Occasionally gay young blades would write vividly to boon companions at home about their amorous exploits in Richmond, Petersburg, Washington, or Nashville.

It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama, with a plot that revolves around the exploits of a young man named Harold ( played by Bud Cort ) intrigued with death.

Wallace's year of birth can only be guessed at, although he was probably a relatively young man at the time of his military exploits and death.

George Borrow disapproved of the veneer of respectability in Pritchard's book: " Its grand fault is endeavouring to invest Twm Shon ( a name Borrow spells with varying consistency ) with a character of honesty, and to make his exploits appear rather those of a wild young waggish fellow than of a robber.

In the five years of his conquests and administration in Bengal, the young man had crowded together a succession of exploits which led Lord Macaulay, in what that historian termed his " flashy " essay on the subject, to compare him to Napoleon Bonaparte, declaring that " gave peace, security, prosperity and such liberty as the case allowed of to millions of Indians, who had for centuries been the prey of oppression, while Napoleon's career of conquest was inspired only by personal ambition, and the absolutism he established vanished with his fall.

The aesthetic of the bishōnen was recorded in Lady Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji, written in about the year 1000 A. D. Genji concerns the exploits and romances of a young prince, the son of an emperor and beloved concubine, who is not in line to inherit the throne, and follows his intrigues through the court as he comes of age.

He received a Huguenot education and the usual training of a young noble of the time, but physical infirmity, and particularly an impediment of speech ( which he never lost ), hampered his progress, though he showed a marked partiality for history and geography, and especial admiration of the exploits of Alexander the Great and Caesar.

By the later 14th century, the term became romanticized for the ideal of the young nobleman seeking to prove himself in honourable exploits, the knight-errant, which among other things encompassed the pas d ' armes, including the joust.

The plot of the first and third books focus on Daniel Waterhouse's exploits as a natural philosopher ( that is, an early-modern scientist ) and friend to the young Isaac Newton and his later observations of English politics and religion, respectively.

Seneca especially was concerned that his young student would not be satisfied with his wife, Octavia, and might indulge in risky sexual exploits.

Made in 1931, the comedy film was a fictional account of the skiing exploits of a young village girl, played by Riefenstahl, and her attempts to master the sport of skiing and ski-jumping aided by the local ski expert Hannes Schneider.

After the murder of the young Dolnikov, he reveals to Cath that he was aware of his true identity, along with his exploits concerning the Irish incident and his impersonation of Whitney and offers him to work with the British government for the upcoming European crisis.

* Kovindiyar Ilambagam relates to the exploits of young Jivakan ; his bravery detailed when he attacks the gang of freebooters who loot the city ; his getting married to Kovindeyar, the daughter of a citizen in the city named Pasukavalam who gets impressed by his bravery.

He founded Torch Bearers, a non-profit organization aimed at educating young people about Canadian military exploits.

The Choirboys is a tragicomic parody about the effects of urban police work on young officers, seen through the exploits of a group of Los Angeles police officers in the Wilshire Division of the Los Angeles Police Department.

The General Secretary of the Hergé Foundation in Belgium has admitted that it is not too hard to imagine how a young George Rémi, better known as Hergé, could have been inspired by the well-publicized exploits of these two friends, Sexé with his trips and documentaries and Milhoux with his triumphs and records, to create the characters of Tintin the famous travelling reporter, and his faithful companion Milou ( Snowy ).

Moving in a non-linear fashion, the movie follows the exploits of a group of young 20-something rich kids who are plotting a kidnapping in order to save the sister of one of the friends.

The book and series focused on the exploits of Francis, an experienced Army mule, and Peter Stirling, the young soldier whom he befriends ( and stays with through civilian life and then back into the military ).

Voltes V narrates the heroic exploits of the young robot pilots known as The Voltes Team and their trials against alien invaders from the planet Boazan.

The Comenius ( Active Tourist ) Project acknowledges that young people use a vast range of mobile devices from mobile phones through to music players and PDA's, but instead of banning them from school, the project exploits the enormous educational and communicational potential of these devices.

( Hopfgartner conceals essential truths not only about his complicity with atrocity, and not only about the authorship of articles signed by him but written by his assistant: Behind the door of his office at Yale, the lecherous professor is a sexual predator who exploits the vulnerability of young women in his classes.

BLACK EMPEROR ) is a 1976 Japanese black-and-white 16 mm documentary film, 90 minutes long, by director Mitsuo Yanagimachi, which follows the exploits of young Japanese motorcyclists, the Black Emperors.

Among his early exploits was his kidnapping of a young girl for ransom ; some versions give his subsequent capture as the impetus for joining the navy.

It revolves around the exploits of a young boy, the eponymous hero, his pet dog, Razzle, and his eccentric family members: Mam and Dad, older sister Rita and older brothers Albert and Humph ( Humphrey ).

Erwin Rommel, who, as a junior officer, won the Pour le Mérite for his exploits in the battle, often bemoaned the demands placed upon his " poorly fed troops ".

