Uriah Fuller is a pen name that Martin Gardner, a notable American skeptic, recreational mathematician, author, and amateur magician, used for two booklets he wrote in the 1970s showing how purported psychics such as Uri Geller do their " seemingly impossible paranormal feats " such as bending spoons and apparently reading minds.

David sends for Uriah, who is with the Israelite army at the siege of Rabbah, so that he may lie with his wife and conceal the identity of the child's father.

As Uriah works for Wickfield for the next five or so years, he teaches himself law at night, and by blackmailing Mr. Wickfield, gains control over his business.

After repeatedly refusing to see his wife Bathsheba, David sent Uriah to his commanding officer Joab with a letter that ordered to put Uriah in the front of the battle and have the soldiers move away from him so that he would be killed.

He then ordered her husband, Uriah, to come home from a war front so that he might sleep with his wife, thus making it appear as if Uriah had in fact conceived with Bathsheba.

As for “ David ”, this was apparently a reproach in which Nancy likens her husband to the Biblical king, who has Bathsheba's husband Uriah transferred to a zone with heavy fighting so that he will be killed, leaving David free to marry Uriah's wife.

Twelve of the band's albums have made it to the UK Albums Chart ( Return to Fantasy reached No. 7 in 1975 ) while of the fifteen Billboard 200 Uriah Heep albums Demons and Wizards was the most successful (# 23, 1972 ).

The story is told that David, while walking on the roof of his palace, saw Bathsheba, who was then the wife of Uriah, having a bath.

Uriah refused, claiming a code of honor with his fellow warriors while they were in battle.

Referee Uriah Rennie abandoned the match following a delay of more than half-an-hour while engineers tried unsuccessfully to restart two failed generators.

1: 5 mentions Ruth and Rahab while in 1: 6 Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite, is mentioned indirectly.

Furthermore, according to David's apologists, the death of Uriah was not to be considered murder, on the basis that Uriah had committed a capital offence by refusing to obey a direct command from the King. However, in tractate Sanhedrin, David's broken heart pleads and numerous actions for forgiveness are discussed, God ultimately forgives but would not remove his sins from Scripture.

Uriah explains in another part of the book that his ambition and greed are fueled by resentment from the double-standard of his schooling and from his treatment as a child, and by encouragement from his parents.

Uriah Heep's schemes and behaviour are more likely based on Thomas Powell, employee of a friend of Dickens, Thomas Chapman.

The novel's two most familiar characters are David's sometime mentor, the debt-ridden Micawber, and the devious and fraudulent clerk, Uriah Heep, whose misdeeds are eventually revealed with Micawber's assistance.

The Uriah Hair House, Dundee Methodist Church, First Presbyterian Church, and Dundee Village Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Located within the town are a number of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places including: Peter Bitley House, Thomas Bitley House, Samuel Botsford House, Esperanza, Hampstead, Uriah Hanford House, George Hays House, Ezikial Perry House, St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Sill Tenant House, Abraham Wagener House, H. Allen Wagener House, Jemima Wilkinson House, and Sherman Williams House and Fruit Barn.

Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969 and are regarded as one of the seminal hard rock acts of the early 1970s.

" This collection underlines again that Uriah Heep are deserving great respect for their past achievements but far more importantly it makes it crystal clear that this is a band with a bright future as well as a glorious history ", wrote Chris Kee in his 9 / 10 review in Powerplay magazine ’ s February 2010 issue.

In this period the Hittites are mentioned as the ethnic label of two military commanders under king David ( around 1000 BC ), Ahimelech and Uriah ; the latter is murdered by David for the sake of his wife Bathsheba.

Two feuding families, the Jungs and the Krauses are dominated by the " king of Rockbound ", the sternly righteous and rapacious Uriah Jung.

In September 2010 Uriah became President of Hallam FC who are celebrating their 150th anniversary season and still play at the oldest football ground in the world, Sandygate in Sheffield

All of the major touchstones of King David's life are in place: his childhood herding sheep, the prophet Samuel, Goliath, King Saul, Jonathan ( and homosexual innuendoes ), Bathsheba and Uriah, the Psalms, the treachery of Absalom, Solomon, etc.

Inquirer journalist Uriah Hunt Painter was at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861, a battle which ended in a Confederate victory.

After repeated efforts to convince Uriah to have sex with Bathsheba, the king gave the order to his general, Joab, that Uriah should be placed in the front lines of the battle, where it was the most dangerous, and left to the hands of the enemy.

Informed that her husband was Uriah, David summoned Uriah from battle to meet him, suggesting that he go home and " wash his feet ," meaning to spend time at home and attend to his wife.

He seduces her, fathers a child with her, and orders her husband Uriah the Hittite to be placed in the front of the battle, which leads to the death of Uriah.

David commits adultery with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite.

The Doctrine and Covenants of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints cites David as one directed by God to practice polygamy, but who sinned in committing adultery with Bathsheba and having Uriah killed.

Uriah Heep is a fictional character created by Charles Dickens in his novel David Copperfield.

# The father of Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, and afterwards of David ( 1 Chr.

* June 25 – Uriah Heep performs its last show with David Byron as lead singer in Bilbao, Spain.

Uriah Heep's progressive / art rock / heavy metal fusion's distinctive features have always been massive keyboards sound, strong vocal harmonies and ( in the early years ) David Byron's operatic vocals.

Then the name was changed to that of the well-known character from David Copperfield, Uriah Heep ( for, according to biographer Kirk Blows, " Dickens ' name being everywhere around Christmas ' 69 due to it being the hundredth anniversary of his death ") and the decision came of widening the sound.

The album's title references the signature phrase of the Dickens character Uriah Heep (" very ' umble ") from the novel David Copperfield from which the band took its name.

Uriah Heep recruited bassist Trevor Bolder ( ex-David Bowie, Mick Ronson ) and, after having auditioned David Coverdale ( Deep Purple, Whitesnake ), Ian Hunter and Gary Holton ( Heavy Metal Kids ), brought in John Lawton, formerly of Lucifer's Friend and the Les Humphries Singers, with whom they turned away from fantasy-oriented lyrics and multi-part compositions back toward a more straightforward hard rock sound typical of the era.

K. Blows ), " a new vigour and confidence " ( according to a Record Mirror review ) and also the new singer ’ s abilities: the latter ( according to AllMusic ), although lacking the multi-octave range of David Byron, "… boasted an impressive and emotionally rich hard rock voice that instantly jelled with the Uriah Heep sound ".

* King David fasted when the son of his adulterous union with Bathsheba was struck sick by God, in punishment for the adultery and for David's murder of Bathsheba's husband, Uriah the Hittite.

According to the Hebrew Bible, Bathsheba (, Bath Shebha, " daughter of the oath ") (, " ابنة القسم ") was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah.

Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, and afterward of David, by whom she gave birth to Solomon, who succeeded David as king.

In an effort to conceal his sin, David summoned Uriah from the army ( with whom he was on campaign ) in the hope that Uriah would re-consummate his marriage and think that the child was his.

Ironically, David had Uriah himself carry the message that ordered his death.

After Uriah was dead, David made the now widowed Bathsheba his wife.

* Uriah Heep, fictional character in the 1850 novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Uriah the Hittite ( Hebrew: אוריה החתי ) was a soldier in King David ’ s army mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

" David Entrusts a Letter to Uriah.