* 1865 – U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.

The film stars George O ' Brien as the introverted Crown Prince Michael, William Powell as his happy-go-lucky brother and Virginia Valli as Michael's flapper love interest Dolores.

" This 1865 painting by William H. Powell shows Perry transferring to a different ship during the battle.

* 1977 – William Powell, American singer ( The O ' Jays ) ( b. 1942 )

In 1972: Won by Tim Powell, HRH Prince Michael of Kent, William Meyers, Stirling Moss.

Herbert, Thomas Hood, Douglas William Jerrold ( 1841 – 1857 ), James Leavey, George du Maurier, George Melly, John McCrae, A. A. Milne, Anthony Powell, W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Henry Lucy, John Hollingshead, Artemus Ward, Somerset Maugham, P. G.

* William Powell

Close friends of the time, including Vince Powell and William G. Stewart, have dismissed the suggestions.

Sometimes vacancies arise in quick succession, as in the early 1970s when Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. and William Rehnquist were nominated to replace Hugo Black and John Marshall Harlan II, who retired within a week of each other.

The east side paintings include The Baptism of Pocahontas by John Gadsby Chapman, The Embarkation of the Pilgrims by Robert Walter Weir, The Discovery of the Mississippi by William Henry Powell, and The Landing of Columbus by John Vanderlyn.

** William Powell, American actor ( b. 1892 )

* William Powell

** U. S. President Richard Nixon nominates Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. and William H. Rehnquist to the U. S. Supreme Court.

* July 29 – William Powell, American actor ( d. 1984 )

After Thatcher resisted further European integration at a meeting at Strasbourg in November Powell asked her parliamentary private secretary Mark Lennox-Boyd to pass to her " my respectful congratulations on her stand ... she both spoke for Britain and gave a lead to Europe –- in the line of succession of Winston Churchill and William Pitt.

Gable had played a similar character also named " Blackie " two years earlier in the smash hit gangster epic Manhattan Melodrama, with William Powell and Myrna Loy.

1936 proved to be a big year for Lombard with her casting in the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey alongside ex-husband William Powell who refused to do the film unless Lombard was cast opposite him.

In October 1930, Lombard met William Powell.

The son of a highly respected music professor, Florenz " Flo " Ziegfeld, Jr. ( William Powell ) yearns to make his mark in show business.

William Powell as Flo Ziegfeld

* William Powell as Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.

Featured in the film are William Powell as Ziegfeld, Myrna Loy as Billie Burke, Luise Rainer, Nat Pendleton, and Frank Morgan.

Tracy's reputation continued to grow with the Libeled Lady ( 1936 ), a screwball comedy that cast him with William Powell, Loy and Harlow.

After an eight-year absence from films, he starred in the 1955 film version of Mister Roberts opposite James Cagney, William Powell and Jack Lemmon, continuing a pattern of bringing his acclaimed stage roles to life on the big screen.

With William Powell Frith, Augustus Egg, Henry O ' Neil and others, he founded The Clique, of which he was generally considered the leading talent.

The Derby Day by William Powell Frith ( 1858 )

The crowded meeting was the subject of a painting by William Powell Frith painted in the 1858 and titled The Derby Day, critics have pointed out that the foreground of the painting shows some of the other reasons the crowds came to see the Derby while the racing is relegated to the margins.

In 1857 John Sheepshanks gifted 233 paintings, mainly by contemporary British artists, and a similar number of drawings to the museum with the intention of forming a ' A National Gallery of British Art ', a role since taken on by Tate Britain ; artists represented are William Blake, James Barry, Henry Fuseli, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Sir David Wilkie, William Mulready, William Powell Frith, Millais and Hippolyte Delaroche.

Among the best-known individuals to be executed by burning were Jacques de Molay ( 1314 ), Jan Hus ( 1415 ), St. Joan of Arc ( 30 May 1431 ), Savonarola ( 1498 ) Patrick Hamilton ( 1528 ), John Frith ( 1533 ), William Tyndale ( 1536 ), Michael Servetus ( 1553 ), Giordano Bruno ( 1600 ) and Avvakum ( 1682 ).

A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881 by William Powell Frith, a satire of the Aesthetic style of dress.

Trickster subplot in The Relapse: Tom Fashion, pretending to be Lord Foppington, parleys with Sir Tunbelly Clumsey in a 19th-century illustration by William Powell Frith.

William Powell Frith is perhaps the most famous English genre painter and was admired by many of his contemporaries.

* William Powell Frith, John Leech: His Life and Work ( 1891 )

Here he became friends with John Frith and William Tyndale, and became a member of the group of humanist theologians that met at the White Horse Tavern-a group that included the future Lutherans Edward Fox and Robert Barnes, and the arch-conservative Stephen Gardiner.

One particularly famous one — placed in more than one location and later published by William Pope — claims that he took only a part of his potential loot from a gentleman when his wife agreed to dance with him in the wayside, a scene immortalised by William Powell Frith in his 1860 painting Claude Du Val.

It was possibly appropriated by William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby at some time after it was disafforested in 1225 and became part of Duffield Frith.

The design is elaborate but ingeniously drawn ; in the opinion of William Powell Frith, the painter, it showed " the true feeling of an artist.

William Powell Frith

William Powell Frith ( 19 January 1819 – 9 November 1909 ), was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era.

William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age.

William Powell Frith: A Painter and His World.

* William Powell Frith at Artcyclopedia ( images from various Museums and image galleries )

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