In The Affair, a small group of dons sets out to correct a possible injustice: they must convince the rest of the college to re-open an investigation into scientific fraud.

Earlier, Henry Bauer challenged the traditional view that the Velikovsky Affair illustrated the resistance of scientists to new ideas by pointing out " the nature and validity of Velikovsky's claims must be considered before one decides that the Affair can illuminate the reception of new ideas in science ..."

The XYZ Affair originated with a report distributed by Adams where alleged French agents were identified by the letters X, Y, and Z who informed the delegation a bribe must be paid before the diplomats could meet with the foreign minister, and the resulting scandal increased popular support in the country for a war with France.

Everybody's pal at SHADO, Freeman takes a sardonic attitude towards some of the things Straker and SHADO must do to survive, and once submitted his resignation in protest over a decision (" Computer Affair ").

With The Mysterious Affair at Styles and this volume to her credit ( to say nothing of others ) Miss Christie must be reckoned in the first rank of the detective story writers.

It was here, on 16 July 1916, that he again met his lifelong friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, and solved the first of his cases to be published: The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

Some days after that meeting, the delegation was approached by three French agents ( at first identified as " X ", " Y ", and " Z " in published papers, leading the controversy to be called the " XYZ Affair ") who demanded substantial bribes from the commissioners before negotiations could continue.

Military engineers would be transferred to the Regional Development Ministry, said Home Affair Minister Josefa Vosanibola, and the reduction of the Military forces would coincide with an increase in the numbers of the police force.

Between the bloodless Aroostook War and the Caroline Affair, relations with Britain and its colonies in Canada also proved to be strained.

Lucy Parsons, in particular, was a veteran anarchist union organizer in Chicago from a previous generation, having participated in the struggle for the 8-hour day in Chicago and subsequent series of events which came to be known as the Haymarket Affair in 1886.

* In The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1999 film ), the title character is said to be in possession of " an ornament worn by Frederick Barbarossa at his coronation in 1152.

Operation Susannah and the Lavon Affair turned out to be disastrous for Israel in several ways:

The roots of both the Tour de France bicycle race and the daily sporting newspaper L ' Auto ( now L ' Équipe ) can be traced to the Dreyfus Affair.

In 1314, the daughters-in-law of Philip IV, Margaret of Burgundy ( wife of Louis X ) and Blanche of Burgundy ( wife of Charles IV ) were accused of adultery, and their alleged lovers ( Phillipe d ' Aunay and Gauthier d ' Aunay ) tortured, flayed and executed in what has come to be known as the Tour de Nesle Affair ().

Another promising venture seemed to be what has become known as the " Brest Affair.

In what was to be called the Gaspée Affair, local patriots boarded HMS Gaspée, a revenue cutter charged with enforcing the Stamp Act 1765 and Townshend Acts in Narragansett Bay, where smuggling was common.

The American overthrow of the Hudson Austin government in Grenada in 1983 can also be viewed in the same light, as can the U. S. support of the Contras insurgency in Nicaragua ( leading to the Iran-Contra Affair ) and the United States embargo against Cuba.

The Conservative Party had, however, been suffering a decline in popularity for some time before the Profumo Affair, which could be traced back to the failed application to join the European common market and the Night of the Long Knives in July 1962, which had seen Macmillan dismiss seven members of his cabinet in an attempt to restore the government's popularity.

He was prosecuted in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace which involved Marie Antoinette and Prince Louis de Rohan, and was held in the Bastille for nine months but finally acquitted, when no evidence could be found connecting him to the affair.

" For the next several years, she turned down virtually all film offers, the two exceptions being Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair ( 1948 ), in which she played a congresswoman and rival of Marlene Dietrich, and as a homesteader's wife in the classic Western Shane ( 1953 ), which turned out to be the biggest box-office hit of her career.

The only woman character of importance is Bianca Castafiore, who is portrayed to be foolish and nearly oblivious to all negative reactions to her behaviour – though she does show loyalty, presence of mind and quick wit when hiding Tintin and Haddock from Colonel Sponsz in The Calculus Affair.

After being ordered to fire warning shots from her 50 calibre machinegun to make the boat turn back she saw it beginning to break up and sink with a father on board holding out his young daughter that she might be saved ( see Children Overboard Affair ).

On the second occasion, which took place in 1925 and came to be known as the King-Byng Affair, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, facing a non-confidence motion in the Commons chamber, advised the governor general, the Viscount Byng of Vimy, to dissolve the new parliament, but Byng refused.

