The first patent for this kind of tee is dated 1889, and was issued to Scotsmen William Bloxsom and Arthur Douglas.

* 15 September-Captain William Paterson leads a party of Scotsmen in the first attempt to cross the Blue Mountains.

Two Scotsmen, Alexander and Thomas Gimmel, organized the Hampshire and Baltimore Coal Company and opened a mine behind what later became Midland School.

Samuel Stratton of Watertown had bought one of these Scotsmen ; one Alexander Gordon.

14 Scotsmen were sent to trial in Denmark, among them Alexander Ramsay.

Established in 1867 in Calcutta by two Scotsmen, George Stephen Balmer and Alexander Lawrie.

Catherine of Aragon was Regent in England and, on 27 August she issued warrants for the property of all Scotsmen in England to be seized.

The founding Act granted the bank a monopoly on public banking in Scotland for 21 years, permitted the bank's directors to raise a nominal capital of £ 1, 200, 000 pound Scots (£ 100, 000 pound sterling ), gave the Proprietors ( shareholders ) limited liability, and in the final clause ( repealed only in 1920 ) made all foreign-born Proprietors naturalised Scotsmen " to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever ".

The Scots College at Rome did not receive its foundation bull from Clement VIII until 1600, but the request specifically for Scotsmen evidences an early interest in that direction.

Kinnaird played in for Wanderers ) gives a concise description of the style of combination adopted by the club, particularly in the section which describes the second and third goals, After a “ hand ” within thirty yards of the Wanderers ’ lines, Weir got possession, and, successfully charging the English forwards, passed it on to Herriot, who in turn placed it to Campbell, who by a well judged kick dropped the ball just below the bar, thus securing another goal for the Scotsmen in sixteen minutes.

Societies of United Scotsmen had existed from the early 1790s, but it was only upon a delegation of United Irishmen arriving in Scotland to muster support for their cause did the United Scotsmen become more organised and more overtly revolutionary.

The United Scotsmen hoped to get support from the Dutch as well as the French, and there were plans for the Dutch to land in Scotland with some 50, 000 troops and to take over the Scottish Central Belt.

The United Scotsmen still organised a rebellion against the Government in 1797, but despite initial successes for the insurrectionists, Government troops quickly drafted in from England soon quelled the rebellion.

From him he learned for the first time details of the strength and extent of the United Scotsmen, the new revolutionary association which had replaced the Friends of the People.

Of the twelve players who played for the Other Nationalities team two of them were Scotsmen coming from Northern Union clubs, including captain George Frater.

The Fiery cross is the English language term for a piece of wood, such as a baton, that North Europeans, e. g. Scotsmen and Scandinavians, used to send to rally people for things ( assemblies ) for defence or rebellion ( if beacons were not appropriate ).

It was in " The Lady & The Tiger " that we first met the unprincipled cat-burglar with a passion for circuses, robbery and 400-year old Scotsmen, here trying to set up MacLeod so that the Immortal thief she had double crossed, Zachary Blaine, would not take her head.

His association with the comic, which is largely produced by fellow Scotsmen, has never faltered: in 2005, Kennedy designed and produced a brand new strip, Zancudo, written by Simon Spurrier for the Judge Dredd Megazine, and Wagner has written three stories about character Kenny Who ?, an alter-ego for Kennedy, based on Kennedy's early problems getting work at American companies ( as well as making jokes on issues like creator's rights and censorship ).

It was famous for the number and sanctity of its members, among whom were several Scotsmen who had been educated at the universities on the Continent.

Between 1800 and 1808 the earnings of weavers were halved, and in 1812 they petitioned for an increase which was granted by the magistrates, but the employers refused to pay and so the weavers called a strike which lasted for nine weeks with the support of a " National Committee of Scottish Union Societies ", organised in a similar way to the United Scotsmen (" Unions " being area related, not Trade Unions ).

* See Robert Chambers, Eminent Scotsmen, s. v.

In response, King John Balliol summoned all able-bodied Scotsmen to bear arms and gather at Caddonlee by 11 March.

Thousands of Scotsmen also participated in the English colonization even before the two countries were united in 1707.

**: Person A: All Scotsmen enjoy haggis.

**: Person A: Well, all true Scotsmen like haggis.

According to Geoffrey Parker, " Between 1618 and 1640 some 40, 000 Scotsmen – perhaps 15 % of the total adult males in the kingdom – crossed to Europe to fight in the Thirty Years ' War.

The list of the noble dead in the Annals of Ulster includes Irish kings, Norse Gaels, Scotsmen, and Scandinavians.

