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In the northern part of the town, among the first residents were Andrew Smith, Martinus Smith, Isaac Root, Henry Stupplebeen, John Stupplebeen, Godfrey Wood and Samuel Hammond.
* " The Vacant Chair " ( w. Henry S. Washburne m. George Frederick Root )-Byron G. Harlan on Edison
* " The Vacant Chair ", w. Henry S. Washburne m. George Frederick Root
* William Donaldson ( creator of Henry Root )
He was the second cousin twice removed of Henry Luce, through Elihu Root ( 1772 – 1843 ).
Architects whose names are associated with the Chicago School include Henry Hobson Richardson, Dankmar Adler, Daniel Burnham, William Holabird, William LeBaron Jenney, Martin Roche, John Root, Solon S. Beman, and Louis Sullivan.
Henry Root is the creation of writer William Donaldson who wrote to numerous public figures with unusual or outlandish questions and requests.
The letters were published as The Henry Root Letters and The Further Letters of Henry Root and a compilation volume, The Complete Henry Root Letters.
* Henry Root
* Henry Root
A film adaptation of The Robber Bride, starring Mary-Louise Parker as Zenia, Wendy Crewson as Roz, Greg Bryk as Henry, Shawn Doyle as John, Susan Lynch as Charis, Amanda Root as Tony, Tatiana Maslany as Augusta and Brandon Firla as West, aired on CBC Television in January 2007 and the Oxygen Network in March 2007.
In 1911, Secretary Henry L. Stimson and Major General Leonard Wood, his chief of staff, revived the Root reforms.
Contributors to a 360-page book published by Roycrofters and titled In Memoriam: Elbert and Alice Hubbard included such luminaries as meat-packing magnate J. Ogden Armour, business theorist and Babson College founder Roger Babson, botanist and horticulturalist Luther Burbank, seed-company founder W. Atlee Burpee, ketchup magnate Henry J. Heinz, National Park Service founder Franklin Knight Lane, success writer Orison Swett Marden, inventor of the modern comic strip Richard F. Outcault, poet James Whitcomb Riley, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elihu Root, evangelist Billy Sunday, political leader Booker T. Washington, and poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
General Leonard Wood ( still on active duty after serving a term as Chief of Staff of the Army ), ex-president Theodore Roosevelt, and former secretaries of war Elihu Root and Henry Stimson were the driving forces behind the Preparedness Movement, along with many of the nation's most prominent bankers, industrialists, lawyers and scions of prominent families.
The American representatives were Elihu Root, Henry Cabot Lodge and George Turner ; Sir Louis Jetté and Sir Allen Bristol Aylesworth represented Canada, and Lord Alverstone was the British representative.

Henry and character
Aeneas is also a titular character in Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas ( c. 1688 ), and one of the principal roles in Hector Berlioz ' opera Les Troyens ( c. 1857 ).
* Lord Abergavenny is a character in William Shakespeare's play Henry VIII.
In response to the question “ Which side does Abner part his hair on ?," Capp would answer, “ Both .” Capp said he finally found the right " look " for Li ' l Abner with Henry Fonda's character Dave Tolliver, in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine ( 1936 ).
Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).
* Case ( Henry Dorsett Case ), fictional character in Neuromancer
* Henry Cortez, a character in the Millennium series of novels by Stieg Larsson.
Similarly, while having several characters as students in a class taught by Henry Kissinger, the dialogue made up for Kissinger would also come from “ off-panel ” ( although Kissinger had earlier appeared as a character with his face shown in a 1972 series of strips in which he met Mark Slackmeyer while the latter was on a trip to Washington ).
A point of interest is that it is probably Daniel Jones ( and not as is often thought Henry Sweet ) who provided George Bernard Shaw with the basis for his fictional character Henry Higgins in " Pygmalion ".
In Act II, Scene III of Henry V, his death is described by the character " Hostess ", possibly the Mistress Quickly of Henry IV, who describes his body in terms that parody Plato's description of the death of Socrates.
However, many stage and film adaptations have seen it necessary to include Falstaff for the insight he provides into King Henry V's character.
A sampler of the book has indicated some inspiration from Charles Dickens life and literature, but it also contains a character called Henry Mayhew: a gentleman who concerns himself with the well-being of the poor, even going so far as to take people in to his home to nurse and feed them on some occasions.
One of the possible influences for the Kurtz character was Henry Morton Stanley of " Dr. Livingstone, I presume " fame, as he was a principal explorer of " The Dark Heart of Africa ", particularly the Congo.
Horatio ( character ) | Horatio, Marcellus, Hamlet, and the Ghost ( Artist: Henry Fuseli 1798 )
Henry returned to public attention as a character in Richard Wagner's opera, Lohengrin ( 1850 ), trying to gain the support of the Brabantian nobles against the Magyars.
Scholars have identified a gay sensibility suffused through the film, especially a camp sensibility, particularly embodied in the character of Pretorius ( Thesiger ) and his relationship with Henry Frankenstein ( Clive ).
Similarly, the most popular Arthurian tale throughout this period seems to have been that of Tom Thumb, which was told first through chapbooks and later through the political plays of Henry Fielding ; although the action is clearly set in Arthurian Britain, the treatment is humorous and Arthur appears as a primarily comedic version of his romance character.
His detractors, among them Henry James, deplored his arbitrary word changes such as " would have " for " should have " in the speech at Lady Macbeth's death, and also his " neurasthenic " and " finicky " approach to the character.
He is also a character in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 and was the hero of James Hill's UK TV movie Owain, Prince of Wales, broadcast in 1983 in the early days of Channel 4 / S4C.
Shakespeare omitted the character of the traitorous Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford in The Life and Death of King John, and the character of the 12th Earl of Oxford is given a much more prominent role in Henry V than his limited involvement in the actual history of the times would allow.
Even a modern editor of Father and Son has rejected this portrait of Philip Henry Gosse on the grounds that his " writings reveal a genuinely sweet character.
Shakespeare uses the image of Proteus to establish the character of his great royal villain Richard III in the play Henry VI, Part Three, in which the future usurper boasts:
* In Charles Bukowski's 1978 novel Women, the main character, Henry Chinaski, vomits on Peter Stuyvesant's burial vault cover before a poetry reading at St. Mark's Church.

