Sir Henry Howorth, writing in 1898, put himself firmly in the Lappenburg-Kemble tradition by attacking the veracity of the West Saxon annals.

Sir -- We are writing in reference to a recent `` suggestion '' made to the staff of the Public Health Nursing Service of Jersey City ( registered professional nurses with college background and varying experiences ).

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.

The word " photograph " was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς ( phos ), meaning " light ", and γραφή ( graphê ), meaning " drawing, writing ", together meaning " drawing with light ".

He wrote that he was " a faithful student of the Scottish ballads, and had always envied Sir Walter the delight of tracing them out amid their own heather, and of writing them down piecemeal from the lips of aged crones.

Traditionally, English poets employ iambic pentameter when writing sonnets, but not all English sonnets have the same metrical structure: the first sonnet in Sir Philip Sidney's sequence Astrophel and Stella, for example, has 12 syllables: it is iambic hexameters, albeit with a turned first foot in several lines.

It was during this period that he started writing poetry, and, in 1885, Yeats ' first poems, as well as an essay entitled " The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson ", were published in the Dublin University Review.

An Italian, writing in 1600, suggested that she had been born in 1499, while Sir Thomas More's son-in-law, William Roper, indicated a much later date of 1512.

But Sir Charles Hallé was scathing, writing " He thought less of his paintings than his violin playing, which, to say the least of it, was vile ".

Composer Sir Edward Elgar lived at Plas Gwyn in Hereford between 1904 and 1911, writing some of his most famous works during that time.

Beginning in the late 1960s, Baez began writing many of her own songs, beginning with " Sweet Sir Galahad " and " A Song For David ", both songs appearing on her 1970 ( I Live ) One Day at a Time album ; the former song was written about her sister Mimi's second marriage, while the later was a tribute to Harris.

On 4 January 1315, King Edward II of England, writing to King Louis X of France, said that he had heard of the death of ' Sir John de Balliol ' and requested the fealty and homage of Edward Balliol to be given by proxy.

Bacon's innocence having been admitted, he was restored to favour, and replied to a writing by Sir Anthony Browne, who had again asserted the rights of the house of Suffolk to which Lady Catherine belonged.

Sometimes called ' The Great Procrastinator ’, because of his tendency to leave writing leaders until the last minute, Lawson had been City editor for The Sunday Telegraph and Sir Alec Douglas-Home ’ s personal assistant during the 1964 general election.

Some fans have had a rather negative response to Betancourt's writing style and lack of characterization, and consider his work to be more of fan fiction, but Betancourt states that one of his primary motivations for writing the new books was to keep Roger Zelazny's books and stories alive and in print and to prevent them from fading into obscurity, much like how other authors have extended the stories and ongoing popularity of Robert E. Howard's Conan, Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series.

Although he was best known for his original play A Man for All Seasons-a depiction of Sir Thomas More's clash with King Henry VIII over his divorce from Catherine of Aragon-which won awards on the stage and in its film version, most of his writing was screenplays for films or television.

Theophrastus has found many imitators in this kind of writing, notably Joseph Hall ( 1608 ), Sir Thomas Overbury ( 1614 – 16 ), Bishop Earle ( 1628 ), and Jean de La Bruyère ( 1688 ), who also translated the Characters.

In her epistle dedication to Sir Charles Cavendish, her brother in law, Cavendish compares writing poetry to spinning and describes poetry as mental spinning.

As well as poet Percy Bysshe Shelley ( expelled for writing The Necessity of Atheism ) for whom there is a memorial in college University College alumni include a Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, author of the Narnia books C. S. Lewis and a Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Sir V. S. Naipaul.

His poem provided inspiration for numerous later writers, including Sir Thomas Malory and Jorge Luis Borges, and had an impact on medieval history writing in England.

William Blackstone, when writing his Commentaries on the Laws of England, noted in his preface that " of all the earlier schemes for digesting the Laws of England the most natural and scientific, as well as the most comprehensive, appeared to be that of Sir Matthew Hale in his posthumous Analysis of the Law ".

Controversy has also come from other directions, including a Culture Minister ( Kim Howells ) criticising exhibits, a guest of honour ( Madonna ) swearing, a prize judge ( Lynn Barber ) writing in the press, and a speech by Sir Nicholas Serota ( about the purchase of a trustee's work ).

Other novelists writing in the 1950s and later were: Anthony Powell ( 1905-2000 ) whose twelve-volume cycle of novels A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1951-1975 ), is a comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century ; comic novelist Kingsley Amis is best known for his academic satire Lucky Jim ( 1954 ); Nobel Prize laureate William Golding's allegorical novel Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ), explores how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of British schoolboys marooned on a deserted island ; philosopher Iris Murdoch was a prolific writer of novels that deal with such things as sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.

Such speech or writing is sometimes called hyperurbanism, defined by Kingsley Amis as an " indulged desire to be posher than posh ".

" Academic and writer Kingsley Amis, in his exploration of Bond in The James Bond Dossier, considered that this view of Leiter was partly because of Fleming's writing, noting that " Leiter, such a nonentity as a piece of characterization ... he, the American, takes orders from Bond, the Britisher, and that Bond is constantly doing better than he ".

From 1942 the character of much of Larkin's " secret " writing changed, as a result of his friendship with a fellow undergraduate from St John's, Kingsley Amis, who arrived at the university that summer.

Roger Baker, writing in The Times noted that from one angle Colonel Sun is a " neat, not over-inventive thriller, low on sex, high on violence and more than usually improbable "; however, he noted that once the elements of the re-incarnation of Bond and the writing of Kingsley Amis were taken into account, things were different.

