`` I arrived in the United States with the idea of establishing myself there more or less permanently and finding inspiration for new compositions ''.

Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

Algeria has always been a source of inspiration for different painters who tried to immortalize the prodigious diversity of the sites it offers and the profusion of the facets that passes its population, which offers for Orientalists between the 19 < sup > th </ sup > century and the 20 < sup > th </ sup > century, a striking inspiration for a very rich artistic creation like Eugène Delacroix with his famous painting women of Algiers in their apartment or Etienne Dinet or other painters of world fame like Pablo Picasso with his painting women of Algiers, or painters issued from the Algiers school.

Throughout the interwar years, French interest in anthropology often dovetailed with wider cultural movements such as surrealism and primitivism, which drew on ethnography for inspiration.

The story served as the inspiration for a number of science fiction movies.

E. H. Shepard drew on the landscapes of Ashdown Forest as inspiration for many of the illustrations he provided for the Pooh books.

Given the similarities in the two characters ' names, professions, written works and generally dark subject matter, it is likely that Lovecraft's Alhazred provided the main inspiration for al-Hazir.

Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources: Miss Marple was " the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl ".

Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann that the inspiration for the dramatic entry of the horn in the introduction to the last movement of his First Symphony was an alphorn melody he heard while vacationing in the Rigi area of Switzerland.

"), is the inspiration for the text of several pieces of choral music, usually entitled When David Heard ( such as those by Renaissance composers Thomas Tomkins and Thomas Weelkes, or American composers Eric Whitacre, Joshua Shank, and Norman Dinerstein ).

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Although Grothendieck himself never published his work in this area, the proposal became the inspiration for work by other mathematicians and the source of the theory of dessins d ' enfants.

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* 1999 – Rachel Joy Scott, American student, victim of the Columbine High School massacre and inspiration for Rachel's Challenge ( b. 1981 )

Angel-shaped beings appear in ancient Mesopotamian and Greek art and were probably the inspiration for the popular Christian image of angels, a popular subject for Byzantine and European paintings and sculpture.

Salieri's instrumental works have been judged by various critics and scholars to lack the inspiration and innovation found in his writing for the stage.

This simple melodic and harmonic progression had served as an inspiration for many baroque composers, and would be used by later romantic and post-romantic composers.

Roy Clarke said he got the inspiration for this character trait after meeting someone with the surname " Bottom " who insisted it was pronounced " Botome " and another called " Robotham " and styled in " Robotheme ".

Like Kyo, several aspects of Iori, including his surname and abilities, were designed to relate him with the Yamata no Orochi legend, which was the inspiration for the plot.

After immigrating to America, the family's surname was changed from Rabinovitch to " Fuller " possibly by inspiration of a Doctor who arrived in America on the Mayflower.

* Nakayama ( disambiguation ) ( 中山 ), Japanese surname written with the same Chinese characters as " Zhongshan ", and the inspiration for Sun Yatsen's choice of nom de guerre

" The article recounted Capp's days working for an unnamed " benefactor " with a miserly, swinish personality, who Capp claimed was a never-ending source of inspiration when it came time to create a new unregenerate villain for his comic strip.

Drawing inspiration from Paris, Isma ' il environs a city of maidans and wide avenues ; due to financial constraints, only some of them, in the area now composing Downtown Cairo, came to fruition.

) Additional inspiration for GPS came when the Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite, Sputnik in 1957.

Another inspiration came from a totally different kind of source ; the scientific progress at the time in such diverse areas as biology, astronomy, geology, and physics, all contributed to make Lovecraft see the human race seem even more insignificant, powerless, and doomed in a materialistic and mechanical universe.

His last inspiration for general adaptation syndrome ( GAS, a theory of stress ) came from an endocrinological experiment in which he injected mice with extracts of various organs.

The inspiration for PopClips came from a similar program on New Zealand's TVNZ network, Radio with Pictures, which premiered in 1976.

The inspiration for neural networks came from examination of central nervous systems.

The folklorist Sabina Magliocco came to a somewhat different conclusion based upon her ethnographic research of pagans in California, remarking that the majority were " white, middle-class, well-educated urbanites " but that they were united in finding " artistic inspiration " within " folk and indigenous spiritual traditions.

The inspiration for the classic rock-influenced band The Hold Steady came while members Craig Finn and Tad Kubler were watching The Last Waltz.

Part of Markstein's inspiration came from his research into World War II, where he found that some people had been incarcerated in a resort-like prison called Inverlair Lodge.

Further inspiration came from a Danger Man episode called " Colony Three ", in which Drake infiltrates a spy school in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

Although his inspiration came from Germany, he is not much like a German poet, except when he is consciously following Goethe ; his analogy is rather to be found among English poets than his contemporaries.

A new possibility for the inspiration of the unicorn came in 2008 with the discovery of a roe deer in Italy with a single horn.

Much of the inspiration which led Bogdanovich to his cinematic creations came from early viewings of the film Citizen Kane.

Ball's inspiration for the characters came from a thought he had after seeing a " bland, boring, heterosexual couple " who wore matching clothes: " I can't wait for the time when a gay couple can be just as boring.

Another inspiration came from China's economic system, then the largest in the world.

Ghostbusters became a huge success for Aykroyd as a co-creator, co-writer, and one of the lead actors ; the film's inspiration came from Aykroyd's fascination with parapsychology.

" Costume designer Aggie Guerard Rodgers noted that the inspiration for Leia's slave outfit came from the artwork of famed fantasy and science fiction illustrator Frank Frazetta.

" The salon, and the people that came to visit it, provided the inspiration for The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

Hilton is reported to have said that the inspiration for the protagonist, Mr. Chips, came from many sources, including his father, who was the headmaster of Chapel End School.

" Beat " came from underworld slang — the world of hustlers, drug addicts and petty thieves, where Ginsberg and Kerouac sought inspiration.

The inspiration for the comic strip came from Dennis Ketcham, the real life son of Hank Ketcham, who was only four years old when he refused to take a nap and somehow messed up his whole room.

His initiative in this direction was visible as early as the Assizes of Capua ( 1220, issued soon after his coronation in Rome ) but came to fruition in his promulgation of the Constitutions of Melfi ( 1231, also known as Liber Augustalis ), a collection of laws for his realm that was remarkable for its time and was a source of inspiration for a long time after.

Clarke has stated that the inspiration for Fred Dagg came primarily from his uncles who would talk in such a way, using intonation and speech rhythm, to cause laughter without the standard telling of jokes.