A third Thomas Bushell ( 1594-1674 ), `` much loved '' by Bacon, called himself `` The Superlative Prodigall '' in The First Part of Youths Errors ( 1628 ) and became an expert on silver mines and on the art of running into debt.

In the 1516 novel Utopia by Thomas More, the island called Utopia once had the name " Abraxa ", which scholars have suggested is a related use.

The fairy queen is often called the " Queen of Elphame " in ballads such as that of Thomas the Rhymer:

The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

St. Thomas called them ( perhaps not originally ) the transcendentia, " transcendentals ", because they " climb above " the categories, just as being climbs above substance.

Local businesses again wanted relief, historians sought a reuniting of the waterfront with the city, and nearby residents desired removal of the matte green-painted elevated road, which mayor Thomas Menino called Boston's " other Green Monster ".

The term Bayesian refers to Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 1761 ), who proved a special case of what is now called Bayes ' theorem in a paper titled " An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances ".

Thomas Jefferson called these inalienable rights: "... rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.

Systematic approaches by theologians, such as Thomas Aquinas, are called " scholastic Christology ".

The state takes its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor, after whom what is now called Cape Henlopen was originally named.

In 1889 he became the subject of the largest painting ever made by the Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins, called The Agnew Clinic, in which he is shown conducting a mastectomy operation before a gallery of students and doctors.

For his part, Thomas Jefferson is perhaps one of the Founding Fathers with the most outspoken of Deist tendencies, though he is not known to have called himself a deist, generally referring to himself as a Unitarian.

The Saint Thomas Christians (" Nasrani ") of southwestern India may have connections with the Essenes, according to the Manimekalai, one of the great Tamil epic poems, which refers to a people called " Issani ".

For example, Ralph Waldo Emerson ’ s contempt for Jane Austen's works often extended to the author herself, with Emerson describing her as “ without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world .” In turn, Emerson himself was called a “ hoary-headed toothless baboon ” by Thomas Carlyle.

The American physician and missionary Thomas Staughton Savage and naturalist Jeffries Wyman first described the western gorilla ( they called it Troglodytes gorilla ) in 1847 from specimens obtained in Liberia.

Because they are systems of government-granted monopolies, copyrights, patents, and trademarks are called intellectual monopoly privileges, ( IMP ) a topic on which several academics, including Birgitte Andersen and Thomas Alured Faunce have written.

Thomas Davidson taught a philosophy called " apeirotheism ", a " form of pluralistic idealism ... coupled with a stern ethical rigorism " which he defined as " a theory of Gods infinite in number.

" However, five experts testified on behalf of Thomas that AIDS is not transmitted through casual contact, and the court affirmed the " solid science " ( as Mr. Huber called it ) and rejected Dr. Armentrout's argument.

He reached out to England when Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer called for an ecumenical synod of all the evangelical churches.

Breaking with Hamilton and what became the Federalist Party in 1791, Madison and Thomas Jefferson organized what they called the Republican Party ( later called by historians the Democratic-Republican Party ) He co-authored, along with Thomas Jefferson, the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 to protest the Alien and Sedition Acts.

In 1950, he founded the French Oceanographic Campaigns ( FOC ), and leased a ship called Calypso from Thomas Loel Guinness for a symbolic one franc a year.

In his review of the Virtual Console release, Thomas frowned upon Nintendo's decision to remove the NES cheat codes, and called the omission " nonsensical ".

The tradition reached its apex, perhaps, in the works of Thomas Nelson Page toward the end of the century, and reappeared undiminished as late as 1934 in the best-selling novel So Red The Rose, by Stark Young.

is the title of a novel by William Faulkner, and refers to the return of Thomas Sutpen's son.

The poem is quoted by Sue Bridehead in Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel, Jude the Obscure and also by Edward Ashburnham in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.

* Anastasius, a novel by Thomas Hope in the early 19th century.

Thomas Carlyle translated Goethe ’ s novel into English, and after its publication in 1824, many British authors wrote novels inspired by it.

In 1994, scholar Brian Stonehill suggested that Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow " not only curses but precurses what we now glibly dub cyberspace.

* Thomas Pynchon's award winning novel Gravity's Rainbow, contains a very detailed scene of coprophagia.

Francisco Madero, Porfirio Díaz, and other major figures and events of the Mexican Revolution are seen and experienced by the character of Frank Traverse in Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day.

The Silver Chalice, a novel about the Grail by Thomas B. Costain was made into a 1954 movie.

Other operas based on the novel have been composed by Gioachino Rossini ( Ivanhoé ), Thomas Sari ( Ivanhoé ), Bartolomeo Pisani ( Rebecca ), A. Castagnier ( Rébecca ), Otto Nicolai ( Il Templario ), and Heinrich Marschner ( Der Templer und die Jüdin ).

* 1965: Thomas l ' imposteur directed by Georges Franju, script by Jean Cocteau based on his novel

Black Sunday, based on author Thomas Harris's only non-Hannibal Lecter novel, involves an Israeli Mossad agent ( Robert Shaw ), chasing a Palestinian terrorist ( Marthe Keller ) and a disgruntled Vietnam vet ( Bruce Dern ), who plan to blow up the Goodyear blimp over the Super Bowl.

Many of the innovations that Sterne introduced, adaptations in form that should be understood as an exploration of what constitutes the novel, were highly influential to Modernist writers like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and more contemporary writers such as Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace.

* Chaka, a novel by Thomas Mofolo based loosely on Shaka Zulu's life

As a classically trained pianist whose sympathies with the twelve-tone technique of Arnold Schoenberg resulted in his studying composition with Alban Berg of the Second Viennese School, Adorno's commitment to avant-garde music formed the backdrop of his subsequent writings and led to his collaboration with Thomas Mann on the latter's novel Doctor Faustus, while the two men lived in California as exiles during the Second World War.

Additionally, Adorno assisted Thomas Mann on his novel Doctor Faustus after the latter asked for his help.

In this novel, Thomas More is brought through time to the year 2535, where he is made king of the future world of " Astrobe ", only to be beheaded after ruling for a mere nine days.

* Johann " Hanno " Buddenbrook, in Thomas Mann's novel, Buddenbrooks, dies of typhoid fever, and the book includes a long medical description of the disease and its effects.

* Tom's friend Arthur suffers from a near fatal bout with typhoid but ultimately recovers in Thomas Hughes ' novel Tom Brown's Schooldays.

Prostitutes were often presented as victims in sentimental literature such as Thomas Hood's poem The Bridge of Sighs, Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton, and Dickens ' novel Oliver Twist.

Such connections were taken up by Thomas Mann, who in his novel Joseph and His Brothers attributes characteristics of a sign of the zodiac to each tribe in his rendition of the Blessing of Jacob.

** The landmark postmodern novel Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon is published.