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.

Some have felt that Washington Irving comes out rather slimly, but let them look at the title of the book ''.

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

Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

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.

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" 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.

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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On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

Saxton has made only one second-half appearance this season and that was in the Washington State game, for four plays: he returned the kickoff 30 yards, gained five yards through the line and then uncorked a 56-yard touchdown run before retiring to the bench.

On a trip to Washington, with a final plea for help in East Tennessee in early 1863, he gave a speech in Indianapolis, saying: " If the institution of slavery denies the government the right of agitation, and seeks to overthrow it, then the government has a clear right to destroy it.

Hunt then approached Willard Rhodes, who hoped to bring pro football to Seattle, Washington.

Along with Rhodes and Green, Tyrone Willingham became the head coach at Stanford, then later Notre Dame and Washington.

Ownership of the Amiga line passed through a few companies, from Escom of Germany in 1995, and then to U. S. PC clone maker Gateway in 1997, before an exclusive lifetime license was made to Amiga, Inc., a Washington company founded by former Gateway employees Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss in 2000.

Since then, a number of other teams have worn their white uniforms at home, including the Washington Redskins and Miami Dolphins.

This successful initiation of a chain-reacting pile was important not only for its help in assessing the properties of fission — needed for understanding the internal workings of an atomic bomb — but also because it would serve as a pilot plant for the massive reactors which would be created in Hanford, Washington, which would then be used to produce the plutonium needed for the bombs used at the Trinity site and Nagasaki.

A graduate of Mount Holyoke College ( then called Mount Holyoke Female Seminary ), she worked on a radical feminist publication named Alpha while living in Washington, D. C.

According to the Julian calendar and Annunciation Style of enumerating years, then in use in the British Empire, Washington was born on February 11, 1731 ; when the Gregorian calendar was implemented in the British Empire in 1752, in accordance with the provisions of the Calendar ( New Style ) Act 1750, his birth date became February 22, 1732.

Along with their Mingo allies, Washington and some of his militia unit then ambushed the French.

What exactly happened during and after the battle is a matter of some controversy, but the immediate outcome was that Jumonville was injured in the initial attack and then was killed-whether tomahawked by Tanacharison in cold blood or somehow shot by another onlooker with a musket as the injured man sat with Washington is not completely clear.

On January 6, 1759, Washington married the wealthy widow Martha Dandridge Custis, then 28 years old.

Nominated by John Adams of Massachusetts, Washington was then appointed Major General and Commander-in-chief.

Washington then retreated across New Jersey ; the future of the Continental Army was in doubt due to expiring enlistments and the string of losses.

In 1911, Washington wrote a letter to him complaining that Carver had not followed orders to plant particular crops at the experiment station This revealed Washington's micro-management of Carver's department, which he had headed for more than 10 years by then.

Booth later learned that Lincoln had changed his plans at the last moment to attend a reception at the National Hotel in Washington where, coincidentally, Booth was then staying.

Since then, Demme's films have included an adaptation of Toni Morrison's Beloved, and remakes of two popular films: The Truth About Charlie, based on Charade that starred Mark Wahlberg in the Cary Grant role ; and The Manchurian Candidate, with Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep.

Davis went on to Jefferson College at Washington, Mississippi in 1818, and then to Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky in 1821.

He worked as an advertising agent after studying acting at the Hickman School of Speech and Expression in Washington, D. C. His work as a theatre critic inspired him to become involved in theatre productions, first in Virginia, and then in New York.

He then received orders to Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C., for duties as a company commander, serving in this assignment until July 1973.

Jones next served as director, Expeditionary Warfare Division ( N85 ), Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, during 1996, then as the deputy chief of staff for plans, policies, and operations, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C.

In 1977 he was honored by a major retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in New York that then traveled to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.

Wall grew up in south Los Angeles and then Bremerton, Washington before starting higher education at Seattle Pacific University in 1976, majoring in chemistry and music and later Pre-med with a hiatus of several years working in the university's computing center before being graduated with a self-styled bachelor's degree in Natural and Artificial Languages.