Richard M. Davidson, however, points out that " on the basis of the final form of the OT canon, references to Abigail in the biblical accounts indicate two different individuals.

After successfully standing for re-election five times, and becoming Chicago's longest serving mayor, Richard M. Daley announced he would step down at the end of his final term in 2011.

* Las Vegas, the 3rd race of the 2001 season, was noted for the fact that Mike Skinner, Earnhardt's teammate at Richard Childress Racing, took over Earnhardt's slot in the No Bull 5 million dollar eligibility for this race since Earnhardt had qualified for the No Bull 5 prize after his final victory in the 2000 Winston 500 at Talladega.

* 1978: Dylan: Life and Death of a Poet, a BBC Wales film of Thomas ' final two visits to America ; directed by Richard Lewis.

Finally, Ivanhoe and Rowena marry and live a long and happy life together, though the final paragraphs of the book note that Ivanhoe's long service ended with the death of King Richard.

City regulations forbid a general contractor having final authority over the project, so architects and program manager Richard Kahan had to coordinate the wide array of builders, plumbers, electricians, and other workers.

Richard appears to have started to recognise John as his legitimate heir in the final years before his death, but the matter was not clear-cut and medieval law gave little guidance as to how the competing claims should be decided.

His remaining films were Death Hunt ( 1981 ) with Charles Bronson, Gorky Park ( 1983 ), Dog Day ( 1984 ), and The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission ( 1985 ; a sequel with Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Richard Jaeckel picking up where they'd left off despite being 18 years older ); his final appearance was in The Delta Force ( 1986 ) with Chuck Norris.

In mid-January 1199, the two kings met for a final meeting, Richard, standing on the deck of a boat, Philip, standing on the banks of the Seine River.

Richard made some final arrangements on the continent.

This is reflected in Steven Runciman's final verdict of Richard I: " he was a bad son, a bad husband, and a bad king, but a gallant and splendid soldier.

Yet Adorno ’ s work continued with studies of Beethoven and Richard Wagner ( published in 1939 as " Fragments on Wagner "), drafts of which he read to Benjamin during their final meeting, in December on the Italian Riviera.

Old friends and opponents of Humphrey, from Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon to President Carter and Vice-President Walter Mondale paid their final respects.

The play is the final part of a tetralogy, preceded by Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2.

A critically panned film he made about the life of Richard Wagner ( noted for having the only onscreen teaming of Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson in the same scenes ) was shown as a television miniseries in 1983 after failing to achieve a theatrical release in most countries, but Burton enjoyed a personal triumph in the American television miniseries Ellis Island in 1984, receiving a posthumous Emmy Award nomination for his final television performance.

The final fate of Edward IV's legitimate sons, Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, is unknown.

* A contemporary chronicle, the final meeting of King Richard II and the leader of the Peasants ' Revolt, Wat Tyler.

In 1970, several years after his retirement, songwriters Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman got him to sing the title song of the Disney film The Aristocats, which ended up being his final contribution to the film industry.

* Lt. Steve Drumm: Police homicide investigator played by Richard Anderson on the final season of in Perry Mason.

The final Beefheart record, Ice Cream for Crow ( 1982 ), was recorded with Gary Lucas ( who was also Van Vliet's manager ), Jeff Moris Tepper, Richard Snyder and Cliff Martinez.

Gerald Ford became President on August 9, 1974, and served the final 29 months of Richard Nixon's unexpired term.

" Harrison served frequently as Chairman of the Committee of the Whole in the Continental Congress, presided over the final debates on an independence resolution offered by Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee, and presided as well over the final debates and amendments to the Declaration itself.

Sweater worn by Richard during his final season.

The final FY 1970 budget, which Clifford and his staff worked on before they left office after the election of Richard Nixon to the presidency, amounted to $ 75. 5 billion TOA.

But as he remarks in his preface to The Walnut Trees, `` a novel can hardly ever be rewritten '', and `` when this one appears in its final form, the form of the first part will no doubt be radically changed ''.

This is taken from the final act of the graphic novel when Batman does the same thing at the abandoned tenement fire.

* The concluding scene where Batman and Gordon are on top of the police headquarters continues, to an extent, the final page of the graphic novel where newly promoted Jim Gordon waits for Batman to arrive.

Moll Flanders and Defoe's final novel Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress ( 1724 ) are examples of the remarkable way in which Defoe seems to inhabit his fictional ( yet " drawn from life ") characters, not least in that they are women.

* Kathrine Taylor's Address Unknown ( 1938 ) was an anti-Nazi novel in which the final letter is returned as " Address Unknown ", indicating the disappearance of the German character.

K. briefly catches sight of her, or someone who looks similar to her, in the final pages of the novel.

Mitchell and her husband John Marsh, a copy editor by trade, edited the final version of the novel.

Gernsback's second ( and final ) novel, written c. 1958, was not published until 1971.

Whale's final months are the subject of the 1995 novel Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram.

He added the final sentence of the novel, " He never saw Molly again ", at the last minute in a deliberate attempt to prevent himself from ever writing a sequel, but ended up doing precisely that with Count Zero ( 1986 ), a character-focused work set in the Sprawl alluded to in its predecessor.

The final book takes place ( largely ) with a mission to a far off system to discover the Tyrathca ' Sleeping God ' ( which was previously unknown, but learnt of in the first novel ), which was discovered by the Tyrathca when they were travelling the galaxy, looking for new planets to populate.

The first official relaunch novel, The Good That Men Do by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin was published by Pocket Books on February 28, 2007, and gives a different perspective on the events shown in the final episode.

The fourth installment of the novel series is titled The Romulan War: To Brave the Storm, by Michael A. Martin was announced in Star Trek Magazine issue 154, released in trade paperback format on October 25 2011 and is the final novel in The Romulan War series, taking the story to the end of the Romulan War and the decommission of the Enterprise.

* A space elevator is also constructed in the course of Clarke's final novel ( co-written with Frederik Pohl ), The Last Theorem.

Robert B. Parker's 2001 novel Potshot borrows heavily from the end of the movie for the final confrontation between Spenser's group of seven outlaws and the Dell, the antagonists of the story, going so far as to acknowledge it in dialog between characters and having one of them say the line, " We deal in lead, friend.

In the final hunt for Ralph at the end of the novel, Roger is armed with " a stick sharpened at both ends ," indicating his intentions of killing Ralph and offering his head as a sacrifice to the " beast ".

* Suttree in the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name nearly dies of typhoid fever in the final scenes of the novel.

His first poems were published when he was 24 years old, and he was polishing his final novel, The Sundering Flood, at the time of his death.

The final scenes in acts one and four — the scenes with Rodolfo and Mimì — resemble both the play and the novel.

Wilson claims his book was already complete by the time he and Shea read Pynchon's novel ( which went on to win several awards ), but they then went back and made some modifications to the text before its final publication to allude to Pynchon's work.

In the first novel of the series, he is hostile toward Harry and is built up to be the primary antagonist until the final chapters.

He ultimately becomes Headmaster of Hogwarts in the final novel.

The 1995 song Noch koroche dnya (" Night is Shorter than Day ") by the Russian heavy metal band Aria is based on Meursault's encounter with the chaplain in the final scene of the novel.