Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

the fact that American Negroes rioted in the U.N. while Adlai Stevenson was addressing the Assembly shocked and baffled most white Americans.

Stevenson stated, in the course of his address, that the United States was `` against '' colonialism.

It was invented by Robert Stevenson, for use by an 82-ton converted fishing boat, Pharos, which was used as a lightvessel between 1807 and 1810 near to Bell Rock whilst the lighthouse was being constructed.

He served as chairman of the Cartoonists ' Committee in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People program in 1954 ( although Capp had actually supported Adlai Stevenson for president in 1952 and 1956 ), which was organized to promote Savings bonds for the U. S. Treasury.

On September 7, Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Dobrynin assured United States Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson that the USSR was supplying only defensive weapons to Cuba.

The concept of cruising for pleasure was popularized in the nineteenth century, by several widely read authors and books: John MacGregor, 1866, A Thousand Miles in a Rob Roy Canoe ; Robert Louis Stevenson, 1877, An Inland Voyage ; and Nathaniel H. Bishop, 1879, Four Months in a Sneakbox.

Early critics, such as Robert Louis Stevenson admired it saying that the footprint scene in Crusoe was one of the four greatest in English literature and most unforgettable ; more prosaically, Dr. Wesley Vernon has seen the origins of forensic podiatry in this episode.

Queen Margaret University was founded in 1875, as The Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy, by Christian Guthrie Wright and Louisa Stevenson.

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.

He was joined by Yorkshire's Graham Stevenson.

He also spread unsubstantiated rumors that Adlai Stevenson was gay to damage the liberal governor's 1952 presidential campaign.

They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but his surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (; May 22, 1844June 14, 1926 ) was an American painter and printmaker.

This surrender was accepted by the brigadier J. R. Stevenson, who represented Lieutenant General Sturdee, the commander of the First Australian Army, on board the warship HMAS Diamantina Arrangements were made to repatriate from Chuuk the 737 Nauruans who survived Japanese captivity there.

Published in August 2010, the third edition was edited by Angus Stevenson and Christine A. Lindberg.

Psychiatrist Ian Stevenson conducted much of his research into reincarnation during the 1970s, and the second edition of his Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation was published in 1974.

This was such a stinging protest against existing conditions that it resulted in the recall of two officials, and Stevenson feared for a time it would result in his own deportation.

The manufacturer was Mr. Stevenson, whom Mrs. Donoghue sued for damages for negligence.

She could not sue Mr. Stevenson for damages for breach of contract because there was no contract between them.

The Stevenson Building in Third Court was designed by J. J. Stevenson, in the 1880s and was extended in 1905 as part of the College's Quadcentenary.

At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N..

He won by a landslide, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson and ending two decades of the New Deal Coalition.

In 1956, Eisenhower faced Adlai Stevenson again and won by an even larger landslide, with 457 of 531 electoral votes and 57. 6 % of the popular vote.

Rail with half-lap joint, patented by Stevenson 1816

* Imbolc Fire Festival-Marsden, Huddersfield by Gary Stevenson

* 1994 The Illustrated Collector's Guide To Motörhead – Authors: Alan Burridge and Mick Stevenson, published by Collector's Guide Publishing, ISBN 0-9695736-2-6

* Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( by Robert Louis Stevenson )

* Treasure Island ( by Robert Louis Stevenson )

Some 35 per cent of the subjects examined by Stevenson had birthmarks or birth defects.

Ian Stevenson reported that belief in reincarnation is held ( with variations in details ) by adherents of almost all major religions except Christianity and Islam.

Extensive analyses include those by: George Toles, "' Cocoon of Fire: Awakening to Love in Murnau's Sunrise "; Diane Stevenson, " Three Versions of Stella Dallas "; and Jonah Corne's " Gods and Nobodies: Extras, the October Jubilee, and Von Sternberg's The Last Command.

Chapman had two fiancées at the same time on opposite sides of the war, Freda Stevenson in England and Dagmar Lahlum in Norway, each under the protection of and financially assisted by their respective governments.

Wallace statue by D. W. Stevenson on the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

* June 30 – The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson first appears as a serial in Young Folks ; A Boys ' and Girls ' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature.

Subsequently a stream of famous visitors came to view Staffa's wonders including Robert Adam, Sir Walter Scott ( 1810 ), John Keats ( 1818 ), J. M. W. Turner, whose 1830 visit yielded an oil painting exhibited in 1832, William Wordsworth ( 1833 ), Jules Verne ( 1839 ), Alice Liddell ( the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland ) in 1878, David Livingstone ( 1864 ), Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1870 ) and Mendelssohn himself in 1829.

He also brought up recent instances of assassination attempts against sitting Presidents ( including the murder of Mayor of Chicago Anton Cermak in a botched assassination attempt on then-President-elect Franklin Roosevelt ), as well as a recent attack on United Nations ambassador Adlai Stevenson in Dallas, which had resulted in extra security measures being taken for Kennedy's visit to the city.

Immediately after that, at approximately 2: 38 pm EST, Cronkite was remarking on the increased security presence in Dallas for the President's visit for fear of protests, again bringing up the assault on Adlai Stevenson.

During Henry Knott's period of service, in 1813, the great Scottish lighthouse engineer, Robert Stevenson paid a visit to the Forelands as part of one of his famous inspection tours.

Captain Sam Stevenson of the New Zealand Army served as Equerry to the Duke of Cambridge during his 2005 visit to New Zealand.

* 25 October 1891-24 October 1920: Eli Hutchinson Jennings, Jr., ( 1863 – 1920 ) son of Eli, Sr. and Malia ( 1863 – 1920 ) Referred to by Robert Louis Stevenson as " King Jennings " during a visit to the island.