These narratives of coarse action and crude language appeared first in local newspapers, as a rule, and later found their way between book covers, though rarely into the planters' libraries beside the morocco-bound volumes of Horace, Mr. Addison, Mr. Pope, and Sir Walter Scott.

* Walter Scott Houston ( 1912 – 1993 ) who wrote the " Deep-Sky Wonders " column in Sky & Telescope magazine for almost 50 years.

It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Walter Scott.

Sir Walter Scott rescued the " jougs " from Threave Castle in Dumfries and Galloway and attached them to the castellated gateway he built at Abbotsford.

In keeping with its many Walter Scott references, Rose Street in Edinburgh has a bar called the " Kenilworth ", along with one named the " Abbotsford ".

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* 1771 – Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet ( d. 1832 )

Visitors were first attracted to Aberfoyle and the surrounding area after the publication of The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott in 1810.

As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

The last of these also contained some oral material and by the end of the 18th century this was becoming increasingly common, with collections including John Ritson's, The Bishopric Garland ( 1784 ), which paralleled the work of figures like Robert Burns and Walter Scott in Scotland.

Respected literary figures like Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott in Scotland both collected and wrote their own ballads, using the form to create an artistic product.

Added to the work of Sir Walter Scott, this was a major factor in promoting the adoption of Highland culture by Lowland Scotlanders.

It shows the influence of Walter Scott, and Brontë's modifications to her earlier gothic style have led Christine Alexander to comment that, in the work, " it is clear that Brontë was becoming tired of the gothic mode per se ".

Medieval sources referred to armour of this type simply as “ mail ”, however “ chain-mail ” has become a commonly-used, if incorrect neologism first attested in Sir Walter Scott ’ s 1822 novel The Fortunes of Nigel.

He had already shown a strong inclination for natural science, and this had been fostered by his intimacy with a " self-taught philosopher, astronomer and mathematician ," as Sir Walter Scott called him, of great local fame — James Veitch of Inchbonny — a man who was particularly skillful in making telescopes.

" In addition to the various works of Brewster already mentioned, the following may be added: Notes and Introduction to Carlyle's translation of Legendre's Elements of Geometry ( 1824 ); Treatise on Optics ( 1831 ); Letters on Natural Magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott ( 1832 ); The Martyrs of Science, or the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler ( 1841 ); More Worlds than One ( 1854 ).

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In 1827, the Mahoning Association appointed reformer Walter Scott as an Evangelist.

Walter Scott and Thomas Campbell sided with Stone, but the younger Campbell had strong reasons and would not yield.

** The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Walter Scott ( 1805 )

** Marmion ( poem ) by Walter Scott ( 1808 )

** The Lady of the Lake ( poem ) by Walter Scott ( 1810 )

** The Vision of Don Roderick by Walter Scott ( 1811 )

** Rokeby and The Bridal of Triermain by Walter Scott ( 1813 )

** The Lord of the Isles by Walter Scott ( 1813 )

In June 1941, he was appointed Chief of Staff to General Walter Krueger, Commander of the 3rd Army, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.

* Kevin Walter, wide receiver for the Houston Texans

* Walter Suggs, former professional football player Houston Oilers

" After the success of the 1957 production, another version was presented in 1965 on CBS, starring Lesley Ann Warren, Celeste Holm and Walter Pidgeon, and yet another in 1997 on ABC, starring Brandy, Whitney Houston, Bernadette Peters, and Whoopi Goldberg.

Structural engineering and structural design was performed by Walter P Moore Engineers and Consultants of Houston.

In 1982, he defeated James M. Collins of Dallas, who had first dispatched the strongly conservative State Senator Walter Mengden of Houston in the Republican primary.

* Walter Scott Houston – popularizer of amateur astronomy

Houston Grand Opera ( HGO ) Houston Grand Opera ( HGO ) was founded in 1955 through the joint efforts of Maestro Walter Herbert and cultural leaders Mrs. Louis G. Lobit, Edward Bing and Charles Cockrell.

David Walter Foster, OC, OBC ( born November 1, 1949 ), is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger, noted for discovering singers such as Céline Dion, Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, and Charice ; and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world, such as Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Céline Dion, Andrea Bocelli, Toni Braxton, Madonna, Air Supply and Michael Jackson.

However, he did not push as pledged for the initiative and referendum reforms advocated by State Senator Walter Mengden of Houston, based on the principle of California's Proposition 13.

He co-founded the Sharp-Hughes Tool Company with Walter Benona Sharp, based in Houston, Texas in 1909, and after Sharp's death in 1912 took over management.

Mosbacher, running in the then 7th congressional district, lost to State Senator Walter Mengden of Houston, 39, 276 to 26, 344 votes.

In his book Deep Sky Wonders, Walter Scott Houston describes the appearance of the nebula in small telescopes:

* Walter Scott Houston, longtime presenter of the Saturday evening " Shadowgram " talk

The origin of the term is unknown but it was popularized by Sky & Telescope magazine's " Deep-Sky Wonders " column, which premiered in their first edition in 1941, created by Leland S. Copeland, written for the majority of its run by Walter Scott Houston, and currently penned by Sue French.

Walter Scott Houston described its appearance as follows:

Walter Scott Houston described its appearance as follows:

The principals and presidents of the College have been Dr. James M. Houston ( 1970 – 78 ), Dr. Carl Armerding ( 1978 – 88 ), Dr. Walter Wright, Jr. ( 1988-2000 ) and current president Dr. Rod Wilson.

Hugo De Padvinan, a Norman Knight Templar who followed Walter Fitzalan the High Steward of Scotland and progenitor of the Royal House of Stewart, gave his name to the village established around his home, creating the concatenation ' Houston ' from ' Hugh's Town '.

* Otis M. Walter, Jr., University of Houston, TX

Walter Houston, the chaplain of Mansfield College, Oxford, and a fellow in theology, told the Telegraph: " Religious belief is not just related to a person's constitution ; it's related to society, tradition, character — everything's involved.

It was named by Walter Scott Houston in honor of Father Lucian J. Kemble ( 1922 – 1999 ), a Franciscan Friar and amateur astronomer who wrote a letter to Houston about the asterism, describing it as " a beautiful cascade of faint stars tumbling from the northwest down to the open cluster NGC 1502 " that he had discovered while sweeping the sky with a pair of 7x35 binoculars.