Stevenson's failure to publicly launch his candidacy until the week of the convention meant that many liberal delegates who might have supported him were already pledged to Kennedy, and Stevenson — despite the energetic support of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt — was unable to break their allegiance to JFK.

Stevenson's Greenspring campus is located on the former estate of the George Carroll Jenkins family.

As a result Stevenson's minutes dipped slightly with the development of second year shooting guard Nick Young and former Maryland standout Juan Dixon.

" The president even mused that the economy had gotten so bad and the Democratic party so divided that " the logical thing for me to do ... was to resign and hand the Executive branch to Mr. Stevenson ," joking that he would try to get his friends jobs in Stevenson's new cabinet.

Stevenson's great-grandfather Adlai E. Stevenson I was vice president of the United States ( 1893 – 1897 ).

He then was a White House assistant to Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953 and Research Director for Adlai Stevenson's 1956 campaign.

It was therefore not until the publication of J.H. Round's `` The Settlement Of The South And East Saxons '', and W.H. Stevenson's `` Dr. Guest And The English Conquest Of South Britain '', that a scientific basis for place-name studies was established.

Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ) was a classic Gothic work of the 1880s, seeing many stage adaptations.

He finished Titus Groan and Gormenghast and completed some of his most acclaimed illustrations for books by other authors, including Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark ( for which he was reportedly paid only £ 5 ) and Alice in Wonderland, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the Brothers Grimm's Household Tales, All This and Bevin Too by Quentin Crisp and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, as well as producing many original poems, drawings, and paintings.

He wrote an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the Showtime network, which was nominated for a Writer's Guild of America award, and a Murder, She Wrote movie, Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For, which he produced.

In addition, one member of Stevenson's 2nd / 3rd NNC, Corporal William Anderson, was killed by British fire while fleeing the station just prior to the arrival of the Zulus.

John Turner Stevenson's grandfather, William was born in Roxburgh, Scotland then migrated to and from Ulster around 1748, settling first in Pennsylvania and then in North Carolina in the County of Iredell.

Stevenson's son, Lewis G. Stevenson, was Illinois secretary of state ( 1914 – 1917 ).

Stevenson's grandson Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was the Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 1952 and 1956 and Governor of Illinois.

The depot, which was built in 1872 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places, stands on the ruins of Stevenson's first railroad depot, which was built around 1852 for common use by the Nashville Chattanooga and the Memphis & Charleston Railroads.

According to Robert Louis Stevenson, Stevenson's grandson, the Commissioners of Northern Lights paid Stevenson alone when the lighthouse was completed.

Stevenson's Treasure Island was directly influenced by Irving's " Wolfert Webber ", Stevenson saying in his preface " It is my debt to Washington Irving that exercises my conscience, and justly so, for I believe plagiarism was rarely carried farther .. the whole inner spirit and a good deal of the material detail of my first chapters .. were the property of Washington Irving.

Wright was also angry at the media for what he felt was their overlooking of Stevenson's role in the creation of Spaced by connecting the series to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz in news articles.

* References to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island were removed, as was the reference to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

One of Stevenson's most recent works is producing Rise Against's sixth studio album, Endgame, which was released March 15, 2011, as well as the upcoming NOFX album Self Entitled.

The album was themed around the concept of " All ", which had been invented by Stevenson and friend Pat McCuistion during a fishing trip on Stevenson's boat Orca in 1980.

Soon Reeves became Stevenson's secretary and later was responsible for helping acts audition for the label.

According to Stevenson's letters, the idea for the character of Long John Silver was inspired by his real-life friend William Henley, a writer and editor.

This was taken over by Stevenson's of Spath in the mid 1980s and in turn was absorbed by Arriva.

Stevenson's speech, and the spectacular disturbance in the gallery, were both touched off by the death, in Katanga, the day before, of Patrice Lumumba.

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and many short stories by Edgar Allan Poe had a formidable impact.

Stevenson's dislike of Lincoln might have been prompted by a contentious meeting between the two, where Lincoln made several witty quips disparaging Stevenson.

( Stevenson's role in the race is perhaps more distinguished by his being the first Vice President to win nomination for that office with a different running mate, after having completed his first term.

The characters of Muriel Carew and Ivy Pearson do not appear in Stevenson's original story but do appear in the 1887 stage version by playwright Thomas Russell Sullivan.

It precedes Stevenson's Treasure Island chronologically and includes the story of Nick Allardyce ( the last sailor murdered by Captain Flint ).

that took the title from Robert Lewis Stevenson's poem by the same name.

According to Robert Louis Stevenson's letters, the idea for the character of Long John Silver was inspired by his real-life friend Henley.

In September he joined in a reading of R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island in Washington, D. C., and in October took part in a staged reading of a new play by Austin Pendleton entitled H6R3, which blends Shakespeare's plays Henry VI and Richard III.

" This quote appears in an extended form just before the preface of Stevenson's Ethics and Language .</ ref > Influenced by the growth of analytic philosophy and logical positivism in the 20th century, the theory was stated vividly by A. J. Ayer in his 1936 book Language, Truth and Logic, but its development owes more to C. L. Stevenson.

Laughton made his first color film in Paris as Inspector Maigret in The Man on the Eiffel Tower ( 1949 ) and, wrote the Monthly Film Bulletin, " appeared to overact " alongside Boris Karloff as a mad French nobleman in a version of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Door in 1951.

Carlson not only made annual donations to the University of Virginia to fund Stevenson's work, but in 1964 he made a particularly large donation that helped fund one of the first endowed chairs at the University.

Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island switches between third and first person, as do Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift.

" The first half of the sentence is a proposition, but the imperative half is not, so Stevenson's translation of an ethical sentence remains a noncognitive one.

A pair of Nashville Predators teammates, Shane Hnidy and Jeremy Stevenson, both of whom had early careers in the ECHL, returned to the league and found themselves playing against each other in the first round of the Kelly Cup playoffs, as Hnidy's Florida Everblades faced Stevenson's South Carolina Stingrays in the American Conference quarterfinals.

" Stevenson's Treasure Island was directly influenced by Irving's " Wolfert Webber ", Stevenson saying in his preface " It is my debt to Washington Irving that exercises my conscience, and justly so, for I believe plagiarism was rarely carried farther ... the whole inner spirit and a good deal of the material detail of my first chapters ... were the property of Washington Irving.

On May 21, 2010, Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales delivered his first college commencement address to Stevenson's graduating seniors and received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University.

* Billy Bones, fictional first mate of Captain Flint in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island

Because the earliest known references to this story are from the 20th century, it is almost certainly fakelore derived from Robert Louis Stevenson's song " Dead Man's Chest ", which first appeared in his novel Treasure Island in 1883.

Colvin became Stevenson's literary adviser, and after his death was the first editor of his letters.

Soon after their first meeting he had placed Stevenson's first paid contribution, an essay, " Roads ", in The Portfolio.

The literature of the late Victorian era, including Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes stories and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, has provided rich inspiration for story-makers who have fused these fictional worlds with the Ripper.

Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes ( 1879 ), about his travels in Cévennes ( France ), is among the first popular books to present hiking and camping as recreational activities, and tells of commissioning one of the first sleeping bags.

The area was first known designated by Colonel Stevenson's men, who mined Soldiers Gulch in 1849.