Benson goes into considerable detail for each novel including continuation novels by authors Kingsley Amis ( writing as Robert Markham ) and John Gardner.

Kingsley Amis had several motives for writing the Dossier.

And Other Questions ( 1970 ), Kingsley Amis revisits the literary character, and explains why he accepted the commission of writing Colonel Sun ( 1968 ), discusses the challenge of impersonating the writer Ian Fleming, and explores the stylistic and world-view differences among the spy novels of Ian Fleming, John le Carré, and Len Deighton.

" In a 2007 interview, McCartney recalled that he started writing the song after reading in the Daily Mail about an aspiring author, possibly Martin Amis.

Before writing the novel, Amis wrote two other Bond related works, the literary study The James Bond Dossier and the humorous The Book of Bond.

In a 21 May 1967 letter to Philip Larkin, Amis mentioned that he had already finished writing the Bond novel.

Baker thought that with Amis writing the story, " one might, justifiably, have expected a joyous rejuvenation or at least a devastating detour from the Fleming pattern.

Later, after Ian Fleming ’ s death, Amis was commissioned as the first continuation novelist for the James Bond novel series, writing Colonel Sun ( 1968 ) under the pseudonym Robert Markham.

Despite his intellectual respect for the Fleming canon, Amis ’ s way of writing about it, according to his biographer Zachary Leader, ‘.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

The first, termed Proto-Isaiah ( chapters 1 – 39 ), contains the words of the 8th-century BCE prophet with 7th-century BCE expansions ; the second, Deutero-Isaiah ( chapters 40 – 55 ), is the work of a 6th-century BCE author writing near the end of the Babylonian captivity ; and the third, the poetic Trito-Isaiah ( chapters 56 – 66 ), was composed in Jerusalem shortly after the return from exile, probably by multiple authors.

The polycarbonate disc contains a spiral groove, called the " pregroove " ( because it is molded in before data are written to the disc ), to guide the laser beam upon writing and reading information.

In the 1960s, theologian Charles Hartshorne scrupulously examined and rejected both deism and pandeism ( as well as pantheism ) in favor of a conception of God whose characteristics included " absolute perfection in some respects, relative perfection in all others " or " AR ", writing that this theory " is able consistently to embrace all that is positive in either deism or pandeism ", concluding that " panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations ".

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's concert aria, Per Questa Bella Mano, K. 612 for bass, double bass obbligato, and orchestra contains impressive writing for solo double bass of that period.

While historians disagree over the exact authorship of the work, the writing contains clear indications of Allen's style.

Hermann Weyl, a mathematician, said of this testament, " This letter, if judged by the novelty and profundity of ideas it contains, is perhaps the most substantial piece of writing in the whole literature of mankind.

* The Third Policeman and The Dalkey Archive by Flann O ' Brien contains not only quotes from the works of a fictitious Irish philosopher named de Selby, but also has numerous footnotes and references to other fictitious authors writing about de Selby and his books.

Beit Lehi also contains the oldest known Hebrew writing of the word “ Jerusalem ” It's written as the inscription “ I am YHWH thy Lord.

According to the Oxford English Corpus, a database of 21st Century texts that contains everything from academic journal articles to unedited writing and blog entries, contemporary writers opt for the nonstandard ' chords ' instead of ' cords ' 49 % of the time.

The writing of Gombrowicz contains links with existentialism and with structuralism.

" The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association contains the rules for every aspect of writing, especially in the social sciences from determining authorship to constructing a table to avoiding plagiarism and constructing accurate reference citations.

We are fortunate that the writing of saints ' lives in Adomnán's day had not reached the stylised formulas of the High Middle Ages, so that the Life contains a great deal of historically valuable information.

However, in a follow up article in the same publication, others criticized the analysis, including Peter Flory, the U. S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, who began by writing " The essay by Keir Lieber and Daryl Press contains so many errors, on a topic of such gravity, that a Department of Defense response is required to correct the record.

* This site contains an account of the writing of the poem and a facsimile of the author's manuscript.

Seton was an early pioneer of the modern school of animal fiction writing, his most popular work being Wild Animals I Have Known ( 1898 ), which contains the story of his killing of the wolf Lobo.

This inner story contains many plot ideas that Melville had conceived during the early stages of writing Moby Dick, ideas that were originally intended to be used later on in the novel, but as writing progressed these plot ideas eventually proved impossible to fit around the characters that Melville went on to create and develop.

Eanna during period IVa contains the earliest examples of cuneiform writing and therefore the earliest writing in history.

If a mixture contains substances A, B, C & D in the ratio 5: 9: 4: 2 then there are 5 parts of A for every 9 parts of B, 4 parts of C and 2 parts of D. As 5 + 9 + 4 + 2 = 20, the total mixture contains 5 / 20 of A ( 5 parts out of 20 ), 9 / 20 of B, 4 / 20 of C, and 2 / 20 of D. If we divide all numbers by the total and multiply by 100, this is converted to percentages: 25 % A, 45 % B, 20 % C, and 10 % D ( equivalent to writing the ratio as 25: 45: 20: 10 ).

* Sketch story, a piece of writing that is generally shorter than a short story, and contains very little, if any, plot

The HLuwian writing system contains about 500 signs, 225 of which are logograms, and the rest determinatives and syllabograms.

I began writing a novel that contains " Lovelock " as a chapter in the spring of 1992.