To " break the will of their domestic opponents and reaffirm their autonomy vis-à-vis their foreign allies " hundreds of pro-Soviet, party moderates, military officers, and intelligentsia were arrested on 27 July 1967, during what came to be called the Revisionist Anti-Party Affair.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles later made publishing history by being one of the first ten books to be published by Penguin Books when they were launched on July 30, 1935.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles was the only first edition of Christie's to be published by The Bodley Head, which carried such a blurb on its dustwrapper.

In two of the books in which he appears — The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The ABC Murders — Hastings plays a prominent role in the resolution of the mystery, with a casual observation he makes at one point in the novel leading Poirot to realise the guilty party: By mentioning that Poirot had to straighten some spill holders and ornaments in Styles, he prompts Poirot to realise that someone had moved them, thus allowing Poirot to discover a crucial piece of evidence, and when he suggests that an incorrectly addressed letter revealing the latest crime in ABC Murders was addressed that way on purpose, Poirot realises that the letter had indeed been wrongly addressed deliberately so that it would not be received until after the murderer had committed his crime, revealing that the murderer had attached greater importance to that particular murder, and wanted to be certain that it was committed.

The XYZ Affair was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, during the administration of John Adams, that Americans interpreted as an insult from France.

The Franchise Affair also has a historical context: although set in the 1940s, it is based on the 18th-century case of Elizabeth Canning.

In the frames of this theme she directed – together with her students in 2007 / 2008 – an ample exhibition on the Dreyfus Affair ( 1894 – 1906 ), showing its entangled European context, its highly important civic extensions, and its specific reception in the continental Slovenian space and in Trieste, mostly based on spontaneous anti-Semitism.

Granet passed the baccalauréat examination and entered the École Normale in 1904, just as the tumultuous Dreyfus Affair was coming to a close and the French educational system, in the context of French political life, was changing.

* A Royal Affair ( Danish: En kongelig affære ) 2012 Danish historical drama film directed by Nikolaj Arcel

* Alexander Lernet-Holenia: Das Halsband der Königin ( Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Hamburg / Vienna, 1962, historical study on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, including a description of Cagliostro's background )

His role in the affair of the diamond necklace scandal is depicted in a 2001 American historical drama film, The Affair of the Necklace, directed by Charles Shyer, and in the anime Rose of Versailles.

Fields of her work and research are: epistemology of historiography and social sciences, historical anthropology, contemporary history from Enlightenment to mid-20th century, transmission and politics of memory / oblivion, intellectual history and cultural transfers in Europe, anti-intellectualism, dimensions of the Dreyfus Affair in Slovenian social Space and in Trieste, mechanisms of social exclusion, anthropology of sex and gender, constitution of ( national and transnational ) literary fields in Europe in 19th and 20th Centuries, studies of province and provincialism as a specific socio-historical phenomenon.

While many of Shinsengumi fans believe that Yoshida Toshimaru was killed by Okita during the Ikedaya Affair ( based on Shimosawa Kan and Shiba Ryoutarou's fiction ), it is a historical inaccuracy.

The Affair of the Necklace is a 2001 American historical drama film directed by Charles Shyer.

The flag played a part in an historical episode called the Amelia Island Affair.

Important historical events for French literature include: the Dreyfus Affair ; French colonialism and imperialism in Africa, the Far East ( French Indochina ) and the Pacific ; the Algerian War of Independence ( 1954 – 1962 ); the important growth of the French Communist Party ; the rise of Fascism in Europe ; the events of May 1968.

* The XYZ Affair inflames tensions between France and the United States.

* A British steamer named SS Sir Robert Peel, based in Canada, was burned by American forces on 29 May 1838, at the height of American-Canadian tensions over the Caroline Affair.

Such tensions were only worsened when Prussian money was attracted by Ghica into the development of a Romanian Railways system: later Romanian governments confronted themselves with the " Strousberg Affair ", a volatile combination of investment scheme failure and anti-Prussian sentiment ( see Republic of Ploieşti ).

Despite this, tensions between Britain and the United States were high due to incidents on the seas, such as the Trent Affair and the Confederate commissioning of the CSS Alabama from Britain.

He defused tensions over the Virginius Affair, and proved popular in the country.

As tensions between the U. S. and Great Britain escalated in the wake of the June 22, 1806, Chesapeake – Leopard Affair, Scott applied to Governor Christopher Greenup to raise a mounted militia unit in anticipation of an outbreak of hostilities.