Henry and inspired
The incident inspired Henry David Thoreau, whose similar protest led to a night in jail and his essay " Civil Disobedience ".
Henry de Montherlant's French drama La Reine morte was inspired by the conflict between King Afonso and Pedro and Inês.
Memento ( 2000 ) a film inspired by the case of Henry Molaison ( H. M .).
Their story was considered " the epitome of virtuous romantic friendship " and inspired poetry by Anna Seward and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
This inspired Henry Trengrouse to invent the rocket fired line, later to become the Breeches buoy.
Henry David Thoreau's classic essay Civil Disobedience ( Thoreau ) | Civil Disobedience inspired Martin Luther King and many other activists.
The earliest Arts and Crafts activity in continental Europe was in Belgium in about 1890, where the English style inspired artists and architects including Gabriel Van Dievoet, Gustave Serrurier-Bovy, Henry Van de Velde and a group known as La Libre Esthétique ( Free Aesthetic ).
Widely exhibited in Europe, the Arts and Crafts style's simplicity inspired designers like Henry van de Velde and styles such as Art Nouveau, the Dutch De Stijl group, Vienna Secession, and eventually the Bauhaus style.
Although Pamela and the title heroine were popular and gave a proper model for how women should act, they inspired " a storm of anti-Pamelas " ( like Henry Fielding's Shamela and Joseph Andrews ) because the character " perfectly played her part ".
Several characters are based on real country music figures: Henry Gibson's Haven Hamilton is a composite of Roy Acuff, Hank Snow, and Porter Wagoner ; Ronee Blakely's Barbara Jean is based on Loretta Lynn ; the black country singer Tommy Brown ( played by Timothy Brown ) is based on Charley Pride ; and the feuding folk trio is based on Peter, Paul and Mary ; within the trio, the married couple of Bill and Mary were inspired by Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, who later became Starland Vocal Band .< ref >
It is commonly believed that the name Blofeld was inspired by the English cricket commentator Henry Blofeld's father, with whom Fleming went to school.
Although he never visited the site, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was inspired to write of the area in the poem, " Song of Hiawatha ".
The city was either named after Henry Clay's estate Ashland or by an act of the General Assembly of Tennessee in 1859, when the city was incorporated, who were inspired by the ash trees in the area.
Captain Henry Pittman, who lived in Haysville, had visited Washington, D. C. and Arlington National Cemetery and was inspired to call the town Arlington.
* Henry Christophe inspired Eugene O ' Neill's fictional character The Emperor Jones, the subject of his play by the same name.
JP Miller found his title in the 1896 poem " Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam " by the English writer Ernest Dowson ( 1867 – 1900 ): It also inspired the title song devised by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer.
In 2010, David Warner appeared in the BBC Radio 4 play ' Plantagenet-What Is A Man ' by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles, chronicling the early years of the Plantagenet dynasty, as King Henry II.
The boat sank, and while Henry made an improved model, he did not appear to have much success, though he may have inspired others.
:: Reverse: Design inspired by a Holbein painting of King Henry VIII, set within a tressure and surrounded by the inscription
Stoppard's phrase may have been inspired by the 1980s BBC comedy series " Three of a Kind ", starring Tracey Ullman, Lenny Henry and David Copperfield, which featured a recurring sketch entitled " Brideshead Regurgitated ", with Henry in the role of Charles Ryder.
Henry Holiday's Dante meets Beatrice at Ponte Santa Trinita is inspired by La Vita Nuova ( Beatrice Portinari | Beatrice is in white ).
When bombarded with questions from our group on what inspired his thinking, he just laughed and said he learned it all from Henry Ford's book.
While in high school, Mitsuda rediscovered music, inspired by Vangelis ' Blade Runner and Henry Mancini's The Pink Panther film scores.
In 1992 after The Death of Superman, DC Comics introduced the character Steel as a man who was inspired by the legend of John Henry.

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