His first act was to storm and sack Peterborough Abbey in 1070, in company with local men and Swein's Danes: his justification is said to have been that he wished to save the Abbey's treasures and relics from the Normans.

Abbey's first novel, Jonathan Troy ( 1954 ), is set entirely in a thinly disguised Indiana, and his novel The Fool's Progress ( 1988 ), which he called his " fat masterpiece ", is an autobiographical account of his growing up in this area and his imagined attempt to return home after a lifetime spent mostly in the desert Southwest.

St Swithun's, Crampmoor, is Romsey Abbey's daughter church.

Abbey's master's thesis explored anarchism and the morality of violence, asking the two questions: " To what extent is the current association between anarchism and violence warranted?

It is often stated that Abbey's works played a significant role in precipitating the creation of Earth First !.

The date of the Abbey's charter, March 29, 1125, is taken as the foundation date, making it the 10th oldest school in England, although there are hints that there may have been a school running in Reading before this.

For the Gang, the enemy is those who would develop the US Southwest — despoiling the land, befouling the air, and destroying Nature and the sacred purity of Abbey's desert world.

* From the Houston Chronicle, " What a thing of beauty is Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang.

The larger is the Abbey's Basilica of St Willibrord, now surrounded by the eighteenth-century abbey ( today a high school ) and is located in the heart of the town's historical centre.

The Abbey's many endowments included the Chapel of St. James and St. Peter, near Shaftesbury, Dorset, and the manor of Blynfield in the parish of St. James, which is known as the ' Manor of Alcester and Bec ', together with a number of other churches and estates.

It is also the memory of Professor Bernard Quatermass grappling with the pulsating giant plant that threatened to destroy the world from its rooting place in the Abbey's nave … The Quatermass Experiment frightened the life out of a vast new generation of television viewers whose sets had been acquired in order to watch the Coronation … Quatermass was one of the first series on British television to make life seem potentially terrifying.

from Edward Abbey's book The Monkey Wrench Gang which is a fictional account of a gang of four individuals who take on a pointless yet deeply symbolic effort to destroy and thus halt the machines of human expansion and putative " progress " in the American Southwest.

George Washington Hayduke is a fictional character in Edward Abbey's novels The Monkey Wrench Gang and Hayduke Lives!

Hayduke is Abbey's codification of the wants, longings, and desires of the average male environmentalist awash in the frustrations of corporate greed and corruption where the voice of the little people remain unheard — until the little people rise up and take direct action because, as Abbey's Monkey Wrench Gang puts it, " somebody has to do it.

It is the name of George Washington Hayduke, a fictional character based on Edward Abbey's friend Doug Peacock in Abbey's cult classics The Monkey Wrench Gang and Hayduke Lives !.

In the Season 2 episode " Ellie ", President Bartlet wistfully says that his middle daughter is " all Abbey's " and hasn't been close to him.

" He is however spoken of disparagingly by the chronicling monk Matthew Paris, of St Albans Abbey, for unfairly denying legaljudgement in the Abbey's favour after a monk had been attacked and robbed by his protégé Geoffrey of Childwick.

An over life-size statue of Sir John Malcolm by Sir Francis Chantrey is in Westminster Abbey's North Transept.

Contemporary accounts include payments for the dismantling and carriage of the Abbey's choir and nave roof, and is believed that the pillars which now separate the Minster's south aisle from the nave came from the Abbey.

Waltham Abbey's nearest railway station is Waltham Cross, which provides a frequent service to London Liverpool Street.

Both the Archbishop of Mainz and the Bishop of Hildesheim claimed authority over the Abbey, including the authority to anoint the Abbey's nuns.

However, he died without issue, and there followed a succession of grants and reversions until Glastonbury Abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII, and the Abbey's lands, including Shepton Mallet, were granted to the Duchy of Cornwall in 1536.

It took a full day, and the Abbey won over the baron, forcing William de Braose to curtail his bridge tolls, give up various encroachments onto the Abbey's lands, including a farmed rabbit warren, a park, 18 burgage plots, a causeway, and a channel to fill his moat, and organise a mass exhumation and transfer of all Bramber's dead to the churchyard of Saint Cuthman's Church in Steyning.

The Abbey's former estates, including Stowe, formed the bishopric's endowment.

In 854, Lüchtringen was first mentioned under the name Lutringi ( 12 different spellings, including Luhtringi and Luchtringi ) in the Corvey Abbey's annals and beginning in 1230 it belonged to the fourth archdeaconate of Höxter-Corvey of the Bishopric of Paderborn.

Clearwater Abbey's presence in the area was not without controversy, including allegations of noisy ceremonies on the property, the discovery nearby of human remains in 1975, the termination of its lease in 1982, and the final forcible removal of members from the property by police and sheriffs.

