts and started to tour with her friend Severin under the name of Siouxsie and the Banshees.

A supply ship in 1733 brought three missionaries and news that the king had granted 2000 rixdollars a year to establish a new company for the colony under Jacob Severin.

This year may be taken as the date of birth of a new castle over the ruins of Drobeta, under the name Severin ( Severinopolis ).

Smith and Severin founded The Glove during a period when they were under heavy stress in their respective bands, The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

The first volume, which contains the Asiatic languages, was published immediately after his death ; the other two were issued under the superintendence of Johann Severin Vater ( 1771 – 1826 ).

Before the Habsburg province was established, several other entities had existed in the Banat region, including: the Voivodeship of Glad ( 9th century ), the Voivodeship of Ahtum ( 11th century ), the Banate of Severin frontier province of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary ( from 1233 to the 16th century ), the Ottoman province named Eyalet of Temeşvar ( 1552 – 1716 ), and the Banate of Lugos and Karansebes province within the Principality of Transylvania ( 16th – 17th century ), which was under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire as a whole.

As an alternative location for the residence of Oltenian Bans during the early Craioveşti rules, the town still features the foundation of the Banate estate house ; it had replaced Severin due to frequent Ottoman attacks, and was in turn replaced by Craiova, remaining a largely rural locality.

In 1233, the Kingdom of Hungary formed the Banat of Severin in the eastern part of the region that would persist until the 1526 Battle of Mohacs.

This was presumably the headquarters of the Catholic episcopate of Severin that was there until 1502.

The castle and park at Severin na Kupi were owned by the Frankopan family until the mid-17th century.

At the opening of the novel, the narrator and Utch are married with two children and live a relatively placid existence until, at a faculty party, they become acquainted with Severin Winter, a Viennese-born professor of German and coach of the school's wrestling team, and his wife Edith, a WASP from a privileged background ( she met her husband in Vienna while on a buying trip for MOMA ) who is an aspiring fiction writer.

Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig wrote a tale called Palnatoke in 1804 and in 1809 – 11 a two-volume work of poetic drama, Optrin af Kæmpelivets Undergang i Nord (" Episode of the Downfall of the Fighting Life in the North "), which deals with Palnatoki and Sigurð and was intended as part of a massive poetic work projected to consist of dramatised historic episodes and retellings of sagas spanning a thousand years from the coming of Odin and " Asatru " to Scandinavia through the legends of the Völsungs and Nibelungs until the fall of the Jomsborg with Palnetoki's death, and the victory of Christianity.

When EC ceased publication in the wake of the U. S. Senate hearings on the effects of comic books on children and the establishment of the Comics Code, Severin worked briefly for Marvel Comics ' 1950s predecessor, Atlas Comics, until an industry downturn circa 1957 prompted her to seek work with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Gustav Severin Henriksen ( October 25, 1872 – October 8, 1939 ) was the managing director of the Norwegian America Line ( NAL ) from its inception in 1911 until his death in 1939.

Filling in for Gene Burns starting in October 1994, Severin began work as a talk show host on WOR, and worked there during the afternoon drive time slot until June 1996 when he was replaced by Bob Grant.

" Severin was suspended until 3 June 2009, at which time he apologized by saying ( in part ), " My remarks were hurtful, unkind and wrong.

All songs by Siouxsie and the Banshees except * by Sioux & Severin and ** by Lennon & McCartney

The small Wallachian army led by Basarab, formed of cavalry, foot archers, as well as local peasants, managed to ambush and defeat the 30, 000-strong Hungarian army, in a mountainous region near the border between Oltenia and Severin.

In 1330, Robert captured the long disputed Wallachian citadel of Severin and handed it to the Transylvanian Voivode.