I leave out of account the question of the best interests of the children, the question of what their best interests really are.

One of the best known poems about the battle is Casabianca, which was written by Felicia Dorothea Hemans in 1826 and describes a fictional account of the death of Captain Casabianca's son on Orient.

On his account, the agent should choose the sort of life that will, on the whole, produce the best overall effects.

Second, Robinson appeals to the critical principle, widely applied in textual study, that the account is most likely to be original that best explains the other variants.

The Daily Telegraph wrote, " The composer has risen to his opportunity, and we are disposed to account Iolanthe his best effort in all the Gilbertian series.

Modern historians regard the chronology as uncertain but, according to the ancient account, these predecessors included for example Dionysius of Miletus, Charon of Lampsacus, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Xanthus of Lydia and, the best attested of them all, Hecataeus of Miletus.

Apart from Legends of the Jews, perhaps his best known scholarly work was his Geonica ( 1909 ), an account of the Babylonian Geonim containing lengthy extracts from their responsa, as discovered in the form of fragments in the Cairo Genizah.

Simple rigid-body mechanics do not give the best theory ; one has to account for deformations of the solid Earth.

( Has the best account of the erotic subculture of Vienna at the time ).

The goal in these problems is to find the move that provides the best chance of a win, taking into account all possible moves of the opponent ( s ).

Maximum theoretical throughput is more accurately reported to take into account format and specification overhead with best case assumptions.

A detailed account of the abbey at this date exists in the Chronica monasterii Cassinensis by Leo of Ostia and Amatus of Monte Cassino gives us our best source on the early Normans in the south.

Though the noise level of 16-bit audio systems ( such as CD players ) is commonly quoted ( on the basis of calculations that take no account of subjective effect ) as − 96 dB relative to FS ( full scale ), the best 468-weighted results are in the region of − 68 dB relative to Alignment Level ( commonly defined as 18 dB below FS ) i. e. − 86 dB relative to FS.

The impression produced by Eck upon his auditors during that momentous time may be best learned from the account of the humanist Peter of Moselle, who described him as tall, stout, and squarely built.

Stated simply, Amy and Phil are in Nash equilibrium if Amy is making the best decision she can, taking into account Phil's decision, and Phil is making the best decision he can, taking into account Amy's decision.

Likewise, a group of players are in Nash equilibrium if each one is making the best decision that he or she can, taking into account the decisions of the others.

The best known account by one of the Other Ranks is Old Soldiers Never Die by Frank Richards DCM, MM.

Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, her account of living in Kenya, and one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into highly acclaimed, Academy Award-winning motion pictures.

Vasari's account of the Mona Lisa comes from his biography of Leonardo published in 1550, 31 years after the artist's death, and which has long been the best known source of information on the provenance of the work and identity of the sitter.

Aristeus (" the best ") was a cult title in many places: Boeotia, Arcadia, Ceos, Sicily, Sardinia, Thessaly, and Macedonia ; consequently a set of " travels " was imposed, connecting his epiphanies in order to account for these widespread manifestations.

She is best known from the account given by the Roman poet Virgil in his Aeneid.

His younger brother Elliot Caplin also became a comic strip creator, best known for co-creating the soap opera strip The Heart of Juliet Jones with artist Stan Drake, and conceiving the comic strip character Broom-Hilda with cartoonist Russell Myers.

She is best known for playing the title character in the Fox comedy-drama series Ally McBeal for which she won a Golden Globe Award.

It was as the last character in Love for Love that Sir Joshua Reynolds painted his best portrait of her.

He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones.

He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, the central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show ( 1951 – 60 ).

Derek Elley of Variety described the film as " playful and sporty ," saying that this was Dunst's best performance to date: " Believable as both a spoiled ingenue and a lover to two very different men, Dunst endows a potentially lightweight character with considerable depth and sympathy.

In the 2002 superhero film Spider-Man, the most successful film of her career to date, Dunst played Mary Jane Watson, the best friend and love interest of the title character, played by Tobey Maguire.

Anderson is best remembered as a film maker for his " Mick Travis trilogy ", all of which star Malcolm McDowell as the title character: If .... ( 1968 ), a satire on public schools ; O Lucky Man!

As an actor, he is best known for portraying the titular role in the CBS television series The Incredible Hulk and for voicing the character in subsequent animated and computer-generated incarnations.

The greatest popularity, however, was achieved by a 1957 comedy about a testy, ill-tempered character nicknamed Patate and a 1962 comic mystery L ' Idiote Idiot, best known in America as the basis for the play and film A Shot in the Dark.

The best summary of his character as a man and a statesman, by Marcus Velleius Paterculus, describes him as " of sleepless vigilance in critical emergencies, far-seeing and knowing how to act, but in his relaxation from business more luxurious and effeminate than a woman.

" Patinkin found his studies a huge asset in The Princess Bride, playing the role of the best swordsman in the country, short of the main character, and part of his role included proficiency in fencing at a professional level.

The character is best described as an amalgam of Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon, who abrogates civil liberties and human rights through positing a conspiracy theory centered around a ( presumably ) fictitious subversive organization known as " Aramchek ".

Isocrates believed that practice in speaking publicly about noble themes and important questions would function to improve the character of both speaker and audience while also offering the best service to a city.

In the English-speaking world, Vlad is best known for the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for serving as the primary inspiration for the vampire main character in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.

He is probably best known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.

Connery is best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983 ( six Eon Productions films and the non-canonical Thunderball remake, Never Say Never Again ).

He said: " When I got married my best man was Brent ( Spiner, who portrayed the ST: TNG character Lieutenant Commander Data ) and my groomsmen were Michael ( Dorn, Lieutenant Worf ) and Jonathan ( Frakes, Commander Riker ) and Patrick ( Stewart, Captain Picard ).

Ashbless is, however, best known in his incarnation as a 19th century poet, in which guise he appears in Powers ' The Anubis Gates ( 1983 ) and as a lesser character in Blaylock's The Digging Leviathan ( 1984 ).

* October 16 – Shirley Booth, American actress best known for playing the title character in the television series Hazel ( b. 1898 )

She usually highlighted at least one strong secondary character who faced discrimination ethnically or for other reasons ; through this technique, Ferber demonstrated her belief that people are people and that the not-so-pretty persons have the best character.

Zanni or Zani is a character type of Commedia dell ' arte best known as an astute servant and trickster.

Despite historians ' best efforts to find in it some permanence of character, the exact nature of the witenagemot remains " essentially vague, fluctuating, and incoherent.

Christopher Lee, who has appeared in 275 motion pictures, considers Lord Summerisle his best character, and The Wicker Man his best film.