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.

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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The rupee equivalent of $63.8 million, but not more than 5 percent of the currencies received under the Agreement will be used for loans to be made by the Export-Import Bank of Washington under Section 104 ( E ) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act, as amended ( hereinafter referred to as the Act ), and for administrative expenses of the Export-Import Bank of Washington in India incident thereto.

Doubleday assumed administrative duties in the defenses of Washington, D. C., where he was in charge of courts martial, which gave him legal experience that he used after the war.

* 1792 – U. S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.

In the years following the Revolution the poetic device " Columbia " was used as a symbol of both Columbus and America, King's College of New York changed its name in 1792 to Columbia, and the new capitol in Washington was subtitled District of Columbia.

The George Washington bridge is also the most used bridge in the world.

Additionally, the Fifth Avenue Coach Company's ( FACCo ) 4 and 5 used Broadway from 135th Street north to Washington Heights, and their 5 and 6 used Broadway between 57th Street and 72nd Street.

The term Columbia Basin is used to refer not only to the entire drainage basin but also to subsets of the river's full watershed, such as the relatively flat and unforested area in eastern Washington bounded by the Cascades, the Rocky Mountains, and the Blue Mountains.

Line of cairns used to mark the way above the treeline on Mount Washington ( New Hampshire ) | Mount Washington, New Hampshire

D. B. Cooper is the name popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971.

The standard for naming exoplanets is an extension of the one used by the Washington Multiplicity Catalog ( WMC ) for multiple-star systems.

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.

Sometime after 1849, the title began being used in Washington, D. C., social circles.

The federal army was too small to be used, so Washington invoked the Militia Act of 1792 to summon militias from Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey.

Some of this gas was used in the world's first helium-filled airship, the U. S. Navy's C-7, which flew its maiden voyage from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to Bolling Field in Washington, D. C., on December 1, 1921.

Under the watchful eye of the United States ambassadors to their nations, the presidents pledged to prevent their territories from being used to promote revolutions against their neighbors and issued a call for a general meeting of Central American states in Washington at the end of the year.

Doom prompted fears that the then-emerging virtual reality technology could be used to simulate extremely realistic killing, and in 1994 led to unsuccessful attempts by Washington state senator Phil Talmadge to introduce compulsory licensing of VR use.

Historian Paul Nagel has noted that this letter reached Washington, and that parts of it were used by Washington when drafting his farewell address.

In the cases Apprendi v. New Jersey,, and Blakely v. Washington,, the Supreme Court of the United States held that a criminal defendant has a right to a jury trial not only on the question of guilt or innocence, but any fact used to increase the defendant's sentence beyond the maximum otherwise allowed by statutes or sentencing guidelines.

" J. Edgar Hoover complained that Burgess used British Embassy automobiles to avoid arrest when he cruised Washington in pursuit of homosexual encounters.

While British cartographers had long used the Greenwich meridian in London, other references were used elsewhere, including: El Hierro, Rome, Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Saint Petersburg, Pisa, Paris, Philadelphia, and Washington.