Meanwhile, Smith introduced plural marriage to his closest associates.

According to the Church of Satan historiography, other LaVey associates from this time include noted Science Fiction and Horror writers Anthony Boucher, August Derleth, Robert Barbour Johnson, Reginald Bretnor, Emil Petaja, Stuart Palmer, Clark Ashton Smith, Forrest J. Ackerman, and Fritz Leiber Jr.

Traveling to the area in the Summer of 1831, Smith and some associates formally proclaimed Jackson County as the site, in a ceremony in August 1831.

The Expositor was founded by several disaffected associates of Smith, some of whom claimed that he had attempted to seduce their wives in the name of plural marriage.

In 1800 Constable began the Farmer's Magazine, and in November 1802 he issued the first number of the Edinburgh Review, under the nominal editorship of Sydney Smith ; Lord Jeffrey, was, however, the guiding spirit of the review, having as his associates Lord Brougham, Sir Walter Scott, Henry Hallam, John Playfair and afterwards Lord Macaulay.

The exploratory party examined the south-west quarter of the 9th township, containing 6, 222 acres, which they and their associates eventually bought of Colonel William S. Smith, to whom the township was patented by the state of New York for $ 1. 25 per acre.

During the process of translation, when he came across troubling Biblical issues, Smith often dictated revelations relevant to himself, his associates, or the church.

Smith and his associates intended that the Church of Christ would be a restoration of the 1st century Christian church, which Smith taught had fallen from God's favor and authority because of a Great Apostasy.

It is alleged that Natas band member Esham Smith was attacked by a group of D12 associates after he was invited onstage and subsequently out performed them.

The beginning of Mormonism centers around a number of early charismatic experiences with the heavenly and the spiritual by Joseph Smith, Jr. and his associates.

After he said he received the Golden Plates, Smith began to dictate their translation to his wife Emma Hale Smith and various associates of his, including Martin Harris and, for most of the later translation, Oliver Cowdery.

Scott associates his Flibbertigibbet character in Kenilworth with Wayland Smith.

After translating the Book of Mormon and publishing it in 1830, Joseph Smith, Jr. asked five associates to join in officially incorporating the Church of Christ on April 6, 1830 in the company of some 56 men and women in Fayette, New York.

Like his associates, Larry Baldock, Bernie Ogilvy, Paul Adams and Marc Alexander, Smith only served one term before he left Parliament at the New Zealand general election, 2005, given that his party polled only one-third of its previous electoral support.

Liberty Jail is a former jail in Liberty, Missouri, USA where Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of Latter Day Saint movement, and other associates were imprisoned from December 1, 1838 to April 6, 1839 during the 1838 Mormon War.

Other friends and associates included artist Frank Hill Smith.

The associates were Hill, Smith, Hill's business partner Norman Kittson, and John Stewart Kennedy, an investment banker from New York.

Outside the equine business, John Magnier has proven to be an astute investor and together with associates J. P. McManus, Dermot Desmond, Joe Lewis, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith has enjoyed phenomenal success.

Smith III served many missions to the western United States where he met with associates and women who claimed to be his father's widows.

Nevertheless, historian Lawrence Foster disputed Compton's assumption, arguing that although " contemporary evidence strongly suggests " that Smith and Alger engaged in sexual relations, the evidence does not indicate that the relationship was " viewed either by Smith himself or by his associates at the time as a ' marriage.

Grant biographer Jean Edward Smith asserted that Longstreet served as Grant's best man at the wedding.

The late 18th century was a period of political, economic, intellectual, and cultural reforms, the Enlightenment ( represented by figures such as Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire, and Adam Smith ), but also involving early Romanticism, and climaxing with the French Revolution, where freedom of the individual and nation was asserted against privilege and custom.

Bryant suggested that a pre-existing illness was the cause of Smith's demise on 6 February 1824, before the intended Royal reprieve arrived ; he asserted that Smith had been ill for some time, but that his accommodation was airy and spacious and that had been looked after with " utmost attention and kindness ".

Smith asserted that he was not joking ; he sincerely supported the amendment and, indeed, along with Rep. Martha Griffiths, he was the chief spokesperson for the amendment.

However, Smith and Bhatnagar ( 2000 ) asserted that Kjaer and Fisher Hansen simply missed the structure in older fetuses.

After the letter had been purchased for the church and become public knowledge, Apostle Dallin Oaks asserted to Mormon educators that the words " white salamander " could be reconciled with Joseph Smith's Angel Moroni because in the 1820s, the word salamander might also refer to a mythical being thought to be able to live in fire, and a " being that is able to live in fire is a good approximation of the description Joseph Smith gave of the Angel Moroni.

During the resulting succession crisis, several early Mormon leaders asserted claims to succeed Smith, including Sidney Rigdon, Brigham Young and James Strang.

In 1844, Sidney Rigdon asserted a claim to be the successor of Joseph Smith, Jr. and he organized a group of Latter Day Saints in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Roberts asserted that the authenticity of the Restoration must “ stand or fall ” on the truth of Joseph Smith ’ s claim that the Book of Mormon was the history of an ancient people inscribed on a cache of gold plates ; and Roberts predicted that if church leaders did not address the historical problems of church origins and possible anachronisms in the Book of Mormon, these problems would eventually undermine “ the faith of the Youth of the Church .”

During this time he heard about the alleged discovery of the Voree Record, a set of three minuscule brass plates unearthed by James J. Strang, a would-be successor to the murdered Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, Jr .. Strang asserted that this proved that he was a true prophet of God, and he invited the public to call upon him and see the plates for themselves.

James J. Strang, one of many contenders to succeed Joseph Smith during the 1844 succession crisis, asserted that he had been given the " Plates of Laban " in fulfillment of Lehi's prophecy.

Smith asserted, were satisfied with one shilling sixpence in the pound.

" ( The Province, July 29 ), Smith asserted that " the aver-age age of entry into prostitution in Canada is between 12 and 14 years of age.

There was a revival of hyperdiffusionism in 1911 with the work of Grafton Elliot Smith who asserted that copper spread from Egypt to the rest of the world along with megalithic culture.

Smith was not joking: he asserted that he sincerely supported the amendment and, indeed, along with Rep. Martha Griffiths, he was the chief spokesperson for the amendment.

A few asserted that the remaining Smith brother, William, should become Church President, and William for a time made that claim and gathered a small faction of followers around him.

Several prominent leaders asserted that a patriarchal blessing given to the eldest son, Joseph Smith III, designated the boy to succeed his father.

Purportedly the final testament of an ancient American ruler named " Rajah Manchou of Vorito ", Strang asserted that this discovery vindicated his claims to be the true successor of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement — as opposed to the better-known Brigham Young.

In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith criticised the implicit political corruption of mercantilism in limiting the benefits of trade to the elite classes, and asserted that free trade should benefit all interested parties.

When healthy, Smith has generally been considered one of the world's top female players ; former United States head coach April Heinrichs asserted that Smith would be an automatic choice for the United States Women's National Team if she had been eligible, and Vera Pauw, the Dutch coach, called Kelly " the best player in the World " after she scored a hat-trick against the Netherlands in a 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifier.

" The program connected major companies to the American Liberty League, formed by Al Smith, who, the program asserted, was to be the fascist ruler.

The mathematician and educator David Eugene Smith asserted that lattice multiplication was brought to Italy from the Middle East.