The central character and narrator is a young man named David Balfour ( Balfour being Stevenson's mother's maiden name ), young and naive but resourceful, whose parents have recently died and who is out to make his way in the world.

Stevenson's parents Louise Destler Stevenson and C. L.

John Turner Stevenson's grandfather, William was born in Roxburgh, Scotland then migrated to and from Ulster around 1748, settling first in Pennsylvania and then in North Carolina in the County of Iredell.

According to Stevenson's letters, the idea for the character of Long John Silver was inspired by his real-life friend William Henley, a writer and editor.

According to Robert Louis Stevenson's letters, the idea for the character of Long John Silver was inspired by his real-life friend Henley.

Later, the Chief Engineer on the project, John Rennie, disputed the amount of credit that Stevenson received for the design — Rennie claimed that Stevenson's curve on the base of the lighthouse was inappropriate, though Stevenson had created the earlier designs based on the Eddystone.

In 1978, Heflin was elected to the United States Senate to succeed fellow Democrat John Sparkman, who had been Adlai E. Stevenson's running-mate in 1952, when slated against Richard M. Nixon on the Republican ticket.

After a few decades Hallmark Hall of Fame began to offer original material, such as Aunt Mary ( 1979 ) and Thursday's Child ( 1983 ), although its lineup still primarily consisted of expensive-looking Masterpiece Theatre-style adaptations of American and European literary classics, such as John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent ( 1983 ), Robert Louis Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae ( 1984 ), and Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities ( 1980 ), Oliver Twist ( 1982 ), and A Christmas Carol ( 1984 ).

* In Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Long John Silver refers to the main character as having ' slept like a supercargo.

* John Stevenson's article on the make-up artist

Henley, who had a wooden leg, was Robert Louis Stevenson's model for Long John Silver.

This adaptation of R. L. Stevenson's classic novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was released in 1920, the same year as an American version, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde released by Paramount Pictures and starring John Barrymore.

" Shiver my timbers " was most famously popularized by the archetypal pirate Long John Silver in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island ( 1883 ).

Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ) was a classic Gothic work of the 1880s, seeing many stage adaptations.

Stevenson's failure to publicly launch his candidacy until the week of the convention meant that many liberal delegates who might have supported him were already pledged to Kennedy, and Stevenson — despite the energetic support of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt — was unable to break their allegiance to JFK.

Stevenson's eldest son, Adlai E. Stevenson III, became a U. S. Senator from Illinois ( 1970 – 1981 ).

Stevenson told the teen's father that he should tell his son that " he now has to live for two ", which Stevenson's friends took to be a reference to the shooting incident.

Stevenson's dislike of Lincoln might have been prompted by a contentious meeting between the two, where Lincoln made several witty quips disparaging Stevenson.

" The president even mused that the economy had gotten so bad and the Democratic party so divided that " the logical thing for me to do ... was to resign and hand the Executive branch to Mr. Stevenson ," joking that he would try to get his friends jobs in Stevenson's new cabinet.

Stevenson's son, Lewis G. Stevenson, was Illinois secretary of state ( 1914 – 1917 ).

Stevenson's grandson Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was the Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 1952 and 1956 and Governor of Illinois.

In 1962, Stevenson's alma mater, Centre College ( who also gave Stevenson an honorary degree in 1893 ), built and named a residence hall after Stevenson-Stevenson House-as part of a new campus quadrangle.

According to Robert Louis Stevenson, Stevenson's grandson, the Commissioners of Northern Lights paid Stevenson alone when the lighthouse was completed.

Stevenson's Treasure Island was directly influenced by Irving's " Wolfert Webber ", Stevenson saying in his preface " It is my debt to Washington Irving that exercises my conscience, and justly so, for I believe plagiarism was rarely carried farther .. the whole inner spirit and a good deal of the material detail of my first chapters .. were the property of Washington Irving.

The singerless " power trio " lineup of Navetta, Lombardo, and Stevenson recorded the band's debut single at Media Art studios and released it on their own label, Orca Records, named after Stevenson's fishing boat.

The album was themed around the concept of " All ", which had been invented by Stevenson and friend Pat McCuistion during a fishing trip on Stevenson's boat Orca in 1980.

" This quote appears in an extended form just before the preface of Stevenson's Ethics and Language .</ ref > Influenced by the growth of analytic philosophy and logical positivism in the 20th century, the theory was stated vividly by A. J. Ayer in his 1936 book Language, Truth and Logic, but its development owes more to C. L. Stevenson.

Reeves was then told to look after Stevenson's appointments while Stevenson went on a break.

On November 12, Bragg placed Maj. Gen. Carter L. Stevenson in overall command for the defense of the mountain, with Stevenson's own division positioned on the summit.

According to Stevenson, Carlson's wife, Dorris, had some skill at extrasensory perception, and convinced Carlson to help support Stevenson's research.

He died of an epidemic fever on the island of St. Christopher when Stevenson was an infant ; at much the same time, Stevenson's uncle died of the same disease, leaving Alan's widow, Jane Lillie, in straitened financial circumstances.

However Thomason's reanalysis concluded that Jensen could not convincingly be claimed to speak Swedish ; in the interview Stevenson studied in depth, though Jensen had a total vocabulary of about 100 words, only about 60 were used before interlocutors used them, and, as one of Stevenson's consultants pointed out, this reduced to 31 after eliminating cognates.

Walker served as a clerk for Chief Justice of the United States Fred M. Vinson and was an aide to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson and campaign chairman for the 1970 Senate campaign of Stevenson's son Adlai Stevenson III.

Stevenson's father, Adlai Ewing Stevenson I, was the Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897.

Stevenson's son, Adlai Ewing Stevenson II, was the governor of Illinois, the Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 1952 and 1956 and later the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

Stevenson's speech, and the spectacular disturbance in the gallery, were both touched off by the death, in Katanga, the day before, of Patrice Lumumba.

Stevenson's hopes for victory were dashed when, in October, President Eisenhower's doctors gave him a clean bill of health and the Suez and Hungary crises erupted simultaneously.

Johnson campaigned even harder this time around, while Stevenson's efforts were surprisingly poor.

* References to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island were removed, as was the reference to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Robert Louis Stevenson's father and uncle were the main design engineers for the lighthouse on Muckle Flugga, just off Hermaness on the north-west of the island.

Robert Louis Stevenson's family were lighthouse builders, and his signature can be seen in its guestbook.

" Stevenson's Treasure Island was directly influenced by Irving's " Wolfert Webber ", Stevenson saying in his preface " It is my debt to Washington Irving that exercises my conscience, and justly so, for I believe plagiarism was rarely carried farther ... the whole inner spirit and a good deal of the material detail of my first chapters ... were the property of Washington Irving.

Among other customers were Yorkshire Traction, Tayside Buses and Stevenson's of Uttoxeter.

Astrid Lindgren expanded Stevenson's couplet differently in the script for the 1969 Pippi Longstocking TV series ; the two resulting verses were sung to a West Indian sea shanty.

The Stevenson's original termini were U. S. Highway 66 in DuPage County to the west, and the Dan Ryan Expressway to the east.

On the early morning of August 20, 2007, a 31-year-old man, Curtis Ruff, was shot and injured at Stevenson's home, following an argument with women that were invited from Destiny's Club in Orlando.

The operations of the Swadlincote depot were purchased by Stevenson's of Uttoxeter.

The photographs were displayed in the Scottish Parliament building in 2004 and published in Stevenson's book Crying Forever in 2006.