During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross.

Skinner and Key were there to negotiate the release of prisoners, one of whom was Dr. William Beanes, a resident of Upper Marlboro, Maryland who had been arrested after putting rowdy stragglers under citizen's arrest.

On September 3, 1814, following the Burning of Washington and the Raid on Alexandria, Francis Scott Key and John Stuart Skinner set sail from Baltimore aboard the ship HMS Minden, flying a flag of truce on a mission approved by President James Madison.

Key and Skinner boarded the British flagship HMS Tonnant on September 7 and spoke with Major General Robert Ross and Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane over dinner while the two officers discussed war plans.

At first, Ross and Cochrane refused to release Beanes, but relented after Key and Skinner showed them letters written by wounded British prisoners praising Beanes and other Americans for their kind treatment.

Because Key and Skinner had heard details of the plans for the attack on Baltimore, they were held captive until after the battle, first aboard HMS Surprise and later back on HMS Minden.

Key figures were Ernest M. Skinner ( 1866-1960 ), Arthur Hudson Marks ( 1875-1939 ), Joseph Whiteford, and G. Donald Harrison ( 1889-1956 ).

Many of the stories were created by Mills and co-writer Tony Skinner, including Accident Man, an assassin who makes his hits look like accidents.

These ideas were embraced by a number of different writers Quentin Skinner, Philip Pettit and Cass Sunstein.

At twilight on September 16, he and Skinner were released in Baltimore.

Several Bronze Age round barrows were opened by John Skinner in the 18th century.

Skinner in particular is renowned for his provocative methodological essays, which were and are widely read by philosophers and practitioners of other humanistic disciplines, and did much to give prominence to the practice of intellectual history.

Traynor had ordered Skinner to destroy the apparatus the scientists at the base were working on, and he is eager to learn from Skinner if he succeeded in the task.

The film stars Sean Connery, who plays Allan Quatermain, and features Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, Rodney Skinner aka An Invisible Man ( the rights could not be secured to The Invisible Man ), Dr. Jekyll / Edward Hyde, Dorian Gray, and U. S. Secret Service agent Tom Sawyer ( Gray and Sawyer were not in the comics, although a painting of a young man holding a cane with " Dorian Gray " printed under it appears on the cover of Volume I ).

B. F. Skinner, like Thorndike, put animals in boxes and observed them to see what they were able to learn.

Thomas Skinner had established a trading base in Asia while there were few restrictions on trade there ; later, however, the base was seized by the British East India Company, which had been granted a monopoly.

For the Board of Ordnance, the brothers were the main contractor at Fort George, a large modern fort near Inverness designed by military engineer Colonel Skinner.

The Hudson Knife factory and The Skinner and Steenman sideboard factory were two of the earliest businesses.

Several of the early Labour Party stalwarts were Australian-born: Harry Holland, Michael Joseph Savage, Bob Semple, Paddy Webb, Bill Parry and later Clarence Skinner, Mabel Howard and Hugh Watt.

* 1966 Waldenwoods conference is held in Hartland, Michigan, comprising 83 adults and 4 children, coordinated through the Breiland list ( a list of interested people who wrote to Skinner and were referred to Jim Breiland ).

Starting in the 1940s, initiated by B. F. Skinner at Harvard University, the keys were mounted vertically behind a small circular hole about the height of a pigeon's beak in the front wall of an operant conditioning chamber.

Twin Oaks ' founders were inspired by the utopian novel Walden Two by B. F. Skinner.

So he presided at the trial of John Claydon, Skinner and citizen of London, who after five years imprisonment at various times had made public abjuration before the late archbishop, Arundel, but now was found in possession of a book in English called The Lanterne of Light, which contained the heinous heresy that the principal cause of the persecution of Christians was the illegal retention by priests of the goods of this world, and that archbishops and bishops were the special seats of Antichrist.

The theories that Skinner opposed often relied on mediating mechanisms and structures — such as a mechanism for memory as a part of the mind — which were not measurable or observable.

* On 8 December 2005, when referring to the economic record of the Conservatives in the 1980s, making the remark, " The only thing that was growing then were the lines of coke in front of boy George and the rest of the Tories ", a reference to allegations originally published in the Sunday Mirror of cocaine use by the Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne ( though, in the Commons, Skinner referred to the News of the World ).

During this time there was considerable progress in understanding simple associations ; notably, around 1930 the differences between Thorndike ’ s instrumental ( or operant ) conditioning and Pavlov ’ s classical ( or Pavlovian ) conditioning were clarified, first by Miller and Kanorski, and then by B. F. Skinner.

Skinner is amused with Shaun's belief that he must study and work in a highly intelligent environment in order to become successful, pointing out that many famous authors such as James Joyce and William Faulkner grew up in places that were not intellectually stimulating, but still became great writers.

* Two grandsons were Lt. General William Skinner and his brother Loyalist General Cortlandt Skinner.

When the actor had attended the audition for Walter Skinner, he had been in a grumpy mood and had allowed his small amount of hair to grow back.

So, while experimenting with some homemade feeding mechanisms, Skinner invented the operant conditioning chamber which allowed him to measure rate of response as a key dependent variable using a cumulative record of lever presses or key pecks.

At the end of each show, the guest Skinner felt had argued the best would be declared that week's winner and allowed to put any object into Room 101 unchallenged.

Eventually he changed his views ( which probably allowed the story into publicationbut not before allowing himself to be punched by Bunter and tormented by Skinner and Bolsover.

Unknown to them, Skinner had begun cooperating with the DEA and had already allowed them to go inside the property to look around.

When Pileggi attended the audition for Walter Skinner, he had been in a grumpy mood and had allowed his small amount of hair to grow back.

Skinner also developed and perfected automatic " Player " mechanisms of extraordinary complexity and stunning ingenuity, which allowed almost any individual to operate a large pipe organ in a manner similar to a player piano.

This allowed Skinner to focus on the technical and artistic aspects of the dozens of projects in which the company was involved at any one time, while others would manage the commercial aspects of the company.

After replacing Dave Tobik to start the ninth inning, Bibby allowed a single to Joel Skinner, a double to Rudy Law and an intentional walk to Jerry Hairston, Sr. to load the bases with one out.

However, Gaines and his fellow commissioners Alonzo A. Skinner and Beverly S. Allen were only able to get treaties signed that allowed the tribes to remain on the west side and in the foothills of the Willamette Valley.

Richard Skinner, another previous DJ from the Virgin Radio days, will also return to Golden Square to feature on this station.

Upon his return to Boston, Skinner made his first Pedal Trombone modeled after the work of " Father " Willis for the 1900 Hutchings organ installed at Boston Music Hall.

Principal Skinner, worried about the effects of placing Bart and Lisa in the same class, suggests that they return to the " status quo ante " – both Simpson kids go back to their proper grades.

After Agnes orders Armin to return home, Homer persuades Mayor Quimby and all the other citizens to allow Armin to resume his assumed identity as Principal Skinner.

Judge Snyder declares that Armin will again be referred to as Seymour Skinner, that he will return to his job as school principal, and that no one shall mention the name " Armin Tamzarian " again, under penalty of torture.