The various Lords North and their families, including Frederick, Lord North and their royal, literary, and Presidential visitors — James I in 1605, Charles I on 13 July 1643, George IV in 1805, 06 and 08, William IV, Teddy Roosevelt in 1887 where he slept in William IV the Duke of Clarence's bed, Horace Walpole, Henry James, Frederick, Prince of Wales as well as the structure itself, led to the Abbey's designation as a Grade One Listed Building.

Dowling had gained an international reputation with his work at Ireland's national theater, The Abbey Theater, including becoming the Abbey's youngest Artistic Director in its long history.

There was a real person named Earl " Red " Ginter who was part of Abbey's early life and seems to be the inspiration for these characters.

Brother Adam ( born Karl Kehrle in 1898 in Germany, died in 1996 ) was put in charge of the Abbey's beekeeping in 1919, and began extensive breeding work creating the honeybee known as the Buckfast bee.

Desert Solitaire, Abbey's fourth book and first non-fiction work, was published in 1968.

Easily Abbey's most famous fiction work, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the American Southwest, and was so influential that the term " monkeywrench " has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to machines, any sabotage, activism, law-making, or law-breaking to preserve wilderness, wild spaces and ecosystems.

Edward Abbey's first work covering Hayduke was in 1975.

His 1930 work The New Gossoon was so well-received that the Abbey's touring company, The Abbey Theatre Irish Players, brought the play to Broadway for limited runs three times, in 1932, 1934, and 1937.

The term " black sun " was used often in Abbey's work, according to The New West of Edward Abbey by Ann Ronald ( page 177 ).

Vogelin and DeSalius will be characters six years later in Abbey's 1962 work " Fire on the Mountain ", the story of a boy from the East Coast who visits his grandfather's ranch and falls in love with the desert and ranch life just in time to see both destroyed by development.

Good News is Abbey's only work of science fiction.

Attempts to test Darwin's remains at the Westminster Abbey by using modern PCR techniques were met with a refusal by the Abbey's curator.

The royal intervention eased the tensions between the parties by providing that both bishops would anoint Sophie while the anointing of the Abbey's remaining nuns would be left to the Bishop of Hildesheim alone.

Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )

The Abbey's 17th century organ-known as the Milton Organ-was originally made for Magdalen College, Oxford by Robert Dallam.

The Abbey's organ, located in the North Transept was installed in 1858 by Gray & Davison, and completely rebuilt in 1955 by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd, though that restoration's action failed by 1987 and had to be replaced.

Inspired by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Aldo Leopold's land ethic, and Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang, a group of activists composed of environmental activist Dave Foreman, ex-Yippie ( Youth International Party ) Mike Roselle, Wyoming Wilderness Society representatives Bart Koehler and Howie Wolke and Bureau of Land Management employee Ron Kezar pledged, " No Compromise in Defense of Mother Earth!

On 20 August 2005, the Abbey Theatre Advisory Council approved a plan to dissolve the Abbey's owner, the National Theatre Society, and replace it with a company limited by guarantee, the Abbey Theatre Limited.

The grant represented an approximate 43 percent increase in the Abbey's revenues and was the largest grant ever awarded by the Arts Council.

Ecotage was popularized in 1975 by Edward Abbey's book The Monkey Wrench Gang.

The Abbey's kitchen gardens covered an area of, surrounded by high walls with recesses in which braziers could be placed to assist the ripening of fruit.

Harpenden village grew out of Westminster Abbey's gradual clearing of woodland for farming and settlement within its Wheathampstead manor, granted by Edward the Confessor in 1060.

After the Dissolution, two of the Abbey's manors in Wiltshire were sold by the Crown to John Thynne and thereafter descended in his family, who much later became Marquesses of Bath.

Despite the natural wealth of the mountain, it was never characterised as a " National Forest ", as was the case with the neighbouring Parnitha Mountain, largely due to the landholding muniments of the Penteli Abbey since the 16th century, often sold or adopted by local mountaineer graziers working at the Abbey's farm-lands, before the constitution of the modern Greek state ..

Syon Abbey's Tudor Gatepost in marble, on which parts of St Richard Reynolds ' body were placed, was brought by the Sisters with them into exile, and then returned with them to England.

Lynn Abbey's novels are characterized by believably ugly anti-heroes doing the best that they can in incredibly brutal environments.

Because of financial concerns, the Abbey's chapel was not completed as originally envisioned by the architect.

In the spring of 1894, she returned to London to play Betta in The Queen of Brilliants by Jacques Offenbach and then played the same role in the New York production at Abbey's Theatre.

She remained at Abbey's, playing several roles, but when that theatre shut down in 1896, she played in other Broadway houses in more operettas by Offenbach ( such as The Princess of Trebizonde and many others ), Victor Herbert and others, such as the Erminie ( at the Casino Theatre ) in 1899.