There had been reading at table, especially from two books, Pope Gregory The Great's account of St. Scholastica in his Dialogues and my own The World Of Washington Irving.

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* Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey by Washington Irving, from Project Gutenberg

Washington Irving was instrumental in popularizing Columbus.

Other instances include the 2005 Monday Night game against the Washington Redskins when the team inducted Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irving into the Cowboys Ring of Honor, and the 2006 Christmas Day game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

The short story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " by Washington Irving is cited as " the first great comedy-horror story ".

Scott's attention had been drawn to Gratz's character by novelist Washington Irving, who was a close friend of the Gratz family.

was given by Washington Irving in his travelogue Astoria.

" When asked by syndicated columnist Katherine Hillyer for the Washington Daily News ( or by a bystander, according to another account ) what it was called, Irving answered, " It's a jeep.

In Washington Irving's story " The Devil and Tom Walker " set in 1727, Irving tells how Tom asks " the black man " who he is.

Washington Irving wrote mysterious tales including " Rip van Winkle " ( 1819 ) and " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " ( 1820 ).

One recounts that Washington Irving, who was traveling in Spain at the time, suggested the name to his brother, a local resident ; this explanation ignores the fact that Irving returned to the United States in 1832.

Washington Irving, then editor of The Analectic Magazine in Philadelphia, reprinted the song in November 1814.

One such specimen, IGM 100 / 980, was nicknamed " Ichabodcraniosaurus " by Norell's team because the fairly complete specimen was found without its skull ( an allusion to the Washington Irving character Ichabod Crane ).

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Knowing the potential ramifications on his presidential aspirations if such knowledge became public, Hoover struck a deal with Robert Russa Moton, the prominent African-American successor to Booker T. Washington as president of the Tuskegee Institute.

Arguably the most prominent anti-federalist, the powerful orator Patrick Henry was a delegate and had a following second only to Washington ( who was not a delegate ).

President Garfield appointed several African-Americans to prominent positions: Frederick Douglas, recorder of deeds in Washington ; Robert Elliot, special agent to the U. S. Treasury ; John M. Langston, Haitian minister ; and Blanche K. Bruce, register to the U. S. Treasury.

The records of his visit include sketches of the early city buildings, a description of local geography and agriculture, commentary on its politics and social order, essays, speeches, and sermons from Brigham Young, Isaac Morley, George Washington Bradley and other prominent leaders, and snapshots of everyday life such as newspaper clippings and the menu from a high-society ball.

Grant met with prominent black leaders for consultation, and signed a bill into law that guaranteed equal rights to both blacks and whites in Washington D. C.

Nearby Washington Rock is a prominent point of the Watchung Mountains and is reputed to be the vantage point from which Washington watched British troop movements.

He was the first child born to Anna Matilda McNeill and George Washington Whistler, a prominent engineer.

* Available online through the Washington State Library's Classics in Washington History collection Daily diary for the entire year of 1865, recording the details of pioneer life in Washington Territory from the perspective of a 12-year old girl who was part of a prominent Lewis County family.

* Booker T. Washington, a freedman ( former slave ) who became a leading educator and one of the prominent civil rights activists of his era, was born on the Burroughs Farm in Hale's Ford.

It is named for Andrew Montour, a prominent métis interpreter who served with George Washington during the French and Indian War.

( The combined paper would officially be named The Washington Post and Times-Herald until 1973, although the Times-Herald portion of the masthead became less and less prominent after the 1950s.

The Washington Environmental Council became an intervenor in the proceedings, retained a prominent Washington, D. C., law firm, and mounted a vigorous opposition campaign.

The neoclassical, Georgian, gothic, and modern architectural styles are all reflected among those six structures and many other prominent edifices in Washington.

With a strong history in academics, music, and in athletics, the New Washington Middle / High School is a prominent fixture in the community.

Everett Dean, another prominent citizen of Washington County, helped create the John Hay Center.

Whitesboro was founded about 1901 by the Equitable Industrial Association, which had prominent black American investors including Paul Laurence Dunbar, the educator Booker T. Washington and George Henry White, the leading investor and namesake.

Washington Township's most prominent historical figure is Colonel Edward Cook.

The first scheduled train departed from the Washington depot carrying " borough authorities, the committee of arrangement and reception, as well as Rankin ’ s Cornet Band and a number of … prominent citizens who had been invited to join the excursion.

George Washington Baines, a prominent Baptist clergyman in three states and the maternal great-grandfather of U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, lived in Salado in his last years.

George Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and other prominent Virginians either appeared in Fincastle or sent their agents to lay claim to tracts of wilderness lands.