Wom had some success with his solo LP, When You Find The Girl Of Your Dreams In The Arms Of Some Scotsmen From Hull, but like the other members, soon drifted into obscurity, punctuated only by the making of a 1978 retrospective documentary, All You Need Is Cash.

If it could be proved that a Scottish parliament were desirable ... Scotsmen should support it.

Two Scotsmen, J. O.

They were Scotsmen whose Scottish ancestors had immigrated to Canada and then south to Minnesota.

Prior to naming the territory Spring Valley, it was called Scotland, named after their homeland, by Scotsmen who had settled in the area.

: of sailors and Scotsmen.

*" The Piscatorial Farce of the Stolen Stomach ": Involving several Scotsmen, a digestive organ, and a handful of diamonds.

Edward de Brus has given rise to the perception that there was a strong fellow feeling amongst mediaeval Scotsmen and Irishmen that they had a common enemy in the shape of England.

A life of Fergusson is included in David Irving's Lives of the Scottish Poets, and in Robert Chambers's Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Scotsmen.

This was the prime land ; also many Englishmen and Scotsmen purchased seigneuries ; others were divided equally between male and female offspring ; some were run by the widows of seigneurs as their children grew to adulthood.

In the exchange between the two Scotsmen, Malcolm is clearly in control and forces Macduff to examine and reconcile with himself his own moral code.

Members of the committee include Mrs. Milton Bernet, Mrs. J. Clinton Bowman, Mrs. Rollie W. Bradford, Mrs. Samuel Butler Jr., Mrs. Donald Carr Campbell, Mrs. Douglas Carruthers, Mrs. John C. Davis 3,, Mrs. Cris Dobbins, Mrs. William E. Glass, Mrs. Alfred Hicks 2,, Mrs. Donald Magarrell, Mrs. Willett Moore, Mrs. Myron Neusteter, Mrs. Richard Gibson Smith, Mrs. James S. Sudier 2, and Mrs. Thomas Welborn.

* The cyberpunk novelists William Gibson and Bruce Sterling co-authored a steampunk novel of alternative history titled The Difference Engine in which Babbage's Difference and Analytical Engines became available to Victorian society.

Gibson portrays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England.

* Mel Gibson as William Wallace

According to Gibson, he was inspired by the big screen epics he had loved as a child, such as Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus and William Wyler's The Big Country.

Primary exponents of the cyberpunk field include William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker, and John Shirley.

Of Japan's influence on the genre, William Gibson said, " Modern Japan simply was cyberpunk.

The term was quickly appropriated as a label to be applied to the works of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan and others.

William Gibson with his novel Neuromancer ( 1984 ) is likely the most famous writer connected with the term cyberpunk.

William Gibson would later reveal that upon first viewing the film, he was surprised at how the look of this film matched his vision when he was working on Neuromancer.

The films Johnny Mnemonic and New Rose Hotel, both based upon short stories by William Gibson, flopped commercially and critically.

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

The word " cyberspace " ( from cybernetics and space ) was coined by science fiction novelist and seminal cyberpunk author William Gibson in his 1982 story " Burning Chrome " and popularized by his 1984 novel Neuromancer.

American counterculture exponents like William S. Burroughs ( whose literary influence on Gibson and cyberpunk in general is widely acknowledged ) and Timothy Leary were among the first to extoll the potential of computers and computer networks for individual empowerment.

* William Gibson.

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Cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson credits the film as an influence on his novel Neuromancer.

William Gibson ( who wrote an early script for Alien 3 ) seems particularly fascinated: a minor character in Virtual Light, Lowell, is described as having New York XXIV tattooed across his back, and in Idoru a secondary character, Yamazaki, describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque.

" Its first realization was the 1957 Playhouse 90 teleplay of that title by William Gibson.

* 1948 – William Gibson, American writer

The tone of his books is generally more irreverent and less self-serious than that of previous cyberpunk novels, notably those of William Gibson.

* Node Magazine, a literary project based on the novel Spook Country by William Gibson

Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, a seminal work in the cyberpunk genre and the first winner of the science-fiction " triple crown " — the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award.

A series of critical academic books and articles, however, held in check any appreciable growth of anti-Stratfordism and Oxfordism, most notably The Shakespeare Ciphers Examined ( 1957 ), by William and Elizebeth Friedman, The Poacher from Stratford ( 1958 ), by Frank Wadsworth, Shakespeare and His Betters ( 1958 ), by Reginald Churchill, The Shakespeare Claimants ( 1962 ), by H. N. Gibson, and Shakespeare and His Rivals: A Casebook on the Authorship Controversy ( 1962 ), by George L. McMichael and Edgar M. Glenn.

In the 1980s, cyberpunk authors like William Gibson turned away from the optimism and support for progress of traditional science fiction.