The company was formed as a joint-venture between the Robert Simpson Company ( Simpson's ), an existing Canadian department store retailer, and Sears, Roebuck and Co. of the United States.

The Robert Simpson Company, or Simpsons ( Simpson's until 1972 ), was a Canadian department store chain, founded by Robert Simpson in 1858.

Over time, the competition between the Simpson's and Eaton ’ s department stores, facing each other across Queen Street West, became one of Toronto ’ s great business rivalries.

It was set in a department store, based on the flagship location of the now defunct Simpson's in Toronto.

When the well-known downtown Toronto department store " Simpson's " attempted to force him to change the name of his business, Mirvish pointed to Simpson and said, " Here's my Mr. Simpson.

It once contained the Murphy-Gamble ( later Simpson's ), Morgan's, C. Ross, and Bryson-Graham's department stores.

Apps retired from the NHL at the age of 33 and took a marketing job with the Simpson's department store.

The Canadian merchant Robert Simpson, founder of Simpson's department store, was born here in 1834.

The station contains painted murals by John Boyle at the platform level entitled Our Nell, featuring depictions of Nellie McClung, Sir John Graves Simcoe, as well as the former Simpson's and Eaton's department stores.

Its original anchors were the department stores Simpson's and Eaton's, the supermarkets Steinberg's and Dominion, and a Famous Players movie theater.

Fairview Mall was built in 1970 with The Bay and Simpson's as its department store anchors, and at the time was the fourth fully enclosed, as well as the first multi-level shopping centre in Metropolitan Toronto.

At that time it included two major Canadian department stores, Simpson's and Eaton's.

The mall expanded again in 1976, with a Simpson's department store replacing the Sayvette ( now The Bay ).

Saint Catherine Street still been home to many of Montreal's prominent department stores, including such former retailers as Eaton's, Morgan's, Simpson's and Dupuis Freres.

The Simpson's building is now shared by the La Maison Simons department store and a multiplex cinema, while Eaton's was converted to the Complexe Les Ailes.

The success of Ottawa's local department stores, such as Ogilvy's, Freimans, Murphy-Gamble and Caplan's discouraged the expansion of national chains ( including Eaton's, Simpson's, Simpsons-Sears and The Bay ) into the National Capital Region until the 1950s ( Simpsons-Sears opened its Carlingwood outlet in 1955 ).

Simpson's, once amongst the United Kingdom's leading clothing stores, opened on Piccadilly in the 1930s.

The purpose of the joint-venture was to take over the existing Simpson's catalogue operations, and to build new stores in markets that were not already served by existing Simpson's stores, leveraging Sears-Roebuck's strong buying power and organization.

In 1973-1974, Simpsons-Sears opened its first stores in metropolitan areas already served by Simpson's ( although in suburban areas well away from the downtown Simpson's stores ), the first such being in Mississauga, Ontario.

Under its terms, Simpsons-Sears could not open a retail store within 25 miles of Simpson's existing stores in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, Regina and London.

In return, Simpson's promised not to build any stores outside of those five cities.

* 1965: Fairview Corporation inaugurates the mall with Simpson's, Steinberg's, Eaton's, Pascal's, and some 70 other stores.

Simpson's and Eaton's seize the occasion to each add a third floor to their store ; the adding of an extra floor does not necessitate any change to the outdoor architectures of Simpson's and Eaton's because both stores were designed in 1965 to house three floors.

In 1978 the Hudson's Bay Company ( parent company of The Bay ) purchased the Simpson's retail chain, and subsequently sold its Simpson's store at Fairview Mall to Sears Canada in 1991 ( along with five others that were co-located with Bay stores ).

The allegations of seatbelt failure resulted in Bill Simpson's resignation from the company bearing his name, which manufactured the seatbelts used in Earnhardt's car and nearly every other NASCAR driver's car.

This works to the players advantage, as it can be used to send up barrels of nuclear waste, which destroys the space ship, taking Homer Simpson's ' 70's Sports Car ', Snake and Bandit, John Frink and the Hover Car

In probability and statistics, Simpson's paradox ( or the Yule – Simpson effect ) is a paradox in which a correlation present in different groups is reversed when the groups are combined.

Huxley's book is not strong in palaeontology, which illustrates perfectly why Simpson's later works were such an important contribution.

In 1961, Brian's largest surviving work, the Gothic Symphony, which had been written between 1919 and 1927, was first performed at Westminster Central Hall, in a partly amateur performance conducted by Bryan Fairfax, and in 1966 the first fully professional performance was given at the Royal Albert Hall conducted by Boult, both occasions largely the result of Simpson's lobbying.

A Simpson's Comics Treehouse of Horror issue features a parody of this episode, which is also based on the classic movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Simpson's rule, which is based on a polynomial of order 2, is also a Newton – Cotes formula.

* Simpson's paradox, of which the Low birth weight paradox is an example

Simpson's rule gains an extra order because the points at which the integrand is evaluated are distributed symmetrically in the interval b.

* Application of Simpson's Rule-Earthwork Excavation ( Note: The formula described in this page is correct but there are errors in the calculation which should give a result of 569m3 and not 623m3 as stated )

On television, Fierstein was featured as the voice of Karl, Homer Simpson's assistant, in the " Simpson and Delilah " episode of The Simpsons and the voice of Elmer in the 1999 HBO special based on his children's book The Sissy Duckling, which won the Humanitas Prize for Children's Animation.

Nick Lachey was featured on Jessica Simpson's album on the track " Where You Are ", which was released as a single and reached the top 40.

The Rock was the last film in which Bruckheimer collaborated with Simpson, due to Simpson's untimely death.

Simpson College enjoys a historic close partnership with the Des Moines Metro Opera, which makes it home on the Simpson campus over the summer, with performances in Simpson's Blank Performing Arts Center.

Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, in which Bugliosi asserted Simpson's guilt, and criticized the work of the district attorney, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and Judge Lance Ito ; he used these profiles to illustrate broader problems in American criminal justice, the media, and the political appointment of judges.

Simpson's hallmark legislation in the House of Representatives has been the Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act ( CIEDRA ), which would create 312, 000 acres of wilderness in central Idaho, much of which is currently a wilderness study area.

Simpson's support for this form of energy plays a significant role in his membership of the United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, which oversees the Idaho National Laboratory, a main site for nuclear and alternative energy research in the United States.

Brian Simpson's book on the subject mentions the Francis Spaight and also refers to a boat called Tiger on which a youth was cannibalized in 1766.

The reality show, which coincided with the release of the album, at first did not help Simpson's album sales, as it debuted at # 10 on the Billboard Charts and quickly fell down.

Zukertort died 20 June 1888, in London from a cerebral hemorrhage after playing a game in a tournament Simpson's Divan, which he was leading at the time.

Simpson's rule is another member of the same family, and in general has faster convergence than the trapezoidal rule for functions which are twice continuously differentiable, though not in all specific cases.

When the train line which terminated at Carlingford railway station, then known as Simpson's Railway, was completed in 1896, it too, became a major route for the area.

Gray was a co-writer and back-up singer on Jessica Simpson's album A Public Affair, which was released August 29, 2006.