Stefan Kieniewicz in a more critical treatment in the Polish Biographical Dictionary notes that a lot of her exploits are poorly documented, and it is not always possible to separate legend from facts.

Arkle, rated the greatest steeplechaser of all time, was bred and trained in Ireland and became a national hero through his exploits.

The books describe the exploits of a 27th ( Penal ) Panzer Regiment composed of expendable soldiers-sentenced criminals, court-martialed soldiers and political undesirables.

On one of his exploits, he and his soldiers took rest in the ashram of Rishi Vasistha.

Such stories do not narrate real battles or exploits of noteworthy military people, being instead tragic stories of unknown soldiers, made up by the author.

A thousand of our soldiers would be enough to subdue all Asia from Lake Baykal to the Himalayas .... Here the exploits of Cortez can still be repeated.

Toy soldiers became widespread during the 18th century, inspired by the military exploits of Frederick the Great.

" Although the investigation tarnished the final years of Wooldridge's career, it could not diminish his heroic wartime exploits or his arduous labours on behalf of enlisted soldiers and noncommissioned officers as the first Sergeant Major of the Army.

Many of the stories were actual historical accounts of battles and the biographies and exploits of highly decorated soldiers.

His exploits as commander of the 28th Battalion were recognised with an award of the Distinguished Service Order, which was gazetted in 1944.

Its exploits during its eight-month cruise through the Mediterranean were a major morale booster for the Ottomans.

The exploits of the Ottoman admiral Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha, who commanded the Ottoman Navy during Suleiman's reign, led to a number of military victories over Christian navies.

He was also portrayed by actor Tom Berenger in 1997 for the TNT movie Rough Riders, a made-for-cable film about his exploits during the Spanish – American War in Cuba.

Homer's Iliad is the most expansive source for Menelaus ' exploits during the Trojan War.

Many Expanded Universe novels detail Obi-Wan's exploits before, during, and after the six films.

The original novelette " Ender's Game " provides a small snapshot of Ender's experiences in Battle School and Command School ; the full-length novel encompasses more of Ender's life before, during, and after the war, and also contains some chapters describing the political exploits of his older siblings back on Earth.

Notable exploits during the campaign were the seizure of the Dagu Forts commanding the approaches to Tianjin, and the boarding and capture of four Chinese destroyers by Roger Keyes.

Their exploits captured the attention of the American public during the " public enemy era " between 1931 and 1934.

The first four are concerned with the history of the Danes before Christ, the next four with the history after Christ, books 9-12 Christian Denmark and 13-16 promote Lund and the exploits early before and during Saxo's own lifetime.

The screenplay by Coward was inspired by the exploits of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was in command of the destroyer HMS Kelly when it was sunk during the Battle of Crete.

Several weeks later, Warner received a phone call from the new chief executive's father, Joseph P. Kennedy, and within a short time, Warner Bros. purchased the film rights for Robert Donovan's book, PT 109, a bestseller concerning John Kennedy's exploits during World War II.

After the war, she returned to the United States, toured the western states recounting her exploits as a spy during the war.

Buffalo Bill and his exploits became well known in American culture and he was portrayed in many literary works, television shows, and movies, especially during the 1950s and 1960s, when they were most popular.

Additionally, many of the lyrics are set within the framework of recognizable history, with a cast of characters including historical barbarians, gladiators, corsairs and privateers, archaeologists and occult investigators whose exploits take place during recorded history from Roman times through the age of Reason, the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Entering the army at the age of fourteen as proprietary colonel of an infantry regiment, he shared in almost all the exploits of the French arms during the reign of Louis XIII.

The inscription does not state in which year these events took place, but is most likely to refer to Scipio's exploits during his consulship, the pinnacle of his political career.

Mesrine repeatedly escaped from prison and made international headlines during a final period as a fugitive when his exploits included trying to kidnap a judge who had sentenced him.

In January 2009, during the Gaza War, Kaufman gave a speech to the House of Commons where he stated: " The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the continuing guilt from Gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.

Historians have noted that Silver's account of his life experiences during the first half of the 18th century is at variance with the known history of the historical figures he mentions, and that Silver is either exaggerating the range and scope of his exploits for the benefit of Jim Hawkins or for potential pirates he is trying to recruit, or his memory is faulty.

Much of the story during the first half of the 1970s was driven by Stanley Norris ' 1971 murder and the ensuing trial, as well as the exploits of villainesses Charlette Waring and Kit Vested.

From early December 1940 to February 1941, during Operation Compass, the exploits of the Western Desert Force earned a parody of Winston Churchill's famous quote, " Never has so much been owed by so many, to so few.

Sisko's exploits continue during the Dominion's invasion of the Alpha Quadrant, eventually working alongside Vice Admiral William Ross to help plan massive actions against the Dominion and their Cardassian and Breen allies.

His most well-known military exploits took place in the West Indies during the American War of Independence, where he was involved in the French capture of a number of British possessions.

In the United States, Byng's exploits during World War I were commemorated near the town of Ada, Oklahoma, when a post office and power plant were in 1917 named after him, leading to the later emergence of the town of Byng.